For fifty years, Hydrosilylation has been one of the most fundamental and elegant methods for the laboratory and industrial synthesis of organosilicon and silicon related compounds.
This proceedings volume of the 9th Eurasia Conference details advances in chemical biology. It includes coverage of analytical chemistry, biochemical technology, bioinformatics, catalysis and nanotechnology, bioorganic and bioinorganic chemistry.
A major aim of Education and Social Inequality in the Global Culture, which is the first volume in the 12-volume book series Globalisation,... Læs mere
This paper offers a brief examination of ethical health issues arising from military operations and outlines which, if any, of these ethical health issues apply to current Australian Defence Force (ADF) military operations.
Today, researchers in moral education widely regard moral reasoning as but one among at least four dimensions of moral dev- opment alongside moral motivation, moral character, and moral sensitivity (Rest, 1986).
We are only now beginning to understand the climatic impact of the remarkable events that are now occurring in subarctic... Læs mere
Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture 2006 and Beyond is a collection of papers presented at the XIth international congress of the International Association of Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology (IAPTC&B).
It records the intellectual struggles of a group of scholars coming to grips with changes in knowledge production and research communication. Together these authors demonstrate how philosophical and historical approaches are relevant to the practice and theory of education.
Beliefs about nature of knowledge and learning, or epistemological beliefs have been an interest of educational researchers and psychologists for the past several years.
The chapters in this volume are all devoted to a single question: Can wisdom be taught, or at least fostered? The same is true of terms from Buddhism or Confucianism, or even the Ancient Greek tradition acknowledged as a source of most current views of wisdom in the West;
Selection procedures used in plant breeding have gradually developed over a very long time span, in fact since settled agriculture was ?rst undertaken. This means, in... Læs mere
Micropropagation has become a reliable and routine approach for large-scale rapid plant multiplication, which is based on plant cell, tissue and organ culture on well defined tissue culture media under aseptic conditions.