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Energy and Global Climate Change: Bridging the Sustainable Development Divide focuses attention on two urgent global development challenges faced by the UN and its member states: access to sustainable energy for all, and global climate change. This book presents...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-07-23
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Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the end of the 19th century, which implied the existence of a positive charge in the atom to make it neutral. In this Very Short Introduction...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-23
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Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the end of the 19th century, which implied the existence of a positive charge in the atom to make it neutral. In this Very Short Introduction...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-23
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The study of dielectric properties of biological systems and their components is important not only for fundamental scientific knowledge but also for its applications in medicine, biology, and biotechnology.The associated technique - known as dielectric spectroscopy -...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-23
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Nationale Berichterstattung an die EU. Berichte über (a) die Veterinärkontrollen von aus Drittländern eingeführten Erzeugnissen an den Grenzkontrollstellen der Gemeinschaft, (b) die verstärkten amtlichen Kontrollen bei der Einfuhr bestimmter Futtermittel und...
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Birkhäuser
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2015-07-23
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Water Stress Management contains the invited lectures and selected oral and poster presentations of the 11th International Symposium on the Properties ofWater (ISOPOW), which was held in Queretaro, Mexico 5-9 September 2010. The text provides a holistic description and...
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Springer
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2015-07-23
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This book contains two review articles on nonlinear data assimilation that deal with closely related topics but were written and can be read independently. Both contributions focus on so-called particle filters.The first contribution by Jan van Leeuwen focuses on the...
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Springer
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2015-07-22
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?This two-volume work is a testament to the abiding interest and human fascination with ammonites. We offer a new model to explain the morphogenesis of septa and the shell, we explore their habitats by the content of stable isotopes in their shells, we discuss the...
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Springer
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2015-07-22
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This two-volume work is a testament to the abiding interest and human fascination with ammonites. We offer a new model to explain the morphogenesis of septa and the shell, we explore their habitats by the content of stable isotopes in their shells, we discuss the origin...
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Springer
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2015-07-22
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This volume presents papers on the use of micro-XRF core scanners in palaeoenvironmental research. It contains a broad ranging view of instrument capability and points to future developments that will help contribute to higher precision elemental data and faster core...
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Springer
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2015-07-21
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Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research
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This book presents a proof of universal computation in the Game of Life cellular automaton by using a Turing machine construction. It provides an introduction including background information and an extended review of the literature for Turing Machines, Counter Machines...
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Springer
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2015-07-21
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Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering: From Source to Fragility, Second Edition combines aspects of engineering seismology, structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering to assemble the vital components required for a deep understanding of response of structures...
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Wiley
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2015-07-21
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The book presents the processes governing the dynamics of landscapes, soils and sediments, water and energy under different climatic regions using studies conducted in varied climatic zones including arid, semi-arid, humid and wet regions.The spatiotemporal availability...
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Springer
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2015-07-21
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This new edition of Guide to Process Based Modeling of Lakes and Coastal Seas brings the modeling up to date, taking into account multiple stressors acting on aquatic systems. The combination of acidification and increasing amounts of anoxic waters associated with...
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Springer
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2015-07-21
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This thesis presents experimental and theoretical investigations of the connection between the time asymmetry in the short-time evolution of particle clusters and the intrinsic irreversibility of turbulent flows due to the energy cascade. The term turbulence describes a...
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Springer
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2015-07-20
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This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. Internationally renowned, as well as emerging, scholars establish a critical milieu for travel writing studies, as well as offer a set of exemplars in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-07-20
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This thesis focuses on the fundamental problem of characterising partially coherent beams. The book describes several non-interferometric methods based on phase-space tomography for recovering the spatial coherence information of optical beams.In the context of optical...
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Springer
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2015-07-18
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This book presents Nils Petter Gleditsch, a staff member of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) since 1964, a former editor of the Journal for Peace Research (1983-2010), a former president of the International Studies Association (2008-2009) and the recipient...
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Springer
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2015-07-18
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SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice
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In this Festschrift dedicated to the 85th birthday of Professor Guosen Yan, selected researchers in theoretical chemistry present research highlights on major developments in the field. Originally published in the journal Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, these...
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Springer
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2015-07-17
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This set of two books dedicated to presenting the latest novel and advanced research from around the world in this exciting area. These books highlight the important properties of electrochemistry in ionic liquids – as opposed to the more commonly used aqueous and...
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Springer
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2015-07-17
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