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This book takes a critical look at solar geoengineering as an acceptable means for addressing climate change. Baskin explores the assumptions and imaginaries which animate ‘engineering the climate’ and discusses why this climate solution is so controversial. The book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-05-17
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This PhD thesis is dedicated to a subfield of elementary particle physics called “Flavour Physics”. The Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM) has been confirmed by thousands of experimental measurements with a high precision. But the SM leaves important questions...
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Springer
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2019-05-17
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of chitin biology and chitin metabolism related enzymes. Chitin, the second most abundant biopolymer in nature after to cellulose, is a linear biopolymer composed of ß-1,4-linked N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc), and an...
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Springer
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2019-05-17
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The series Topics in Current Chemistry Collections presents critical reviews from the journal Topics in Current Chemistry organized in topical volumes.The scope of coverage is all areas of chemical science including the interfaces with related...
Editeur :
Springer
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2019-05-16
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Topics in Current Chemistry Collections
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Provides deep insight into the concepts and recent developments in the area of supramolecular chemistry in water Written by experts in their respective field, this comprehensive reference covers various aspects of supramolecular chemistry in water?from fundamental...
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Wiley-VCH
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2019-05-16
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This book gathers the lecture notes of courses given at Session CVII of the summer school in physics, entitled “Current Trends in Atomic Physics” and held in July, 2016 in Les Houches, France.
Atomic physics provides a paradigm for exploring few-body quantum systems...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-05-16
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In this book, renowned scientists describe how cholesterol interacts with various proteins. Recent progress made in the high-resolution visualization of cholesterol-protein interactions using crystallography and cryogenic electron microscopy has substantially advanced...
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Springer
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2019-05-16
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Evolution gave rise to a prominent insect diversity at every level of ecological niche. Since then, hordes of insects have threatened human and cattle health as well as most of all green lands and agricultural crops. Now, the insect problem expands from many mutant...
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Springer
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2019-05-16
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Evolution gave rise to a prominent insect diversity at every level of ecological niche. Since then, hordes of insects have threatened human and cattle health as well as most of all green lands and agricultural crops. Now, the insect problem expands from many mutant...
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Springer
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2019-05-16
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This brief explores several adaptive agricultural practices from around the world to fulfill current and future agricultural demands for food security due to the challenges posed by climate change and growing global population. Readers will discover how farmers adapt to...
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Springer
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2019-05-16
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This is the seventh volume in the series, Advances in Natural Gas Engineering, focusing on carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and sequestration, acid gas injection, and enhanced oil recovery, the "three sisters" of natural gas engineering.This volume includes information for...
Editeur :
Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2019-05-16
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Advances in Natural Gas Engineering
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This comprehensive text examines both global and local coronary blood flow based on morphometry and mechanical properties of the coronary vasculature. Using a biomechanical approach, this book addresses coronary circulation in a quantitative manner based on models...
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Springer
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2019-05-15
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This book covers exploration and evaluation practices for various types of complex reservoirs, and summarizes a series of practical and effective techniques and methods.For example, it shows how, by integrating multiple types of new logging technology, complex reservoir...
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Springer
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2019-05-15
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Dieses Buch enthält insgesamt 730 Biographien der zwischen 1803 und 1932 an der Universität Heidelberg lehrenden Ordinarien, außerordentlichen Professoren und Honorarprofessoren. Es ist die zweite Auflage des 1986 erstmals erschienenen „Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon ...
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Springer
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2019-05-15
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The book provides an overview of the floods and major hydrological changes that occurred in the medieval Hungarian kingdom (covering the majority of the Carpathian Basin) between 1000 and 1500 AD.The analysis was based on contemporary documentary evidence presented for...
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Springer
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2019-05-15
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The field of radioactive ion beam research has evolved over the last three decades, and several sizeable facilities are currently undergoing a major upgrade or are under construction. In Europe, these include ISOLDE - CERN (Switzerland), SPIRAL2 - GANIL (France), FAIR -...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2019-05-15
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This book will represent the cutting edge/latest research in AcarologyWill be of interest to submitters and to past, present, and future members of the society. Readers will gain insight into the fascinating world associated with our planet’s smallest and most...
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Springer
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2019-05-15
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This book presents the first experiment revealing several unexplored non-equilibrium properties of quantum many-body states, and addresses the interplay between the Kondo effect and superconductivity by probing shot noise. In addition, it describes in detail...
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Springer
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2019-05-14
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This book presents the first detailed account of Werner Heisenberg’s failed attempt to find a theory of everything in the autumn of his career. It further investigates what we can learn from his failure in relation to the search for a final theory of physics, an...
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Springer
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2019-05-14
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This book covers whole aspects of the sulfur isologues of amides. Starting from the synthetic methods of thioamides, a range of synthetic applications to the construction of carbon–sulfur and carbon–carbon bonds, to asymmetric reactions, to formation of heterocycles are...
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Springer
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2019-05-14
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