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Achieving sustainable production of eggs Volume 1
Safety and quality
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
World egg consumption is increasing, particularly in developing countries. This creates new challenges, particularly for more intensive systems which have played a major role in increasing production and productivity. Intensive systems face a continuing threat from zoonoses. At the same time, consumer...
by Jeffrey K. McKee, Frank E. Poirier, W Scott Mcgraw
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
For the one-term course in human evolution, paleoanthropology, or fossil hominins taught at the junior/senior level in departments of anthropology or biology.
This new edition provides a comprehensive overview to the field of paleoanthropology–the study of human evolution by analyzing fossil remains....
Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care
An Interdisciplinary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries.
This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient...
Environmental Science and International Politics
Acid Rain in Europe, 1979-1989, and Climate Change in Copenhagen, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Environmental Science and International Politics features two reacting games in one volume, immersing students in the complex process of negotiating international treaties to control environmental pollution. The issues are similar in all the modules; environmental justice, national sovereignty, and...
Carbon Alloys
Novel Concepts to Develop Carbon Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2003
In recent years the Japanese have funded a comprehensive study of carbon materials which incorporate other elements including boron, nitrogen and fluorine, hence the title of the project "Carbon Alloys".
Coined in 1992, the phrase "Carbon Alloys" can be applied to those...
by N.E. Steenrod, H.K Nickerson, D.C. Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
"This book is a radical departure from all previous concepts of advanced calculus," declared the Bulletin of the American Mathematics Society, "and the nature of this departure merits serious study of the book by everyone interested in undergraduate education in mathematics." Classroom-tested in a...
by Keith R Fox, Yves Pommier, Bengt Nordén
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
There have been remarkable advances towards discovering agents that exhibit selectivity and sequence-specificity for DNA, as well as understanding the interactions that underlie its propensity to bind molecules. This progress has important applications in many areas of biotechnology and medicine,...
Phosphorus-Based Polymers
From Synthesis to Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Phosphorus-containing (co)polymers are gaining wide appeal for many uses, from healthcare and medicine to energy and environmental applications. Phosphorus-Based Polymers is the first book dedicated to this topic and provides a comprehensive overview of the different polymers and their uses.
The...
by K. E. Peters, C. C. Walters, J. M. Moldowan
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
The second edition of The Biomarker Guide is a fully updated and expanded version of this essential reference. Now in two volumes, it provides a comprehensive account of the role that biomarker technology plays both in petroleum exploration and in understanding Earth history and processes. Biomarkers...
by E. N. K. Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution is well established as the foremost palaeontology text at the undergraduate level. This fully revised fourth edition includes a complete update of the sections on evolution and the fossil record, and the evolution of the early metazoans.
New work on the...
Epidemiology of Psychogenic Disorders
The Mannheim Study · Results of a Field Survey in the Federal Republic of Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Shortened version of the original German edition: Psychogene Erkrankungen der Stadtbevölkerung, 1987, Springer-Verlag
Transformative Student Experiences in Higher Education
Meeting the Needs of the Twenty-First Century Student and Modern Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Transformative Student Experiences in Higher Education: Meeting the Needs of the 21st Century Student and Modern Workplace presents a thorough consideration of the role, use, and implications of transformative and active instructional strategies in higher education. It examines the changing landscape...
by Gunilla C. Bentel, Charles E. Nelson, K. Thomas Noell
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Treatment Planning and Dose Calculation in Radiation Oncology, Third Edition describes the treatment methods and technical guides as models of contemporary radiation therapy. These models should be modified for each individual patient to yield a best fit to the disease being treated and the radiation...
Dry Creek
Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
With cultural remains dated unequivocally to 13,000 calendar years ago, Dry Creek assumed major importance upon its excavation and study by W. Roger Powers. The site was the first to conclusively demonstrate a human presence that could be dated to the same time as the Bering Land Bridge. As Powers...