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Book cover of Human Motion Simulation

Human Motion Simulation

Predictive Dynamics

by Karim Abdel-Malek, Jasbir Singh Arora, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013

Simulate realistic human motion in a virtual world with an optimization-based approach to motion prediction. With this approach, motion is governed by human performance measures, such as speed and energy, which act as objective functions to be optimized. Constraints on joint torques and angles are...
Book cover of The Costs and Economics of Open and Distance Learning
by Rumble, Greville (Lecturer, Open University)
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012

Dissecting in detail the arguments underlying the costs and economics of open and distance learning, this text should give the reader an insight and the confidence to cost their own open and distance learning projects.
Book cover of NanoArmoring of Enzymes: Rational Design of Polymer-Wrapped Enzymes
by Challa Vijaya Kumar, Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017

Nanoarmoring of Enzymes: Rational Design of Polymer-Wrapped Enzymes, Volume 590is the latest volume in the Methods in Enzymology series that focuses on nanoarmoring of enzymes and the rational design of polymer-wrapped enzymes. This new volume presents the most updated information on a variety of...
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Relationships

A Dialectical Perspective

by Robert A. Hinde St John's College, University of Cambridge.
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015

This volume on close relationships in adulthood discusses the central issues in the field and points the way towards the construction of an integrated body of knowledge about human relationships. The self, interactions, relationships and grops are treated as dynaimc proceses in dialectical relations...
Book cover of Top 60 Signs for Nurses - E-Book
by Mark Dennis, MBBS (Honours), William Talbot Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017

Presented in a useful handbook style, Top 60 Signs for Nurses: Quick reference guide for best practice care outlines the evidence base and clinical value of each clinical sign to assist with interpretation. Each of the signs is related back to the mechanism of action along with clearly documented...
Book cover of Plasma Engineering

Plasma Engineering

Applications from Aerospace to Bio and Nanotechnology

by Isak Beilis, Michael Keidar, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013

Plasma Engineering is the first textbook that addresses plasma engineering in the aerospace, nanotechnology, and bioengineering fields from a unified standpoint. It covers the fundamentals of plasma physics at a level suitable for an upper level undergraduate or graduate student, and applies the unique...
Book cover of Plant and Process Engineering 360
by Mike Tooley, BA; Advanced Technological and Higher National Certificates, Kingston University
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009

Plant and Process Engineering 360 will be the backbone of any plant, chemical, or process engineer’s library. This is a broad area in which engineers need to be familiar with a wide array of techniques, technologies and equipment. Its focus on providing a broad introduction to key systems make...
Book cover of The Leadership Partnership
by Daryl Fischer, Laura B. Roberts, principal
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018

The Leadership Partnership is volume two in the Museum Trustee Association’s Templates for Trustees series. The book and customizable web-based templates feature tools that help boards to consider their options, identify their priorities, and plan their actions at this critical moment in a museum’s...
Book cover of Gender and Mobility

Gender and Mobility

A Critical Introduction

by Elina Penttinen, Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki, Anitta Kynsilehto
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017

Our world is characterized by mobility. The number of refugees on the global scale has increased considerably. Meanwhile border control measures and legal avenues for mobility have been severely curbed, and the political climate has become all the more violent against racialized and gendered “Others”....
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Action Learning

A Practitioner's Guide

by Beaty, Liz (Head, Staff Development Unit
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013

Action learning is a method of learning that takes place in a group - of colleagues or students. It is widely used in a wide number of educational fields, particularly where learning in groups is appropriate. Action learning is established in both higher education and in professional learning and...
Book cover of Necessary Goods

Necessary Goods

Our Responsibilities to Meet Others Needs

by Gillian Brock, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 1998

Do any needs defensibly make claims on anyone? If so, which needs and whose needs can defensibly do this? What are the grounds for our responsibilities to meet others' needs, when we have such responsibilities? The distinguished contributors to this volume consider these questions as they evaluate...
Book cover of Biomedical Engineering Desk Reference
by Buddy D. Ratner, Allan S. Hoffman, Frederick J. Schoen
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009

A one-stop Desk Reference, for Biomedical Engineers involved in the ever expanding and very fast moving area; this is a book that will not gather dust on the shelf. It brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the biomedical engineering...
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Yokohama Street Life

The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer

by Tom Gill, Meiji Gakuin University
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015

Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a single Japanese day laborer called Kimitsu, from his wartime childhood in the southern island of Kyushu through a brief military career to a lifetime spent working on the docks and...
Book cover of International Strategic Relations and China's National Security
by Institute for Strategic Studies, National Defense University of People's Liberation Army China
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018

In 2016, economic globalization suffered a severe crisis after over half a century of smooth development, and deglobalization was running mountains high. Not only did it trigger domestic political discord in major countries like the United States, Britain, France and Germany, but also led to international...
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