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In 2234 men are extinct, having been deemed unnecessary.This is the story of Candice Harlow, a brilliant young scientist arranged by Arkite's supreme ruler, Elise Jackson, to lead the Savant project. A.I. is forbidden to experiment with human genes, so it enlists researchers-Savants. Savants work to create a human being from scratch to serve as a blueprint for immortality. Candice likes her newfound wealth and status, but she's not sure she li...

This book offers an in-depth overview of Turkish history and politics essential for understanding contemporary Turkey. It presents an analysis on a number of key issues from gender inequality to Islamism to urban regeneration. Based on interviews with leading intellectuals and academics from Turkey, the book's theme follows the dramatic transformations that have occurred from the 1980 military coup to the coup attempt of 2016 and its aftermath...

This monograph surveys the theory of quantitative homogenization for second-order linear elliptic systems in divergence form with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients in a bounded domain. It begins with a review of the classical qualitative homogenization theory, and addresses the problem of convergence rates of solutions. The main body of the monograph investigates various interior and boundary regularity estimates that are uniform in th...

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After decades of dominance of genetics and genomics, the importance of structural biology is growing exponentially in the field of plant biology. The main objectives of this new book series is to "demystify" structural biology for plant researchers and to provide important insights into the basic molecular mechanisms underlying plant development through the diverse approaches utilized by structural biologists. The book series starts with a the...

What's the most annoying thing you've done to your boyfriend?Alaika Maiman shares ten awesome ways you can lovingly annoy your boyfriend. After all, what's a relationship without a little harmless mischief? Follow Alaika Maiman's advice and discover how you can add some frolicsome memories to your life.If you like playful humor, and you like to have fun with your moonpie, then this book is for you.Disclaimer: The contents of this awe-inspiring...

This essential book offers unprecedented professional insight, first-person interviews and critical therapeutic guidance to help parents, teachers, school administrators and social service professionals successfully nurture and heal children in this era of school shootings.

Focusing on global value chains and their importance to trade, this edited collection explores the strategic role of logistics and supply chain infrastructure in the development of Africa. Skilled authors present critical analysis of the current state of logistics in Africa, and suggest improvements to policy and practice which address the issue of poor trading relationships. This book will engage entrepreneurs, academics and policy-makers int...

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This monograph provides a new perspective on business modeling in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It builds on the theoretical framework on innovation and revisits the Zahra and George (2002) model on absorptive capacity and other related works, such as the open innovation approach initiated by Chesbrough (2003). It also introduces a new 'open innovation bridge - a Tangram model' approach to business models that identifies the criti...

La percepción del propio cuerpo así como la percepción del entorno que nos rodea resulta esencial para poder alcanzar el éxito en nuestras respuestas motóricas. Estos dos aspectos forman parte de lo que denominamos capacidades perceptivo-motrices, es decir, la capacidad de coordinar la información proveniente de los sentidos con el propio movimiento. Responder a un estímulo supone mucho más que la propia ejecución de un movimiento, depende ade...

Uno de los objetivos que debemos tener presentes todos los docentes especialistas en Educación Física es el de Educar a través del Movimiento. Esto implica básicamente que nuestros alumnos sean capaces de afrontar los diversos problemas que les plantea el entorno de la forma más eficaz posible, utilizando para ello los recursos de que dispone su propio cuerpo. Dichas herramientas son variadas (cualidades perceptivo-motrices, cualidades físicas...

Lonely. Divorced. Disowned by her daughter. Helle is spinning toward despair when a homeless girl brightens her life. Finally, she has someone to care about. Someone who needs her. Someone she can be a mother to. But when a tragic event threatens to ruin everything, what lengths will Helle go to in order to keep young Giulianna in her life?Queer Ghost Stories are standalone tales that can be read in any order.

This book represents the first ever scientific monograph including an in-depth analysis of all major field-assisted sintering techniques. Until now, the electromagnetic field-assisted technologies of materials processing were lacking a systematic and generalized description in one fundamental publication, this work promotes the development of generalized concepts and of comparative analyses in this emerging area of materials fabrication. This ...

This collection of essays engages with a wide range of disciplines including art, performance, film and literature, to examine the myriad effects of contemporary surveillance on our cultural psyche. The volume expertly articulates the manner in which cultural productions have been complicit in watching, seeing and purporting to 'know' race. In our increasingly mediated world, our sense of community is becoming progressively virtual, and survei...

This book is the first available practical manual on the open abdomen. The handy format will allow practicing physicians, surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and physiotherapists to use it as a ready source of information on all aspects of management of the open abdomen in a wide variety of settings. The coverage includes, for example, the open abdomen in trauma, intra-abdominal sepsis, and acute pancreatitis, step-by-step descriptions of dif...

In this book, expert dermatologists review state of the art knowledge concerning the clinical presentation and management of cutaneous diseases that develop in immunosuppressed individuals, including transplant recipients, those with primary immunodeficiencies, and HIV sufferers. Throughout the book, correlations are made with iatrogenic, primary, and acquired immunodeficiencies. A major aim is to enable dermatologists to identify the specific...

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This book explores the relationship between schizophrenia and common sense. It approaches this theme from a multidisciplinary perspective. Coverage features contributions from phenomenology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, and social cognition.The contributors address the following questions: How relevant is the loss of common sense in schizophrenia? How can the study of schizophrenia contribute to the study of common s...

This open access book aims to provide a comprehensive but practical overview of the knowledge required for the assessment and management of the older adult with or at risk of fragility fracture. It considers this from the perspectives of all of the settings in which this group of patients receive nursing care. Globally, a fragility fracture is estimated to occur every 3 seconds. This amounts to 25 000 fractures per day or 9 million per year. T...