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Adaptogens in Medical Herbalism: Elite Herbs and Natural Compounds for Mastering Stress, Aging, and Chronic Disease
A scientifically based herbal and nutritional program to master stress, improve energy, prevent degenerative disease, and age gracefully • Explains how adaptogenic herbs work at the cellular level to enhance energy production and subdue the pro-inflammatory state behind degenerative disease • Expl... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Social Policy and the Labour Market: Issues At Stake Across The World (Routledge Revivals #2)
First published in 1997, this volume examines why, while mature welfare states are being trimmed and privatised, new social welfare arrangement are implemented in formerly communist and newly industrialised countries. The papers in this volume bring together these different worlds, but also differen... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Lime, The: Botany, Production and Uses (Botany, Production and Uses)
by W Ahmed • M A Ali • G Almaguer-Vargas • A M Al-Saidi • A Al-Maskary • U Ammara • C F Aquino • N Cruz-Huerta • D L Siqueira • P Donkersley • S L Elliot • A A Farooque • F García-Sánchez • V Gimeno • V González-Hernández • M A Hanif • R Janke • M L Keremane • A S Khan • Y Z Liu • B S Marquez • J J Martínez-Nicolás • A Nasehi • M A Nawaz • S Padmanabhan • R B Queiroz • C Ramadugu • I Ramírez-Ramírez • M F Razi • M L Roose • L C Salomão • A W Schumann • R W Scora • S Simón-Grao • Z Singh • A K Srivastava • M Usman • M Waly • Q U ZamanThe lime is an important fruit crop throughout the citrus producing regions of the world, with its own specific benefits and issues affecting successful cultivation and production. Limes: Botany, Production and Uses covers the breeding, genetics and biodiversity of the plants, and explains the p... More
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Ageing, Social Security and Affordability (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1998. This volume (the second of a twin set grouping articles based on papers presented at seminars in Sigtuna, Sweden, during 1994 – 1996) deals with the largest spending programs of the welfare state – old age pensions and medical care, and their place within debates about the d... More
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The Restorative Prison: Essays on Inmate Peer Ministry and Prosocial Corrections
Drawing on work from inside some of America’s largest and toughest prisons, this book documents an alternative model of "restorative corrections" utilizing the lived experience of successful inmates, fast disrupting traditional models of correctional programming. While research documents a strong de... More
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Guide to Reliable Internet Services and Applications
This guide addresses the challenges faced by service providers and the approaches they use to deliver reliable networks and networked application services. The book offers a systematic, inter-disciplinary approach and coverage of practical problems arising in real, operational deployments. Leading p... More
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QoS Prediction in Cloud and Service Computing
This book offers a systematic and practical overview of Quality of Service prediction in cloud and service computing. Intended to thoroughly prepare the reader for research in cloud performance, the book first identifies common problems in QoS prediction and proposes three QoS prediction models to ... More
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HIV Vaccines and Cure: The Path Towards Finding an Effective Cure and Vaccine (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology #1075)
This book provides a comprehensive review of the major barriers to HIV cure and vaccine. It covers the fundamental virology and immunology leading to HIV transmission, protection from infection and long term HIV persistence on antiretroviral therapy. In addition, strategies being tested to eliminate... More
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Korea's Retirement Predicament: The Ageing Tiger (Routledge Advances in Korean Studies)
The distinguishing feature for many workers in South Korea is contractual – and often involuntary – retirement at a young age (mid-50s for most workers) followed by precarious and low-paying self-employment or contract work. In the past this practice, which is also found in other East Asian nations,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Plant Chemical Genomics: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology #2213)
This second edition volume is a companion volume to the previous edition and looks at new findings on novel bioactive chemicals and cognate targets, as well as the use of synthetic small molecules and a variety of tools to understand these processes. Chapters in this book cover topics such as screen... More
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Credit Risk Assessment: The New Lending System for Borrowers, Lenders, and Investors
ists through the workings of financial markets, particularly how they value, price, and distribute risk." -Professor William Greene, Stern School of Business, New York University "This book is a well-timed departure from much of what is being written today regarding the current foreclosure and credi... More
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The Embroidered Shoes: Stories
Can Xue (pronounced "tsan shway") is considered by many to be the most spirited, fearless, radical fiction writer to come out of contemporary China. Even her name is marked by tenacity (it's a pen name referring to dirty, leftover snow that refuses to melt). Her most important work to date, The Embr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Carbon Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications (Springer Series in Biomaterials Science and Engineering #5)
This book covers a wide range of topics relating to carbon nanomaterials, from synthesis and functionalization to applications in advanced biomedical devices and systems. As they possess unique and attractive chemical, physical, optical, and even magnetic properties for various applications, consid... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Since the first successful isolation and cultivation of human embryonic stem cells at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1998, there has been high levels of both interest and controversy in this area of research. This book provides a concise overview of an exciting field, covering the characte... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Fifty Songs from the Yüan: Fifty Songs from the Yüan: Poetry of 13th Century China (Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts #13)
This book, first published in 1967, gives us a rich sampling of ch’ü, the characteristic poem of the time of Yüan, when China was under Mongol rule. The ch’ü was a popular form of poetry in the sense that although it was written by literati, they wrote in the vernacular rather than in Classical Chin... More
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Progress in Psychological Science around the World. Volume 1 Neural, Cognitive and Developmental Issues.: Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Psychology
Progress in Psychological Science around the World, Volumes 1 and 2, present the main contributions from the 28th International Congress of Psychology, held in Beijing in 2004. These expert contributions include the Nobel laureate address, the Presidential address, and the Keynote and State-of-the-A... More
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Progress in Psychological Science Around the World. Volume 2: Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Psychology
Progress in Psychological Science around the World, Volumes 1 and 2, present the main contributions from the 28th International Congress of Psychology, held in Beijing in 2004. These expert contributions include the Nobel laureate address, the Presidential address, and the Keynote and State-of-the-A... More
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The Angola Prison Seminary: Effects of Faith-Based Ministry on Identity Transformation, Desistance, and Rehabilitation (Routledge Innovations in Corrections #1)
Corrections officials faced with rising populations and shrinking budgets have increasingly welcomed "faith-based" providers offering services at no cost to help meet the needs of inmates. Drawing from three years of on-site research, this book utilizes survey analysis along with life-history interv... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies: 22nd International Conference, PDCAT 2021, Guangzhou, China, December 17–19, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13148)
by Ajay Gupta • Hamid R. Arabnia • Hong Shen • Yong Zhang • Nong Xiao • Geoffrey Fox • Yingpeng Sang • Manu MalekThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications, and Technologies, PDCAT 2021, which took place in Guangzhou, China, during December 17-19, 2021. The 24 full papers and 34 short papers included in this volume were care... More
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Zika Virus and Diseases: From Molecular Biology to Epidemiology
Compiles the most current information on the Zika virus and its associated diseases This comprehensive book provides the most up-to-date information for students, medical students, and scientists on Zika virus and its associated diseases. It includes all the information related to the Zika virus si... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Evaluation and Management of Liver Masses
This text provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the evaluation and management of liver mass lesions. Major topics covered include epidemiology, the use of different imaging modalities in the differential diagnosis of liver lesions, the use of biomarkers and immunohistochemical st... More
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Proceedings of Fifth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology: ICICT 2020, London, Volume 1 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1183)
This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the Fifth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, held at Brunel University, London, on February 20–21, 2020. It discusses emerging topics pertaining to information and communication technology (ICT) for... More
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Coral Reefs of the Western Pacific Ocean in a Changing Anthropocene (Coral Reefs of the World #14)
The monograph is based on the research and training activities in the Western Pacific Ocean Region within the umbrella of UNESCO/IOC-Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific Region. The results of these activities are compared to cases from other tropical and subtropical regions on this planet to make... More
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Energy Technology 2021: Carbon Dioxide Management and Other Technologies (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series)
by Lei Zhang • Neale R. Neelameggham • Alafara Abdullahi Baba • Yulin Zhong • Donna P. Guillen • Hong PengClean and sustainable energy is of paramount importance for industrial activities, economic development, environment, and welfare of civilians. As such, research on generation, storage, and application of clean energy is a central concern of both academia and industry. This collection addresses the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021