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Growth Hormone Related Diseases and Therapy
by Ken HoThe molecular era ushered in the cloning of the growth hormone (GH) gene and the production of unlimited amounts of GH through recombinant technology. The continuing momentum of research from basic science to clinical evaluation has brought unprecedented advances to the understanding of GH biology ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2011 -
Supersizing Urban America: How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help
by Chin JouMore than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are over 112,000 obesity-related deaths annually, and for many years, the government has waged a very public war on the problem. Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona wa... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2017 -
The Regulation and Supervision of Banks: The Post Crisis Regulatory Responses of the EU (Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law)
by Chen Chen HuOver the past two decades, the banking industry has expanded and consolidated at a stunningly unprecedented speed. In this time banks have also moved from focusing purely on commercial banking activities to being heavily involved in market-based and transaction-oriented wholesale and investment bank... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018 -
The Work and Lives of Teachers in China (Routledge Research in Asian Education)
by Qing GuBy bringing together a distinguished group of scholars who have deep, extensive and complementary knowledge and expertise of the Chinese education system, The Work and Lives of Teachers in China engages in detailed discussions on contemporary issues about teachers and teaching in China. It locates t... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2015 -
Soil Nailing: A Practical Guide
by Ken Ho • Raymond CheungSoil nailing is an in situ soil reinforcement technique that can be used to enhance the stability of slopes, retaining walls, embankments, and excavations. It involves installation of closely spaced, relatively slender unstressed tension-carrying structural elements into the ground to stabilize the ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2021 -
Gene Therapy for Cartilage and Bone Tissue Engineering
by Yu-Chen Hu"Gene Therapy for Cartilage and Bone Tissue Engineering" outlines the tissue engineering and possible applications of gene therapy in the field of biomedical engineering as well as basic principles of gene therapy, vectors and gene delivery, specifically for cartilage and bone engineering. It is in... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2014 -
Perceptual Training on Lexical Stress Contrasts: A Study with Taiwanese Learners of English as a Foreign Language (SpringerBriefs in Linguistics)
by Shu-Chen OuThis book presents the effects of perceptual training on the perception of English lexical stress in rising intonation by Mandarin-speaking EFL learners in Taiwan, and shows that these effects can be positive as well as negative. The book is of interest to researchers in lexical stress and intonatio... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2020 -
Fiona and Jane
by Jean Chen HoA witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades.Best friends since second grade, Fiona Lin and Jane Shen explore the lonely freeways and seedy bars of Los Angeles together... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
Ghost Island and the Mystery of Charmander: An Unofficial Adventure for Pokémon GO Fans
by Ken A. MooreWhen Sarah and Skip's mom inherits and house and moves the family to a remote town in Maine for a fresh start, the pair is anything but pleased. What if there's nothing to do? What if they don't make friends? What if they can't play Pokémon GO?Then they see the mysterious island across the water fro... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2016 -
A Systems Analysis of Medicine: Healing Medicine (Studies in Medical Philosophy #6)
This book is a must read for anyone interested in transforming the impersonal character of the medical experience into a personalized, relational, spiritual, and holistic dialogue about human health. It promotes a holistic vision of the doctor-patient relationship, a medicine that ought to be based ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2019 -
Call of the Last Survivor: An Unofficial Fortnite Novel
by Ken A MooreWill Mikaleh and her friends unravel the mystery of the ruby key and discover who—or what—is the Lone Survivor? Of all the squads in what remains of the known world—that is, after the onset of “The Storm” and the mysterious zombie hordes that came with it—no squad has a reputation like Squad #43! H... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018 -
Semiconductor Nanolasers
by Qing Gu • Yeshaiahu FainmanThis unique resource explains the fundamental physics of semiconductor nanolasers, and provides detailed insights into their design, fabrication, characterization, and applications. Topics covered range from the theoretical treatment of the underlying physics of nanoscale phenomena, such as tempera... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2017 -
The New Lives of Teachers (Teacher Quality and School Development)
by Christopher Day • Qing GuThe New Lives of Teachers examines the varied, often demanding commitments on teachers’ lives today as they attempt to pursue careers in primary and secondary education. Building upon Huberman’s classic study, it probes not only teachers’ everyday lives, but also the ways in which they negotiate the... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2010 -
Resilient Teachers, Resilient Schools: Building and sustaining quality in testing times (Teacher Quality and School Development)
by Christopher Day • Qing GuThis book unpicks the complex, dynamic blend of individuals’ psychological and professional assets, workplace conditions and leadership support which enable teachers who stay in teaching to continue to make a difference in their careers, regardless of shifts in policy, workplace, professional and pe... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2014 -
Online Capacity Provisioning for Energy-Efficient Datacenters (Synthesis Lectures on Learning, Networks, and Algorithms)
This book addresses the urgent issue of massive and inefficient energy consumption by data centers, which have become the largest co-located computing systems in the world and process trillions of megabytes of data every second. Dynamic provisioning algorithms have the potential to be the most viabl... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
Routledge Handbook of International Education and Development (Routledge International Handbooks)
by Qing Gu • Simon McGrathThis timely Handbook takes stock of the range of debates that characterise the field of international education and development, and suggests key aspects of a research agenda for the next period. It is deliberately divergent in its approach, recognising the major ideological and epistemological divi... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2016 -
Slope Safety Preparedness for Impact of Climate Change
Many countries are increasingly threatened by major landslide disasters and fatalities due to extreme weather events which have major implications for public safety and the sustainability of infrastructure and the built environment. A further increase in such a trend could come from climate change. ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2017 -
Roughnecks
To his fellow crewmembers on rig number 34 of the Bomac Drilling Company, 27-year-old newcomer Zachary Harper is a mystery. To Marty, the derrick hand, he's a welcome working body. To Freddy, the chainhand, he's just another newcomer like himself trying to break out in the oil patch. To Jesse Lancas... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2014 -
A Cook's Guide to Asian Vegetables
Here at last is a book which all cooks need to know about the fast-growing list of Asian vegetables found in Asian grocery stores and specialty gourmet shops.With attractive watercolors and photographs, A Cook's Guide to Asian Vegetables helps you identify more than 170 vegetables and vegetable prod... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2004 -
The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance
The data behind a distinct form of racism in online datingThe Dating Divide is the first comprehensive look at "digital-sexual racism," a distinct form of racism that is mediated and amplified through the impersonal and anonymous context of online dating. Drawing on large-scale behavioral data from ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2021 -
Proceedings of the International e-Conference on Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing: e-ISSP 2020 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1370)
This book provides insights into the Third International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing (eISSP 2020) held By Electronics & Communication Engineering Department of G H Patel College of Engineering & Technology, Gujarat, India, during 28–30 December 2020. The book comprises co... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
Empowering Gifted Minds
The definitive manual on gifted advocacy, this book takes parents and teachers from documenting a child's abilities to providing reasonable educational options year by year.... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2003 -
School-University Partnerships in Action: The Promise of Change (Teacher Quality and School Development)
This book provides new knowledge, insights and experience about school-university partnerships. Drawing upon evidence from international research of the world’s most improved systems, and learning from a UK research council funded ‘knowledge exchange’ project, it reveals that when the profound diffe... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2021 -
Advances in Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing: Proceeding of the IIH-MSP 2021 & FITAT 2021, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Volume 1 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies #277)
The book presents selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Applications and Tools, held on October 29 – 31, 2021, in Kaohsiu... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2022 -
Atlas of Perforator Flap and Wound Healing: Microsurgical Reconstruction and Cases
This Atlas is organized in a way with a combination of basic theory and clinical practices, and of real photos and text description in perforator flap. The book includes four parts: the first part is the overview of the definition, vascular physiology and main principles of clinical applications of ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2019