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  • Privileged Goods Privileged Goods
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    Privileged Goods

    What are the obstacles in the way of effectively solving the environmental crises of our time? What can we do to overcome them? These may be two of the most important questions heading into the 21st century. Organized human societies have the ability to...
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  • Toward Sustainable Development Toward Sustainable Development
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    Toward Sustainable Development

    By now, most people in the ecological and environmental fields have heard of sustainable development, but how many know how we go about getting there, and if we are achieving it? By synthesizing the many disparate elements of the field of Ecological...
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  • Introduction to Molecular Biophysics Introduction to Molecular Biophysics
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    Introduction to Molecular Biophysics

    Molecular biophysics is a rapidly growing field of research that plays an important role in elucidating the mysteries of life's molecules and their assemblies, as well as the relationship between their structure and function. Introduction to Molecular...
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  • Two-Dimensional Optical Spectroscopy Two-Dimensional Optical Spectroscopy
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    Two-Dimensional Optical Spectroscopy

    Two-Dimensional Optical Spectroscopy discusses the principles and applications of newly emerging two-dimensional vibrational and optical spectroscopy techniques. It provides a detailed account of basic theory required for an understanding of...
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  • Social-Environmental Planning Social-Environmental Planning
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    Social-Environmental Planning

    With the environment, climate change, and global warming taking center stage in the national debate, the issues seem insurmountable and certainly unsolvable at the local level. Written by Chris Maser, international consultant on forest ecology,...
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  • Woody Plants and Woody Plant Management Woody Plants and Woody Plant Management
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    Woody Plants and Woody Plant Management

    A presentation of strategies for managing woody plants and using research data to select the most appropriate control methods. It analyzes the responses of over 370 North American woody plants to commercially available herbicides. The authors provide...
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  • Motor Proteins and Molecular Motors Motor Proteins and Molecular Motors
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    Motor Proteins and Molecular Motors

    A Unified Microscopic Approach to Analyzing Complex Processes in Molecular MotorsMotor Proteins and Molecular Motors explores the mechanisms of cellular functioning associated with several specific enzymatic molecules called motor proteins. Motor...
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  • Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment
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    Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment

    The presence of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes, and antibiotic resistant bacteria in the environment (i.e., outside of clinical settings, such as antibiotic-treated patients or antibiotic-impregnated locations, such as hospitals) is a cause of...
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  • Cerambycidae of the World Cerambycidae of the World
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    Cerambycidae of the World

    Wang has gathered contributions from an impressive cohort of the world's most respected experts on longhorned beetles. Chapters review both basics of cerambycid taxonomy, mor- phology, and behavior (feeding, reproduction, and chemical ecology), as well...
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  • Forestry Applications Forestry Applications
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    Forestry Applications

    In 2012, a Forestry Special Interest Group (FSIG) was founded within the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS). Besides a general commitment to promoting the application of operational research (OR) to forest management and forest products...
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  • Textbook of Ion Channels Volume III Textbook of Ion Channels Volume III
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    Textbook of Ion Channels Volume III

    The Textbook of Ion Channels is a set of three volumes that provides a wide-ranging reference source on ion channels for students, instructors and researchers. Ion channels are mem- brane proteins that control the electrical properties of neurons and...
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  • Textbook of Ion Channels Volume II Textbook of Ion Channels Volume II
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    Textbook of Ion Channels Volume II

    The Textbook of Ion Channels is a set of three volumes that provides a wide-ranging refer- ence source on ion channels for students, instructors and researchers. Ion channels are membrane proteins that control the electrical properties of neurons and...
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  • The Nonsense of Global Warming and Climate Change The Nonsense of Global Warming and Climate Change
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    The Nonsense of Global Warming and Climate Change

    The truth about the earth we live on. Everything we create, consume, build, manufacture and waste comes from the earth and returns to the earth, from dust to dust. Everything that happens on the earth, has a purpose. Man cannot change the earth's nature!...
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  • Forensic Colonialism Forensic Colonialism
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    Forensic Colonialism

    Forensic genetic technologies are popularly conceptualized and revered as important tools of justice. The research and development of these technologies, however, has been accomplished through the capture of various Indigenous Peoples' genetic material...
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  • Methods in Vitamin B-6 Nutrition Methods in Vitamin B-6 Nutrition
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    Methods in Vitamin B-6 Nutrition

    During the period 29 June to 2 July 1980, a Workshop was held at Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon, entitled "Vitamin B-6 Analyt­ ical Methodology and Criteria for Assessing Nutritional Status". The papers which follow are the...
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  • Methods of Protein Separation Methods of Protein Separation
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    Methods of Protein Separation

    This open-end treatise on methods concerning pro tein separation had its beginning in an American Chemical Society symposium entitled "Con­ temporary Protein Separation Methods" which was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey in...
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  • Perspectives and Problems in Nonlinear Science Perspectives and Problems in Nonlinear Science
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    Perspectives and Problems in Nonlinear Science

    Lawrence Sirovich will turn seventy on March 1, 2003. Larry's academic life of over 45 years at the Courant Institute, Brown University, Rockefeller University and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine has touched many peo­ ple...
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  • Biology of Menopause Biology of Menopause
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    Biology of Menopause

    Biology of Menopause presents the proceedings of an international symposium held from September 10-13, 1998 in Newport Beach, CA. The proceedings review current knowledge and explores future research directions on the biologic...
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  • How do Brains Work? How do Brains Work?
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    How do Brains Work?

    "I'll bet it will tum out that brains use both mechanisms, in different centers. " Much of my waking life and that of many of my friends is spent racking our brains over how brains work. This book claims that good science is...
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  • Mineral Absorption in the Monogastric GI Tract Mineral Absorption in the Monogastric GI Tract
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    Mineral Absorption in the Monogastric GI Tract

    The explosion of information published these days in the primary research literature represents in some ways a substantial barrier to the new investigator or researcher crossing over traditional boundaries between fields...
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  • Recent Trends in Regeneration Research Recent Trends in Regeneration Research
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    Recent Trends in Regeneration Research

    Regeneration, i.e. the replacement of lost body parts by new outgrowths or by remodelling existing tissues, has been studied for centuries. However, in recent years important developments took place in this field too, owing to...
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  • Targeting of Drugs 2 Targeting of Drugs 2
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    Targeting of Drugs 2

    The NATO Advanced Studies Institute series "Targeting of Drugs" was originated in 1981. It is now a major international forum, held every two years in Cape Sounion, Greece, in which the present and the future of this important...
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  • Heterotrophic Activity in the Sea Heterotrophic Activity in the Sea
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    Heterotrophic Activity in the Sea

    Introduction This book contains papers given at a NATO Advanced Research Institute (A.R.I.) held at Caiscais, Portugal, in November, 1981. The subject of the A.R.I. was marine heterotrophy; this is defined as the process by...
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  • Contemporary Brain Research in China Contemporary Brain Research in China
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    Contemporary Brain Research in China

    The great majority of papers on brain research that have been published in Mainland China in recent years have appeared in the Chinese language (only a small fraction of the work has appeared in English in the journal Scientia...
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  • Terminal Transferase in Immunobiology and Leukemia Terminal Transferase in Immunobiology and Leukemia
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    Terminal Transferase in Immunobiology and Leukemia

    This book contains the proceedings of a conference devoted to the study of the structure and function of Terminal deoxynucleotidyl Transferase (TdT) and its utilization as biochemical marker in immuno­ biology and leukemia,...
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  • Plant Breeding Reviews Plant Breeding Reviews
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    Plant Breeding Reviews

    Plant breeding, the domestication and systematic improvement of crop species, is the basis of past and present agriculture. Our so­ called primitive progenitors selected practically all our present-day crop plants, and the...
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  • Animal Growth Regulation Animal Growth Regulation
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    Animal Growth Regulation

    The biotechnological advances of recent years have put us on the brink of unprecedented gains in animal productivity. Manipulation of animal growth rate and composition of gain is now possible by a variety of techniques. Ex­...
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  • The Superworld III The Superworld III
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    The Superworld III

    During August 1988. a group of 67 physicists from 45 laboratories in 17 countries met in Erice for the 26th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics. The countries represented were: Australia. Austria. Canada...
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  • Phloem Transport Phloem Transport
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    Phloem Transport

    Ten years ago, at the International Botanical Congress in Edinburgh, a group of us from various countries discussed the difficulty of pursuing academic problems in depth at such meetings. In particular, we were discouraged at...
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  • The Ecology of Regulated Streams The Ecology of Regulated Streams
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    The Ecology of Regulated Streams

    The idea for an international symposium on regulated streams was conceived over an open-faced sandwich at the R&dhus in Copenhagen when we attended the Congress of the Societas Internationalis Lim­ nologiae in summer 1977...
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  • Purine Metabolism in Man, III Purine Metabolism in Man, III
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    Purine Metabolism in Man, III

    These volumes contain the papers which were presented at the Third International Symposium on Purine Metabolism in Man held in Madrid (Spain) in June, 1979. The previous meetings in the series were held in Tel Aviv (Israel) and...
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  • Methods for the Mycological Examination of Food Methods for the Mycological Examination of Food
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    Methods for the Mycological Examination of Food

    The desirability, indeed the necessity, for standardization of methods for the examination of foods for contaminant and spoilage mycoflora has been apparent for some time. The concept of a specialist workshop to address this...
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  • Oxygen Transport to Tissue XII Oxygen Transport to Tissue XII
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    Oxygen Transport to Tissue XII

    The International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT) was founded in 1973 "to facilitate the exchange of scientific information among those interested in any aspect of the transport and/or utilization of oxygen in...
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