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Environmental Chemistry: Asian Lessons

Springer, 2003

"This book provides significant information on the impact of rapid industrialization and urbanization on air, soil, and water in the Asian environment. Questions at the end of each chapter are appropriately designed for undergraduate students. The author uses various combinations of expert approaches and geoinformation systems, including...

Medicine Across Cultures: History and Practice of Medicine in Non-Western Cultures

Springer, 2003

This work deals with the medical knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Egyptian, and Tibetan medicine, the book includes essays on comparing Chinese and western medicine and religion and medicine. Each essay...

Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance: Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science

Springer, 2003

This book describes the vast opportunity created by unifying science and integrating technology, and recommends transforming ideas for individuals and society. We stand at the threshold of a new renaissance in knowledge based on the structure and behavior of matter from the nanoscale up to the most complex system yet discovered, the human brain....

Clinical Nephrotoxins: Renal Injury from Drugs and Chemicals

Springer, 2003

This is a comprehensive handbook on all aspects of adverse effects by drugs, chemical substances and radiation on the kidneys. The book consists of a general part dealing with themes such as clinical relevance, renal handling and cellular mechanisms of nephrotoxicity, as well as animal and cell culture models. The second part includes the...

Textbook of Healthcare Ethics

Springer, 2004

1 Historical Introduction INTRODUCTION This chapter is mainly about the history of medicine and its ethics. As usually c- ceived, history is retrograde: It is what happened yesterday, and, much as we may try, it is what happened yesterday seen with a set of today’s eyes. Trying to understand yesterday’s culture may help us put on...

Enterprise Information Systems V

Springer, 2004

The purpose of the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'2003) was to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of information systems. The conference focused mainly on the following main topics : Information Systems: Databases and Information Systems...

Aquatic Invasions in the Black, Caspian, and Mediterranean Seas

Springer, 2004

The present volume contains the presentations of a NATO advanced Research Workshop
(ARW) entitled “The invasion of the Black, Mediterranean and Caspian Seas by the
American Ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leidyi Agassiz: a multidisciplinary perspective
and a comparison with other aquatic invasions”, held on 24 - 26 June 2002 in...

Brain Damage and Repair: From Molecular Research to Clinical Therapy

Springer, 2005

This book builds a novel bridge from molecular research to clinical therapy. This approach reveals the functional features of neurons and glia in the particular context of vulnerability and self-protection, intracellular properties and extracellular matrix. Arising from this platform, this volume unfolds the molecular and systemic processes...

Electronic Structure and Magneto-Optical Properties of Solids

Springer, 2004

The aim of this book is to review recent achievements in the theoretical investigations of the electronic structure, optical, magneto-optical (MO), and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) properties of compounds and Multilayered structures.

Chapter 1 of this book is of an introductory character and presents the theoretical...

The Professional Development of Teachers: Practice and Theory

Springer, 2004

We have subtitled this book ‘Practice and Theory’ because that is the order in which we plan to deal with the subject. We have been running and evaluating programmes for the professional development of teachers since 1970 and the first section of the book will describe some of that practice and the principles which have emerged, and...

Image Analysis, Sediments and Paleoenvironments (Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research)

Springer, 2005

Image analysis is concerned with the extraction of quantitative information from images
captured in digital form (Fortey 1995). Visual information has always played an important
role in the Geosciences — indeed, many disciplines rely heavily on the content of
images, whether they are sketches drawn in the field, or descriptions...

Designing Personalized User Experiences in eCommerce

Springer, 2004

How do you design personalized user experiences that delight and provide value to the customers of an eCommerce site? Personalization does not guarantee high quality user experience: a personalized user experience has the best chance of success if it is developed using a set of best practices in HCI. In this book 35 experts from academia,...

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