High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Biomphalaria glabrata is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails. Biomphalaria glabrata is an intermediate snail host for the trematode Schistosoma mansoni, which is one of the main schistosomes that infect humans. This snail is a medically important pest, because of transferring the disease intestinal schistosomiasis. The parasite Schistosoma mansoni infects about 83.31 million people worldwide. Biomphalaria glabrata/Schistosoma mansoni provides a useful model system for investigating the intimate interactions between host and parasite. There is a great deal of information available about this snail,...

ISBN: 978-6-1308-4266-6
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Biomphalaria is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram`s horn snails and their allies.

ISBN: 978-5-5142-4776-9

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Biomphalaria tenagophila is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram`s horn snails.

ISBN: 978-5-5141-7422-5

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bionix (BX) is a family of tracked Singaporean armoured fighting vehicles developed by Singapore Technologies Kinetics (formerly Singapore Technologies Automotive, which is now known as Singapore Technologies Engineering). Intended to augment the Singapore Army`s aging M113 armoured personnel carriers, it is the first indigenous armoured vehicle to be developed in Southeast Asia. The Bionix has been operational with the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) since 1999 in a wide variety of adaptations including the Bionix II, Bionix 25 and Bionix 40/50 variants.

ISBN: 978-5-5108-4038-4

The bionomical study is important for the successful management and conservation of a natural population. The research carried out the significant relationship among different body length parameters and seasonal growth curves to asses the growth variation of the population of Notopterus notopterus. The species showed female dominating distribution including homogeneity in yearly distribution. The condition factors showed variation in growth patterns indicating gradual development of gonad in relation to the sexual cycle. The fish is carnivore and feeds on a large variety of food items. The gonads are found unpaired having short ducts which originate from the left abdominal cavity beside the alimentary canal and bellow the kidney. The...

ISBN: 978-3-8443-0183-0
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Pesticides have been used to control these pests but none has yielded better cost and benefit ratio due to increasing hazards related to human life, domestic animals and environment. Recent trends in cotton production have been to minimize the use of pesticides and ultimately control the pest by better management practices (BMPs). Keeping in view these critical issues the experiment was conducted during May-October 2009 under randomized complete block design (RCBD) with five treatments, biological control agents (T1), foliar applications of botanical Neemosal, azadirachtin+salannin 0.5% (T2), homeo chemicals (T3) and available insecticides (T4) having three replications. Results showed that safer insecticides were found to be superior to...

ISBN: 978-3-6393-2707-6
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This study has demonstrated that biological management of wilt, root-knot and disease complex can be successfully achieved with the application of the three developed biopesticides viz., Biowilt-X, Bionem-X and Biocomp-X and gives special focus on their deployment on a commercial scale. The used strians of biocontrol agents were found highly tolerant to the fungicides such as carbendazim (bavistin 50 WP), mancozeb (dithane M-45 75 WP), metalaxyl (apron 35 SD), captan (captaf 50 WP) and thiram (TMTD 75 WP) commonly used by farmers in India. Hence pesticidal contamination in soil will not affect their effectivenes. This has broadened the use of the present biopesticides in conjugation with pesticides under integrated disease management....

ISBN: 978-3-8383-9360-5
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In the biopharmaceutical industry, essentially, there are three components that play the main role in producing biopharmaceutical products, the host cell, the expression vector and the bioreactor and/or production environment. To produce the highly valued and desired products, the choice of a suitable host is one of the most important aspects. The host required is not only required to produce the desired product, but also needs to demonstrate robustness in a bioreactor system. Constantly facing challenges in a bioreactor, cells often undergo apoptosis, a well-known limiting factor in biopharmaceutical production, which ultimately leads to low yield of valuable protein(s). We have genetically engineered a CHO-K1 cell line to...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-3606-7
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The biophilia hypothesis suggests that there is an instinctive bond between human beings and other living systems. Edward O. Wilson introduced and popularized the hypothesis in his book entitled Biophilia. The term "biophilia" literally means "love of life or living systems." It was first used by Erich Fromm to describe a psychological orientation of being attracted to all that is alive and vital. Wilson uses the term in the same sense when he suggests that biophilia describes "the connections that human beings subconsciously seek with the rest of life.” He proposed the possibility that the deep affiliations humans have with nature are rooted in our biology. Unlike phobias, which are the...

ISBN: 978-6-1326-1941-9
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Biophysical chemistry is a relatively new branch of chemistry that covers a broad spectrum of research activities involving biological systems. The most common feature of the research in this subject is to seek explanation of the various phenomena in biological systems in terms of either the molecules that make up the system or the supra-molecular structure of these systems.

ISBN: 978-5-5108-0381-5

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The biophilia hypothesis suggests that there is an instinctive bond between human beings and other living systems. Edward O. Wilson introduced and popularized the hypothesis in his book entitled Biophilia.

ISBN: 978-5-5109-7290-0

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. La biopiraterie (ou biopiratage) est l'appropriation de connaissances biomedicales autochtones, par le biais de brevets, par des firmes privees du genie genetique sans compensation pour les groupes autochtones qui ont initialement developpe ces connaissances. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1325-7646-0
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Biotechnology is gaining ground rapidly. Scientific community is on their toes to isolate the specific microbes and study. In this context, a bacterial isolate with protease production potential was evaluated. 1st chapter deals with introduction on proteases and sources, production strategies, classification and mechanism and current problems. 2nd chapter deals with review of literature on protease isolation procedures, assays, importance of scale up, purification and zymography, etc. 3rd chapter emphasizes on purification, characterization, optimization of bacterial growth and protease production. 4th chapter deals on experimental data with six sub units - A) on isolation of microbes and ribotyping identification. B) Optimization of...

ISBN: 978-3-8383-3182-9
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The biopsychosocial model (abbreviated "BPS") is a general model or approach that posits that biological, psychological (which entails thoughts, emotions, and behaviors), and social factors, all play a significant role in human functioning in the context of disease or illness. Indeed, health is best understood in terms of a combination of biological, psychological, and social factors rather than purely in biological terms. This is in contrast to the traditional, reductionist biomedical model of medicine that suggests every disease process can be explained in terms of an underlying deviation from normal function such as a pathogen, genetic or developmental abnormality, or injury. The concept is used in fields such as medicine, nursing,...

ISBN: 978-6-1306-2047-9
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Biopunk (a portmanteau synthesizing "biotechnology" and "punk") is a technoprogressive movement advocating open access to genetic information. Biopunk hobbyists or biohackers experiment with DNA and other aspects of genetics.

ISBN: 978-5-5080-1174-1

Global pollution is increasing due to the industrial and anthropogenic activities, resulting in contamination of various terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems with heavy metals, organic compounds and radionuclides. Information on nature and extent of pollution is limited from developing countries. Pakistan, like many other developing countries, has been going through a period of rapid industrial growth and contaminated land is increasingly becoming an environmental, health, economic and planning issue in Pakistan. Environmental pollution is assessed in a local textile industry along with detailed description of methods, protocols and techniques to carry out successful study of such degraded land. Microorganisms that are capable of resisting...

ISBN: 978-3-8433-7124-7
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A bioreactor may refer to any manufactured or engineered device or system that supports a biologically active environment. In one case, a bioreactor is a vessel in which a chemical process is carried out which involves organisms or biochemically active substances derived from such organisms. This process can either be aerobic or anaerobic. These bioreactors are commonly cylindrical, ranging in size from litres to cubic metres, and are often made of stainless steel.

ISBN: 978-5-5108-2107-9

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bioremediation is the use of microorganism metabolism to remove pollutants. Technologies can be generally classified as in situ or ex situ. In situ bioremediation involves treating the contaminated material at the site, while ex situ involves the removal of the contaminated material to be treated elsewhere. Some examples of bioremediation technologies are phytoremediation, bioventing, bioleaching, landfarming, bioreactor, composting, bioaugmentation, rhizofiltration, and biostimulation.

ISBN: 978-5-5108-5592-0
Издательство: Bookvika publishing

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Biorock, also known as Seacrete, Seament and Sea Cement, is a substance formed by electro-accumulation of minerals dissolved in seawater. This process grows cement-like engineering structures and marine ecosystems, often for mariculture of corals, oysters, clams, lobsters and fish in salt water. It works by passing a small electrical current through electrodes in the water. Biorock grows more or less without limit as long as current flows. Biorock accelerates coral growth by as much as fivefold and increases coral survival. Biorock can enable coral growth and regrowth even in the presence of environmental stress, such as warming water temperatures. When mixed with aggregates, it can build...

ISBN: 978-6-1316-9342-7
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Biorock, also known as Seacrete, is a substance formed by electro-accumulation of minerals dissolved in seawater. The building process, popularly called accretion, is not to be confused with Biorock sewage treatment. The biorock building process grows cement-like engineering structures and marine ecosystems, often for mariculture of corals, oysters, clams, lobsters and fish in salt water. It works by passing a small electrical current through electrodes in the water. The structure grows more or less without limit as long as current flows.

ISBN: 978-5-5107-5495-7

A biosafety level is the level of the biocontainment precautions required to isolate dangerous biological agents in an enclosed facility. The levels of containment range from the lowest biosafety level 1 to the highest at level 4. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have specified these levels. In the European Union, the same biosafety levels are defined in a directive Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1307-3106-9
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Biosafety prevention of large-scale loss of biological integrity, focusing both on ecology and human health. Biosafety is related to several fields in ecology (referring to imported life forms from beyond ecoregion borders), in agriculture (reducing the risk of alien viral or transgenic genes, or prions such as BSE/"MadCow", reducing the risk of food bacterial contamination) in medicine (referring to organs or tissues from biological origin, or genetic therapy products, virus; levels of lab containment protocols measured as 1, 2, 3, 4 in rising order of danger), in chemistry (i.e., nitrates in water, PCB levels affecting fertility) and in exobiology (i.e., NASA's policy for containing alien...

ISBN: 978-6-1318-2957-4
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Biosafety: prevention of large-scale loss of biological integrity, focusing both on ecology and human health.

ISBN: 978-5-5108-6381-9

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A biosafety cabinet (BSC) — also called biological safety cabinet or microbiological safety cabinet — is an enclosed, ventilated laboratory workspace for safely working with materials contaminated with (or potentially contaminated with) pathogens requiring a defined biosafety level. Several different types of BSC exist, differentiated by the degree of biocontainment required. BSCs first became commercially available in 1950.

ISBN: 978-5-5141-3336-9

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Biosemiotics (from the Greek bios meaning "life" and semeion meaning "sign") is a growing field that studies the production, action and interpretation of signs in the biological realm. Biosemiotics attempts to integrate the findings of scientific biology and semiotics, representing a paradigmatic shift in the occidental scientific view of life, demonstrating that semiosis (sign process, including meaning and interpretation) is its immanent and intrinsic feature. The term "biosemiotic" was first used by Friedrich S. Rothschild in 1962, but Thomas Sebeok and Thure von Uexkull have done much to popularize the term and field. The field, which challenges...

ISBN: 978-6-1314-1934-8
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Дата выхода: июль 2011