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Research Ethics in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences (Ethics and Sport)
Research Ethics in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences puts ethics at the centre of research in these rapidly expanding fields of knowledge. Placing the issues in historical context, and using informative case studies, the authors examine how moral theory can guide research design, education, and g... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Wet Mind
How do our brains allow us to recognize objects and locate them accurately in space, use mental imagery to remember yesterday's breakfast, read, understand speech, learn to dance, and recall a new telephone number? Recent breakthroughs in brain scanning and computing techniques have allowed research... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1992 -
Secret of the Super-small Superstar (Who Shrunk Daniel Funk? #4)
by Lin Oliver • Stephen GilpinDaniel knows it would be dangerous if anyone found out about his tiny twin brother. But when his sister accidentally posts a video of Pablo on her blog, Daniel is catapulted to instant stardom. Everyone is wowed by his special-effects skills--because there couldn't actually be a miniature boy dancin... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Escape of the Mini-Mummy (Who Shrunk Daniel Funk? #2)
by Lin Oliver • Stephen GilpinDaniel Funk can shrink to the size of the fourth toe on his left foot. But that's not his only skill. Daniel and his best friend, Vu, are entering the school diorama contest with a model of King Tut's tomb. If they win, they get tickets to a Lakers game. If they lose, they'll never hear the end of i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Attack of the Growling Eyeballs (Who Shrunk Daniel Funk? #1)
by Lin Oliver • Stephen GilpinYou know how your stomach growls when you're really hungry? That's how it started, except the growling wasn't coming from my stomach. It was coming from behind my eyeballs.... "Help!" I screamed. But my voice wasn't normal either. It was the voice of a small person. A very very very small p... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Revenge of the Itty-Bitty Brothers (Who Shrunk Daniel Funk? #3)
by Lin Oliver • Stephen GilpinNow that Daniel Funk has finally figured out what makes him shrink to the size of his fourth toe, he and his tiny twin brother, Pablo, can go on all sorts of mini adventures. They make a list of fun things they can do when they're small: snowboarding down an ice cream sundae, trampolining on a marsh... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Scaling OpenMP for Exascale Performance and Portability
by Christian Terboven • Bronis R. de Supinski • Barbara M. Chapman • Matthias S. Müller • Stephen L. OlivierThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2017, held in Stony Brook, NY, USA, in September 2017. The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: Adva... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Systems Biology of Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and many other neurodegenerative disorders are multifactorial in nature, involving a combination of genomic, epigenomic, network dynamic and environmental factors. A proper investigation requires new integrative Systems Biology approaches, at both the experimental and compu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Yeast Systems Biology: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology #2049)
This second edition volume expands on the previous edition with a look at the latest advances in techniques to study yeast and its core set of interactions, modules, architectures, and network dynamics that are common in all eukaryotes. The chapters in this book are organized into Four Parts: Part O... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Yeast Systems Biology
Systems Biology aims at deciphering the genotype-phenotype relationships at the levels of genes, transcripts (RNAs), peptides, proteins, metabolites, and environmental factors participating in complex cellular networks in order to reveal the mechanisms and principles governing the behavior of comple... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Studies on Experimental Toxicology and Pharmacology
This book focuses on data describing the roles of free radicals and related reactive species, and antioxidants, in the causes and treatments of diseases, examining both clinical and pre-clinical trials, as well as basic research. The book is divided into sub-sections with chapters on toxicological ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Making the Most of the Water We Have: The Soft Path Approach to Water Management
Based on the ‘soft path approach to the energy sector, a transition is now under way to a soft path for water. This approach starts by ensuring that ecosystem needs for water are satisfied and then undertakes a radical approach to reducing human uses of water by economic and social incentives, inclu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Shared Entrepreneurship
by Charles C. Manz • Stephen B. Adams • Marvin O. Brown • Thomas J. Calo • Wayne H. Decker • Richard C. Hoffman • Karen P. Manz • Olivier P. Roche • Frank Shipper • Marc D. Street • Vera L. Street • Christy H. WeerToday's views of leadership and management have significantly expanded to incorporate a variety of elements such as rewards, visions, and worker participation. However, most perspectives still view leadership as something that is assigned to a designated person who then exercises influence downward... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Resonant MEMS
by Gary K. Fedder • Osamu Tabata • Christofer Hierold • Jan G. Korvink • Oliver Brand • Fabien Josse • Isabelle Dufour • Stephen HeinrichPart of the AMN book series, this book covers the principles, modeling and implementation as well as applications of resonant MEMS from a unified viewpoint. It starts out with the fundamental equations and phenomena that govern the behavior of resonant MEMS and then gives a detailed overview of thei... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Exploiting Childhood: How Fast Food, Material Obsession and Porn Culture are Creating New Forms of Child Abuse
by James Hawes • Gail Dines • Renata Salecl • Stephen D. Brookfield • Liz Kelly • Susie Orbach • Maddy Coy • Agnes Nairne • Wayne Warburton • Oliver James • Jim Wild • Adam Barnard • Tim Lobstein • Camila Batmanghelidjh • Stephen Haff • Sharon GirlingChildren deserve to live a life that is safe from exploitation and harm, but are we failing in our duty to protect them? Childhood today is big business - it is impossible for any child growing up to avoid pervasive and intense marketing from companies. Whether it be for fatty foods resulting in c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Safeguarding Adults Under the Care Act 2014: Understanding Good Practice (Knowledge In Practice Ser.)
by Emily White • David Orr • Martin Stevens • Trish Hafford-Letchfield • Rebecca Johnson • Michael Preston-Shoot • Suzy Braye • Marilyn Taylor • Sarah Carr • Jill Manthorpe • Fiona Bateman • Jane Lawson • Lee-Ann Fenge • Adi Cooper • Antony Botting • Caroline Norrie • Daniel Baker • Lindsey Pike • Sally Lee • Tony Stanley • John Gunner • Linda Tapper • Lyn Romeo • Nicki Norman • Professor Keith Brown • Sean Olivier • Stephen Martineau • Tish ElliottPractice in safeguarding adults is changing, with a shift in approach to ensure it is person-centred and outcome-focused. The Care Act 2014 introduced new safeguarding duties for local authorities, and this book describes what up-to-date practice should look like, and how to provide the best quality... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Organic Food Systems: Meeting the Needs of Southern Africa
by Bernd Siebenhüner • Jane Battersby • Stephen Devereux • Albert Ackhurst • Anastasia Caude • Catherine Eckert • Johan Habig • Konrad Hauptfleisch • Gareth Haysom • Jostein Hertwig • Johannes Kahl • Christina Kifunda • Nico Labuschagne • Sandra C Lamprecht • Andre Leu • Simon Lorentz • Josua Louw • Jama Mashele • Mebelo Mataa • Robert Munthali • Jane Nalunga • Nic Olivier • Hannelise Piek • Matt Purkis • Mandla Sibiya • Charles Ssekyewa • Sheila Storey • Carola Strassner • Marike Swanepoel • Wim Troosters • Abraham Van Niekerk • Maren WesselowOrganic agriculture world-wide allows farmers to produce healthy food with low levels of external inputs, and often shortens the value chains, giving farmers a higher share of the consumer dollar. This book reports on long-term comparative organic farming systems research trials carried out over the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Supernatural Horror Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy)
by Lucy A. Snyder • Damien Angelica Walters • Oliver Smith • Carolyn Charron • Stephen Kotowych • Daniele Bonfanti • E.E.W. Christman • Kay Chronister • Morgan Elektra • Matthew Gorman • Jason L. Kawa • G. L. McDorman • Michelle Muenzler • Cody Schroeder • Mariah Southworth • Angela Sylvaine • Desmond Warzel • Michaël Wertenberg • Trisha J. WooldridgeNew Authors and collections. Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror, Science Fiction, Murder Mayhem and Crime & Mystery this latest title crawls with the dark fingers of terror, the chilling sensation of another presence sitting alo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Climate, Ticks and Disease (CABI Climate Change Series #18)
by Charles Hart • Peter Cox • A. Townsend Peterson • Nicholas Johnson • Wei Liu • Jianhong Wu • Richard Wall • Domenico Otranto • Agustín Estrada-Peña • Jeremy Gray • Abdul Jabbar • Jolyon M. Medlock • Sunit Kumar Singh • Giovanni Benelli • Peter Irwin • Richard Bishop • Xue Zhang • Hao Li • DeMar Taylor • Deborah Hemming • Saeed Alasmari • Neil Alexander • Abdelghafar Alkishe • Reiko Arai • Armanda Bastos • Gervasio Henrique Bechara • John Beier • Joshua Benoit • Dennis Bente • Adrien Blisnick • René Bødker • Fernando Boinas • Sarah Bonnet • Nathalie Boulanger • Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz • Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano • Cyril Caminade • Jirí Cerny´ • Roxanne Albertha Charles • Ali Reza Chavshin • Rosalind Cornforth • Neil Coughlan • Lauren Culler • Milan Daniel • Vlasta Danielova • Mona Dehhaghi • Maria Diuk-Wasser • James P Duffy • Olivier Duron • Lars Eisen • Rebecca Eisen • Jana Elsterová • Koray Ergünay • Li-Qun Fang • Natalia Fernández-Ruiz • Erol Fikrig • Serhii Filatov • Durland Fish • Janet Foley • José De Fuente • Roman Ganta • Aysen Gargili Keles • Robin Beat Gasser • Abdul Ghafar • Naftaly Githaka • Lucy Gilbert • Maryna Golovchenko • Yuval Gottlieb • Ernest Gould • Libor Grubhoffer • Gilles J. Guillemin • Kayleigh M. Hansford • John E. Healy • Stephen Higgs • Andrew Hoodless • Yan-Jang S. Huang • Bernard Hudson • Chris Huntingford • Esther Kanduma • Sirri Kar • Maria Kazimirova • Neil Kaye • Thomas C. Kelly • Lene Jung Kjaer • Agatha Onyemowo Kolo • Eduard Korenberg • Nina Król • Chi-Chien Kuo • Timothy J. Kurtti • Xavier De Lamballerie • Patrick A. Leighton • L. Robbin Lindsay • Geoffrey E. Lynn • Ilya Maclean • Ben J. Mans • Maristela Martins de Camargo • Karen D. McCoy • Ulrike G. Munderloh • Atle Mysterud • Sukanya Narasimhan • Anna Obiegala • Dasiel Obregón Alvarez • Nick H. Ogden • Mari H. Ogihara • Stefan Vilges Oliveira • Charlotte Oskam • Kennan J. Oyen • Neha Pandey • Hamed Kazemi Panahi • John H. Pettersson • Martin Pfeffer • L. Paul Phipps • Heather J. Plumpton • Tatjana Pustahija • Ram Raghavan • Ryan O.M Rego • Annapaola Rizzoli • Isobel Ronai • Franz Rubel • Natalie Rudenko • Benjamin Ruiwen • Rufus Sage • Abdallah M. Samy • Gustavo Seron Sanches • Isabel Kinney Santos • Marcello Otake Sato • Megumi Sato • Richard Schloeffel • Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh • Ladislav Šimo • Daniel E. Sonenshine • Morgan Sparey • Frederic Stachurski • Snorre Stuen • Matias Pablo Szabó • Mike Teglas • Sam R. • Saravanan Thangamani • Georgia Titcomb • Attila J. Trájer • Michael Turell • Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji • Dana L. Vanlandingham • Laurence Vial • Margarita Villar • André B. Wilke • G. R. Wint • Zbigniew ZajacThis book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022