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Practices of APFNet Project Activities in Addressing Climate Change.- Effects of Changing Fire Regimes and Post-Fire Salvage Logging on Forest Ecosystems.- The impact of climate change on forest hydrology.- The Effect of Harvest on Forest Soil N2O Fluxes: A Review.- Effects of forest management on soil organic carbon stability and Dynamics in Chinese fir plantation.- Forest soils and greenhause gas emissions: In natural forest, degraded and plantation ecosystems.- Strategy of forest management in relation to climate change- case study in SFA Forest Pilot Sites.- Typical Mathematical and Statistical Methods in the Cycle of Carbon and Nitrogen in Forest Soil.- The impact of nitrogen deposition on Forest soil respiration.- Forest Management Systems and Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorous Cycling.- Managed Forests and Methane: Recent Research and Prospects for Best Management Practices.- Impact of the 2008 ice storm on forests in southeast China.

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A Machine Learning framework for improving Resources Process  and Energy efficiency towards a Sustainable Steel Industry.- Overall Writing Effectiveness Exploring Students Use of Large Language Models Pushing the Limits of Automated Text Generation.- Evaluating Room Occupancy with CO2 Monitoring in Schools A Student Participative Approach for Presence Based Heating Control.- Data driven Mobility And Transport Planning In Municipalities Smart Solutions For Limited Resources.- Investigating the Effect of Personal Emotional Score Display on Classroom Learning.

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1. Introduction.- 2. Biological Control Agents and Management of Thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) Infesting Vegetable Production.- Syari Jamian, Siti Izera Ismail, Norsazilawati Saad, Sumaiyah Abdullah and Ibrahim Sani.- 3. Parasitoids Vs Predators: Challenges and Opportunities as Biological Control Agents Nur Azura Adam and Syari Jamian.- 4. Baculoviruses: Discovery, Interaction and Application Lau Wei Hong and Erise Anggraini.- 5. Biopesticides: The Development of Suitable Formulations Norhayu Asib and Dzolkhifli Omar.- 6. Emerging Rubber Disease and Potential Factors Contributing Nusaibah Syd Ali, Sharifah Aliya Syed Sagaff and Zaiton Sapak.- 7. Common Diseases in Pineapple and Their Management Zaiton Sapak, Anis Nadia Mohd Faisol Mahadeven and Nusaibah Syd Ali.- 8. The Microbiome of Banana and Its Role in Managing Fusarium Wilt Disease Noor Baity Saidi, Nurul Shamsinah Mohd Suhaimi.- 9. Utilization of Plant-based Product in Post-

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Heavy Metals-Toxicity and Environmental Pollution.- Heavy Metals Dynamics in the Soil-Plant Continuum.- Impacts of Heavy Metals Contamination on Human Health.- Role of Microbes in Heavy Metals Remediation.- Antioxidant Defence: A key mechanism of Heavy Metals Tolerance.- Role of Plants in Heavy Metals Remediation.- Molecular Mechanisms of Heavy Metals Tolerance in Plants: a Key Role of Antioxidant Defence.- Heavy Metal Contamination of Water and Their Toxic Effect on Living Organisms.- Heavy Metal Stress in Plants.- Adsorption Technology for Removal of Heavy Metal Pollutants.- Eco-Friendly Technologies for Heavy Metal Remediation.- Biotechnological Approaches in Remediation of Heavy Metals.- Development of Nano-adsorbent for Heavy Metals Removal from Wastewater.- Heavy Metals Uptake and Bioaccumulation in Plants.- Oxidative Stress of Heavy Metals Toxicity in Animals and its Amelioration.- Perspective on the Heavy Metal Pollution and Recent Remediation approaches.

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Chapter 1: Brief recognition history of Echinococcus tapeworm.- Chapter 2: Global epidemiology of echinococcosis: current status and future prospects.- Chapter 3: Alveolar and cystic echinococcosis in Central Europe: epidemiology, diagnosis, therapy and prophylaxis.- Chapter 4: Echinococcosis in China: epidemiology, burden of disease and economic impacts.- Chapter 5: Biology and hosts of Echinococcus species in China.- Chapter 6: Echinococcosis immune response, immunopathogenesis and immune evasion from the human host.- Chapter 7: Pathology and clinical features of echinococcosis.- Chapter 8:Diagnosis of echinococciasis: parasitological, immunological, and molecular tools.- Chapter 9: Light and electron microscopical aspects of stages of Echinococcus species around the world.- Chapter 10: CT and MR features of echinococcosis.- Chapter 11: Ultrasound in diagnosis of echinococcosis.- Chapter 12: Current treatments for echinococcosis: what we have.- Chapter 13: Novel chemotherapeutical

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Marketing strategies of the enterprise in the market of building structures in the period of recovery of Ukraine.- WILL E-FILLING BE EFFECTIVE IN INCREASING INVIDUAL TAXPAYER COMPLIANCE?.- The Influence of COVID-19 and Subsequent Events on the Decision-Making of Retail Investors in Kingdom of Bahrain: A Behavioral Finance Analysis.- Institutional Aspects of Rivalry for Technological Leadership: Market vs. Security.- Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Banks Performance: Evidence from Banking Sector in Nigeria.- THE CONCEPT OF ACCOUNTING  IN ISLAMIC TRANSACTIONS.- Factors Influencing Board Gender Diversity in the Nigerian Capital Market.

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1 An international perspective on social prescribing: introduction.- 2 Social prescribing in England.- 3 The role of social prescribing in addressing health inequalities.- 4 Implementing social prescribing schemes learning from practice.- 5 Social prescribing in Wales.- 6 Social prescribing in the Portuguese context: Challenges and strategies to implement and evaluate a complex intervention.- 7 Challenges and Opportunities for Social Prescribing in Germany Policy and Methodological Perspectives.- 8 Social Prescribing in Ireland from Ad-Hoc to Universal Provision.- 9 Social Prescribing in Canada: Coproduction with Communities.- 10 Social Prescribing in Singapore: Policy, Research and Practice.- 11 Conclusion: The present and future of social prescribing.

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Lab 1. How Do Soils Form? Examining Rocks, Minerals and the Products of Weathering under a Microscope.- Lab 2. What Is a Soil Profile?.- Lab 3. Why Do Soils Have Different Colors? Does Soil Smell?.- Lab 4. What Is Soil Texture?.- Lab 5. What Are Soil Structure And Consistence?.- Lab 6. What Is the Total Pore Space In the Soil?.- Lab 7. How Can Apparent Soil Water Retention Capacity Be Analyzed?.- Lab 8. What Is Permeability of Soil?.- Lab 9. How Does Water Percolate Through Soils?.- Lab 10. Build an Urban Erosion Model.- Lab 11. What Is Soil pH? How Is It Measured?.- Lab 12. Why Is Soil Salinity Important?.- Lab 13. How Do Cations Exchange In the Soil?.- Lab 14. How Can Carbonate Content Be Estimated?.- Lab 15. How Much of Trace Elements Are In Urban Soils?.- Lab 16. How Much of Nutrients Do Plants Need?.- Lab 17. How Much of Organic Matter and Humus Content Is In The Soil?.- Lab 18. Who Lives In the Soil?.- Lab 19. Using the Web Soil Survey for Various Applications.- Lab 20. Tell a

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Introduction.- Photovoltaic pumping for domestic water access in off-grid communities: potential and challenges.- Planning and preparation of non-technical components - before installation.- Technology installation.- Operation and maintenance - after installation.- Discussion.- Conclusion.

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Introduction.- Part I: Enterprises and Entrepreneurship.- Entrepreneurship, Circular Economy and New Business Models.- Toward the Green Transition of Business through the Circular Economy: Understanding the Role of Dynamic Capabilities.- The path to a circular economy through a green and digital transition. The paradigm shift in Mexican companies in the State of Hidalgo.- How Does the Circular Economy Address the Sustainable Development Goals? Evidence from the Brazilian Legal Amazon.- Lean and Green: 3Ms meets 5Rs creating environmental value for the planet.- Part II: Agriculture and Agribusiness.- An overview of circular business models in agribusiness.- The circular economy as a creator of value in agribusiness 4.0: proposals for a life.- The social dimension of agribusiness and how it has been measured.- Urban Green Infrastructure: circular socioeconomy with Nature Based Solutions.

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Chapter 1. Introduction (Harriet Hartman).- Chapter 2. Comparative Historical background (Sergio Della Pergola).- Chapter 3. Latin America (Judit Bokser Liwerant).- Chapter 4. The salutary effects of settings in the lucky country: Jewish families in Australia (Adina Bankier-Karp and David Graham).- Chapter 5. Notions of Agency: Conceptual Paradigms of Gender, Family, and Propriety among Adherents of an Ivorian Neo-Jewish Community (Nathan Paul Devir).- Chapter 6. The Transmutation of the Beta Israel Family in Ethiopia to the Ethiopian Jewish Family in Israel (Shalva Weil).- Chapter 7. Jewish families, Jews and Their Families, Jews in Families in Germany After 1945: Families, Memories, Boundaries, and Love (Dani Krantz).- Chapter 8. Doing Judaism for Family Unity Conversionary in-marriages in the Jewish Community of Helsinki in the 1970s (Mercédesz Czimbalmos).- Chapter 9. Families and (Post) Modernism: Jewish Families in Israel (Sylvie Fogel-Bijaoui and Ruth Katz).- Chapter 10. Single

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In earlier forewords to the books in this series on Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (DEDS), we have dwelt on the pervasive nature of DEDS in our human-made world. From manufacturing plants to computer/communication networks, from traffic systems to command-and-control, modern civilization cannot function without the smooth operation of such systems. Yet mathemat­ ical tools for the analysis and synthesis of DEDS are nascent when compared to the well developed machinery of the continuous variable dynamic systems char­ acterized by differential equations. The performance evaluation tool of choice for DEDS is discrete event simulation both on account of its generality and its explicit incorporation of randomness. As it is well known to students of simulation, the heart of the random event simulation is the uniform random number generator. Not so well known to the practitioners are the philosophical and mathematical bases of generating "random" number sequence from deterministic algorithms. This editor can still recall his own painful introduction to the issues during the early 80's when he attempted to do the first perturbation analysis (PA) experiments on a per­ sonal computer which, unbeknownst to him, had a random number generator with a period of only 32,768 numbers. It is no exaggeration to say that the development of PA was derailed for some time due to this ignorance of the fundamentals of random number generation.

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Each undergraduate course of algebra begins with basic notions and results concerning groups, rings, modules and linear algebra. That is, it begins with simple notions and simple results. Our intention was to provide a collection of exercises which cover only the easy part of ring theory, what we have named the "Basics of Ring Theory". This seems to be the part each student or beginner in ring theory (or even algebra) should know - but surely trying to solve as many of these exercises as possible independently. As difficult (or impossible) as this may seem, we have made every effort to avoid modules, lattices and field extensions in this collection and to remain in the ring area as much as possible. A brief look at the bibliography obviously shows that we don't claim much originality (one could name this the folklore of ring theory) for the statements of the exercises we have chosen (but this was a difficult task: indeed, the 28 titles contain approximatively 15.000 problems and our collection contains only 346). The real value of our book is the part which contains all the solutions of these exercises. We have tried to draw up these solutions as detailed as possible, so that each beginner can progress without skilled help. The book is divided in two parts each consisting of seventeen chapters, the first part containing the exercises and the second part the solutions.

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to Biomechanics of Human Movement.- Fundamentals of Biomechanics and Qualitative Analysis.- Biological/Structural Bases.- Anatomical Description and Its Limitations.- Mechanics of the Musculoskeletal System.- Mechanical Bases.- Linear and Angular Kinematics.- Linear Kinetics.- Angular Kinetics.- Fluid Mechanics.- Applications of Biomechanics in Qualitative Analysis.- Applying Biomechanics in Physical Education.- Applying Biomechanics in Coaching.- Applying Biomechanics in Strength and Conditioning.- Applying Biomechanics in Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation.

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This non-fictional, yet storytelling, book questions the role of cars and their impact, both for now and in the future. It is not enough to just consider autonomous driving, driving bans in Europe, and combustion engines. Our future and the future of our cities and country living depend on how we can coordinate different needs and different means. Finally, we ask ourselves: What is the status of the car today and in the future? Are we living and working in vehicles more than ever? And who benefits from autonomous driving and what are we giving up for it?In this book, the editor's work illustrates and critically assesses the role of cars. It showcases project examples and introduces easy to use checklists. The authors show how the car influences our business and private lives, and how the car stimulates our appetite for adventures, recreation, and survival. Emerging throughout more than a century, purposefully deployed, and innovativelyused, the automobile grew into our mobility DNA b

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Towards Lagrangian Mechanics.- Smooth Manifolds.- Lagrangian Mechanics on Manifolds.- Variational Methods: the Action Principle.- Important Special Systems.- Hamilton Equations.- Symplectic Geometry.-  Canonical Transformations.- The Hamilton-Jacobi Theory.-  Integrable Systems and All That.- Introduction to Perturbative Methods.

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“Although standards-based reform emerged in the United States and the United Kingdom, the idea has spread across the world, as an approach to systemic reform. It might appear that there is a world-wide “tsunami” of standards-based reform that will standardize and homogenize the educational system across the globe. This volume makes it very clear, however, that there is no one approach to standards-based reform and countries change – there is a danger in paying attention to its evolution and impact in only one context. That’s what makes this volume so valuable. Louis Volante has drawn together descriptions from a wide range of countries, all involved in large-scale reform and using standards and assessments as part of their process. What becomes very obvious is that the language may be the same but the words reflect different contexts and can represent very different ideals, values, and processes. I’m sure you will find this book as interesting and challenging as I have – a gem that pushes your thinking and does not allow readers to remain neutral.” (Lorna Earl)

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This book shows media salespeople the optimal sales process using a structured step-by-step guide: Using a sales navigator, it accompanies sellers from the media business through different roads and guides them from the start - the search for suitable customer potential - to the goal: closing the sale.The author points out all the construction sites and detours, such as objections or tactical price negotiations, but also shortcuts, such as recognizing early buying signals. After all, the sales process always follows a clear structure, and knowing this structure, practicing the appropriate techniques, and applying them again and again can lead to noticeably more sales.A compact and easy-to-read book, peppered with personal experience reports from sales and media professional Ricky McKenna, whose tips will help you achieve ambitious sales goals even in difficult economic times.

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Chapter 1. Food Microbiology Laboratory Safety and Notebook Record.- Chapter 2. Staining Technology and Bright-field Microscope Use.- Chapter 3. Enumeration of Bacteria in Broth Suspension by Spread and Pour Plating.- Chapter 4. Isolation of Foodborne Pathogens on Selective, Differentiate and Enrich Medium by Streak-plating.- Chapter 5. Enumeration of Aerobic Plate Counts, Coliforms and Escherichia coli of Organic Fruit Juice on Petrifilm.- Chapter 6. Enumeration and Identification of Staphylococcus Aureus in Chicken Salads.- Chapter 7. Enumeration and Identification Listeria Monocytogenes on Ready-to-eat (RTE) Frankfurters.- Chapter 8. Isolation and Identification of Salmonella and Campylobacter spp. on Broiler Carcasses.- Chapter 9. Thermal Inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Non-intact Reconstructed Beef Patties.- Chapter 10. Cultivation of Anaerobic Bacteria in Canned Food.- Chapter 11. Observation and Numeration of Molds from Spoiled Bread.- Chapter 12. PCR Identification

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Foreword.- Introduction.- Part I Diagnosis ofacquired myopathies.- Auto-Antibodiesin Neuromuscular Disorders.- Electromyography.-Imaging of the Muscle.- Peripheral Nerve Ultrasound.- MagneticResonance Imaging of the Peripheral Nerve.- Part II Clinical Entities.- The Spectrum of Inflammatory Myopathies:Dermatomyositis, Polymyositis, Necrotizing Myositis and Inclusion Body Myositis.-  Necrotising Myopathy.- Statin Myopathy.- Myasthenia Gravis.- Acquired Autoimmune Rippling Muscles with Myasthenia Gravis.- Endocrinological Myopathies.- Vitamin D deficiency in Muscle.- Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness.- Part III Neurogenic disorders.- Idiopathic Chronic Immune-Mediated Neuropathies:Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy and Multifocal MotorNeuropathy.- GBS Immune Neuropathies.- AmyotrophicLateral Sclerosis - Epidemiology and Risk Factors.- ParaneoplasticDiseases of the Peripheral Nervous System.- Diabetic Neuropathy.- Infectious Neuropathies.- ToxicNeur

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Preface.- About the Authors.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Statistics of Natural Images.- 3 Textures.- 4 Textons.- 5 Gestalt Laws and Perceptual Organizations.- 6 Primal Sketch: Integrating Textures and Textons.- 7 2.1D Sketch and Layered Representation.- 8 2.5D Sketch and Depth Maps.- 9 Learning about information Projection.-  10 Informing Scaling and Regimes of Models.- 11 Deep Images and Models.- 12 A Tale of Three Families: Discriminative, Generative and Descriptive Models.- Bibliography

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Finding your path in academic medicine Laura Weiss Roberts2 How to Build the Foundation for a Successful Career in Academia Upinder Singh Linda M. Boxer3 How to Be Organized and Manage Time Robert K. Jackler4 How to Align Individual Goals with Institutional Goals Sabine Girod II Getting Established 5 How to Prepare the Best Possible Curriculum Vitae Heather Kenna6 How to Interview Bob Chayer Jon A. Lehrmann 7 EVALUATING A LETTER OF OFFER OR CONTRACT Andrew Norton, 8 How to Give a Lecture Sallie G. DeGolia9 How to Build Assessments Teresita McCarty10 How to Supervise Trainees in Clinical Settings Michael D. Jibson Michael I. Casher Sara R. Figueroa 11 HOW TO EVALUATE AND GIVE FEEDBACK

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Case-Based Approach to Japanese Encephalitis.- Case-Based Approach to Herpes Encephalitis.- Case-Based Approach to Bacterial Meningitis.- Case-Based Approach to Cryptococcal Meningitis.- Case-Based Approach to Neurocysticercosis.- Case-Based Approach to Parkinson Disease.- Case-Based Approach to Acute Ischemic Stroke.- Case-Based Approach to Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.- Case-Based Approach to Intracerebral Hemorrhage.- Case-Based Approach to Alzheimer's Disease.- Case-Based Approach to Cerebral Venous Thrombosis.- Case-Based Approach to Mesial Temporal lobe epilepsy.- Case-Based Approach to Intracranial Hypertension.- Case-Based Approach to Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy.- Case-Based Approach to Myasthenia Gravis.- Case-Based Approach to Freidrich's Ataxia.- Case-Based Approach to Optic Neuritis.- Case-Based Approach to Thyroid Myopathy.-Case-Based Approach to Multiple Sclerosis.- Case-Based Approach toA

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This book identifies key elements of an international framework to develop systems-level change to promote access to education, including higher education, for socio-economically marginalized groups. It is based on interviews with senior government officials and senior management in universities, non formal education and prisons across 12 countries in Europe. The book identifies systemic obstacles to and opportunities for promotion of access to education for socio-economically excluded groups that are issues transferable to other countries’ contexts. It adopts a systemic focus on access across a range of domains of education, both formal higher education and non-formal education, as well as prison education. Through a focus on a more dynamic structuralist systems framework it develops an innovative post-Bronfenbrennerian view of system levels in lifespan developmental and educational psychology. It also develops an international agenda for reform in relation to these various system levels for access to education for socio-economically marginalized groups, through extraction of key structural indicators to evaluate reform progress in a transparent, culturally sensitive manner. The book identifies current gaps and strengths in policy, practice and structures that impact upon access to education, including higher education, across a range of countries. These gaps and strengths are illustrative and are to inform a strategic approach to system level change and development for the promotion of access to education for socio-economically marginalized groups in Europe and beyond.“Too many educational practices entrench social exclusion: it is an urgent priority across Europe that social justice policies are implemented for the inclusion of marginalised groups. Paul Downes' analysis of these issues is timely. His conclusions are considered and practical: this book is a valuable and constructive resource for practitioners, academics and the policy community.” Professor Alistair Ross, Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor of Citizenship Education in Europe, Emeritus Professor of Education, Institute for Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University

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These are the Proceedings of the PLEA'91 meeting, held in Seville under the joint responsability of the International Steering Committee of PLEA -Passive and Low Energy Architecture -and of a local organizing committee hosted by several research groups of the University of Seville. This is the ninth annual PLEA Conference organized since 1982 in response to the per­ manent commitment of PLEA; to become close to the regional problems to contribute for the widening and the enhancement of the understanding of the problems associated with the built environment. to its general principles and objectives, PLEA aims to establish the highest According standard of research but, also, to promote professionalism in building science and construc­ tion technology and in architecture and urbanism. While recognizing that the adoption of an "environment-conscious design" will help significantly towards solving some of our current environmental problems, PLEA advocates that the environment-conscious design is not just a means for avoiding ecological disaster, but a criterion of architectural quality and a creative meeting point between science, technology and architecture.

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The aim of the atlas is to provide images of taphonomic modifications, making it as comprehensive as possible with evidence presently available. This volume is intended both as a field guide for identifying taphonomic modifications in the field, and for use in the laboratory when collections of fossils are being analyzed. Images in the book are a combination of scanning electron micrographs, regular photographs, cross-sections of bones and line drawings and graphs. By providing good quality illustrations of taphonomic modifications, with links between similar types of modification, the atlas provides a reference source for identifying the agents responsible for the modifications, the processes by which they were formed, and the potential bias introduced by the processes.The authors also aim to emphasize on the directions they consider taphonomic studies should be headed. Firstly, we should seek to quantify the degree of bias introduced into a fossil fauna and to take account of this bias before interpreting the palaeoecology of the fossil site. Secondly, we should recognize that taphonomic modifications increase the information encoded in fossils by identifying perimortem and postmortem contexts. This provides a more dynamic and realistic view of the past.

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"Molecular Gels: Materials with Self-Assembled Fibrillar Networks" is a comprehensive treatise on gelators, especially low molecular-mass gelators and the properties of their gels. The structures and modes of formation of the self-assembled fibrillar networks (SAFINs) that immobilize the liquid components of the gels are discussed experimentally and theoretically. The spectroscopic, rheological, and structural features of the different classes of low molecular-mass gelators are also presented. Many examples of the application of the principal analytical techniques for investigation of molecular gels (including SANS, SAXS, WAXS, UV-vis absorption, fluorescence and CD spectroscopies, scanning electron, transmission electron and optical microscopies, and molecular modeling) are presented didactically and in-depth, as are several of the theories of the stages of aggregation of individual low molecular-mass gelator molecules leading to SAFINs. Several actual and potential applications of molecular gels in disparate fields (from silicate replication of nanostructures to art conservation) are described. Special emphasis is placed on perspectives for future developments. This book is an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners either already researching self-assembly and soft matter or new to the area. Those who will find the book useful include chemists, engineers, spectroscopists, physicists, biologists, theoreticians, and materials scientists.

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des Plantes (Hermann, Paris), and in 1935 by Lederer's Les Carotenoides des Animaux (Hermann, Paris). Since then a survey such as the present one has not appeared. In order to present a full picture, much of the pre-1934 work has been reconsidered and, as far as is known, every important contribution which has appeared since that date has been discussed. Two peripheral aspects ofthe subject have, however, been omitted, namely (a) the qualita­ tive and quantitative changes which the carotenoids of plant materials undergo in storage or during processing into food and (b) the carotene (pro-vitamin A) requirements of different animal species; it was felt that the former, about which a great deal has been written, was too technological to be suitable for inclusion in the present volume, whilst the latter is more suitable for a monograph on vitamin A. The very wide distribution of the carotenoids in Nature suggests that, in spite of the superficially diverse functions ascribed to them in different living tissues, there may be some factor or property through which all these functions will eventually be correlated; any suggestion as to the nature of this common property can perhaps come most readily from a comparative approach. Apart from critically surveying the literature this book has been constructed so as to focus attention on comparative data and their possible implications.

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Microprocessors play a dominant role in computer technology and have contributed uniquely in the development of many new concepts and design techniques for modem industrial systems. This contribution is excessively high in the area of robotic and manufacturing systems. However, it is the editor's feeling that a reference book describing this contribution in a cohesive way and covering the major hardware and software issues is lacking. The purpose of this book is exactly to fill in this gap through the collection and presentation of the experience of a number of experts and professionals working in different academic and industrial environments. The book is divided in three parts. Part 1 involves the first four chapters and deals with the utilization of microprocessors and digital signal processors ( DSPs ) for the computation of robot dynamics. The emphasis here is on parallel computation with particular problems attacked being task granularity, task allocation/scheduling and communication issues. Chapter I, by Zheng and Hemami, is concerned with the real-time multiprocessor computation of torques in robot control systems via the Newton-Euler equations. This reduces substantially the height of the evaluation tree which leads to more effective parallel processing. Chapter 2, by D'Hollander, examines thoroughly the automatic scheduling of the Newton-Euler inverse dynamic equations. The automatic program decomposition and scheduling techniques developed are embedded in a tool used to generate multiprocessor schedules from a high-level language program.

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When new fellows join my lab, I give them some reading materials so that they can orient themselves in their assignment in a new eld. When fellows leave my lab, some after writing their dissertations, I prefer to give them a book as a symbolic present. I was longing for a book that contained something on more or less eve- thing about the islets. At the same time, I wished it contained information as recent as possible. There are a few such books in the market but they are pretty outdated. I started picking islets myself from October 1990, when I joined the Rolf Luft Center, Karolinska Institutet. Over the years my fascination for islet research remained high. Since last year, I felt a stronger urge to do more for these mysterious and hidden mini-organs that are directly or indirectly involved in the pathogenesis of all forms of diabetes that affects ?250 million people in the world. After I launched the Islet (landesbioscience. com/journals/islets) and founded the Islet Society (isletso- ety. org), there was a momentum that could be utilized to create something equally meaningful i. e. this book. The idea cracked in September 2008. Starting September 19, 2008, I contacted an estimated 90% of the authors who published anything on the islets during 2007–2008 and who could be traced from the internet.

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This book aims to assist in choosing ecotechnological solutions for slopes that are prone to a variety of mass movements e.g. shallow failure or erosion. The book reviews the types of problematic slopes that may occur and describes briefly the nature of mass movements and the causes of these movements. There is focus on the use of vegetation to stabilize soil on slopes prone to mass movements. The book also introduces new ecotechnological methods, and case studies are discussed.

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This volume is an interdisciplinary treatise on the theoretical approach to solvation problems. It describes the essential details of the theoretical methods and places them into the context of modern applications, and hence is of broad interest to theoreticians and experimentalists. The assembly of these modern methods and applications into one volume is a unique contribution to date and gives a broad and ample description of the field in its present stage of development.

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This volume summarises the materials presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Sea-Dumped Chemical Munitions, held in Kaliningrad (Moscow Region), Russia, in January 1995. The conference was sponsored by the NATO Division of Scientific and Environmental Affairs in the framework of its outreach programme to develop co-operation between NATO member countries and the Cooperation Partner countries in the area of disarmament technologies. The problem of the ecological threat posed by chemical weapons (CW) dumped in the seas after the Second World War deserves considerable international attention: the amount of these weapons, many of them having been captured from the German Army, is assessed at more than three times as much as the total chemical arsenals reported by the United States and Russia. They were disposed of in the shallow depths of North European seas - areas of active fishing - in close proximity to densely populated coastlines, with no consideration of the long-term consequences. The highly toxic material have time and again showed up, for instance when retrieved occasionally in the fishing nets, attracting local media coverage only. Nevertheless, this issue has not yet been given adequate and comprehensive scientific analysis, the sea-disposed munitions are not covered by either the Chemical Weapons Convention or other arms control treaties. In fact, the problem has been neglected for a long time on the international level. Only recently were official data made available by the countries which admitted conducting dumping operations.

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Number 10 Sound: The Musical Way 10 the Scientific Revolution is a collection of twelve essays by writers from the fields of musicology and the history of science. The essays show the idea of music held by Euro­ th pean intellectuals who lived from the second half of the 15 century to the th early 17 : physicians (e. g. Marsilio Ficino), scholars of musical theory (e. g. Gioseffo Zarlino, Vincenzo Galilei), natural philosophers (e. g. Fran­ cis Bacon, Isaac Beeckman, Marin Mersenne), astronomers and mathema­ ticians (e. g. Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei ). Together with other people of the time, whom the Reader will meet in the course of the book, these intellectuals share an idea of music that is far removed from the way it is commonly conceived nowadays: it is the idea of music as a science whose object-musical sound--can be quantified and demonstrated, or enquired into experimentally with the methods and instruments of modem scientific enquiry. In this conception, music to be heard is a complex, variable structure based on few simple elements--e. g. musical intervals-, com­ bined according to rules and criteria which vary along with the different ages. However, the varieties of music created by men would not exist if they were not based on certain musical models--e. g. the consonances-, which exist in the mind of God or are hidden in the womb of Nature, which man discovers and demonstrates, and finally translates into the lan­ guage of sounds.

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How do I plan my course? How can I inspire students? How do I present myself? How do I want to teach? How do I test correctly? What teaching methods are there?Due to the lack of comprehensive (university) didactic training, teachers too often have to answer these and many other questions for themselves. This book is intended to counteract this and presents practical tips on good university teaching for all disciplines based on the current state of research.

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Blockages to be solved with coaching are often the result of repressed traumatic experiences of a person or their ancestors. Pictorial models will guide the reader into the multi-layered landscape of the soul and its principles. Along the way, the book decodes traumas as the soul’s fundamental building blocks and follows them back to their origins: existential limit-experiences and their common denominator, the splitting of the soul. The consequences of this autonomous survival mechanism affect all areas of life, starting from the unconscious. Therefore, they are not accessible by conventional methods working with the conscious mind. The presented integrative approach provides means and ways that significantly expand the potential of coaching.

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Will we really soon no longer be sitting behind the wheel of our own car, but will only be taken to our destination by driverless electric taxis? Should cities introduce car sharing? What role will electric scooters, cable cars or man-carrying drones play in the mobility systems of major cities? This book finally explains in a generally understandable way what is really behind buzzwords such as electric mobility, autonomous driving, digitalization and mobility services such as car sharing or ride-hailing, how far advanced these technologies are today, and above all in what relationships and dependencies they are to each other. In addition to the technical aspects, the legislative and social trends are also considered, which are important framework conditions that will have a decisive influence on the mobility of the future. From the contents - Mobility needs: Who wants to go where, when and why - and how will this change in the future? - Technological trends: electromobility, digitalization, autonomous driving - what will the vehicles of the future be capable of? - Car sharing, ride-hailing, e-scooters or public transport: What alternatives to the private car will there be in the future? - Politics and society: How will the framework conditions for mobility develop in the future? - Mobility in transition: What should we do to prepare for the future?

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Michael Tomoff präsentiert einen Überblick über die Möglichkeiten, die der neue Wissenschaftszweig der Positiven Psychologie Unternehmen bietet. Der Autor unterstützt auch in der zweiten Auflage dieses mittlerweile zum Bestseller gewordenen Buches Führungskräfte dabei, ihre Arbeit sinnvoll zu bereichern, indem sie sowohl eigene als auch fremde Potenziale entdecken und entfalten. Damit können sie einen Mehrwert für sich, ihre Mitarbeiter und ihre Organisation schaffen.

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Communication protocols are rules whereby meaningful communication can be exchanged between different communicating entities. In general, they are complex and difficult to design and implement. Specifications of communication protocols written in a natural language (e.g. English) can be unclear or ambiguous, and may be subject to different interpretations. As a result, independent implementations of the same protocol may be incompatible. In addition, the complexity of protocols make them very hard to analyze in an informal way. There is, therefore, a need for precise and unambiguous specification using some formal languages. Many protocol implementations used in the field have almost suffered from failures, such as deadlocks. When the conditions in which the protocols work correctly have been changed, there has been no general method available for determining how they will work under the new conditions. It is necessary for protocol designers to have techniques and tools to detect errors in the early phase of design, because the later in the process that a fault is discovered, the greater the cost of rectifying it. Protocol verification is a process of checking whether the interactions of protocol entities, according to the protocol specification, do indeed satisfy certain properties or conditions which may be either general (e.g., absence of deadlock) or specific to the particular protocol system directly derived from the specification. In the 80s, an ISO (International Organization for Standardization) working group began a programme of work to develop formal languages which were suitable for Open Systems Interconnection (OSI). This group called such languages Formal Description Techniques (FDTs). Some of the objectives of ISO in developing FDTs were: enabling unambiguous, clear and precise descriptions of OSI protocol standards to be written, and allowing such specifications to be verified for correctness. There are two FDTs standardized by ISO: LOTOS and Estelle. Communication Protocol Specification and Verification is written to address the two issues discussed above: the needs to specify a protocol using an FDT and to verify its correctness in order to uncover specification errors in the early stage of a protocol development process. The readership primarily consists of advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students, communication software developers, telecommunication engineers, EDP managers, researchers and software engineers. It is intended as an advanced undergraduate or postgraduate textbook, and a reference for communication protocol professionals.

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This book brings together twelve chapters on fungal pathogens with the goal of presenting an overview of the current areas of activity and the common themes that pervade research on these important organisms. The timing of the book is appropriate because we have gained sufficient insight from molecular genetic analyses to begin to make some comparisons between different fungal pathogens and to discuss the key advances that have been made. The chapters provide a broad survey of the important topics in fungal pathogenesis including morphogenesis, virulence, avirulence, and signaling. The reader also will fmd clear discussions of parasitism, mutualism, symbiosis, evolution, phylogeny and ecology for those fungi where these issues are especially important. Finally, many of the chapters in this book illustrate the fact that we are on the verge of a revolution in our understanding of fungal pathogens because of the application of genomics to these organisms and their hosts. The fungi included in this book represent many of the most intensively investigated fungal pathogens of plants; in this regard, a chapter is also included for pathogens in the Phytophthora group, even though these organisms are no longer classified as fungi. It is appropriate to include Phytophthora for historical reasons and, in addition, the insights in terms of pathogenesis and host-specific interactions are important to keep in mind when considering fungal pathogens. Chapters are also included on pathogens of insects and humans, as well as endophytic fungi.

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This bibliography contains the publications of Husserl and the main secondary literature on Husserl, from Husserl's earliest publication (1887) till today (1997). As the collection of material was conduded in lune 1997, the list of publications for the year 1997 is of course incomplete. In this bibliography publications in the following languages have been induded: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch - for both primary and secondary literature. Since this bibliography has been based primarily on the consultation of the induded documents (and not restricted to copying already existing bibliographies), it was not possible to indude publications in languages other than those mentioned. The bibliography has been constructed in the following way: 1. The list of Husserl's works and secondary literature by individual authors is preceded by a list of all edited volumes in which a text by or on Husserl is published. This list is ordered chronologica11y and runs from 1921 ti11 1997 (inclusive). Edited volumes of the same year are classified according to language, and this in the order mentioned above: German, English, French, etc. Edited volumes with a title in more than one language are classified according to the above order of languages (this of course concerns only the title of the edited volume, not the title(s) of the individual contributions). This order is maintained throughout the other parts of the bibliography.

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Leukemia is a malignant disease which continues to play a cutting edge role in the discovery of new basic knowledge about the malignant process and about the potential for controlling these malignant diseases. Molecular Genetics and Therapy of Leukemia presents contributions by leading investigators and scientific contributors to such topics as chromosome 16, chromosome 5, the BCL-2 gene, 11q23 breakpoint leukemias, the p-53 suppressor gene and oncogene, hematopoietic stem cells, cytokines, detection of minimal residual disease in acute lymphoblastic leukemia, autologous marrow transplantation, the retinoblastoma gene, allogeneic bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

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This mature textbook brings the fundamentals of fluid mechanics in a concise and mathematically understandable presentation. In the current edition, a section on dissipation and viscous potential flows has been added. Exercises with solutions help to apply the material correctly and promote understanding. This book is a translation of the original German 11th edition Grundzüge der Strömungslehre by Jürgen Zierep & Karl Bühler, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2018. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

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Gluten sensitivity is a multifactorial phenomenon. In the medical context, it is associated with symptoms that occur after the consumption of gluten-containing foods. However, not all cases of perceived gluten sensitivity are medically diagnosable. Only for celiac disease and wheat allergies clear diagnostic criteria exist. In most cases patients have non-Celiac Non-Wheat Allergy Wheat Sensitivity (NCWS). Gluten can rarely be detected as a causative agent in NCWS. Rather, other ingredients of wheat, such as ATI or FODMAP, or a disturbed intestinal microbiota may be considered as triggers for the disease. Cordula Harter puts it straight: gluten sensitivity is a fashion trend that is followed by many more people than there are diagnosed patients. The author shows that gluten-containing cereals are nutritionally high-quality foods that provide valuable nutrients and fiber. Elimination is rarely medically indicated and often benefits the food industry more than the consumer. This Springer essential is a translation of the original German 1st edition essentials, Gluten-Sensitivität by Cordula Harter, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

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