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The Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Traits
This book presents the state of the art of type 2 diabetes genetics, from the process of genetic discovery to its interpretation and clinical application, and illustrates a model for other complex human phenotypes. The first section explores genome-wide association studies, the extension of this method to less accessible phenotypes and the arrival of next-generation sequencing. A further secti…
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- 978-3-319-01574-3
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- XI, 576,40 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
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The Future Home is Wise, Not Smart
This book introduces the concept of the wise home. Whilst smart homes focus on automation technologies, forcing users to deal with complex and incomprehensible control and programming procedures, the wise home is different. By going beyond intelligence (or smartness) the wise home puts technology in the background and supports explicit (enhanced user-experience) as well as implicit (artificial …
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- 978-3-319-23093-1
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- XII, 128
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- Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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Translational Research in Pain and Itch
This book provides a comprehensive review of the latest advances in translational pain and itch research, and presents the cutting-edge developments in the study of our two principal, yet most mysteries sensations. Despite the slow progress in the discovery of effective therapies for chronic pain and pruritus, scientists around the globe now have a better understanding of why and how these cond…
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- 978-94-017-7537-3
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Human Rights in European Criminal Law
This book deals with human rights in European criminal law after the Lisbon Treaty. Doubtless the Lisbon Treaty has constituted a milestone in the development of European criminal justice. Not only has the reform following the Treaty given binding force to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, but furthermore it has paved the way for unprecedented forms of supranational legislation. In this sce…
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- 978-3-319-12042-3
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- X, 317
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Responsible Innovation Business Opportunities and Strategies for Implementation
This Open Access book, Responsible innovation provides benefits for society, for instance more sustainable products, more engagement with consumers and less anxiety about emerging technologies. As a governance tool it is mostly driven by research funders, including the European Commission, under the term “responsible research and innovation” (RRI). To achieve uptake in private industry is a…
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Pacific Climate Cultures Living Climate Change in Oceania
This edited volume examines the opportunities to think, do, and/or create jointly afforded by digital storytelling. The contributors discuss digital storytelling in the context of educational programs, teaching anthropology, and ethnographic research involving a variety of populations and subjects that will appeal to researchers and practitioners engaged with qualitative methods and pedagogies …
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- 9783110591415
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The Criminalisation of Migration in Europe
This is the first monograph providing a comprehensive legal analysis of the criminalisation of migration in Europe. The book puts forward a definition of the criminalisation of migration as the three-fold process whereby migration management takes place via the adoption of substantive criminal law, via recourse to traditional criminal law enforcement mechanisms including surveillance and detent…
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- 978-3-319-12658-6
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- IX, 110
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- SpringerBriefs in Law
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The Physiology of Exercise in Spinal Cord Injury
Every year, around the world, between 250,000 and 500,000 people suffer a spinal cord injury (SCI). Those with an SCI are two to five times more likely to die prematurely than people without a spinal cord injury, with worse survival rates in low- and middle-income countries. Dynamic aerobic requires integrated physiologic responses across the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, autonomic, pulmonar…
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- 978-1-4939-6664-6
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- VI, 286, 30 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
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- Physiology in Health and Disease
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Enforcing Human Rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territory
This work examines the applicability of international human rights and humanitarian laws as well as the domestic laws in order to assess the contribution of these laws in protecting the fundamental human rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territory. It conducts in-depth case studies of three basic rights: the right to movement, the right to property, and the right to equality and non-discri…
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- 9783941159303
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- 448 halaman
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- 340 QAN e
A Global Humanities Approach to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development…
Cowspiracy; Environment and sustainability; Environmental humanities; SDGs; Sustainable Development Goals;Teaching Sustainability; The White tiger
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