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Advances in New Technology for Targeted Modification of Plant Genomes
Over the past 50 years, biotechnology has been the major driving force for increasing crop productivity. Particularly, advances in plant genetic engineering technologies have opened up vast new opportunities for plant researchers and breeders to create new crop varieties with desirable traits. Recent development of precise genome modification methods, such as targeted gene knock-out/knock-in an…
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- 978-1-4939-2556-8
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- VIII, 166
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- 631.5233
Local Drivers for Improvement Capacity: Six Types of School Organisations
This book presents systematically six types of schools, with different improvement capacities. Different schools have different capacities for school improvement, depending on the school infrastructure, norms and routines for the improvement process, improvement roles, and improvement history. The organisation of the improvement capacity is understood on the basis of sensemaking processes among…
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- 978-3-319-12724-8
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Local Cosmopolitanism: Imagining and (Re-)Making Privileged Places
This book offers a unique perspective on cosmopolitanism, examining the ways it is constructed and reconstructed on the small scale in an ongoing process of matching the local with the global, a process entailing mutual transformation. Based on a wide range of literatures and a series of case studies, it analyzes the different versions and functions of cosmopolitanism and points to the need to…
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- 978-3-319-19030-3
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Loadings in Thermal Barrier Coatings of Jet Engine Turbine Blades: An Experim…
This book discusses complex loadings of turbine blades and protective layer Thermal Barrier Coating (TBC), under real working airplane jet conditions. They obey both multi-axial mechanical loading and sudden temperature variation during starting and landing of the airplanes. In particular, two types of blades are analyzed: stationary and rotating, which are widely applied in turbine engines pro…
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- 978-981-10-0919-8
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Advances in Mechanical Engineering: Selected Contributions from the Conferenc…
This book draws together the most interesting recent results to emerge in mechanical engineering in Russia, providing a fascinating overview of the state of the art in the field in that country which will be of interest to a wide readership. A broad range of topics and issues in modern engineering are discussed, including dynamics of machines, materials engineering, structural strength and trib…
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- 978-3-319-29579-4
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- VIII, 195
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- Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
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- 621 ADV a
Advances in Mechanical Engineering: Selected Contributions from the Conferenc…
This book draws together the most interesting recent results to emerge in mechanical engineering in Russia, providing a fascinating overview of the state of the art in the field in that country which will be of interest to a wide readership. A broad range of topics and issues in modern engineering are discussed, including dynamics of machines, materials engineering, structural strength and trib…
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- 978-3-319-15684-2
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- VIII, 141
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- Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
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- 621 ADV a
Educating for sustainability in primary schools : teaching for the future
Education for Sustainability is a key priority in today's schools, as our society seeks to find a balance between environmental, social, cultural, political and economic imperatives that affect our future. As young children will become the next generation of adults, it is vital that they are educated about sustainability issues, so that they can learn to make informed decisions and take positiv…
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- 9789463000468
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- x, 370 pages
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Introduction to Management Information Systems
All individuals, companies and, in general, all organisations are continuously capturing data, many of which are of no significance to them at all. However, other data are available that would afford them a better understanding of their own environment and of themselves. These data – what we know as information – enable them to make more accurate decisions. For this reason, the right amount…
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- 005.74 CAR i
Linux and Solaris Recipes for Oracle DBAs
Linux and Solaris Recipes for Oracle DBAs, 2nd Edition is an example–based book on managing Oracle Database under Linux and Solaris. The book is written for database administrators who need to get work done and lack the luxury of curling up fireside with a stack of operating-system documentation. What this book provides instead is task-oriented coverage designed around the needs of the Oracle…
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- 978-1-4842-1254-7
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Healthy SQL: A Comprehensive Guide to Healthy SQL Server Performance
"Robert Pearl, a well-known DBA in the SQL community, explains his holistic vision of a database instance that needs regular check-ups and gives the tools, scripts, and best practices he has collected over the years." Alberto Bolchini, Computing Reviews, May 9, 2016 Healthy SQL is about ensuring the ongoing performance health of a SQL Server database. An unhealthy database is not just an inc…
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- 978-1-4302-6773-7
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- 004 HEA
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