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Sustaining Life on Planet Earth: Metalloenzymes Mastering Dioxygen and Other …
MILS-15 provides an up-to-date review of the metalloenzymes involved in the activation, production, and conversion of molecular oxygen as well as the functionalization of the chemically inert gases methane and ammonia. Found either in aerobes (humans, animals, plants, microorganisms) or in anaerobes (so-called “impossible bacteria”) these enzymes employ preferentially iron and copper at the…
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- 978-3-319-12415-5
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- XXXV, 329
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- Metal Ions in Life Sciences
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Ethical Dimensions of Muslim Education
This book draws upon ethical dimensions of Muslim education as a means through which to address contemporary issues, such as social and societal conflicts, exclusion and marginalisation, and violence. It argues that an ethical Muslim education is underscored by the practice of autonomous, critical and deliberative engagement that can engender reflective judgement, compassionate recognition and …
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- 978-3-319-29317-2
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- XXX, 162
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Ethical Counselling and Medical Decision-Making in the Era of Personalised Me…
This book offers an overview of the main questions arising when biomedical decision-making intersects ethical decision-making. It reports on two ethical decision-making methodologies, one addressing the patients, the other physicians. It shows how patients’ autonomous choices can be empowered by increasing awareness of ethical deliberation, and at the same time it supports healthcare professi…
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- 978-3-319-27690-8
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- 4 illustrations in colour
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Collaboration-Based Approaches
Collaboration-based approaches to healthcare improvement attract much attention. They involve networks of people coming together to cooperate around a common interest, with shared goals of improving care and mutual learning. Longstanding examples of collaborative approaches have been associated with some success in improving outcomes and reducing harm.
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- 9781009236867
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- 307.1 MAR c
Educational measurement for applied researchers : theory into practice
This book is a valuable read for a diverse group of researchers and practitioners who analyze assessment data and construct test instruments. It focuses on the use of classical test theory (CTT) and item response theory (IRT), which are often required in the fields of psychology (e.g. for measuring psychological traits), health (e.g. for measuring the severity of disorders), and education (e.g.…
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- 9789811033025
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- 1 online resource (306 pages)
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- 370.72
Iterative Solution of Large Sparse Systems of Equations
In the second edition of this classic monograph, complete with four new chapters and updated references, readers will now have access to content describing and analysing classical and modern methods with emphasis on the algebraic structure of linear iteration, which is usually ignored in other literature. The necessary amount of work increases dramatically with the size of systems, so one ha…
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- 978-3-319-28483-5
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Essentials of Stochastic Processes
Building upon the previous editions, this textbook is a first course in stochastic processes taken by undergraduate and graduate students (MS and PhD students from math, statistics, economics, computer science, engineering, and finance departments) who have had a course in probability theory. It covers Markov chains in discrete and continuous time, Poisson processes, renewal processes, martinga…
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- 978-3-319-45614-0
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- 26 b/w illustrations
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Italy’s Top Products in World Trade: The Fortis-Corradini Index
This book analyzes Italy’s external competitiveness in detail and introduces a new index, devised by Marco Fortis and Stefano Corradini for Fondazione Edison, that highlights the strengths of Italy’s foreign trade. Compared with the Trade Performance Index compiled and updated annually by UNCTAD/WTO’s International Trade Centre, the Fortis-Corradini Index (FCI) provides greater sectorial …
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- 978-3-319-15817-4
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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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- 9783319304557
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- xii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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- 370.72
Carceral Logics: Human Incarceration and Animal Captivity
Many animal lawyers react to critiques of carceral animal law by contending that punishment is no longer a priority, and that there are only but a handful of anecdotes about over-charging.
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- 9781108919210
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- 344.049 MAR c
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