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The Immune System in Space: Are we prepared?
This book gives insight into the mechanism of the immune system and the influence of the environment on earth. Further, the book explains the changes that occur in our immune system in the absence of gravity and their fundamental consequences. Several limiting factors for human health and performance in microgravity have been clearly identified as an unacceptable risk for long-term and i…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-41466-9
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- XVII, 127, 2 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
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- The Immune System in Space: Are we prepared?
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Design for Micro-Combined Cooling, Heating and Power Systems : Stirling Engin…
Design for Micro-Combined Cooling, Heating & Power Systems? provides a manual for the technical and structural design of systems for supplying decentralised energy in residential buildings. It presents the micro-combined cooling, heating & power systems Stirling engines & renewable energy sources (mCCHP-SE-RES) systems in an accessible manner both for the public at large, and for professionals …
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- 9781447162544
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- vii, 394 pages
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- 333.794
The Illegal Business of Human Trafficking
This book offers a brand-new perspective on human trafficking as an illegal business. It also proposes a new form of networked action: combining the perspectives of academic researchers with those of highly skilled professionals involved in policymaking in this area, this book is a unique contribution and a first step toward a networking paradigm, promoting collaboration in preventing and comba…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-09441-0
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- XXII, 154, 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
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- The Illegal Business of Human Trafficking
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The Icelandic Financial Crisis
This book presents a detailed account of Iceland’s recovery from the tumultuous banking collapse that overturned its financial industry in 2008. Early chapters recount how Iceland’s central bank was unable to follow the quantitative easing policies of the time to print money and save the banks, while serving the world´s smallest currency area. The book goes on to explore how the government…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-39455-2
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- XVI, 349, 23 illustrations in colour
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- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions
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The ISRM Suggested Methods for Rock Characterization, Testing and Monitoring:…
This book is a collection of ISRM suggested methods for testing or measuring properties of rocks and rock masses both in the laboratory and in situ, as well as for monitoring the performance of rock engineering structures. The first collection (Yellow Book) has been published in 1981. In order to provide access to all the Suggested Methods in one volume, the ISRM Blue Book was published in 2007…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-07713-0
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- XIII, 293, 165 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
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- The ISRM Suggested Methods for Rock Characterization, Testing and Monitoring: 2007-2014
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Design for teaching and learning in a networked world : 10th European Confere…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2015, held in Toledo, Spain, in September 2015. The 27 full papers, 19 short papers, 9 demo papers and 23 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. They address topics such as blended learning; self-regulated and self directed learning; reflective learn…
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- 9783319242583
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- xviii, 624 pages
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- 004.6
The Hunt for FOXP5: A Genomic Mystery Novel
Genetics professor Michelle Murphy loses her husband under mysterious circumstances and without warning, while their brilliant eight year old daughter Avalon, adopted in Kazakhstan, stubbornly believes she is a mutant. As if this were not enough she soon finds herself thrown into the middle of a quickly thickening plot, where the legacy of Genghis Khan meets the hunt for FOXP5, a genetic t…
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- 978-3319289601
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- 258 pages
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The Humanitarian Challenge
This book includes contributions from academics, practitioners and policy-makers connected with the Network on Humanitarian Action (NOHA), an international association of universities that is committed to interdisciplinary education and research on humanitarian action. Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of NOHA, this book highlights some of the most pressing issues and challenges facing hum…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-13470-3
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- XII, 286,2 illustrations in colour
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- The Humanitarian Challenge
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The Human Face of Ambient Intelligence: Cognitive, Emotional, Affective, Beha…
As a socially disruptive technology, Ambient Intelligence is ultimately directed towards humans and targeted at the mundane life made of an infinite richness of circumstances that cannot fully be considered and easily be anticipated. Most books, however, focus their analysis on, or deal largely with, the advancement of the technology and its potential only. This book offers a fresh, up–to–d…
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- 978-9462391291
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- 555 pages
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- The Human Face of Ambient Intelligence: Cognitive, Emotional, Affective, Behavioral and Conversational Aspects
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The Holobiont Imperative
This book examines how the growing knowledge of the huge range of animal-bacterial interactions, whether in shared ecosystems or intimate symbioses, is fundamentally altering our understanding of animal biology. Individuals from simple invertebrates to human are not solitary, homogenous entities but consist of complex communities of many species that likely evolved during a billion years of coe…
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- 1
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- 978-3-7091-1896-2
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- X, 155,51 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
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- The Holobiont Imperative
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