Soil contains approximately 2344Gt (1 gigaton=1 billion tonnes) of organic carbon globally
and is the largest terrestrial pool of organic carbon. Small changes in the soil organic carbon …

The monitoring of a quantum-mechanical harmonic oscillator on which a classical force acts
is important in a variety of high-precision experiments, such as the attempt to detect …

Iron deficiency is one of the leading risk factors for disability and death worldwide, affecting
an estimated 2 billion people. Nutritional iron deficiency arises when physiological …

The Committee for Research and Ethical Issues of the International Association for the Study
of Pain (IASP) is concerned with the ethical aspects of studies producing experimental pain …

The present volume, Xylem Structure and the Ascent of Sap by MH Zimmermann, very
appropriately inaugurates the Springer Series in Wood Science, an enterprise recently initiated in …

Individuals vary widely in their responses to medicinal drugs, which can be dangerous and
expensive owing to treatment delays and adverse effects. Although increasing evidence …

… Martin Zimmermann wrote the first edition of this book shortly before his death in March 1984…
In the first edition of this book, Martin Zimmermann used the old dimensions of atmosphere …

The ability to perturb genes in human cells is crucial for elucidating gene function and holds
great potential for finding therapeutic targets for diseases such as cancer. To extend the …

… m, 150 m, 200 m, 300 m and 380 m. From each of these classes, the median value of the
attenuation versus frequency was calculated and attenuation models similar to those presented …

Superconductivity often emerges in the proximity of, or in competition with, symmetry-breaking
ground states such as antiferromagnetism or charge density waves 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 (CDW). …