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Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice: Pattern and Process
This work provides in-depth analysis of the origins of landscape ecology and its close alignment with the understanding of scale, the causes of landscape pattern, and the interactions of spatial pattern with a variety of ecological processes. The text covers the quantitative approaches that are applied widely in landscape studies, with emphasis on their appropriate use and interpretation. Th…
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- 978-1-4939-2794-4
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Landscape Culture - Culturing Landscapes: The Differentiated Construction of …
In this book an international group of authors reflects mechanisms of the cultural and social construction of landscapes. International migration and global exchange are associated with a multitude of different cultural meanings of landscapes. The logics of multi-cultural perceptions and meanings of landscape call for trans-disciplinary research, and for guidance on addressing culturally sensit…
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- 978-3-658-04284-4
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Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice
New digital technologies, from AI-fired “legal tech” tools to virtual proceedings, are transforming the legal system. But much of the debate surrounding legal tech has zoomed out to a nebulous future of “robo-judges” and “robo-lawyers.” This volume is an antidote. Zeroing in on the near- to medium-term, it provides a concrete, empirically minded synthesis of the impact of new digita…
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- 9781009255301
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- 340.0285 ENG l
Insect Conservation and Urban Environments
Includes chapters on assessing changes among assemblages and in individual species, the variety of general threats (notably habitat changes and impacts of alien species) and more particularly urban threats. The first global overview and synthesis of the impacts of urbanisation on insects and their relatives and the needs and theoretical and practical background to conserving them in urban envir…
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- 978-3-319-21223-4
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- XIII, 244
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- 590 NEW i
Inside Interesting Integrals
What’s the point of calculating definite integrals since you can’t possibly do them all?. What makes doing the specific integrals in this book of value aren’t the specific answers we’ll obtain, but rather the methods we’ll use in obtaining those answers; methods you can use for evaluating the integrals you will encounter in the future. This book is written in a light-hearted man…
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- 978-1-4939-1276-6
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- XXIII, 412
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- 510 NAH i
Insight into Designing Biocompatible Magnesium Alloys and Composites
This book critically summarizes the effects of various suitable alloying elements and particulate reinforcements on mechanical and degradation properties of pure Mg and Mg alloys targeting biomedical applications. The suitability of alloying elements and particulate reinforcements are discussed based on their levels of toxic effects on human body. First attempt is made to study and discuss on…
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- 978-981-287-371-2
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- XII, 109
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- 631 GUP i
Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana
Knowing Women is a study of same-sex desire in West Africa, which explores the lives and friendships of working-class women in southern Ghana who are intimately involved with each other. Based on in-depth research of the life histories of women in the region, Serena Owusua Dankwa highlights the vibrancy of everyday same-sex intimacies that have not been captured in a globally pervasive language…
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- 9781108863575
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Kinks and Domain Walls: An Introduction to Classical and Quantum Solitons
Kinks and domain walls are the simplest kind of solitons and hence they are invaluable for testing various ideas and for learning about non-perturbative aspects of field theories. They are the subject of research in essentially every branch of physics, ranging from condensed matter to cosmology.
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- 9781009290456
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- 539 VAC k
Killing, Capture, Trade and Ape Conservation
The illegal trade in live apes, ape meat and body parts occurs across all ape range states and poses a significant and growing threat to the long-term survival of wild ape populations worldwide. What was once a purely subsistence and cultural activity, now encompasses a global multi-million-dollar trade run by sophisticated trans-boundary criminal networks.
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- Volume 4
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- 9781108768351
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KCNQ2- and KCNQ3-Associated Epilepsy
KCNQ2 and KCNQ3 encode subunits (KV7.2, KV7.3) that combine to form a voltage-gated potassium ion (K+) channel responsible for generating an ionic current (M-current) important for controlling activity in the nervous system.
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- 9781009278270
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