Springer Singapore: 3660 books
Exercise for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Treatment
From Molecular to Clinical, Part 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
The book provides an intensive overview on exercise for cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment, from basic research to clinical practice. The volume firstly summarizes the acute and chronic response to exercise. Secondly, evidence for exercise as medicine for the heart based on clinical studies...
Circular RNAs
Biogenesis and Functions
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
This book provides an essential overview of the rapidly advancing field of circular RNAs – newly discovered RNAs that are generated by back-splicing precursor mRNA and perform regulatory functions in many biological processes. Although many aspects of circular RNAs’ biology and mechanisms of gene...
Exosomes in Cardiovascular Diseases
Biomarkers, Pathological and Therapeutic Effects
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The book provides and intensive overview on exosomes in cardiovascular diseases, its potential as biomarkers, as well as pathological and therapeutic effects. It firstly describes the general aspects of exosomes including the definition, formation and secretion of exosomes and highlight their roles...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This book focuses on neuro-engineering and neural computing, a multi-disciplinary field of research attracting considerable attention from engineers, neuroscientists, microbiologists and material scientists. It explores a range of topics concerning the design and development of innovative neural and...
by Takeshi Kawanaka, Yasushi Hazama
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This study explores why democratization does not necessarily result in inequality reduction in emerging democracies and reveals the determinants of income inequality in emerging democracies, where the average level of inequality continues to be higher and where there is a larger variance of inequality...
Shifts in the Field of Mathematics Education
Stephen Lerman and the turn to the social
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2014
Professor Stephen Lerman has been a leader in the field of mathematics education for thirty years. His work is extensive, making many significant contributions to a number of key areas of research. Stephen retired from South Bank University in 2012, where he had worked for over 20 years, though he...
Becoming ‘Good Muslim’
The Tablighi Jamaat in the UK and Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The book uses an ethnographic approach to explore why the Tablighi Jamaat movement remains so successful in contemporary times. It shows that this success results from the positive image that it cultivates, and the systematic preaching activities of Tablighi Jamaat followers, and that the organisation’s...
by Vinit Kumar Gunjan, Fahimuddin Shaik, C Venkatesh
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
This book highlights the experimental investigations that have been carried out on magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography (MRI & CT) images using state-of-the-art Computational Image processing techniques, and tabulates the statistical values wherever necessary. In a very simple and...
The Goals of Sustainable Development
Responsibility and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
This book analyses various aspects of social responsibility, corporate responsibility, sustainability and governance. Rather than focusing narrowly on a single perspective, it investigates a number of problems and scenarios that can all be considered an aspect of one of these fields, and shows how...
Academic Governance in the Contemporary University
Perspectives from Anglophone nations
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book addresses three central questions in contemporary university governance: (1) How and why has academic governance in Anglophone nations changed in recent years and what impact have these changes had on current practices? (2) How do power relations within universities affect decisions about...
Smart Secure Systems – IoT and Analytics Perspective
Second International Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies. ICIIT 2017, Chennai, India, December 20-22, 2017, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies, ICIIT 2017, held in Chennai, India, in December 2017.
The 20 full papers and 7 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. They...
by Soraj Hongladarom
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book offers a new way to justify privacy based on a theory derived from Buddhist insights. It uses insights obtained from the Buddhist teachings on Non-Self to create an alternative theory of privacy. In doing so, the author first spells out the inherent differences between the Buddhist insights...
Inequality, Poverty and Development in India
Focus on the North Eastern Region
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This book reviews the fulfillment of two Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), namely poverty and inequality, in the Indian subcontinent. It examines the complex interplay among development, inequality and poverty in relation to corruption, environmental resource management, agricultural adjustment...
Operational Modal Analysis
Modeling, Bayesian Inference, Uncertainty Laws
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
This book presents operational modal analysis (OMA), employing a coherent and comprehensive Bayesian framework for modal identification and covering stochastic modeling, theoretical formulations, computational algorithms, and practical applications. Mathematical similarities and philosophical differences...