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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Traditional notions of security are premised on the primacy of state security. In relation to energy security, traditional policy thinking has focused on ensuring supply without much emphasis on socioeconomic and environmental impacts. Non-traditional security (NTS) scholars argue that threats to...
Contaminant Geochemistry
Interactions and Transport in the Subsurface Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
In this updated and expanded second edition, new literature has been added on contaminant fate in the soil-subsurface environment. In particular, more data on the behavior of inorganic contaminants and on engineered nanomaterials were included, the latter comprising a group of “emerging contaminants”...
Inverse Methods
Interdisciplinary Elements of Methodology, Computation, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Over the last few decades inversion concepts have become an integral part of experimental data interpretation in several branches of science. In numerous cases similar inversion-like techniques were developed independently in separate disciplines, sometimes based on different lines of reasoning, but...
Is this Cell a Human Being?
Exploring the Status of Embryos, Stem Cells and Human-Animal Hybrids
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
The central question of this book is whether or not particular cell entities of human origin ought to be considered human beings. The answer is crucial for making moral decisions for or against research and experimentation. Experts in the field discuss the production of embryonic-like pluripotent...
Adalat
A Comprehensive Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As little as 30 years ago, cardiovascular research at Bayer was just a small sideline with in an environment dominated by chemotherapy research, and only 15 years ago, Bayer's pharmaceutical business was confined to European and Latin Ameri can countries, with sales in cardiovascular pharmaceuticals...
Der Optiker von Lampedusa
Die Geschichte einer Rettung
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
"Vielleicht kannst du nicht glauben, was ich hier erzähle. Vielleicht kannst du es nicht verstehen, weil du nicht an Bord warst. Aber ich war drin und habe die Menschen gesehen. Und ich sehe sie immer noch. Das, was damals passiert ist, geschieht wieder und wieder …" So beginnt der Optiker...
Leadership - What Really Matters
A Handbook on Systemic Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2011
What does really matter for daily leadership? How would a good and effective manager be characterized? Daniel F. Pinnow describes in a very illustrative way the essentials of collaborating with people in the business environment. This standard reference book exists as a 4th edition in German and is...
Dealing with consumer uncertainty
Public Relations in the Food Sector
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
My studies on the "uncertain consumer" began with a research project c- ducted by the Dr. Rainer Wild-Stiftung - Foundation for healthy nutrition - on the negative image of processed food. Ever since then I have been asked whether or not growing consumer uncertainty is linked to information...
by Kenneth R. Lang
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Essential Astrophysics is a book to learn or teach from, as well as a fundamental reference volume for anyone interested in astronomy and astrophysics. It presents astrophysics from basic principles without requiring any previous study of astronomy or astrophysics. It serves as a comprehensive introductory...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
The book reviews the dramatic recent advances in the use of optical resonators for high sensitivity and high resolution molecular spectroscopy as well as for chemical, mechanical and physical sensing. It encompasses a variety of cavities including those made of two or more mirrors, optical fiber loops,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
This volume, which addresses various basic sensor principles, covers micro gravimetric sensors, semiconducting and nano tube sensors, calorimetric sensors and optical sensors. Furthermore, the authors discuss recent developments in the related sensitive layers including new properties of nano structured...
Multiphoton Processes and Attosecond Physics
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Multiphoton Processes (ICOMP12) and the 3rd International Conference on Attosecond Physics (ATTO3)
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Recent advances in ultrashort pulsed laser technology have opened new frontiers in atomic, molecular and optical sciences. The 12th International Conference on Multiphoton Processes (ICOMP12) and the 3rd International Conference on Attosecond Physics (ATTO3), held jointly in Sapporo, Japan, during...
by Doychin N. Angelov, Michael Walther, Michael Streppel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Following an exhaustive literature review on the global issue of intracerebral presentation of antigen, this monograph summarizes results from voluminous work to establish which indigenous cerebral cells might present (auto)antigen to the immune system and thus initiate an (auto)immune reaction. Employing...