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This book is dedicated to the study of the islands and their role in a globalised world. Beside Coastal or Oceanic/Marine Geography, there is little comprehensive material about the speciality of small island geography so far.This volume aims to bridge natural, social...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-12-20
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This is the first of two volumes devoted to earthquakes and multi-hazards around the Pacific Rim. The circum-Pacific seismic belt is home to roughly 80% of the world’s largest earthquakes, making it the ideal location for investigating earthquakes and related hazards...
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Birkhäuser
Parution :
2017-12-20
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This volume collects several extended articles from the first workshop on Best Practices in Physics-based Fault Rupture Models for Seismic Hazard Assessment of Nuclear Installations (BestPSHANI). Held in 2015, the workshop was organized by the IAEA to disseminate the...
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Birkhäuser
Parution :
2017-12-20
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This book highlights classification patterns and underlying ecological drivers structuring the vegetation of selected indigenous subtropical forests in South Africa. It uses original field sampling and advanced numerical data analysis to examine three major types of...
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Springer
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2017-12-19
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Geobotany Studies
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Dieses Buch bietet einen fundierten Überblick über die geomorphologische Formung und vegetationsgeschichtliche Entstehung der mitteleuropäischen Auenlandschaften. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Darstellung der Lebensgemeinschaften, zudem wird die außerordentliche...
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Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2017-12-19
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Exam Board: CCEALevel: GCSESubject: ScienceFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: June 2019Build your students' scientific thinking and practical skills with this textbook developed specifically for the 2017 GCSE specifications, from the No. 1 publisher for CCEA GCSE...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2017-12-18
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This completely updated and enlarged third edition of the classic text adopts a practical approach to describe the fundamentals of freeze-drying, backed by many explanatory examples. Following an introduction to the fundamentals, the book goes on to discuss process and...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2017-12-18
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This book presents the current state of the art in peanut genomics, focusing particularly on the latest genomic findings, tools and strategies employed in genome sequencing, transcriptomes and analysis, availability of public and private genomic resources, and ways to...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-12-16
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Applied Computational Physics is a graduate-level text stressing three essential elements: advanced programming techniques, numerical analysis, and physics. The goal of the text is to provide students with essential computational skills that they will need in their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-12-15
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Weather and Society: Toward Integrated Approaches provides the first interdisciplinary approach to the subject of weather and society. This guide to the evolving set of problem-solving approaches to weather’s societal issues successfully integrates social science’s...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-12-15
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Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) is a crop of small land holding farmers in arid and semi-arid regions of the world. It has a number of usages starting from protein rich food to vegetarian families; fuel wood; nitrogen supplier to soil; recycling minerals in soil to animal...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-12-15
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This book puts an updated account on functional aspects of multiphasic microbial interactions within and between plants and their ecosystem. Multipronged interaction in the soil microbial communities with the plants constitute a relay of mechanisms that make profound...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-12-15
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An essential reference to the modeling techniques of wind turbine systems for the application of advanced control methods This book covers the modeling of wind power and application of modern control methods to the wind power control—specifically the models of type 3...
Editeur :
Wiley-IEEE Press
Parution :
2017-12-15
Collection :
IEEE Press
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This volume introduces an innovative tool for the development of sustainable cities and the promotion of the quality of life of city inhabitants. It presents a decision-support system to orient public administrations in identifying development scenarios for sustainable...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-12-14
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This thesis presents and discusses recent optical low-temperature experiments on disordered NbN, granular Al thin-films, and the heavy-fermion compound CeCoIn5, offering a unified picture of quantum-critical superconductivity. It provides a concise introduction to the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-12-14
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This graduate textbook on optimal spacecraft trajectories demonstrates the theory and applications of using the minimum amount of propellant possible to reach a target destination. The author aims to produce the only comprehensive treatment of various aspects of this...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-12-14
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This monograph provides foundations, methods, guidelines and examples for monitoring and improving resource efficiency during the operation of processing plants and for improving their design. The measures taken to improve their energy and resource efficiency are...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2017-12-14
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This open access book focuses on investigating predicting precursor information and key points of rockburst in mining engineering through laboratory experiment, theoretical analysis, numerical simulation and case studies. Understanding the evolution patterns for the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-12-13
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This book explores our changing relationship with meat as food. Half storytelling and half historic work, it analyzes the way in which humans have dealt with the idea of eating animals in the Western world, from 1900 to the present. The story part of the book follows...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-12-13
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This book focuses on droplets and sprays and their applications. It discusses how droplet level transport is central to a multitude of applications and how droplet level manipulation and control can enhance the efficiency and design of multiphase systems. Droplets and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-12-12
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