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This book is about the varied range of emerging applications using specially trained detection dogs to monitor and protect aquatic ecosystems, animals, plants and related resources. Featuring contributions from those at the forefront of converging disciplines ranging...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-10
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This handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field guide to past weather and climate and their role in human societies. Bringing together dozens of international specialists from the sciences and humanities, this volume describes the methods, sources, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-10
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This book describes and contextualises collisionless plasma theory, and in particular collisionless plasma equilibria. The Vlasov–Maxwell theory of collisionless plasmas is an increasingly important tool for modern plasma physics research: our ability to sustain plasma...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-10
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This book is an introduction to professional ethics in chemistry. After a brief overview of ethical theory, it provides a detailed discussion of professional ethic for chemists based on the view that the specific codes of conduct derive from a moral ideal. The moral...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-08-10
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This book focuses on the context dependency of cell signaling by showing how the endosomal system helps to structure and regulate signaling pathways. The location and concentration of signaling nodes regulate their activation cycles and engagement with distinct effector...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-08-10
Collection :
Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology
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The book analyses the landscape as a geosystem in all its complexity (from the abiotic environment, and land use to socio-economic character) as an integrated natural resource, as society’s life space, as well as an object of planning and decision making on sustainable...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-10
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Provides a complete understanding of how our bodies respond to toxicants, and the principles used to assess the health risks of specific exposure scenarios Toxicology and Risk Assessment: A Comprehensive Introduction, Second Edition reflects recent advances in science...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2018-08-10
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This book describes the design, development, characterisation and application of two novel fluorescence imaging instruments based on spectrally resolved detector arrays (SRDAs). The simplest SRDA is the standard colour camera, which integrates a Bayer filter array of...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-09
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This open access book presents simple, robust pre-field screening protocols that allow plant breeders to screen for enhanced tolerance to heat stress in rice. Two critical heat-sensitive stages in the lifecycle of the rice crop are targeted – the seedling and flowering...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-08-09
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This book presents an exhaustive review on the use of polymers for food applications. Polymer-based systems for food applications such as: films, foams, nano- and micro-encapsulated, emulsions, hydrogels, prebiotics, 3D food printing, edible polymers for the...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-09
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During the past 15 years, cellular and molecular approaches have emerged as valuable adjuncts to supplement and complement conventional breeding methods for a wide variety of crop plants. Biotechnology increasingly plays a role in the creation, conservation,...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-09
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This volume highlights recent breakthroughs in the interdisciplinary areas of synthetic biology, metabolic engineering and bioprocess engineering for the production of green chemicals. It also presents practical experimental and computational tools for the design,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-08-08
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A unique approach to a core topic in organic chemistry presented by an experienced teacher to students and professionals Heterocyclic rings are present in the majority of known natural products, contributing to enormous structural diversity. In addition, they often...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2018-08-08
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We think we know what healers do: they build on patients’ irrational beliefs and treat them in a ‘symbolic’ way. If they get results, it’s thanks to their capacity to listen, rather than any influence on a clinical level. At the same time, we also think we know what...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-08-08
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This is the second of two books about African-American female chemists. The first book (African-American Women Chemists, 2011) focused on the early pioneers--women chemists from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Act. African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-08-08
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Wer hat sich beim Blick in die Hausapotheke nicht schon einmal gefragt, wie all die Pillen, Cremes und Tinkturen eigentlich wirken? Die Antwort kann jeder selbst herausfinden, denn die Chemie hinter der Arzneimittelwirkung lässt sich mithilfe der hier beschriebenen...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2018-08-08
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This White Paper describes the state of astrobiology in Europe today and its relation to the European society at large. With contributions from authors in twenty countries and over thirty scientific institutions worldwide, the document illustrates the societal...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-08-07
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Edited by foremost leaders in chemical research together with a number of distinguished international authors, Volume 2 presents the most important and promising recent chemical developments in life sciences, neatly summarized in one book. Interdisciplinary and...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2018-08-07
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Immunologists, perhaps understandably, most often concentrate on the human immune system, an anthropocentric focus that has resulted in a dearth of information about the immune function of all other species within the animal kingdom. However, knowledge of animal immune...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-07
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This edited collection explores how narratives about the future of the Arctic have been produced historically up until the present day. The contemporary deterministic and monolithic narrative is shown to be only one of several possible ways forward.This book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-06
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