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View book details for Bioethics Education in a Global Perspective
Challenges in global bioethics
This book critically analyses experiences with bioethics education in various countries across the world and identifies common challenges and interests. It presents ethics teaching experiences in nine different countries and the basic question of the goals of bioethics education. It …
View book details for Okinawa Under Occupation
McDonaldization and Resistance to Neoliberal Propaganda
This book examines classical and modern interpretations of education in the context of contemporary Okinawa as a site of neoliberal military-industrial development. Considering how media educate consumers to accept the plans and policies of the powerful, it questions current concepts …
View book details for Rethinking Taxation in Latin America
Reform and Challenges in Times of Uncertainty
This study of taxation in Latin America takes a novel approach to the subject, using a framework that posits three dimensions for studying taxeshistorical, relational, and transnational. The book argues that: first, taxation should be understood as a relational concept …
View book details for Atlas of Male Genital Disorders
A Useful Aid for Clinical Diagnosis
Male genital disorders represent a common issue in medical practice, especially in the dermatological setting. Correct clinical evaluation of these disorders is essential when addressing the diagnosis, which in some cases may require histopathological confirmation. Depending on the disease, early …
This book presents how multimedia data analysis, information retrieval and indexing are central for comprehensive, personalized, adaptive quality care and the prolongation of independent living at home. With sophisticated technologies in monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment, multimodal data plays an increasingly …
View book details for Society - Water - Technology
A Critical Appraisal of Major Water Engineering Projects
This book presents the results of the Interdisciplinary Research Group "Society Water Technology" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. It describes interdisciplinary evaluation criteria for major water engineering projects (MWEPs) and portrays an application to the Lower Jordan …
This collection investigates the social and cultural history of trauma to offer a comparative analysis of its individual, communal, and political effects in the twentieth century. Particular attention is given to witness testimony, to procedures of personal memory and collective …
This volume examines the French Revolutions relationship with and impact on religious communities and religion in a transnational perspective. It challenges the traditional secular narrative of the French Revolution, exploring religious experience and representation during the Revolution, as well as …
View book details for Poland in the Irish Nationalist Imagination, 17721922
Anti-Colonialism within Europe
This book explores the assertions made by Irish nationalists of a parallel between Ireland under British rule and Poland under Russian, Prussian and Austrian rule in the long nineteenth century. Poland loomed large in the Irish nationalist imagination, despite the …
This book overviews cancer immunity from broad scientific fields, based on the concept that cancer is a sort of by-product of infection, inflammation, and host immune response. The innate and acquired arms of the immune system mainly participate in tumor …
This book is a collection of short accounts of the lives and works of surgeons who began to use techniques in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that were to form the basis of reconstructive and cosmetic surgery and give rise …
This book presents the consolidated acoustic data for all phones in Standard Colloquial Bengali (SCB), commonly known as Bangla, a Bengali language used by 350 million people in India, Bangladesh, and the Bengali diaspora. The book analyzes the real speech …
View book details for Japanese Advance into the Pacific Ocean
The Albatross and the Great Bird Rush
This book asserts that the albatross was the reason for the advance of the Japanese into the isolated islands in the Pacific after the abolition of the Japanese closed-door policy that had been in effect from the seventeenth century to …
View book details for Elastic Optical Networks
Architectures, Technologies, and Control
This book presents advances in the field of optical networks - specifically on research and applications in elastic optical networks (EON). The material reflects the authors extensive research and industrial activities and includes contributions from preeminent researchers and practitioners in …
View book details for Seismic Design of RC Buildings
Theory and Practice
This book is intended to serve as a textbook for engineering courses on earthquake resistant design. The book covers important attributes for seismic design such as material properties, damping, ductility, stiffness and strength. The subject coverage commences with simple concepts …
View book details for A Solar Car Primer
A Guide to the Design and Construction of Solar-Powered Racing Vehicles
This exciting primer on Solar Racing literally starts from the ground up, describing how the interactions of a vehicle with its environment circumscribe its ultimate success, from aerodynamics to resistance and propulsion. By demonstrating how to mathematically model these underlying …
View book details for Cell Polarity 1
Biological Role and Basic Mechanisms
This work provides a state-of-the art overview on the most relevant aspects of cell polarity.Volume 1 addresses cell polarity and cell migration (front-rear polarity), cell polarity and barrier formation (apico-basal polarity) and neuronal polarity. It particularly focuses on cell polarity …
View book details for Advances in Structural Engineering
Dynamics, Volume Two
The book presents research papers presented by academicians, researchers, and practicing structural engineers from India and abroad in the recently held Structural Engineering Convention (SEC) 2014 at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi during 22 24 December 2014. The book is …
View book details for Imaging with Electromagnetic Spectrum
Applications in Food and Agriculture
This book demonstrates how imaging techniques, applying different frequency bands from the electromagnetic spectrum, are used in scientific research. Illustrated with numerous examples this book is structured according to the different radiation bands: From Gamma-rays over UV and IR to …
This book introduces the reader to modern computational and statistical tools for translational epigenomics research. Over the last decade, epigenomics has emerged as a key area of molecular biology, epidemiology and genome medicine. Epigenomics not only offers us a deeper …
View book details for Aerospace Marketing Management
A Handbook for the Entire Value Chain
This book presents an overall picture of both B2B and B2C marketing strategies, concepts and tools, in the aeronautics sector. This is a significant update to an earlier book successfully published in the nineties which was released in Europe, China, …
View book details for Phenotyping for Plant Breeding
Applications of Phenotyping Methods for Crop Improvement
Plant phenotyping is the thorough assessment of plant traits such as growth, development, adaptation, yield, quality, tolerance, resistance, architecture, and the basic measurement of individual quantitative parameters that form the basis for understanding of traits. Genetic approaches to understand plant …
View book details for QoS and Energy Management in Cognitive Radio Network
Case Study Approach
This book covers the important aspects involved in making cognitive radio devices portable, mobile and green, while also extending their service life. At the same time, it presents a variety of established theories and practices concerning cognitive radio from academia …
This book shines a spotlight on software-centric networks and their emerging service environments. The authors examine the road ahead for connectivity, for both humans and 'things', considering the rapid changes that have shaken the industry. The book analyses major catalytic …
View book details for Urbanization in Asia
Governance, Infrastructure and the Environment
This work focuses on urban governance in the developing world, its aim being to bring a holistic perspective to the debate on urban governance in Asia and around the globe. It has been divided into three sections: The first section …
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