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Games and Learning Alliance
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2014, held in Bucharest, Romania, in July 2014. The 15 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers presented cover a variety of aspects and knowledge fields. They are grouped into four sessions: pedagogy, technology, design, …
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-22959-1
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- XII, 185
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Call Number
- 794
Cryosurgery A Practical Manual
This book aims to fill the gap created by the lack of formal training in cryosurgery, which leads not only to an underutilization of the technique but also to inappropriate uses with unpleasant consequences for patients. The book covers all practical aspects of cryosurgery and also offers a theoretical foundation for practice. Basic principles, equipment, and techniques are described, and proce…
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- 1
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- 9783662439395
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- XVIII, 315
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- -
- Call Number
- 617.05
Post-transcriptional Mechanisms in Endocrine Regulation
This book examines how post-transcriptional mechanisms control endocrine function. This includes newly identified regulatory mechanisms involved in hormone biosynthesis, control of hormone receptors and the outputs of hormone mediated signal transduction. Chapters address endocrine hormones including protein peptide/peptide, steroid, and non-steroidal hormones. The impacts of these mechanisms o…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-25124-0
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- XIV, 341
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- -
- Call Number
- 612.4 GOL p
Post-Traumatic Arthritis: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Management
Bringing together the most up-to-date research on post-traumatic arthritis (PTA) and its management, this book is a comprehensive presentation of the current thinking on all aspects of the mechanisms of joint injury and subsequent development of PTA. Divided into thematic sections, it includes discussions of the incidence and burden of PTA, both in society at large and in the military populatio…
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- 1
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- 978-1-4899-7606-2
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- XX, 360
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- -
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- 616.722 OLS p
Gamification in Education and Business
This book is dedicated to applied gamification in the areas of education and business, while also covering pitfalls to avoid and guidelines needed to successfully implement for a project. Using different theoretical backgrounds from various areas including behavioral economics, game theory, and complex adaptive systems, the contributors aim to help readers avoid common problems and difficulties…
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- 978-3-319-10207-8
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- LIV, 710
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- -
- Call Number
- 794
Musical Composition in the Context of Globalization: New Perspectives on Musi…
Since the early transformation of European music practice and theory in the cultural centers of Asia, Latin America, and Africa around 1900, it has become necessary for music history to be conceived globally - a challenge that musicology has hardly faced yet. This book discusses the effects of cultural globalization on processes of composition and distribution of art music in the 20th and 21st …
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- 9783839450956
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- -
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- -
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- 780 UTZ m
Music - Media - History: Re-Thinking Musicology in an Age of Digital Media
Music and sound shape the emotional content of audio-visual media and carry different meanings. This volume considers audio-visual material as a primary source for historiography. By analyzing how the same sounds are used in different media contexts at different times, the contributors intend to challenge the linear perspective of (music) history based on canonic authority. The book discusses A…
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- 9783839451458
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- -
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- -
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- 780 MUS m
German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900-1940
Academic attention has focused on America’s influence on European stage works, and yet dozens of operettas from Austria and Germany were produced on Broadway and in the West End, and their impact on the musical life of the early twentieth century is undeniable.
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- -
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- 9781108614306
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- -
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- -
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- 782.12. SCO g
Documentary film festivals : Transformative learning, community building & so…
Documentary film festivals do more than provide a venue for watching films: they have the potential to foster critical thinking, especially toward mainstream media. The film festivals discussed in this book also help build a sense of community locally, as well as promote solidarity with people involved in struggles for social justice and ecological integrity around the world. Documentaries by i…
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- 1
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- 9789463004800
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- -
- Series Title
- Transgressions
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- 791.45
Discrete optimization in architecture : architectural & urban layout
This book presents three projects that demonstrate the fundamental problems of architectural design and urban composition - the layout design, evaluation and optimization. Part I describes the functional layout design of a residential building, and an evaluation of the quality of a town square (plaza). The algorithm for the functional layout design is based on backtracking using a constraint sa…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811011061
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- XIV, 105
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology
- Call Number
- 720
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