Life Sciences.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
National Academies Press,
1988.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Space Science in the Twenty-First Century: Imperatives for the Decades 1995 to 2015
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- OVERVIEW
- EXOBIOLOGY
- GLOBAL BIOLOGY/BIOSPHERIC SCIENCE
- CONTROLLED ECOLOGICAL LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM (CELSS)
- SPACE BIOLOGY
- HUMAN BIOLOGY AND SPACE MEDICINE
- IMPLEMENTATION
- 2 Exobiology
- WHAT IS EXOBIOLOGY?
- PLANETARY EXPLORATION AND THE NEED FOR SPACE DATA
- RESEARCH TOPICS
- Formation and Evolution of Biogenic Elements and Compounds
- Nucleosynthesis and Ejection to the Interstellar Medium
- Chemical Evolution in the Interstellar MediumProtostellar Collapse
- Chemical Evolution in the Solar Nebula
- Growth of Planetesimals from Dust
- Accumulation and Thermal Processing of Planetoids
- Prebiotic and Chemical Evolution
- Energy Harvesting, Storage, and Transduction
- Early Life
- Replication and Transcription
- Translation
- Clays and Other Minerals as Catalysts
- Lipids and Compartments
- Early Biological Evolution
- The Evolution of Complex and Higher Organisms
- Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
- SPACE MISSIONS
- IntroductionPre-1995 Planetary Missions
- Venus
- Mars
- Comets and Asteroids
- Outer Planets
- Planetary Missions After 1995
- Sample Return Missions: The Next Step
- Targets and Strategies for Future Missions
- Sample Return from Mars
- Comet Sample Return
- In Situ Studies of Titan
- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- 3 Global Biology / Biospheric Science
- BACKGROUND
- BIOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS
- Biosphere-Climate Interactions
- Biosphere-Atmospheric Chemistry Interactions
- GLOBAL ECOLOGY
- Global Ecology Models and Data Handling4 Controlled Ecological Life Support System (CELSS)
- DEFINITION
- RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
- ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- 5 Space Biology
- THE PROBLEMS
- WORK TO DATE
- FUTURE WORK
- Special Requirements
- 6 Human Biology and Space Medicine
- INTRODUCTION
- EXPERIMENTAL USE OF ANIMALS
- Approach to Scientific Questions
- NEUROSENSORY PHYSIOLOGY
- Introduction
- Background
- Flight Experience
- Space Motion Sickness
- Vestibulo-Spinal Reflexes
- Proposed Research
- Overview
- Visual System
- Tactile and Proprioceptive SystemsBONE AND MINERAL METABOLISM
- Introduction
- Background
- Flight Experience
- Cellular Mechanisms
- Possibility of Urinary Tract Stone Formation
- Proposed Research
- Characterization
- Cellular Mechanisms
- Nutrition
- Summary
- MUSCLE METABOLISM
- Introduction
- Background
- Flight Experience
- Ground-Based Studies
- Proposed Research
- CARDIOVASCULAR, PULMONARY, AND RENAL SYSTEMS
- Introduction
- Background
- Proposed Research
- Cardiovascular Conditioning
- Pulmonary Function