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This book focusses on the development of biomedical membranes and their applications for (bio)artificial organs. It covers the state of art and main challenges for applying synthetic membranes in these organs. It also highlights the importance of accomplishing an integration …
World Scientific Publishing Company
The potential for energy transformation from geothermal heat is limitless. For millennia natural sources of this energy, in the form of thermal springs, have been used by populations for heating, cooking and bathing. Modern-day usage has been extended to electricity …
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A History: Third Edition
Naval Institute Press
Since 1977 Nathan Miller's concise history of the U.S. Navy has been the standard historical survey read by plebes at the U.S. Naval Academy. Now this highly readable account of the navy, its men and women, ships and aircraft, wars …
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Eisenhower and the Quest for Aerospace Security
Naval Institute Press
The Other Space Race is a unique look at the early U.S. space program and how it both shaped and was shaped by politics during the Cold War. Eisenhowers New Look expanded the role of the Air Force in national …
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Prisoners at Sea in the Pacific War
Naval Institute Press
Now available in paperback, Death on the Hellships chronicles the true dimensions of the Allied POW experience at sea. It is a disturbing story; many believe the Bataan Death March even pales by comparison. Survivors describe their ordeal in the …
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Women and Food Security in Southeast Asia
World Scientific Publishing Company
Research on women and food security in Southeast Asia has been limited. The collection of chapters in Ensuring a Square Meal: Women and Food Security in Southeast Asia is one of the first attempts at providing a lens into the …
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Lessons from the Plaza Accord after Thirty Years
Columbia University Press
In September 1985, emissaries of the world's five leading industrial nationsthe United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Japansecretly gathered at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and unveiled an unprecedented effort to correct the largest set of current account …
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The Future of the Two Koreas
Columbia University Press
On the Korean peninsula one of the greatest success stories of the postwar era confronts a famine-riddenand possibly nuclear-armedtotalitarian state. The stakes are extraordinarily high for both North and South Korea and for countries such as the United States that …
Columbia University Press
Based on a conference held in September 2005 on the future of the International Monetary Fund, this important new book includes an overview of the challenges facing the IMF today. In addition, the authors offer a wide range of views …
Columbia University Press
After nearly five decades of insulation from world markets, state controls, and slow growth, India embarked in 1991 on a process of liberalization of controls and progressive integration with the global economy in an effort to put its economy on …
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Foreign Economic Policy for the Next Decade
Columbia University Press
What are the key foreign economic policy issues facing the United States in the second half of this decade? How can the administration and Congress meet the economic challenges that lie ahead? This new book analyzes the dramatic importance of …
World Scientific Publishing Company
Written by 30 worldwide leading scientists, experts and medical doctors, this comprehensive book provides a broad, multi-disciplinary overview on hemoperfusion. The research of the subject was started by TMS Chang the pioneer and inventor of microcapsules who is well known …
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Data uncertainty widely exists in many applications, and an uncertain data stream is a series of uncertain tuples that arrive rapidly. However, traditional techniques for deterministic data streams cannot be applied to deal with data uncertainty directly due to the …
View book details for PIONEERS IN MICROBIOLOGY: THE HUMAN SIDE OF SCIENCE
The Human Side of Science
World Scientific Publishing Company
Pasteurization, penicillin, Koch's postulates, and gene coding. These discoveries and inventions are vital yet commonplace in modern life, but were radical when first introduced to the public and academia. In this book, the life and times of leading pioneers in …
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Design, Manufacturing and Mechatronics (ICDMM2016)
World Scientific Publishing Company
The 3rd Annual International Conference on Design, Manufacturing and Mechatronics (ICDMM2016) was successfully held in Wuhan, China in 2016.The ICDMM2016 covers a wide range of fundamental studies, technical innovations and industrial applications in industry design, manufacturing and mechatronics. The ICDMM2016 …
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Science has made great strides in modeling space, time, mass and energy. Yet little attention has been paid to the precise representation of the information ubiquitous in nature.Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics fuses results from complexity modeling and information theory that …
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Why We Fail at Helping Others
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Disaster strikes, transforming cities and towns into graveyards and wastelands in a matter of minutes. But help is on its way: news channels and social media relay the information to all corners of the globe in real-time, mobilising hundreds of …
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This invaluable monograph is devoted to a rapidly developing area on the research of qualitative theory of fractional ordinary and partial differential equations. It provides the readers the necessary background material required to go further into the subject and explore …
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A Marriage Guide for the Young Adult
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Lawyers may have a tendency to treat marriage as a strict legal agreement between two parties with certain legal rules and terms that must be followed. Though in some ways akin to a contract, the institution of marriage goes far …
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Secrets to Small State Success
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The cases of Singapore and Switzerland present a fascinating puzzle: how have two small states achieved similar levels of success through divergent pathways? Are both approaches equally sustainable, and what lessons do they hold for each other? While Singapore is …
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Toxicology of Silver Ions
World Scientific Publishing Company
Silver holds three world records; it has the lowest contact resistance, highest electrical conductivity and the best thermal conductivity of all metals. The element's physical strength, brilliance and malleability leads to its many uses from electronics to optical applications.A new …
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A European Approach
World Scientific Publishing Company
Clinical research monitoring is a vital aspect of Good Clinical Practice (GCP). Its principles are straightforward: they are aimed at protecting those subjects that participate in the trial, and their goal is to provide reliable data that will contribute to …
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A Remote Sensing Perspective
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Remote sensing is a fast-growing field with many important applications as demonstrated in the numerous scientific missions of the Earth Observation System (EOS) worldwide. Given the inter-disciplinary nature of remote sensing technologies, the fulfillment of these scientific goals calls for, …
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Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Advanced Materials, Technology and Application (AMTA2016)
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The 2016 International Conference on Advanced Materials, Technology and Application (AMTA2016) was held in Changsha, China on March 18-20, 2016. The main objective of the joint conference is to provide a platform for researchers, academics and industrial professionals to present …
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Structure and Function in Health and Disease
World Scientific Publishing Company
This book presents key concepts in the structure and function of vascular smooth muscle cells in health and disease. Supplemental reading may be drawn from the extensive references listed at the end of each chapter. Vascular smooth muscle cell is …
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