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Elemental carbon materials take numerous forms, including graphite, graphene, carbon black, activated carbon, nanofibers and nanotubes. In spite of the basic similarity in the chemical bonding, these...

As chemical exposures and cancer rates increase worldwide, there is a need for students, researchers, public health professionals, and physicians to understand the mechanisms connecting exposure with...

Ensuring the safety of new medical products remains a major challenge for the pharmaceutical industry. Cardiac safety, particularly drug-induced heart rhythm abnormalities, remains an important cause...

This compendium gives a comprehensive overview of the advances in fibrillation-defibrillation knowledge -- recognition of fibrillation as a unique life threatening cardiac arrhythmia; discovery of...

Cardioprotective Natural Products: Promises and Hopes focuses on the recent advances in the research of bioactive natural products with cardioprotective potential against various cardiovascular...

Trauma is a serious public health problem worldwide and is the leading cause of death among adults and children. Physiotherapists play a key role in the interdisciplinary team caring for patients...

This book aims to present the overall existing tsunami hazard in the Caribbean Sea region, a region which is typically only associated with hurricanes. It initially presents an overview of all of the...

Caring for Dependent Older Persons details the knowledge that a caregiver should have when caring for an older person who is dependent on his/her care. The main part of the book is a step-by-step...

Psychophysics is by definition mappings between events in the environment and levels of human sensory responses. In this text the methods of nonlinear dynamics, employing trajectories developed for...

There is a lack of knowledge on how corporations in Asia develop strategies, organize their work processes and deal with competition. Western managers and business students need to know more about...

This book provides a new opportunity for corporate strategy analysis within a Japanese context. It is the first academic textbook to be published in English which regroups case studies to emphasize...

Case-Based Predictions: An Axiomatic Approach to Prediction, Classification and Statistical LearningAuthor: Itzhak GilboaPublisher: World Scientific Publishing CompanyPublication Date: 41026Number of...

Cases in Financial Management provides a series of original case studies in corporate finance, many of which are cases based on actual corporate events and on the authors' teaching and consulting...

While globalization of the Japanese economy has been advancing with astounding speed, significant differences remain between the management philosophy and techniques used within Japanese companies...

Catalan numbers, named after the French-Belgian mathematician Eug?ne Charles Catalan (1814-1894), arise in a variety of combinatorial problems. They have many interesting properties, a rich history,...

Catalyst for Change: Chinese Business in AsiaAuthor: Hoon Chang YauPublisher: World Scientific Publishing CompanyPublication Date: 41572Number of Pages: 508 pagesBinding: Business & EconomicsISBN-10:...

Category Theory now permeates most of Mathematics, large parts of theoretical Computer Science and parts of theoretical Physics. Its unifying power brings together different branches, and leads to a...

Causality has been a subject of study for a long time. Often causality is confused with correlation. Human intuition has evolved such that it has learned to identify causality through correlation. In...

Celebrating Entrepreneurs is a first-hand account of the past, present, and future of entrepreneurship at MIT from the man who has led those endeavors since the beginning.Edward B. Roberts has...

Author: Robert E. HawkinsPublisher: World Scientific Publishing CompanyPublication Date: Oct 15, 2012Number of Pages: 212 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 9814295132ISBN-13: 9789814295130

It has been over 100 years since the presentation of the Theory of General Relativity by Albert Einstein, in its final formulation, to the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. To celebrate 100 years...

Physiology of blood flow and metabolism -- Models of blood flow and metabolism -- Global control of blood flow -- Local control of perfusion -- Externally-based measurements -- Internally-based...

Provides a broad look at the history of CERN, and the physicists working in different areas at CERN who were active in the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Combines present day interviews with the...

This updated edition on chalcogen-nitrogen chemistry includes seven new chapters focusing on the development of practical applications in Biological, Physical and Materials Sciences. The treatment is...

The past 100 years of accelerator-based research have led the field from first insights into the structure of atoms to the development and confirmation of the Standard Model of physics. Accelerators...

This book is a collection of invited and selected papers from the Singapore Economic Policy Forum 2009 around a central theme, Challenges Facing Singapore in the Post-Crisis Era and Policy Responses...

This book surveys major economic issues in the development of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region since World War II. It presents a framework of analysis highlighting...

South Asia's growing political and economic influence, as well as the dynamism of this rapidly changing region, demands careful examination. Drawing on many areas of expertise and a wide range of...

Regarded by many as a dead or simply dull subject, Change and Challenge in Human Structure -- Sixty Years On shatters this prejudice with a series of studies that go beyond anatomical dissection and...

This book provides a brief overview of the recent trends in innovations. Early inventions/innovations that began in Asia (i.e., compass, paper, gunpowder and printing) spread to the Atlantic (Europe...