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Substance Abuse
This book is written for any clinician who encounters substance abuse in a patient and wonders what to do. Experts from a cross-section of specialties and health professions provide up-to-date, evidence-based guidance on how non-expert clinicians can recognize, understand, and approach the management of substance abuse in their patients. They detail the range of treatments available and whether…
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- 978-1-4939-1951-2
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- XX, 658
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A Primer on the Geometry of Carbon Nanotubes and Their Modifications
This volume presents a comprehensive system for categorizing carbon nanotubes and their modifications in terms of nano sheets, nanotubes, microscopic and atomic modifications. In addition, the material and geometric properties of these nano-configurations are addressed. Lastly, it introduces a number of common software packages for geometry generation and several commercial finite element progr…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-14986-8
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- IX, 70
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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- 620 YEN p
Studies on Time Series Applications in Environmental Sciences
Time series analysis and modelling represent a large study field, implying the approach from the perspective of the time and frequency, with applications in different domains. Modelling hydro-meteorological time series is difficult due to the characteristics of these series, as long range dependence, spatial dependence, the correlation with other series. Continuous spatial data plays an importa…
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- 978-3-319-30436-6
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- XIII, 187
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- Intelligent Systems Reference Library
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Internet Science: Second International Conference, INSCI 2015, Brussels, Belg…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet Science, INSCIE 2015, held in Brussels, Belgium, in May 2015. The 10 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. They were organized in topical sections named: internet and society; internet and governance; and internet and innovation.
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- 978-3-319-18609-2
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International Education at Community Colleges: Themes, Practices, and Case St…
This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, …
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- 978-1-137-53336-4
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Strategic Disaster Risk Management in Asia
This book presents strategies for managing disasters and reducing risks in Asian countries. Given the dynamic changes in the natural environment as well as the patterns of land use and management, the growing populations of the developing nations in Asia, migration patterns, and other social-cultural aspects, the impacts of disasters have increased manifold in Asian countries
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- 978-81-322-2373-3
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A Girl's Education: Schooling and the Formation of Gender, Identities and Fut…
This book argues that educators and the general public have become complacent about girls’ education as a consequence of the more recent fuss about problems for boys. After an analysis of persistent disquiet about girls’ lifestyles, it uses theories of gender and education to demonstrate that girls are being produced in contradictory ways in current schooling. Many girls develop a sense o…
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- 978-1-137-52487-4
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- Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
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- 301 GIL g
A Compendium of Italian Economists at Oxbridge: Contributions to the Evolutio…
This study examines five decades of Italian economists who studied or researched at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge between the years 1950 and 2000. Providing a detailed list of Italian economists associated with Hicks, Harrod, Bacharach, Flemming, Mirrlees, Sen and other distinguished dons, the authors examine eleven research lines, including the Sraffa and the neo-Ricardian school, t…
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- 978-3-319-32219-3
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- 337.1 BAR c
Enhancing Fieldwork Learning Using Mobile Technologies
This book shows how tablets (and smartphones) using a variety of selected ‘apps’, can enhance fieldwork and other out-of-classroom activities. The authors review imaginative uses of tablets from their own project and as well as examples from other colleagues. To help readers keep abreast of new technology and innovative ways to use it, the book is supported by a web site and a social media …
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- 978-3-319-20967-8
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- 3 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
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Thyroid Diseases in Childhood
This book covers the entire spectrum of thyroid diseases in childhood, focusing on the recent advances that have been achieved, from progress in basic science research through to novel or improved approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Introductory chapters discuss thyroid embryogenesis and the role of thyroid hormones in fetal development. The two contrasting forms of thyroid dysfunction, hypo…
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- 978-3-319-19213-0
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- 5 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
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