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This book offers a comprehensive account of India’s four biodiversity hotspots: the Himalaya, Indo-Burma, Western Ghats and Sri Lanka and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. With a focus on tropical rainforests, it includes more than 30 chapters covering different vertebrate...
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Springer
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2018-08-27
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Losses of forests and their insect inhabitants are a major global conservation concern, spanning tropical and temperate forest regions throughout the world. This broad overview of Australian forest insect conservation draws on studies from many places to demonstrate the...
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Springer
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2018-08-27
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Nature offers abundant renewable resources that can be used to partially replace fossil fuels and commodity chemicals but issues of cost, technology readiness levels, and compatibility with existing distribution networks remain huge challenges. Cellulosic ethanol and...
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Springer
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2018-08-25
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This book covers the experimental and theoretical study of convection in non-isothermal ferro-nanofluids (FNFs). Since FNFs are not transparent and magnetic fields are very sensitive to the shape of the boundary between magnetic and nonmagnetic media, special flow...
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Springer
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2018-08-25
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This book presents in-depth investigation of the language used about women and ageing in public discourse, and compares this with the language used by women to express their personal, lived experience of ageing. It takes a linguistic approach to identify how messages...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-25
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This book is one out of six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics related to slope stability including case histories, landslide mapping, and emerging technologies. The theme of the IAEG/AEG Meeting, held in San...
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Springer
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2018-08-25
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This book is one out of six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics related to the advances made in engineering geology with emphasis on education, soil and rock properties, and modeling.
The theme of the IAEG/AEG...
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Springer
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2018-08-25
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This book is one out six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics related to the geotechnical and environmental site characterization.
The theme of the IAEG/AEG Meeting, held in San Francisco from September 17-21, 2018,...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-25
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This book is one out six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics related to mining, aggregates, and karst.
The theme of the IAEG/AEG Meeting, held in San Francisco from September 17-21, 2018, is Engineering Geology for a...
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Springer
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2018-08-25
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This book is one out of six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics related to dams, tunnels, groundwater resources, and climate change.
The theme of the IAEG/AEG Meeting, held in San Francisco from September 17-21,...
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Springer
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2018-08-25
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This book is devoted to the physical and mathematical modeling of the formation of complexes of protein molecules. The models developed show remarkable sensitivity to the amino acid sequences of proteins, which facilitates experimental studies and allows one to reduce...
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Springer
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2018-08-24
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Die ungeklärten Mysterien der BiologieWoher kommt das Leben? Warum schlafen wir? Wie können wir länger leben? Drei von sechs grundlegenden Fragen, die immer noch weitgehend offen sind und mit denen sich die moderne Biologie beschäftigt. Zu den ungelösten Mysterien...
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Springer
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2018-08-24
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Michael Hauschild führt den Leser zurück ins Jahr 2012, als am CERN, dem Europäischen Forschungszentrum für Teilchenphysik bei Genf – einem der faszinierendsten Forschungszentren überhaupt – die Entdeckung des Higgs-Teilchens nach einer langen Jagd am Large Hadron...
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Springer Spektrum
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2018-08-24
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This volume in the "Advances in Electrochemical Sciences and Engineering" series focuses on problem-solving, illustrating how to translate basic science into engineering solutions. The book's concept is to bring together engineering solutions across the range of...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2018-08-24
Collection :
Advances in Electrochemical Sciences and Engineering
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This book offers a survey of the historic development of selected areas of chemistry and chemical physics, discussing in detail the European, American and Russian approaches to the development of chemistry. Other key topics include the kinetics and non-linear...
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Springer
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2018-08-24
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This monograph summarizes the environmental issues concerning the channel and the floodplain of the Drava River. It describes the diverse forms of human impact (river regulation, damming and reservoirs, dredging etc.) and the environmental changes of hydrological...
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Springer
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2018-08-24
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This open access book advocates for the Social Sciences and Humanities to be more involved in energy policymaking. It forms part of the European platform for energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities’ activities, and works on the premise that crossing disciplines is...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-08-23
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Topological surgery is a mathematical technique used for creating new manifolds out of known ones. In this book the authors observe that it also occurs in natural phenomena of all scales: 1-dimensional surgery happens during DNA recombination and when cosmic magnetic...
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Springer
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2018-08-23
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Drug resistance is a fundamental factor in treatment failure in diseases like leishmaniasis, although additional factors also play a role in this phenomenon. This volume is the second edition of a well-received book that provides a comprehensive update on the pathology...
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Springer
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2018-08-23
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Combining incisive experiments with the latest theoretical advances, this book presents an extensive study of transfer-triggered breakup, the dominant process by which breakup occurs in reactions involving light, weakly bound nuclei. It demonstrates not only that...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-23
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