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Taurine 9
Taurine 9 contains original articles and critical reviews based on the oral and poster presentations of XIX International Taurine Meeting held in Kraków, Poland in May 2014. The purpose of the book is to present current ideas, new avenues and research regarding biological functions and clinical applications of taurine and taurine derivatives. It focuses on all aspects of taurine research inclu…
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- 978-3-319-15126-7
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- XVII, 905
- Series Title
- Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Task-Space Sensory Feedback Control of Robot Manipulators
This book presents recent advances in robot control theory on task space sensory feedback control of robot manipulators. By using sensory feedback information, the robot control systems are robust to various uncertainties in modelling and calibration errors of the sensors. Several sensory task space control methods that do not require exact knowledge of either kinematics or dynamics of robots, …
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- 978-981-287-062-9
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- VII, 223
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- Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering
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Eco-friendly Polymer Nanocomposites
This book contains precisely referenced chapters, emphasizing environment-friendly polymer nanocomposites with basic fundamentals, practicality and alternatives to traditional nanocomposites through detailed reviews of different environmental friendly materials procured from different resources, their synthesis and applications using alternative green approaches. The book aims at explaining bas…
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- 1
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- 978-81-322-2472-3
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- -
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- XII, 576
Eco-friendly Polymer Nanocomposites
This book contains precisely referenced chapters, emphasizing environment-friendly polymer nanocomposites with basic fundamentals, practicality and alternatives to traditional nanocomposites through detailed reviews of different environmental friendly materials procured from different resources, their synthesis and applications using alternative green approaches. The book aims at explaining bas…
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- 1
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- 978-81-322-2469-3
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- -
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- XII, 579
Tartaglia’s Science of Weights and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century
This volume consists of three main parts. In the first, a historical excursus regarding Tartaglia’s lifetime, his scientific production and the Scientia de ponderibus in the Arabic-Islamic culture, and from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, is presented. Secondly, all the propositions of Books VII and VIII, by relating them with the Problemata mechanica by the Aristotelian school and Iordan…
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- 978-94-017-9710-8
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- XVIII, 504
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- History of Mechanism and Machine Science
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Belowground Defence Strategies in Plants
This book summarizes our current knowledge on belowground defence strategies in plants by world-class scientists actively working in the area. The volume includes chapters covering belowground defence to main soil pathogens such as Fusarium, Rhizoctonia, Verticillium, Phytophthora, Pythium and Plasmodiophora, as well as to migratory and sedentary plant parasitic nematodes. In addition, the role…
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- 978-3-319-42319-7
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- VIII, 410
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- 571.2
Eco-efficiency of Grinding Processes and Systems
This research monograph aims at presenting an integrated assessment approach to describe, model, evaluate and improve the eco-efficiency of existing and new grinding processes and systems. Various combinations of grinding process parameters and system configurations can be evaluated based on the eco-efficiency. The book presents the novel concept of empirical and physical modeling of technologi…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-25203-2
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- -
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- XXVII, 227
Targeting the Broadly Pathogenic Kynurenine Pathway
Tryptophan metabolism via kynurenine pathway plays a critical role in both health and a variety of human diseases. This book highlights the known associations between kynurenine pathway and various disease states, as well as examines the current status of drug development and clinical trials of compounds known to alter tryptophan metabolism. The research plays a critical role in molecular targe…
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- 978-3-319-11870-3
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- XV, 430
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- -
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Eco-Landscape Design
The ability to adapt to a changing environment has ensured the continued survival of the human race into the 21st century. The challenges to be faced in this century are now well documented by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The effects of drought, melting polar ice and increased incidences of extreme weather events will impact on the diverse landscapes of the eart…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-07205-0
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- -
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- IV, 227
Being and Becoming Scientists Today
The authors provide teachers with an approach to foster and answer these questions by concentrating on learners and learning. They argue that students are typically taught from a disciplinary perspective of science. Using this lens students are viewed as people who need to learn a particular canon of information, methods, and ways of knowing about the world—a perspective that may be useful fo…
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- 978-94-6300-349-0
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- XVI, 234
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- -
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- 370
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