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This book discusses the increase in number and capacity of wind farms in Germany and how this is affecting birds of prey. Several methods are used to study the behaviour of birds of prey in relation to wind farms, including telemetry data, field observations, and...
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Springer
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2017-04-17
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Synaesthesia is, in the words of the cognitive neuroscientist Cytowic, a strange sensory blending. Synaesthetes report seeing colours when hearing sounds or proper names, or they experience tastes when reading the names of subway stations. How do these rare cases relate...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-04-15
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Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-04-15
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Totality: The Great American Eclipses is a complete guide to the most stunning of celestial sights, total eclipses of the Sun. It focuses on the eclipses of August 21, 2017 and April 8, 2024 that pass across the United States. The U.S. mainland has not experienced a...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-04-14
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An authoritative and comprehensive volume of knowledge and green technologies wholly focused on the future of the bioeconomy. The authors present data, show opportunities, discuss R&D findings, analyze strategies, assess the wider economic impact, showcase achievements,...
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Springer
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2017-04-13
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A comprehensive look at state-of-the-art ADP theory and real-world applications This book fills a gap in the literature by providing a theoretical framework for integrating techniques from adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) and modern nonlinear control to address...
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Wiley-IEEE Press
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2017-04-13
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IEEE Press Series on Systems Science and Engineering
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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.
This book covers the latest in snow sport epidemiology, snow sport injuries and treatment, and biomechanical/mechanical engineering related to snow sports injuries (mechanisms of injury, injury prevention by...
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Springer
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2017-04-13
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Kidney Development and Disease brings together established and young investigators who are leading authorities in nephrology to describe recent advances in three primary areas of research. The first section describes the use of animal models as powerful tools for the...
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Springer
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2017-04-13
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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them. It has been organized around...
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Springer
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2017-04-12
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Springer Series on Environmental Management
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Das Sachbuch betrachtet das hohe Alter aus zwei unterschiedlichen Perspektiven: der Verletzlichkeits- und der ?Reifeperspektive. Es untersucht wissenschaftlich fundiert, zugleich anschaulich und gut verständlich, welche seelisch-geistigen Entwicklungsprozesse im hohen...
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Springer
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2017-04-12
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This book provides readers with an overview of the frequent occurrence of asymmetric cell division. Employing a broad range of examples, it highlights how this mode of cell division constitutes the basis of multicellular organism development and how its misregulation...
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Springer
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2017-04-12
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This research monograph provides an introduction to the theory of nonautonomous semiflows with applications to population dynamics. It develops dynamical system approaches to various evolutionary equations such as difference, ordinary, functional, and partial...
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Springer
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2017-04-11
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This book studies the production of indole alkaloids in the important medicinal plant Catharanthus roseus (L.) G. Don, commonly known as periwinkle. The anticancer alkaloids, viz. vinblastine and vincristine, are mainly present in the leaves of C. roseus...
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Springer
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2017-04-11
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Editeur :
Springer
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2017-04-11
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This book series is composed of peer-reviewed proceedings of selected symposia organized by the International Association of Geodesy. It deals primarily with topics related to Geodesy as applied to the Earth Sciences : terrestrial reference frame, Earth gravity field,...
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Springer
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2017-04-11
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Provides fundamentals needed to apply impedance spectroscopy to a broad range of applications with emphasis on obtaining physically meaningful insights from measurements. Emphasizes fundamentals applicable to a broad range of applications including corrosion,...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2017-04-10
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The ECS Series of Texts and Monographs
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This monograph introduces readers to the hydrodynamics of vortex formation, and reviews the last decade of active research in the field, offering a unique focus on research topics at the crossroads of traditional fluids and plasmas.Vortices are responsible for the...
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Springer
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2017-04-09
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This book presents an in-depth systematic investigation of a dissipative effect which manifests itself as the growth of hydrodynamic stability and suppression of turbulence in relaxing molecular gas flows. The work describes the theoretical foundations of a new way...
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Springer
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2017-04-08
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Mithilfe von Computersimulationen untersucht Felix Rühle die Dynamik von Teilchenkollektiven, speziell von Paaren, unter der Voraussetzung mittlerer Reynoldszahlen, bei denen ein laminarer Fluss seine kinematische Reversibilität verliert und Trägheitseffekte wie die...
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Springer Spektrum
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2017-04-07
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This book presents a geostatistical framework for data integration into subsurface Earth modeling. It offers extensive geostatistical background information, including detailed descriptions of the main geostatistical tools traditionally used in Earth related sciences to...
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Springer
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2017-04-07
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