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Physics of Energy Sourcesprovides readers with a balanced presentation of the fundamental physics needed to understand and analyze conventional and renewable energy sources including nuclear, solar, wind and water power. It also presents various ways in which energy can...
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Wiley
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2017-04-03
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Manchester Physics Series
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A comprehensive overview of the latest achievements, trends, and the current state of the art of this important and rapidly expanding field. Clearly and logically structured, the first part of the book explores the fundamentals of tissue engineering, providing a...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2017-04-03
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Der Band untersucht in einer repräsentativen Umfrage die Lebensdeutung und die Lebensplanung in der späten Lebensmitte. Während die Jugend Identität suchen muss, ist Identitätswahrung Aufgabe der Lebensmitte. Berufliche, familiale und weltanschauliche Positionen sollen...
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Springer VS
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2017-04-03
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Climate change shaped the political agenda during the last decade with three issues as hot topics: commonly making the headlines: carbon budgets, impact and mitigation of climate change. Given the significant role that forests play in the climate system – as sources,...
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Springer
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2017-04-03
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This book shows impressively how complex mathematical modeling of materials can be applied to technological problems. Top-class researchers present the theoretical approaches in modern mechanics and apply them to real-world problems in solid mechanics, creep,...
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Springer
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2017-04-02
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This book provides a survey of technologies available to tackle the problems associated with climate change in the energy, water and food security nexus with a special focus on the Middle East. It is divided into three main sections. The energy Section consists of six...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-03-31
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A comprehensive introduction to coastal storms and their associated impacts Coastal Storms offers students and professionals in the field a comprehensive overview and groundbreaking text that is specifically devoted to the analysis of coastal storms. Based on the most...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-03-31
Collection :
Hydrometeorological Extreme Events
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Nanoscale devices differ from larger microscale devices because they depend on the physical phenomena and effects that are central to their operation. This textbook illuminates the behavior of nanoscale devices by connecting them to the electronic, as well as magnetic,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-31
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This book highlights the triumph of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry over the past decade and provides insight into new and expanding technologies through a comprehensive range of short chapters that enable the reader to gauge their current status and how they may progress...
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Wiley
Parution :
2017-03-31
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This edited volume focuses on the characterization, reclamation, bioremediation, and phytoremediation of salt affected soils and waterlogged sodic soils. Innovative technologies in managing marginal salt affected lands merit immediate attention in the light of climate...
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Springer
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2017-03-31
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The book approaches the language experiments with great apes performed in the last 50 years from the point of view of logical semantics, speech act theory, and philosophy of the social sciences based on the linguistic turn in philosophy.The author reconstructs the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-31
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Research into cellulose nanocrystals is currently in an exponential growth phase, with research into potential applications now strengthened by recent advances in nanomanufacturing. The possibility of routine commercial production of these advanced materials is now...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2017-03-31
Collection :
Wiley Series in Renewable Resource
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This atlas offers anatomical descriptions of 19 Dalbergia and 31 Diospyros species, most of them endemic to Madagascar. Each species is illustrated with color micrographs of double-stained sections through the xylem, bark, and pith of stems, branches, and twigs....
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Springer
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2017-03-31
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This book comprises a fascinating collection of contributions on the Merz telescopes in Italy that collectively offer the first survey on historical large refracting telescopes in the country, drawing on original documents and photographs. It opens with a general...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-03-30
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This is the first book to systematically state the fundamental theory of integrability and its development of ordinary differential equations with emphasis on the Darboux theory of integrability and local integrability together with their applications. It summarizes the...
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Springer
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2017-03-30
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This book provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art of nonlinear time series analysis, richly illustrated with examples, pseudocode algorithms and real-world applications. Avoiding a “theorem-proof” format, it shows concrete applications on a...
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Springer
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2017-03-30
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Seabed logging (SBL) gathers the electromagnetic methods of marine subsoil exploration and more specifically those dedicated to the exploration of oil and gas at sea.Appeared in 2000, these techniques, with more than 500 industrial jobs, present after 15 years of...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-03-30
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Birds are renowned for their exceptional vision and the way that this enables them to survive and navigate the world in such a unique way. However, it is now recognised that avian behaviour is guided by information drawn from many different senses which are then used in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-30
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The Zamolodchikov c-theorem has led to important new insights in the understanding of the Renormalisation Group (RG) and the geometry of the space of QFTs. The present primer introduces and reviews the parallel developments of the search for a higher-dimensional...
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Springer
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2017-03-30
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Dieter Neubauer gibt vielfältige Beispiele für das Einprägen von Strukturformeln und chemischen Fakten. Denn Wortassoziationen, Bilder und Bildfolgen, Piktogramme oder Merksprüche können helfen, das schwierige Fach Chemie zu erlernen. Das Ergebnis ist ein unterhaltsamer...
Editeur :
Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2017-03-30
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