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Forest and Rangeland Soils of the United States Under Changing = A Comprehen…
This open access book synthesizes leading-edge science and management information about forest and rangeland soils of the United States. It offers ways to better understand changing conditions and their impacts on soils, and explores directions that positively affect the future of forest and rangeland soil health. This book outlines soil processes and identifies the research needed to manage fo…
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- 9783030452162
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- XXVI, 289 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation
This open access book discusses current thinking and presents the main issues and challenges associated with climate change in Africa. It introduces evidences from studies and projects which show how climate change adaptation is being - and may continue to be successfully implemented in African countries. Thanks to its scope and wide range of themes surrounding climate change, the ambition is t…
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- 9783030451066
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- LIX, 2838 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Textbook on Scar Management : State of the Art Management and Emerging Techno…
This text book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Written by a group of international experts in the field and the result of over ten years of collaboration, it allows students and readers to gain to gain a detailed understanding of scar and wound treatment – a topic still dispersed among various disciplines. The content is divided into three parts for easy reference. The first part fo…
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- 9783030447663
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- XXV, 553 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Foundations of Multi-Paradigm Modelling for Cyber-Physical Systems
This open access book coherently gathers well-founded information on the fundamentals of and formalisms for modelling cyber-physical systems (CPS). Highlighting the cross-disciplinary nature of CPS modelling, it also serves as a bridge for anyone entering CPS from related areas of computer science or engineering. Truly complex, engineered systems—known as cyber-physical systems—that integr…
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- 9783030439460
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- XX, 285 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Improving Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This open access book is a collection of 12 case studies capturing decades of experience improving health care and outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. Each case study is written by healthcare managers and providers who have implemented health improvement projects using quality improvement methodology, with analysis from global health experts on the practical application of improvement…
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- 9783030431129
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- XVI, 245 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Ceremonial Entries, Municipal Liberties and the Negotiation of Power in Valoi…
In a fresh examination of the French ceremonial entry, Neil Murphy considers the role these events played in the negotiation between urban elites and the Valois monarchy for rights and liberties. Moving away from the customary focus on the pageantry, this book focuses on how urban governments used these ceremonies to offer the ruler (or his representatives) petitions regarding their rights, lib…
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- Volume: 7
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- 978-90-04-31371-2
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Chains of Gold; Portuguese Migration to Argentina in Transatlantic Perspective
Why did migrants from southern Portugal choose Argentina instead of following the traditional path to Brazil? Starting with this question, this book explores how, at the turn of the twentieth century, rural Europeans developed distinctive circuits of transatlantic labor migration linked to diverse immigrant communities in the Americas. It looks at transoceanic moves in the larger context of mig…
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- Volume: 2
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- 978-90-47-42992-0
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Changing Assessment; How to Design Curriculum for Human Flourishing
Since the Delors report, education reformers have been working to create curricula that allow human beings to flourish. Schools should not only be places where we learn to be and learn to live together, but also places where the way we assess students valorises the diverse range of human gifts within them. Yet, most schools remain locked in a 19th-century assessment structure that prevents y…
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- Volume: 6
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- 978-90-04-71420-5
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Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative
Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological concepts of character and characterization and explores the textual devices used for purposes of characterization by ancient Greek authors spanning a large historical period (from Homer to Heliodorus) and a variety of literary genres (epic, e…
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- vol. 4
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- 978-90-04-35631-3
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On the path to AI = Law’s prophecies and the conceptual foundations of the …
This open access book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two ‘revolutions’ in a surprising analogy: the revolution of machine learning, which has placed computing on the path to artificial intelligence, and the revolution in thinking about the law that was spurred by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr in the last two decades of …
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- 9783030435820
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- XXII, 147 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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