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Edorium Journals

Edorium journals is one of the leading academic publishers of open access journals. It publishes peer reviewed journals and international journals in fields including basic sciences, medical specialties and surgical specialties. You can refer the open access journals list on Edorium Journals to know the sub-specialties under which scholarly articles can be published here. It covers a variety of disciplines including medicine, science, humanities, technology, chemistry, arts, biology, engineering, management, physics, cancer research, neuroscience, genetics, immunology and infection, environment, developmental biology, bioengineering, clinical skills, biochemistry, behavior, psychology, and many more.

Subjects:: Environmental Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Psychology, Biology, and Medicine
Keywords:: Science Periodicals Arts Physics Technology Chemistry Social sciences Environmental sciences Engineering Humanities Biology Medicine
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Estonian Academy Publishers

Estonian Academy Publishers issues seven open access scientific journals, peer-reviewed, indexed and abstracted in international review publications and databases. All journals have an international Editorial board. Publications of the Estonian Academy Publishers cover almost all important areas of contemporary science. Our journals are peer reviewed and recognized by the Estonian Research Council and the Estonian Committee of Science Compentence as journals meeting international scientific standards.

Subjects:: Environmental Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Archeology, Mathematics and Statistics, Biology, and Foreign Language Learning
Keywords:: Science Periodicals Uralic languages Ecology Mathematics Archaeology Technology Chemistry Social sciences Europe -- Baltic Sea Region Engineering Humanities Geology History Physics
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Explorations: An Open Invitation To Biological Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humanity, in all its biological and cultural aspects, past and present. It is a four-field discipline comprised of biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, and linguistic anthropology. The focus of this book is biological anthropology, which explores who we are from biological, evolutionary, and adaptive perspectives. We lay the foundation for this inquiry in the first four chapters by introducing the discipline of anthropology, evolutionary theory, molecular biology and genetics, and the forces of evolution. Chapters 5–8 consider evolutionary, biological, and social aspects of our closest living relatives, nonhuman primates, with whom we share millions of years of evolution. We also learn about how fossils provide material insight into our past. Chapters 9–12 describe prior hominin species and the emergence of Homo sapiens, us! Finally, the last four chapters (Chapters 13–16) explore human biological variation and the concept of race, bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology, and human biology and health in the past and present. We include further readings on osteology (Appendix A), primate conservation (Appendix B), and human behavioral ecology (Appendix C). To guide your reading, each chapter begins with learning objectives and ends with review questions and a list of key terms. Ancillary materials are available for this textbook.

Subjects:: Psychology and Biology
Keywords:: Physical anthropology Textbooks
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation

In this journal platform, you can find the articles which published under the open license. The journal including the disciplines:
Biological Sciences
Medicine
Case Reports
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences and Education
Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science

Subjects:: Medicine, Chemistry, Computing, Mathematics and Statistics, Biology, and Physics
Keywords:: Science Periodicals Computer science Physics Mathematics Education Technology Social sciences Environmental sciences Engineering Biology Medicine Physical sciences
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How Do Cancer Cells Behave Differently from Healthy Ones?

How do cancer cells grow? How does chemotherapy fight cancer (and cause negative side effects)? The answers lie in cell division. George Zaidan explains how rapid cell division is cancer's "strength" -- and also its weakness.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Biology
Keywords:: Cancer cells
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How Fast Is The Speed of Thought?

Your mortal enemy has captured you and hooked you up to a bizarre experiment. He's extended your nervous system with one very long neuron to a target about 70 meters away. At some point, he's going to fire an arrow. If you can then think a thought to the target before the arrow hits it, he'll let you go. So who wins that race? Seena Mathew examines the speed of thought.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Biology
Keywords:: Neurons -- Physiology Thought thinking Brain -- Physiology
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How The Gut Microbes You're Born with Affect Your Lifelong Health

Your lifelong health may have been decided the day you were born, says microbiome researcher Henna-Maria Uusitupa. In this fascinating talk, she shows how the gut microbes you acquire during birth and as an infant impact your health into adulthood -- and discusses new microbiome research that could help tackle problems like obesity and diabetes.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Biology
Keywords:: Microorganisms Medical genetics
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Human biology : human anatomy and physiology

"This textbook is ideal for an introductory-level human biology course. It is aligned with the British Columbia Adult Basic Education learning outcomes for Provincial Level Biology, which is the equivalent of Grade 12 Anatomy and Physiology. This textbook begins with an introduction to sciences and the scientific method, and then addresses the human body in increasing scale: from biological molecules, to cells and tissues, to organs and all eleven organ systems, all with an overarching focus on health. The text employs clear writing, case studies for each chapter, interactive self-marking study activities, highlights of Indigenous knowledge and examples, a pop-up glossary, and links to resources for extending learning."--BCcampus website.