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This book discusses environmental crime and individual wrongdoing. It uses the theory of convenience throughout to examine financial motives, attractive opportunities, and personal willingness to explain deviant behavior.This book focusses primarily on the case study of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-31
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This book presents various dynamic processes in non-uniform piezoceramic cylindrical and spherical bodies based on numerical methods. It discusses different variants of nonhomogeneous structural polarized piezoceramic materials in the shape of cylinders and spheres, and...
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Springer
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2021-05-31
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When Charles Darwin first proposed Sexual Selection Theory, he suggested two mechanisms: competition among males and choice by females. Although their importance is long established and extremely well understood, their mirror images have remained largely...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-31
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This volume explores options for a sustainable maritime domain, including maritime transportation, such as, Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP), maritime education and training, maritime traffic and advisory systems, maritime security. Other activities in the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-05-29
Collection :
Strategies for Sustainability
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This book describes the historical development of the principle of stationary action from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Reference is made to the most important contributors to this topic, in particular Bernoullis, Leibniz, Euler, Lagrange and Laplace. The...
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Springer
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2021-05-29
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The book introduces readers to the basic principle of optical imaging technologies. Focusing on human disease diagnostics using optical imaging methods, it provides essential information for researchers in various fields and discusses the latest trends in optical...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-29
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This edited volume is a comprehensive account of plant diseases and insect pests, plant protection and management for various crops using microbial and biotechnological approaches. The book elucidates the role of biotechnology for the enhancement of crop productivity...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-29
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Rudolf P. Huebener presents the field of superconductivity research in a clear and compact way. He vividly describes how this area has developed in many directions since the discovery of superconductivity more than 100 years ago. This concerns materials, experiments on...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-05-28
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This book provides a broad overview of what peace research is all about by an author who has been involved in the field for more than half a century. Among other things it gives a unique review of how peace research emerged in Sweden as the author was a key actor in the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-05-28
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This proceedings book represents a collection of conference papers examining the fundamental problems of deep magmatism.Enriched mantle reservoirs can be the source of the most massive apatite and rare metal deposits. Additionally, this book also presents some of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-28
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?By means of multidisciplinary research on urban and rural planning, construction engineering, environmental engineering and engineering sociology, this book conducts pioneering research on the construction theory, construction methods, evaluation technology and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-05-27
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Physiology is the science of life, and sets out to understand how living things work and what makes them distinct from the non-living. It considers how our bodies are supplied with energy, how they maintain their...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-27
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Physiology is the science of life, and sets out to understand how living things work and what makes them distinct from the non-living. It considers how our bodies are supplied with energy, how they maintain their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-27
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This two-volume set provides a general overview of the evolution of the human genome; The first volume overviews the human genome with descriptions of important gene groups.This second volume provides up-to-date, concise yet ample knowledge on the genome evolution of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-05-27
Collection :
Evolutionary Studies
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This book addresses the various challenges in achieving sustainable groundwater development, management, and planning in semi-arid regions, with a focus on India, and discusses advanced remote sensing and GIS techniques for the estimation and management of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-05-27
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This book provides both an introduction to the philosophy of scientific modeling and a contribution to the discussion and clarification of two recent philosophical conceptions of models: artifactualism and fictionalism. These can be viewed as different stances...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-05-27
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Recent advances in quantum technology - from quantum computers and simulators to secure communication and metrology - have not only opened up a whole new world of practical applications but also changed our understanding of quantum theory itself. This text, for the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-05-27
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This book takes a fresh look at the work, thoughts, and life of 1956 Nobel Prize winner William B. Shockley. It reconstructs Shockley’s upbringing, his patriotic achievements during World War II, his contribution to semiconductor physics – culminating with the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-05-26
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Medicinal plants contain a variety of bioactive compounds, (also referred to as phytochemicals). in the leaves, stems, flowers and fruits. This book covers these bioactive compounds, their available sources, how the bioactive molecules are isolated from the plants, the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2021-05-26
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This book contains papers on selected aspects of dependability analysis in computer systems and networks, which were chosen for discussion during the 16th DepCoS-RELCOMEX conference held in Wroclaw, Poland, from June 28 to July 2, 2021. Their collection will be a...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-26
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