I E M A : 53 books
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Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying, understanding, and remediating people's reliance on inaccurate information that they should know to be wrong.
Our lives revolve around the acquisition of information. Sometimes the information we acquire—from other people, from books, or from the...
Intestinal Anastomoses with Bioabsorbable Anastomosis Rings
Proceedings of the First European Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The anastomotic technique plays a predominant role in gastrointestinal surgery. A feared complication is leakage due to the sutures. Such leakage cannot be detected early; consequently, infection spreads locally and systemically. An anastomotic method is generally evaluated according to its rate of...
Transforming Undergraduate Education
Theory that Compels and Practices that Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, Transforming Undergraduate Education provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and...
CAD and Robotics in Architecture and Construction
Proceedings of the Joint International Conference at Marseilles, 25–27 June 1986
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
After two decades, data processing has finally, and probably forever, found its niche among civil engineering and construction (CEC) professionnals, through word processors, digitizing tables, management software, and increasingly via drawing software and computer-aided design (CAD), recently, robots...
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 1
Genetics, breeding and production techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...
by R.D. de Abreu, G. van den Berghe, G. Calabrese
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
One person in four in the industrialized countries suffers from hyperuricemia and is therefore at risk of developing gouty arthritis, nephrolithiasis, or any of the other consequences of urate deposition. At present, far too little is known about urate deposition and the mechanisms by which it occurs,...
by Joanne I. Moore, H.D. Christensen, K.R. Hornbrook
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Almost twenty years ago, the faculty members of the Department of Pharmacol ogy at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine developed a review book of medical pharmacology in response to requests from our second year medical students who were preparing to sit for the Part I examination of...
by José Javier Navarro Pérez, Vicenta Mestre Escrivá, Javier Urra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2015
EI presente trabajo trata de aproximar la atención al menor desde diferentes enfoques. las prácticas basadas en la evidencia constituyen experiencias contrastadas, válidas y novedosas para afrontar los riesgos que envuelven el espacio global. Este ha sido nuestro punto de referencia: partir de...
Science as Service
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded...
Bridging the High School-College Gap
The Role of Concurrent Enrollment Programs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Concurrent enrollment programs offer high-achieving high school students the opportunity to take college credit-bearing courses taught by college-approved high school teachers. This low-cost, scalable model brings accelerated coursework to urban, suburban, and rural students. In this book, scholars...
by M.E. Adams, M. Billingham, I.M. Calder
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The enormous importance of the diseases of the locomotor system in all populations and the large component of general clinical practice which they represent have not, in the past, been matched by an appropriate pathological effort. Increasing expectation of an active and long life has resulted in...
by K.K. Ang, M. Baumann, S.M. Bentzen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The impact of basic science radiobiological research is now being recognized of significant importance in clinical radiation oncology. Observations made in the laboratory using animals as'well as tissue culture have led to a better biologic understanding of techniques for altered fractionation, techniques...
by S. Boyarsky, F.Jr. Hinman, M. Caine
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For more than 60 years, the Californian Family Hinman has exercised a very considerable influence on the development and practice of the highest grade of urology, not only in the American West but worldwide. The leitmotiv of the Hinman School has been honest and thoughtful consideration of the problems...