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Release Date: July 8, 2014
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Release Date: July 8, 2014
This volume in the Springer Series in Evolutionary Psychology presents a state of the art view of the topic of sexuality and sexual behavior drawing on theoretical constructs and research of noted individuals in the field. Comprehensive and multi-disciplinary, this book seeks to provide a broad overview...
Vision Loss in Older Adults
Nursing Assessment and Care Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2006
Springer Publishing is happy to note the use of this title in the Nursing Education of America CEU classes!
This helpful and practical book provides an overview of vision problems in the older adult, ranging from retinopathies and age-related macular degeneration to cataracts and diabetic retinopathy....
Pancreatic Disease
State of the Art and Future Aspects of Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the past several years much progress has been made in understanding the basic mechanisms of pancreatic physiology and the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of pancreatic disease. A symposium took place in Munich on 18-19 September 1998 that aimed at summarizing current knowledge of the exocrine...
by Youxian Sun, Jiming Chen, Junkun Li
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
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Release Date: February 19, 2014
This Springer Brief presents recent research results on area coverage for intruder detection from an energy-efficient perspective. These results cover a variety of topics, including environmental surveillance and security monitoring. The authors also provide the background and range of applications...
Robot Operating System (ROS)
The Complete Reference (Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
This second volume is a continuation of the successful first volume of this Springer book, and as well as addressing broader topics it puts a particular focus on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with Robot Operating System (ROS). Consisting of three types of chapters: tutorials, cases studies, and...
Digital Education: At the MOOC Crossroads Where the Interests of Academia and Business Converge
6th European MOOCs Stakeholders Summit, EMOOCs 2019, Naples, Italy, May 20–22, 2019, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2019
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Massive Open Online Courses, EMOOCs 2019, held in Naples, Italy, in May 2019.
The 15 full and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. Massive Open Online Courses...
Correlated Random Systems: Five Different Methods
CIRM Jean-MorletChair, Spring 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This volume presents five different methods recently developed to tackle the large scale behavior of highly correlated random systems, such as spin glasses, random polymers, local times and loop soups and random matrices. These methods, presented in a series of lectures delivered within the Jean-Morlet initiative...
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Release Date: September 6, 2012
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Release Date: September 6, 2012
The second edition of Observing and Measuring Visual Double Stars (2004) is the definitive book for those who are serious about this fascinating aspect of astronomy. It deals with equipment (you can start modestly with commercial or even home-made instruments), observing methods using binoculars upwards...
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Release Date: July 10, 2010
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Release Date: July 10, 2010
Our planet is currently experiencing substantial changes due to natural phen- ena and direct or indirect human interactions. Observations from space are the only means to monitor and quantify these changes on a global and long-term p- spective. Continuous time series of a large set of Earth system...
by Constantin A. Rebeiz
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
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Release Date: October 28, 2013
Heme and chlorophyll (Chl) are porphyrins. Porphyrins (also referred to as tetrapyrroles) are essential for life in the biosphere. Chlorophyll catalyzes the conversion of solar energy to chemical energy via the process of photosynthesis. Organic life in the biosphere is made possible by consumption...
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Release Date: November 17, 2014
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Release Date: November 17, 2014
The volumes of this classic series, now referred to simply as "Zechmeister" after its founder, L. Zechmeister, have appeared under the Springer Imprint ever since the series' inauguration in 1938. It is therefore not really surprising to find out that the list of contributing authors, who...
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Release Date: November 11, 2013
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Release Date: November 11, 2013
The study of signal transduction mechanisms has become one of the most important branches of biomedical science, indispensable to understanding the normal actions of hormones, neurotransmitters and other extracellular signaling molecules as well as many pathophysiological processes, including inflammation...
The Many Faces of Youth Crime
Contrasting Theoretical Perspectives on Juvenile Delinquency across Countries and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of the second International Self-Report Delinquency study (ISRD-2). An earlier volume, Juvenile Delinquency in Europe and Beyond (Springer, 2010) focused mainly on the findings with regard to delinquency, victimization and substance use in each of...
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Release Date: December 6, 2012
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Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Medicolegal Library is the first and only series of its kind. Its importance is self-evident. During the last decade, science, especial ly medical practice, has become an increasingly complex under taking. Recent dramatic developments in medicine have given rise to both theoretical controversies...