One Hundred Years of Chemical Warfare: Research, Deployment, Consequences
On April 22, 1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, ...
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Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling
The role open-source geospatial software plays in data handling within the spatial information technology industry is the ...
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Open Source GIS : A GRASS GIS Approach
With this third edition of Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach, we enter the new era of GRASS6, the first release that ...
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Operator Theory in Inner Product Spaces
This volume contains contributions written by participants of the 4th Workshop on Operator Theory in Krein Spaces and Applications, ...
Continue readingOpportunities and Challenges for New and Peripheral Political Science Communities : A Consolidated Discipline?
The volume demonstrates that political science on the European fringes has seized opportunities and shown a remarkable development. ...
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Optical Chemical Sensors
Chemical sensing using optics is under extensive research all over the world and many optical chemical sensors are finding ...
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Optimizing Health : Improving the Value of Healthcare Delivery
The resulting systems perspective of this timely book merges thinking from clinical medicine and economics to form the hybrid ...
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Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for the Clinician
This comprehensive textbook provides a comprehensive coverage of principles and practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery. ...
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Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy 6
This book is the sixth volume under the title Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy (OSA). The chapters of this book ...
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Organizing Schools for Productive Learning
This book offers an alternative approach to secondary school organization. In line with the definition formulated by John ...
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Participation and Learning : Perspectives on Education and the Environment, Health and Sustainability
The Research in Participatory Education Network (RIPEN) embraces a broad spectrum of researchers, scholars, students, and ...
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Passive and Active Network Measurement : 9th International Conference, PAM 2008, Cleveland, OH, USA, April 29-30, 2008. Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM ...
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Pedestrian Dynamics : Feedback Control of Crowd Evacuation
The book also provides various feedback control laws to accomplish the effective evacuation. The book uses the hydrodynamic ...
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Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2005
Due to an increasing number of reported catastrophes all over the world, the safety especially of pedestrians today, is a ...
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Pediatric Nutrition / Ronald E. Kleinman, Frank R. Greer
This reference covers how nutrients influence and direct growth and development, as well as immediate and long-term health, ...
Continue readingPeer review in an Era of Evaluation : Understanding the Practice of Gatekeeping in Academia
This volume explores peer review in the scientific community and academia. While peer review is as old as modern science ...
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Peer-Led Team Learning: Evaluation, Dissemination, and Institutionalization of a College Level Initiative
"Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) is one of the success stories resulting from the National Science Foundation's investment ...
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Peer-to-Peer, Grid, and Service-Orientation in Digital Library Architectures
This volume contains selected and revised papers from the Sixth Thematic Wo- shop of the EU Network of ExcellenceDELOS on ...
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Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of ...
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Perception in Multimodal Dialogue Systems : 4th IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies for Speech-Based Systems, PIT 2008, Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 16-18, 2008. Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perception and Interactive ...
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