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The Psychology of Asian Learners
A Festschrift in Honor of David Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
This book celebrates the scholarly achievements of Prof. David A. Watkins, who has pioneered research on the psychology of Asian learners, and helps readers grasp the cognitive, motivational, developmental, and socio-cultural aspects of Asian learners learning experiences. A wide range of empirical...
Success in Higher Education
Transitions to, within and from University
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book explores successful transition strategies to, within and from university for students from around the globe, with Macquarie University, a large Australian university, studied in depth. It addresses the meaning of success taking a variety of perspectives, including student, staff and employer...
Mobile Learning in Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region
Harnessing Trends and Challenging Orthodoxies
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
If mobile technologies are to be effectively used in education, how do we best implement sustainable mobile solutions for teaching and learning? The aim of this handbook is to support educators and policy makers who are investing in innovations in digital education to develop effective and sustainable...
Chinese Students' Higher Achievement in Mathematics
Comparison of Mathematics Education of Australian and Chinese Primary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
This book shares insights into the achievement gap in mathematics between East Asian and Western countries, and the ways to improve students’ mathematics achievements. Especially, it highlights the importance to integrate case studies with large-scale international comparative studies in general,...
Hermitian–Grassmannian Submanifolds
Daegu, Korea, July 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This book presents the proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Hermitian Symmetric Spaces and Submanifolds, which was held at the Kyungpook National University from June 21 to 25, 2016. The Workshop was supported by the Research Institute of Real and Complex Manifolds (RIRCM) and the National...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This book is a practical guide to the evidence-based medicine (EBM) research methods that are applicable to Chinese medicine (CM). It includes 3 parts: clinical research, healthcare data research and laboratory research. In each chapter, it explains how to acquire, analyze and evaluate a specific...
Youth Homelessness in Late Modernity
Reflexive Identities and Moral Worth
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This book explores the identities, embodied experiences, and personal relationships of young people experiencing homelessness, and analyses these in relation to the material and symbolic position that youth homelessness occupies in modern societies. Drawing on empirical research conducted in both...
by Hong-Ki Lee, Hee-Jin Kim, Jisoo Kim
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
This book, containing more than 200 cadaveric photos and 200 illustrations, aims to familiarize physicians practicing botulinum toxin type A (BoT-A) and filler injection with the anatomy of the facial mimetic muscles, vessels, and soft tissues in order to enable them to achieve optimum cosmetic results...
Interactive Segmentation Techniques
Algorithms and Performance Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
This book focuses on interactive segmentation techniques, which have been extensively studied in recent decades. Interactive segmentation emphasizes clear extraction of objects of interest, whose locations are roughly indicated by human interactions based on high level perception. This book will first...
More Playful User Interfaces
Interfaces that Invite Social and Physical Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
This book covers the latest advances in playful user interfaces – interfaces that invite social and physical interaction. These new developments include the use of audio, visual, tactile and physiological sensors to monitor, provide feedback and anticipate the behavior of human users. The decreasing...
Anti-Cancer N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Gold(III), Gold(I) and Platinum(II)
Thiol “Switch-on” Fluorescent Probes, Thioredoxin Reductase Inhibitors and Endoplasmic Reticulum Targeting Agents
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This thesis focuses on the development of gold- and non-classical platinum-based anti-cancer agents that display distinctively different anti-cancer mechanisms compared to the commonly used cisplatin. These metal complexes contain N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands which are able to form strong...
by Rohit Srivastava, Narendra Yadav, Jayeeta Chattopadhyay
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The book introduces the oscillatory reaction and pattern formation in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction that became model for investigating a wide range of intriguing pattern formations in chemical systems. So many modifications in classic version of BZ reaction have been carried out in various...
The Biophysics of Cell Membranes
Biological Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This volume focuses on the modulation of biological membranes by specific biophysical properties. The readers are introduced to emerging biophysical approaches that mimick specific states (like membrane lipid asymmetry, membrane curvature, lipid flip-flop, lipid phase separation) that are relevant...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This edited book contains a compilation of 14 advanced academic chapters dealing with the structure and function of membrane protein complexes. This rapidly advancing important field of study closely parallels those on soluble protein complexes, and viral protein and nucleoprotein complexes.
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