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The role of values in scientific research has become an important topic of discussion in both scholarly and popular debates. Pundits across the political spectrum worry that research on topics like climate change, evolutionary theory, vaccine safety, and genetically...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-01-02
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This book is the 2nd edition of the Economics of the International Coal Trade. Coal is the single most important source of power on our planet and today accounts for 40% of electricity generation and 30% of primary energy. The world’s appetite for energy is still...
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Springer
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2017-01-02
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Modern immunology traditionally conceives of the immune system as providing defense against pathogens. Alfred I. Tauber criticizes this conception of immunity as too narrow, because it discounts much of the immune system's other normal functions. These include active...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-01-02
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Adrian Wolf untersucht thermodynamische Modellierungenchemischer Transportreaktionen zur Kristallisation anorganischer Verbindungen. Die ausführliche Beschreibung der möglichen Reaktionsmechanismen bei Gasphasenabscheidungen leistet einen Beitrag zur rationalen...
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Springer Spektrum
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2017-01-02
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Symmetry is at the heart of our understanding of matter. This book tells the fascinating story of the constituents of matter from a common symmetry perspective. The standard model of elementary particles and the periodic table of chemical elements have the common goal...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-01-02
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How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection and social justice? Why do some countries perform much better than others on this front?
Democracy in the Woods addresses these question by examining land rights conflicts-and the...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-01-02
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This book highlights the various topics in which luminescence and electrochemistry are intimately coupled. The topic of this book is clearly at the frontier between several scientific domains involving physics, chemistry and biology. Applications in these various...
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Springer
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2016-12-31
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2284: World Society, Iaian Vernier’s Memoir is a fascinating study of mankind. Written as a work of fiction, it looks at the human condition 200 years in the future. Predicting the outcome of today’s social policies, 2284 is a cultural anthropology study that adds to...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-12-31
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This single volume brings together both theoretical developments in the field of motor control and their translation into such fields as movement disorders, motor rehabilitation, robotics, prosthetics, brain-machine interface, and skill learning. Motor control has...
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Springer
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2016-12-30
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The most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of all the possible aspects for biofeedstock processing and the production of energy from biofeedstocks Biofuels production is one of the most extensively studied fields in the energy sector that can provide an alternative...
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Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2016-12-30
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The latest volume in this series for organic chemists in industry presents critical discussions of widely used organic reactions or particular phases of a reaction.The material is treated from a preparative viewpoint, with emphasis on limitations, interfering...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2016-12-29
Collection :
Organic Reactions
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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as...
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Springer
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2016-12-29
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Medicinal chemistry is both science and art. The science of medicinal chemistry offers mankind one of its best hopes for improving the quality of life. The art of medicinal chemistry continues to challenge its practitioners with the need for both intuition and...
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Springer
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2016-12-29
Collection :
Topics in Medicinal Chemistry
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This volume showcases current ethnobiological accounts of the ways that people use plants to promote human health and well-being. The goal in this volume is to highlight some contemporary examples of how plants are central to various aspects of healthy environments and...
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Springer
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2016-12-29
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This book explores the mechanics of star formation, the process by which matter pulls together and creates new structures. Written for science enthusiasts, the author presents an accessible explanation of how stars are born from the interstellar medium and giant...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-12-28
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Meeting the need for a reliable publication on the topic and reflecting recent breakthroughs in the field, this is a comprehensive overview of color quality of solid-state light sources (LED-OLED and laser) and conventional lamps, providing academic researchers with an...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2016-12-28
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The strongest point of this book titled “Biochemistry of Oxidative Stress: Physiopathology and Clinical Aspects”, is that the academic and scientific background of the authors/editors guarantee the authorship of a book comprising all aspects of oxidative stress, ranging...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-28
Collection :
Advances in Biochemistry in Health and Disease
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This two-volume set takes an in-depth look at stress signaling in plants from a uniquely genomic and proteomic perspective and offers a comprehensive treatise that covers all of the signaling pathways and mechanisms that have been researched so far. Currently, plant...
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Springer
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2016-12-28
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This book is compilation of studies related with the xenobiotics i.e. chemical or other substance that is not normally found in the ecosystems and get accumulated at higher concentration in the biological system due to rampant industrialisation and urbanisation...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-12-28
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The Amazon Basin contains the largest and most diverse tropical rainforest in the world. Besides the Andes and the Atlantic Ocean, the rainforest is bounded to the north by the Guiana crystalline shield and to the south by the Brazilian crystalline shield, marked at...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-12-28
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