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The Soils of Taiwan
This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview on soils of Taiwan. It includes sections on soil research history, climate, geology, geomorphology, major soil types, soil maps, soil properties, soil classification, soil fertility, land use and vegetation, soil management, soils and humans, soils and industry, future soil issues. The book summarizes what is known about the soils in Ta…
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- 978-94-017-9726-9
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Fluid Dynamics: An Introduction
The text is arranged in a progressive and educational format, aimed at leading readers from the simplest basics to more complex matters like turbulence and magnetohydrodynamics. Exercises at the end of each chapter help readers to test their understanding of the subject (solutions are provided at the end of the book), and a special chapter is devoted to introducing selected aspects of mathemati…
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- 978-3-319-09351-2
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- XVI, 508 hlm.
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- Graduate Texts in Physics
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Flows in Polymers, Reinforced Polymers and Composites
The present Brief surveys modern developments related to the multi-scale modeling and simulation of polymers, reinforced polymers, that involve a flowing microstructure and continuous fiber-reinforced composites, wherein the fluid flows inside a nearly stationary multi-scale microstructure. These developments concern both multi-scale modeling, defining bridges between the micro and macro scales…
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- 978-3-319-16757-2
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- XIII, 140 hlm.
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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Decision support systems IV : information and knowledge management in decisio…
This book contains extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from two events organized by the Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS), which were held in Toulouse, France and Barcelona, Spain, in June and July 2014. Overall, 8 papers were accepted for publication in this edition after a rigorous review process through at least three internationally known experts…
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- 9783319215365
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- ix, 101 pages
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- 001.4
Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Schizophrenia
This book summarizes scientific advances in our understanding of the interrelationship between obsessive-compulsive symptoms and schizophrenia and reflects on the implications for future research directions. In addition, guidelines are provided on practical assessment, diagnosis and treatment interventions, covering both pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. The book acknowledges the need for a pe…
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- 978-3-319-12951-8
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- VIII, 221
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Defects in T Cell Trafficking and Resistance to Cancer Immunotherapy
This volume focuses on recent advances in understanding T cells as key players in antitumor immune responses, and as a result T cell-based immunotherapy is starting to transform the treatment of advanced cancers. However, despite recent successes, many patients with cancer fail to respond to these treatments. Defective migration of T cells into and within tumors is considered as an important re…
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- 9783319422237
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- 616.994
Delays and networked control systems
This edited monograph includes state-of-the-art contributions on continuous time dynamical networks with delays. The book is divided into four parts. The first part presents tools and methods for the analysis of time-delay systems with a particular attention on control problems of large scale or infinite-dimensional systems with delays. The second part of the book is dedicated to the use of tim…
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- xiii, 272 pages
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- 629.8
Demographic analysis of Latin American immigrants in Spain : from boom to bust
This book provides a unique, timely and comprehensive insight into Latin American immigrants in Spain. Each chapter uses a demographic framework to examining important topics related to the experiences of Latin American immigrants in Spain, like their rapid acquisition of nationality, their contrasting patterns of migration and settlement compared to other immigrant groups, their labour market …
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- 9783319123615
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- xxv, 215 pages
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- 304.82
Numbers and Computers
This is a book about numbers and how those numbers are represented in and operated on by computers. It is crucial that developers understand this area because the numerical operations allowed by computers, and the limitations of those operations, especially in the area of floating point math, affect virtually everything people try to do with computers. This book aims to fill this gap by explori…
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- 978-3-319-35940-3
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- XI, 231
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Nuclear Waste Governance:An International Comparison
This volume examines the national plans that ten Euratom countries plus Switzerland and the United States are developing to address high-level radioactive waste storage and disposal. The chapters, which were written by 23 international experts, outline European and national regulations, technology choices, safety criteria, monitoring systems, compensation schemes, institutional structures, and …
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- 978-3-658-08961-0
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- XXII, 327
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- Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection
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