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Impacts of Land-use Change on Ecosystem Services
This book aims to systematically elaborate how land-use change directly or indirectly exerts impacts on the ability of ecosystems to provide services for human society. The relationship between land use, ecosystem services and human well-being is a hot topic, and there have been some important achievements in this field, but its continuing growth means that it warrants further research. The …
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- 978-3-662-48007-6
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- IX, 260
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- 304 IMP
Impact-Activated Solidification of Cornstarch and Water Suspensions
This thesis approaches impact resistance in dense suspensions from a new perspective. The most well-known example of dense suspensions, a mixture of cornstarch and water, provides enough impact resistance to allow a person to run across its surface. In the past, this phenomenon had been linked to "shear thickening" under a steady shear state attributed to hydrodynamic interactions or granular d…
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- 978-3-319-09182-2
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- XVIII, 88
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- 664 WAI i
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library …
M. R. James (1862–1936), best known as a writer of chilling ghost stories, was an outstanding scholar of medieval literature and palaeography, who served both as Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum. His detailed descriptive catalogues of manuscripts owned by colleges, cathedrals and museums are still of value to scholars today. This two-volume catal…
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- 9780511919930
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- Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
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Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts on Politics and Peace Research
This book offers a collection of texts by Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker (1912-2007), a major German universal scientist who was also a pioneer in physics, philosophy, religion on issues of politics and peace research. He worked with Werner Heisenberg and Otto Hahn in the German “Uranverein”, obtained a patent for plutonium during World War II and was an opponent of the nuclear armament of …
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Foundations of Augmented Cognition
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Foundations of Augmented Cognition, AC 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, which took place in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015. HCII 2015 received a total of 4843 submissions, of which 1462 papers and 246 posters were accepted for publication after …
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- 978-3-319-20816-9
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- XX, 837 pages
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Foundations and Practice of Security
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security, FPS 2014, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in November 2014. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 5 short papers and 2 position papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on privacy; software se…
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- 978-3-319-17040-4
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- XIII, 375 pages
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Foundations & Principles of Distributed Manufacturing
By outlining encapsulation and evolving decision-making principles, Foundations & Principles of Distributed Manufacturing fully conceptualizes the view of manufacturing networks as sets of loosely coupled interacting smart factory objects. Moreover, the book provides concrete approaches to a number of future fields, where distributed manufacturing might be applied. Both researchers and professi…
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- 978-3-319-18078-6
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- XVII, 121 pages
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- Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing
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Foundational Aspects of Family-School Partnership Research
This volume focuses on how family-school partnerships are conceptualized, defined, and operationalized as well as the research that is needed to advance these foundational issues. Each chapter integrates prevailing approaches into a research-based framework for supporting learning from pre-K through high school. The book incorporates structural and relational methods into the larger context of …
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- 978-3-319-13838-1
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- XIII, 126 pages
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- Research on Family-School Partnerships
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library …
M. R. James (1862–1936), best known as a writer of chilling ghost stories, was an outstanding scholar of medieval literature and palaeography, who served both as Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum. His detailed descriptive catalogues of manuscripts owned by colleges, cathedrals and museums are still of value to scholars today. This two-volume catal…
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- 9780511919923
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- Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
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A Catalogue of the Collection of Cambrian and Silurian Fossils Contained in t…
John William Salter (1820–1869) was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his work as palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of Great Britain. This is a complete catalogue of the Cambrian and Silurian fossils in the Geological Museum at the University of Cambridge. Preceded by a detailed introductory section on the Palæozoic system, the catalogue is arranged by geological str…
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