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This book offers a comprehensive account of vitalism and the Romantic philosophy of nature. The author explores the rise of biology as a unified science in Germany by reconstructing the history of the notion of “vital force,” starting from the mid-eighteenth through the...
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Springer
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2017-10-03
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This book illustrates how mine seismology can be used to improve underground safety standards. It describes several preventive actions that have been put into practice at the 5B Area of No. 5 Shaft Vaal Reefs gold mine after issuing seismic warnings. These included...
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Springer
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2017-10-03
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Covering both homemade and commercial products, this book provides the reader with simple and straightforward information about the modeling, building, and use of binoscopes. Binoscopes can be thought of as binoculars enlarged to the size of telescopes - essentially, a...
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Springer
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2017-10-03
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The Land Speaks explores the intersection of two vibrant fields, oral history and environmental studies. Ranging across farm and forest, city and wilderness, river and desert, this collection of fourteen oral histories gives voice to nature and the stories it has to...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-10-03
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This multidisciplinary handbook explores concrete case studies which illustrate how sustainability science and research can contribute to the realization of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It contains contributions from sustainability...
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Springer
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2017-10-03
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This book provides essential information on and case studies in the fields of energy technology, clean energy, energy efficiency, sustainability and the environment relevant to academics, researchers, practicing engineers, technologists and students. The individual...
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Springer
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2017-10-03
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This book examines blast waves—their methods of generation, their propagation in several dimensions through the real atmosphere and layered gases, and their interactions with simple structures—thereby providing a broad overview of the field. The intended audience has a...
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Springer
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2017-10-03
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This thesis combines a theoretical model of galaxy formation with a treatment of the radiative transfer in the titular dusty star-forming galaxies. Embedding this within the well-established ?CDM (Lambda cold dark matter) cosmology, the author was able to simulate...
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Springer
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2017-10-02
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One possible method of producing high-quality graphene is to grow it epitaxially; this thesis investigates the mechanisms involved in doing so. It describes how the initial stages of growth on the Ir(111) surface are modelled using both rate equations and kinetic Monte...
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Springer
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2017-10-02
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The 2nd World Congress on Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Disease Research (GeNeDis 2016), focuses on recent advances in geriatrics and neurodegeneration, ranging from basic science to clinical and pharmaceutical developments and provides an international forum for the...
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Springer
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2017-10-01
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This Brief is devoted to the CFTR protein and cystic fibrosis, and it provides an updated perspective of the genetic, functional and cellular processes involved in this conformational disorder. Starting with a historical perspective on cystic fibrosis and its clinical...
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Springer
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2017-10-01
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Grete Hermann (1901-1984) was a pupil of mathematical physicist Emmy Noether, follower and co-worker of neo-Kantian philosopher Leonard Nelson, and an important intellectual figure in post-war German social democracy. She is best known for her work on the philosophy of...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-09-30
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This book aims to face particles in flows from many different, but essentially interconnected sides and points of view. Thus the selection of authors and topics represented in the chapters, ranges from deep mathematical analysis of the associated models, through the...
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Birkhäuser
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2017-09-30
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Examining the implications and practical implementation of multi-disciplinary International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) topics, this book gives an integrated view of how the guidelines inform drug development strategic planning and decision-making.• Addresses a...
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Wiley
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2017-09-29
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Das Arbeitsbuch zur dritten Auflage des "Halliday" hilft bei der Durchdringung des Stoffs der einfuhrenden Experimentalphysik-Vorlesungen fur Hauptfachstudierende. Es enthalt die Losungen inklusive des Losungswegs zu mehr als 2500 Aufgaben unterschiedlichen...
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Wiley-VCH
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2017-09-29
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The discovery of a new elementary particle at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012 made headlines in world media. Since we already know of a large number of elementary particles, why did this latest discovery generate so much excitement? This small book reveals...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-09-29
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Since the discovery of the giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect in magnetic multilayers in 1988, a new branch of physics and technology, called spin-electronics or spintronics, has emerged, where the flow of electrical charge as well as the flow of electron spin, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-09-29
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This thesis analyzes aerodynamic forces in viscous and compressible external flows. It is unique, as the force theories discussed apply to fully viscous and compressible Navier-Stokes external flows, allowing them to be readily combined with computational fluid dynamics...
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Springer
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2017-09-29
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As a society we use energy for climate control and lighting in buildings, moving people and goods form one place to another and making things. Our standard of living depends on transforming energy locked up in fossil fuels, atomic nuclei or provided free of charge by...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-09-29
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Written by highly renowned and experienced authors, this is the only reference on the application of solvents as reagents. Clearly structured, the text describes various methods for the activation and reaction of these small molecules, highlighting the synthetic...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2017-09-28
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