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Cover of Total Synthesis of (±)-Maoecrystal V
by Jianxian Gong
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014

In this thesis, the author describes the total synthesis of natural product Maoecrystal V in detail. In the first part of the thesis, the author introduces the research background and reviews the research progress in total synthesis of Maoecrystal V. In the second part, the author develops a novel...
Cover of Fluorescent Methods to Study Biological Membranes
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012

Biological membranes play a central role in cell structure, shape and functions. However, investigating the membrane bilayer has proved to be difficult due to its highly dynamic and anisotropic structure, which generates steep gradients at the nanometer scale. Due to the decisive impact of recently...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

Evacuating a city is a complex problem that involves issues of governance, preparedness education, warning, information sharing, population dynamics, resilience and recovery. As natural and anthropogenic threats to cities grow, it is an increasingly pressing problem for policy makers and practitioners. The...
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Architecture Principles

The Cornerstones of Enterprise Architecture

by Danny Greefhorst, Erik Proper
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011

Enterprises, from small to large, evolve continuously. As a result, their structures are transformed and extended continuously. Without some means of control, such changes are bound to lead to an overly complex, uncoordinated and heterogeneous environment that is hard to manage and hard to adapt to...
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Transforming Field and Service Operations

Methodologies for Successful Technology-Driven Business Transformation

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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014

The drive to realise operational efficiencies, improve customer service, develop new markets and accelerate the introduction of new products has substantially increased the complexity of field service operations. To maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of these operations, organisations have...
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Landslide Science and Practice

Volume 6: Risk Assessment, Management and Mitigation

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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2013

This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the sixth: 1. Landslide Inventory...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014

This book provides critical reviews of the role of neurotrophins and their receptors in a wide variety of diseases including neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington’s syndrome, cognitive function, psychiatric disorders such as clinical depression, Rett syndrome, motoneurone disease, spinal cord...
Cover of Evolution of Fungi and Fungal-Like Organisms
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011

Based on sequence analyses of many different genes, the past decade has provided us with a profound knowledge of fungal systematics and phylogeny. In addition, a number of sequences of complete fungal genomes have been identified and several others will soon follow. In this volume, leading experts...
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Dictyostelids

Evolution, Genomics and Cell Biology

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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013

Since their discovery in 1869, the dictyostelids have attracted the attention of scientists in a wide variety of fields. This interest has stemmed from their peculiar lifestyle and developmental properties, which were shaped by the evolutionary forces that generated multicellularity during eukaryotic...
Cover of Rethinking Energy Security in Asia: A Non-Traditional View of Human Security
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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...
Cover of Energy and Non-Traditional Security (NTS) in Asia
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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...
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Contaminant Geochemistry

Interactions and Transport in the Subsurface Environment

by Brian Berkowitz, Ishai Dror, Bruno Yaron
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”...
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Inverse Methods

Interdisciplinary Elements of Methodology, Computation, and Applications

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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...
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Is this Cell a Human Being?

Exploring the Status of Embryos, Stem Cells and Human-Animal Hybrids

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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...
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