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Developing and 'transition' economies face myriad challenges in their attempts to achieve and maintain political stability and foster the economic growth essential for national security, the social well-being of current citizens and sustainable environments for future generations. Governments in the Western Balkans have striven...

This text examines in detail mathematical and physical modeling, computational methods and systems for obtaining and analyzing biological structures, using pioneering research cases as examples. As such, it emphasizes programming and problem-solving skills. It provides information on structure bioinformatics at various levels, with individual...

In its first English-language edition, this book introduces the many-faceted interactions of animal populations with their habitats. From soil fauna, ants and termites to small and large herbivores, burrowing mammals and birds, the author presents a comprehensive analysis of animals and ecosystems that is...

This NATO-ASI installment is designed to provide an advanced overview for doctoral and post-doctoral candidates of the state-of-the-art technologies for bio-detection. The main objective of the work aims at providing readers with the latest developments necessary to successfully understand the CBRN Agents and their...

Successive food, economic and environmental crises have prompted the world Agricultural Research for Development (ARD) bodies to spring into action. Faced with the clear failure of public development aid to reduce inequalities and hunger, especially in Africa, wide consensus has been achieved from the...

This book presents surveys of significant trends in contemporary philosophy. Contributing authors explore themes relating to justice including natural rights, equality, freedom, democracy, morality and cultural traditions. Key movements and thinkers are considered, ranging from ancient Greek philosophy, Roman and Christian traditions to the...

This volume addresses the conditions allowing the transformation of specific children's rights into capabilities in settings as different as children's parliaments, organized leisure activities, contexts of vulnerability, children in care. It addresses theoretical questions linked to children's agency and reflexivity, education, the life cycle...

Author: Anna-Teresa TymienieckaISBN-10: 9401790620ISBN-13: 9789401790628Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/29/2014Pages: 302Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

This book represents a cutting-edge contribution giving an all-around perspective of eco-immunology today. Beside questions of the utmost importance for the whole community of immunologists, e.g, the intrinsic limits of immunological experiments performed at the bench on a limited number of selected models, the...

Arising from a scientific conference marking the 100th anniversary of her birth, this book honors the life and work of the social scientist and diplomat Ester Boserup, who blazed new trails in her interdisciplinary approach to development and sustainability.Author: Marina Fischer-KowalskiISBN-10: 9401786771ISBN-13: 9789401786775Publisher: SpringerLanguage:...

This atlas shows the relationship between water pollution and cancer in the Huai River Basin in China over the last 30 years. Drawing on a five-year study conducted by the China Centre for Disease Control (CDC), Professor Gonghuan Yang & Dafang Zhuang present a...

This Trilogy explains "What is Horticulture?". Volume one of Horticulture: Plants for People and Places describes in considerable depth the science, management and technology which underpins the continuous production of fresh and processed horticultural produce. Firstly, there is a consideration of technological innovation derived...

This book focuses on early diagnosis and multidisciplinary treatment, which is the key to preventing the occurrence of the liver metastases in colorectal cancer, and to increasing the resection rate of the liver metastasis foci and the 5-year survival after surgery. This book is...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of magnetic levitation (Maglev) technologies, from fundamental principles through to the state-of-the-art, and describes applications both realised and under development. It includes a history of Maglev science and technology showing the various milestones in its advancement. The core...

Author: Alfonsas JuskaISBN-10: 9401773726ISBN-13: 9789401773720Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2015Pages: 166Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

Many areas of knowledge converge in the building industry and therefore research in this field necessarily involves an interdisciplinary approach. Effective research requires strong relation between a broad variety of scientific and technological domains and more conventional construction or craft processes, while also considering...

This volume brings together extended reviews and papers of new scientific research on atmospheric nitrogen deposition impacts globally. While there is a wealth of evidence on the magnitude, components and effects of nitrogen disposition on floral biodiversity in Europe and North America, there is...

Here is an up-to-date, illustrated collection of reviews on the molecular and cellular principles of neuronal migration in the mammalian brain, with the latest discoveries and concepts of neuronal migration and their distinct signaling pathways explained.Author: Laurent NguyenISBN-10: 9400776861ISBN-13: 9789400776869Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2013Pages: 186Format:...

This collection of essays invites readers to think through critical questions concerning anti-racism education, such as: How does anti-racism education centre race as an analytic and simultaneously work with multiple sites of oppression, without reifying hierarchies of difference? How can anti-racism education be engaged...

This comprehensive review of the methods used in explaining biology and history provides fresh insights into the debate over mechanisms in the sciences. Specially commissioned essays analyze the profoundly illuminating mutuality of these two core disciplines.Author: Marie I. KaiserISBN-10: 9400775628ISBN-13: 9789400775626Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/13/2013Pages:...

Color perception plays an important role in object recognition and scene understanding both for humans and intelligent vision systems. Recent advances in digital color imaging and computer hardware technology have led to an explosion in the use of color images in a variety of...

Author: Victor PetuyaISBN-10: 9400774842ISBN-13: 9789400774841Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2013Pages: 419Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.71lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d

This book investigates the historical roots of further and adult education and identifies how the adoption of citizenship education in the post-compulsory sector can enrich vocational studies in further education and programmes in adult education.Author: Neil HopkinsISBN-10: 9400772289ISBN-13: 9789400772281Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2013Pages: 178Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Computational kinematics is an enthralling area of science with a rich spectrum of problems at the junction of mechanics, robotics, computer science, mathematics, and computer graphics. The covered topics include design and optimization of cable-driven robots, analysis of parallel manipulators, motion planning, numerical methods...

This volume brings together the world's leading experts in the study of the microbial and human cell stress proteins that are involved in enabling microorganisms to infect humans and cause serious disease.Author: Brian HendersonISBN-10: 9400767862ISBN-13: 9789400767867Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/2013Pages: 406Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.12lbsSize: 9.43h x...

Plant-driven volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions play a major role in atmospheric chemistry, including ozone and photochemical smog formation in the troposphere, and they extend the atmospheric lifetime of the key greenhouse gas, methane. Furthermore, condensation of photo-oxidation products of BVOCs leads to formation...

This book covers management of hereditary diffuse gastric cancer patients, focusing on E-cadherin germline mutations, clinical criteria definition, genetic screening and molecular mechanisms, pathology and microscopic features, surgical treatment and more.Author: Giovanni CorsoISBN-10: 940076569XISBN-13: 9789400765696Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/18/2013Pages: 211Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.00w...

Climate change and the pressures of escalating human demands on the environment have had increasing impacts on landscapes across the world. In this book, world-class scholars discuss current and pressing issues regarding the landscape, landscape ecology, social and economic development, and adaptive management. Topics...

This volume contains the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics (SSP2012), that was held in Groningen, The Netherlands from 18 till 22 June 2012. This sequence of symposia is now firmly connected with one of the main branches in...

Author: Randy ReadISBN-10: 9400762313ISBN-13: 9789400762312Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/16/2013Pages: 362Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d

Initially, because of the inadequate sensitivity of devices and other limitations, only major venom components of the dominant species were studied. However, in last two decades, increased sensitivity of devices and the development of new techniques, such as transcriptomics and proteomics techniques, have permitted...

This book is aimed at providing a comprehensive overview of recent developments in sustainability science and engineering. The book focuses on principles and practices and presents 18 interwoven chapters on four major themes: design for sustainability; sustainability metrics and analysis; sustainable energy; and sustainable...

This book tackles the latest challenges in education in the business sector, outlining how the students of the future must be taught to adapt to a highly fluid business environment in which their ability to acquire new skills and collaborate with others is more...

This book examines national and collaborative programmes for genetic improvement of the ten most important forest tree species across Europe. It illustrates the diversity of breeding strategies and proposes perspectives for future collaborative breeding.Author: Luc E. PâquesISBN-10: 9400761457ISBN-13: 9789400761452Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/12/2013Pages: 527Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This book surveys size- and shape-dependent effects in nanoferroics, the properties of these materials, approaches for describing size-dependent effects and chemical and physico-chemical nanofabrication methods for making nanoferroic materials and composites.Author: M. D. Glinchuk,A. V. Ragulya,Vladimir a. StephanovichISBN-10: 9400759916ISBN-13: 9789400759916Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/29/2013Pages: 378Format:...

"Diagnostics in Plant Breeding" is systematically organizing cutting-edge research reviews on the development and application of molecular tools for the prediction of plant performance. Given its significance for mankind and the available research resources, medical sciences are leading the area of molecular diagnostics, where...

This book thoroughly explores coherence and its significance in legal reasoning from the general philosophical perspective, the perspective of legal theory, and from the viewpoint of cognitive sciences, including research on artificial intelligence and law.Author: Michal AraszkiewiczISBN-10: 9400761090ISBN-13: 9789400761094Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/17/2013Pages: 270Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This is volume 2 of Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems, a six-volume compendium of modern astronomical research, covering subjects of key interest to the main fields of contemporary astronomy. This volume on "Astronomical Techniques, Software, and Data" edited by Howard E. Bond presents accessible...

This book addresses the question: how can institutions develop and maintain a good purpose? And how can managers contribute to this endeavour? Twelve contributions explore this question, using MacIntyrean inquiry as a basis for exploring four main themes: Can management be considered a practice...

Evolutionary biology, ecology and ethics: at first glance, three different objects of research, three different worldviews and three different scientific communities. In reality, there are both structural and historical links between these disciplines. First, some topics are obviously common across the board. Second, the...

This book surveys the evolution, current state and future of crime mapping with geographic information systems technology. Covers methods from such areas as epidemiology and location-allocation analysis, and their application to spatial analysis of crime data.Author: Michael LeitnerISBN-10: 9400749961ISBN-13: 9789400749962Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/18/2013Pages: 446Format:...

Metabolic engineering has been developed over the past 20 years to become an important tool for the rational engineering of industrial microorganisms. This book has a particular interest in the methods and applications of metabolic engineering to improve the production and yield of a...

This book examines the role of geography in the meaning and implications of lived religion, public piety and religious embodiment. Covers such diverse contexts as veiling in Turkey, religious landscapes in rural Peru and refugees and faith in South Africa.Author: Peter HopkinsISBN-10: 9400746849ISBN-13: 9789400746848Publisher:...

This invaluable addition to Springer's Explorations of Educational Purpose series is a revelatory ethnographic account of the visual material culture of contemporary youths in North America. The author's detailed study follows apparently dissimilar groups (black and Latino/a in a New York City after-school club,...

Developmental Education is an approach to education in school that aims at promoting children's cultural development and their abilities to participate autonomously and well-informed in the cultural practices of their community. From the point of view of Cultural-historical Activity theory (CHAT), a play-based curriculum...

Even as Anglophone power wanes in Asia, and China and India rise, the role of the English language in the region continues to develop. How are students in Asian nations such as Vietnam, Malaysia and China itself being taught English? This much-needed overview analyzes...

Author: Mieczyslaw PokorskiISBN-10: 9400745451ISBN-13: 9789400745452Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/24/2012Pages: 400Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.60lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.10w x 1.10d

Written by international experts under the auspices of NEESPI, this volume presents a state-of-the-art assessment of the Earth's changing climate system as it impacts Siberia, and studies the relationships between climate, ecosystems and people in that region.Author: Pavel Ya GroismanISBN-10: 9400745680ISBN-13: 9789400745681Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This volume is a practical guide that helps the reader build a quick, evidence-based understanding of green-growth strategies and challenges. Its cogent analysis of real-life case studies enables policy makers and company executives identify successful strategies they can adopt, and pitfalls they can avoid,...

Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong and its neighboring province, has an unusually rich repertoire of verbal particles. This volume significantly augments the academic literature on their semantics, focusing on three affixal quantifiers, -saai, -hoi and -maai. The author shows how these verbal...