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Beneficial Microorganisms in Food and Nutraceuticals
This book discusses the use of microorganisms for improving nutrient quality and producing healthier foods. Conventional roles of microbes in food preservation and in producing more readily digestible nutrients via natural fermentation processes are also examined. Individual chapters explore topics such as bio-preservation, incorporation of lactic acid bacteria, traditional fermented Mongoli…
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- 978-3-319-23177-8
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- VIII, 290
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- 641.3
Beneficial Microorganisms in Agriculture, Aquaculture and Other Areas
This book focuses on the use of microorganisms in relation to agriculture, aquaculture and related fields, ranging from biofertilizers to poultry production. The latest innovations are also included to provide insights into the unlimited potentials of microorganisms in these areas. Individual chapters explore topics such as probiotics in poultry, biopurification of wastewater, converting agrow…
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- 978-3-319-23183-9
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- VIII, 220
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- 630
Ecological Continuum from the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Watersheds to the Ea…
The book provides a cross-disciplinary and multi-scale assessment of a world top river, the Changjiang (Yangtze River) and its adjacent marginal environment, the East China Sea. The studies in this volume bridges the watersheds of the river and the marginal sea through a combined approach of hydro-dynamics, geochemistry, sedimentary processes, ecology and fishery. The response of ecosystem to t…
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- 978-3-319-16338-3
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- XIV, 201
Benchmarking for Performance Evaluation : A Production Frontier Approach
This book provides a detailed introduction to the theoretical and methodological foundations of production efficiency analysis using benchmarking. Two of the more popular methods of efficiency evaluation are Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), both of which are based on the concept of a production possibility set and its frontier. Depending on the assumed obj…
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- 978-81-322-2253-8
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- XIV, 281
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- 658
Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs
In six comprehensively illustrated chapters, the authors explain ecodesign concepts, including the importance of preserving and restoring natural systems while also adapting to climate change; minimizing congestion on highways and at airports by making development more compact, and by making it easier to walk, cycle and take trains and mass transit; crafting and managing regulations to insure b…
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- 978-1-59726-521-8
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- VIII, 265
Taylor’s 7th Teaching and Learning Conference 2014 Proceedings
These conference proceedings showcase a rich and practical exchange of approaches and vital evidence-based practices taking place around the world. They clarify the complex challenges involved in bringing about a holistic educational environment in schools and institutes of higher learning that fosters greater understanding and offer valuable insights on how to avoid the pitfalls that come with…
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- 978-981-287-399-6
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- IX, 608
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Benchmarking Collaborative Networks
Limited potential of financial, organizational, human and technology resources doesn't provide SMEs sufficient opportunities to access information and knowledge necessary in competition. Observing the methods and tools used by large companies, this book studies the conditions under which it would be possible to provide support to SMEs at a lower cost and with greater methodological and organiz…
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- 978-3-319-16736-7
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- XIX, 169
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- 658
Taylor Coefficients and Coefficient Multipliers of Hardy and Bergman-Type Spaces
This book provides a systematic overview of the theory of Taylor coefficients of functions in some classical spaces of analytic functions and especially of the coefficient multipliers between spaces of Hardy type. Offering a comprehensive reference guide to the subject, it is the first of its kind in this area. After several introductory chapters covering the basic material, a large variety of …
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- 978-3-319-45644-7
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- XVI, 323
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- RSME Springer Series
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EcoJustice, Citizen Science and Youth Activism
This volume draws on the ecojustice, citizen science and youth activism literature base in science education and applies the ideas to situated tensions as they are either analyzed theoretically or praxiologically within science education pedagogy. It uses ecojustice to evaluate the holistic connections between cultural and natural systems, environmentalism, sustainability and Earth-friendly mar…
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- 978-3-319-11607-5
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- XV, 460
Bench Scale Calorimetry in Chemical Reaction Kinetics
This book describes new and efficient calorimetric measurement methods, which can be used to accurately follow the chemical kinetics of liquid phase reaction systems. It describes apparatus and techniques for the precise measuring of the rate of heat liberation in discontinuous and continuous isothermal as well as non-isothermal reactions. The presented methodology can be used to follow the dev…
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- 978-3-319-12532-9
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- XX, 243
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- 620
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