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New Approaches to Natural Anticancer Drugs
This book provides an up-to-date review of recently identified natural anti-tumor compounds from various natural origins including plants, fungi, endophytic fungi and marine organisms. It also includes discussion of new areas such as biotechnology and nanoparticles. Chapters explain the challenges and developments in anti-cancer drug discovery approaches, traditional remedies for prevention an…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-14026-1
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- XI, 106
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- SpringerBriefs in Pharmaceutical Science & Drug Development
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Animal Metropolis : Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Animal Metropolis brings a Canadian perspective to the growing field of animal history, ranging across species and cities, from the beavers who engineered Stanley Park to the carthorses who shaped the city of Montreal. Some essays consider animals as spectacle: orca captivity in Vancouver, polar bear tourism in Churchill, Manitoba, fish on display in the Dominion Fisheries Museum, and the racia…
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- 978-1-55238-866-2
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- 636 ANI
Faith from a Positive Psychology Perspective
This book highlights religious faith from a positive psychology perspective, examining the relationship between religious faith and optimal psychological functioning. It takes a perspective of religious diversity that incorporates international and cross-cultural work. The empirical literature on the role of faith and cognition, faith and emotion, and faith and behaviour is addressed including …
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- 978-94-017-9436-7
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- X, 255
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Black Participatory Research : Power, Identity, and the Struggle for Justice …
Black Participatory Research explores research partnerships that disrupt inequality, create change, and empower racially marginalized communities. Through presenting a series of co-reflections from professional and community researchers in different locations, this book explores the conflicts and tensions that emerge when professional interests, class and socio-economic statuses, age, geography…
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- 978-1-137-46899-4
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- 370
Vertebrate Myogenesis Stem Cells and Precursors
This book addresses the differentiation control of skeletal muscle in different locations of the vertebrate body Particular attention is paid to novel regulatory molecules and signals as well as the heterogeneity of origin that have revealed a developmental overlap between skeletal and cardiac muscle. Different functional muscle groups are the product of the evolution of the vertebrate classes,…
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- 978-3-662-44608-9
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- 2 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
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After Ethics: Ancestral Voices and Post-Disciplinary Worlds in Archaeology
While books on archaeological and anthropological ethics have proliferated in recent years, few attempt to move beyond a conventional discourse on ethics to consider how a discussion of the social and political implications of archaeological practice might be conceptualized differently. The conceptual ideas about ethics posited in this volume make it of interest to readers outside of the discip…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-4939-1689-4
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- XVII, 140
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- Ethical Archaeologies: The Politics of Social Justice
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- 301 AFT a
Logic, Language, and Computation: 10th International Tbilisi Symposium on Log…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language and Computation, TbiLLC 2013, held in Gudauri, Georgia, in September 2013. The conference series is centered around the interaction between logic, language and computation. The contributions represent these three fields and the symposia aim to foster interaction between them. The boo…
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- 978-3-662-46906-4
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Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning: 20th Internati…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning, LPAR-20, held in November 2015, in Suva, Fiji. The 43 regular papers presented together with 1 invited talk included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The series of International Conferences on Logic for Programmin…
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- 978-3-662-48899-7
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Advances in Statistical Models for Data Analysis
This edited volume focuses on recent research results in classification, multivariate statistics and machine learning and highlights advances in statistical models for data analysis. The volume provides both methodological developments and contributions to a wide range of application areas such as economics, marketing, education, social sciences and environment. The papers in this volume were f…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-17377-1
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- VIII, 268
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- Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization
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- 519.5 ADV a
Advances in Social Media Analysis
This volume presents a collection of carefully selected contributions in the area of social media analysis. Each chapter opens up a number of research directions that have the potential to be taken on further in this rapidly growing area of research. The chapters are diverse enough to serve a number of directions of research with Sentiment Analysis as the dominant topic in the book. The auth…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-18458-6
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- VII, 151
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- Studies in Computational Intelligence
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- 006.3 ADV a
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