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Health Without Borders
by Paolo VineisThis book discusses globalization and its impact on human health. The population of the world grew from 1 billion in 1800 to 7 billion in 2012, and over the past 50 years the mean temperature has risen faster than ever before. Both factors continue to rise, as well as health inequalities. Our env... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Molecular Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases
"I think this is an excellent book-I recommend it to anyone involved in molecular epidemiology... The 26 chapters are written by topic specialists, in an explanatory, east to read style." -BTS Newsletter, Summer 2009"This text provides an accessible and useful handbook for the epidemiologist who wan... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
A Primer on PDEs: Models, Methods, Simulations (UNITEXT)
This book is designed as an advanced undergraduate or a first-year graduate course for students from various disciplines like applied mathematics, physics, engineering. It has evolved while teaching courses on partial differential equations during the last decade at the Politecnico of Milan. The mai... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Silicon Sensors and Actuators: The Feynman Roadmap
This book thoroughly reviews the present knowledge on silicon micromechanical transducers and addresses emerging and future technology challenges. Readers will acquire a solid theoretical and practical background that will allow them to analyze the key performance aspects of devices, critically judg... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Quantitative Genetics, Genomics and Plant Breeding
by Weikai Yan • Salvatore Ceccarelli • Surinder S Banga • Nourollah Ahmadi • Jacqueline Batley • Baffour Badu-Apraku • José Crossa • Ravi Prakash Singh • Manjit Kang • Meike S Anderson • Robyn Anderson • Paolo Annicchiarico • Vivi N Arief • Jérôme Bartholomé • Kaye E Basford • Dharminder Bhatia • Darshan S Brar • Juan Burgueño • Tuong-Vi Cao • Hernán Ceballos • Sandeep Chapagain • Binu Cherian • Monica Danilevicz • Ian H DeLacy • Professor Dave Edwards • M A Fakorede • Cassie Tay Fernandez • Mahalingam Govindaraj • Cécile Grenier • Mehak Gupta • L A Hunt • Shailesh Vinay Joshi • Philomin Juliana • Anand Kanatti • M T Labuschagne • D Lloyd Evans • Suschismita Modal • Gurbachan S Miglani • Osval A Montesinos-López • E Obeng-Bio • S A Oyekale • Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez • Wolfgang H Pfeiffer • M Pillay • K N Rai • Lovepreet Singh • Rajveer Singh • Prasanta K Subudhi • A O Talabi • S N Tchala • Soodeh Tirnaz • Parminder S VirkSince the first edition of this book was published in 2002, the field of quantitative genetics, genomics and breeding has changed markedly. In response, only four chapters have been updated for this new edition, and the remaining 16 chapters are entirely new. This book presents state-of-the-art,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020