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This work identifies the characteristics of racket design parameters that influence racket performance. It presents the finite element analysis of several designs of badminton rackets and compares them to experimental results for validation. Designing a racket requires...
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Springer
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2015-09-02
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Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these debates, and to proposing novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-09-01
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This book presents a multifunctional approach to the design of bulk nanostructured metals through severe plastic deformation (SPD). Materials engineering has traditionally involved selecting a suitable material for a given application. However, modern engineering...
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Springer
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2015-09-01
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The general public has a glorified view of the pursuit of scientific research. However, the idealized perception of science as a rule-based, methodical system for accumulating facts could not be further from the truth. Modern science involves the idiosyncratic, often...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-09-01
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This book brings together philosophical approaches to cooperation and collective agency with research into human-machine interaction and cooperation from engineering, robotics, computer science and AI. Bringing these so far largely unrelated fields of study together...
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Springer
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2015-09-01
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While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. It seems to matter for the animal whether it experiences pain or pleasure, or enjoyment or suffering. But does it also matter for...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-09-01
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Groundbreaking thinking on how bacterial metabolism is foundational to pathogenesis For too long, bacterial metabolism and bacterial pathogenesis have been studied as separate entities. However, the scientific community is beginning to realize that not only are...
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ASM Press
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2015-09-01
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ASM Books
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Murray Bookchin was not only one of the most significant and influential environmental philosophers of the twentieth century--he was also one of the most prescient. From industrial agriculture to nuclear radiation, Bookchin has been at the forefront of every major...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-09-01
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Two major challenges to continued global food security are the ever increasing demand for food products, and the unprecedented abiotic stresses that crops face due to climate change.Wild relatives of domesticated crops serve as a reservoir of genetic material, with the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-09-01
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This book reviews the geochemical and petrological characteristics of potassic igneous rock complexes, and investigates the different tectonic settings in which these rocks occur. The authors provide an overview and classification of these rocks and elucidate the...
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Springer
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2015-08-31
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Relativität ist ein Teil der Allgemeinbildung – davon ist der Autor N. David Mermin überzeugt, denn schließlich geht es um die Zeit, eine Sache, die nun wirklich jeder kennt. Mermins Zugang zum Thema ist sehr einfallsreich, aber dennoch exakt und vollständig. Diese gut...
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Springer Spektrum
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2015-08-31
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This volume offers a comprehensive coverage of the general principles and recent advances in fungicide resistance. It describes the development, mechanisms, monitoring, and management of resistance and covers the most important group of fungicides that have caused...
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Springer
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2015-08-31
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This volume presents the proceedings of the 1st World Congress on Electroporation and Pulsed Electric Fields in Biology, Medicine and Food & Environmental Technologies (WC2015). The congress took place in Portorož, Slovenia, during the week of September 6th to 10th,...
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Springer
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2015-08-31
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This is the story of the astronomer Milton La Salle Humason, whose career was integral to developing our understanding of stellar and universal evolution and who helped to build the analytical basis for the work of such notable astronomers and astrophysicists as Paul...
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Springer
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2015-08-28
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This volume of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing contains accepted papers presented at ICGEC 2015, the 9th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing. The conference this year was technically co-sponsored by Ministry of Science and...
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Springer
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2015-08-28
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This thesis offers a thorough and informative study of high-power, high-energy optical parametric chirped pulse amplifications systems, the foundation of the next generation of femtosecond laser technology. Starting from the basics of the linear processes involved and...
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Springer
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2015-08-28
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TO A NATION enthralled by the heroic exploits of the Mercury astronauts, the launch of Lt. Cmdr. Scott Carpenter on NASA’s second orbital space flight was a renewed cause for pride, jubilation and celebration. Within hours, that excitement had given way to stunned...
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Springer
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2015-08-28
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Ob Tiere als Begleiter des Menschen oder als seine Gegenspieler die Literatur bevölkern, ob sie als Exempel, Symbole oder Allegorien eingesetzt werden, ob sie sprachlos oder sprechend leiden und agieren, ob sie gänzlich unabhängig in eigenen Lebens- und Zeichenwelten...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-28
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In this edited volume on advances in forensic geotechnical engineering, a number of technical contributions by experts and professionals in this area are included. The work is the outcome of deliberations at various conferences in the area conducted by Prof. G.L....
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Springer
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2015-08-28
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Developments in Geotechnical Engineering
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The Early Earth: Accretion and Differentiation provides a multidisciplinary overview of the state of the art in understanding the formation and primordial evolution of the Earth. The fundamental structure of the Earth as we know it today was inherited from the initial...
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American Geophysical Union
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2015-08-28
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Geophysical Monograph Series
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