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Artemisinin and Nitric Oxide: Mechanisms and Implications in Disease and Health
This book discusses both the beneficial and harmful aspects of NO in biology and medicine, and also introduces the emerging discovery of artemisinin in antitumor, antibacterial infection, anti-inflammation, and antiaging contexts. In 1992 nitric oxide (NO) was voted “Molecule of the Year” by Science magazine, and the discovery of its physiological roles has led to Nobel Prize-winning work i…
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- 978-3-662-47688-8
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- XV, 126
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- SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science
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- 615.19 ZEN a
Respiratory Health
The tracheobronchial tree is open to the environment surrounding the body. Respiration has thus the essential bearing on general morbidity, vulnerability to disease and immunity. Further, respiratory function shapes the neuropsychological responses to succumbing to disease, controls the mind-to-body interaction and sets the perception of quality of life. The chapters of this book deal with the …
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- 978-3-319-18793-8
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Evidentiality, egophoricity and engagement
The expression of knowledge in language (i.e. epistemicity) consists of a number of distinct notions and proposed categories that are only partly related to a well explored forms like epistemic modals. The aim of the volume is therefore to contribute to the ongoing exploration of epistemic marking systems in lesser-documented languages from the Americas, Papua New Guinea, and Central Asia from …
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- 978-3-96110-269-3
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- Studies in Diversity Linguistics 30
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- 401.43 EVI
Green Chemistry Metrics A Guide to Determining and Evaluating Process Greenness
This contribution to SpringerBriefs in Green Chemistry outlines and discusses the four major green chemistry metrics (atom economy, reaction mass efficiency, E factor and process mass intensity), at a level that is comprehensible by upper-level undergraduates. Such students have previously received fundamental training in organic chemistry basics, and are ideally positioned to learn about green…
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- 978-3-319-10499-7
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- VIII, 90
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- 621 DIC g
Green Chemistry Metrics A Guide to Determining and Evaluating Process Greenness
This contribution to SpringerBriefs in Green Chemistry outlines and discusses the four major green chemistry metrics (atom economy, reaction mass efficiency, E factor and process mass intensity), at a level that is comprehensible by upper-level undergraduates. Such students have previously received fundamental training in organic chemistry basics, and are ideally positioned to learn about green…
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- 978-3-319-10499-7
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- VIII, 90
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- 542 AND g
Green Chemistry and Sustainability in Pulp and Paper Industry
This book features in-depth and thorough coverage of Minimum Impact Mill Technologies which can meet the environmental challenges of the pulp and paper industry and also discusses Mills and Fiberlines that encompass “State-of-the-Art” technology and management practices. The minimum impact mill does not mean "zero effluent", nor is it exclusive to one bleaching concept. It is a much bigg…
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- 978-3-319-18743-3
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- XVI, 258
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- 574 BAJ g
Contingent Encounters Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life
Contingent Encounters offers a sustained comparative study of improvisation as it appears between music and everyday life. Drawing on work in musicology, cultural studies, and critical improvisation studies, as well as his own performing experience, Dan DiPiero argues that comparing improvisation across domains calls into question how improvisation is typically recognized. By comparing the musi…
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- 9780472903115
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Pesky Essays on the Logic of Philosophy
This collection of essays explores the philosophy of human knowledge from a multitude of perspectives, with a particular emphasis upon the justification component of the classical analysis of knowledge and with an excursion along the way to explore the role of knowledge in Texas Hold ‘Em poker. An important theme of the collection is the role of knowledge in religion, including a detailed ar…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-08063-5
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- IX, 240
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- Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
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- 160 LUC p
Bayesian Natural Language Semantics and Pragmatics
The contributions in this volume focus on the Bayesian interpretation of natural languages, which is widely used in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computational linguistics. This is the first volume to take up topics in Bayesian Natural Language Interpretation and make proposals based on information theory, probability theory, and related fields. The methodologies offe…
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- 978-3-319-17064-0
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- XI, 246
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- Language, Cognition, and Mind
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- 401.44
Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics
The first international volume on the topic of biosemiotics and linguistics. It aims to establish a new relationship between linguistics and biology as based on shared semiotic foundation.
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-20663-9
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- VI, 295
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- Biosemiotics
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- 401.41
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