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The Soils of Antarctica
This book divides Antarctica into eight ice-free regions and provides information on the soils of each region. Soils have been studied in Antarctica for nearly 100 years. Although only 0.35% (45,000 km2) of Antarctica is ice-free, its weathered, unconsolidated material qualify as “soils”. Soils of Antarctica is richly illustrated with nearly 150 images and provisional maps are provided for …
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- 978-3-319-05497-1
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Wandering the Wards: An Ethnography of Hospital Care and its Consequences for…
Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital. It reveals the institutional and ward cultures that inform the organisation and delivery of everyday care for one of the largest populations within them: people living with dementia who require urgent unscheduled hospital care. Drawing on five years of research embedded in …
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- 9781000185416
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- 301 FEA e
Modern Classical Economics and Reality:A Spectral Analysis of the Theory of V…
This book presents an in-depth, novel, and mathematically rigorous treatment of the modern classical theory of value based on the spectral analysis of the price–profit–wage rate system. The classical theory is also subjected to empirical testing to show its logical consistency and explanatory content with respect to observed phenomena and key economic policy issues related to various multip…
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- 978-4-431-55003-7
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- XI, 242
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- Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science
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The Serpin Family
The book provides an comprehensive overview on biology, genetics and cellular functions of serpins (serine protease inhibitors) in health and disease. With over 1000 members serpins are the most diverse family of protease inhibitors. Latest groundbreaking research findings are presented and broaden the understanding on inhibitory and non-inhibitory serpins, not only in mammalian organisms but a…
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- 978-3-319-22711-5
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Statistical Analysis and Data Display
Students seeking master’s degrees in applied statistics in the late 1960s and 1970s typically took a year-long sequence in statistical methods. Popular choices of the course textbook in that period prior to the availability of high-speed computing and graphics capability were those authored by Snedecor and Cochran (1980) and Steel and Torrie (1960).
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- 978-1-4939-2122-5
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Gas Explosion Technology and Biomass Refinery
The book introduces gas explosion technology (GET) and its applications in biomass refineries. In this book an overview of GET is provided, the mechanisms are thoroughly discussed. The chapters also cover the latest processes and equipments of GET, including equipment selection, parameter determination and engineering scaling-up. Last but not least the applications of GET are introduced in deta…
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- 978-94-017-7412-3
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- 572
Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period
This volume focuses on the outstanding contributions made by botany and the mathematical sciences to the genesis and development of early modern garden art and garden culture. The many facets of the mathematical sciences and botany point to the increasingly “scientific” approach that was being adopted in and applied to garden art and garden culture in the early modern period. This developme…
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- 978-3-319-26340-3
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The Securitization of Foreign Aid
Security concerns increasingly influence foreign aid: how Western countries give aid, to whom and why. With contributions from experts in the field, this book examines the impact of security issues on six of the world's largest aid donors, as well as on key crosscutting issues such as gender equality and climate change.
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- 978-1-137-56882-3
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Models of Strategic Reasoning:Logics, Games, and Communities
Strategic behavior is the key to social interaction, from the ever-evolving world of living beings to the modern theatre of designed computational agents. Strategies can make or break participants’ aspirations, whether they are selling a house, playing the stock market, or working toward a treaty that limits global warming. This book aims at understanding the phenomenon of strategic behavior …
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- 978-3-662-48539-2
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- XI, 333
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- Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues
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Mobile Electric Vehicles
This book examines recent research on designing online charging and discharging strategies for mobile electric vehicles (EVs) in smart grid. First, the architecture and applications are provided. Then, the authors review the existing works on charging and discharging strategy design for EVs. Critical challenges and research problems are identified. Promising solutions are proposed to accommodat…
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- 978-3-319-25128-8
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- Wireless Networks
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