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Deformation and Failure Mechanism of Excavation in Clay Subjected to Hydrauli…
This book presents the latest experimental and numerical analysis work in the field of ground deformation and base instability of deep excavations in soft clay subjected to hydraulic uplift. The authors? latest research findings, based on dimensional analyses, well-instrumented full-scale field tests, systematic coupled-consolidation finite element analyses and centrifuge tests are reported. Th…
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- 9783662465073
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- XIV, 156
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- Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China
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- 413
Government Austerity and Socioeconomic Sustainability
This short book integrates the imperatives of public debt sustainability with those of socioeconomic sustainability in the context of budget austerity measures. It is argued that poverty, inequality and unemployment problems should be integral aspects of policy frameworks for austerity and fiscal stability. The economics of austerity in much of economic analysis remains narrowly focused and lop…
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- 978-3-319-04234-3
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- VII, 44
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Governance of Hospitals in Central and Eastern Europe
This book presents a novel view of healthcare system transition in post-communist countries. It is the first region-wide comparative study of hospital governance in Eastern Europe. Comprehensive new material shows the evolution and significance of governance, complementing recent publications on the topic from industrialised countries. Throughout the book, governance is described and substantia…
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- 978-981-287-765-9
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- Health Economics
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- -
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- 330 SOW g
Gold Nanostars Synthesis, Properties and Biomedical Application
This Brief focuses on the synthesis, functionalization techniques, optical properties and biomedical application of gold nanostars (GNS). Various facilities of gold nanostars synthesis as well as functionalization of GNS with PEG, organic dyes, bioactive compounds are discussed. The authors discuss physical origin of the Localized Surface Plasmon Resonances and the way the nano-environment affe…
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- 978-3-319-20767-4
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- XV, 80
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- 621 CHI g
Impact Craters in South America
A complete and updated catalogue of impact craters and structures in South America from 2014 is presented here. Approximately eighty proven, suspected and disproven structures have been identified by several sources in this continent. All the impact sites of this large continent have been exhaustively reviewed: the proved ones, the possible ones and some very doubtful. Many sites remain without…
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- 978-3-319-13092-7
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- X, 104
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- SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences
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- 415 IMP
God and Mental Causation
This book lies at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion and operates on the assumption that dialogue between the two disciplines can be fruitful. In particular it focuses on how debates in the philosophy of mind regarding the nature of mental causation relate to debates in the philosophy of religion regarding divine action, creaturely causation, and existence of God…
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- 978-3-662-47425-9
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- XIV, 100
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- 100
Go Slow and Curvy Understanding the Philosophy of the Cittaslow slowcity Phe…
This book introduces readers to the concepts of sustainability and philosophy of slowness for the management of public entities such as cities or regions. While many urban communities face economic challenges that clearly show the limitations of growth and ever-increasing speed, this book explores an alternative, thought-provoking standpoint in five chapters. The first chapter explains the impo…
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- 978-3-319-14853-3
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- X, 176
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- 330 SOH g
Global Well-posedness and Asymptotic Behavior of the Solutions to Non-classic…
This book presents recent findings on the global existence, the uniqueness and the large-time behavior of global solutions of thermo(vis)coelastic systems and related models arising in physics, mechanics and materials science such as thermoviscoelastic systems, thermoelastic systems of types II and III, as well as Timoshenko-type systems with past history. Part of the book is based on the resea…
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- 978-3-658-06863-9
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- XII, 200
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- 510 QIN g
Corpus-Based Studies of Translational Chinese in English-Chinese Translation
This book takes a corpus-based approach, which integrates translation studies and contrastive analysis, to the study of translational language. It presents the worlds first balanced corpus of translational Chinese, which, in combination with a comparable native Chinese corpus, provides a reliable empirical basis for a comprehensive account of the macro-statistic, lexical, and grammatical featur…
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- 9783642413636
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- XVII, 205
- Series Title
- New Frontiers in Translation Studies
- Call Number
- 420
The Givenness of Desire: Human Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God
This book examines the human desire for God through the lens of Bernard Lonergan's 'concrete subjectivity.' With Lonergan as an integrating thread, the author engages a variety of thinkers, including Hans Urs von Balthazar, Jean-Luc Marion, Rene Girard, Lawrence Feingold, John Milbank, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Pope France, among others. The Givenness of Desire investigates our paradoxical de…
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- 9781487500313
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- 210.1
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