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International Marine Organizations
Essays on Structure and Activities
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the last few years, the quantity of books and papers on the political, economic and legal problems of the exploration and use of the sea and marine resources has considerably increased. But the status and activities of intern a tional organizations related to maritime shipping, fisheries, scientific...
The Parathyroid Glands
Imaging and Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
This book is based on the authors’ extensive practical experience in the use of modern radiological methods to diagnose parathyroid diseases and the application of advanced surgical techniques. Detailed attention is devoted to the embryological background to emphasize the significance of diagnostic...
by Alla V. Bailey, Massoud J. Miri, Roman J. Press
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Introduces the field of hydrogen technology and explains the basic chemistry underlying promising and innovative new technologies
This new and completely updated edition of Introduction to Hydrogen Technology explains, at an introductory level, the scientific and technical aspects of hydrogen...
by A. A. Ijagbuji, V. V. Schwarzkopf, I. I. Zakharov
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Scientific Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Chemistry - Other, , language: English, abstract: The present study investigates the oxidative de-hydrogenation of propane-butane (C3-C4) fraction over mono (Cr, Mo) and bi-metal (Cr-Mo) loaded MCM-41catalysts. The catalysts were prepared by sequential...
Acute Brain Impairment
Scientific Discoveries and Translational Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
A rise in the number of young and old patients suffering from a stroke or traumatic brain injury has led to the need for better drug development and treatment, as well as diagnosis and prevention of ischemic stroke and traumatic brain injury. This book provides a comprehensive overview of scientific...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 1
Genetics, breeding and production techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...
Impitoyable
Le Clan Kahill, T2
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2012
La véritable passion ne s'émousse jamais. Il y a plusieurs siècles, le clan des vampires Kahill a été chassé d'Irlande et est venu s'échouer sur les rives de la péninsule de Clare Point, aux Etats-Unis... Arlan, vampire du clan Kahill, doit enquêter sur une affaire tristement célèbre :...
Ethics of Spying
A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...
by Bob Brown, Gwyndyn T. Alexander, Lou J. Berger
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity.
This exploration defines this anthology. So many of the stories ask what has America become? What will it be in the...
Multicellularity
Origins and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Scholars consider the origins and consequences of the evolution of multicellularity, addressing a range of organisms, experimental protocols, theoretical concepts, and philosophical issues.
The evolution of multicellularity raises questions regarding genomic and developmental commonalities...
Renal and Adrenal Tumors
Pathology, Radiology, Ultrasonography, Magnetic Resonance (MRI), Therapy, Immunology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
After the positive response which followed the first edition of this book 6 years ago, the editors were encouraged to prepare a completely reworked second edition that includes the modern advances in this field. There has been a complete change of diagnostic procedure in the detection of renal tumors,...
by Zdeněk Dostál, Tomáš Kozubek, Marie Sadowská
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This book presents a comprehensive and self-contained treatment of the authors’ newly developed scalable algorithms for the solutions of multibody contact problems of linear elasticity. The brand new feature of these algorithms is theoretically supported numerical scalability and parallel scalability...
Lossy Image Compression
Domain Decomposition-Based Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2011
Image compression is concerned with minimization of the number of information carrying units used to represent an image. Lossy compression techniques incur some loss of information which is usually imperceptible. In return for accepting this distortion, we obtain much higher compression ratios than...
by A. K. Singh, D. R. Bhaskar, Raj Senani
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
This book describes a variety of current feedback operational amplifier (CFOA) architectures and their applications in analog signal processing/generation. Coverage includes a comprehensive survey of commercially available, off-the-shelf integrated circuit CFOAs, as well as recent advances made on...