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This book explores the importance of good nutrition in ensuring an adequate standard of welfare for farm animals. It is often not realized that farm animals can suffer when they are fed unsuitable diets, which may be because these diets are more economic or the farmer...
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Springer
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2016-05-12
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This book details how the GALO system of basin modelling may be used in the analysis of actual, non-standard problems of geology. It begins by addressing the tectonic subsidence of sedimentary basins, and goes on to consider the problems of maturation of organic matter...
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Springer
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2016-05-12
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This volume provides visionary approaches within the multi-disciplines engaged with informal settlements covering three main themes; ‘Innovative Policies and Strategies to Informal Urbanism’; ‘Production, Operation and the Life-World of Urban Space’ and finally ‘The...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-05-11
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Global climate change creates new challenges in particular for cities and regions. As centres of human activity they are especially vulnerable to climate change impacts. Adapting to a changing climate requires dealing with multiple uncertainties and complexity in order...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-05-11
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This book presents the findings of a team of scientists and practitioners who have been working on the project “Benefits of Governance in Drought Adaptation” (in short: the DROP project), which is included in the European Union’s INTERREG IVB NWE programme. The DROP...
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Springer
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2016-05-11
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This exclusive compilation written by eminent experts from more than ten countries, outlines the processes and methods for geologic sequestration in different sinks. It discusses and highlights the details of individual storage types, including recent advances in the...
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Springer
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2016-05-11
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This book focuses primarily on the role of interfacial forces in understanding biological phenomena at the molecular scale. By providing a suitable statistical mechanical apparatus to handle the biomolecular interface, the book becomes uniquely positioned to address...
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Springer
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2016-05-11
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This thesis discusses two key topics: strangeness and charge symmetry violation (CSV) in the nucleon. It also provides a pedagogical introduction to chiral effective field theory tailored to the high-precision era of lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Because the...
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Springer
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2016-05-11
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This monograph presents
approaches to characterize inelastic behavior of materials and structures at
high temperature. Starting from experimental observations, it discusses basic
features of inelastic phenomena including creep, plasticity, relaxation, low
cycle and...
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Springer
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2016-05-11
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This outstanding thesis characterises the aerodynamic flow around a container freight train; investigating how changing container loading configurations affect the magnitude of aerodynamic forces measured on a container. 1/25th scale moving-model freight train...
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Springer
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2016-05-10
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This book focuses on structure-preserving numerical methods
for flexible multibody dynamics, including nonlinear elastodynamics and
geometrically exact models for beams and shells. It also deals with the newly
emerging class of variational integrators as well as...
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Springer
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2016-05-10
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The book
addresses the question of whether the currently available instruments of
international environmental and international humanitarian law are applicable
to climate conflicts. It clarifies the different pathways leading from climate
change to conflict and offers...
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Springer
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2016-05-10
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This book presents advanced expression technologies for the production of protein complexes. Since complexes lie at the heart of modern biology, the expression, purification, and characterization of large amounts of high-quality protein complexes is crucial for the...
Editeur :
Springer
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2016-05-10
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This volume focuses on defining the unique attributes of using the zebrafish cancer model for discovering important pathways and potential drug targets for the treatment of human cancers. Using the zebrafish model, the volume explores oncogene and...
Editeur :
Springer
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2016-05-10
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This book provides biological and agricultural insights into snow mold, a fungal disease affecting land plants observed after the melting of snow. Snow mold fungi can cause significant damage to plant growth both in agriculture and in the natural environment, but the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-10
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Presents current research into electromagnetic computation theories with particular emphasis on Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method This book is the first to consolidate current research and to examine the theories of electromagnetic computation methods in relation to...
Editeur :
Wiley-IEEE Press
Parution :
2016-05-10
Collection :
IEEE Press
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Microbes can now be found in nearly every niche the
human body offers. However, the complexity of the microbiota of a given site
depends on the particular environmental condition thereof. Only microbes which
are able to grow under these conditions, will prevail. Recent...
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Springer
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2016-05-09
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This book informs environmental planning professionals, students and those interested in oceans and coasts from an environmental perspective about what is needed for planning and management of these unique environments. It is comprised of twelve chapters organized in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-09
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This book explains how the partial differential equations (pdes) in electroanalytical chemistry can be solved numerically. It guides the reader through the topic in a very didactic way, by first introducing and discussing the basic equations along with some model...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-09
Collection :
Monographs in Electrochemistry
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Calcium entry pathways in non-excitable cells presents a concise synthesis of thoughtfully selected topics covering from the different calcium entry mechanisms in non-excitable cells to the cellular microdomains and organelles regulating the calcium entry process....
Editeur :
Springer
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2016-05-09
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