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Understanding Society and Natural Resources: Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences
(2014)
In this edited volume leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration opportunities and challenges. This book explores the growing concern of how best to achieve effective ...
Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action
(2014)
In this introduction to the Outstanding contributions to logic volume devoted to Nuel Belnap’s work on indeterminism and free action, we provide a
brief overview of some of the formal frameworks and methods involved in ...
Chapter 8 Computational Modelling of the Steps Involved in Photodynamic Therapy
(2012)
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a branch of phototherapy that has seen a surge of interest in the last few decades, due to its potential in the treatment of various cancers, infections and
heart disease.(Bonnett, 2000) ...
Chapter 3 Wavelet Analysis for the Extraction of Morphological Features for Orthopaedic Bearing Surfaces
(2011)
Surface texture is one of the most critical factors and important functionality indicators in the performance of high precision and nanoscale devices and components. The functions
that have been identified in various ...
Chapter 11 Crystal Growth and Stoichiometry of Strongly Correlated Intermetallic Cerium Compounds
(2012)
Strongly correlated electron systems are among the most active research topics in modern condensed matter physics. In strongly correlated materials the electron interaction energies
dominate the electron kinetic energy ...
Chapter 14 Laser Plasma Accelerators: Towards High Quality Electron Beam
(2010)
In 1979 Tajima and Dawson, Tajima & Dawson (1979), on the basis of theoretical work and simulations, have shown that relativistic plasma waves are suitable for the development of
compact accelerators. In the proposed ...
Chapter 11 Photoacoustics — A Novel Tool for the Study of Aquatic Photosynthesis
(2013)
The photoacoustic method allows direct determination of the energy-storage efficiency of photosynthesis by relating the energy stored by it to the total light energy absorbed by the plant material (Canaani et al., 1988; ...
Chapter 8 Signalling DNA Damage
(2012)
During our lifetime, the genome is constantly being exposed to different types of damage caused either by exogenous sources (radiations and/or genotoxic compound) but also as byproducts of endogenous processes (reactive ...
Chapter 1 Alloy Steel: Properties and Use First-Principles Quantum Mechanical Approach to Stainless Steel Alloys
(2011)
Accurate description of materials requires the most advanced atomic-scale techniques from both experimental and theoretical areas. In spite of the vast number of available techniques,
however, the experimental study of ...
Chapter 3 Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus as a Case Study: Using a Precautionary Risk Management Approach for Emerging Blood-Borne Pathogens in Canada
(2012)
In October 2009 it was reported that 68 of 101 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in the United States, when tested, were infected with a novel gamma retrovirus, xenotropic
murine leukemia virus-related virus ...
Chapter 9 Poisson Noise Removal in Spherical Multichannel Images: Application to Fermi Data
(2012)
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which was launched by NASA in June 2008, is a powerful space observatory which studies the high-energy gamma-ray sky Atwood (2009).
Fermi’s main instrument, the Large Area Telescope ...
Chapter 9 Laser Pulses Characterization with Pyroelectric Sensors
(2010)
There are many industrial and medical applications of CO2 (λ=10.6 μm) and Nd:YAG (λ=1.06 μm) infrared lasers for which the quality of the process are tightly connected to the
characteristic of the laser pulse. These two ...
Chapter 11 Charge Carrier Dynamics in Organometal Halide Perovskite Probed by Time-Resolved Electrical Measurements
(2016)
This chapter presents the fate of the charge carriers from the moment of its photogeneration in the perovskite to injection and transport into electrodes. Time-resolved electrical measurement techniques, terahertz (THz) ...
Chapter 8 Non-thermal Plasma Technology for the Improvement of Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine - A Review
(2016)
Non-thermal plasma technology is one of those techniques that suffer relatively little from diffusion limits, slow kinetics, and complex geometries compared to more traditional liquid-based chemical surface modification ...
Chapter 5 Plasma Modified Textiles for Biomedical Applications
(2015)
In the textile market industry, technical textiles are one of the fastest growing businesses. Part of that industry consists of textiles for medical and healthcare applications and are responsible for a continuous increase ...
Chapter 15 Brain Tumors and the Lynch Syndrome
(2011)
Lynch syndrome (LS) (MIM No. 120435-6), previously known as hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) (Boland, 2005), is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by
germline mutation in one of the DNA mismatch ...
Chapter 4 Numerical Modelling of Industrial Induction
(2011)
Induction heating is a physical process extensively used in the metallurgical industry for different applications involving metal melting. The main components of an induction heating
system are an induction coil connected ...
The Latin New Testament: A Guide to its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts
(2017)
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and development of the Latin New Testament and a user’s guide to the resources available for research and further study. The first five chapters offer a new ...
The Multi-Agent Transport Simulation MATSim
(2016)
"The MATSim (Multi-Agent Transport Simulation) software project was started around 2006 with the goal of generating traffic and congestion patterns by following individual synthetic travelers through their daily or weekly ...
Muslims in Interwar Europe: A Transcultural Historical Perspective
(2015)
Muslims in Interwar Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the history of Muslims in interwar Europe. Based on personal and official archives, memoirs, press writings and correspondences, the contributors analyse the ...
Chapter 13 Modelling Seismic Wave Propagation for Geophysical Imaging
(2012)
The Earth is an heterogeneous complex media from the mineral composition scale (10−6m) to the global scale ( 106m). The reconstruction of its structure is a quite challenging problem because sampling methodologies are ...
Chapter 1 A multi-factor approach to understanding socio-economic segregation in European capital cities
(2015)
Growing inequalities in Europe, even in the most egalitarian countries, are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competive- ness of European cities. Surprisingly, though, there is ...
Chapter 15 Inequality and rising levels of socio-economic segregation: Lessons from a pan-European comparative study
(2015)
The Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: East Meets West project investigates changing levels of socio-economic segregation in 13 major European cities: Amsterdam, Budapest, Vienna, Stockholm, Oslo, London, ...
Chapter Rubinrote Federn, Walzähne und schimmerndes Perlmutt: polynesische Kosmologie in Ritualobjekten
(2014)
This article is concerned with cosmological concepts of the peoples of Polynesia in the Pacific. Following a creation myth from Tahiti, the authors explore the realms of te ao (the world of space and light which came to ...
Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: East Meets West
(2015)
Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities. While the levels of socio-economic segregation in European cities are still ...
Kosmos: Weltentwürfe im Vergleich
(2014)
cosmos - cosmology - culture - myths
Chapter Perspectives in Glycomics and Lectin Engineering
(2014)
This chapter would like to provide a short survey of the most promising concepts applied recently in analysis of glycoproteins based on lectins. The first part describes the most exciting analytical approaches used in the ...
Lectins. Methods and protocols
(2014)
Lectins: Methods and Protocols summarizes classic lectin technologies and advanced techniques with high throughputs and sensitivities. Chapters include methods and techniques for serial lectin-affinity chromatography ...
How the World Changed Social Media
(2016)
How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a ...
Social Media in an English Village
(2016)
Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues that a focus on platforms ...
Social Media in Southeast Turkey
(2016)
This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in ...
Critical Theories of Crises in Europe: From Weimar to the Euro
(2016)
What is to be learned from the chaotic downfall of the Weimar Republic and the erosion of European liberal statehood in the interwar period vis-a-vis the ongoing Europeancrisis? This book analyses and explains the recurrent ...
Social Media in Northern Chile
(2016)
Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in the city of Alto Hospicio in northern Chile, this book describes how the residents use social media, and the consequences of this use in their daily lives. Nell Haynes argues ...
Techné/Technology
(2014)
This fourth title in the series The Key Debates sets out where the term techne comes from, how it unleashed a revolution in thought and how the concept in the midst of the current digital revolution, once again, is influencing ...
Texts, Transmissions, Receptions
(2015)
The papers collected in this volume study the function and meaning of various kinds of narrative texts from the perspective of New Philology, Linguistics, Iconography and Reception studies. Their purpose is to understand ...
Visualising Facebook
(2017)
Since the growth of social media, human communication has become much more visual. This book presents a scholarly analysis of the images people post on a regular basis to Facebook. By including hundreds of examples, readers ...
Human Remains and Identification
(2015-07-01)
Human Remains and Identification presents a pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence. Previously absent from forensic ...
Destruction and Human Remains
(2014-09-30)
Destruction and human remains investigates a crucial question frequently neglected in academic debate in the fields of mass violence and genocide studies: what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed? ...
Human Remains and Mass Violence
(2014-12-30)
This book outlines for the first time in a single volume the theoretical and methodological tools for a study of human remains resulting from episodes of mass violence and genocide. Despite the highly innovative and ...
Advising in austerity: Reflections on challenging times for advice agencies
(2017)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. In a world dominated by austerity politics and policies, Advising in austerity provides a lively and thought-provoking account of the conditions, consequences and challenges ...