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  • Hypersonics Hypersonics
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    Hypersonics

    Tbe task of defining the aerothermodynamic environment for a vehicle flying through the air at hypersonic speeds offers diverse challenges to the designer. He must integrate a wide variety of scientific and technical ...
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  • Chemoreceptors and Chemoreceptor Reflexes Chemoreceptors and Chemoreceptor Reflexes
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    Chemoreceptors and Chemoreceptor Reflexes

    This volume records the papers presented in Warsaw on the meeting of the International Society of Arterial Chemoreception (LS. A. C. ) organized as a Satellite Symposium of the XXXI International Congress of the Union of...
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  • Oxidation of Metals Oxidation of Metals
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    Oxidation of Metals

    During the translation, the author had the opportunity to re­ view several chapters, taking into consideration the more recent literature. As far as possible all new theoretical concepts and experi­ mental data published before...
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  • Comadem 89 International Comadem 89 International
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    Comadem 89 International

    RajB KNRao Conference Director, Birmingham Polytechnic Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management (COMADEM) is a relatively new field that has already made its mark in a wide range of industries. But all the...
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  • Advances in Corrosion Science and Technology Advances in Corrosion Science and Technology
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    Advances in Corrosion Science and Technology

    This series was organized to provide a forum for review papers in the area of corrosion. The aim of these reviews is to bring certain areas of corrosion science and technology into a sharp focus. The volumes of this series are...
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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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  • Miniaturization of High-Energy Physics Detectors Miniaturization of High-Energy Physics Detectors
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    Miniaturization of High-Energy Physics Detectors

    This meeting on "Miniaturization of High Energy Physics Detectors" had two principal aims: on the one hand to offer a Danoramic view, as comprehensive as possible, of this new field whose increasing interest can be understood...
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  • World Guide to Abbreviations of Organizations World Guide to Abbreviations of Organizations
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    World Guide to Abbreviations of Organizations

    This edition of well over 50,000 entries not only updates its predecessor but considerably increases the coverage of Latin America and Eastern Europe. I have been aided in this work by two colleagues at Glasgow University...
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  • Recent Advances in Aquaculture Recent Advances in Aquaculture
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    Recent Advances in Aquaculture

    It is a tribute to the vigour of research and development in aquaculture that we are able, in a relatively short time, to provide readers with a second volume in this series, which has such a diversity of high calibre research...
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  • Cortical Circuits Cortical Circuits
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    Cortical Circuits

    This elegant book presents current evidence on the organization of the mammalian cerebral cortex. The focus on synapses and their function provides the basis for understanding how this critical part of the brain could work. Dr...
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  • Fundamental Phenomena in the Materials Sciences Fundamental Phenomena in the Materials Sciences
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    Fundamental Phenomena in the Materials Sciences

    wcrd than surface because-unless the sclid is suspended in a vacuum-it is in ccntact with a gas, a liquid, cr ancther sclid, and it is the interface between the sclid and the cther body which is the fccus cf interest in surface...
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  • Physics in Collision Physics in Collision
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    Physics in Collision

    The field of particle physics is developing very rapidly. During this past year, physicists added a new instrument to their arsenal for the study of quark-quark, quark-lepton, and lepton­ lepton interactions. This machine, the...
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  • The Behaviour of Teleost Fishes The Behaviour of Teleost Fishes
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    The Behaviour of Teleost Fishes

    This book is about the behaviour of teleosts, a well-defined, highly successful, taxonomic group of vertebrate animals sharing a common body plan and forming the vast majority of living bony fishes. There are weH over 22000...
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  • Cargo Access Equipment for Merchant Ships Cargo Access Equipment for Merchant Ships
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    Cargo Access Equipment for Merchant Ships

    As President of International MacGregor I am deeply indebted to the authors of this excellent book for the very considerable amount of work and scholarship it contains. It is the first authoritative work on cargo access...
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  • Underwater Medicine and Related Sciences Underwater Medicine and Related Sciences
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    Underwater Medicine and Related Sciences

    This volume follows and updates AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON DIVING AND SUBMARINE MEDICINE published by Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc., in 1971. The time period covered is primarily the calendar years 1970 and 1971...
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  • Sensory Coding in the mammalian nervous system Sensory Coding in the mammalian nervous system
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    Sensory Coding in the mammalian nervous system

    Great advances have been made in the area of sensory physiology during the last few decades, and these developments seem to be asking for a comprehensive review that is manageable in size and cohesive in content. This volume...
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  • The Biology of Computer Life The Biology of Computer Life
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    The Biology of Computer Life

    The doctrine of computer life is not congenial to many people. Often they have not thought in any depth about the idea, and it necessarily disturbs their psychological and intellectual frame of reference: it forces a ...
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  • Advances in Fine Particles Processing Advances in Fine Particles Processing
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    Advances in Fine Particles Processing

    Processing of fine particles has presented numerous challenges to scientists and engineers for many years. Considerable progress has al ready been made in meeting these challenges across various fields of applications around...
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  • Successful ASIC Design the First Time Through Successful ASIC Design the First Time Through
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    Successful ASIC Design the First Time Through

    he very name application-specific integrated circuit, or ASIC, con­ T notes an ability to provide a dense package for a highly complex design targeted at a focused, often complex solution. The ability to create customized...
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  • Blood Cells as a Tissue Blood Cells as a Tissue
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    Blood Cells as a Tissue

    This volume is a collection of the presentations given at the sixth international research conference, Blood Cells as a Tissue, at The Lankenau Hospital, October 30 and 31, 1969. The conference was supported in part by the...
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  • Schulerduden Bedeutungsworterbuch Schulerduden Bedeutungsworterbuch
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    Schulerduden Bedeutungsworterbuch

    Die Dudenredaktion hat sich mit diesem Bedeutungsworterbuch die Aufgabe gestellt, ein handliches und in sich geschlossenes Nachschlage­ werk fUr SchUler zu schaffen. Es ging darum, die Worter des deutschen Grundwortschatzes...
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  • The Tourmaline Group The Tourmaline Group
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    The Tourmaline Group

    Tourmaline group minerals have graced the cabinets of mineral collectors and museums for untold generations. Their colors and color patterns, along with their diverse shapes and associations, have assured their role as exqui­...
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  • The Evolution of Mammalian Characters The Evolution of Mammalian Characters
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    The Evolution of Mammalian Characters

    This book is not intended to give a full and comprehensive account of the Mesozoic mammals, and nor is it intended as a handbook for research workers studying pre-Tertiary mammals. Our intention is to give an account of the...
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  • Physiology of Parasites Physiology of Parasites
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    Physiology of Parasites

    THIS BOOK HAS BEEN DEVELOPED FROM A SHORT LECTURE COURSE GIVEN to advanced undergraduate students as part of a general introduction to the subject of parasitology for zoologists. The book is written for the undergraduate who...
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  • Map and Top Map and Top
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    Map and Top

    Advances in technology are making the business and manufacturing environment increasingly complex. Standards can help us cope with this complexity. Given the strategic importance of computers in the economies of the industrial...
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  • Quality Control in Automation Quality Control in Automation
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    Quality Control in Automation

    The changing role of industry, the trend towards automation, the in­ creased cost of raw materials and labour rates all emphasize the need for improved quality of manufacture which will lead to better reliability, reduced...
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  • Principles of Optimal Control Theory Principles of Optimal Control Theory
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    Principles of Optimal Control Theory

    In the late 1950's, the group of Soviet mathematicians consisting of L. S. Pontryagin, V. G. Boltyanskii, R. V. Gamkrelidze, and E. F. Mishchenko made fundamental contributions to optimal control theory. Much of their work was...
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  • The Ecology and Management of Wetlands The Ecology and Management of Wetlands
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    The Ecology and Management of Wetlands

    This book contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 16-20 June 1986. The seed for this symposium arose from a group of physiologists, soil scientists and...
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  • Schulerduden Schulerduden
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    Schulerduden

    Die deutsche Sprache ist reich an bedeutungsähnlichen Wörtern und Wendungen. und es ist oft nicht leicht. das inhaltlich treffende. das sachlich richtige und das stilistisch angemessene Wort zu finden. Dieses Wörterbuch will...
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  • Differentialgleichungen Differentialgleichungen
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    Differentialgleichungen

    Dieses Buch beruht auf 40 lahren intensiven Studiums der Differentialglei­ chungen, sowohl yom theoretischen als auch yom praktischen Gesichtspunkt aus, eines Studiums, das mit meiner Tatigkeit im Rechen-Institut M. Picones in...
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  • The Physiology of Hemostasis The Physiology of Hemostasis
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    The Physiology of Hemostasis

    The current widespread interest in the hemostatic mechanism stems largely from the probability that its inappropriate function may lead to thrombosis, but also for its relevance to the causation and manage­ ment of bleeding...
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  • Optical Switching in Low-Dimensional Systems Optical Switching in Low-Dimensional Systems
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    Optical Switching in Low-Dimensional Systems

    This book contains all the papers presented at the NATO workshop on "Optical Switching in Low Dimensional Systems" held in Marbella, Spain from October 6th to 8th, 1988. Optical switching is a basic function for optical data...
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  • The Effects of Constant Light on Visual Processes The Effects of Constant Light on Visual Processes
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    The Effects of Constant Light on Visual Processes

    " ... And the evening and the morning were the third day ... And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night ... And the evening and the morning were the fourth day." The...
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  • Hibernation and the Hypothalamus Hibernation and the Hypothalamus
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    Hibernation and the Hypothalamus

    Mammalian hibernation is commonly thought of as something completely out of the ordinary, a "unique and unorthodox state." The present book takes the opposite view. It argues that the physiological achievements of hibernators...
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  • Current Trends in Geomathematics Current Trends in Geomathematics
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    Current Trends in Geomathematics

    Since founding at the 23rd International Geological Congress in Prague in 1968, the International Association for Mathematical Geology has organized sessions in conjunction with the Congress. The 27th IGC in Moscow was no...
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  • Human Physical Growth and Maturation Human Physical Growth and Maturation
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    Human Physical Growth and Maturation

    The present volume grew out of a NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Sogesta, Ita1y, during the summer of 1979. We are most gratefu1 for the generous financia1 support of NATO and for the provision of trave1 funds by The...
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