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Fungi are sessile, highly sensitive organisms that actively compete for environmental resources both above and below the ground. They assess their surroundings, estimate how much energy they need for particular goals, and then realise the optimum variant. They take measures to control certain environmental...

Based on the "International Symposium of Molecular Environmental Soil Science at the Interfaces in the Earth's Critical Zone," this book focuses on the Critical Zone supporting life at the Earth's surface with emphasis on the new and emerging subject area of molecular environmental soil...

This collection of contributions from a diverse group of prominent international scientists and policy makers brings together their in-depth analyses and innovative ideas about how to resolve the 'energy for development' predicament. It includes studies quantifying the role of energy in socioeconomic development, analysis...

This exploration of some of the latest innovations being deployed in medicine covers a host of techniques including computer simulation and image analysis now being used in fields as diverse as biomechanical studies and the treatment of sports injuries.Author: Renato M. Natal JorgeISBN-10: 9400740670ISBN-13:...

Humans have utilized the bioactive principles of different plants for various beneficial physiological properties including antimicrobial properties for many centuries. However, interests of using medicinal plants declined in the 20th century with the availability of effective synthetic antimicrobial drugs. The development of microbial resistance...

A fascinating glimpse into the possible ecological futures of America's richest state, this study was commissioned by former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and examines the projected impact of climate change on a range of variables including air quality.Author: Daniel R. CayanISBN-10: 9400740131ISBN-13: 9789400740136Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Risk Prevention for Environment and Human Society against Dangerous Goods Transport Accidents and Malicious Intents: Methods and Tools, Paris, France, 5-9 July 2010."--T.p. verso.Author: Emmanuel GarbolinoISBN-10: 940072683XISBN-13: 9789400726833Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/15/2012Pages: 249Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.21h x...

This volume contains information on the diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis of spinal tumors. Various aspects of different major types of spinal tumors (astrocytomas, ependymomas, and oligodendroglioma) are discussed. Insights into the understanding of molecular pathways involved in tumor biology are explained. Classification of intradural...

While debate rages over the impact of biometrics on personal privacy, the technology continues to develop rapidly. The boundary-blurring complexities of new biometrics urgently require the searching ethical, legal and political scrutiny this volume provides.Author: Emilio MordiniISBN-10: 9400738919ISBN-13: 9789400738911Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/04/2012Pages: 354Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Export controls definitively impact international cooperation in outer space. Civil and commercial space actors that engage in international endeavors must comply with space technology export controls. In the general discourse, members of the civil and commercial space community have an understanding of their domestic...

The book aims to address the interdisciplinary targets of watershed management in mountain regions based on the current knowledge of the subject. The focus of the book is particularly on monitoring, research, and modelling the interactions between the climate, water cycle, and aquatic ecosystem....

Including a wealth of case studies and illustrations, this comprehensive treatment of geomorphic processes in a number of eastern European nations includes many findings about this under-analyzed region that were previously unavailable in English.Author: Denes LoczyISBN-10: 9400724470ISBN-13: 9789400724471Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/03/2012Pages: 462Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.75lbsSize:...

Introduction: Majda Trobok, Nenad Misčevic and Berislav Zarnic.- I. Logical and Mathematical Structures.- Life on the Ship of Neurath: Mathematics in the Philosophy of Mathematics: Stewart Shapiro.- Applied Mathemathics in the Sciences: Dale Jacquette.- The Philosophical Impact of the Löwenheim-Skolem Theorem: Milos Arsenijevic.- Debating...

The work builds on the results of the COMPETE Bioenergy Competence Platform for Africa, which was supported by the European Commission and coordinated by WIP Renewable Energies, Germany. The five sections cover biomass production and use, biomass technologies and markets in Africa, biomass policies,...

The concepts of the Jahn-Teller effect and vibronic coupling are being applied to more and more systems in both chemistry and physics. Aspects of structural chemistry such as the distortion of the nuclear framework to a lower-symmetry conformation have received an increasing attention, as...

This highly personal account of a lifetime's spiritual and philosophical enquiry charts the author's journey of faith through contemporary culture. Distinguishing between what she posits as the 'universal' and the 'rhapsodic' logos, Tymieniecka interrogates concepts as varied as creativity and the media, joy and...

This book provides current knowledge about tropical rain forest genetics and its implications for the profitable and sustainable management of forest resources in Southeast Asia. Each chapter covers a major topic in the evolutionary biology of tropical rain forest trees and how management systems...

In this monograph, Steffen Ducheyne provides a historically detailed and systematically rich explication of Newton's methodology. Throughout the pages of this book, it will be shown that Newton developed a complex natural-philosophical methodology which encompasses procedures to minimize inductive risk during the process of...

This book gives a comprehensive overview of our present understanding of the Earth's cryosphere, its changes and their consequences for mean sea level changes. Since the middle of the 19th century there has been an increase of sea level height by 20-25 cm. Some...

This book covers the design of new device and material concepts for organic light-emitting devices, demonstrating a new LED architecture, the OLED with field-effect electron transport, which is a hybrid between a diode and a field-effect transistor.Author: Sarah ScholsISBN-10: 9400716079ISBN-13: 9789400716070Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2011Pages:...

Over the last four decades the sociological life course approach with its focus on the interplay of structure and agency over time life course perspective has become an important research perspective in the social sciences. Yet, while it has successfully been applied to almost...

During the last decade significant progress has been made in the field of ship stability. Yet in spite of the progress made, numerous scientific and practical challenges still exist with regard to the accurate prediction of extreme motion and capsize dynamics for intact and...

The book addresses the development of the basic knowledge of the subsurface solute transfer with a particular emphasis on field data collection and analysis coupled with modeling (analytical and numerical) tool application. The relevant theoretical developments are concerned mainly with the formulation and solution...

This is the first book of a series that will focus on MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science). This book also presents IFToMM, the International Federation on the Promotion of MMS and its activity. This volume contains contributions by IFToMM officers who are Chairs of...

Combinatorics and Reasoning: Representing, Justifying and Building Isomorphisms is based on the accomplishments of a cohort group of learners from first grade through high school and beyond, concentrating on their work on a set of combinatorics tasks. By studying these students, the editors gain...

The first integrated analysis of all aspects of purinergic signaling in the respiratory system, this book covers everything from the basics of purinergic pharmacology and metabolism to the latest research into its effect on respiratory diseases such as asthma.Author: Maryse PicherISBN-10: 9400712162ISBN-13: 9789400712164Publisher: SpringerLanguage:...

Automotive Mechatronics aims to improve automotive mechatronics education, emphasizing the training of students' experimental hands-on abilities. The text provides a discussion of mechatronic control systems in modern vehicles, and the skills needed to work with them. Author: B. T. FijalkowskiISBN-10: 9400711824ISBN-13: 9789400711822Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Analog Circuit Design contains the contribution of 18 tutorials of the 19th workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design. Each part discusses a specific to-date topic on new and valuable design ideas in the area of analog circuit design. Each part is presented by...

This volume critically reexamines Otto Neurath's conception of the unity of science. Some of the leading scholars of Neurath's work, along with many prominent philosophers of science critically examine his place in the history of philosophy of science and evaluate the relevance of his...

Kant, in the Critique of pure reason, only dedicates a few pages to the principle of Anticipations of Perception and only a few critical studies are outspokenly dedicated to this issue in recent critical literature. But if one considers the history of post-Kantian philosophy,...

Many times we wonder, is there something definite that will give us succour? Scriptures are many, so are the practices. Isn't there a simple technique that will really enhance the CHI in Life?We quite understand it is the MIND that is the primary agent...

What is Yoga?Yoga is a higher state of Being. It is a state of the consciousness that reflects Purity, Cheerfulness, Compassion. Yoga is that moment in life when one is at ease, absorbed in divine union.The entire process that comprises of Shouldering Responsibility Well,...

""The History of Philosophy in Islam"" is a complete summary of the flowering of Islamic philosophy in the late middle ages. Medieval Islamic civilization at its height was a centre of learning, and its philosophers were no exception. Islamic philosophers grappled with issues such...

Upanishads are verses from the Vedas that have been compiled as independent and complete sets. Those verses in the Vedas that amplify the greatness of man, his soul's journey, and his ultimate purpose are termed as Upanishads.Traditionally the verses in each Veda have been...

Author: Arnab GoswamiISBN-10: 9391504329ISBN-13: 9789391504328Publisher: Har-Anand PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2021Pages: 178Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d

A bright young student, a globetrotting star, and a highly respected married couple--each deeply immersed in the tradition of Hindustani classical music. A Monsoon of Music tells the story of these four musicians whose lives intersect in the small mofussil town of Tamulbari on...

From the writer of the delightful utopian fantasy Sultana's Dream come these witty tales describing the twists and turns of India's two-hundred-year relationship with the Imperial British. Available to contemporary English readers for the first time, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Freedom Fables is temporally vast...

A revolutionary take on the classic dystopian science fiction novel, Clone inaugurates a new kind of writing in India. Priya Sarukkai Chabria weaves the tale of a fourteenth-generation clone in twenty-fourth-century India who struggles against imposed amnesia and sexual taboos in a species-depleted world....

Twenty-five long years after the war that was supposed to liberate Bangladesh--and that instead, for far too many people, merely brought fear, violence, and loss--a young researcher arrives on the doorstep of one survivor in Dhaka, Mariam, armed with a set of questions that...

Very little is known about Aesop who was supposed to have been a slave on the island of Samos in the sixth century BC. It is his fables (and those attributed to him) that have come down to us through the centuries. In this...

In the mid-nineties, Birjees Dawar Ali returns to Pakistan to seek out a history left unfinished long ago; one from which, nursing heartbreak and betrayal, she had previously fled home to partitioned India. Will she find the family that so generously gave her succor,...

Set in the forests of northern Odisha, Mahuldiha Days is the moving story of a young civil servant caught between her commitment to the tribal communities she knows are the original inhabitants of the forest and the monolithic state, oblivious to the diverse realities...

During the past three decades engineering has witnessed dramatic changes. In the days gone by, one would think impossible what is possible now. The modern technological advancement has acquired a unique status and reputation in almost all the segments of engineering and physics the...

This book seeks to investigate and explore most of the questions regarding ISIS and also recommends ways in countering the ISIS threat both ideologically and militarily.Author: RasheedISBN-10: 9384464775ISBN-13: 9789384464776Publisher: Vij BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2015Pages: 188Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.90d

This book captures Reena's transformative journey-from being burdened by negative thoughts to embracing the beauty of life, even in the face of uncertainty. She discovers that healing is not a linear process but one marked by highs and lows, moments of clarity, and phases...

*Unfading Rhapsodies* is a heartfelt celebration of reflection, emotion, and mindful poetic expression. Penned amidst the demands of daily life, each poem captures quiet yet powerful moments with simplicity and depth. Dr. P. Mary Vidya Porselvi draws from the Romantic tradition, echoing Wordsworth's idea...

In Legal Loopholes in India: Unveiling the Complexities of the Indian Legal System, Amit Sshukla thoroughly examines the intricacies of the Indian legal framework, revealing hidden loopholes that often result in injustice and confusion. Drawing on his extensive legal experience, Amit offers a detailed...

Master entrepreneur, technocrat, and filmmaker, Haresh Sippy plays multiple roles with ease and distinction. A pioneer in design technology and fabrication methodology in the field of process equipment manufacturing, particularly Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers, he began his career in the mid-1970s by manufacturing...

"THE LEGEND OF INARA WALI" In the sacred annals of societal evolution, there exists a tome of profound significance-a testament to the transformative power of human endeavour and the enduring spirit of resilience and compassion. This book, a luminous beacon amidst the shadows of...

Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance highlights the danger of unconditionally accepting intolerant views, which, if unchecked, could destroy the very fabric of a tolerant society. This principle extends beyond tolerance itself and can be seen in a broader paradox within Liberalism. As faith in...