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The main purpose of the book is to provide insight into an area that humans often take for granted. There are wonderful and exciting stories of organisms using chemical signals as a basis of a sophisticated communication system. In many instances, chemical signals can...
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Springer
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2015-08-27
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Water dominates the surface of Earth and is vital to life on our planet. It is a remarkable liquid which shows anomalous behaviour. In this Very Short Introduction John Finney introduces the science of water, and explores how the structure of water molecules gives rise...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-08-27
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Water dominates the surface of Earth and is vital to life on our planet. It is a remarkable liquid which shows anomalous behaviour. In this Very Short Introduction John Finney introduces the science of water, and explores how the structure of water molecules gives rise...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-08-27
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Written by Dr Alexandre Zagoskin, who is a Reader at Loughborough University, Quantum Mechanics: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in,...
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Teach Yourself
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2015-08-27
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"Synthetic biology" is the label of a new technoscientific field with many different facets and agendas. One common aim is to "create life", primarily by using engineering principles to design and modify biological systems for human use. In a wider context, the topic...
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Springer
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2015-08-27
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Nominated as an outstanding thesis by Professor Robert Crittenden of the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation in Portsmouth, and winner of the Michael Penston Prize for 2014 given by the Royal Astronomical Society for the best doctoral thesis in Astronomy or...
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Springer
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2015-08-27
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???This book is devoted to grain legumes and include eight chapters devoted to the breeding of specific grain legume crops and five general chapters dealing with important topics which are common to most of the species in focus. Soybean is not included in the book as it...
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Springer
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2015-08-27
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Dieses Essential gibt Ihnen eine kompakte, aber umfassende Übersicht über die Pnictogene, diese vielseitigen Elemente, die in zahlreichen Oxidationsstufen auftreten können und deren Charakter von nichtmetallisch (Stickstoff, teilweise auch Phosphor) über halbmetallisch...
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Springer Spektrum
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2015-08-27
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In Deutschland schließen inzwischen ebenso viele Frauen wie Männer ein naturwissenschaftliches Studium ab. Welche Karrieremöglichkeiten stehen ihnen offen? Wie begegnen sie der sehr realen Gefahr der Altersarmut durch Stipendien und befristete Anstellung? Und wie...
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Wiley
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2015-08-27
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Sometime in the not-too-distant future ... unbeknownst to Earth, the Galaxy is home to a number of spacefaring societies. This confederation enforces a strict protocol forbidding any contact with civilizations that have not yet achieved both a substantial spacefaring...
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Springer
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2015-08-26
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Quantenmechanische Aspekte der Erzeugung und Deaktivierung angeregter Elektronenzustände stellen die theoretische Grundlage der Elektronenspektroskopie dar. Ausgehend vom Experiment wird zunächst die Beschreibung von Molekülzuständen durch Wellenfunktionen eingeführt....
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Wiley-VCH
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2015-08-26
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This book offers advanced students, in 7 volumes, successively characterization tools phases, the study of all types of phase, liquid, gas and solid, pure or multi-component, process engineering, chemical and electrochemical equilibria, the properties of surfaces and...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2015-08-26
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Recent progress in biotechnology and genomics has expanded the plant breeders’ horizon providing a molecular platform on the traditional plant breeding, which is now known as ‘plant molecular breeding’. Although diverse technologies for molecular breeding have been...
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Springer
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2015-08-26
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LANDSCAPE GENETICS: CONCEPTS, METHODS, APPLICATIONSLANDSCAPE GENETICS: CONCEPTS, METHODS, APPLICATIONS Edited by Niko Balkenhol, Samuel A. Cushman, Andrew T. Storfer, Lisette P. Waits Landscape genetics is an exciting and rapidly growing field, melding methods and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-08-26
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Reviews the fundamental concepts behind the theory and computation of electromagnetic fields The book is divided in two parts. The first part covers both fundamental theories (such as vector analysis, Maxwell’s equations, boundary condition, and transmission line...
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Wiley-IEEE Press
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2015-08-26
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IEEE Press
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The power engineering domain is facing huge challenges, with an increasing interest in intermittent renewable energies which are imposing major technical limitations. Operating ever closer to their limits, the industry-standard AC power grids are subject to...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2015-08-26
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Coastal zones exemplify the environmental pressures we face: their beauty attracts settlement, they offer potential for diverse economic activities, and they are sensitive natural habitats for important species, as well as providing a range of ecosystem services. They...
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Springer
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2015-08-26
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Hydrology is vital to human civilisations as well as to natural ecosystems, yet it has only emerged as a distinct scientific discipline during the last 50 years or so. This book reviews the development of modern hydrology primarily through the experiences of the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-08-26
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This book presents a historical and scientific analysis as historical epistemology of the science of weights and mechanics in the sixteenth century, particularly as developed by Tartaglia in his Quesiti et inventioni diverse, Book VII and Book VIII (1546; 1554). In the...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-08-25
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Der 4. Juli 2012 stellt ein historisches Datum für das Europäische Kernforschungszentrum CERN in Genf dar: die Verkündung der Entdeckung des letzten, vorhergesagten, noch fehlenden und lange gesuchten Elementarteilchens, des Higgs-Bosons. Ein Jahr später kommen im...
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Springer Spektrum
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2015-08-25
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