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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Only recently have we begun to appreciate the role of microbiome in health and disease. Environmental factors and change of life style including diet significantly shape human microbiome that in turn appears to modify gut barrier function affecting nutrient & electrolyte absorption and inflammation....
Advice to the Healer
On the Art of Caring
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This book introduces the origins of important teachings that form the basis of medicine and related healing professions. Reinforcing the humanistic side of patient care, this book replicates the tips, anecdotes and aphorisms often related by mentors and educators to medical students, residents, and...
Molecular Evolution of Viruses — Past and Present
Evolution of Viruses by Acquisition of Cellular RNA and DNA
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Suhail Ahmad
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
This second edition of the Manual of Clinical Dialysis is a concise and well-illustrated guide to all aspects of dialysis. All chapters have been revised and present a complete overview of the techniques, processes and equipment involved in clinical dialysis as well as an overview of the complications...
The Beginnings of Political Economy
Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
Ju¨ rgen G. Backhaus 1 Johann Heinrich Gottlob (von) Justi was born in 1702 in Bru¨ cken in Prussia (county of Sangerhausen), studied law and cameral sciences in Wittenberg and Jena, yet had to leave the university, entered the Prussian military service, was captured during the Austrian war of succession...
Ball Lightning
An Unsolved Problem in Atmospheric Physics
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2006
Down comes a deluge of sonorous hail, Or prone-descending rain. Wide-rent, the clouds Pour a whole flood, and yet, its flame unquenched, Th’unconquerable lightning struggles through. Ragged and fierce, or in red whirling balls, And fires the mountains with redoubled rage. Black from the stroke,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Proceedings of the First Symposium held in Yamagata, Japan, June 16, 1994
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Our purposes in this preface are, first, to reiterate our view of Current Ornithology's role; second, to describe briefly the contents of this vol ume; and third, to acknowledge the generous help of our Editorial Board and of the reviewers we have consulted about the contents of Volumes 13 and 14....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The Epididymis: From Molecules to Clinical Practice
A Comprehensive Survey of the Efferent Ducts, the Epididymis and the Vas Deferens
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since the late 1960s, there has been an acceleration of research focused on understanding how the efferent ducts, the epididymis, and the vas deferens function with respect to the maturation and storage of spermatozoa and as hormone dependent tissues. Another major interest in the epididymis is that...
Expertise in Mathematics Instruction
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Accumulated research findings in past decades have led to the common knowledge that teachers’ professional knowledge is essential to effective classroom instruction. However, there is still very limited understanding about the nature of teachers’ expertise in mathematics instruction. Expertise...
by Stefan Bornheim
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Organizational Form of Family Business attempts to develop an evolutionary family business theory, positioning family businesses as a distinct organizational form (based on conjectures from organizational ecology). An open and uninhibited playing field - achieved through utilizing a grounded theory...
Mobile Learning
Structures, Agency, Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As with television and computers before it, today’s mobile technology challenges educators to respond and ensure their work is relevant to students. What’s changed is that this portable, cross-contextual way of engaging with the world is driving a more proactive approach to learning on the part...
Calculus Renewal
Issues for Undergraduate Mathematics Education in the Next Decade
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Calculus Reform. Or, as many would prefer, calculus renewal. These are terms that, for better or worse, have become a part of the vocabulary in mathematics departments across the country. The movement to change the nature of the calculus course at the undergraduate and secondary levels has sparked...