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Do you know silica, the tetrahedra of silicon and oxygen constituting the crystals of New Agers and the desiccant in a box of new shoes? It's no mere mundane mineral. As chemically reacting silicate rocks, silica set off the chain of events known as the origin of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-15
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The bananas we eat today aren't your parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable, consistent breakfast fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that, the banana we love is dangerously susceptible to a pathogen that might...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2017-03-14
ePub
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This book is the first major work covering applications in thermal engineering and offering a comprehensive introduction to optimal control theory, which has applications in mechanical engineering, particularly aircraft and missile trajectory optimization. The book is...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-03-14
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This book shows how Bohmian mechanics overcomes the need for a measurement postulate involving wave function collapse. The measuring process plays a very important role in quantum mechanics. It has been widely analyzed within the Copenhagen approach through the Born and...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-03-14
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This book will provide assistance to the broad range of readers involved in the crude oil import and production; renewable energy production; biomass analysis and bioconversion; greenhouse gas emissions; techno-economic analysis and government policies for implementing...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-14
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Moonlighting Proteins: Novel Virulence Factors in Bacterial Infections is a complete examination of the ways in which proteins with more than one unique biological action are able to serve as virulence factors in different bacteria. The book explores the pathogenicity...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-03-14
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The graptolites constitute one of the geologically most useful taxonomic groups of fossils for dating rock successions, understanding paleobiogeography and reconstructing plate tectonic configurations in the Lower Palaeozoic. Graptolites were largely planktic, marine...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-03-14
Collection :
TOPA Topics in Paleobiology
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Explains the principles and current thinking behind plasmon enhanced Fluorescence Describes the current developments in Surface Plasmon Enhanced, Coupled and Controlled Fluorescence Details methods used to understand solar energy conversion, detect and quantify DNA...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2017-03-14
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This topical and timely textbook is a collection of problems for students, researchers, and practitioners interested in state-of-the-art material and device applications in quantum mechanics. Most problem are relevant either to a new device or a device concept or to...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2017-03-14
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In this Brief, Joe Jeffers uncovers the life and works of two-time Nobel Laureate Frederick Sanger. Following Sanger’s early life to retirement, Jeffers describes how this celebrated British biochemist became the first person to determine the amino acid sequence of a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-14
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This book focuses on the salient features of the biology of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins and the advances in our understanding of their structure and function and of downstream signaling, as well as their governance in systems biology from bone and dentin to kidney,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-14
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Statistics Analysis of Geographical Data: An Introduction provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the theory and practice of statistical analysis in geography. It covers a wide range of topics including graphical and numerical description of datasets,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-03-14
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The time has come. You are an Earth scientist. You’ve spent weeks, months, years working on this project – now is the time to pull it together for publication. You might be writing an undergraduate or graduate thesis, a research paper for a leading journal, a note for...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-03-14
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This book provides a comprehensive study of cracks situated at the interface of two piezoelectric materials. It discusses different electric boundary conditions along the crack faces, in particular the cases of electrically permeable, impermeable, partially permeable,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-14
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This book presents the Projective approach to de Sitter Relativity. It traces the development of renewed interest in models of the universe at constant positive curvature such as "vacuum" geometry. The De Sitter Theory of Relativity, formulated in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-13
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A large part of the world’s coastlines consists of sandy beaches and dunes that may undergo dramatic changes during storms. Extreme storm events in some cases dominate the erosion history of the coastline and may have dramatic impacts on densely populated coastal areas....
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2017-03-13
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Volume XVII in the "Advances in Electrochemical Science and Engineering" series, this monograph covers progress in this rapidly developing field with a particular emphasis on important applications, including spectroscopy, medicinal chemistry and analytical chemistry....
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2017-03-13
Collection :
Advances in Electrochemical Sciences and Engineering
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Etwas zu lernen ist eine Sache, es später umzusetzen noch einmal eine ganz andere. Aber keine Sorge, dieses Buch enthält ausreichend Übungsaufgaben, um verschiedene Aufgabentypen kennenzulernen und erfolgreich zu lösen. Die Themengebiete reichen von der Bewegungslehre...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2017-03-13
Collection :
Für Dummies
ePub
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This book gives an overview on techniques and future perspectives of various aspects of waste biomass management. It also presents the economic and environmental evaluation, and also the monetary value-benefits and sustainability of the different processes. Recycling...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-13
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Providing guidance that helps students practice and troubleshoot their exam technique, these books send them into their exam with the confidence to aim for the best grades.- Enables students to avoid common misconceptions and mistakes by highlighting them throughout-...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2017-03-13
ePub
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