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Agricultural and Forestry Reconstruction After the Great East Japan Earthquak…
This book summarizes the results of 3 years of agricultural and forestry reconstructive efforts and applied research conducted directly in the affected areas of Fukushima following the Great East Japan Earthquake. It describes fast and effective revival methods and technologies from tsunami and radiation damages, demonstrated through the collaborative efforts of researchers, students, local far…
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- 978-4-431-55558-2
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- XVII, 264
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- 536.33 AGR a
ICT in Agriculture : Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Inst…
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have always mattered in agriculture. Ever since people have grown crops, raised livestock, and caught fish, they have sought information from one another. What is the most effective planting strategy on steep slopes? Where can I buy the improved seed or feed this year? How can I acquire a land title? Who is paying the highest price at the market…
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- 630 ICT
Field Trials of Health Interventions : A Toolbox
Paediatrics is often thought of as following two main routes. One is that of ultra-technology and ever-narrower specialization. The other is recognition of child health in a community context, related to family circumstances (especially the health and welfare of mothers) and influenced by the environment, social stresses, economic limitations, cultural attitudes and practices, and policy decisi…
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- 9780198732860
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- 610 SMI f
Heat Shock Protein-Based Therapies
The book Heat Shock Protein-Based Therapies provides the most up-to-date review on new heat shock protein-based mechanisms used in the therapy and treatment of various human disorders and diseases, including cancer, muscular atrophy, neurodegenerative disorders (Alzheimer's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis) and infectious diseases (HIV, periodontal disease). Written by leaders in the field of heat s…
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- 978-3-319-17210-1
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- XVI, 385
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- 610 HEA
New Approaches to Natural Anticancer Drugs
This book provides an up-to-date review of recently identified natural anti-tumor compounds from various natural origins including plants, fungi, endophytic fungi and marine organisms. It also includes discussion of new areas such as biotechnology and nanoparticles. Chapters explain the challenges and developments in anti-cancer drug discovery approaches, traditional remedies for prevention an…
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- 978-3-319-14026-1
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- XI, 106
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- SpringerBriefs in Pharmaceutical Science & Drug Development
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New Approaches to Building Pathology and Durability
This book presents a collection of recent research works intended to assist in the effective management of service loss. It develops and evaluates methodologies for the assessment of defects and failures, and proposes methodologies for preventing and mitigating building defects. As such, the book will appeal to a broad readership of scientists, practitioners, students and lecturers.
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- 978-981-10-0647-0
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- VIII, 207
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- Building Pathology and Rehabilitation
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Permaculture Design : Tools for Climate Resilience
Climate is also where we begin the design process in another tool referenced in the Permaculture design system. This is the Scale of Landscape Permanence, originated by P.A.Yeomans, the founder of Keyline™ Design. Yeomans asserts that the order of design is: Climate Landshape Water Supply Roads/Access Trees Structures Subdivision Fences Soil This book is predominantly about climate…
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- 551 MIL p
MATLAB Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Learn from state-of-the-art examples in robotics, motors, detection filters, chemical processes, aircraft, and spacecraft. This is a practical reference for industry engineers using MATLAB to solve everyday problems. With MATLAB Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach you will review contemporary MATLAB coding including the latest language features and use MATLAB as a software development environm…
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- 978-1-4842-0559-4
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L² Approaches in Several Complex Variables: Development of Oka–Cartan Theo…
The purpose of this monograph is to present the current status of a rapidly developing part of several complex variables, motivated by the applicability of effective results to algebraic geometry and differential geometry. Highlighted are the new precise results on the L² extension of holomorphic functions. In Chapter 1, the classical questions of several complex variables motivating the de…
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- 978-4-431-55747-0
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The International Dimensions of Democratization in Egypt
During the second half of the twentieth century, the mainstream scholarship presented the democratization process as the outcome of domestic conditions not significantly influenced by actors outside the nation-state. With the end of the Cold War, this perspective was challenged as a result of the third wave of democratization and the subsequent growth of the “good governance” discourse on t…
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- 978-3-319-16700-8
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- XVI, 179
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- Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace
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