Springer New York: 5497 books
Imaging in CNS Drug Discovery and Development
Implications for Disease and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Drug development today needs to balance agility, speed, and risk in defining probability of success for molecules, mechanisms, and therapeutic concepts. New techniques such as fMRI promise to be part of a sequence that could transform drug development. Although numerous review articles exist that...
Partner Violence
A New Paradigm for Understanding Conflict Escalation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
As domestic violence continues to be a focus of social and psychological concern, two basic contradictory viewpoints endure: one rooted in male power dynamics, the other maintaining that both genders use and are victimized by violence. Although both sides have their merits, neither has adequately...
by Patrick Moore
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
When I became the producer of the Sky at Night in 2002, I was given some friendly advice: “It’s a quiet little programme, not much happens in astronomy.” How wrong they were! It’s been a hectic and enthralling time ever since:, with missions arriving at distant planets; new discoveries in...
Meteor Showers
An Annotated Catalog
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Meteor showers are among the most spectacular celestial events that may be observed by the naked eye, and have been the object of fascination throughout human history. In “Meteor Showers: An Annotated Catalog,” the interested observer can access detailed research on over 100 annual and periodic...
So You Want a Meade LX Telescope!
How to Select and Use the LX200 and Other High-End Models
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Computers and Astronomy Perhaps every generation of astronomers believes that their telescopes are the best that have ever been. They are surely all correct! The great leap of our time is that computer-designed and machined parts have led to more accurately made com- nents that give the astronomer...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2009
Cinema both reflects life and contours life—that is its psychological power. And for decades, clinicians and educators have recognized the value of this power, using it to respectively heal in therapy and educate in the classroom. The Cinematic Mirror for Psychology and Life Coaching mines the illustrative...
Teaching Mindfulness
A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Educators
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The applications and use of mindfulness-based interventions in medicine, mental health care, and education have been expanding as rapidly as the empirical evidence base that is validating and recommending them. This growth has created a powerful demand for professionals who can effectively deliver...
Effect of Spaceflight and Spaceflight Analogue Culture on Human and Microbial Cells
Novel Insights into Disease Mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2016
Many breakthroughs in biological research and translational healthcare advancements have been achieved by studying the response of biological systems to extreme environments. The spaceflight platform provides a unique environment where researchers can explore fundamental questions into cellular and...
European Prehistory
A Survey
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
European Prehistory: A Survey traces humans from their earliest appearance on the continent to the Rise of the Roman Empire, drawing on archaeological research from all over Europe. It includes the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Throughout these periods, the major developments...
by Gianfranco Capriz
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
This book proposes a new general setting for theories of bodies with microstructure when they are described within the scheme of the con tinuum: besides the usual fields of classical thermomechanics (dis placement, stress, temperature, etc.) some new fields enter the picture (order parameters,...
by Abdollah Ghasemi, Ali Abedi, Farshid Ghasemi
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Propagation Engineering in Wireless Communications covers the basic principles needed for understanding of radiowaves propagation for common frequency bands used
in radio-communications. This book includes descriptions of new achievements and new developements in propagation models for wireless...
Handbook of Intelligence
Evolutionary Theory, Historical Perspective, and Current Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Numerous functions, cognitive skills, and behaviors are associated with intelligence, yet decades of research has yielded little consensus on its definition. Emerging from often conflicting studies is the provocative idea that intelligence evolved as an adaptation humans needed to keep up with –...
by Futaba Fujie, Ping Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2014
Covering Walks in Graphs is aimed at researchers and graduate students in the graph theory community and provides a comprehensive treatment on measures of two well studied graphical properties, namely Hamiltonicity and traversability in graphs. This text looks into the famous Kӧnigsberg Bridge...
A War on Terror?
The European Stance on a New Threat, Changing Laws and Human Rights Implications
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Marianne Wade and Almir Maljevi? Although the worries about terrorism paled in comparison to the economic crisis as a topic during the last US election, one can find plenty of grounds to assume that they remain issue number one in the minds of politicians in Europe. As the German houses of Parliament...