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This book focuses on proving that deficit irrigation could play an important role in increasing food production in times of water scarcity. Although the application of deficit irrigation can involve loss in crop productivity, it still secures water to be use in...
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Springer
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2020-01-22
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This book focuses on developing an integrated holistic approach for harnessing the potential of rain-fed agriculture. In this approach, rainwater management through harvesting and recharging the groundwater is used as an entry point activity for increasing the...
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Springer
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2020-01-22
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This book presents systematic research results on curved shock wave-curved compression surface applied to the compression surface design of supersonic–hypersonic inlet, which is a brand new inlet design. The concept of supersonic inlet curved compression discussed...
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Springer
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2020-01-22
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Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China
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This book discusses the Lagoa Santa Karst, which has been internationally known since the pioneering studies of the Danish naturalist Peter Lund in the early 1800s. It covers the speleogenesis, geology, vegetation, fauna, hydrogeology, geomorphology, and anthropogenic...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-22
Collection :
Cave and Karst Systems of the World
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This book highlights the phenomenon of social media use in university studies based on its participants’ lived experience. It will appeal both to academics and practitioners interested in the human factors in the study environments saturated with technologies of social...
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Springer
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2020-01-21
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This book argues for two claims: firstly, determinism in science does not infringe upon human free will because it is descriptive, not prescriptive, and secondly, the very formulation, testing and justification of scientific theories presupposes human free will and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-01-21
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This book discusses the outcomes of more than ten years of research in the southern tracts of the Amazon region, and addresses the expansion of the agricultural frontier, consolidation of the agribusiness-based economy, and expansion of regional infrastructure (roads,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-21
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The book provides an overview on national policies and regulations related to water resource management in the Middle East and North African countries (MENA), where water scarcity problems are critical.The physical/natural constraints, socio-economic and political...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-20
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This collection presents papers from a symposium on extraction of rare metals as well as rare extraction processing techniques used in metal production. Rare metals include strategic metals that are in increasing demand and subject to supply risks. Metals represented...
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Springer
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2020-01-20
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In this book, Erik W. Aslaksen builds on the view and model of society introduced in The Social Bond (Springer 2018), which portrays society as an information-processing system, and as both the result of the information and of the environment in which the information...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-20
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This book presents the facet theoretical framework as a tool for facilitating the conception of complex animal behaviour research and the design of research procedures through employing mapping sentences. Using the facet theoretical framework, this book takes a holistic...
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Springer
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2020-01-20
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In diesem Buch beschäftigt sich Ludmila Lysenko mit der Frage, ob es sich bei Subulicystidium longisporum um eine kryptische Spezies handelt. Die Autorin untersucht hierzu erstmals Proben mit einer breiten geographischen Abdeckung unter Verwendung diverser...
Editeur :
Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2020-01-20
Collection :
BestMasters
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Sascha Herwig beschreibt die Faltung und den Einbau von ß-Fass-Membranproteinen am Modell des essenziellen BamA aus Außenmembranen von Escherichia coli, der zentralen Untereinheit des ß-Barrel-Assembly-Machinery-Komplexes. Membranproteine des ß-Fass-Typs der...
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Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2020-01-17
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BestMasters
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?According to the World Health Organization, the epidemic of global obesity has nearly tripled since 1975. In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight, over 650 million of which were obese. Being overweight and obese has been linked to a number of...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-17
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Spatial planning defines how men use one of the most important and scarce resources on Earth: land. Planners therefore play a key role in countering or deepening the current ecological crisis. To foster ecological transitions, planning scholars and practitioners need to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-01-16
Collection :
Cities and Nature
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership (ICCLS). Written by interdisciplinary researchers and students from the fields of mathematics, physics, education, economics, political science, statistics, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-16
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This book provides a unique blend of integrated disaster risk communication research conducted by authors with diverse backgrounds, including social psychology, sociology, civil engineering, informatics, and meteorology. It reports on the latest advances in...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-16
Collection :
Integrated Disaster Risk Management
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This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Innovations and Developments in Mechanical Engineering (IC-RIDME 2018). The book contains peer reviewed articles covering thematic areas such as fluid mechanics, renewable energy, materials...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-16
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This book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of peroxisomes and their role in human diseases. It starts by describing the history of peroxisome research and then examines in detail the current understanding of the biogenesis and function of peroxisomes. It...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-01-16
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Written by one of the top scientists in this field, this is a systematic overview of the fundamental concepts and powerful applications. The author presents the central theories and mechanisms in electron transfer, followed by several systems in nature where this is...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2020-01-15
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