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This clearly written thesis discusses the development of a highly innovative single-photon source that uses active optical switching, known as multiplexing, to increase the probability of delivering photons into a single mode. Improving single-photon sources is critical...
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Springer
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2017-08-14
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The main purpose of this book is to introduce a broader audience to emergence by illustrating how discoveries in the physical sciences have informed the ways we think about it. In a nutshell, emergence asserts that non-reductive behavior arises at higher levels of...
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Springer
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2017-08-14
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This book offers a unique introduction to the study of shells and molluscs for all those who take pleasure in shells, the treasure of the sea. However, unlike other shell albums, compendiums or guides, the central focus of this book is on shells and not molluscs....
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Springer
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2017-08-14
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This book presents the principles of composite laminate sizing widely used for composite structures. The focus is on aeronautics in particular, including the concepts of limit loads and ultimate loads. After a brief overview of the main composite materials used in...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2017-08-14
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This book describes the current environmental changes due to global warming in northern Eurasia, especially focusing on eastern Siberia. Spring flooding, ice-jam movements, and monitoring using remote sensing are included. Additionally, current reindeer herding of...
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Springer
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2017-08-14
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the wild relatives of crops and cultivated species found in India, covering their distribution, phylogenetic relationships with cultivated species, traits that are of economic and breeding value, and the perceived threats....
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Springer
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2017-08-14
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This invaluable resource discusses the saftey, ethics, and regulations of developing stem cell clinical applications. Each chapter is contributed by a preeminent scientist in the field and covers such topics as clinical safety of stem cell gene therapy, the...
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Springer
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2017-08-12
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This book explores how the state can foster collective action by fisher’s communities in fisheries management. It presents a different perspective from Elinor Ostrom’s classic work on the eight institutional conditions that foster collective action in natural resource...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-11
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This book advances discussions of values in fisheries by showing the rich theoretical insights and connections possible when value is grounded in a multi-dimensional social well being approach. Questions of value have long been a central, if often unacknowledged,...
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Springer
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2017-08-10
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This thesis proposes a novel way to catch light energy using an ultrasmall nanostructure. The author has developed photon-materials systems to open the way for novel photoexcitation processes based on the findings obtained from in-situ observation of the systems in...
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Springer
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2017-08-10
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From a noted specialist in astronomy education and outreach, this Brief provides an overview of the most influential discipline-based science education research literature now guiding contemporary astronomy teaching. In recent years, systematic studies of effective and...
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Springer
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2017-08-10
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This book discusses, explains and provides detailed, up-to-date information on physics applied to clinical practice in anesthesiology, with the aid of simple examples from daily life. Almost everything that happens around us, including in the operating room and...
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Springer
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2017-08-10
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This book effectively links the latest scientific advances to current technological applications of polymers, mainly focusing on biodegradable polymers obtained from biomass. The individual chapters were written by academic and industry researchers alike, introducing...
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Springer
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2017-08-10
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This book provides an outline of theoretical concepts and their experimental verification in studies of self-organization phenomena in chemical systems, as they emerged in the mid-20th century and have evolved since. Presenting essays on selected topics, it was prepared...
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Springer
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2017-08-10
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Air and water are so familiar that we all think we know them. Yet how difficult it remains to predict their behavior, with so many questions butting against the limits of our knowledge. How are cyclones, tornadoes, thunderstorms, tsunamis or floods...
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Springer
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2017-08-10
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Ein schneller Einstieg in die Umweltchemie, fachlich fundiert und mit Praxisbezug? Die vorliegende Übersetzung des amerikanischen Bestsellers Elements of Environmental Chemistry macht es möglich. Hier werden die Schwerpunkte der Umweltchemie auf den Punkt gebracht:...
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Wiley-VCH
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2017-08-10
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Modern science is at a tipping point. A new page in the history of knowledge opens with the “information paradigm”, a notion which is gradually supplanting the old mechanistic vision inherited from Galileo and Newton. The author presents an overview of the place of...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2017-08-10
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This thesis highlights data from MINOS, a long-baseline accelerator neutrino experiment, and details one of the most sensitive searches for the sterile neutrino ever made. Further, it presents a new analysis paradigm to enable this measurement and a comprehensive study...
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Springer
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2017-08-10
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Ist der Mensch ein Primat unter Primaten? Oder ist er doch trotz seiner Entstehung aus dem Tierreich wesenhaft vom Tier verschieden? Aus der Perspektive von Naturwissenschaft, Philosophie und Theologie untersucht dieser Band die Frage, wie es mit der evolutionären...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-08-10
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This book removes the mystery and pressure from calculations by equipping readers with the tools they need to understand calculations and how they work.This is done by using straight-forward language and showing fully worked out, rig-based examples throughout. The book...
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Springer
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2017-08-10
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