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Geospatial Analysis to Support Urban Planning in Beijing
This book describes a comprehensive framework of novel simulation approaches, conventional urban models, and related data mining techniques that will help develop planning support systems in Beijing as well as other mega-metropolitan areas. It investigates the relationships between human behaviors and spatial patterns in order to simulate activities in an urban space, visualize planning alterna…
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- 978-3-319-19341-0
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- XXV, 272
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- 301 LON g
Islets of Langerhans
This book contains critical background information, and recent advances made in essentially all areas of islet research. It is a major reference book, the first of its kind, for islet researchers, and diabetes researchers. Anybody, including the experts, and the beginners, interested in the study of islet physiology, and diabetes, will find this book extremely useful. The book is robust in its …
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- 978-94-007-6685-3
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Essays on the History of Respiratory Physiology
This book consists of 23 essays about prominent people and events in the history of respiratory physiology. It provides a first-hand chronicle of the advancements made in respiratory physiology starting with Galen and the beginnings of Western physiology. The volume covers every aspect of the evolution of this important area of knowledge: pulmonary circulation, Boyle’s Law, pulmonary capillar…
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- 978-1-4939-2362-5
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- 115 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
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Sustainable Design
This book is concerned with the importance of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Usability, user participants, and Sustainability in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) industry throughout the world. ICT has become a crucial instrument for communication, entertainment, commerce and research and this increased usage is presenting new environmental and sustainability issues as we try an…
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- 978-1-4471-6753-2
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- XII, 181
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Adhesion G Protein-coupled Receptors: Molecular, Physiological and Pharmacolo…
Latest research on Adhesion GPCRs has unearthed surprising revelations about the events that govern the signal transduction of these receptor molecules and the cellular and organ requirements for these signals. Unexpected and unprecedented findings suggest that Adhesion GPCRs constitute a group of receptors that sense mechanical stimuli and transcode them into metabotropic signals through the a…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-41523-9
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- XIV, 403
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- Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology
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- 615 ADH a
Toward Robotic Socially Believable Behaving Systems - Volume I
This volume is a collection of research studies on the modeling of emotions in complex autonomous systems. Several experts in the field are reporting their efforts and reviewing the literature in order to shed lights on how the processes of coding and decoding emotional states took place in humans, which are the physiological, physical, and psychological variables involved, invent new mathemati…
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- 978-3-319-31055-8
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- XVI, 240
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- Intelligent Systems Reference Library
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Real-time Speech and Music Classification by Large Audio Feature Space Extrac…
This book reports on an outstanding thesis that has significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in the automated analysis and classification of speech and music. It defines several standard acoustic parameter sets and describes their implementation in a novel, open-source, audio analysis framework called openSMILE, which has been accepted and intensively used worldwide. The book offers extensi…
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- 978-3-319-27299-3
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- 005.437
AMP-activated Protein Kinase
AMPK has emerged as an important integrator of signals that control energy balance through the regulation of multiple biochemical pathways in eukaryotes. This book focuses on the implications of AMPK as a master metabolic regulator in diseases, including new methods and animal models. The contributions are written by leading experts in the field and give an extensive overview of the current …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-43589-3
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- X, 523
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- Experientia Supplementum
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- 612 AMP a
Ready: A Commodore 64 Retrospective
How did the Commodore 64 conquer the hearts of millions and become a platform people still actively develop for even today? What made it so special? This book will appeal to both those who like tinkering with old technology as a hobby and nostalgic readers who simply want to enjoy a trip down memory lane. It discusses in a concise but rigorous format the different areas of home gaming and pe…
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- 978-981-287-341-5
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- 006.3
Environmental Influences on the Immune System
This book brings together articles on the overarching theme of how the environment shapes the immune system. The immune system is commonly assumed to respond to harmful pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. However, harmless bacteria, chemicals, stress, normal food and other factors can also trigger, shape or interfere with the immune system, often producing adverse effects. Yet, it is als…
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- 978-3-7091-1890-0
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- 17 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
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