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Cognitive and Affective Aspects in Science Education Research
Selected Papers from the ESERA 2015 Conference
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This edited volume brings forth intriguing, novel and innovative research in the field of science education. The chapters in the book deal with a wide variety of topics and research approaches, conducted in various contexts and settings, all adding a strong contribution to knowledge on science teaching...
A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts
Volume I: The Heavens and The Earth
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This book provides a chronological introduction to the sciences of astronomy and cosmology based on the reading and analysis of significant selections from classic texts, such as Ptolemy’s The Almagest, Kepler’s Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, Shapley’s Galaxies and Lemaître’s The Primeval...
Exchange and Transport of Air Pollutants over Complex Terrain and the Sea
Field Measurements and Numerical Modelling; Ship, Ocean Platform and Laboratory Measurements
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As the regional models required to understand and control the generation, distribution and deposition of air pollutants become more precise, the need to understand the detailed effects of hilly and mountainous terrain becomes more acute. The Alpine regions and the mountainous Mediterranean coasts...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins’ papers in the 1970s. Here, both Wright’s ‘etiological theory of...
by Dan Zhang, Li Yu
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
This book, written by experts in the field, is based on the latest research on the analysis and synthesis of switched time-delay systems. It covers the stability, filtering, fault detection and control problems, which are studied using the average dwell time approach. It presents both the continuous-time...
by Jacques Ricard
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
The exponential increase in computing power in the late twentieth century has allowed researchers to gather, process and analyze large volumes of information and construct rational paradigms of systems. Life sciences are no exception and computing advances have led to the birth of fields such as functional...
Microclimate for Cultural Heritage
Conservation, Restoration, and Maintenance of Indoor and Outdoor Monuments
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Microclimate for Cultural Heritage: Conservation and Restoration of Indoor and Outdoor Monuments, Second Edition, is a cutting-edge, theoretical, and practical handbook concerning microclimate, environmental factors, and conservation of cultural heritage. Although the focus is on cultural heritage...
Hydrologic Modeling
Select Proceedings of ICWEES-2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This book contains seven parts. The first part deals with some aspects of rainfall analysis, including rainfall probability distribution, local rainfall interception, and analysis for reservoir release. Part 2 is on evapotranspiration and discusses development of neural network models, errors, and...
Health
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
From antiquity to the early modern period, many philosophers also studied anatomy and medicine, or were medical doctors themselves -- yet the history of philosophy and of medicine are pursued as separate disciplines. This book departs from that practice, gathering contributions by both historians...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Autophagy and Signaling is an up-to-date overview of the many signaling pathways regulating autophagy in response to different cellular needs. Discussion includes the status and future directions of autophagy signaling research with respect to different aspects of health and disease. These include...
by Daniel L. Purich
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2002
The critically acclaimed laboratory standard for more than forty years, Methods in Enzymology is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, each volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike. Now with...
The Technique of Thought
Nancy, Laruelle, Malabou, and Stiegler after Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Interrogating the work of four contemporary French philosophers to rethink philosophy’s relationship to science and science’s relationship to reality
The Technique of Thought explores the relationship between philosophy and science as articulated in the work of four contemporary French...
Parks and Carrying Capacity
Commons Without Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
How much can we use the environmwithout spoiling what we find so valuable about it? Determining the carrying capacity of parks and related areas is a perennial question whose urgency grows each year as the number of visits continues to increase. Parks and Carrying Capacity represents a comprehensive...
Social Solutions for Climate Change
How to inspire action through social media
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Do you have an important message to communicate with the world, but don’t know how? Are you a researcher, scientist, or environmentalist who has real solutions to affect global change and potentially turn things around? Have you developed an online forum to share that knowledge? Publishing your...