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Overview: Awareness about Biotechnology has been raised worldwide, which has brought about a stronger need to find new microbes and genes for fast production.Serves as a valuable overview of recent advances in This book focuses on successful application of microbial biotechnology in areas such as medicine, agriculture, environment and human health.978-1-4899-8172-1978-1-4419-7931-5

Overview: The founders of geology at the beginning of the last century were suspicious oflaboratories. Hutton‘s well-known dictum illustrates the point: "There are also superficial reasoning men . . . they judge of the great oper­ ations of the mineral kingdom from having kindled a fire, and looked into the bottom of a little crucible. " The idea was not unreasonable; the earth is so large and its changes are so slow and so complicated that labo­ ratory tests and experiments were of little help. The earth had to be studied in its own terms and geology grew up as a separate science and not as a

Overview: My goal in writing this book was to provide an introduction to meteorite science and a handbook on meteorite classification. Insofar as I succeeded it should prove useful both to the practicing professional and to university students at the upper-division and graduate levels. I originally intended the book to be nearly twice as long. The second half was to be a review of properties relating to the origin of each group of meteorites. Chapter XVIII is an example of how these later chapters would have looked, although most would not have been as interpretative. These chapters would have

Overview: The book aims at giving the methodological framework for design decision support systems. Several applications are also described in detail, ranging from environment control, production planning, transportation planning. The book is of special interest to operations researchers, environment specialists, production planners, and transportation engineers.978-3-211-82297-5978-3-7091-2606-6Series ISSN 0254-1971 Series E-ISSN 2309-3706

Overview: New, expanded edition of a well-known and highly-regarded classic that originally appeared in Springer‘s Biomathematics series in 1979.Includes supplementary material: .Population genetics occupies a central role in a number of important biological and social undertakings. It is fundamental to our understanding of evolutionary processes, of plant and animal breeding programs, and of various diseases of particular importance to mankind...This is the first of a planned two-volume work discussing the mathematical aspects of population genetics, with an emphasis on the evolutionary theor

Overview: Proceedings of the 7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference, MTSR 2013This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference, MTSR 2013, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in November 2013. The 29 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers are organized in several sessions and tracks. The sessions cover the following topics: platforms for research datasets, system architecture and data management; metadata and ontology validation, evaluation, mapping and interoperability; content managem

Overview: Provides insights into ways of collaborating across diverse partner institutions.Includes an analysis of research on mathematics education by well-known teacher educators.Offers recommendations to enhThis book provides an account of a large-scale, national STEM initiative in Australia, the Maths Inside Project, which is designed to increase secondary school students’ engagement and participation in mathematics. The project’s modules include videos illustrating how scientists use mathematics to find solutions to real-world problems, as well as themed activities linked to the school cu

Overview: 978-3-663-10706-4978-3-663-10705-7

Overview: Addresses some of the apparent successes and failures in spectacle production and reception.Uses historical case studies to explore the phenomenon of the spectacle.Explores how the rise of polarizing .This volume considers the rise of a new mode of creating, spreading, and encountering moral claims and ideas as they are expressed within spectacles. Brian M. Lowe explains how spectacles emerge when we are saturated with mediated representations—including pictures, texts, and videos—and exposed to television and movies and the myriad stories they tell us. The question of which moral is

Overview: 978-3-642-50405-1978-3-642-50714-4

Overview: Provides a concise and up-to-date introduction for all graduate students studying finance/quantitative finance.Includes a wealth of examples and exercises to promote student comprehension.Discusses thGiven the rapid pace of development in economics and finance, a concise and up-to-date introduction to mathematical methods has become a prerequisite for all graduate students, even those not specializing in quantitative finance. This book offers an introductory text on mathematical methods for graduate students of economics and finance–and leading to the more advanced subject of quantum

Overview: Makes use of the most recent research on prevention of and intervention in LGBT health disparities.Examines LGBT health disparities globally to argue that bias, civil rights, and health outcomes are iThis book examines the interconnectedness of LGBT civil and political rights, bias, discrimination, homophobia, and LGBT health disparities both in the United States and globally. According to Notaro, the failure to extend equitable civil and political rights to LGBT individuals—combined with recent reversal of past gains—will continue to be associated with bias, stigma and discriminatio

Overview: Brings together state of the art on a specific topic.Works as a practical source of accessible information.Sets the stage for future research.Includes supplementary material: .The State-of-the-Art Report of RILEM Technical Committee 228-MPS on Mechanical properties of Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) summarizes an extensive body of information related to mechanical properties and mechanical behaviour of SCC. Due attention is given to the fact that the composition of SCC varies significantly. A wide range of mechanical properties are considered, including compressive strength, stress-st

Overview: Presents the latest research advances in imaging modalities for intravascular applications.Includes real imaging photos acquired by the authors using different imaging methods.Provides valuable guidan.This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the combined use of imaging modalities to obtain important functional and morphological information on intravascular disease and enhance disease detection. It discusses the integration of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS, intravascular optical coherence tomography (OCT), intravascular photoacoustic imaging (IVPA) and acoustic radiation for

Overview: The complete volume 12 of Medical Progress through Technology is devoted to the work of colleagues in Japan. Additionally, whole authority and responsibility both for the election of topics and for the reviewing procedure had been delegated to Guest Editors from Japan. What are the objectives of this special issue and why has Japan been elected to present itself in this way? International journals such as Medical Progress through Technology usually contain papers from authors all over the world. Such issues provide a rather comprehensive survey on different scientific projects but do

Overview: Presents theory and applications of Linear Hyperbolic Systems of Balance Laws.Written by an expert in the field.Presents theory, applications and models.Includes supplementary material: .Thismonograph focuses on the mathematical modeling of distributed parameter systemsin which mass/energy transport or wave propagation phenomena occur and whichare described by partial differential equations of hyperbolic type. The case oflinear (or linearized) 2 x 2 hyperbolic systems of balance laws isconsidered, i.e., systems described by two coupled linear partial differentialequations with two va

Overview: Gesamtübersicht über die Avantgarde bis zum Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts.Avantgarde als internationale Erscheinung.Formen und Gattungen aller KunstspartenVom Aufbruch der modernen Kunst und Literatur Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts bis zur Postmoderne das Lexikon gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die klassische Avantgarde und die neueren Avantgarde-Bewegungen. In rund 220 Artikeln erschließt es die Avantgarde in den einzelnen Ländern sowie die verschiedenen Gattungen und Kunstsparten, wie z. B. Architektur, Bildhauerei, Design, Film, Literatur, Malerei, Mode und Fotografie. Die Einträge

Overview: Military traces in the history of mathematics and in present day mathematics.Changes in the character of warfare under the influence of mathematical theory and mathematically supported technology.Ethi.Mathematics has for centuries been stimulated, financed and credited by military purposes. Some mathematical thoughts and mathematical technology have also been vital in war. During World War II mathematical work by the Anti-Hitler coalition was part of an aspiration to serve humanity and not help destroy it. At present, it is not an easy task to view the bellicose potentials of mathema

Overview: 978-3-642-82763-1978-3-642-82761-7

Overview: Vergleichender Überblick über Methodologien/Methoden der soziologischen Filmanalyse.Plausibilität verschiedener filmsoziologischer Methoden am Beispiel eines Films.Einordnungen und Deutungen des Films.Die Beiträge dieses Bandes gehen aus einem Symposion zur Analyse des Spielfilms CAPOTE (2005) hervor, das Vertreterinnen und Vertreter unterschiedlicher filmsoziologischer Methoden und Zugänge zusammengebracht hat. Die Fokussierung auf einen Film gewährt einen vergleichenden Blick auf verschiedene Verfahren und die Reichweite ihrer Interpretations- und Deutungspotenziale. Unter den beha