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Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics

Foundations and Recent Developments

By: Anne Auger,Benjamin Doerr

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Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics

Foundations and Recent Developments

By: Anne Auger,Benjamin Doerr

This volume covers both classical results and the most recent theoretical developments in the field of randomized search heuristics such as runtime analysis, drift analysis and convergence.

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World Scientific

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9814282669

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9789814282666

Thrill Me

Essays on Fiction

By: Benjamin Percy

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Bold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read--in any genre--from the bestselling author of The Dead Lands Anyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy's career will surely have noticed a certain shift: After writing two short-story collections and a literary novel, he delivered the werewolf thriller Red Moon and the postapocalyptic epic The Dead Lands. Now, in his first book of nonfiction, Percy challenges the notion that literary and genre fiction are somehow mutually exclusive. The title essay is an ode to the kinds of books that make many readers fall in love with fiction: science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, horror, from J.R.R. Tolkien to Anne Rice, Ursula K. Le Guin to Stephen King. Percy's own academic experience banished many of these writers in the name of what is "literary" and what is "genre." Then he discovered Michael Chabon, Aimee Bender, Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, and others who employ techniques of genre fiction while remaining literary writers. In fifteen essays on the craft of fiction, Percy looks to disparate sources such as Jaws, Blood Meridian, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to discover how contemporary writers engage issues of plot, suspense, momentum, and the speculative, as well as character, setting, and dialogue. An urgent and entertaining missive on craft, Thrill Me brims with Percy's distinctive blend of anecdotes, advice, and close reading, all in the service of one dictum: Thrill the reader.

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Graywolf Press

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1555979548

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9781555979546

Doing Qualitative Research

By: Benjamin F. Crabtree

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Doing Qualitative Research

By: Benjamin F. Crabtree

Designed to stimulate interest in qualitative research methods related to primary clinical care and to prepare practitioners to engage in it. Expands existing approaches, ways of knowing, and types of research relationships at levels from the global through community, family, individual, organ, and cell to genome; also recognizes recursive interaction between and among the levels. Distinguishes four dimensions of investigation: what the numbers are, what the words mean, who benefits, and what the consequences are. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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0761914986

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9780761914983

Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Religiosity

By: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

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Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Religiosity

By: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

Is religion to blame for deadly conflicts? Should religious behaviour be credited more often for acts of charity and altruism? In what ways are religious and ‘spiritual’ ideas, practices and identities surviving and changing as religion loses its political power in those parts of the world which are experiencing increasing secularization? Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the psychology of religion and social identity, Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Religiosity offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary review of a century of research into the origins and consequences of religious belief systems and religious behaviour. The book employs a unique theoretical framework that combines the ‘new’ cognitive-evolutionary psychology of religion, examining the origins of religious ideas, with the ‘old’ psychology of religiosity, which looks at correlates and consequences. It examines a wide range of psychological variables and their relationship with religiosity. It is also provides fresh insights into classical topics in the psychology of religion, such as religious conversion, the relevance of Freud’s ideas about religion and religiosity, the meaning of secularization, and the crucial role women play in religion. The book concludes with the author’s reflections on the future for the psychology of religion as a field. Psychological Perspectives on Religion and Religiosity will be invaluable for academic researchers in psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, and history worldwide. It will also be of great interest to advanced undergraduate students and graduate students across the social sciences.

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Routledge

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1317610377

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Whispers Of The Heart

By: Olorunfemi Benjamin

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Whispers Of The Heart

By: Olorunfemi Benjamin

In the picturesque coastal town of Seabrook, Emma Carson seeks solace and a fresh start after a tumultuous past. Renting a quaint cottage by the sea, she discovers Henderson’s Books-a cozy bookstore owned by the charming and reserved Liam Henderson. As Emma explores her new surroundings, she finds herself drawn to both the town’s serene beauty and Liam’s enigmatic presence. Their initial encounters spark a friendship built on a shared love of literature and mutual respect. Emma, an aspiring writer grappling with past heartaches, begins to rediscover her passion for storytelling under Liam’s encouraging gaze. Meanwhile, Liam, who has found solace in books amidst personal losses, finds himself drawn to Emma’s warmth and resilience. However, their budding romance is tested when Emma’s past unexpectedly resurfaces in the form of her persistent ex-boyfriend, Daniel. Misunderstandings and insecurities threaten to unravel the fragile trust Emma and Liam have built. As they navigate the complexities of love and vulnerability, they must confront their fears and communicate openly to find a path forward. Supported by the close-knit community of Seabrook-a town where neighbors become friends and strangers become family-Emma and Liam embark on a journey of healing and self-discovery. With the guidance of Emma’s best friend Grace, the wisdom of Mrs. Parker, a beloved mentor, and the admiration of young writer Ben, they learn that true love requires courage, forgiveness, and a willingness to embrace the unknown. As Emma’s novel inspired by her experiences in Seabrook gets published and Liam completes his own book, they celebrate not only their creative achievements but also their profound connection. Their love story culminates in a sense of fulfillment and optimism, affirming that in Seabrook, amidst the crashing waves and gentle sea breeze, Emma and Liam have found not only each other but also the courage to pursue their dreams and build a future filled with love, creativity, and beautiful moments

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XinXii

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3689831415

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Transportation Costs and Costing, 1917-1973

A Selected Annotated Chronological Bibliography

By: Emanuel Benjamin Ocran, Jr.

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Transportation Costs and Costing, 1917-1973

A Selected Annotated Chronological Bibliography

By: Emanuel Benjamin Ocran, Jr.

As an important industry, transportation costs account for a considerable percentage of the gross national product of countries. It is therefore key to have at the disposal of those concerned with transportation activities, a bibliographical literature on costs and costing. The bibliography lists books, papers, technical reports, journal articles, and information rarely found in books and dissertations.

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Routledge

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1351790927

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Social Aspects of Alcoholism

By: Benjamin Kissin,Henri Begleiter

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Social Aspects of Alcoholism

By: Benjamin Kissin,Henri Begleiter

The first three volumes of this series have dealt with materials which generally justify the title, The Biology of Alcoholism. This is only remotely true of the present volume, Social Aspects of Alcoholism, or of the final volume to come, Treatment and Rehabilitation. Except for small portions of the treatment section which involve pharmacotherapy, much of these last two volumes deals with the psychological aspects of alcoholism and still more with the social. It is interesting to review the evolution of this new pattern over the past seven years, a pattern which, had it existed initially, would have resulted, if not in a dif ferent format, at least in a different title. Our initial selection of areas to be covered was influenced by our desire to present as "hard" data as possible, in an attempt to lend a greater aura of scientific rigor to a field which was generally considered as "soft. " When we completed our review of this material in volumes 1-3, we recognized that what we might have gained in rigor, we had more than lost in completeness. These volumes presented a picture of a biological disease syndrome for which the remedies and preventive measures were presumably also biological. And yet, most workers in the field readily accept the significant contributions of psychological and social factors to the pathogenesis and treatment of alcoholism.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475794959

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9781475794953

Ways of Eating

Exploring Food Through History and Culture

By: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft,Merry White

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Ways of Eating

Exploring Food Through History and Culture

By: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft,Merry White

From the origins of agriculture to twenty-first century debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces readers to world food history and to the practice of food ethnography. By engaging ethnographic vignettes and historical chapters, the authors offer new ways to think about food in relation to its natural and cultural histories. In addition to offering new intellectual tools, starting-points are provided for future reading ina wide variety of subjects, from the European spice trade to the Columbian Exchange, from food and gender to ethnographic methodology. Food studies are made vivid by stories like the ones in this book--stories of Scottish peat-cutters, women beer-makers, and Japanese knife-forgers"--

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Univ of California Press

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0520392981

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The Psychology of Religious Behaviour, Belief and Experience

By: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi,Michael Argyle

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The Psychology of Religious Behaviour, Belief and Experience

By: Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi,Michael Argyle

Because society is increasingly secular, it may seem irrelevant to consider the psychology of religion. But the diversity of our multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society in fact makes religion more important to the social sciences than it has ever been before. What are the social consequences of religion? Every day the news is full of events that can be blamed on religion perpetrated by a range of groups from whole societies to individuals. Beit-Hallami and Argyle are renowned for their clear, analytical approach to topics and this new, state-of-the-art study of psychology and religion is no exception. It will be welcomed as an update to their previous work in the area by social psychologists, sociologists and theologians worldwide.

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Routledge

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1317799046

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Roman Law in the State of Nature

The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Natural Law

By: Benjamin Straumann

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Roman Law in the State of Nature

The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Natural Law

By: Benjamin Straumann

Roman Law in the State of Nature offers a new interpretation of the foundations of Hugo Grotius' natural law theory. Surveying the significance of texts from classical antiquity, Benjamin Straumann argues that certain classical texts, namely Roman law and a specifically Ciceronian brand of Stoicism, were particularly influential for Grotius in the construction of his theory of natural law. The book asserts that Grotius, a humanist steeped in Roman law, had many reasons to employ Roman tradition and explains how Cicero's ethics and Roman law - secular and offering a doctrine of the freedom of the high seas - were ideally suited to provide the rules for Grotius' state of nature. This fascinating new study offers historians, classicists and political theorists a fresh account of the historical background of the development of natural rights, natural law and of international legal norms as they emerged in seventeenth-century early modern Europe.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316241076

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Theater as Problem

Modern Drama and Its Place in Literature

By: Benjamin Bennett

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Theater as Problem

Modern Drama and Its Place in Literature

By: Benjamin Bennett

Using examples ranging from nineteenth-century Viennese comedy to Friedrich Dürrenmatt's atomic-age theater, Benjamin Bennett explores what is at stake in the theory of drama; what sort of questioning makes up that theory; and in what direction such questioning leads. Bennett takes as his starting point the inescapably literary nature of theater in the European tradition, theater in its most concrete dimensions: as an institution, as a tradition of ritual or stylized behavior, as a particular type of physical space, as an economic venture. He maintains that, precisely because of its radical categorical disjunction from the domain of the literary, theater in the European tradition has been appropriated as the principal vehicle by which literature repeatedly problematizes itself. Theater, he says, is "the church of literature." Although he is concerned with drama as a literary type, therefore, Bennett does not treat the theory of drama as part of the theory of literature. For the special relation of drama to literature calls into question the whole idea of literary theory as a stable discourse divisible into parts. Bennett considers plays by Nestroy, Schnitzler, Ibsen, Strindberg, Brecht, Ionesco, Genet, Pirandello, Artaud, and Dürrenmatt. He focuses on such theoretical issues as the idea of generic boundaries; the relation between drama and the culture of reading; the relevance between drama and the culture of reading; the relevance of hermeneutic and semiotic views of literature to drama; and the operation of fascism as a literary phenomenon. In conclusion, he frames a problem that his readings have brought to light: at least two separate historical accounts of modern drama are necessary—theories that imply each other, yet remain irreconcilable.

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Cornell University Press

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150174545X

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Knowledge Sharing in Research Collaborations

Understanding the Drivers and Barriers

By: Benjamin Niedergassel

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Knowledge Sharing in Research Collaborations

Understanding the Drivers and Barriers

By: Benjamin Niedergassel

Based on a large-scale survey, Benjamin Niedergassel identifies several factors enhancing or inhibiting knowledge sharing in research collaborations. He uses these factors to derive practical implications for academia, industry and research policy

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3834962171

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Meat Planet

Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food

By: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

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Meat Planet

Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food

By: Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

In 2013, a Dutch scientist unveiled the world’s first laboratory-created hamburger. Since then, the idea of producing meat, not from live animals but from carefully cultured tissues, has spread like wildfire through the media. Meanwhile, cultured meat researchers race against population growth and climate change in an effort to make sustainable protein. Meat Planet explores the quest to generate meat in the lab—a substance sometimes called “cultured meat”—and asks what it means to imagine that this is the future of food. Neither an advocate nor a critic of cultured meat, Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft spent five years researching the phenomenon. In Meat Planet, he reveals how debates about lab-grown meat reach beyond debates about food, examining the links between appetite, growth, and capitalism. Could satiating the growing appetite for meat actually lead to our undoing? Are we simply using one technology to undo the damage caused by another? Like all problems in our food system, the meat problem is not merely a problem of production. It is intrinsically social and political, and it demands that we examine questions of justice and desirable modes of living in a shared and finite world. Benjamin Wurgaft tells a story that could utterly transform the way we think of animals, the way we relate to farmland, the way we use water, and the way we think about population and our fragile ecosystem’s capacity to sustain life. He argues that even if cultured meat does not “succeed,” it functions—much like science fiction—as a crucial mirror that we can hold up to our contemporary fleshy dysfunctions.

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Univ of California Press

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0520379004

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9780520379008

Mechanisms and Manifestations of Obesity in Lung Disease

By: Richard A. Johnston,Benjamin T. Suratt

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Mechanisms and Manifestations of Obesity in Lung Disease

By: Richard A. Johnston,Benjamin T. Suratt

Mechanisms and Manifestations of Obesity in Lung Disease is a complete resource on the epidemiology and molecular mechanisms related to obesity and lung disease. Obesity has not simply changed the epidemiology of pulmonary disease, it has had a profound impact on the pathophysiology of common pulmonary diseases. As the obesity epidemic has taken hold throughout the developed world, scientists and clinicians are now challenged with identifying the mechanisms by which obesity alters lung health and the pathogenesis of lung diseases. This book is an important new resource for both clinicians and scientists dealing with these new health problems in pulmonary medicine. Presents an all-in-one resource that describes the impact of obesity on the development and severity of lung disease Details the molecular and immunologic mechanisms by which obesity impacts the pathogenesis and outcomes of lung disease Includes contributions from authors who are internationally recognized as leaders in the area of obesity and lung disease

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Academic Press

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0128135549

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9780128135549

Behind the Startup

How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality

By: Benjamin Shestakofsky

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Behind the Startup

How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality

By: Benjamin Shestakofsky

As dreams of our technological future have turned into nightmares, some blame harmful algorithms or greedy CEOs for the negative consequences of innovation. Behind the Startup takes a different approach. Drawing on 19 months of participant-observation research inside a successful Silicon Valley startup, this book examines how the company was organized to meet the needs of the venture capital investors who funded it. Investors push startups to 'scale' as quickly as possible to inflate the value of their asset. I show how these demands created organizational problems that managers could only solve by combining high-tech systems with low-wage human labor. With its focus on the financialization of innovation, Behind the Startup explains how the gains generated by Silicon Valley companies are funneled into the pockets of a small cadre of elite investors and entrepreneurs. Readers will come away from the book with the understanding that if we want to promote innovation that benefits the many rather than the few, we need to focus less on fixing the technology and more on changing the financial infrastructure that supports it"--

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Univ of California Press

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0520395034

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9780520395039

A Universal Template for Research Position and Life Experience Papers

Applied to Contemporary Urban Education

By: Dale Drakeford

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A Universal Template for Research Position and Life Experience Papers

Applied to Contemporary Urban Education

By: Dale Drakeford

The self-descriptive title, A Universal Template For Research Position and Life Experience Papers, implies that there is a position that writers take in even the simplest of essays. As such, Template provides an opportunity to accomplish two tasks at once: consider the definitive differences between Research, Position, and Experience papers, and explore the issues that impound and empower contemporary urban education. Dale Benjamin Drakeford provides an interactive workshop to guide student writing on any social science subject. Agreeing with many scholars that public and free pedagogy is indispensable, the author also argues that there is no wrong or right in scholastic debate, only correct presentation of objective thoughts or non-objective attitudes. This the author says, is what is sometimes forgotten in the heat of getting ideas on paper. Hence, Template provides structure for planning papers, and in-process cues for staying on task to complete them with proper formality.

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iUniverse

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0595345425

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9780595345427

Watermarking Security

By: Patrick Bas,Teddy Furon,François Cayre,Gwenaël Doërr,Benjamin Mathon

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Watermarking Security

By: Patrick Bas,Teddy Furon,François Cayre,Gwenaël Doërr,Benjamin Mathon

This book explains how to measure the security of a watermarking scheme, how to design secure schemes but also how to attack popular watermarking schemes. This book gathers the most recent achievements in the field of watermarking security by considering both parts of this cat and mouse game. This book is useful to industrial practitioners who would like to increase the security of their watermarking applications and for academics to quickly master this fascinating domain.

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Springer

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9811005060

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9789811005060

Mucosal Health in Aquaculture

By: Benjamin H. Beck,Eric Peatman

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Mucosal Health in Aquaculture

By: Benjamin H. Beck,Eric Peatman

Mucosal Health in Aquaculture is an essential reference on mucosal health for the diverse aquaculture community. Rich in explanatory figures and schematics, the book includes important concepts such as structural and cellular composition of mucosal surfaces in fish and shellfish, known functional roles of molecular and cellular actors during pathogen invasion, impacts of nutrition on the mucosal barriers, impacts of chemical treatments on mucosal surfaces, mucosal vaccines and vaccination strategies, and more. The health of cultured aquaculture species is critical in establishing the sustainable growth of the aquaculture industry worldwide, and mucosal health is of particular interest to those working in aquaculture because mucosal surfaces (skin, gill, intestine, reproductive tissues) constitute the first line of defense against pathogen invasion. Mucosal Health in Aquaculture captures the latest research on mucosal barriers in aquaculture species and their impacts on nutrition and immunity to ensure sustainable aquaculture development. - Includes research case studies to exhibit the importance of various integrated approaches to mucosal health - Examines the latest scientific methods and technologies to maximize efficiencies for healthy fish production for farming - Brings together the latest knowledge and research on mucosal barriers and mechanisms from world-wide experts in mucosal health - Utilizes detailed diagrams and figures to enhance comprehension

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Academic Press

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0124171931

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