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Advanced Control of Piezoelectric Micro-/Nano-Positioning System
This book explores emerging methods and algorithms that enable precise control of micro-/nano-positioning systems. The text describes three control strategies: hysteresis-model-based feedforward control and hysteresis-model-free feedback control based on and free from state observation. Each paradigm receives dedicated attention within a particular part of the text. Readers are shown how to …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-21623-2
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- XX, 257
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- Advances in Industrial Control
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- 621 XUQ a
Chemical Process Dynamics and Controls Book II (Chapters 10-14)
Process controls is a mixture between the statistics and engineering discipline that deals with the mechanism, architectures, and algorithms for controlling a process. Some examples of controlled processes are: •Controlling the temperature of a water stream by controlling the amount of steam added to the shell of a heat exchanger. •Operating a jacketed reactor isothermally by controlling …
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- 540 WOO c
Glutamine in Clinical Nutrition
Glutamine is the most abundant amino acid and is a major contributor to whole body nitrogen metabolism and is considered to be “conditionally essential.” Glutamine in Health and Disease presents the application of current nutritional knowledge by physicians and dietitians and incorporates emerging fields of science and important discoveries. Section 1 covers glutamine structure and function…
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- 978-1-4939-1931-4
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- XXXIV, 551
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- -
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- 574.13 GLU
Glucocorticoid Signaling: From Molecules to Mice to Man
This timely volume provides a comprehensive overview of glucocorticoids and their role in regulating many aspects of physiology and their use in the treatment of disease. The book is broken into four sections that begin by giving a general introduction to glucocorticoids and a brief history of the field. The second section will discuss the effects of glucocorticoids on metabolism, while the thi…
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- 978-1-4939-2894-1
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- XI, 385
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- 574.13 GLU
Effective Training of Arthroscopic Skills
This book explains how training in arthroscopic skills is best carried out in order to keep up to date with advances in arthroscopy, meet the ever-increasing demand for high-quality care, and respond to changes in available training time. State of the art developments regarding tools, performance monitoring, and learning strategies are presented, and practical guidelines provided for direct imp…
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- 978-3-662-44942-4
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- 25 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
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- X, 173
Effect of Spaceflight and Spaceflight Analogue Culture on Human and Microbial…
Many breakthroughs in biological research and translational healthcare advancements have been achieved by studying the response of biological systems to extreme environments. The spaceflight platform provides a unique environment where researchers can explore fundamental questions into cellular and molecular response mechanisms to unveil novel insight into human health and disease. Since the p…
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- 978-1-4939-3276-4
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- 21 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
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- XVIII, 301
Educator to Educator
Thinking and learning are based on powerful concepts – ideas that identify, but also provoke and challenge. This collection is designed to ignite discussions among educators and learners at all levels about social studies concepts that generate curiosity, passion, and a sense of who we are and could be in this world. Contributors to this book, drawn from across the educational field, have foc…
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- 978-94-6209-986-9
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- XIV, 228
Educational Technology and Polycontextual Bridging
Technology has become ubiquitous in nearly every contemporary situation, while digital media have acquired considerable importance in the lives of young people. Alongside their interest in digital media, schooling constitutes a core component of the life of children and adolescents. Youth’s use of digital media creates tensions between traditions and expectations of renewal within the school.…
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- 978-94-6300-645-3
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- XIV, 172
Educational Technology and Pedagogic Encounters
This book looks at some of the underlying theories of educational technology (means), and ways in which this technology is guided in practice (ends). The authors are intent on producing ends that prepare students to undertake new analyses and evaluations that can result in new possibilities for democratic action. Emphasis is on their understanding of and position within educational technology …
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- 978-94-6300-546-3
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- X, 132
Educational Research: Discourses of Change and Changes of Discourse
This collection addresses concepts and theories of change, contexts and functions of reform discourses, and fields of change in educational research. It examines a wide variety of issues such as girls’ education in France, educational neuroscience, the professionalization in Child Protection, and mathematics discourses. It pays attention to the pervasiveness of crisis rhetoric in American Edu…
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- 978-3-319-30455-7
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- 3 b/w illustrations
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- XII, 227
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