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Springer Systems and Innovation Research in Transition
Introduction.- Understanding paradigm change in science, technology and innovation policy: Between science push and policy pull.- Development of innovation monitoring and innovation indicators in the past 50 years.- Foresight. Fifty years to think your futures.- Evaluating public research and innovation policies. A short history of co-evolution.- Assessing technological innovations. From early warning to the governance of socio-technical transformations.- Industry in a changing era. Production paradigms during the last 50 years.- From Niche to Mainstream: Exploring innovation and progress of renewable energy development.- Energy Demand and Modelling of Energy Systems. Five Decades from Little Knowledge to Differentiated Know-how.- Understanding the co-evolution of research and water protection policies: from single technologies to systemic integrated approaches for the sustainable use of water.- Drivers and patterns of change in systems and innovation research.
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Springer ThirdParty Funding in Investment Arbitration
1 The new phenomenon in investment arbitration.- 2 Definition, history and basic mechanism of tpf.- 3 Existing and potential procedural problems in tpf in investment arbitration: analysis of the case law.- 4 Empirical research in the TPF market.- 5 Third-party funding: threat or facilitator of the system - an ethical dilemma.- 6 Conclusion.- 7 The best practice guideline for funders operating in investment arbitration.- Appendix - investment arbitration cases.
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Springer RF Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies
Introduction to Important Concepts of RF Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technologies.- Finite Circular Ground Plane Effects A Case Study of Monopole Antenna.- Mode Compression Theory Dipole Antennas.- Multiple resonators loaded Electrically small antennas for wireless devices.- Textile Antennas for RFID Applications.- Recent Trends in the Design and Development of Dielectric Resonator Antennas.- A Low Profile Perturbed Convex Conformal CDRA.- Offset fed Reflectarray Antenna Design.- Antennas for Full duplex Communication State of the art and Way Forward.- Understanding Metasurface Based Microwave Absorbers Using Transmission Line Theory.- Frequency Selective Surface and its Applications in Radome Technology.- Algorithmic Applications for Massive MIMO Technology.- Regression model for Antenna Design.
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Springer Neoliberalism Democracy and Rights
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Liberalism, Classical and New: Continuity or Rupture?.- Chapter 3. Neoliberal State and Democracy.- Chapter 4. Neoliberalism, Crisis, and the State of Exception.- Chapter 5. The Right to Have Rights.- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Neoliberalism and Rights: The "Superfluous Lives".- Chapter 7. Addendum: Covid 19: A Political Virus.
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Springer Robotics Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems
Compute Optimal Waiting Times for Collaborative Route Planning.- Robot Vision and Deep Learning for Automated Planogram Compliance in Retail.- Park Marking Detection and Tracking Based on a Vehicle On Board System of Fisheye Cameras.-Analysis of Age Invariant Face Recognition Efficiency Using Face Feature Vectors.- Uncertainty Driven Active Learning for Image Segmentation in Underwater Inspection.- Enhancing Connected Cooperative ADAS Deep Learning Perception in an Embedded System Utilizing Fisheye Cameras.- Weapon Detection Using PTZ Cameras.- Improving Semantic Mapping with Prior Object Dimensions Extracted from 3D Models.- Offline Deep Model Predictive Control MPC for Visual Navigation.- BiGSiD Bionic Grasping with Edge AI Slip Detection.- GAT POSE Graph Autoencoder Transformer Fusion for Future Pose Prediction.- Corr Wire Detection and Depth Estimation for Autonomous Drones.- A Quality Based Criteria for Efficient View Selection.- Multi UAV Weed Spraying.-Human Comfort Fa
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Springer Framing Futures in Postdigital Education
1. Introduction: Ethics and Values in Educational Data-driven Practices Anders Buch, Ylva Lindberg & Teresa Cerratto Pargman.- 2. Data David L. Hildebrand.- 3. Socio-technical Imaginaries Joakim Juhl.- 4. Practices Anders Buch.- 5. Imaginary Practices Iben Sandal Stjerne & Anders Buch.- 6. Drama Antje Gimmler.- 7. Bildung Lina Rahm.- 8. Authority Brian Benjamin Hansen.- 9. Speculation Joe Noteboom & Jennifer Ross.- 10. Futures Ylva Lindberg.- 11. Automation Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Elin Sporrong & Cormac McGrath.- 12. Platformization Catarina Player-Koro & Annika Bergviken.- 13. Value-creation Giulia Messina Dahlberg.- 14. AI literacy Johanna Velander.- 15. Grading Alexandra Farazouli.- 16. Privacy Chantal Mutimukwe.
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Springer Galois Theories of Fields and Rings
Historical introduction.- Part I Some Galois theorems for fields.- 1 The classical Galois theorem.- 2 The Galois theorem of Grothendieck.- 3 Profinite topological spaces.- 4 The Galois theorems in arbitrary dimension.- Part II The Galois theory of rings.- 5 Adjunctions and monads.- 6 Profinite groupoids and presheaves.- 7 The descent theory of rings.- 8 The Pierce spectrum of a ring.- 9 The Galois theorem for rings.- Further Reading.- Index.
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Springer Geospatial Technologies for Integrated Water Resources Management
Waterlogging and flood hazards vulnerability and risk assessment in the Harayana , India.- Spatial-Temporal Trends of Rainfall, Inflow and Runoff in the Wainganga River Basin, India using Remote Sensing and GIS.- Delineation of Groundwater Potential Zone Using Geospatial Techniques for Bilaspur District, Himachal Pradesh (India).- Spatio-temporal variability and trend analysis of rainfall in Kanhar River Basin, and forecasting using state-space models.- Drought risk assessment and prediction using artificial intelligence over the Marathwada and Vidarbha Region, Maharashtra.- Flood Vulnerability Analysis of the part of Karad Region, Satara District, Maharashtra using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System technique.- Water resource management using geospatial technology: A review.- Mapping Prospective Areas of Water Resources and Monitoring Land Use/Land Cover Changes in an Uttarakhand Region Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques.-
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Springer Applying Translation Theory to Musicological Research
Translation in literary and academic discourse.- Between texts, languages, cultures, semiotic systems: Key concepts and methods in translation studies.- Towards a definition of the term Musical Translation' Musical arrangement, cover version, and performance in the light of musicological research.- Applying translation theories in musicological research.- Concluding remarks.
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Springer Safety Culture and Leading Indicators for Safety in the Maritime and Offshore Environment
Leading safety indicators for the marine and offshore industries.- Failure modes and effects analysis.- Job safety analysis.- Marine HSQE management.- Risk assessment.- Technical manuals and publications.- Cyber security.- Reliability centred maintenance.- Management of change.
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Springer Molecular Mechanisms Determining Mammalian Oocyte Quality
Chapter 1. Predicting Infertility: How Genetic Variants in Oocyte Spindle Genes Affect Egg Quality.- Chapter 2. Regulation of Oocyte mRNA Metabolism: A Key Determinant of Oocyte Developmental Competence.- Chapter 3. Mechanisms of DNA Damage Response in Mammalian Oocytes.- Chapter 4. How do Environmental Toxicants Affect Oocyte Maturation via Oxidative Stress?.- Chapter 5. Molecular Mechanisms Determining Mammalian Oocyte Quality with the Treatment of Cancer Therapy.- Chapter 6. Telomere Elongation during Pre-implantation Embryo Development.
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Springer AI and NeuroDegenerative Diseases
1. Demystifying: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Neurodegenerative Diseases.- 2. Role Of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things in Neurodegenerative Diseases.- 3. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) on Neurogenerative Diseases.- 4. Clinical Genomics to Drug Discovery Using Machine Learning for Neurodegenerative disorders: A Future Perspective.- 5. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Monitoring using Explainable AI.- 6. Prevalence of Dementia in India.- 7. Exploring AI's Role in Managing Neurodegenerative Disorders: Possibilities and Hurdles.- 8. Artificial Intelligence in Neuro Degenerative Diseases: Opportunities and Challenges.- 9. Ethical considerations: Case Scenarios.
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Springer Neuroblastoma
Epidemiology, Presentation, and Evaluation.- Pathology of Neuroblastoma.- Genetic Predisposition.- Part I: Evolving Concepts in Neuroblastoma Pathogenesis (Seed):Tumor Genomics: Copy Number Alterations.- Tumor Genomics: Epigenetics.- Tumor Genomics: Genomic Regulation .- Tumor Metabolism.- Part II: Evolving Concepts in Neuroblastoma Immunology and Tumor Microenvironment (Soil): Neuroblastoma Tumor Microenvironment - Adaptive and Innate Immunity.- Neuroblastoma Tumor Microenvironment Non-Immune Cells and Exosomes.- Part III: Evolving Concepts in Neuroblastoma Precision Medicine: Targeting the Seed and the Soil: Advances in evaluating tumor burden.- Therapeutically Actionable Genetic Aberrations.- Re-engaging the Immune System: Future of Immunotherapy.- Future of Clinical Trials and Application of Precision Medicine.- Summary and the Next 10 Years. <
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Springer A Comprehensive Guide to Male Aesthetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery
?Section 1: General Topics.- Chapter 1. Distinctive Considerations in Male Aesthetic Surgery.- Chapter 2. Unique Male Craniomaxillofacial Skeleton And Facial Soft Tissue Anatomy.- Chapter 3. Unique Anatomy Of The Male Torso And Extremities.- Chapter 4. Selection of the Male Aesthetic Patient.- Chapter 5. Psychological Aspects of Male Aesthetic Surgery.- Chapter 6. Marketing Strategies for Male Aesthetic Patients.- Chapter 7. Ethics in the Practice and Management of Male Aesthetic Patient.- Chapter 8. Medico-Legal Pitfalls Associated With The Male Aesthetic Patient.- Chapter 9. The Dissatisfied Patient.- Chapter 10. Regenerative Medicine in Clinical and Aesthetic Dermatology.- Chapter 11. Gender Transition: A Consideration for Anesthesia.- Chapter 12, Men's Aesthetic Surgery.- Chapter 13. Management & Avoidance of Keloids in the Male Patient.- Section 2: Head and Neck.- Chapter 14. Concepts of Male Beauty over the Centuries.- Chapter 15. Anatomy of theM
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Springer Acute Care Neuroconsultation and Neurorehabilitation Management
1. Introduction and Rationale.- 2. Treatment Teams: Roles and Goals.- 3. Conducting the History and Physical Exam: A Neurorehabilitation Consultant Guide.- 4. Neurorehabilitation Testing, Metrics, and Procedures in Acquired Brain Injury.- 5. Arousal and Stimulation.- 6. Sleep Wake Cycle Dysfunction following Traumatic Brain Injury in the Acute Care Setting.- 7. Delirium and Agitation Management.- 8. Spasticity Management.- 9. Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity.- 10. Acute Care Cardiovascular Abnormalities and Autonomic Dysreflexia after SCI.- 11. Geriatric Considerations: Age-related Functional Changes in Acquired Neurologic Injury.- 12. Bowel, Bladder, and Skin Management.- 13. Pulmonary and Venous Thromboembolism Care.- 14. Heterotopic Ossification.- 15. Principles of Enteral Feeding and Nutrition.- 16. Early Mobility-Multimodal Effects on Function.- 17. Geriatric Considerations: Medical Comor
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Springer Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics
Chapter 1: Tensor Algebra.- Chapter 2: Tensor Analysis.- Chapter3: Kinematics.- Chapter 4: Stresses.- Chapter 5: Balance Principles.- Chapter 6: Finite Deformation Hyperelasticity.- Chapter 7: Finite Deformation Plasticity.- Chapter 8: Finite Deformation Coupled Thermoplasticity.- Chapter 9: Finite Deformation Contact Mechanics.- Chapter 10: Variational Methods.
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Springer Biochemical Messengers
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Springer Applied Linguistics in the Indonesian Context
PART 1: Education and Linguistics.- Chapter1: Collocation of Terhadap in Indonesian.- Chapter 2: Semantic Cognitive Analysis of Chinese VO Collocation.- Chapter 3: Affixation Errors by Japanese Students Learning Indonesian.- Chapter 4: Bugis Sinjai Phonological Interference with English Language Production.- Chapter 5: Students' Motivation in Learning English as a Foreign Language through Discovery Learning.- Chapter 6: Examining Grammatical and Social Competence of Indonesian-speaking Children through the Use of Temporal Conjunctions.- Chapter 7: Improving the Indonesian Version of the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) Test.- Chapter 8: Structure of Indonesian Used by Deaf Children.- Chapter 9: In Response to Diversity: Allowing for Voice and Identity through Language Education.- PART 2: Society and Linguistics.- Chapter 10: Code Switching in Group Chats of Instant Messaging Applications among Indonesian Junior High School Teenagers.- Chapter 11: Development of the
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Springer Flight Physics: Essentials of Aeronautical Disciplines and Technology, with Historical Notes
Knowledge is not merely everything we have come to know, but also ideas we have pondered long enough to know in which way they are related, and 1 how these ideas can be put to practical use. Modern aviation has been made possible as a result of much scienti c - search. However, the very rst useful results of this research became ava- able a considerable length of time after the aviation pioneers had made their rst ights. Apparently, researchers were not able to nd an adequate exp- nation for the occurrence of lift until the beginning of the 21st century. Also, for the fundamentals of stability and control, there was no theory available that the pioneers could rely on. Only after the rst motorized ights had been successfully made did researchers become more interested in the science of aviation, which from then on began to take shape. In modern day life, many millions of passengers are transported every year by air. People in the western societies take to the skies, on average, several times a year. Especially in areas surrounding busy airports, travel by plane has been on the rise since the end of the Second World War. Despite becoming familiar with the sight of a jumbo jet commencing its ight once or twice a day, many nd it astonishing that such a colossus with a mass of several hundred thousands of kilograms can actually lift off from the ground.
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Springer Applied OSS Reliability Assessment Modeling AI and Tools
Open Source Software Reliability.- Stochastic Differential Equation Model for OSS Reliability Analysis.- Dimensional Stochastic Differential Equation Model for OSS Reliability Analysis.- Jump Diffusion Process Model for OSS Reliability Analysis.- Cyclically Two Dimensional Stochastic Differential Equation Modeling.- Cyclically Two Dimensional Jump Diffusion Process Modeling.- Three Dimensional Tool Based on Noisy Model.- Deep Learning Method Based on fault big data Analysis for OSS Reliability Assessment.- Deep Learning Approach for OSS Reliability Assessment Considering Wiener Process.- Deep Learning Approach for OSS Reliability Assessment Considering Jump Diffusion Process.- Performance Illustrations of the Developed Application Tool Based on Deep Learning.- Exercise.
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Springer Quantum Mechanics and AvantGarde Music
1. Introduction.- 2. Correlations in timeline.- 3. Entropy in the development of tonality.- 4. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and aleatoric technique in music.- 5. Phenomena of Silence, 0 and Void.- 6. Performance as experiment.
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Springer Percolation Theory Using Python
Introduction to Percolation.- One-dimensional Percolation.- Infinite-dimensional Percolation.- Finite-dimensional Percolation.- Geometry of Clusters.- Finite Size Scaling.- Renormalization.- Subset Geometry.- Flow in Disordered Media.- Elastic Properties of Disordered Media.- Diffusion in Disordered Media.- Dynamic Processes in Disordered Media.- References.- Index.
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Springer Biobased Superabsorbents
Biobased Superabsorbent Polymers: An Overview.- 2. Synthesis of biopolymer based superabsorbent: An eco-friendly approach towards future sustainability.- 3. Bio-based versus Petro based Superabsorbent polymer.- 4. Theory of Superabsorbent Polymers.- 5. Chitin/Chitosan Based Superabsorbent Polymers.- 6. Alginate based Superabsorbents.- 7. Starch-Based Superabsorbent Polymer.- 8. Protein-Based Superabsorbent Polymers.- 9. Recycling and Reuse of superabsorbent polymers.- 10. Bio-Based Superabsorbent Polymer: Current trends, Applications & Future Scope.
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Springer Intelligent Optimization
chapter 1 Introduction.- chapter 2 Fundamentals.- chapter 3 Canonical Optimization Algorithms.- chapter 4 Basics of Evolutionary Computation Algorithms.- chapter 5 Popular Evolutionary Computation Algorithms.- chapter 6 Parameter Control and Policy Control.- chapter 7 Exploitation versus Exploration.- chapter 8 Multi-modal Optimization.- chapter 9 Multi-objective Optimization.- chapter 10 Constrained Optimization.- chapter 11 Dynamic Optimization.-chapter 12 Robust Optimization.-Chapter 13 Large-scale Global Optimization.-Chapter 14 Expensive Optimization.- Chapter 15 Real-world Applications.
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Springer Observations and Dynamics of Circulations in the North Indian Ocean
Preface.- Introduction.- Observations: atmospheric forcing and ocean response.- Atmospheric circulation.- Ocean forcing and the surface mixed layer.- Ocean response.- PART II: Models 205.- Ocean models.- PART III: Free waves.- Overview.- Midlatitude waves.- Equatorial waves.- PART IV: Process solutions.- Overview.- Ekman drift and inertial oscillations.- Sverdrup flow and boundary currents.- Interior ocean.- Coastal ocean.- Equatorial ocean: switched-on forcing.- Equatorial Ocean: periodic forcing.- PART V: Applications.- Beams and Undercurrents.- Overturning circulations.- APPENDIX A: Movies.
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Springer Vaccines: Are they Worth a Shot?
The dangerous decline in vaccinations in many developed countries is at the heart of a lively debate that confirms how important the subject is today. Vaccinations are among mankind’s most important scientific discoveries, yet they continue to be viewed with suspicion by part of the public – the victims of disinformation campaigns, instrumentalization and unfounded fears. There is, however, also an evolutionary explanation for these irrational beliefs, and countering the growing social opposition will be extremely difficult without grasping it. This book, which sheds new light on the safety and importance of vaccinations, is intended both for parents and those readers who want to understand the role of vaccinations in contemporary society, where the ease of access to knowledge is both a great opportunity and a great responsibility. The chapters follow a historical progression and conclude with a discussion of the most recent cognitive theories on how to overcome this opposition to vaccinations.
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Springer Truth and Fake in the Post-Factual Digital Age: Distinctions in the Humanities and IT Sciences
The increase in fake news, the growing influence on elections, increasing false reports and targeted disinformation campaigns are not least a consequence of advancing digitalisation. Information technology is needed to put a stop to these undesirable developments. With intelligent algorithms and refined data analysis, fakes must be detected more quickly in the future and their spread prevented. However, in order to meaningfully recognize and filter fakes by means of artificial intelligence, it must be possible to distinguish fakes from facts, facts from fictions, and fictions from fakes. This book therefore also asks questions about the distinctions of fake, factual and fictional. The underlying theories of truth are discussed, and practical-technical ways of differentiating truth from falsity are outlined. By considering the fictional as well as the assumption that information-technical further development can profit from humanities knowledge, the authors hope that content-related, technical and methodological challenges of the present and future can be overcome.
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Springer EvidenceBased Critical Care
Cardiac Arrest Management.- Post- Cardiac Arrest Management.- Undifferentiated Shock.- Hypovolemic Shock and Massive Transfusion.- Acute Respiratory Failure - NIV Implementation and Intubation.- Diagnosis and Management of Tricyclic Antidepressant Ingestion.- Management of Calcium Channel Blocker Poisoning.- Diagnosis and Management of Ethylene Glycol Ingestion.- Accidental Hypothermia.- Management of Cardiogenic Shock.- Management of Acute Heart Failure.- Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome.- Complications of Myocardial Infarction.- Management of Cardiac Tamponade.- Hypertensive Crises.- Atrial Fibrillation and Other Supraventricular Tachycardias.- Ventricular Arrhythmias.- Management of Acute Aortic Syndromes.- Management of Endocarditis.- Community Acquired Pneumonia.- Management of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- Acute Exacerbation of COPD: Non-Invasive Positive
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Springer Macroeconomic Policy
?1. Introduction and Overview: We are not all Keynesians now.-2. National Income Accounts.- 3. Budget Deficits, Trade Deficits and GlobalCapital Flows:The NationalSavings Identity in its Present Form.- 4. Aggregate Demand: Setting the Stagefor Demand-Side Stabilization.- 5. Demand-Side Stabilization: Asset PriceBubbles, Overheating, Hard Landing, and Everything in Between.- 6. TheSub-Prime Crisis and its Global Implications.- 7.Long-Term Interest Rates, theYield Curve, and Hyperinflation: Why Bonds Know Best.- 8. ISLM: The EngineRoom.- 9. The Classical Model: The Bedrock of the Supply-Side Model.- 10. TheKeynesian Model: Exploring the Keynesian History of the US, China and SouthernEurope .- 11. The Great DepressionRe-Examined, and the Nature of Bubbles.- 12. The Supply-Side Model and itsImplications for the Eurozone and for the New India.- 11. Central Banks, Monetary Policy and Currency Pegs: The Eurozone,the US After 2008, the Impossible Trinity, and the Broken Rhombus. ?
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Springer Statistics and Analysis of Scientific Data
Theory of Probability.- Random Variables and Their Distribution.- Sum and Functions of Random Variables.- Estimate of Mean and Variance and Confidence Intervals.- Median, Weighted Mean and Linear Average (NEW).- Distribution Function of Statistics and Hypothesis Testing.- Maximum Likelihood Fit to a Two-Variable Dataset.- Goodness of Fit and Parameter Uncertainty.- Systematic Errors and Intrinsic Scatter (NEW).- Fitting Data with Bivariate Errors (NEW).- Comparison Between Models.- Monte Carlo Methods.- Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Markov Chains.- Statistics for Business Sciences and Addition of MultiVariate Analysis (NEW).
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Springer Single Cell Sequencing and Systems Immunology
The volume focuses on the genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and bioinformatics of a single cell, especially lymphocytes and on understanding the molecular mechanisms of systems immunology. Based on the author’s personal experience, it provides revealing insights into the potential applications, significance, workflow, comparison, future perspectives and challenges of single-cell sequencing for identifying and developing disease-specific biomarkers in order to understand the biological function, activation and dysfunction of single cells and lymphocytes and to explore their functional roles and responses to therapies. It also provides detailed information on individual subgroups of lymphocytes, including cell characters, function, surface markers, receptor function, intracellular signals and pathways, production of inflammatory mediators, nuclear receptors and factors, omics, sequencing, disease-specific biomarkers, bioinformatics, networks and dynamic networks, their role in disease and future prospects. Dr. Xiangdong Wang is a Professor of Medicine, Director of Shanghai Institute of Clinical Bioinformatics, Director of Fudan University Center for Clinical Bioinformatics, Director of the Biomedical Research Center of Zhongshan Hospital, Deputy Director of Shanghai Respiratory Research Institute, Shanghai, China.
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Springer The Transplantation and Replacement of Thoracic Organs: The Present Status of Biological and Mechanical Replacement of the Heart and Lungs
It is a great pleasure for me to contribute a few words as an achieved by many heart transplant centers and the ever improving results of lung transplantation and the functioning of mechanical introduction to the second edition of this volume, first published in 1990 when it was edited by David Cooper and Dimitri cardiac assist devices. Novitzky. The first edition was, in fact, a greatly expanded The current editors bring a wealth of expertise and experience version of an even earlier volume Heart Transplantation, edited to their task, and have blended together absolutely superb con by David Cooper and Robert Lanza and published in 1984. This tributions by many of the world's experts in their fields. This first work, authored by members of the medical staff of Groote comprehensive and highly readable volume documents the Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town Medical present 'state of the art' in the field of transplantation and School, was, I believe, the first volume reviewing this relatively replacement of thoracic organs. It provides an invaluable and un new field of medicine. paralleled source of information for those concerned with heart and lung medicine or surgery, and is essential reading for all who The present volume, therefore, continues the documentation of wish to keep abreast of developments in this field.
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Springer The Transorbital Intracranial Penetrating Injury: A review of the literature from a neurosurgical viewpoint
Intracranial injury, caused by a transorbital penetrating object, is a neglected topic in neurosurgery. With few exceptions, only occasional publications, often containing merely case histories, are present in the literature. Through a perusal of the world literature - for the first time - the author has collected and combined all available and relevant information, trying to give a thorough description of this rare, but extremely dangerous injury. This book is a major and definitive contribution to neurosurgery, but is also of importance to ophthalmology, neurology, traumatology, neuro-radiology and pediatrics.
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Springer Climate Change and the Law
Climate Change and the Law is the first scholarly effort to systematically address doctrinal issues related to climate law as an emergent legal discipline. It assembles some of the most recognized experts in the field to identify relevant trends and common themes from a variety of geographic and professional perspectives.In a remarkably short time span, climate change has become deeply embedded in important areas of the law. As a global challenge calling for collective action, climate change has elicited substantial rulemaking at the international plane, percolating through the broader legal system to the regional, national and local levels. More than other areas of law, the normative and practical framework dedicated to climate change has embraced new instruments and softened traditional boundaries between formal and informal, public and private, substantive and procedural; so ubiquitous is the reach of relevant rules nowadays that scholars routinely devote attention to the intersection of climate change and more established fields of legal study, such as international trade law.Climate Change and the Law explores the rich diversity of international, regional, national, sub-national and transnational legal responses to climate change. Is climate law emerging as a new legal discipline? If so, what shared objectives and concepts define it? How does climate law relate to other areas of law? Such questions lie at the heart of this new book, whose thirty chapters cover doctrinal questions as well as a range of thematic and regional case studies. As Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), states in her preface, these chapters collectively provide a “review of the emergence of a new discipline, its core principles and legal techniques, and its relationship and potential interaction with other disciplines.”
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Springer Radionuclide Ventricular Function Studies: Correlation with ECG, Echo and X-ray Data
The main subject of this book is the investigation of cardiac function and in particular ventricular function with radionuclide-based techniques. Emphasis is given to the study of clinical cases which can routinely occur in the life of a busy cardiological practice, by comparing conventional techniques, such as the electrocardiogram, the echocardiogram or the catheter study, with the newer nuclear medicine imaging procedures. Four basic images are given (end systole, end diastole, amplitude and phase), obtained either with a first pass or an equilibrium methodology, and the information analyzed. The clinical material is not exhaustive but covers a broad spectrum, with examples of coronary artery disease, valvular disease, cardiomyopathy, conduction disease and congenital heart disease. The book is aimed not only at the practising specialist (cardiologist, radiologist, nuclear medicine physician) but also at the general physician and surgeon interested in finding out what modern non invasive nuclear medicine procedures have to offer in the investigation of the heart. London, June 1982 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are specially grateful to the Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust for its continuous support and interest.
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Springer International Migration and the Future of Populations and Labour in Europe
The changes of populations are determined by fertility, mortality and migration. On the national level, international migration is a factor of increasing demographic, economic, social and political importance. This book addresses the debate on the impact of international migration and economic activity on population and labour force resources in future. It presents a study conducted for 27 European countries, looking 50 years ahead (2002-2052). An extended discussion of theories and factors underlying the assumed evolution of the components of change and economic activity is included as well as a detailed analysis of the historical trends. These theoretical and empirical considerations lead to defining scenarios of future mortality, fertility, economic activity and international migration, which have been fed into a projection model, producing various future population dynamics and labour force trajectories. In addition, simulations have been made to estimate the size of replacement migration needed to maintain selected demographic and labour market parameters in the countries of Europe. The results presented in this book allow researchers, governments and policy makers to evaluate to what extent various migration and labour market policies may be instrumental in achieving the desired population and labour size and structures.The secondary purpose of this volume is to reveal the methodology and argumentation lying behind a complex population forecasting and simulation exercise, which is not done frequently, but is critical for the assessment of the forecasts and also valuable from a purely didactic point of view.
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Springer Positive Nations and Communities: Collective, Qualitative and Cultural-Sensitive Processes in Positive Psychology
This book approaches the field of positive psychology from a post-modern perspective. It explores the consequences of combining current trends and models with supplementary participatory and transformative methods. The book brings a more collective, qualitative, culturally sensitive and transformative approach to the processes of making sense and implementing the science of positive psychology. It moves beyond the individual level towards a “knowledge community” and “knowledge of the communities”. The book is an invitation to more participatory and polyphonic dialogues in the field of positive psychology.
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Springer Corporate Criminal Liability: Emergence, Convergence, and Risk
With industrialization and globalization, corporations acquired the capacity to influence social life for good or for ill. Yet, corporations are not traditional objects of criminal law. Justified by notions of personal moral guilt, criminal norms have been judged inapplicable to fictional persons, who ‘think’ and ‘act’ through human beings. The expansion of new corporate criminal liability (CCL) laws since the mid-1990s challenges this assumption. Our volume surveys current practice on CCL in 15 civil and common law jurisdictions, exploring the legal conditions for liability, the principles and options for sanctioning, and the procedures for investigating, charging and trying corporate offenders. It considers whether municipal CCL laws are converging around the notion of ‘corporate culture’, and, in any case, the implications of CCL for those charged with keeping corporations, and other legal entities, out of trouble.
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Springer Gendered Choices: Learning, Work, Identities in Lifelong Learning
This important book breaks new ground in addressing issues of gendered learning in different contexts across the (adult) life span at the start of the 21st century. Adult learning sits within a shifting landscape of educational policy, profoundly influenced by the skills agenda, by complex funding policies, new qualifications and the widening/narrowing participation debate. The book is unique in highlighting the centrality of gendered choices to these developments which shape participation in and experiences of lifelong learning. Gendered Choices critically examines the continued expansion of a skills-based approach in areas of lifelong learning, including career decisions, professional identities and informal networks. It explores key intersections of adult learning from a gender perspective: notably participation, workplace learning and informal pathways.Drawing on research from a range of contexts, Gendered Choices demonstrates that for women the public/private spaces of work and home are often conflated, although the gendering of ‘choice’ has largely been ignored by policy makers.The themes of the book bring together some of these critical issues, explored through the multiple and fractured identities which constitute gendered lives. The book addresses these in an international context, with contributions from Canada, Spain and Iran that provide a wider international perspective on shared issues.
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Springer Breast-Feeding: Early Influences on Later Health
Breast-Feeding: Early Influences on Later Health is a new book which draws together areas of research in early lifel programming of adult health, with a unique focus on the post-natal period in terms of early life programming particularly the extent to which differences in infant feeding practices can lay an indelible imprint on metabolism and behaviour, and hence affect later function and risk of disease. This is an area where there is much less information currently available than there is for fetal programming, and the book raises many new questions and highlights numerous areas where further research is needed. The book chapters are arranged in three core sections: Chapters 1-4 lay down some of the basic biology of early life development; Chapters 5-9 examine how breast-milk and breast-feeding might ‘programme’ these processes by acting as modulators of development; Chapters 10-17 examine the epidemiological evidence that such effects do indeed exist. In addition the book includes unique chapters on the Evolution of human lactation and complementary feeding, The Macy-György Prize Lecture ‘My Milky Way’, updates on HIV and Breast-Feeding and on Early breastfeeding cessation and infant mortality in low-income countries, and measuring trace immune factors in human milk, all important topics that have such a critical impact on child health and survival in many countries.
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Springer Heidegger on Art and Art Works
This book grew from a series of lectures presented in 1983 in the context of the Summer Program in Phenomenology at The Pennsylvania State University. For these lectures I made use of notes and short essays which I had written between 1978 and 1982 during interdisciplinary seminars on Heidegger's later philosophy in general, and on his philosophy of language and art in particular. The participants in these seminars consisted of faculty members and graduate students concerned with the sciences, the arts, literature, literary criticism, art history, art education, and philosophy. On both occasions I made a special effort to introduce those who did not yet have a specialized knowledge of Heidegger's philosophy, to his later way of thinking. In this effort I was guided by the conviction that we, as a group, had to aim for accuracy, precision, clarity, faithfulness, and depth, while at the same time taking distance, comparing Heidegger's views with ideas of other philosophers and thinkers, and cultivat ing a proper sense of criticism. Over the years it has become clear to me that among professional philoso phers, literary critics, scholars concerned with art history and art education, and scientists from various disciplines, there are many who are particularly interested in "Heidegger's philosophy of art". I have also become convinced that many of these dedicated scholars often have difficulty in understanding Heidegger's lectures on art and art works. This is understandable.
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Springer Elementary engineering fracture mechanics
When asked to start teaching a course on engineering fracture mechanics, I realized that a concise textbook, giving a general oversight of the field, did not exist. The explanation is undoubtedly that the subject is still in a stage of early development, and that the methodologies have still a very limited applicability. It is not possible to give rules for general application of fracture mechanics concepts. Yet our comprehension of cracking and fracture beha viour of materials and structures is steadily increasing. Further developments may be expected in the not too distant future, enabling useful prediction of fracture safety and fracture characteristics on the basis of advanced fracture mechanics procedures. The user of such advanced procedures m\lst have a general understanding of the elementary concepts, which are provided by this volume. Emphasis was placed on the practical application of fracture mechanics, but it was aimed to treat the subject in a way that may interest both metallurgists and engineers. For the latter, some general knowledge of fracture mechanisms and fracture criteria is indispensable for an apprecia tion of the limita tions of fracture mechanics. Therefore a general discussion is provided on fracture mechanisms, fracture criteria, and other metal lurgical aspects, without going into much detail. Numerous references are provided to enable a more detailed study of these subjects which are still in a stage of speculative treatment.
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Springer Group Identity Fabrication Theory: A Communication-ecological Account with Social-theoretical Implications
To date, there has been no comprehensive and coherent approach to determining the communicative and precommunicative processes involved in the construction of group identities. The present study fills this gap by developing a unified theoretical foundation that can be used to capture empirical construction processes. Moreover, it contributes to the domain of group communication research. It creates a basic theoretical riverbed that provides a conceptual foundation for the conception of inter- and intra-group communication, which does not take its starting point from 'objective' categories, but from de facto socialization processes. In addition, the architecture of an innovative social theory is presented using the example of the construction of group identity, which satisfies the demands of epistemological interests in communication studies and possibly also in other disciplines.
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