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Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Lion in the Living Room comes a fascinating and provocative exploration of the biology of motherhood that “is witty, reassuring, and takes motherhood out of the footnotes and places it front and center—where it belongs” (Louann Brizendine, MD, New York Times bestselling author). Everyone knows how babies are made, but scientists are only just beginning to understand the making of a mother. Mom Genes reveals the hard science behind our tenderest maternal impulses, tackling questions such as why mothers are destined to mimic their own moms (or not), how maternal aggression makes females the world’s most formidable creatures, and how a crisis like the Covid-19 pandemic can make or break a mom. Weaving the latest research with Abigail Tucker’s personal experiences, Mom Genes “is an eye-opening tour through the biology and psychology of a rolTrade Review“This is a fascinating book….Her stories about her own parenting misadventures, including her emergency C-section and a bout with postpartum depression, helpfully illustrate the role context plays in our experience of parenthood.” —The Wall Street Journal“[Tucker's] ability to break down complex topics and conflicting research is formidable… Mom Genes is a book for the many mothers within—and those willing to see them in a new light.” —The Washington Post"Tucker climbed that mountain of inconclusive science about how humans succeed at the terrifying and ancient task of mothering only to find the answers closer to home… [Readers will] see that an intriguing subject — the author herself — awaits you." —New York Times Book Review“Tucker’s enthusiasm radiates on every page, and her dive in to the wacky world of motherhood is fascinating.” —Discover Magazine“Meticulously researched and well-documented, Mom Genes is one part memoir (Tucker intersperses her own experiences as a white mother of four children), and one part incredibly readable popular science… Richly entertaining, filled with humor, and deeply informative, this engaging book is recommended for mothers, potential mothers, and anyone who has ever known a mother.” —Library Journal, starred review “Using clever, colorful, figurative language and a warm, conversational tone, Tucker documents the complex challenges women who become mothers face.” —Booklist“Tucker has a knack for making complex science accessible, and she encouragingly touts the importance of mothers having a support system… Moms-to-be in search of a straightforward look at the changes ahead will find this a good place to start.” —Publisher’s Weekly“Tucker is a consistently energetic guide, and she doesn’t shy away from discussing ‘the dangerous and opaque mental problems that hound moms.’ In a particularly vibrant chapter, the author explores the countless deleterious effects of poverty and how American society continually fails to provide the support that mothers deserve. Filling in the gaps and moving the story forward are Tucker’s personal observations—she is the mother of four—and the ups and downs of her experiences, many of which will be familiar to mothers of all backgrounds.” —Kirkus Reviews “Shocking and yet somehow reassuring...Whether you're a mom, know a mom (of any species), or ever had a mom (that's pretty much everybody), you are going to want to read this surprising and rigorously-researched book.” —Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus “Mom Genes is my new favorite book on motherhood: fascinating, informative, funny, and smart as a whip. Abby Tucker is the friend you want to lean on when you’re wondering how to cope with your child, the researcher who can explain a thousand weird, wonderful aspects of parenting, and the quirky thinker who can open your mind to the strangeness and beauty of being a mother.” —Martha Beck, New York Times bestselling author of Expecting Adam“Mom Genes is witty, reassuring, and takes motherhood out of the footnotes and places it front and center—where it belongs!” —Louann Brizendine, MD, author of New York Times bestseller The Female Brain“Filled with jaw-dropping facts and findings, this brilliant, absolutely fascinating book grabbed me from page one. In Mom Genes, Abigail Tucker distills an extraordinary range of cutting-edge research into fun, accessible chapters. Written in an engaging, often hilarious voice, Mom Genes illuminates the biology of everything motherly. I couldn’t put it down.” —Amy Chua, Yale Law professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations“I’m a father, but I found every page of this gripping and wonderful—not least because of the author’s rare skill at making science vividly understandable to lay readers.” —John Colapinto, New York Times bestselling author of As Nature Made Him“With thorough research, keen insight, and wry humor, Abigail Tucker shows us why moms are different from other people—even, daresay, special, with superpowers that science is just beginning to reveal. For anyone who is a mother, or who has a mother, her book is an eye-opening tour through the biology and psychology of a role that is once utterly ordinary and wondrously strange.” –Annie Murphy Paul, author of Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives“Deeply researched and compulsively readable, Mom Genes illuminates the ancient biological roots of modern motherhood. Tucker narrates vividly and often hilariously on a journey that travels from the nursery to the laboratory and back again, out into the wild and across time. I loved this book and its rich exploration of the causes—and consequences—of becoming a mother.” —K.S. Bowers, coauthor of Wildhood and Zoobiquity“An entertaining storyteller, [Tucker] weaves neuroscience with tales from all kinds of mammal moms, including her own travails and joys. If you’ve ever had a hunch that motherhood changed your brain forever, Mom Genes not only confirms your suspicions, but shows you how and why.” —Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, author of Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything

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Book SynopsisKennen Sie die Angst vor dem leeren, weissen Blatt, wenn Sie einen Fachartikel oder einen Vortrag halten sollen? Publizieren, Promovieren – Gewusst wie hilft Ihnen, alle Klippen auf dem Weg zur medizinischen Publikation oder Doktorarbeit zu umschiffen. Die Autoren verfügen über jahrelange Erfahrungen in der Betreuung von DoktorandInnen und nehmen Sie praxisnah und mit plastischen Bildern an die Hand, damit Sie Ihre Publikation oder Doktorarbeit erfolgreich abschließen können.Table of Contents1 Publish or Perish — Basics des medizinischen Publizierens.- 1.1 Ich weiß etwas,.was du nichtweißt — Strukturen des medizinischen Wissenstransfers.- 1.2 Spurensuche im Dickicht der Daten — Strategien der Literatursuche.- 1.3 Handarbeit unerwünscht — Der Umgang mit Literaturdatenbanken.- 1.4 Mehr als nur Erbsenzählen — Die statistiche Auswertung.- 1.5 Beetle oder Benz? — Auswahl des richtigen Journals.- 1.6 Hitchcock oder Hemingway? — Besonderheiten der Sprache beim medical writing.- 2 Mein erstes Meisterwerk — ein Leitfaden zur Erstellung eines Fachartikels.- 2.1 ‘Verba volant, scripta manent’, und jetzt erst recht — Der Kongressbeitrag als sinnvoller Scrhitt vor der schriftlichen Publikation.- 2.2 Kurz und bündig — Abstrakts für einen Artikel oder einen Kongressbeitrag.- 2.3 Erst grübeln, dann dübeln — Das Erstellen einer Gliederung und schrittweises Vorgehen.- 2.4 Der Appetizer vordem Mohl — Die Einleitung als gelungener Einstieg in einen Artikel.- 2.5 KISS: Keep it small and simple — Die Gestaltung des Methodikteils.- 2.6 Hilfe, ich ertrinke! — Von der Datenlawine zum Ergebnisteil.- 2.7 Vom roten Faden zum Abschleppseil — Diskussion als Chance zum Publikationsmarketing.- 2.8 So what, who care? — Die Schlussfolgerung als merkwürdiger Abgang.- 2.9 Polish to be published — Das Editieren als Feinschliff.- 2.10 Mehr als nur Farbkleckse — Erstellen und Formatieren von Tabellen und Grafiken.- 2.11 Check it out — Die Checkliste vor dem Abschicken.- 2.12 Sein oder Nicht-Sein — Der Begutachtungsprozess.- 3 Das wird ja eine Doktorarbeit … — Die Promotion.- 3.1 Nur akademischer Titel oder wissenschaftlicher Olymp? — Die Auswahl des richtigen Dissertationsthemas.- 3.2 Prüfe sich, wer sich bindet — Wie finde ich den richtigen Dissertationsbetreuer?.- 3.3 Kampf dem Monster — Der Umgang mit Textverarbeitungs-programmen bei Dissertationen und anderen groß Dokumenten.- 3.4 Die Kunst des Maßhaltens — Besonderheiten beim Verfassen der Dissertationsarbeit.

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. QSAR facilitating safety evaluation and risk assessment Part I: Methods and Advances of QSAR 2. Development of QSAR models as reliable computational tools for regulatory assessment of chemicals for acute toxicity 3. Deep learning-based descriptors as input for QSAR 4. Decision Forest – A machine learning algorithms for QSAR modeling 5. Integrated modelling for compound efficacy and safety assessment 6. Deep learning QSAR methods for chemical toxicity prediction and risk assessment 7. Predictive modeling approaches for the risk assessment of persistent organic pollutants: Classical to Machine learning based QSAR Models 8. Machine learning based QSAR for safety evaluation 9. Advances in QSAR through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning methods 10. Advances of the QSAR approach as an alternative strategy in the Environmental Risk Assessment 11. QSAR modeling based on graph neural networks Part II: Tools and Data Sources for QSAR 12. Modeling safety and risk assessment with VEGA HUB 13. Recent advancements in QSAR and Machine Learning Approaches for risk assessment of organic chemicals 14. admetSAR - a valuable tool for assisting safety evaluation 15. QSAR tools for toxicity prediction in risk assessment – a comparative analysis 16. Fast and Efficient Implementation of Computational Toxicology Solutions Using the FlexFilters Platform 17. Annotate a standard dataset for drug-induced liver injury to support developing QSAR models 18. Application of QSAR Models Based on Machine Learning Methods in Chemical Risk Assessment and Drug Discovery 19. EADB – The database providing curated data for developing QSAR models to facilitate assessment of endocrine activity 20. Centralized data sources and QSAR methods for the prediction of idiosyncratic adverse drug reaction Part III: QSAR models for Safety Evaluation of Drugs and Consumer Products 21. QSAR modeling for predicting drug-induced liver injury 22. The need of QSAR methods to assess safety of chemicals in food contact materials 23. QSAR models for predicting in vivo reproductive toxicity 24. Aryl hydrocarbon receptors and their ligands in human health management 25. Use of in silico protocols to evaluate drug safety 26. QSAR models for predicting cardiac toxicity of dugs Part IV: QSAR models for Risk Assessment of Chemicals 27. Similarity-based analyses for the false-positive and false-negative chemicals on the second Ames/QSAR international challenge project 28. QSAR Model of Photolysis Kinetic Parameters in Aquatic Environment 29. QSAR models on transthyretin disrupting effects of chemicals 30. QSAR models for toxicity assessment of multicomponent systems 31. Deploying QSAR to discriminate excess toxicity and identify the toxic mode of action of organic pollutants to aquatic organisms 32. QSAR models for prediction of carrying capacity of microplastic towards organic pollutants 33. QSAR models on degradation rate constants of atmospheric pollutants Part V: QSAR models in Material Science and Other Areas 34. Significance of QSAR in cancer risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) 35. QSAR in risk assessment of nanomaterials 36. In silico and in vitro ecotoxicity - QSAR based predictions for the aquatic environment 37. In vitro to in vivo Extrapolation Methods in Chemical Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment 38. QSAR models in marine ecotoxicology

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Book SynopsisThis pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the modern chemistry laboratory. Seeking to understand life's connection to the stars, David Deamer introduces astrobiology, a new scientific discipline that studies the origin and evolution of life on Earth and relates it to the birth and death of stars, planet formation, interfaces between minerals, water, and atmosphere, and the physics and chemistry of carbon compounds. Deamer argues that life began as systems of molecules that assembled into membrane-bound packages. These in turn provided an essential compartment in which more complex molecules assumed new functions required for the origin of life and the beginning of evolution. Deamer takes us from the vivid and unpromising chaos of the Earth four billion years ago up to the present and his own laboratory, where he contemplates the prospects for generating synthetic life. Engaging and accessible, First Life describes the scientific story of astrobiology while presenting a fascinating hypothesis to explain the origin of life.Trade Review"An authoritative voice weighs in on a sprawling debate that's been raging in the scientific community for many decades, and lays out a succinct and persuasive hypothesis for the origin of life on Earth." The Scientist "Engaging... [Deamer] gives us an enriched sense of how the universe works." -- Elof Axel Carlson The Quarterly Review Of Bio "Insightfully written" Times Higher Education "Eloquent... A preeminent leader in the field tells his personal story of discovery in a unique and absorbing way." -- Chandra Wickramasinghe, University of Buckingham Bioscience "Thought-provoking... A journey of discovery into the nature of life itself." -- George M. Eberhart C&Rl NewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. A Fireball Over Australia 2. Where Did Life Begin? 3. When Did Life Begin? 4. Carbon and the Building Blocks of Life 5. The Handedness of Life 6. Energy and Life's Origins 7. Self-Assembly and Emergence 8. How To Build a Cell 9. Achieving Complexity 10. Multiple Strands of Life 11. Catalysts: Life in the Fast Lane 12. Copying Life's Blueprints 13. How Evolution Begins 14. A Grand Simulation of Prebiotic Earth 15. Prospects for Synthetic Life Epilogue Sources and Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Speech: The Words You Say.- Structure: The Strategy You Choose.- Visual Aids: Your Supporting Cast.- Delivery: You, the Room, and the Audience.- Conclusion: Aim High.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews of the second edition:“Alley’s book as an important and must-read guide for anyone in the scientific field. Professors, researchers and students will greatly benefit from Alley’s work. The book also has the benefit of being short and concrete–a plus for the busy scientist.” (Philosophy, Religion and Science Book Reviews, bookinspections.wordpress.com, March, 2014)“The second edition ... of this readable and informative volume highlights 13 critical errors to avoid in scientific presentations. Alley (Virginia Tech) provides examples through words and images about how to best convey ideas and meaning by understanding, connecting with, and engaging the audience. … This is a valuable work for academic and research libraries supporting, in particular, faculty, researchers, and graduate students. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty.” (J. Clemons, Choice, Vol. 51 (5), January, 2014)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Speech: The Words You Say.- Structure: The Strategy You Choose.- Visual Aids: Your Supporting Cast.- Delivery: You, the Room, and the Audience.- Conclusion: Aim High.

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Book SynopsisA re-issue of Gregory Bateson's classic work. It summarizes Bateson's thinking on the subject of the patterns that connect living beings to each other and to their environment.

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Book SynopsisCuáles son las estrategias del genoma para adaptarse al entorno cambiante? Cómo influye la dieta en la expresión de nuestros genes y nuestra salud? Puede afectar a las siguientes generaciones? Sabías que pueden heredarse los traumas a través de los genes? Entonces, estaba en lo cierto Lamarck? Por qué las células de nuestros órganos son distintas? Cómo funciona la inactivación del cromosoma X en mamíferos? Sin alterar la secuencia de adn, la epigenética explica cómo se puede modificar la función de los genes gracias a increíbles procesos biológicos. Desde el envejecimiento hasta enfermedades como el cáncer, se revelan sorprendentes mecanismos que desafían muchas de las ideas que creíamos comprender.La epigenética es una ciencia apasionante y aún poco explorada que reescribe gran parte de lo que creíamos saber sobre el adn. Nos abre puertas fascinantes hacia un mejor entendimiento de las funciones génicas, permitiéndonos descubrir más sobre quiénes somos.Cómo recuerda una planta c

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Book SynopsisThis book provides the reader with a thorough understanding of schizophrenia as a complex brain disorder by explaining the various aspects investigated for its cognizance from epigenetics to chemistry and physics to computational approaches. The book covers the key notions of schizophrenia from a variety of facets such as neurogenetics, neurochemistry, neuropharmacology, neurobiology, psychotherapy, psychiatric treatment, cognitive studies, behavioral and societal studies, and computational neurosciences. Individual chapters are focused on crucial topics such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, brain functioning, computational neuroscience, neuro-imaging, and many more. This book explains each section and chapter with utmost clarity to maintain comprehensiveness for every kind of reader. This book covers various classical as well as recent topics from basic to advance level knowledge regarding schizophrenia. The book's contributions regarding its inclusivity of topics, comprehensiveness of language, diversity in knowledge, and focus on the subject will attract all kinds of readers. It can be considered a single comprehensive handy reference book for beginners, including medical students, neuroscientists, researchers, clinicians, and medical practitioners. Cognizance of Schizophrenia will be an invaluable asset for all who are involved in neuroscience research or clinical studies.Table of Contents Understanding schizophrenia: introductory aspect of the mental disorder from various perspectives Genetic mutations and Alternative splicing in schizophrenia Understanding the Chemical Interactions in the Brain of Schizophrenia Patients A diagnostic perspective of schizophrenia: from past to present Is it schizophrenia or not? - Different Biological characterization A neurobiological aspect of schizophrenia and the relationship between neurological disorders: depression, anxiety, epilepsy Clinical treatment available for schizophrenia Insights into the neuro-pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia: past, present, and future Managing Schizophrenia – A Challenge for Physicians Pharmacotherapy and Emerging Treatment Strategies for Schizophrenia Alternative Therapies used in Schizophrenia Different phases of schizophrenia patients: from the psychological perspective Stigmatizing Attitudes Towards Patients with Schizophrenia Among Medical Professionals and General Population Rehabilitation of Schizophrenia-Practical Interventions Consumption of Cannabis: A risk factor or a therapeutic agent for patients with Schizophrenia Medical Imaging and Schizophrenia: A Study on State-of-art Applications Schizophrenia and its Effect on Marital Satisfaction The mortality rate in schizophrenia

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