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Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 i Physical Sciences Catalog 2007- April 2010 Agriculture 1 Animal Science 7 Biochemistry 7 Biology 9 Chemistry 18 Computer Science 33 Computers and Robotics 37 Earth Science 40 Ecology 42 Electrochemistry 42 Energy 42 Engineering 52 Enviroment 56 Equations 78 Food Science 78 Genetics 78 Internet 79 Marine Biology 79 Material Sciences 79 Mathematics 87 Nanotechnology 94 Natural Disasters 99 Nutrition 100 Physics 100 Public Health 115 Space 115 Space Science 116 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 1 Agriculture Agriculture others. This new book presents the latest Food Crop Mineral Deficiency and research in the field. Agriculture Disturbance Stress Mitigation in Agriculture Temperate Climatic Regions by Aquaculture Research Progress Kyoto Protocol, The: Economic Economical & Environmental Takumi K. Nakamura (Editor) Assessments, Implementation Valorization of Agricultural By- 2009. 978-1-60456-247-7. $129.00. 327 pp. Mechanisms, and Policy Case. Products Implications This new book presents the latest research on E Someus (Budapest,Hungary) Christophe P. Vasser aquaculture, which is the cultivation of aquatic 2009. 978-1-60692-243-9. $79.00. 146 pp. 2009. 978-1-60456-983-4. $89.00. 296 pp. organisms. Unlike fishing, aquaculture, also Soft. known as aquafarming, implies the cultivation Case. This book explains how the input feed streams of aquatic populations under controlled This new book is devoted to the The Kyoto are plant and animal origin carboniferous by- conditions. Mariculture refers to aquaculture Protocol which is a significant protocol to the products, such as refuse grain, sawdust, food practiced in marine environments. international Framework Convention on Climate grade animal bone meal, food processing and/or Change with the objective of reducing other agro by-products. The innovative greenhouse gases that cause climate change. Agriculture technology is providing surface modified Agricultural Conservation: charcoals and minerals for plant availability and Agriculture Converting Grassland to Cropland post processing the chars by integrated Foldases Catalyzing the Formation GAO biotechnological means. 2009. 978-1-60456-630-7. $39.00. 97 pp. and Isomerization of Disulfide Soft. Agriculture Bonds in Proteins The nation’s remaining grassland has several Food Processing: Methods, N. K. Nagradova (A.N.Belozersky important benefits, such as providing land for Techniques, and Trends. Inst./Physico-Chem.Bio., Lomonosov grazing and wildlife habitat for many at-risk Valerie C. Bellinghouse (Editor) Moscow State Univ., Russia) species. However, over the past 3 centuries 2009. 978-1-60692-414-3. $129.00. 660 pp. 2009. 978-1-60692-466-2. $39.00. 83 pp. about half of the grassland has been converted Case. Soft. to other uses, principally cropland. In addition Food processing is the set of methods and One of the rate-limiting steps in the folding to losing important grassland values, such techniques used to transform raw ingredients pathways of many secretory proteins is the conversions may result in increased spending on into food or to transform food into other forms formation of correct disulfide bonds between federal farm programs, such as crop insurance, for consumption by humans or animals either in cysteine residues. In eukaryotes, both disulfide especially in marginal areas. the home or by the food processing industry. bond formation and isomerization which Food processing typically takes clean, harvested shuffles incorrectly formed disulfides are Agriculture crops or slaughtered and butchered animal catalyzed by protein disulfide isomerase (PDI), Transgenic Plants: New Research products and uses these to produce attractive, whereas in bacteria these two reactions are Oliver T. Chan (Editor) marketable and often long-life food products. catalyzed by separate enzymes. Both in 2009. 978-1-60692-017-6. $98.00. 239 pp. eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells the oxidation Case. Agriculture and isomerization steps proceed exclusively in Transgenic plants possess a gene or genes that Food Protection and Safety extracytoplasmic environments (the lumen of the eukaryotic endoplasmic reticulum and the have been transferred from a different species. Lyman F. Thomasson (Editor) Although DNA of another species can be Gram-negative bacterial periplasmic space). 2009. 978-1-60692-187-6. $89.00. 160 pp. integrated in a plant genome by natural Case. processes, the term "transgenic plants" refers to Agriculture Societal and demographic changes, the plants created in a laboratory using recombinant globalization of the food supply, new threats Perspectives on Cognition and DNA technology. This new book presents the and communication issues require new Action in Sport latest research in this growing field. approachs to food protection and safety. This D. Araujo (Faculty/Human Kinetics, book presents important new information in the Tech.U./Lisbon,PT) and H. Ripoll Agriculture study of food production and safety. (U./Med., Marseille ,France) M. Raab Crop Rotation Yaram U. Berklian Agriculture (DE, Sport U. Cologne, DE) Editors 2009. 978-1-60692-390-0. $79.00. 247 pp. 2009. 978-1-60692-100-5. $79.00. 263 pp. Agricultural Systems: Economics, Case. Case. Technology, and Diversity There has been considerable debate on sport Crop rotation or crop sequencing is the practice Oliver W. Castalonge (Editor) psychology about the status and the function of of growing a series of dissimilar types of crops 2009. 978-1-60692-025-1. $79.00. 220 pp. cognition and action in sport. This debate is in the same space in sequential seasons for very relevant since there was a refinement of the various benefits such as to avoid the build up of Case. different positions, and there were several pathogens and pests that often occurs when one Agricultural systems include the development attempts to integrate apparently contrasting species is continuously cropped. Crop rotation and application of systems methodology, perspectives. also seeks to balance the fertility demands of including system modelling, simulation and various crops to avoid excessive depletion of optimisation; ecoregional analysis of agriculture soil nutrients. and land use; studies on natural resource issues Agriculture related to agriculture; impact and scenario Cover Crops and Crop Yields analyses related to topics such as GMOs, Tomas H. Latos (Editor) multifunctional land use and global change; and Nova Science Publishers, Inc. – Physical Sciences Catalog – 2007 – April 2010 2 2009. 978-1-60692-818-9. $98.00. 334 pp. growing gap between the costs of preserving Jacob K. Levine (Editor) Case. and expanding highway infrastructure and 2009. 978-1-60741-175-8. $89.00. 314 pp. A cover crop is a crop planted in a garden to available highway program funding. This book Case. protect the soil from erosion and to improve the discusses public-private transportation Although the definition of what constitutes low soil by adding organic matter. In agriculture, partnerships around the globe. income varies significantly from one country to crop yield (also known as "agricultural output") the next, it is always below average and people is not only a measure of the yield of cereal per Agriculture who have it score high on the misery index. This unit area of land under cultivation, it is also the Poverty, Urbanity and Social Policy: new book brings together leading researchers seed generation of the plant itself. This book Central and Eastern Europe from around the globe on defining it and reviews the effect of cover crops and how the seeking solutions. latter might lead to the improved soil and Compared environmental quality if crop yields are Jolanta Aldukaite (Univ./College of Agriculture sustained. S.Stockholm,Sweden) Ecological Approaches to Health: 2009. 978-1-60741-100-0. $79.00. 225 pp. Interactions Between Humans and Agriculture Case. Medical Marijuana and Marijuana This book provides the reader with the broad Their Environment Use spectrum of poverty and social policy issues in C. Dumont. (Inst. réadaptation en Central and Eastern Europe, and address the Albert T. Johnson (Editor) déficience physique/Québec Boul. most urgent topics of welfare state research, 2009. 978-1-60692-899-8. $43.00. 105 pp. Hamel, Canada) namely poverty, children and social policy; 2009. 978-1-60741-061-4. $37.00. 132 pp. Soft. gender, social policy and poverty; urban policy, Soft. Twelve states, mostly in the West, have enacted renewal and poverty, and overall challenges to This book discusses and analyzes how laws allowing the use of marijuana for medical social policy reform. ecological models and approaches could purposes, and many thousands of patients are contribute to improve human health. In the first seeking relief from a variety of serious illnesses Agriculture by smoking marijuana or using other herbal section of the book, the evolution of human cannabis preparations. Meanwhile, the federal Ecological Restoration thought will be redrawn, from ancient Drug Enforcement Administration refuses to George H. Pardue and Thomas K. conceptions of the world up to the most recent recognize these state laws and continues to Olvera (Editors) ecological models. investigate and arrest, under federal statute, 2009. 978-1-60741-013-3. $98.00. 251 pp. medical marijuana providers and users in those Case. Agriculture states and elsewhere. This book examines the Human exploitation of stream and land Handbook on Longevity: Genetics,