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Obesity and Diabetes
This timely and clinically oriented book uniquely addresses the entire spectrum of treatment for severe obesity and diabetes. It thoroughly examines all aspects from robotic surgery to cell therapy, from the latest antidiabetic drugs to endoscopic procedures and devices, from appetite-inhibiting signals and nutrients to gastric arterial embolization. It offers objective and authoritative inform…
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- 978-3-319-36101-7
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- X, 282
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Gene Therapy for HIV and Chronic Infections
Ben Berkhout is Head of the Laboratory of Experimental Virology at the Academic Medical Center (AMC) of the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), where he is Professor of Virology. Ben received his Ph.D. in 1986 at the University of Leiden on gene regulation in the RNA bacteriophage MS2. He did post-doctoral training at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School (Boston) and …
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- 978-1-4939-2431-8
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Motivating Cooperation and Compliance with Authority:The Role of Institutiona…
This volume explores the various ways in which trust is thought about and studied in contemporary society. In doing so, it aims to advance both theoretical and methodological perspectives on trust. Trust is an important topic in this series because it raises issues of both motivation and emotion. Specifically, notions of trust and fairness motivate individuals to behave in a manner they deem ap…
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- 978-3-319-16150-1
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- XIII, 220
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- Nebraska Symposium on Motivation
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Motion Estimation for Video Coding:Efficient Algorithms and Architectures
The need of video compression in the modern age of visual communication cannot be over-emphasized. This monograph will provide useful information to the postgraduate students and researchers who wish to work in the domain of VLSI design for video processing applications. In this book, one can find an in-depth discussion of several motion estimation algorithms and their VLSI implementation as co…
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- 978-3-319-14375-0
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- XVIII, 157
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- Studies in Computational Intelligence
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National Innovation Efficiency During the Global Crisis
What effect did the Great Recession have on innovation efficiency and the effectiveness of scarce resource management? Did countries with high GDPs and GDPs per capita sustain efficient innovation? How did the recession affect the time lag between innovation development and implementation? This book presents the most comprehensive data set in current economic literature to measure and compare t…
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- 978-1-137-58254-6
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- XVII, 184
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National Forest Inventories
The book presents the current state and good practices of national forest inventories in monitoring wood resources and demonstrates pathways for harmonisation and improved common reporting. Beyond a general overview over availability and use of wood resources in different countries, it provides a unique collection of original contributions from national forest inventory experts with in-depth de…
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- 978-3-319-44014-9
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- XXXII, 845
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National College Entrance Exam in China
This book focuses on the National College Entrance Exam (NCEE), an important measurement of education quality in China, from both education economics and education policy perspectives. It provides a better understanding and stimulates more sophisticated evaluations of NCEE-related policies in China from the perspectives of education equity, the effectiveness of education input, and education qu…
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- 978-981-10-0508-4
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- XXI, 90
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- SpringerBriefs in Education
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National Basketball Association Strategies
This Brief identifies and contrasts the groups of National Basketball Association (NBA) expansion franchises and of any teams that relocated from one metropolitan area or city to another from 1950 to 2013. It discusses historical differences and similarities in the teams’ markets and performances and then as members of divisions and conferences. It measures and compares the emergence, develop…
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- 978-3-319-10057-9
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- XI, 125
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics
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Energy Policy Making in the EU Building the Agenda
The book adopts an innovative analytical approach to agenda setting by not only presenting successful cases in which energy issues were addressed by means of public policy, but by also analyzing failed attempts to make issues part of the European policy agenda. Another outstanding feature of the book is its use of the latest empirical data on a broad range of energy issues. When are energy i…
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- 978-1-4471-6645-0
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- 14 b/w illustrations
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Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 10th …
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, EMMCVPR 2015, held in Hong Kong, China, in January 2015. The 36 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on discrete and continuous optimization; image re…
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- 978-3-319-14612-6
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- 179 b/w illustrations
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