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Have you ever wanted to explore the Milky Way? Are you curious about how black holes form (and what really happens if you get stuck in one)?Do you want to learn how to read the night sky from your back garden?Tour the most dazzling, fascinating, and unusual galaxies in...
Editeur :
Wildfire
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2020-05-26
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This book gathers the latest insights into soil health and its sustainability, providing an up-to-date overview of the various aspects of soil quality and fertility management, e.g., plant-microbe interactions to maintain soil health; and the use of algal, fungal and...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-26
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Aleocharine beetles are among the most poorly known and difficult-to-identify groups of Coleoptera worldwide. This book presents the first comprehensive synopsis of aleocharine rove beetle species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from British Columbia, Canada. It is...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-26
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This text book covers the principles and methods of load effect calculations that are necessary for engineers and designers to evaluate the strength and stability of structural systems. It contains the mathematical development from basic assumptions to final equations...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-25
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Myosins are molecular motors that use the energy from ATP hydrolysis to move and exert tension on actin filaments. Although the best-known myosin is myosin II, which powers skeletal muscle contraction, there are at least two dozen classes of myosins, and cells generally...
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Springer
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2020-05-25
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Alter(n) ist eine gesellschaftliche Konstruktion, die sich abhängig von soziokulturellen und sozialstrukturellen Rahmenbedingungen auf der einen Seite und lebensweltlichen Bezügen, Interaktions- und Beziehungssystemen auf der anderen Seite realisiert. Im Sammelband soll...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-05-25
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This book comprehensively reviews the recent advances in nanomaterial-based molecular imaging, diagnostics, and personalized therapy. It discusses the novel biocompatible fluorescent nanomaterials, their synthesis, and modern state of art characterization, as well as...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-23
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This book explores how the trans phenomenon can challenge the existing concept of the Self and its nature. The catalyst is Moore’s Paradox: can a trans person coherently state ‘I am a girl but I don’t believe that’? More deeply, three fundamental philosophical questions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-22
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Genome Editing-Techniken werden mit der Entdeckung von CRISPR/Cas interdisziplinär diskutiert. Die als revolutionär bezeichnete Genschere ist eine einfache und kostengünstige Möglichkeit, um vielfältige und sehr genaue Manipulationen des Genoms vorzunehmen. Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-05-22
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This book details various stages in the introduction, establishment and evolution of China’s environmental management system. By combining a literature review, comparative analysis, and case study, it investigates the environmental management system in several key...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-22
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Landforms and Landscapes of Portugal brings together contributions from 47 authors, presenting a thorough overview of the main highlights of the landscape of Portugal’s mainland. The book, which is a tribute to Professor António de Brum Ferreira, first President of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-05-22
Collection :
World Geomorphological Landscapes
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Northern Tanzania is an important and diverse ecological and cultural region with many protected lands. This book, Protected Areas inNorthern Tanzania, brings to the forefront research on significant issues and developments in conservation and management in national...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-21
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This book is organized into 12 important chapters that focus on the progress made by metal-based drugs as anticancer, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, and anti-neurodegenerative agents, as well as highlights the application areas of newly discovered...
Editeur :
Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2020-05-21
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This book explores the applications of ferroelectric materials in information technology by developing several prototype devices based on Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3 (PMN-PT) single crystals. It describes how an optothermal field-effect transistor (FET) was constructed on...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-05-21
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This book presents selected papers from the Fifteenth International Conference on Dependability of Computer Systems (DepCoS-RELCOMEX), which illustrate the diversity of theoretical problems in analysis of performability, reliability and security of contemporary computer...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-21
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Nrf2, a transcription factor that mediates transcriptional responses to oxidative and xenobiotic stresses, plays a central role in cellular protection against internal or external toxins. Defects in Nrf2 and the relevant regulatory pathways are associated with a number...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-21
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Jayme Tiomno (1920-2011) was one of the most influential Brazilian physicists of the 20th century, interacting with many of the renowned physicists of his time, including John Wheeler and Richard Feynman, Eugene Wigner, Chen Ning Yang, David Bohm, Murray...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-20
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This book highlights the latest research on waste processing technologies, particularly for domestic, agricultural, and petroleum based pollutants, intended to achieve waste valorisation. In addition, it discusses the important role of plastic recycling, as well as...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-20
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We are witnessing an alarming, global biodiversity crisis with an ongoing loss of species and their habitats. In response, a number of tools and approaches – including some that are contested – are being explored and promoted. Biodiversity offsets are one such approach,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-20
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As a follow-up to the Handbook of Gasification Technology, also from Wiley-Scrivener, Synthesis Gas goes into more depth on how the products from this important technology can reduce our global carbon footprint and lead the United States, and other countries, toward...
Editeur :
Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2020-05-20
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