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The New Arctic
“The New Arctic” highlights how, and in what parts, the natural and political system is being transformed. We’re talking about a region where demography, culture, and political and economic systems are increasingly diverse, although many common interests and aspects remain; and with the new Arctic now firmly placed in a global context. Settlements range from small, predominantly indigenou…
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- 978-3-319-17602-4
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- XXII, 352
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The New Anti-Money Laundering Law
This book introduces and contextualizes the revised and strengthened legislation on the laundering of criminal funds mandated by the European Union on the 20th May 2015. The authors provide fresh and new insight into the EU’s fourth directive 2015/849, with a specific focus on topics such as: beneficial ownership and effective transparency, the risk-based approach, the issue of supervision of…
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- 978-3-319-29099-7
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- VIII, 101
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The Neuroscientific Basis of Successful Design
The term “design” today encompasses attributes of artifacts that go beyond their intended functions, imbuing them with new meanings. Those meanings are deeply related to the emotions perceived by the users. This book investigates the findings deriving from the neurosciences that are relevant to design. Drawing upon up-to-date neuroscientific knowledge, the authors define what an emotion is,…
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- 978-3-319-02801-9
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- XIV, 108
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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The Neuropsychology of Men
This timely text examines normative and pathological brain/behavior connections across the male lifespan, and how these findings can best inform research, intervention, and prevention. It spotlights possible etiologies for male-dominated pathology, including academic deficits and disorders relating to violence, as well as identifying men's psychological resilience and vulnerabilities throughout…
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- 978-1-4899-7615-4
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- XVI, 236
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- Issues of Diversity in Clinical Neuropsychology
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The Neuropharmacology of Nicotine Dependence
These volumes will provide readers a contemporary overview of current research on nicotine psychopharmacology and its role in tobacco dependence from leaders in this field of researchand will hopefully prove valuable to those who are developing their own research programmes in this important topic.
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- 978-3-319-13482-6
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- VII, 172
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- Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
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The Neuropathology of Huntington’s Disease: Classical Findings, Recent Deve…
This monograph describes the progress in neuropathological HD research made during the last century, the neuropathological hallmarks of HD and their pathogenic relevance. Starting with the initial descriptions of the progressive degeneration of the striatum as one of the key events in HD, the worldwide practiced Vonsattel HD grading system of striatal neurodegeneration will be outlined. Correla…
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- 978-3-319-19285-7
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- XIV, 146
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- Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology
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The Neurological Emergence of Epilepsy
This book explores the emergence of epilepsy as a purely neurological disorder, in the second half of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the world’s first neurological hospital, the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in London, and on its leading figure, John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911). Through an analysis of the National Hospital’s medical records and a historical acco…
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- 978-3-319-06293-8
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- XIII, 209
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- Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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The Neurobiology and Genetics of Nicotine and Tobacco
These volumes will provide readers with a contemporary overview of current research on nicotine psychopharmacology and its role in tobacco dependence from leaders in this field of research and will hopefully prove valuable to those who are developing their own research programmes in this important topic.
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- 978-3-319-13665-3
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- VII, 231
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- Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
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The NeuroMuscular System: From Earth to Space Life Science
The book provides fundamental new insights in the structure and function of the healthy NeuroMuscular system. Recent findings suggest that the musculoskeletal system that supports movement control on Earth is controlled by unique principles of structural, biochemical and molecular characteristics. Mechanical loading by working against normal gravity helps to support principal structures in bon…
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- 978-3-319-12298-4
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- XIV, 92
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- SpringerBriefs in Space Life Sciences
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The Networking of Chaperones by Co-chaperones
Co-chaperones are important mediators of the outcome of chaperone assisted protein homeostasis, which is a dynamic balance between the integrated processes of protein folding, degradation and translocation. The Networking of Chaperones by Co-chaperones describes how the function of the major molecular chaperones is regulated by a cohort of diverse non-client proteins, known as co-chaperones. Th…
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- 978-3-319-11731-7
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- XV, 276
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- Subcellular Biochemistry
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