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Methodologies in Peace Psychology
This volume looks at research methods through the lens of peace studies and peace values. Apart from reviewing established methods from peace psychology, it presents some innovative ideas for conducting research in the area of peace psychology. Many of these methods are drawn from the field, from activities used by active peace practitioners. A critical component of this volume is its core ar…
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- 978-3-319-18394-7
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- XXV, 454
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- Peace Psychology Book Series
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Electronic Government 14th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2015, …
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2015, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in August/September 2015 in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on eParticipation, ePart 2015. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers have been organized…
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- 978-3-319-22479-4
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- 37 b/w illustrations
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The Role of Civil Society in Africa’s Quest for Democratization
This book tests many of the assumptions, hypotheses, and conclusions connected with the presumed role of civil society organizations in the democratization of African countries. Taking a comparative approach, it looks at countries that have successfully democratized, those that are stuck between progress and regression, those that have regressed into dictatorship, and those that are currently i…
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- 978-3-319-18383-1
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Metabolic Engineering for Bioprocess Commercialization
This volume reviews the current metabolic engineering tools and technologies from a practical point of view, and guides researchers as they overcome challenges at various stages of organism and bioprocess development. Microbes have been engineered to produce a variety of industrial products such as fuels, basic chemicals, fine chemicals, nutritional supplements, and pharmaceutical intermediates…
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- 978-3-319-41964-0
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- V, 122
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Modeling Mobility with Open Data
This contributed volume contains the conference proceedings of the Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) conference 2014, Berlin. The included research papers cover a wide range of topics in traffic planning and simulation, including open data, vehicular communication, e-mobility, urban mobility, multimodal traffic as well as usage approaches. The target audience primarily comprises researchers a…
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- 978-3-319-15023-9
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- X, 239
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- Lecture Notes in Mobility
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Membrane Potential Imaging in the Nervous System and Heart
This volume discusses membrane potential imaging in the nervous system and in the heart and modern optical recording technology. Additionally, it covers organic and genetically-encoded voltage-sensitive dyes; membrane potential imaging from individual neurons, brain slices, and brains in vivo; optical imaging of cardiac tissue and arrhythmias; bio-photonics modelling. This is an expanded and fu…
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- 978-3-319-17640-6
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- XI, 516
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- Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Electronic Commerce A Managerial and Social Networks Perspective
Throughout the book, theoretical foundations necessary for understanding Electronic Commerce (EC) are presented, ranging from consumer behavior to the economic theory of competition. Furthermore, this book presents the most current topics relating to EC as described by a diversified team of experts in a variety of fields, including a senior vice president of an e-commerce-related company. The a…
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- 978-3-319-10091-3
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- 12 b/w illustrations, 100 illustrations in colour
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Medicines For Women
In this definitive new text, the major medicines, devices and vaccines used by women worldwide are brought together for the first time in a single volume. Written and edited by international experts with an evidence-based approach, the book offers a comprehensive summary of all the key areas of women’s medicines. In the first part, issues relating to female drug exposure and considerations fo…
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- 978-3-319-12405-6
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- VIII, 627
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Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Based Quantum Computing
This book addresses electron spin-qubit based quantum computing and quantum information processing with a strong focus on the background and applications to EPR/ESR technique and spectroscopy. It explores a broad spectrum of topics including quantum computing, information processing, quantum effects in electron-nuclear coupled molecular spin systems, adiabatic quantum computing, heat bath algor…
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- 978-1-4939-3658-8
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- 43 b/w illustrations, 62 illustrations in colour
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Medicine as a Scholarly Field: An Introduction
To me it is astonishing and to medicine actually shameful that it has taken up to year 2015 before there is a work in which the essence of medicine is described and discussed." -- J. Steurer, University of Zurich "[In this book], Miettinen beautifully elucidates the concepts and principles of knowledge-based diagnosis, and prognosis, within medicine. Now, after six decades of keen ob…
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- 978-3-319-19011-2
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- XVI, 136
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- Medicine as a Scholarly Field: An Introduction
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