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Writing Centers in the Higher Education Landscape of the Arabian Gulf
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book addresses issues surrounding writing centers in the Arabian Gulf region. Including a foreword by Professor Ken Hyland, it brings together a number of thought-provoking chapters on the history, concept, and ground ... -
Diversity and Inclusion in the Global Workplace: Aligning Initiatives with Strategic Business Goals
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited collection offers a nontraditional approach to diversity management, going beyond gender, race, and ethnicity. Examining ageism, disability, and spirituality, the book provides a discussion of different DandI ... -
Policy Capacity and Governance: Assessing Governmental Competences and Capabilities in Theory and Practice
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides unique insights into the role of policy capacity in policymaking and policy change, as it is being uncovered at the research frontier in contemporary policy studies. The book is structured into a series ... -
Universities and the Production of Elites: Discourses, Policies, and Strategies of Excellence and Stratification in Higher Education
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores how universities as organizations influence and construct the production of academic elites and elitist institutions. It analyzes the role played by the reorganization of higher education (HE) institutions, ... -
Variety of development : Chinese automakers in market reform and globalization
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines China, the world's largest auto market since 2008 and the story of how Chinese auto-makers developed is the story of the Chinese economy in microcosm. It focuses on China's systemically important automobile ... -
Nanocharacterisation
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015)Nanocharacterisation provides an overview of the main characterisation techniques that are currently used to study nanostructured materials. Following on from the success of the first edition, this new edition has been ... -
Advances in Non-Volatile Memory and Storage Technology
(Elsevier LtdWoodhead Publishing, 2014)New solutions are needed for future scaling down of nonvolatile memory. Advances in Non-volatile Memory and Storage Technology provides an overview of developing technologies and explores their strengths and weaknesses. ... -
Percutaneous Penetration Enhancers Chemical Methods in Penetration Enhancement: Nanocarriers
(Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2016)Percutaneous Penetration Enhancers in a mini-series format comprising five volumes, represents the most comprehensive reference on enhancement methods – both well established and recently introduced – in the field of ... -
Self-assembled peptide nanostructures: advances and applications in nanobiotechnology
(Pan Stanford Pub, 2013)Theoretical basis of biological self-assembly. Natural and designed self-assembling peptides and their applications in bionanotechnology. Peptide-based materials via molecular self-assembly. Self-assembling peptide ... -
Adsorption and Phase Behaviour in Nanochannels and Nanotubes
(Springer Netherlands, 2010)Channels of nanotubular dimensions exist in a variety of materials (examples are carbon nanotubes and the nanotubular channels of zeolites and zeotypes) and show promise for numerous applications due to their unique ... -
Simulations in Nanobiotechnology
(CRC Press, 2011)Until the late 20th century, computational studies of biomolecules and nanomaterials had considered the two subjects separately. A thorough presentation of state-of-the-art simulations for studying the nanoscale behavior ... -
Advances and Applications Through Fungal Nanobiotechnology
(Springer International Publishing, 2016)Fungal nanobiotechnology has emerged as one of the key technologies, and an eco-friendly, as a source of food and harnessed to ferment and preserve foods and beverages, as well as applications in human health (antibiotics, ... -
Bacterial nanocellulose: a sophisticated multifunctional material
(CRC Press, 2013)The first book dedicated to the potential applications and unique properties of bacterial cellulose (BC), this seminal work covers the basic science, technology, and economic impact of this bulk chemical as well as the ... -
Bacterial Nanocellulose. From Biotechnology to Bio-Economy
(Elsevier, 2016)Bacterial Nanocellulose: From Biotechnology to Bio-Economy presents an overview on the current and future applications of bacterial nanocellulose, perspectives on the ecology and economics of its production, and a brief ... -
Carbon nanomaterials sourcebook. Volume II, Nanoparticles, nanocapsules, nanofibers, nanoporous structures, and nanocomposites
(CRC Press, 2016)ALLOTROPES Carbyne: A One-Dimensional Carbon Allotrope Ashley Kocsis and Steven W. Cranford Linear Carbon Chains Daniele Fazzi and Caterina Vozzi Carbon Nanocoils Kaori HiraharaCarbon NanohornsArtur P. Terzyk, Piotr A. ... -
Chemistry of nanocarbons
(Wiley, 2010)During the last decade, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes have attracted special interest as new nanocarbons with novel properties. Because of their hollow caged structure, they can be used as containers for atoms and ... -
Controlled release systems: advances in nanobottles and active nanoparticles
(Pan Stanford PublishingBoca Raton: CRC Press, 2015)Part I Fundamentals. 1. General Introduction and Definitions 1. Alexander van Herk. 1.1 Introduction to Controlled Release Systems: Advances in Nanobottles and Active. Nanoparticles 1. 1.2 Concept of the Book 2. 1.3 Relevant ... -
Engineering of Nanobiomaterials. Applications of Nanobiomaterials Volume 2
(William Andrew is an imprint of Elsevier, 2016)Engineering of Nanobiomaterials presents the most recent information regarding the specific modifications of nanomaterials and of their synthesis methods, in order to obtain particular structures for different biomedical ... -
Fabrication and Self-Assembly of Nanobiomaterials. Applications of Nanobiomaterials Volume 1
(William Andrew is an imprint of Elsevier, 2016)Fabrication and Self-Assembly of Nanobiomaterials presents the most recent findings regarding the fabrication and self-assembly of nanomaterials for different biomedical applications. Respected authors from around the world ... -
Handbook of nanocellulose and cellulose nanocomposites. Volume 1
(Wiley VCH, 2017)Table of contents: Content: Methods for Extraction of Nanocellulose from Various Sources. Characterization of Various Kinds of Nanocellulose. Surface Modification of Nanocellulose. Self-Assembly of Native Cellulose ...
