Mechanisms of immunity -- Hematopoiesis, including lymphocyte development and maturation -- T cell-mediated immunity -- Antibody diversity and B cell-mediated immunity -- Cytokines -- Innate immunity — phagocytes, natural killer cells and the complement system -- Inflammatory mediators and intracellular signalling -- Immune response in human pathology: infections caused by bacteria, viruses, …
Antixenosis - Adverse Effects of Resistance on Arthropod Behavior -- Antibiosis - Adverse Effects of Resistance on Arthropod Biology -- Tolerance - The Effect of Plant Growth Characters on Arthropod Resistance -- Locating Sources of Resistance -- Techniques to Measure Resistance -- Factors Affecting the Expression of Plant Resistance to Arthropods -- Inheritance of Arthropod Resistance -- Const…
Introduction: Preliminary remarks; Adaptation of connective and supportive tissues to their respective functions; Parameters of functional adaptation -- Study aim: Fundamental considerations; Structure of the present study; Questions -- Anatomical structures investigated: Extensor tendons of the toes in the region of the proximal interphalangeal joint (PIP); Extensor tendons of the hand in the …
The Functional Significance of Forest Diversity: The Starting Point -- An Introduction to the Functional Diversity of Temperate Forest Trees -- Productivity and Growth -- Diversity and Productivity in Forests: Evidence from Long-Term Experimental Plots -- Confounding Factors in the Observational Productivity-Diversity Relationship in Forests -- Genetic Diversity Parameters Associated with Viabi…
1. Teachers and Students as Co-Learners -- 2. Student-Student Interaction -- 3. Learner Autonomy -- 4. SCL via the prism of the element of Focus on Meaning -- 5. Curricular Integration -- 6. Diversity -- 7. Thinking Skills -- 8. Alternative Assessment -- 9. Learning Climate -- 10. Simple, powerful strategies for enhancing student Motivation -- Conclusion. .This book reminds us teachers about …
Prologue: The Demographer’s Ken: 50 Years of Growth and Change -- Prologue: The Demographer’s Ken: 50 Years of Growth and Change -- Population Structure -- Age and Sex -- Population Distribution and Suburbanization -- Marriage and Family -- Demography of Gender -- Demography of Aging -- Demography of Race and Ethnicity -- Labor Force -- Population Processes -- Fertility -- Infant Mortality …
Macro Change -- Beyond Bloom’s Taxonomy: Rethinking Knowledge for the Knowledge Age -- Human Development in the Learning Society -- Educational Reform Networks: Changes in the Forms of Reform -- Educational Change in Japan: School Reforms -- National Strategies for Educational Reform: Lessons from the British Experience Since 1988 -- Quality in Schools: Developing a Model for School Improveme…
Toward a critical graphicacy -- The work of reading graphs -- Graphicacy and context -- Photographs in biology texts -- Graphicacy in lectures -- Interpretive graphicacy in practice -- Layered inscriptions: what does it take to get their point? -- Semiotics of chemical inscriptions -- Reading layered, dynamic inscriptions -- Epilogue: steps toward critical graphicacy.School science is dominated…
1. Introduction -- 2. Semiotics in theory and practice in mathematics education -- 3. A summary of results -- References.Open AccessThis volume discusses semiotics in mathematics education as an activity with a formal sign system, in which each sign represents something else. Theories presented by Saussure, Peirce, Vygotsky and other writers on semiotics are summarized in their relevance to the…
Outline of the General Neurobiological Problem -- The Perikarya Which Support Axonal Regrowth are Hyperexcitable -- Axonal Regrowth is Compromised by Ephaptic Cross-Talk Between the Branches -- Biological Significance of Axonal Branching -- Role of Cytoskeleton Reorganization During Axonal Branching -- The Individual Guidance Cues Promoting Reinnervation of Original Targets are Still Unknown --…