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Toba, the name of a simple farmer from an ancient legend in a remote land, was given to a lake, a people, a volcanic crater, and recently a Geopark. The name has many meanings, but to scientists such as volcanologists, geologists, and naturalists, Toba is...
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Springer
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2025-08-30
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This book reviews a few different derivations of the Hawking radiation, most main solutions to the paradox proposed in the literature, and some analog laboratory experiments. A black hole is an object whose gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape...
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Springer
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2025-08-29
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This thesis explores a fundamental question in field theory: If we modify a theory by introducing a small parameter, can we recover the original theory by setting that parameter back to zero? While seemingly simple, this question presents a major challenge in gauge...
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Springer
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2025-08-29
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This book presents an overview of the techniques available today to remove arsenic contamination, pollutants, and species from water. Traditionally applied techniques for removal of arsenic pollutants/species, including oxidation, coagulation-flocculation, and membrane...
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Springer
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2025-08-29
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This book covers secondary natural products in foods and food systems. It presents their production (biosynthesis and storage), biological function in the producing organism, biological availability and effect on consuming organisms. Chapters will also cover the...
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Springer
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2025-08-29
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This comprehensive volume offers an in-depth exploration of the latest advancements in omics technologies and their practical applications across environmental science, agriculture, healthcare, and biotechnology. Covering key topics such as metagenomics for identifying...
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Springer
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2025-08-29
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An updated overview of plant root systems, covering their development, growth, interactions with soil, breeding and management Plant Roots draws together information from plant and soil literature to illustrate how roots interact with soil, both to modify it and to...
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Wiley
Parution :
2025-08-29
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Humanevolution im Überblick: Das Mosaik der Menschwerdung
Bis vor wenigen Jahren schien die Entstehung des Menschen weitgehend geklärt, der menschliche Stammbaum vollständig darstellbar: Entstanden in Afrika, sollte sich unsere Gattung von Vor- und...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-29
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Skeletal muscle is not an organ merely for locomotion with simple anatomical and metabolic features as has been viewed for a long time. The understanding that physical activity plays a vital role in health promotion and disease prevention under the slogan of...
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Springer
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2025-08-29
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This book highlights the formation of holographic images using modulated apertures across eleven comprehensive chapters. It begins with a summary of basic Fourier transformations used to compute diffraction patterns of well-known objects. The fundamentals of holography...
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Springer
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2025-08-28
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How life can emerge in a lifeless environment is one of the major open scientific challenges. This book pays particular attention to self-organization phenomena that might have led to the appearance of the first protocells, i.e. cell-like structures, much simpler than...
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Springer
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2025-08-28
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This book presents the gradual development of particle accelerators that originated from the theory of atomic structure with the disintegration of nuclei in 1911, pioneering findings on radioactivity in 1919, and a few fundamental theories. It describes how the initial...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-28
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This book addresses the global challenge of feeding a growing population while grappling with diminishing land resources, deteriorating soil quality, and the impact of climate change. Its core focus is the role of soil health in sustaining and enhancing crop production....
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-28
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In this book, avian ecologist and former PBS Birdwatch host Richard Hutto challenges conventional wisdom by revealing the hidden beauty and ecological importance of severely burned forests. Drawing on extensive field research and compelling storytelling, Hutto...
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Springer
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2025-08-28
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This book covers the fundamentals of plant molecular marker techniques, from marker location to gene cloning. Molecular marker technology has brought about significant changes in plant breeding and agriculture. Numerous molecular marker types have been employed in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-27
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Questions of energy policy are among the most central and consequential of any confronting society today. While the role of nuclear energy is key, there is little understanding and much misinformation regarding its nature and its potential. Impeding the emergence of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-08-27
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The wonders of the moons and planets of the Solar System have captivated people across the world for generations... but now we can experience so much more of the the Sun’s corner of the cosmos – our home among the stars.The richness of images – dwarf...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-08-27
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New edition of the leading resource on the Arctic and Southern Oceans with contributions from the world’s experts on sea ice Sea Ice delivers insights into the very latest understanding of sea ice dynamics, how we measure (and model) its extent, the ecosystems that...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2025-08-27
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The book is written by international team of specialized geoscentists and represents the current knowledge of the evolution of the Variscan Orogen in Central Europe. After a preface, the geotectonic position of the mountain belt within the supercontinent Pangea and the...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-27
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From the celebrated author of The Ends of the World, an epic biography of the molecule that made – and could now break – everything we knowAll life is made from CO2 . It was there at earth’s birth, and throughout evolution. It has kept our planet habitable for hundreds...
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Penguin
Parution :
2025-08-26
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