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Handbook of mathematical geosciences : fifty years of IAMG
This Open Access handbook published at the IAMG's 50th anniversary, presents a compilation of invited path-breaking research contributions by award-winning geoscientists who have been instrumental in shaping the IAMG. It contains 45 chapters that are categorized broadly into five parts (i) theory, (ii) general applications, (iii) exploration and resource estimation, (iv) reviews, and (v) remini…
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- 9783319789996
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- xxviii, 914p. : ill.
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- 551.0151 HAN h
Computation and the humanities: towards an oral history of digital humanities
This book addresses the application of computing to cultural heritage and the discipline of Digital Humanities that formed around it. Digital Humanities research is transforming how the Human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and imagined and it has been ongoing for more than 70 years. However, we have no comprehensive histories of its research trajectory or its discipli…
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- 9783319201696
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- 285 p.; 22 cm.
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- Springer Series on Cultural Computing
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- 384.648 NYH c
Brain-computer interface systems - recent progress and future prospects
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems allow communication based on a direct electronic interface which conveys messages and commands directly from the human brain to a computer. In the recent years, attention to this new area of research and the number of publications discussing different paradigms, methods, signal processing algorithms, and applications have been increased dramatically. The o…
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- 9789535111344
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- 280 p.; 22 cm.
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- 004.072 BRA b
Holography, research and technologies
Holography has recently become a field of much interest because of the many new applications implemented by various holographic techniques. This book is a collection of 22 excellent chapters written by various experts, and it covers various aspects of holography. The chapters of the book are organized in six sections, starting with theory, continuing with materials, techniques, applications as …
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- 9789533072272
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- 468 p.; 22 cm.
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- 621.072 HOL h
Physical (A)Causality : determinism, randomness and uncaused events
This book addresses the physical phenomenon of events that seem to occur spontaneously and without any known cause. These are to be contrasted with events that happen in a (pre-)determined, predictable, lawful, and causal way. All our knowledge is based on self-reflexive theorizing, as well as on operational means of empirical perception. Some of the questions that arise are the following: a…
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- 9783319708157
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- xiv, 219p. : ill.
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- 530.01 SVO p
Optical communication technology
The optical world is continuously and rapidly evolving, and new challenges arise every day. As a result of these rapid changes, the need for up-to-date texts that address this growing field from an interdisciplinary perspective persists. This book presents an overview of new optical communication technologies and a bird's-eye view of some of the more promising technologies among them. The book …
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- 9789535134176
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- 184 p.; 22 cm.
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- 001.4 OPT o
Tobacco control policy in the Netherlands : between economy, public health, a…
Governments have known since the 1960s that smoking results in irreversible health damage. This open access book examines why governments have done so little to combat this when they have been aware of the problem and its solutions for decades. What are the strategies and decisions that make a difference, given that policy environments are often not conducive to change? Taking the Netherlands a…
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- 9783319723686
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- xxi. 373p. : ill.
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- 320.6 WIL t
The plant stem : a microscopic aspect
This unique and attractive open access textbook combines the beauty of macroscopic pictures of plant stems with the corresponding colorfully stained images of anatomical micro-structures. In contrast to most botanical textbooks, it presents all the stem characteristics as photographs and shows the microscopic reality. The amount of text is reduced to a minimum, and the scientific information i…
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- 9783319735245
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- vii, 207p. : ill.
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- 581.495 SCH p
Pre-field screening protocols for heat-tolerant mutants in rice
This open access book presents simple, robust pre-field screening protocols that allow plant breeders to screen for enhanced tolerance to heat stress in rice. Two critical heat-sensitive stages in the lifecycle of the rice crop are targeted – the seedling and flowering stages – with screening based on simple phenotypic responses. The protocols are based on the use of a hydroponics system an…
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- 9783319773384
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- xii, 39p. : ill.
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- 633.182 PRE p
Foundations of software science and computation structures : 21st Internation…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2018, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, in April 2018, held as part of the European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018.The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissi…
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- 9783319893662
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- xv, 582p. : ill.
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- 005.1 FOU f
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