Springer Berlin Heidelberg: 10075 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Undeniably widespread and powerful as it is, the Internet is not almighty: it can reach as high as the skies (cloud computing), but it cannot escape competition. Yet, safeguarding competition in “the network of networks” is not without challenges: not only are competitive processes in platform-based...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
This book is one of the outputs of the conference on ‘Environmental Change, Forced Migration, and Social Vulnerability’ (EFMSV) held in Bonn in October 2008. Migration is one of the oldest adaptation measures of humanity. Indeed, without migration the multitude of civilizations and interactions...
by Jian-Liang Lin, Hong-Sen Yan
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
This book presents a systematic design methodology for decoding the interior structure of the Antikythera mechanism, an astronomical device from ancient Greece. The historical background, surviving evidence and reconstructions of the mechanism are introduced, and the historical development of astronomical...
Encoding and Decoding of Emotional Speech
A Cross-Cultural and Multimodal Study between Chinese and Japanese
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
This book addresses the subject of emotional speech, especially its encoding and decoding process during interactive communication, based on an improved version of Brunswik’s Lens Model. The process is shown to be influenced by the speaker’s and the listener’s linguistic and cultural backgrounds,...
Pancreatology
From Bench to Bedside
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Basic research discusses the implication of pancreatic stress protein in acute pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer and their possible role as therapeutic targets. Also, very original results show the unexpected role of lipids as mediators during acute pancreatitis. Gene screening strategies allow the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
The current volume is a collection of papers representing the most recent developments in linguistics, specifically in the fields of language, discourse and translation studies. It includes papers representative of traditionally distinguished linguistic subdisciplines such as phonetics and phonology,...
The German Energy Transition
Design, Implementation, Cost and Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The book presents a comprehensive and systematic account of the concept, the current status and the costs of the German energy transition: the Energiewende. Written by an insider who has been working in the German energy industry for over 20 years, it follows a strictly non-political, neutral approach...
International Neurolaw
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Whereas the past few years have repeatedly been referred to as the “era of biotechnology”, most recently the impression has emerged that at least the same degree of attention is being paid to the latest developments in the field of neurosciences. It has now become nearly impossible to maintain...
by Ricardo M. F. Martins, Nuno C. C. Lourenço, Nuno C.G. Horta
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
This book presents an innovative methodology for the automatic generation of analog integrated circuits (ICs) layout, based on template descriptions and on evolutionary computational techniques. A design automation tool, LAYGEN II was implemented to validate the proposed approach giving special emphasis...
Nanoscience
The Science of the Small in Physics, Engineering, Chemistry, Biology and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Nanoscience stands out for its interdisciplinarity. Barriers between disciplines disappear and the fields tend to converge at the very smallest scale, where basic principles and tools are universal. Novel properties are inherent to nanosized systems due to quantum effects and a reduction in dimensionality:...
Basic Sciences in Ophthalmology
Physics and Chemistry
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Basic Sciences in Ophthalmology aims to link clinical ophthalmology directly to its basic science roots. This first volume describes the physics and chemistry required for a sound understanding of modern ophthalmology. The book opens with an extensive discussion of the interaction of light with matter...
Biophysics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Biophysics is the science of physical principles underlying all processes of life, including the dynamics and kinetics of biological systems.
This fully revised 2nd English edition is an introductory text that spans all steps of biological organization, from the molecular, to the organism level,...
Laser Shock Processing of FCC Metals
Mechanical Properties and Micro-structural Strengthening Mechanism
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Laser shock processing (LSP) is a new and promising surface treatment technique for improving the fatigue durability, corrosion, wear resistance and other mechanical properties of metals and alloys. During LSP, the generated shock wave can introduce a deep compressive residual stress into the material,...
Surface Tension in Microsystems
Engineering Below the Capillary Length
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
This book describes how surface tension effects can be used by engineers to provide mechanical functions in miniaturized products (<1 mm). Even if precursors of this field such as Jurin or Laplace already date back to the 18th century, describing surface tension effects from a mechanical perspective...