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Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations

Edited by Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
This book is written to help educate dermatologists and general physicians of the challenges involved in treating those with darker skin tones in culturally appropriate ways.Distinctly broken up into three sections for ease of use, the reader enters the text through a series of chapters meant to introduce the physician to the anatomical structure and makeup of patient with skin of color as well as ... Read more

$98.99 USD

This book is written to help educate dermatologists and general physicians of the challenges involved in treating those with darker skin tones in culturally appropriate ways.Distinctly broken up into three sections for ease of use, the reader enters the text through a series of chapters meant to introduce the physician to the anatomical structure and makeup of patient with skin of color as well as
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Probabilistic Methods in Geotechnical Engineering

Proceedings of the conference, Canberra, 10-12 February 1993

Edited by K.S. Li, S.-C.R. Lo ...

The proceedings of this conference contain keynote addresses on recent developments in geotechnical reliability and limit state design in geotechnics. It also contains invited lectures on such topics as modelling of soil variability, simulation of random fields and probability of rock joints.Contents: Keynote addresses on recent development on geotechnical reliability and limit state design in ... Read more

$470.00 USD

The proceedings of this conference contain keynote addresses on recent developments in geotechnical reliability and limit state design in geotechnics. It also contains invited lectures on such topics as modelling of soil variability, simulation of random fields and probability of rock joints.Contents: Keynote addresses on recent development on geotechnical reliability and limit state design in
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Current crop models

State-of-the-art and future developments

by Professor Gerrit Hoogenboom, Emeritus Professor Ken Boote, Dr Cheryl H. Porter, Dr Willingthon Pavan, Dr Vakhtang Shelia, Dr Upendra Singh, Dr Jeffrey W. White, Dr Senthold Asseng, Dr Jon I. Lizaso, Dr L. Patricia Moreno0, Dr Santiago Cuadra1, Dr Bruce Kimball2, Dr Alwin Hopf3, Dr Fabio A. A. Oliveira4, Dr Thiago B. Ferreira5, Dr Henrique Boriolo Dias6, Dr Philip Alderman7, Dr William D. Batchelor8, Dr Diego Pequeno9, Dr Kelly R. Thorp0, Dr James W. Jones1, Dr Richard Ogoshi2, Dr L. Anthony Hunt3, Dr Gordon Y. Tsuji4, Dr David Fleisher5, Dr D.J. Timlin6, Dr S. Li7, Dr J. Barnaby8, Dr S. Yesilkoy9, Dr E. Han0, Dr V.R. Reddy1, Dr Z. Wang2, Dr S. Beegum3, Dr A. Mitra4, Dr W. Sun5, Professor Armen Kemanian6, Dr Yuning Shi7, Dr Charlie M. White8, Dr Felipe Montes9, Dr Rachel K. N. Rozum0, Dr Amanda R. Burton1, Dr Ele Saltmarsh2, Dr Claudio O. Stockle3, Professor Tom Sinclair4, Dr Afshin Soltani5, Professor Bruno Basso6, Dr T. Tadiello7, Dr P . Sharma8, Dr L. Price9, Dr J.T. Ritchie0, Dr Bill Salas1, Dr Kyle W. Proctor2, Dr Nilovna Chatterjee3, Dr Curtis Jones4, Dr Colin Hill5, Dr Gayathri Gopalakrishnan6, Dr Jim Kiniry7, Dr Liwang Ma8, Dr Huihui Zhang9, Dr Jon D. Hanson0, Dr Zhiming Qi1, Professor Benjamin Dumont2, Dr Mathieu Delandmeter3, Dr Marie-Odile Bancal4, Dr Nicolas Beaudoin5, Dr Joël Léonard6, Dr Samuel Buis7, Dr Julie Caubel8, Dr Hugues Clivot9, Dr Julie Constantin0, Dr Antoine Couëdel1, Dr Mathilde de Freitas2, Dr Audrey Deheinzelin3, Dr Gatien N. Falconnier4, Dr Fabien Ferchaud5, Dr Iñaki García de Cortázar-Atauri6, Dr Marie Launay7, Dr Patrice Lecharpentier8, Dr Dominique Ripoche9, Dr Anne-Isabelle Graux0, Dr Guillaume Jego1, Dr Arthur Lenoir2, Dr Gaetan Louarn3, Dr Alain Mollier4, Dr Céline Schoving5, Dr Mounir Seghouani6, Dr Loïc Strullu7, Dr Remi Vezy8, Dr Tiphaine Vidal9, Dr Eric Justes0, Dr Jean-Louis Durand1, Dr Myriam Adam2, Dr Gregory Beurier3, Dr Lauriane Rouan4, Dr Michael Dingkuhn5, Dr Florian Larue6, Dr Bertrand Muller7, Dr Xinyou Yin8, Dr A.J.W. de Wit9, Dr Hendrik Boogaard00, Dr Herman Berghuijs01, Dr Martin K. van Ittersum02, Dr Tom Schut03, Dr H.N.C. Berghuijs04, Dr M.K van Ittersum05, Dr Iwan Supit06, Dr P . Groenendijk07, Dr J. van Dam08, Dr M. Mulder09, Dr M. Heinen10, Professor Frank Ewert11, Dr M. Vianna12, Dr A. Enders13, Dr T. Gaiser14, Dr G. Krauss15, Dr T. H. Nguyen16, Dr S. J. Seidel17, Dr E. E. Rezaei18, Dr H. Webber19, Dr A. Tewes20, Dr A. K. Srivastava21, Professor Claas Nendel22, Dr Michael Berg-Mohnicke23, Dr Rachel Escueta24, Dr Gohar Ghazaryan25, Dr Leonardo Inforsato26, Dr Bahareh Kamali27, Dr Marlene Palka28, Dr Ahsan Raza29, Dr Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei30, Dr Xenia Specka31, Dr Jing Yu32, Emeritus Professor Dirk Raes33, Dr Elias Fereres34, Dr Theodore C. Hsiao35, Dr Pasquale Steduto36, Dr Gabriëlle De Lannoy37, Dr Eline Vanuytrecht38, Dr Lee Heng39, Dr Margarita Garcia Vila40, Dr Joost Wellens41, Dr Patricia Mejias Moreno42, Dr Maher Salman43, Dr Kiril Manevski44, Dr Shaohui Zhang45, Dr Yanmin Yang46, Dr Yonghui Yang47, Dr Mohamed Jabloun48, Professor Soora Naresh Kumar49, Dr Bidisha Chakraborty50, Dr Arti Bhatia51, Dr Shweta Panjwani52, Dr DN Swaroopa Rani53, Dr Vikas Kumar54, Dr P .K. Aggarwal55, Dr H. Pathak56, Dr Subhash Chander57, Dr N. Kalra58, Professor Yan Zhu59, Dr Leilei Liu60, Dr Bing Liu61, Dr Liang Tang62, Dr Liujun Xiao63 ...

Series Book 170 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Whilst crop models have made significant progress in recent years, different models still diverge and struggle to predict the complex effects of genetic, environmental and management (G x E x M) variables in optimising crop production in the face of climate change.Current crop models: State-of-the-art and future developments provides a comprehensive overview of the major crop models and the ways ... Read more

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Whilst crop models have made significant progress in recent years, different models still diverge and struggle to predict the complex effects of genetic, environmental and management (G x E x M) variables in optimising crop production in the face of climate change.Current crop models: State-of-the-art and future developments provides a comprehensive overview of the major crop models and the ways
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Brush Conversation in the Sinographic Cosmopolis

Interactional Cross-border Communication using Literary Sinitic in Early Modern East Asia

Edited by David C. S. Li, Reijiro Aoyama, Tak-sum Wong ...

Series series Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia
For hundreds of years until the 1900s, in today’s China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Vietnam, literati of Classical Chinese or Literary Sinitic (wényán 文言) could communicate in writing interactively, despite not speaking each other’s languages.This book outlines the historical background of, and the material conditions that led to, widespread literacy development in premodern and early ... Read more

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For hundreds of years until the 1900s, in today’s China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Vietnam, literati of Classical Chinese or Literary Sinitic (wényán 文言) could communicate in writing interactively, despite not speaking each other’s languages.This book outlines the historical background of, and the material conditions that led to, widespread literacy development in premodern and early
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Transparent Ceramics

by Ling Bing Kong, W. X. Que, Y. Z. Huang, D. Y. Tang, T. S. Zhang, Z. L. Dong, S. Li, J. Zhang ...

Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
This book covers the latest progress in the field of transparent ceramics, emphasizing their processing as well as solid-state lasers. It consists of 10 chapters covering the synthesis, characterization and compaction, fundamentals of sintering, densification of transparent ceramics by different methods as well as transparent ceramic applications. This book can be used as a reference for senior ... Read more

$143.09 USD

This book covers the latest progress in the field of transparent ceramics, emphasizing their processing as well as solid-state lasers. It consists of 10 chapters covering the synthesis, characterization and compaction, fundamentals of sintering, densification of transparent ceramics by different methods as well as transparent ceramic applications. This book can be used as a reference for senior
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Multilingual Hong Kong: Languages, Literacies and Identities

by David C.S. Li ...

Series series Education (R0)
This volume gives an up-to-date account of the language situation and social context in multilingual Hong Kong. After an in-depth, interpretive analysis of various language contact phenomena, it shows why it is such a tall order for Hongkongers to live up to the Special Administrative Region government’s language policy goalpost, ‘biliteracy and trilingualism’. A detailed contrastive analysis ... Read more

$98.09 USD

This volume gives an up-to-date account of the language situation and social context in multilingual Hong Kong. After an in-depth, interpretive analysis of various language contact phenomena, it shows why it is such a tall order for Hongkongers to live up to the Special Administrative Region government’s language policy goalpost, ‘biliteracy and trilingualism’. A detailed contrastive analysis
... Read more

Understanding Chronic Kidney Disease: A guide for the non-specialist

by Dr Robert Lewis ...

Since 2006, the management of chronic kidney disease (CKD) has become part of routine primary care practice. This book offers primary care practitioners a clinically based, practical understanding of how to diagnose and manage kidney disease (and what this means for the patient). It also fills the gap between the recent plethora of guidelines, protocols and recommendations on CKD and the questions ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Since 2006, the management of chronic kidney disease (CKD) has become part of routine primary care practice. This book offers primary care practitioners a clinically based, practical understanding of how to diagnose and manage kidney disease (and what this means for the patient). It also fills the gap between the recent plethora of guidelines, protocols and recommendations on CKD and the questions
... Read more
How to be a Quantitative Ecologist

The 'A to R' of Green Mathematics and Statistics

by Jason Matthiopoulos ...

How to be a Quantitative Ecologist: The 'A to R' of Green Mathematics and StatisticsEcological research is becoming increasingly quantitative, yet students often opt out of courses in mathematics and statistics, unwittingly limiting their ability to carry out research in the future. This textbook provides a practical introduction to quantitative ecology for students and practitioners who have ... Read more

$54.00 USD

How to be a Quantitative Ecologist: The 'A to R' of Green Mathematics and StatisticsEcological research is becoming increasingly quantitative, yet students often opt out of courses in mathematics and statistics, unwittingly limiting their ability to carry out research in the future. This textbook provides a practical introduction to quantitative ecology for students and practitioners who have
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The MBR Book

Principles and Applications of Membrane Bioreactors for Water and Wastewater Treatment

by Simon Judd ...

The MBR Book covers all essential aspects of membrane bioreactors in water and wastewater treatment, including the working principles of MBR technologies. The book aims to separate science from engineering, in an attempt to avoid confusion and to help readers understand the ideas of MBR. The text is divided into five chapters; the membrane and biological aspects are discussed in chapter 2 along ... Read more

$186.99 USD

The MBR Book covers all essential aspects of membrane bioreactors in water and wastewater treatment, including the working principles of MBR technologies. The book aims to separate science from engineering, in an attempt to avoid confusion and to help readers understand the ideas of MBR. The text is divided into five chapters; the membrane and biological aspects are discussed in chapter 2 along
... Read more
Chinese Philosophy - Simple Guides

by Peter Nancarrow ...

Series series Simple Guides
THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU• to appreciate the variety, subtlety and wisdom of a unique philosophical tradition• to understand the major schools of thought that have shaped Chinese civilization• to draw on a rich cultural resource for different perspectives on questions of our time• to recognize traditional concepts that continue to inform Chinese thinking today China, an emerging superpower, is heir ... Read more

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THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU• to appreciate the variety, subtlety and wisdom of a unique philosophical tradition• to understand the major schools of thought that have shaped Chinese civilization• to draw on a rich cultural resource for different perspectives on questions of our time• to recognize traditional concepts that continue to inform Chinese thinking today China, an emerging superpower, is heir
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Geostatistics Explained

An Introductory Guide for Earth Scientists

by Steve McKillup, Melinda Darby Dyar ...

A reader-friendly introduction to geostatistics for students and researchers struggling with statistics. Using simple, clear explanations for introductory and advanced material, it demystifies complex concepts and makes formulas and statistical tests easy to apply. Beginning with a critical evaluation of experimental and sampling design, the book moves on to explain essential concepts of ... Read more

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A reader-friendly introduction to geostatistics for students and researchers struggling with statistics. Using simple, clear explanations for introductory and advanced material, it demystifies complex concepts and makes formulas and statistical tests easy to apply. Beginning with a critical evaluation of experimental and sampling design, the book moves on to explain essential concepts of
... Read more
Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity

Edited by Jeannine Cavender-Bares, John A. Gamon, Philip A. Townsend ...

This Open Access volume aims to methodologically improve our understanding of biodiversity by linking disciplines that incorporate remote sensing, and uniting data and perspectives in the fields of biology, landscape ecology, and geography. The book provides a framework for how biodiversity can be detected and evaluated—focusing particularly on plants—using proximal and remotely sensed ... Read more

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This Open Access volume aims to methodologically improve our understanding of biodiversity by linking disciplines that incorporate remote sensing, and uniting data and perspectives in the fields of biology, landscape ecology, and geography. The book provides a framework for how biodiversity can be detected and evaluated—focusing particularly on plants—using proximal and remotely sensed
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