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Business and Human Rights in Europe : International Law Challenges /

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Dating buildings and landscapes with tree-ring analysis : an introduction with case studies / by Rubino, Darrin L., Baas, Christopher

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Technical Due Diligence and Building Surveying for Commercial Property / by Tagg, Adrian

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Optimizing Engineering Problems Through Heuristic Techniques by Kumar, K. (Kaushik), 1968-

Table of Contents: “…7.1 Introduction7.2 Cuckoo Search Methodology; 7.3 Variants of Cuckoo Search Algorithm; 7.3.1 Adaptive Cuckoo Search Algorithm; 7.3.2 Self-Adaptive Cuckoo Search Algorithm; 7.3.3 Cuckoo Search Clustering Algorithm; 7.3.4 Novel Adaptive Cuckoo Search Algorithm; 7.3.5 Cuckoo Search Algorithm Based on Self-Learning Criteria; 7.3.6 Discrete Cuckoo Search Algorithm; 7.3.7 Differential Evolution and Cuckoo Search Algorithm; 7.3.8 Cuckoo Inspired Fast Search; 7.3.9 Cuckoo Search Algorithm Integrated with Membrane Communication Mechanism; 7.3.10 Master-Leader-Slave Cuckoo…”
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Integrated Evaluation of Disability by Vinayagam, Ramar Sabapathi

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Vers de nouveaux modes de formation professionnelle ? : Rôle des acteurs et des collaborations /

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Advances in Computerized Analysis in Clinical and Medical Imaging by Peter, J. Dinesh

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Environmental plant physiology botanical strategies for a climate smart planet / by Singh, Vir

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Extended Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics From Principles to Applications in Nanosystems / by Machrafi, Hatim

Table of Contents: “…2.1 Transient Heat Transport in Nanofilms2.1.1 Definition of the Space of State Variables; 2.1.2 Establishment of the Evolution Equations; 2.1.3 Elimination of the Fluxes; 2.2 Transient Temperature Distribution in Thin Films; 2.2.1 Initial Conditions; 2.2.2 Boundary Conditions; 2.2.3 Discussion of the Results; 2.3 Heat Conduction in Nanoparticles Through an Effective Thermal Conductivity; 2.4 Heat Conduction in Nanowires Through an Effective Thermal Conductivity; References; 3 Heat Conduction in Nanocomposites; 3.1 Theoretical Models; 3.1.1 Effective Medium Approach…”
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Commonwealth Caribbean Sports Law by Haynes, Jason

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Advanced Bifunctional Electrochemical Catalysts for Metal-Air Batteries / by Wang, Yan-Jie, Yuan, Rusheng, Ignaszak, Anna, Wilkinson, David P., Zhang, Jiujun

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Des outils pour le changement : Une approche critique en études du développement /

Table of Contents: “…Couverture; Titre de page; Droit d'auteur; Table des matieres; Dedicace; Remerciements; Un recueil aux multiples usages; Preface; Avant-propos de l'edition française; Avant-propos; Section 1: Une introduction; Module 1: L'evolution d'une idee; Section 2: Le retour de l'histoire; Module 2: Un retour en arriere; Module 3: L'histoire à la lumiere d'une approche critique du developpement; Module 4: L'histoire reorientee; Section 3: Une reflexion critique sur le developpement; Module 5: Les theories du developpement; Module 6: Les theories du developpement vues de l'Amerique latine.…”
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Landscape Biographies : Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes /

Table of Contents: “…Post-industrial coal-mining landscapes and the evolution of mining memory / Felix van Veldhoven: Introduction -- Remembering and forgetting in the landscape -- The post-industrial mining landscape of Dutch and Belgian Limburg -- Dutch Limburg -- The post-industrial mining landscape -- The changing will to forget -- Conclusion. 15. …”
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Scientific selling creating high-performance sales teams through applied psychology and testing / by Martini, Nancy, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: DEDICATION 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7 PREFACE 11 FOREWORD 17 CHAPTER 1: THE SCIENCE of SELLING 20 The Changing Nature of Selling 21 The Crisis in Sales Management 24 The Advent of Scientific Selling 29 CHAPTER 2: The SCIENCE of BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT 33 Behavioral Assessment 33 Behavioral Surveys 36 Business Applications of Behavioral Science 37 The Effectiveness of Behavioral Assessment 40 How to Choose a Behavioral Assessment Method 41 CHAPTER 3: The SCIENCE of SALES SKILLS ASSESSMENT 46 The History of Sales Skill Assessment 47 The Advent of Sales Process 48 The Limitations of Sales Process 49 Evolution of Sales Skills 51 Limitations of "Solution Selling" 52 The Selling Skills Assessment Tool (SSAT) 53 CHAPTER 4: THE SCIENCE of HIRING SALES TALENT 57 How Most Companies Hire (and Why It Fails) 59 The Scientific Approach to Hiring 61 How to Implement Scientific Hiring 62 STEP #1: Analyze the Job. 63 STEP #2: Design an Appropriate Recruitment Ad 64 STEP #3: Filter the Resumes 65 STEP #4: Conduct Telephone Interviews 66 STEP #5: Give the Candidates a Behavior Assessment 67 STEP #6: Conduct Strategic Interviews 68 STEP #7: Refine the Model 69 Case Study: Rainsoft 69 Case Study: Centier Bank 71 CHAPTER 5: THE SCIENCE of SALES TRAINING 73 Why Sales Training Fails 74 Why Sales Training Doesn't Get Measured 76 Scientific Measurement vs. …”
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Etiology and Morphogenesis of Congenital Heart Disease From Gene Function and Cellular Interaction to Morphology /

Table of Contents: “…Cardiomyocyte and Myocardial Development -- Single Cell Expression Analyses of Embryonic Cardiac Progenitor Cells -- Meis1 Regulates Post-Natal Cardiomyocyte Cell Cycle Arrest -- Intercellular signalling in cardiac development and disease: NOTCH -- The epicardium in ventricular septation during evolution and development -- S1P-S1p2 signaling in cardiac precursor cells migration -- Myogenic progenitor cell differentiation is dependent on modulation of mitochondrial biogenesis through autophagy -- The role of the thyroid in the developing heart -- Part IV. …”
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Subseafloor Biosphere Linked to Hydrothermal Systems TAIGA Concept /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: concept of TAIGA -- Geochemical constraints on potential biomass sustained by subseafloor water-rock interactions -- Microbial cell densities, community structures, and growth in the hydrothermal plumes of subduction hydrothermal systems -- Systematics of distributions of various elements between ferromanganese oxides and seawater from natural observation, thermodynamics, and structures -- Evaluating hydrothermal system evolution using geochronological dating and biological diversity analyses -- Quantification of microbial communities in hydrothermal vent habitats of the Southern Mariana Trough and the Mid-Okinawa Trough -- Development of hydrothermal and frictional experimental systems to simulate sub-seafloor water–rock–microbe interactions -- Experimental hydrogen production in hydrothermal and fault systems: Significance for habitability of subseafloor H2 chemoautotroph microbial ecosystems -- Experimental assessment of microbial effects on chemical interaction between seafloor massive sulfides and seawater at 4℃ -- A compilation of the stable isotopic compositions of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur in soft body parts of animals collected from deep-sea hydrothermal vent and methane seep fields: variations in energy source and importance of subsurface microbial processes in the sediment-hosted systems -- Tectonic background of four hydrothermal fields along the Central Indian Ridge -- Indian Ocean hydrothermal systems: seafloor hydrothermal activities, physical and chemical characteristics of hydrothermal fluids, and vent-associated biological communities -- Petrology and geochemistry of mid-ocean ridge basalts from the southern Central Indian Ridge -- Petrology of peridotites and related gabbroic rocks around the Kairei-hydrothermal field in the Central Indian Ridge -- Distribution and Biogeochemical Properties of Hydrothermal Plumes in the Rodriguez Triple Junction -- Vent fauna in the Central Indian Ridge -- The mantle dynamics, the crustal formation, and the hydrothermal activity of the Southern Mariana Trough back-arc Basin -- Seismic structure and seismicity in the Southern Mariana Trough and their relation to hydrothermal activity -- Electrical resistivity structure of the Snail site at the Southern Mariana Trough spreading center -- Asymmetric seafloor spreading of the southern Mariana Trough back-arc basin -- Geochemical characteristics of active backarc basin volcanisms at the southern end of Mariana Trough -- Mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of hydrothermal minerals collected from hydrothermal vent fields in the Southern Mariana spreading center -- Dating of hydrothermal mineralization in active hydrothermal fields in the Southern Mariana Trough -- Intra-field variation of prokaryotic communities on and below the seafloor in the back-arc hydrothermal system of the Southern Mariana Trough -- Vent fauna in the Mariana Trough -- Population history of a hydrothermal vent-endemic snail Alviniconcha hessleri in the Mariana Trough -- Hydrothermal activity in the Okinawa Trough backarc basin -geological background and hydrothermal mineralization- -- Active rifting structures in Iheya Graben and adjacent area of the mid-Okinawa Trough observed through seismic reflection surveys -- ESR dating of barite in sea-floor hydrothermal sulfide deposits in the Okinawa Trough -- Fluid geochemistry of high-temperature hydrothermal fields in the Okinawa Trough -- Sediment‒pore water system associated with native sulfur formation at Jade hydrothermal field in Okinawa Trough -- Comparative investigation of microbial communities associated with hydrothermal activities in the Okinawa Trough -- In situ determination of bacterial growth in mixing zone of hydrothermal vent field on the Hatoma Knoll, Southern Okinawa Trough -- Vent Fauna in the Okinawa Trough -- Brief report of side-scan sonar observations around the Yokoniwa NTO massif -- Examination of volcanic activity: AUV and submersible observations of fine-scale lava flow distributions along the Southern Mariana Trough spreading axis -- Brief report of side-scan sonar imagery observations of the Archaean, Pika, and Urashima hydrothermal sites -- The Yoron Hole: the shallowest hydrothermal site in the Okinawa Trough -- The Irabu Knoll: Hydrothermal site at the eastern edge of the Yaeyama Graben -- Tarama Knoll: Geochemical and biological profiles of hydrothermal activity -- Petrography and geochemistry of basement rocks drilled from Snail, Yamanaka, Archean, and Pika hydrothermal fields at the Southern Mariana Trough by Benthic Multi-coring System (BMS) -- Pore fluid chemistry beneath active hydrothermal fields in the mid-Okinawa Trough: Results of shallow drilling by BMS during TAIGA11 cruise -- The characteristics of the seafloor massive sulfide deposits at the Hakurei Site in the Izena Hole, the Middle Okinawa Trough -- Occurrence of hydrothermal alteration minerals at the Jade hydrothermal field, in the Izena Hole, mid-Okinawa Trough -- Geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids collected from active hydrothermal systems in the southern Mariana Trough backarc spreading center -- Gamma ray doses in water around sea floor hydrothermal area in South Mariana -- 226Ra-210Pb and 228Ra-228Th dating of barite in submarine hydrothermal sulfide deposits collected at Okinawa Trough and South Mariana Trough -- OSL dating of sea floor sediments at the Okinawa Trough -- Immediate change of radiation doses from hydrothermal deposits -- Periodic behavior of deep sea current in the Hatoma Knoll hydrothermal system -- The gelatinous macroplankton community at the Hatoma Knoll hydrothermal vent.…”
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Ensuring food safety in the European Union / by Silano, V., Silano, Marco

Table of Contents: “…2.3.4 Parasites -- 2.3.5 Prions and BSE Crisis (Discovery and Evolution, Geographical BSE Risk Assessment and Risk Organ Removal and Other Control Tools) -- Chapter 3 The EU Mandate to Promote Food Safety and "The White Paper on Food Safety" and the "Farm to Table" Legislation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The EU Mandate to Promote Food Safety -- 3.3 The White Paper on Food Safety and the "Farm to Table" Legislative Action -- 3.3.1 The European Food Safety Authority -- 3.3.2 Food Safety Legislation -- 3.3.3 Control of Legislation Implementation -- 3.3.4 Consumer Information…”
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"Intuitive understanding of Kalman filtering with MATLAB" / by Barreto, Armando, 1963-, Adjouadi, Malek, 1955-, Ortega, Francisco R., O-larnnithipong, Nonnarit

Table of Contents: “…5.2 UNIVARIATE ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT EXAMPLE IN THE GENERIC FRAMEWORK -- 5.3 AN INTUITIVE, MULTIVARIATE SCENARIO WITH ACTUAL DYNAMICS: THE FALLING WAD OF PAPER -- Chapter 6 Arriving at the Kalman Filter Algorithm -- 6.1 GOALS AND ENVIRONMENT FOR EACH ITERATION OF THE KALMAN FILTERING ALGORITHM -- 6.2 THE PREDICTION PHASE -- 6.3 MEASUREMENTS PROVIDE A SECOND SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE FOR STATE ESTIMATION -- 6.4 ENRICHING THE ESTIMATE THROUGH BAYESIAN ESTIMATION IN THE "CORRECTION PHASE" -- Chapter 7 Reflecting on the Meaning and Evolution of the Entities in the Kalman Filter Algorithm…”
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Management of animal care and use programs in research, teaching, and testing /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword \n -- Preface to the Second Edition\n -- Editors\n -- Contributors \n -- Reviewers \n -- Section I Introduction/Historical Overview \n -- 1. Evolution of Laboratory Animal Program Management by James F. …”
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Citizen Science : Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy /

Table of Contents: “…Rueda ; Citizen engagement and collective intelligence for participatory digital social innovation / Jasminko Novak, Mathias Becker, François Grey and Rosy Mondardini ; Creative collaboration in citizen science and the evolution of ThinkCamps / Margaret Gold and Erinma Ochu ; Integrating citizen science into university / Daniel Wyler and Muki Haklay -- Part IIA. …”
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