Environmental Biophysics

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2011
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Posudin, Yuriy
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Abstract
This text-book: 1) provides a description of physical surrounding of living organisms; 2) elucidates the ability of living organisms to respond to the change of external factors due to receptor systems and to choose optimal conditions of survival; 3) gives information on the principles of operation of modern instrumentation for measure-ment of the environmental parameters with special emphasis on automated system and remote sensing of environmental components; 4) reviews transfer phenomena and processes which characterise the interaction of living or-ganisms with the environment; 5) considers the main principles of the solar radiation budget and the energy balance of physical and biological systems with the environment. This text-book is based on the concept of transfer phenomena – irreversible processes which are important from the point of view of viability of living organisms; the spatial transfer of physical values such as entropy, mass, energy, momentum, electric charges in the envi-ronment occurs due to these phenomena. Such an approach makes it possible to unite all bio-physical processes that characterise the interaction of living organisms with the environment. This text-book is intended for the students of Environmental Sciences. It will be useful for those students whose native language is not English and who want to improve the knowledge of professional English terminology that will make it possible to better understand modern literature, take a more active role in scientific missions abroad, get into contact with foreign colleagues, and enhance attendance at international conferences, symposiums, seminars, etc.
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Ця книга призначена для студентів, які вивчають навколишнє середовище. Буде корисна для студентів, для яких англійська не є рідною мовою і які прагнуть покращити знання професійної англійської термінології, що дозволить краще зрозуміти сучасну наукову літературу, приймати активнішу участь в наукових міжнародних конференціях, симпозіумах, семінарах.
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physical surrounding of living organisms, physics of transfer phenomena, ecology, екологія, екологічна біофізика
Citation
Posudin Y. I. Environmental Biophysics / Posudin Yuriy. - Fukuoka ; Kiev, 2011. - 179 [5] p.