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by Shoko Konishi, Emi Tamaki, Jun Yoshinaga
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
This book presents original data on the proximate determinants of fertility in Japan. Its goal is to disaggregate low fertility levels in Japan into physiological, behavioral, and social components. Further, the book reviews previous studies on the proximate determinants of fertility in Japan, and...
Calculus for Cognitive Scientists
Partial Differential Equation Models
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
This book shows cognitive scientists in training how mathematics, computer science and science can be usefully and seamlessly intertwined. It is a follow-up to the first two volumes on mathematics for cognitive scientists, and includes the mathematics and computational tools needed to understand...
by Mohammad Javed Ali
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Written by an expert in the field, this book is a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the evaluation and management of lacrimal drainage disorders. Lacrimal disorders are one of the most common conditions encountered not only by oculoplastic surgeons and general ophthalmologists, but also by otorhinolaryngologists...
Zic family
Evolution, Development and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive overview of ZIC-family research. Part1 summarizes the ZIC family in animal evolution and development and presents an overall picture of the ZIC family gene structure in eumetazoan animals, providing an evolutionary hypothesis and reviewing the studies on the role...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This book discusses the two different cellular approaches that are pursued in regenerative medicine: cell therapy and tissue engineering. It examines in detail the therapeutic application of hematopoietic stem cells in marrow regeneration, multi-potent mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), also referred...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
This book covers the latest research on male infertility. The topics discussed range from understanding the genetic basis of infertility, to its causes and treatment. Since infertility is also of great interest to the general public, the book also includes a detailed description of what infertility...
High-level Political Appointments in the Philippines
Patronage, Emotion and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book questions the belief that patronage explains poor governance and weak organizations. Its focus is on high-level political appointees in the Philippines, but its implications for development processes and policy are far-reaching. Patronage stimulates the emergence of democracy and welfare,...
Managing Uncertainty in Crisis
Exploring the Impact of Institutionalization on Organizational Sensemaking
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book studies the variety of organizational strategies selected to cope with critical uncertainties during crises. This research formulates and applies an institutional sense-making model to explain the selection of strategies for coping with uncertainties during crises to answer the question...
DJ-1/PARK7 Protein
Parkinson’s Disease, Cancer and Oxidative Stress-Induced Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This book reviews the functions and roles of DJ-1 in various oxidative stress-related diseases and applications of DJ-1 and its binding compounds to the diseases. The *DJ-1 *gene was first found to be a novel oncogene in 1997 and later, in 2003, also found to be a causative gene for a familial form...
Computational Intelligence Techniques for Comparative Genomics
Dedicated to Prof. Allam Appa Rao on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This Brief highlights Informatics and related techniques to Computer Science Professionals, Engineers, Medical Doctors, Bioinformatics researchers and other interdisciplinary researchers. Chapters include the Bioinformatics of Diabetes and several computational algorithms and statistical analysis...
A Paradise Lost
The Imperial Garden Yuanming Yuan
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book is aimed at readers and researchers who are interested in Chinese garden architecture, the rise and fall of Yuanming Yuan and the history of the Qing dynasty. It is the first comprehensive study of the palatial garden complex in a Western language, and is amply illustrated with photographs...
Data Engineering and Intelligent Computing
Proceedings of IC3T 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
The book is a compilation of high-quality scientific papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Computer & Communication Technologies (IC3T 2016). The individual papers address cutting-edge technologies and applications of soft computing, artificial intelligence and communication....
Learning to Teach with Assessment
A Student Teaching Experience in China
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
This ethnography asks the question, what does learning to teach mean to student teachers and to those around them in an exam-driven rural school in China? The author writes of the process of using the assessment as a tool for teacher learning, understanding disadvantaged students in the community...
by Ali Alsamawi, Darian McBain, Joy Murray
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2017
This book discussing in detail the Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) of the global economy using the comprehensive Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) technique.
The content is presented in two parts, the first of which offers an introduction to social accounting and how it has been developed...