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Subalternity vs. Hegemony, Cuba's Outstanding Achievements in Science and Bio…
The present book introduces an original (new) perspective on Cuba. This book revisits Cuba's choice, after the 1959 revolution, to develop an advanced healthcare and scientific system. It also introduces new aspects of the problem development/underdevelopment. From the start, every effort of the Cuban leadership and scientific community was driven by the primary purpose of meeting the countryâ€â€¦
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- 978-3-319-40609-1
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- XII, 103
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- SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
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Style in Translation: A Corpus-Based Perspective
This book attempts to explore style—a traditional topic—in literary translation with a corpus-based approach. A parallel corpus consisting of the English translations of modern and contemporary Chinese novels is introduced and used as the major context for the research. The style in translation is approached from perspectives of the author/the source text, the translated texts and the trans…
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- 978-3-662-45566-1
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- XVI, 161
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- New Frontiers in Translation Studies
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Style and Creativity in Design
This book looks at causative reasons behind creative acts and stylistic expressions. It explores how creativity is initiated by design cognition and explains relationships between style and creativity. The book establishes a new cognitive theory of style and creativity in design and provides designers with insights into their own cognitive processes and styles of thinking, supporting a better u…
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- 978-3-319-14017-9
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- XIV, 331
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- Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
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Studying Visual and Spatial Reasoning for Design Creativity
Creativity and design creativity in particular are being recognized as playing an increasing role in the social and economic wellbeing of a society. As a consequence creativity is becoming a focus of research. However, much of this burgeoning research is distributed across multiple disciplines that normally do not intersect with each other and researchers in one discipline are often unaware of …
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- 978-94-017-9297-4
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- X, 267
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Studying Science Teacher Identity
The overarching goal of this book volume is to illuminate how research on science teacher identity has deepened and complicated our understanding of the role of identity in examining teacher learning and development. The collective chapters, both theoretical and empirical, present an array of conceptual underpinnings that have been used to frame science teacher identity, document the various me…
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- 978-94-6300-528-9
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A Time Series Approach to Option Pricing: Models, Methods and Empirical Perfo…
The current world financial scene indicates at an intertwined and interdependent relationship between financial market activity and economic health. This book explains how the economic messages delivered by the dynamic evolution of financial asset returns are strongly related to option prices. The Black Scholes framework is introduced and by underlining its shortcomings, an alternative approach…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-662-45037-6
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- XVI, 188
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- 332 CHO t
A Thermochemical Heat Storage System for Households: Combined Investigations …
The book offers a comprehensive report on the design and optimization of a thermochemical heat storage system for use in buildings. It combines theoretical and experimental work, with a special emphasis on model-based methods. It describes the numerical modeling of the heat exchanger, which allows recovery of about two thirds of the waste heat from both solar and thermal energy. The book also p…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-41228-3
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- XXIII, 202
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- Springer Theses
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- 541.36 LEL t
A Theory of Sustainable Sociocultural and Economic Development
Why do some countries' economies struggle to develop, even when they are the focus of so much research and international funding? While recognizing that the obstacles facing poor nations are many and complex, Rabie proposes that the roots of most obstacles are sociocultural; thus, sociocultural transformation and economic restructuring can only be successful when treated as interconnected, mutu…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-57952-2
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- XI, 243
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- 339 RAB t
Geometry and Dynamics of Integrable Systems
Based on lectures given at an advanced course on integrable systems at the Centre de Recerca Matemà tica in Barcelona, these lecture notes address three major aspects of integrable systems: obstructions to integrability from differential Galois theory; the description of singularities of integrable systems on the basis of their relation to bi-Hamiltonian systems; and the generalization of i…
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- 978-3-319-33502-5
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- VIII, 140
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- 516 BOL g
Sistem ketertelusuran cangkang sawit berkelanjutan
This volume is based on four advanced courses held at the Centre de Recerca Matemà tica (CRM), Barcelona. It presents both background information and recent developments on selected topics that are experiencing extraordinary growth within the broad research area of geometry and quantization of moduli spaces. The lectures focus on the geometry of moduli spaces which are mostly associated to comp…
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- 978-3-319-33577-3
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- X, 220
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- 550 FOC g
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