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This book is related to various applications of laser scanning in landslide assessment. Landslide detection approaches, susceptibility, hazard, vulnerability assessment and various modeling techniques are presented. Optimization of landslide conditioning parameters and...
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Springer
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2017-05-04
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Canada’s space efforts from its origins towards the end of the Second World War through to its participation in the ISS today are revealed in full in this complete and carefully researched history. Employing recently declassified archives and many never previously used...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-05-03
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It has been argued that science fiction (SF) gives a kind of weather forecast – not the telling of a fortune but rather the rough feeling of what the future might be like. The intention in this book is to consider some of these bygone forecasts made by SF and to use...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-05-03
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This book reviews progress towards quantum simulators based on photonic and hybrid light-matter systems, covering theoretical proposals and recent experimental work. Quantum simulators are specially designed quantum computers. Their main aim is to simulate and...
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Springer
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2017-05-03
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This book provides an analysis of the construction, diagnosis (as chaotic) and evaluation of models in chaos theory. It contains a detailed look at the interaction of the different models used in chaos theory and analyses how these models influence the way chaos is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-03
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This book discusses the role of oxidative stress in the reproductive system. The book reviews endogenous sources, methods of determining its levels in body fluid/tissues, the physiological roles of ROS, as well as its negative effects on the human reproductive...
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Springer
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2017-05-03
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This book provides a snapshot of representative modeling analyses of coastal hypoxia and its effects. Hypoxia refers to conditions in the water column where dissolved oxygen falls below levels that can support most metazoan marine life (i.e., 2 mg O2 l-1). The number of...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-05-03
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This book encompasses the body of available scientific information on the notothenioid fish Pleuragramma antarctica commonly known as Antarctic silverfish.This plankton-feeder of the intermediate trophic level is the most abundant fish in the coastal regions of high...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-05-03
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The first of its kind, this reference gives a comprehensive but concise introduction to epigenetics before covering the many interactions between hormone regulation and epigenetics at all levels.The contents are very well structured with no overlaps between chapters,...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2017-05-03
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This book is a unique, transdisciplinary summary of the state of the art of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Indonesia. It provides a comprehensive overview of disaster risk governance across all levels and multiple actors including diverse perspectives from...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-05-02
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Disaster Risk Reduction
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This book presents a history of shock compression science, including development of experimental, material modeling, and hydrodynamics code technologies over the past six decades at Sandia National Laboratories. The book is organized into a discussion of major...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-05-02
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Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena
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This book contains original research chapters related to the interdisciplinary field of complex networks spanning biological and environmental networks, social, technological, and economic networks.Many natural phenomena can be modeled as networks where nodes are the...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-05-02
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This book focuses on recent progress in complexity research based on the fundamental nonlinear dynamical and statistical theory of oscillations, waves, chaos, and structures far from equilibrium. Celebrating seminal contributions to the field by Prof. M. I. Rabinovich...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-05-02
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This manual offers a stand-alone reading companion, unique in simplifying the practical components of Bioinformatics in a unique and user-friendly manner. It covers the practical component of syllabi used at most leading universities and discusses the most extensively...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-05-02
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Wasser ist ein wichtiger Rohsto für viele Industriezweige. Eine stabile und kontrollierte Wasserqualität ist eine entscheidende Voraussetzung für die Herstellung von Pharmazeutika, Medizinprodukten, Nahrungsmitteln und Kosmetika. Dieses Praxishandbuch für Anwender im...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2017-05-02
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Practical Guide to International Standardization for Electrical Engineering provides a comprehensive guide to the purpose of standards organizations, their relationship to product development and how to use the standardization process for cost-effective new product...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2017-05-02
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A concise and original presentation of the fundamentals for ‘new to the subject’ electrical engineers This book has been written for students on electrical engineering courses who don’t necessarily possess prior knowledge of electrical circuits. Based on the author’s...
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Wiley
Parution :
2017-05-02
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This volume presents the most recent results of global mean sea level variations over the satellite altimetry era (starting in the early 1990s) and associated contributions, such as glaciers and ice sheets mass loss, ocean thermal expansion, and land water storage...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-04-28
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Die zweite Auflage dieses beliebten Werkes nimmt die Leser mit auf eine spannende Reise durch die Dunklen Komponenten des Kosmos und bis an die Grenzen unseres Wissens. Dunkle Materie und Dunkle Energie haben ganz offensichtlich einen gemeinsamen Ursprung, und dieser...
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Springer
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2017-04-28
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The cyclic purine nucleotides 3’,5’-cAMP and 3’,5’-cGMP are well-established second messengers. cGMP has recently been covered in a volume of the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology (volume 191). In addition to 3’,5’-cAMP and 3’,5’-cGMP, so-called non-canonical cyclic...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-04-28
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