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The Physical Basis of Bacterial Quorum Communication
Quorum sensing (QS) describes a chemical communication behavior that is nearly universal among bacteria. Individual cells release a diffusible small molecule (an autoinducer) into their environment. A high concentration of this autoinducer serves as a signal of high population density, triggering new patterns of gene expression throughout the population. However QS is often much more complex th…
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- 978-1-4939-1402-9
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- IX, 252
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- Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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The First Decade of Living with the Global Crisis
Anastasios Karasavvoglou is Professor in economics, Editor in chief of the “International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied Research” and the President of the annual International Conference "The Economies of Balkan and Eastern Europe Countries in the changed world". He has published many books and papers regarding immigration, regional development and labour market. Zoran Aranđe…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-24267-5
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- XII, 192, 19 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
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- Contributions to Economics
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The Philosophy of Mathematics Education
This survey provides a brief and selective overview of research in the philosophy of mathematics education. It asks what makes up the philosophy of mathematics education, what it means, what questions it asks and answers, and what is its overall importance and use? It provides overviews of critical mathematics education, and the most relevant modern movements in the philosophy of mathematics. …
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- 978-3-319-40569-8
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- VII, 26
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- ICME-13 Topical Surveys
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The Finite Element Method and Applications in Engineering Using ANSYS®
This textbook offers theoretical and practical knowledge of the finite element method. The book equips readers with the skills required to analyze engineering problems using ANSYS®, a commercially available FEA program. Revised and updated, this new edition presents the most current ANSYS® commands and ANSYS® screen shots, as well as modeling steps for each example problem. This self-contain…
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- 2
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- 978-1-4899-7550-8
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- XIV, 657, 475 b/w illustrations
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- The Finite Element Method and Applications in Engineering Using ANSYS®
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The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder
This book provides a critical introduction to Heidegger’s impact on psychiatry and psychology, and has a focus on the application of his philosophy to psychiatry. This is a complete revision of Heidegger’s existential philosophy in the light of psychopathological phenomena. Readers will find here a philosophical inquiry into the problem of mental disorder, which shows Heidegger’s own phil…
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- 978-3-319-10323-5
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- XI, 214
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- Contributions to Phenomenology
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The Phenomenological Critique of Mathematisation and the Question of Responsi…
This edited collection discusses phenomenological critiques of formalism and their relevance to the problem of responsibility and the life-world. The book deals with themes of formalization of knowledge in connection to the life-world, the natural world, the history of science and our responsibility for both our epistemic claims and the world in which we live. Readers will discover critiques…
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- 978-3-319-09828-9
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- X, 223
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- Contributions to Phenomenology
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The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook
Patients with a range of medical conditions undergo surgeries of varying levels of risk, and the evolving field of consult medicine aims to address their needs, whether pre- or post-surgery. This new edition of The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook provides useful information, advice, and guidelines based on a combination of clinical experience and evidence-based medicine. It covers topic…
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- 978-3-319-09366-6
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- XXVI, 318
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The Financial Crisis Reconsidered
Aronoff proposes a novel theory to account for the ultimate origins of secular stagnation and economic volatility. He shows how accumulation, which occurs when a person or country earns more than it ever plans to spend, generates both an excess of saving and a deficiency in demand. While savings provide the funds to promote booms, under-consumption ensures that these booms will turn bust and th…
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- 978-1349575473
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- 308 pages
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- The Financial Crisis Reconsidered
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The Forest of the Lacandon Maya
In The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide, linguist Suzanne Cook presents a bilingual Lacandon-English ethnobotanical guide to more than 450 plants in a tripartite organization: a botanical inventory in which main entries are headed by Lacandon names followed by common English and botanical names, and which includes plant descriptions and uses; an ethnographic inventory, which…
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- 1
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- 978-1-4614-9111-8
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- XXVII, 379, 38 b/w illustrations, 561 illustrations in colour
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- The Forest of the Lacandon Maya
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The Forest of the Lacandon Maya
In The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide, linguist Suzanne Cook presents a bilingual Lacandon-English ethnobotanical guide to more than 450 plants in a tripartite organization: a botanical inventory in which main entries are headed by Lacandon names followed by common English and botanical names, and which includes plant descriptions and uses; an ethnographic inventory, which…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-4614-9111-8
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- XXVII, 379, 38 b/w illustrations, 561 illustrations in colour
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- The Forest of the Lacandon Maya
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