Biochemistry: A Very Short Introduction (2021)
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Lorch, M. (in press). Biochemistry: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press

All living things are composed of cells, which have fundamentally the same chemistry. Biochemistry is the study of reactions within these cells, and the molecules that are created, manipulated, and destroyed as a result of them. This book discusses t... Read More about Biochemistry: A Very Short Introduction.

Geographies of Food: An Introduction (2021)
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Kneafsey, M., Maye, D., Holloway, L., & Goodman, M. (2021). Geographies of Food: An Introduction. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality? This textbook engages with this question, and considers the complex relationships between foo... Read More about Geographies of Food: An Introduction.

Resource Recovery from Wastes: Towards a Circular Economy (2019)
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Macaskie, L. E., Sapsford, D. J., & Mayes, W. M. (Eds.). (2020). Resource Recovery from Wastes: Towards a Circular Economy. London: Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/9781788016353

The concept of a circular economy has been gaining increasing attention in recent years. Many of the sources of chemicals we have become reliant on are dwindling and the accumulation of waste products poses a serious environmental problem. By recover... Read More about Resource Recovery from Wastes: Towards a Circular Economy.

Solidification Processing of Metallic Alloys Under External Fields (2018)
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Eskin, D. G., & Mi, J. (Eds.). (2018). Solidification Processing of Metallic Alloys Under External Fields. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94842-3

Remembering protest in Britain since 1500: Memory, materiality and the landscape (2018)
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Griffin, C. J., & McDonagh, B. (Eds.). (2018). Remembering protest in Britain since 1500: Memory, materiality and the landscape. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74243-4

This book offers the first systematic study of the multiple and contested ways in which protest is remembered. Drawing on work in social and cultural history, cultural and historical geography, psychology, anthropology, critical heritage studies, and... Read More about Remembering protest in Britain since 1500: Memory, materiality and the landscape.

Green building transitions - Regional trajectories of innovation in Europe, Canada and Australia (2018)
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Affolderbach, J., & Schulz, C. (2018). Green building transitions - Regional trajectories of innovation in Europe, Canada and Australia. (1). Cham: Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77709-2

This volume analyzes sustainability-related innovations in the building sector and discusses how regional contexts articulate transition trajectories toward green building. It presents ‘biographies’ of drivers and processes of green building innovati... Read More about Green building transitions - Regional trajectories of innovation in Europe, Canada and Australia.

Statistical and Data Handling Skills in Biology (2018)
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Johnson, M., & Ennos, R. (2018). Statistical and Data Handling Skills in Biology. (4th ed.). London: Pearson

Young people's daily mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving young lives (2017)
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Porter, G., Hampshire, K., Abane, A., Munthali, A., Robson, E., & Mashiri, M. (2017). Young people's daily mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving young lives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45431-7

This book explores the daily mobilities and immobilities of children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa. The authors draw on findings from rural and urban field research extending over many years, culminating in a 24-site study across three Afric... Read More about Young people's daily mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Moving young lives.

Environmental Publics (2017)
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Eden, S. (2017). Environmental Publics. https://www.routledge.com/Environmental-Publics/Eden/p/book/9781138189416: Routledge

How do ordinary people think about the environment as they go about their daily lives? Does thinking about the environment make them do things differently? This book is the first to explore the idea of ‘environmental publics’, that is, the ways in wh... Read More about Environmental Publics.

Elite women and the agricultural landscape, 1700–1830 (2017)
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McDonagh, B. (2017). Elite women and the agricultural landscape, 1700–1830. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315579078

Social and economic histories of the long eighteenth century have largely ignored women as a class of landowners and improvers. 1700 to 1830 was a period in which the landscape of large swathes of the English Midlands was reshaped – both materially a... Read More about Elite women and the agricultural landscape, 1700–1830.

Characterisation methods in inorganic chemistry (2017)
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Weller, M. T., & Young, N. (2017). Characterisation methods in inorganic chemistry. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Characterisation Methods in Inorganic Chemistry provides a fresh alternative to the existing theoretical and descriptive inorganic chemistry texts by adopting a techniques-based approach and providing problem-solving opportunities to show how analyti... Read More about Characterisation methods in inorganic chemistry.

Estuarine Ecohydrology: An Introduction (2015)
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Wolanski, E., & Elliott, M. (2016). Estuarine Ecohydrology: An Introduction. (2nd ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2013-0-13014-0

© 2016, 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Estuarine Ecohydrology, Second Edition, provides an ecohydrology viewpoint of an estuary as an ecosystem by focusing on its principal components, the river, the estuarine waters, the sediment, the nutri... Read More about Estuarine Ecohydrology: An Introduction.

A continuous updating rule for imprecise probabilities (2014)
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Cattaneo, M. E. G. V. (2014). A. Laurent, O. Strauss, B. Bouchon-Meunier, & R. Yager (Eds.), A continuous updating rule for imprecise probabilities. Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08852-5_44

The paper studies the continuity of rules for updating imprecise probability models when new data are observed. Discontinuities can lead to robustness issues: this is the case for the usual updating rules of the theory of imprecise probabilities. An... Read More about A continuous updating rule for imprecise probabilities.

Bio-sedimentary indicators for estuaries: a critical review (2012)
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Ducrotoy, J., Mazik, K., & Elliott, M. (2012). Bio-sedimentary indicators for estuaries: a critical review. Paris: Union Océanographes de France

The rational management of the marine environment relies on the measurement of selected attributes and the detection of changes in carefully chosen parameters as the result of human activities. Following that detection, integrated management relies o... Read More about Bio-sedimentary indicators for estuaries: a critical review.

Invasive Alien Arthropod Predators and Parasitoids: An Ecological Approach (2012)
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Lawson Handley, L. (2012). Invasive Alien Arthropod Predators and Parasitoids: An Ecological Approach. Springer

Cognition, metacognition agents and architectures: society of mind approach to cognition and metacognition in cognitive architectures (2010)
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(2010). Cognition, metacognition agents and architectures: society of mind approach to cognition and metacognition in cognitive architectures. Lambert Academic Publishing

From the past course of 50 years of research, Artificial Intelligence has developed a large number of architectures and tools to solve the most difficult problems in Science and Engineering. Artificial Intelligence has developed in a number of direct... Read More about Cognition, metacognition agents and architectures: society of mind approach to cognition and metacognition in cognitive architectures.

Understanding Modern Warfare (2008)
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Tuck, C., Jordan, D., Walton, D., Speller, I., Kiras, J., & Lonsdale, D. (2008). Understanding Modern Warfare. Cambridge University Press

Efficient XPath evaluation (2005)
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Wang, B., Feng, L., & Shen, Y. (2005). Efficient XPath evaluation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/11547686_17

Inspired by the best querying performance of ViST among the rest of the approaches in the literature, and meanwhile to overcome its shortcomings, in this paper, we present another efficient and novel geometric sequence mechanism, which transforms XML... Read More about Efficient XPath evaluation.

 Visions of mind: architectures for cognition and affect (2004)
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(Ed.). (2004).  Visions of mind: architectures for cognition and affect. Information Science Pub

A self-adaptive scope allocation scheme for labeling dynamic XML documents (2004)
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Shen, Y., Feng, L., Shen, T., & Wang, B. (2004). A self-adaptive scope allocation scheme for labeling dynamic XML documents. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30075-5_78

This paper proposes a self adaptive scope allocation scheme for labeling dynamic XML documents. It is general, light-weight and can be built upon existing data retrieval mechanisms. Bayesian inference is used to compute the actual scope allocated for... Read More about A self-adaptive scope allocation scheme for labeling dynamic XML documents.