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Osteoimmunology: Interactions of the Immune and Skeletal Systems

Springer, 2012

It has been almost 40 years since it was fi rst observed that cells of the immune system could in fl uence the functions of bone [ 1 ] . Since that time, signi fi cant strides have been made in our understanding of the interactions between hematopoietic, immune, and bone cells. This fi eld is now known as...

Mites: Ecology, Evolution & Behaviour: Life at a Microscale

Springer, 2013

More than 40,000 species of mites have been described, and up to 1 million may exist on earth. These tiny arachnids play many ecological roles including acting as vectors of disease, vital players in soil formation, and important agents of biological control. But despite the grand diversity of mites, even trained biologists are often unaware...

Sustainability Issues in Environmental Geotechnics: Proceedings of the 2nd GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition on Sustainable Civil ... Interaction Group in Egypt (SSIGE)

Springer, 2018

This edited volume deals with the attempts made by the scientists and practitioners to address contemporary issues in geoenvironmental engineering such as characterization of dredged sediments, geomaterials and waste, valorization of waste, sustainability in waste management and some other geoenvironmental issues that are becoming quite relevant...

Soil: The Skin of the Planet Earth

Springer, 2015

The main focus of this monograph is to explain the important role of soil and the environment to a broad audience. Soil is one of the five essential factors crucial for human life. On the one hand the authors describe a responsible approach and use of soil, established on a basic knowledge of the nature of soil and the countless ongoing...

Russian Avant-Garde (Art of Century)

Parkstone Press, 2007

The Russian Avant-Garde was born at the turn of the 20th century in pre-revolutionary Russia. Intellectual and cultural turmoil had then reached a peak and provided fertile soil for the formation of the movement. For many artists influenced by European art, the movement represented a way of liberating themselves from the social and aesthetic...

Chemical Analysis of Contaminated Land (Sheffield Analytical Chemistry)

Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2003

This book sets out to provide a description of the chemical analysis of potentially contaminated land for all those involved in risk assessment. It is not intended as a recipe book of analytical methods. Indeed, with the wide range of techniques and options available, it would be impracticable and unnecessary to document all potential methods, and...

Building Design and Construction Handbook, 6th Edition

McGraw-Hill, 2000

A where-would-you-be-without-it handbook covering every single important step in building design and construction, now updated to include key changes in design and construction practices. Surveys materials, structures, soil mechanics and foundations, building types, hardware, insulation, acoustics, plumbing, and more--all the material that will...

Chemical Bioavailability in Terrestrial Environments, Volume 32 (Developments in Soil Science)

Elsevier Limited, 2008

This book begins with an overview of current thinking on bioavailability, its definition, cutting edge research in speciation and advancement in tools for assessing chemical bioavailability in the terrestrial environment. The second section of the book focuses on the role of chemical speciation in bioavailability. Section three addresses...

Craig's Soil Mechanics: Solutions Manual

Spon Press, 2004

This manual contains the complete illustrated solutions to all the problems in the seventh edition of Craig's Soil Mechanics.

Soil E consists of 98% coarse material (31% gravel size; 67% sand size) and 2% fines. It is classified as SW: well-graded gravellySAND or, in greater detail, well-graded...

Urban Environment: Proceedings of the 10th Urban Environment Symposium (Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries)

Springer, 2012

The 10th Urban Environment Symposium (10UES) was held on 9–11 June 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden. UES aims at providing a forum on the science and practices required to support pathways to a positive and sustainable future in the urban environment. The UES series is run by Chalmers University of Technology within the Alliance for Global...

Advances in Applied Bioremediation (Soil Biology)

Springer, 2009

Bioremediation is a rapidly advancing field and the technology has been applied successfully to remediate many contaminated sites. The goal of every soil remediation method is to enhance the degradation, transformation, or detoxification of pollutants and to protect, maintain and sustain environmental quality.

Advances in our understanding of...

Microbiological Research In Agroecosystem Management

Springer, 2013

Agroecosystem is an ideal dynamic functional system with a set of chemical and biological interaction taking place in plant surface either below or above the ground levels. These levels of interaction activities fundamentally with microorganism-plant-soil systems are extended upto the level of entire agricultural economy. Greatly simplified,...

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