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Lung Cancer and Personalized Medicine: Current Knowledge and Therapies
This, the first of two volumes on personalized medicine in lung cancer, touches on the core issues related to the understanding of lung cancer—statistics and epidemiology of lung cancer—along with the incidence of lung cancer in non-smokers. A major focus of this volume is the state of current therapies against lung cancer—immune, targeted therapies against EGFR TKIs, KRAS, ALK, angiogene…
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- 978-3-319-24223-1
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Grieving for Pigeons Twelve Stories of Lahore
In this poignant and meditative collection of short stories, Zubair Ahmad captures the lives and experiences of the people of the Punjab, a region divided between India and Pakistan. In an intimate narrative style, Ahmad writes a world that hovers between memory and imagination, home and abroad. The narrator follows the pull of his subconscious, shifting between past and present, recalling diff…
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- 9781771992817.01
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- 5 x 8, 192 pages
Grieving for Pigeons Twelve Stories of Lahore
These stories evoke the complex realities of post-colonial Pakistani Punjab. The contradictions of this region’s history reverberate through the stories, evident in the characters, their circumstances, and sometimes their erasure. Skillfully translated from Punjabi by Anne Murphy, this collection is an essential contribution to the wider recognition of the Punjabi language and its literature.
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- 9781771992817.01
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- Mingling Voices
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Advances in Chaos Theory and Intelligent Control
The book reports on the latest advances in and applications of chaos theory and intelligent control. Written by eminent scientists and active researchers and using a clear, matter-of-fact style, it covers advanced theories, methods, and applications in a variety of research areas, and explains key concepts in modeling, analysis, and control of chaotic and hyperchaotic systems. Topics include fr…
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- 978-3-319-30340-6
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- XII, 873
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- Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing
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- 006.3 ADV a
Advances and Applications in Sliding Mode Control systems
This book describes the advances and applications in Sliding mode control (SMC) which is widely used as a powerful method to tackle uncertain nonlinear systems. The book is organized into 21 chapters which have been organised by the editors to reflect the various themes of sliding mode control. The book provides the reader with a broad range of material from first principles up to the current s…
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- 978-3-319-11173-5
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- XI, 590
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- Studies in Computational Intelligence
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- 006.3 ADV a
Advanced Glaucoma Surgery
This text provides expert instruction on the techniques currently employed for the surgical treatment of glaucomatous disease, covering both the host of novel microinvasive devices for treatment of milder stages and the refined strategies that enhance success rates in patients with advanced disease. The critical steps in each procedure are clearly described with the aid of many high-quality ill…
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- 978-3-319-18060-1
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- IX, 138
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- Essentials in Ophthalmology
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- 617.7 ADV a
Labor Markets and Multinational Enterprises in Puerto Rico: Foreign Direct In…
This book expresses the reasons to embark on a production management system and begin a journey to a better social and economic life in Puerto Rico. Among the population of Puerto Rico there is a simultaneous presence of a high rate of unemployment and a well-educated workforce. How has this happened? How could the country overcome this economic situation and return to a path of sustainable eco…
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- 978-3-319-17178-4
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Attribute-based Credentials for Trust
The need for information privacy and security continues to grow and gets increasingly recognized. In this regard, Privacy-preserving Attribute-based Credentials (Privacy-ABCs) are elegant techniques to provide secure yet privacy-respecting access control. This book addresses the federation and interchangeability of Privacy-ABC technologies. It defines a common, unified architecture for Privacy-…
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- 978-3-319-14439-9
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- XV, 391
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- 650
Synergetics and Fractals in Tribology
This book examines the theoretical and practical aspects of tribological process using synergy, fractal and multifractal methods, and the fractal and multifractal models of self-similar tribosystems developed on their basis. It provides a comprehensive analysis of their effectiveness, and also considers the method of flicker noise spectroscopy with detailed parameterization of surface roughness…
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- 978-3-319-28189-6
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- XII, 381
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- Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology
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Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions: A Study of their Objectives and Ach…
This book is a study of the objectives of Islamic Finance in the modern banking space and offers insight into the effects of changes and developments occurring in Islamic banking products and services.
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