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Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy
This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present. It addresses vitalism, organicism and responses to materialism and its relevance to current biological science. In doing so, it promotes dialogue and discussion about the historical and philosophical importan…
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- History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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- VIII, 269
An introduction to particle physics and the standard model
ABSTRACT An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics familiarizes readers with what is considered tested and accepted and in so doing, gives them a grounding in particle physics in general. Whenever possible, Dr. Mann takes an historical approach showing how the model is linked to the physics that most of us have learned in less challenging areas. Dr. Mann reviews special relativ…
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- 9780429141225
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- 614 p
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- 530 MAN i
Education, Equity and Inclusion
This open access book provides a current view on education, equity and inclusion within the lens of education for a sustainable North. The first book published by the University of the Arctic Thematic Network for Teacher Education for Social Justice and Diversity (Including the North: A comparative study of the policies on inclusion and equity in the circumpolar North, 2019) highlighted policie…
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- Springer Polar Sciences
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- VIII, 260
Spider Venoms
This volume provides an overview of the biochemical characterization, structure-function studies, proteomics, bioinformatics, molecular biology, transcriptomics and genomics of various spider species. The book also covers our current knowledge of venom components, toxins and their modes of action. The first section of Spider Venom includes contributions regarding the wide diversity of spider ve…
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- 978-94-007-6389-0
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Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces : Theoretical Appr…
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com , has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license Through a variety of empirical studies, this volume offers fresh insights into the manner in which different forms of communicative action transform urban space. With attention to the methodological questions that ar…
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- 9780367817183
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- 300 p
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- 900 COM
Introduction to Supersymmetric Field Theory
Ideas and Methods of Supersymmetry and Supergravity: Or a Walk Through Superspace provides a comprehensive, detailed, and self-contained account of four dimensional simple supersymmetry and supergravity. Throughout the book, the authors cultivate their material in detail with calculations and full discussions of the fundamental ideas and motivations. They develop the subject in its superfield f…
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- 656 p
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- 530 KUZ i
Speech Prosody in Speech Synthesis: Modeling and generation of prosody for hi…
The volume addresses issues concerning prosody generation in speech synthesis, including prosody modeling, how we can convey para- and non-linguistic information in speech synthesis, and prosody control in speech synthesis (including prosody conversions). A high level of quality has already been achieved in speech synthesis by using selection-based methods with segments of human speech. Althoug…
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- 978-3-662-45258-5
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Computational Physiology
This open access volume compiles student reports from the 2021 Simula Summer School in Computational Physiology. Interested readers will find herein a number of modern approaches to modeling excitable tissue. This should provide a framework for tools available to model subcellular and tissue-level physiology across scales and scientific questions. In June through August of 2021, Simula held …
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Modern Cryptography Volume 1
Zhiyong Zheng is Dean of School of Mathematics, Renmin University of China. He got Ph.D from Shandong University in 1991 and was awarded as Distinguished Paper Award (ICCM 2018), Qiu Shi Outstanding Young Scholar Award (1997), Distinguished Young Scholars (NSF, 1996). His research areas include Diophantine approximation, character sum, cryptography.
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- 978-981-19-0920-7
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Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Data Challenges for Agricultural Rese…
This open access book provides the first systematic overview of existing challenges and opportunities for responsible data linkage, and a cutting-edge assessment of which steps need to be taken to ensure that plant data are ethically shared and used for the benefit of ensuring global food security – one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The volume focuses on the contemporary contou…
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- XIX, 317
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