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Medicinal Plants - Recent Advances in Research and Development
Since ancient times, plants have been used as a prime natural source of alternative medicines and have played an important role in our lives. The old tradition of medicinal plant application has turned into a highly profitable business in the global market, resulting in the release of a large number of herbal products. People have tried to find different sources of medicines to alleviate pain a…
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- 978-981-10-1084-2
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- XXIII, 491
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Water Cycle Management A New Paradigm of Wastewater Reuse and Safety Control
This book focuses on environmental engineering, and on wastewater treatment and reuse in particular, which is a vital aspect for countries and regions suffering from water shortages. It introduces a new water cycle management concept for designing water systems that mimic the hydrological cycle, where reclaimed water is produced, stored/regulated, supplied and used in a semi-natural manner so t…
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- 978-3-662-45821-1
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- VIII, 98
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Bioinspired Smell and Taste Sensors
This book discusses the field of bioinspired smell and taste sensors which includes many new areas: sensitive materials, physiological modelling and simulation, and more. Similar to biological chemical sensing systems, bioinspired smell and taste sensors are characterized with fast responsive, high specificity and sensitivity. One of the most important parts of the field is that of sensitive…
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- 978-94-017-7333-1
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- 660.6
Urbanization and Locality Strengthening Identity and Sustainability by Site-…
Based on a discussion of conflicts in the urbanization process, this book provides theoretical and practical solutions for the preservation and development of urban localities. On the basis of informative case studies, it reveals the similarities and unique aspects of urbanization in Germany and China. The process of urban growth and the future trend of locality and urbanization are also examin…
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- 978-3-662-48494-4
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- XX, 384
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Logic, Rationality, and Interaction: 5th International Workshop, LORI 2015, T…
FoLLI-LNCS is the publication platform for the Association of Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI, www.folli.org). The Association was founded in 1991 to advance research and education on the interface between logic, linguistics, computer science, and cognitive science. The FoLLI Publications on Logic, Language and Information aim to disseminate results of cutting-edge research and tutorial …
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- 978-3-662-48561-3
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Aerosol-Cloud Interactions from Urban, Regional, to Global Scales
The studies in this dissertation aim at advancing our scientific understandings about physical processes involved in the aerosol-cloud-precipitation interaction and quantitatively assessing the impacts of aerosols on the cloud systems with diverse scales over the globe on the basis of the observational data analysis and various modeling studies. As recognized in the Fifth Assessment Report by t…
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- 978-3-662-47175-3
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- XXI, 86
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- Springer Theses
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- 551.6 WAN a
Big Data Computing and Communications
This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communications, BigCom 2015, held in Taiyuan, China, in August 2015. The 41 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: wireless communication and networks; database and big data; smart phone and sensin…
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- 978-3-319-22047-5
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- 005
Advances in Water Resources Management
This volume provides in-depth coverage of such topics as multi-reservoir system operation theory and practice, management of aquifer systems connected to streams using semi-analytical models, one-dimensional model of water quality and aquatic ecosystem-ecotoxicology in river systems, environmental and health impacts of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas, bioaugmentation for water resources prot…
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- 978-3-319-22924-9
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- XII, 569
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- Handbook of Environmental Engineering
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- 628.5 ADV a
Advances in Water Resources Engineering
This book, Advances in Water Resources Engineering, Volume 14, covers the topics on watershed sediment dynamics and modeling, integrated simulation of interactive surface water and groundwater systems, river channel stabilization with submerged vanes, non-equilibrium sediment transport, reservoir sedimentation, and fluvial processes, minimum energy dissipation rate theory and applications, hydr…
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- 978-3-319-11023-3
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- XXVIII, 556
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- Handbook of Environmental Engineering
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- 628.5 ADV a
Low-carbon City and New-type Urbanization: Proceedings of Chinese Low-carbon …
In the face of increasingly serious resource and environmental challenges, the world has already accepted low-carbon development as the main way forward for future city construction. Chinese cities have encountered many problems during their development, including land constraints, energy shortages, traffic congestion and air pollution. For this reason, the national meeting of the Central Work …
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