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Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars
The existence of blue straggler stars, which appear younger, hotter, and more massive than their siblings, is at odds with a simple picture of stellar evolution. Such stars should have exhausted their nuclear fuel and evolved long ago to become cooling white dwarfs. They are found to exist in globular clusters, open clusters, dwarf spheroidal galaxies of the Local Group, OB associations and as …
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- 978-3-662-44433-7
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- XIX, 349
Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing: 27th International Workshop, …
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2014, held in Hillsboro, OR, USA, in September 2014. The 25 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on accelerator programming; algorithms for parall…
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- 978-3-319-17473-0
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Ecology and Conservation of Mountaintop grasslands in Brazil
This book is a pioneer attempt to bring forward the first synthesis on the most diverse and threatened mountain top vegetation of South America, the rupestrian grasslands. It brings to light the state of the art information on this ecosystem geology, soil formation and distribution, environmental filters that lead to biodiversity, species interactions and their fine tuned adaptations to surviv…
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- 978-3-319-29807-8
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- XXIII, 567
Language, Music, and Computing: First International Workshop, LMAC 2015, St. …
This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Language, Music and Computing, LMAC 2015, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in April 2015. The 13 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. They were organized in topical sections on music and language in education; corpus studies of language and music; problems of notatio…
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Language, Discourse, and Praxis in Ancient China
This book investigates Chinese comprehension and treatment of the relationship between language and reality. The work examines ancient Chinese philosophy through the pair of concepts known as ming-shi. By analyzing the pre-Qin thinkers’ discourse on ming and shi, the work explores how Chinese philosophers dealt with issues not only in language but also in ontology, epistemology, ethics, axiol…
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- 978-3-642-54865-9
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Language and Discourse in Special Education: Understanding Ethnographic Inter…
This book examines the words and discourse as well as their meaning and impact on the everyday culture of a multidisciplinary team at a school for students with mental disabilities. The book examines the organizational, social, professional, and emotional experiences of team members from such disciplines as child and school psychology, special education, therapy (e.g., occupational, speech), so…
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- 978-3-319-09024-5
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Benign Tumors of the Liver
Diagnosis of benign liver tumors is experiencing exponential growth, mainly owing to the diffusion of more accurate imaging techniques. This monograph examines the epidemiology, histopathology and genetics of these tumors and provides a systematic overview of their evolution and differential diagnosis. Care is taken to document surgical indications accurately, with a view to assisting in the av…
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Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values
This book provides a comprehensive review of environmental benefit transfer methods, issues and challenges, covering topics relevant to researchers and practitioners. Early chapters provide accessible introductory materials suitable for non-economists. These chapters also detail how benefit transfer is used within the policy process. Later chapters cover more advanced topics suited to valuation…
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Ecological Impacts of Tsunamis on Coastal Ecosystems
This book focuses on the ecological impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake and resulting tsunamis, a rare and extremely large disturbance event, on various coastal ecosystems in Japan’s Tohoku area, including sub-tidal and tidal animal communities, sand dune plant communities and coastal forests. The studies presented here describe not only how species and populations in these ecosystems …
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- 978-4-431-56446-1
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- XI, 410
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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