The diverse forms that stars assume in the course of their lives can all be derived from the initial conditions : the mass and the original chemical composition. In this textbook Stars and Stellar Evolution the basic concepts of stellar structure and the main roads of stellar evolution are described. First, the observable parameters are presented, which are based on the radiation emerging from a stellar atmosphere.

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This book includes current views on chosen elements of telomere investigation and their implication, to help us emphasis greater on potential reports and boost our investigation development. Telomeres, located at the stops of linear chromosomes, are crucial for genome stability and integrity. Developments in telomere researches have joined telomere dysfunction with mobile ageing and a number of age-related human diseases. Modern research...

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The book is organized in a unique section collecting nine chapters focusing on a variety of aspects of the erosion phenomena. Soil loss for erosion is a natural phenomenon in soil dynamics, influenced by climate, soil intrinsic properties, and morphology, that can both trigger and enhance the process. Anthropic activities, like inappropriate agricultural practices, deforestation, overgrazing, forest fires and construction activities, may...

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PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS, Fourth Edition, continues the approach that has made previous editions successful. As a teacher and researcher at a premier engineering school, author Tony Hayter is in touch with engineers daily--and understands their vocabulary. The result of this familiarity with the professional community is a clear and readable writing style that readers understand and appreciate, as well as...

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Based on over 30 years of successful teaching experience in this course, Robert Pagano's introductory text takes an intuitive, concepts-based approach to descriptive and inferential statistics. He uses the sign test to introduce inferential statistics, empirically derived sampling distributions, many visual aids, and lots of interesting examples to promote reader understanding. One of the hallmarks of this text is the positive feedback from...

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“Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer’s Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint” takes a less discussion, more value approach to helping you learn all that you can about extending SharePoint. A medley of a total of five Packt books, each chapter has its own unique style so that you can learn not only from content written in a step by step tutorial style, but also from handbook and cookbook chapters.

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This book describes the state-of-the-art advancement in the field of organic electrolumine scence contributed by many researchers with internationally established expertise in the field. It includes original contributions on the synthesis of suitable organic materials, fabrication of organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) and organic white light emitting devices (WOLEDs), characterization of these devices and some designs for optimal performance.

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This is the book where as many different existing studies as possible could be presented in a single volume, making it easy for the reader to compare methods, results and conclusions. The studies from countries such as Romania, Poland, The Czech Republic, Mexico, Slovenia, Finland, etc. have been compiled into one book. The opportunity to compare results and conclusions from different countries and continents will create a new perspective in...

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The key objective of the book is to keep up with the new technologies on some recent theoretical development as well as new trends of applications in biometrics. The topics covered in this book reflect well both aspects of development. They include the new development in forensic speaker recognition, 3D and thermo face recognition, finger vein recognition, contact-less biometric system, hand geometry recognition, biometric performance...

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"New Approaches to the Study of Marine Mammals" ed. by Aldemaro Romero and Edward O. Keith his volume is aimed at providing a glimpse at such diversity of views and approaches while delivering valuable information on marine mammalogy. Given the increasing concerns regarding issues of anthropogenic factors affecting these animals, it is not surprising that the majority of chapters in this book deal with this subject. The highly specialized...

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Soil Erosion and Conservation provides a comprehensive treatment of the processes of soil erosion, the methods that can be used for their control, and the issues involved in designing and implementing soil conservation programmes.Features of the third edition of this internationally recognised textbook include: * New material on gully erosion, tillage practices, erosion risk assessment, use of erosion models, incentives for farmers and land...

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This book focuses primarily on speech recognition and the related tasks such as speech enhancement and modeling. This book comprises 3 sections and thirteen chapters written by eminent researchers from USA, Brazil Australia, Saudi Arabia, Japan Ireland Taiwan Mexico Slovakia and India. Section 1 on speech recognition consists of seven chapters.

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