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Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Modern Alternative to Transurethra…
Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Modern Techniques is an up-to-date review of modern techniques used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia. It provides a comprehensive review of both office and operating room based techniques. Both electrosurgical and laser based techniques are covered. These include high powered 532 nm laser photoselective laser vaporization of the prostate (PVP), ho…
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- 978-1-4939-1586-6
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- XI, 172
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Transparent Ceramics
This book covers the latest progress in the field of transparent ceramics, emphasizing their processing as well as solid-state lasers. It consists of 10 chapters covering the synthesis, characterization and compaction, fundamentals of sintering, densification of transparent ceramics by different methods as well as transparent ceramic applications. This book can be used as a reference for senior…
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- 978-3-319-18955-0
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- XII, 734
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- Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering
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Global Growth and Financial Spillovers and the South African Macro-economy
To what extent is South Africa affected by G8 economies and BRIC growth shocks? This book identifies channels that amplify these shock effects, the relevance of third country transmission effects and the effects of the first and second rounds of US quantitative easing. The changing reactions of South African variables over time to financial shocks emanating from the US and selected countries in…
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- 978-1-349-56189-6
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- XXI, 187
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- 330 NCU g
Global Economic Cooperation
This book discusses issues such as global financial crisis and global governance, food security, energy sustainability, the global financial system, trade and protectionism, and growth and employment. Since the outbreak of the financial as well as national debt crises in the Euro zone, the focus of the G20 has shifted back to addressing short-term issues. These issues range from the dynamic eff…
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- 978-81-322-2696-3
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- XIX, 265
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- 330 GLO
Translational Toxicology
Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary team of contributors, this volume provides a comprehensive exploration of translational toxicology—a systematic approach to developing therapeutic interventions that can protect against, mitigate, or reverse the effects of exposures. In particular, the book addresses modes of action and biomarkers, developmental risks of exposures, and poten…
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- 978-3-319-27449-2
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- XV, 380
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- Molecular and Integrative Toxicology
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Translational Research in Pain and Itch
This book provides a comprehensive review of the latest advances in translational pain and itch research, and presents the cutting-edge developments in the study of our two principal, yet most mysteries sensations. Despite the slow progress in the discovery of effective therapies for chronic pain and pruritus, scientists around the globe now have a better understanding of why and how these cond…
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- 978-94-017-7535-9
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- XI, 147
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- Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Translational Research in Audiology, Neurotology, and the Hearing Sciences
Translational Research is the interface between basic science and human clinical application, including the entire process from animal studies to human clinical trials (phases I, II, and III). Translational Research moves promising basic science results from the laboratory to bedside application. Yet, this transition is often the least-defined, least-understood part of the research process. Mos…
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- 978-3-319-40846-0
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- XVIII, 265
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- Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
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Transition of the Yangtze River Delta
This is the first English book that presents a professional analysis of the recent dynamic movement of the Chinese economy by focusing on the Yangtze River Delta region, which is the main engine of the Chinese economy. The impact of the international financial crisis on China’s economic development requires a change from the first wave of economic globalization oriented toward exports to the …
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- 978-4-431-55178-2
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- X, 241
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- New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
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Educating "good" citizens in a globalising world for the twenty-first century
What is needed to be a "good" citizen for the twenty-first century? And how can schools and curricula address this question? This book addresses these questions and what it means to be a "good citizen" in the twenty-first century by exploring this concept in two different, but linked, countries. China is a major international power whose citizens are in the midst of a major social and economic …
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- 9789463003469
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- ix, 196 pages
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- 323.2
Jizi and His Art in Contemporary China: Unification
This interdisciplinary study promotes the thesis that some contemporary Chinese ink artists succeed in using principles of traditional Chinese aesthetics to convey the union of self with nature, others and the universe. The investigation is a case study of the writings and paintings of Jizi, an ink-wash artist in Beijing, who combines images of icy mountains, Tibetan landscapes, cosmic vistas, …
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- 978-3-662-44929-5
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