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Arsenic and Fluoride Contamination: A Pakistan Perspective
This book presents an up-to-the-minute overview of arsenic and fluoride pollution of soil and groundwater in Pakistan. It includes the author’s doctoral dissertation on Lahore as a case study and describes the mechanism of pollution on the basis of the findings in that area. The book highlights the concrete situation in Pakistan – including the severity of the problem, its health effects an…
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- 978-81-322-2298-9
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- XI, 147
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- 553.79 FAR a
Hierarchical Sliding Mode Control for Under-actuated Cranes Design, Analysis…
This book reports on the latest developments in sliding mode overhead crane control, presenting novel research ideas and findings on sliding mode control (SMC), hierarchical SMC and compensator design-based hierarchical sliding mode. The results, which were previously scattered across various journals and conference proceedings, are now presented in a systematic and unified form. The book will …
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- 978-3-662-48417-3
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- XIV, 199
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- 621 QIA h
Infectious Inequalities: Epidemics, Trust, and Social Vulnerabilities in Cinema
This book explores societal vulnerabilities highlighted within cinema and develops an interpretive framework for understanding the depiction of societal responses to epidemic disease outbreaks across cinematic history. Drawing on a large database of twentieth- and twenty-first-century films depicting epidemics, the study looks into issues including trust, distrust, and mistrust; different epide…
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- 9781000540765
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Artemisinin and Nitric Oxide: Mechanisms and Implications in Disease and Health
This book discusses both the beneficial and harmful aspects of NO in biology and medicine, and also introduces the emerging discovery of artemisinin in antitumor, antibacterial infection, anti-inflammation, and antiaging contexts. In 1992 nitric oxide (NO) was voted “Molecule of the Year” by Science magazine, and the discovery of its physiological roles has led to Nobel Prize-winning work i…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-662-47688-8
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- XV, 126
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- SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
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- 615.19 ZEN a
Green Development in China Models and Discussions
This book focuses on the key determinants of China’s sustainable development in the general context of globalization from an environmental perspective. The author presents expert analysis on China’s role in the world economy, trade openness, cross-border investments and sustainable development in China. Readers will gain an in-depth understanding of various important issues concerning China…
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- 978-981-10-0692-0
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- VIII, 68
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- 330 JIA g
Graphene for Transparent Conductors Synthesis, Properties and Applications
This book provides a systematic presentation of the principles and practices behind the synthesis and functionalization of graphene and grapheme oxide (GO), as well as the fabrication techniques for transparent conductors from these materials. Transparent conductors are used in a wide variety of photoelectronic and photovoltaic devices, such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs), solar cells, op…
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- 978-1-4939-2768-5
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- XVI, 220
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- 535 BIN g
Absolute Clauses in English from the Systemic Functional Perspective: A Corpu…
This book focuses on the structural diversity, semantic variability, case choice, stylistic characteristics and diachronic distribution of English absolute clauses. The syntactic roles assumed by absolute clauses in the traditional sense can be categorized into clausal adjuncts, attendant circumstances and appositives. These three types of function correspond to the three hypotactic expansions …
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- 978-3-662-46367-3
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- XX, 178
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- The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series
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- 400 HEQ a
Global Well-posedness and Asymptotic Behavior of the Solutions to Non-classic…
This book presents recent findings on the global existence, the uniqueness and the large-time behavior of global solutions of thermo(vis)coelastic systems and related models arising in physics, mechanics and materials science such as thermoviscoelastic systems, thermoelastic systems of types II and III, as well as Timoshenko-type systems with past history. Part of the book is based on the resea…
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- 978-3-658-06863-9
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- XII, 200
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- 510 QIN g
Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropo…
This book presents a multiregional input-output model for the metropolitan area of Southern California, which helps to estimate the economic impact of simulated terrorist attacks on seaports, malls etc. as well as of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The authors also analyze the economic and social effects of metropolitan policies such as growth controls, neighborhood gentrifi…
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Recent Developments in Chinese Urban Planning: Selected Papers from the 8th I…
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent development of Chinese cities. It discusses a broad range of subjects of urban planning, including environmental planning, transportation planning, historical preservation, economic development, geographic information systems (GIS) and other technological applications. China, the most populous country in the world, has experienced u…
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- 978-3-319-18470-8
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- 910.02
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