Cereal Genomics: An Overview -- Molecular Marker Systems and Their Evaluation for Cereal Genetics -- Molecular Maps in Cereals: Methodology and Progress -- Organization of Retrotransposons and Microsatellites in Cereal Genomes -- Comparative Genomics in Cereals -- Population Genetic Structure of Wild Barley and Wheat in the Near East Fertile Crescent: Regional and Local Adaptive Patterns -- Gen…
From the contents Preface -- Dedication -- Section I. Nitrogenase: The Origin, the Enzymes, and the Chemistry -- Section II. Genetics and Regulation in Heterotrophs and Photosynthetic Bacteria -- Section III. From Genomes to Function -- Section IV. Establishment of Symbiosis and Nodule Function -- Section V. Towards Sustainable Agriculture and Protection of the Environment -- Section VI. Molecu…
Science is central to our everyday life. Yet, the study of advanced science is often stratified by 'race' or ethnicity. This book draws across science education literature and sociology of education theories. It investigates how social identities of 'race' and ethnicity, social class and gender can shape minority ethnic students' views of, and aspirations toward, science through exploring the e…
From the Contents: Gene-based Technologies for Livestock Industries in the 3rd Millennium -- Challenges and Opportunities for Controlling and Preventing Animal Diseases in Developing Countries through Gene-based Technologies -- Molecular Genetics and Livestock Selection -- First Report on the State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources -- Development of Germline Manipulation Technologies in…
1. Diversity, biology and evolutionary relationships -- 2. Improvement of entomopathogenic nematodes: a genetic approach -- 3. Behaviour and population dynamics of entomopathogenic nematodes following Application -- 4. Entomopathogenic nematode in the soil environment -- 5. Trophic relationships of entomopathogenic nematodes in agricultural habitats -- 6. Utilizing persistent entomopathogenic n…
Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective Series Editors: Fred Dervin, University of Helsinki, Finland Xiangyun Du, Confucius Institute for Learning and Development, Aalborg University, Denmark What happens when East travels West? In today’s increasingly globalized world, these collisions are becoming increasingly common in universities– especially due to the growth of m…
Black Participatory Research explores research partnerships that disrupt inequality, create change, and empower racially marginalized communities. Through presenting a series of co-reflections from professional and community researchers in different locations, this book explores the conflicts and tensions that emerge when professional interests, class and socio-economic statuses, age, geography…
A common story of teachers from the Global South portrays them as deficient, unreliable and unprofessional. However, this book uses an innovative Capability Approach/Critical Realist lens to reveal the causal links between teachers' constrained capabilities and their 'criticised' behaviours. Transforming Teacher Quality in the Global South first applies this analytical lens to a Tanzanian case …
Higher Education Exchange between America and the Middle East through the Twentieth Century reveals the inspirations behind post-war initiatives such as AMIDEAST and the Fulbright Program and their impacts on education exchange. Brawner discusses enrollments by country and the factors that influenced education exchange through the end of the twentieth century. Included throughout are stories of…
Following a brief review of the historical background, Higher Education Exchange between America and the Middle East in the Twenty-First Century continues the higher education story with the events of 9/11. It describes the changes in US immigration policy and the implementation of student tracking systems, and their subsequent impact on Middle Eastern enrollments in US colleges and universitie…