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This book offers a collection of expert reviews on the use of plant-based antioxidant therapies in disease prevention and treatment. Topics discussed include the uses of plant and nutritional antioxidants in the contexts of reproductive health and prenatal development,...
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Springer
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2018-03-10
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This book provides an overview of antioxidants and antioxidant enzymes and their role in the mechanisms of signaling and cellular tolerance under stress in plant systems. Major reactive oxygen species (ROS)-scavenging/modulating enzymes include the superoxide dismutase...
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Springer
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2018-03-10
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Das Buch für naturwissenschaftlich interessierte Leser, die sich Gedanken machen über die anstehenden Probleme einer zahlenmäßig rasch zunehmenden Weltbevölkerung.Das Buch klärt über den bisher allgemein kaum bekannten Nutzen der sogenannten Großpilze auf. Es sind...
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Springer
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2018-03-10
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This book presents the Generalized Multipole Technique as a fast and powerful theoretical and computation tool to simulate light scattering by nonspherical particles. It also demonstrates the considerable potential of the method. In recent years, the concept has been...
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Springer
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2018-03-09
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Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics
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Over half a billion years ago life on earth took an incredible step in evolution, when animals learned to build skeletons. Using many different materials, from calcium carbonate and phosphate, and even silica, to make shell and bone, they started creating the support...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-09
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This book reports on the latest developments in computational fluid dynamics and turbulence modeling, with a special emphasis on hybrid RANS-LES methods and their industrial applications. It gathers the proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Hybrid RANS-LES Methods, held...
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Springer
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2018-03-09
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How does the scientific enterprise really work to illuminate the origins of life and the universe itself?
The quest to understand our universe, how it may have originated and evolved, and especially the conditions that allow it to support the existence of life forms,...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-09
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The two-volume book Gravitational Waves provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the physics of gravitational waves. While Volume 1 is devoted to the theory and experiments, Volume 2 discusses what can be learned from gravitational waves in astrophysics and in...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-09
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The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where did these laws...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-09
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The world's mediterranean-type climate regions (including areas within the Mediterranean, South Africa, Australia, California, and Chile) have long been of interest to biologists by virtue of their extraordinary biodiversity and the appearance of evolutionary...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-09
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Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and Australia in recent years, and predictions are that we will see more of the same in coming years, as a result of climate change. But this is nothing new. Since the dawn of life on land, large-scale fires have...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-09
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The book contributes to understanding the pattern of strain release and the level of seismic hazard imposed by large-great earthquakes in the frontal fold-thrust belts of Kumaun and Garhwal regions of Uttarakhand.The motivation for active fault studies and their...
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Springer
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2018-03-09
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Rising from a humble background in rural southern Ireland, John Tyndall became one of the foremost physicists, communicators of science, and polemicists in mid-Victorian Britain. In science, he is known for his important work in meteorology, climate science, magnetism,...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-09
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'Gripping, soaring, inspiring . . . Read it' - Atul Gawande, author of the international bestseller Being Mortal'You Can Stop Humming Now is essential reading on what it means to be human in an age of medical technology. I couldn't put it down' - Alexandria...
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Piatkus
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2018-03-08
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Energy, Entropy, and the Flow of Nature presents the essential principles of energetics (thermodynamics) in a straight-forward, easy to understand, and logically-consistent manner. As a student of physical chemistry and as a professor and researcher in biochemistry,...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-03-08
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This book is the first comprehensive critical study of the work of Paul Feyerabend, one of the foremost twentieth-century philosophers of science. The book traces the evolution of Feyerabend's thought, beginning with his early attempt to graft insights from...
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Polity
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2018-03-08
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Key Contemporary Thinkers
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In this book Irving Zeitlin re-examines the work of this important philosopher and considers how we should assess Nietzsche's claims today.
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Polity
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2018-03-08
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'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - indy100'Here's to no more forgotten women.' Evening...
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Brazen
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2018-03-08
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Forgotten Women
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Analytical methods are the essential enabling tools of the modern biosciences. This book presents a comprehensive introduction into these analytical methods, including their physical and chemical backgrounds, as well as a discussion of the strengths and weakness of each...
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Wiley
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2018-03-08
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Der "Holzner" ist und bleibt das beliebteste Chemie-Lehrbuch für Technische Assistenten in der Medizin und in der Biologie. Dies sind die Merkmale der 6. Auflage: -gestraffte Darstellung und Konzentration auf die essentiellen Lehrinhalte -klare und bewährte Gliederung...
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Wiley-VCH
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2018-03-08
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