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Functional Foods - The Connection Between Nutrition, Health and Food Science by Leah Coles, PhD

“Functional foods” are foods that are given some other role or function; most often this is related to disease prevention and/or health. This book seeks to highlight the role of these foods. The first section, titled, “The Connection Between Nutrition and Health”, shows the varying and complicated relationships between nutrition, physical and mental health, and disease. The second section, on the connection between health science and food, presents a number of case studies on the possible uses of effectivity of functional foods. Both sections as a whole seek to discuss methods for nutritional interventions in relation to diseases like obesity and other prominant health concerns in today’s modern society.

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Physics in Biology _ Medicine by Paul Davidovits

This new edition has been updated and includes a discussion of information theory and descriptions of CT scan, endoscopy, MRI and fMRI imaging, techniques that were not available at the writing of the earlier editions. A word about units. Most physics and chemistry textbooks now use the MKS International System of units (SI). In practice, however, a variety of units continues to be in use. For example, in the SI system, pressure is expressed in units of pascal (kg/m2). Both in common use and in the scientific literature one often finds pressure also expressed in units of dynes/cm2, Torr (mm Hg), psi, and atm. In this book I have used mostly SI units. However, other units have also been used when common usage so dictated. In those cases conversion factors have been provided either within the text or in a compilation at the end of Appendix A.

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Cambridge IGCSE Physics - Duncan, Tom

Physicists explore the Universe. Their investigations range from particles that are smaller than atoms to stars that are millions and millions of kilometres away. As well as having to find the facts by observation and experiment, physicists also must try to discover the laws that summarise these facts (often as mathematical equations). They then have to make sense of the laws by thinking up and testing theories (thought-models) to explain the laws. The reward, apart from satisfied curiosity, is a better understanding of the physical world. Engineers and technologists use physics to solve practical problems for the benefit of people, though, in solving them, social, environmental and other problems may arise. In this book we will study the behaviour of matter (the stuff things are made of) and the different kinds of energy (such as light, sound, heat, electricity). We will also consider the applications of physics in the home, in transport, medicine, research, industry, energy production and electronics. Shows some examples. Mathematics is an essential tool of physics and a ‘reference section’ for some of the basic mathematics is given at the end of the book along with suggested methods for solving physics problems.

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Britain-science for all by Peter J. Bowler

Historians such as Bernard Lightman, James Secord, and Aileen Fyfe have shown us how the development of Victorian science was shaped by the interaction between working scientists and the general public. Darwinians such as T. H. Huxley openly competed with the advocates of natural theology for the attention of the reading public. Lectures, entertainments, and exhibitions played a role in shaping the careers of many scientists and would-be scientists. Yet we know surprisingly little about the situation after 1900, apart from the influence of a few bestselling scientist-authors such as Arthur Eddington and Julian Huxley, and the efforts of left-wing scientists to raise public awareness of how science was being exploited. We do know something about the development of popular science writing in early twentieth-century America and in some continental European countries. But for Britain we have only a few case studies by Peter Broks, Anna-K. Mayer, and Sophie Forgan. A broader study will allow us to address important issues about how the relationship between scientists and the public has changed between the Victorian era and the present. The early twentieth century was a period in which there were major developments within both the publishing industry and the scientific community.

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Biology-Source-Book by Sr. A. Joseph

This source book may be used with any Biology textbook. It offers such as variety of ideas that any teacher should find something that fits into their own pattern of teaching. Teaching is such a personal art, that it would be wrong to suggest one simple approach to teaching Biology. To enrich Biology learning we must consider how to teach the subject as well as what we teach. 

The study of living organisms is called Biology. All living things have certain characteristics in common with each other. They are in dynamic equilibrium with their surroundings, constantly taking in some substances and giving out others;. While inside the organism many of these substances undergo changes. This process is called metabolism and it enables the organism to maintain a constant internal environment, regardless of external changes. Maintaining such an internal equilibrium is called homeostasis. Seven specific characteristics can be identified, which are shown by all living organisms at some stage during their life. These are growth, respiration, response to stimuli, movement, nutrition, excretion, and reproduction. Some of these characteristics can be shown by non-living things, but only living organisms carry out all seven of them. In addition living organisms are controlled by a programme of instructions contained in their genes, which can be passed on from one generation to the next. The smallest biological structure which is capable of showing all these characteristics of life is the cell. It can therefore be thought of as the basic unit of life.

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biology dictionary by Mark D.L.

The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Bioscience provides a compendium of 22,000 terms that are central to the life sciences and are encountered in many other fields of science and engineering. The coverage in this Second Edition has been substantially reorganized, with approximately 5000 new terms in areas such as forensic science, medicine, neuroscience, pathology, pharmacology, and veterinary medicine. The terminology previously classified as cytology and molecular biology now appears as cell and molecular biology. In some instances, terminology appearing in the previous edition has been moved to more appropriate companion dictionaries. It is hoped that this organization reflects the scope of modern life sciences and the needs of readers. All told, the terms and definitions in the Dictionary represent 26 fields. In addition to those mentioned above, the reader will find coverage in: Anatomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Biophysics, Botany, Ecology, Embryology, Evolution, Genetics, Histology, Immunology, Invertebrate zoology, Microbiology, Mycology, Physiology, Systematics, Vertebrate zoology, Virology, and Zoology.

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Biology 1sec SB E 2014 by Shalaby .M.N et al.

Biology is closely related to chemistry. Chemistry explains the chemical structure of living organisms and the reactions taking place inside their cells. There are four basic types of organic molecules necessary to the life of living organisms. These molecules are carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids. All living organisms are made up of these four molecules. These four molecules are called the biological macromolecules. In this unit, you will identify the molecular structure, functions and importance of these molecules to the living organisms. Furthermore, you will identify the chemical processes related to the functions of life. In this unit, you will practise some practical and applied activities that help you to understand the nature , structure and functions of the biological macromolecules and the chemical reactions which occur inside the cells. These activities improve some of your skills such as observations, experimentation, measurement, conclusion, interpretation, controlling the variables and so on. 

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