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In its third revised, expanded and updated edition, this book advises health professionals on preparation, organisation, logistics, treatment of major trauma and medical emergencies and the special pr
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Typically, manuals of pediatric hematology-oncology are written by specialists from high-income countries, and usually target an audience with a sub-specialist level of training, often assisted by cut
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In 2012, over four billion people tuned in to watch the London Summer Olympics. As the single largest mega-event in the world, the Olympics has the power to captivate the global imagination. Long befo
This book presents the classical theory of curves in the plane and three-dimensional space, and the classical theory of surfaces in three-dimensional space. It pays particular attention to the histori
Outlining cutting-edge knowledge of the T cell-manufacturing thymus, a primal organ common to all vertebrates, this book by leading researchers covers key aspects of thymopoiesis and opens promising n
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Presenting a ground-breaking integrated system of planning and decision support for land consolidation, this outstanding study reviews key issues such as fragmentation and reallocation, includes detai
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The book presents surveys describing recent developments in most of the primary subfields of General Topology, and its applications to Algebra and Analysis during the last decade, following the previo
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The book provides an in depth analyses of the experience and lessons in Chinese energy and emissions reductions policies in a climate change constrained scenario. As China emerges as the world second
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How do women leaders make it to the top of an organization? How can women stay at the top when most of their colleagues are men? What should women do to exercise leadership well? This book tells the s
This thesis breaks new ground in the physics of photonic circuits for quantum optical applications, offering the first demonstration of a spin-photon interface using an all-waveguide geometry, and a n
The northward migration of the African monsoon rains in summer, associated with the seasonal march of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) across the plains south of the Sahara, is the most criti
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The author successfully developed novel anti-HIV PD 404182 derivatives that exhibited submicromolar inhibitory activity against both HIV-1 and HIV-2. His thesis is in three parts. The first part expou
