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Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Diagnosis and Treatment
Esophageal cancer causes an estimated 386,000 deaths worldwide and is the sixth most common cause of death for men. The background characteristics of esophageal cancer treatment are markedly different between Asian and Western countries, however. In tumor histology, squamous cell carcinoma associated with smoking and alcohol consumption is overwhelmingly prevalent in Asia, whereas adenocarcinom…
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- 978-4-431-54977-2
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- 39 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour
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Escherichia coli in the Americas
Bacterial diarrheal diseases remain an important leading cause of preventable death, especially among children under five in developing countries. In the American continent, diarrheal disease and other health complications caused by Escherichia coli constitute a major public health problem, and, therefore, several research groups have dedicated their effort to understand this pathogen and provi…
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- 978-3-319-45092-6
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- 8 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
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Toward the Next Generation of Bystander Prevention of Sexual and Relationship…
This briefs integrates and synthesizes an array of research about who helps others and under what conditions and discusses the implications of this research for a bystander intervention focused prevention agenda to reduce sexual and relationship violence in schools and communities. It combines an examination of bystander helping behavior in the specific context of sexual and relationship violen…
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- 978-3-319-23170-9
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- XI, 118
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- SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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Sustainability of External Imbalances
Since the mid-1990s, sustainability of large and persistent current account positions have been attracting much attention from policy makers and economists alike. Alongside global imbalances, sustainability of imbalances within the euro area, which started widening shortly after the introduction of the euro, raised much concern. While there exists a large body of theoretical and empirical liter…
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- 978-3-658-07091-5
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- XI, 329
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Adaptive Resource Management and Scheduling for Cloud Computing: Second Inter…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Adaptive Resource Management and Scheduling for Cloud Computing, ARMS-CC 2015, held in Conjunction with ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC 2015, in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, in July 2015. The 12 revised full papers, including 1 invited paper, were ca…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-28448-4
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- XII, 187
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- Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues
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- 511.8 ADA a
Adapting African Agriculture to Climate Change: Transforming Rural Livelihoods
This book summarizes the evidence from different African countries about the local impacts of climate change, and how farmers are coping with current climate risks. The different contributors show how agricultural systems in developing countries are affected by climate changes and how communities prepare and adapt to these changes.
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- 978-3-319-13000-2
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- XI, 233
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- Climate Change Management
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- 551.6 ADA a
Equivariant Ordinary Homology and Cohomology
Filling a gap in the literature, this book takes the reader to the frontiers of equivariant topology, the study of objects with specified symmetries. The discussion is motivated by reference to a list of instructive “toy” examples and calculations in what is a relatively unexplored field. The authors also provide a reading path for the first-time reader less interested in working through so…
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- 978-3-319-50448-3
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Introduction to Statistics: Using Interactive MM*Stat Elements
This book covers all the topics found in introductory descriptive statistics courses, including simple linear regression and time series analysis, the fundamentals of inferential statistics (probability theory, random sampling and estimation theory), and inferential statistics itself (confidence intervals, testing). Each chapter starts with the necessary theoretical background, which is foll…
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- 978-3-319-17704-5
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Introductory Business Statistics
The book Introductory Business Statistics by Thomas K. Tiemann explores the basic ideas behind statistics, such as populations, samples, the difference between data and information and most importantly sampling distributions. The author covers topics including descriptive statistics and frequency distributions, normal and t-distributions, hypothesis testing, t-tests, f-tests, analysis of varian…
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- 650
Introductory Business Statistics
Introductory Business Statistics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the one-semester statistics course for business, economics, and related majors. Core statistical concepts and skills have been augmented with practical business examples, scenarios, and exercises. The result is a meaningful understanding of the discipline, which will serve students in their business care…
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