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A Metaphoric Mind Selected Writings of Joseph Couture
With a foreword by Lewis Cardinal, A Metaphoric Mind brings together for the first time key works selected from among Dr. Joe’s writings, published and unpublished. Spanning nearly thirty years, the essays invite us to share in his transformative legacy through a series of encounters, with Aboriginal spirituality and ancestral ways of knowing, with Elders and their teachings, with education a…
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- 9781926836539
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More Playful User Interfaces
This book covers the latest advances in playful user interfaces – interfaces that invite social and physical interaction. These new developments include the use of audio, visual, tactile and physiological sensors to monitor, provide feedback and anticipate the behavior of human users. The decreasing cost of sensor and actuator technology makes it possible to integrate physical behavior inform…
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- 978-981-287-545-7
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- X, 261
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- Gaming Media and Social Effects
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Triticale
Triticale crop species has received substantial research support since the mid-20th century making it a commercial success in many countries, in diverse value propositions. However, no recent book captures the new knowledge and progresses made in more than 2 decades. The purpose of this work is to review and collate the new knowledge of triticale plant biology and agronomy, while considering th…
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- 978-3-319-22551-7
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- XI, 258
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Morbid Obesity in Adolescents
As the worldwide prevalence of morbid obesity among adolescents continues to rise, recent years have seen a large increase in the performance of adolescent bariatric surgery. While surgical intervention often becomes necessary when conservative weight-loss therapies have failed, no standards regarding the post-operative regimen and long-term management of adolescent patients have been establish…
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- 978-3-7091-0967-0
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- Springer-Verlag Wien
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Minimally Invasive Foregut Surgery for Malignancy
This book provides detailed, comprehensive and illustrative content to the surgical community in the areas of foregut oncologic surgery. The text contains an in depth review of all surgical aspects of oncologic diseases involving the stomach and esophagus. The main focus is on the minimally invasive techniques including potential complications and their management. The text also includes an onl…
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- 978-3-319-09341-3
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- XV, 276
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Trends in Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, the PAAMS C…
Latest research trends in Practical Applications Scalable Multi-Agent System Results of the workshops of the 14th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2016) held in Sevilla, Spain, from 1st to 3rd June 2016 Brings together researchers and developers articles from industry and the academic world reporting on the latest scientific and technic…
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- 978-3-319-40159-1
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- XVIII, 400
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- Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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Mining, Modeling, and Recommending 'Things' in Social Media
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Mining Ubiquitous and Social Environments, MUSE 2013, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2013, and the 4th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media, MSM 2013, held in Paris, France, in May 2013. The 8 full papers included in the book are revised and significantly e…
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- 978-3-319-14723-9
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- IX
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Trends in Practical Applications of Scalable Multi-Agent Systems, the PAAMS C…
Latest research trends in Practical Applications Scalable Multi-Agent System Results of the workshops of the 14th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2016) held in Sevilla, Spain, from 1st to 3rd June 2016 Brings together researchers and developers articles from industry and the academic world reporting on the latest scientific and techni…
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- 978-3-319-40159-1
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- XVIII, 400
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- Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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Mind in Action
The book questions two key dichotomies: that of the apparent and real, and that of the internal and external. This leads to revised notions of the structure of experience and the object of knowledge. Our world is experienced as possibilities of action, and to know is to know what to do. A further consequence is that the mind is best considered as a property of organisms’ interactions with the…
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- 978-3-319-17622-2
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- XII, 94
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- Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
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Molecular Pathology in Cancer Research
The aim of the book is to discuss the application of molecular pathology in cancer research, and its contribution in the classification of different tumors and identification of potential molecular targets, as well as how this knowledge may be translated into clinical practice, and the huge impact this field is likely to have in the next 5 to 10 years.
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- 978-1-4939-6641-7
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- VIII, 369
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