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Social Network Analysis Applied to Team Sports Analysis

By: Filipe Manuel Clemente,Fernando Manuel Lourenço Martins,Rui Sousa Mendes

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Social Network Analysis Applied to Team Sports Analysis

By: Filipe Manuel Clemente,Fernando Manuel Lourenço Martins,Rui Sousa Mendes

Explaining how graph theory and social network analysis can be applied to team sports analysis, This book presents useful approaches, models and methods that can be used to characterise the overall properties of team networks and identify the prominence of each team player. Exploring the different possible network metrics that can be utilised in sports analysis, their possible applications and variances from situation to situation, the respective chapters present an array of illustrative case studies. Identifying the general concepts of social network analysis and network centrality metrics, readers are shown how to generate a methodological protocol for data collection. As such, the book provides a valuable resource for students of the sport sciences, sports engineering, applied computation and the social sciences.

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101

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Springer

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3319258559

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9783319258553

Sorption Enhanced Reaction Processes

By: Alirio Egidio Rodrigues,Luis Miguel Madeira,Yi-jiang Wu,Rui Faria

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Sorption Enhanced Reaction Processes

By: Alirio Egidio Rodrigues,Luis Miguel Madeira,Yi-jiang Wu,Rui Faria

This book investigates the development of sorption enhanced reaction processes (SERPs) with detailed modelling and simulation, design and operation of units. SERPs are processes intensified by combining adsorption and reaction, reaction and membranes or reaction/adsorption/membranes in a single unit in order to overcome thermodynamic limitations of conversion in reversible reactions. The focus here is on gas phase and liquid phase processes involving different technologies, including pressure swing adsorptive reactors, membrane reactors and simulated moving bed reactors. Emphasis is also given to presenting data and practical applications of SERP products.Sorption Enhanced Reaction Processes provides undergraduate and graduate students of chemistry and chemical engineering, researchers and industrial engineers with a clear path towards process development of SERP, whatever the area of application.

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365

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World Scientific

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1786343584

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9781786343581

Natural-Based Polymers for Biomedical Applications

By: Rui L. Reis,Nuno M. Neves,Joao F. Mano,Manuela E. Gomes,Alexandra P. Marques,Helena S. Azevedo

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Natural-Based Polymers for Biomedical Applications

By: Rui L. Reis,Nuno M. Neves,Joao F. Mano,Manuela E. Gomes,Alexandra P. Marques,Helena S. Azevedo

Polymers from natural sources are particularly useful as biomaterials and in regenerative medicine, given their similarity to the extracellular matrix and other polymers in the human body. This important book reviews the wealth of research on both tried and promising new natural-based biomedical polymers, together with their applications as implantable biomaterials, controlled-release carriers or scaffolds for tissue engineering.The first part of the book reviews the sources, processing and properties of natural-based polymers for biomedical applications. Part two describes how the surfaces of polymer-based biomaterials can be modified to improve their functionality. The third part of the book discusses the use of natural-based polymers for biodegradable scaffolds and hydrogels in tissue engineering. Building on this foundation, Part four looks at the particular use of natural-gelling polymers for encapsulation, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. The penultimate group of chapters reviews the use of natural-based polymers as delivery systems for drugs, hormones, enzymes and growth factors. The final part of the book summarises research on the key issue of biocompatibility.Natural-based polymers for biomedical applications is a standard reference for biomedical engineers, those studying and researching in this important area, and the medical community. - Examines the sources, processing and properties of natural based polymers for biomedical applications - Explains how the surfaces of polymer based biomaterials can be modified to improve their functionality - Discusses the use of natural based polymers for hydrogels in tissue engineering, and in particular natural gelling polymers for encapsulation and regenerative medicine

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829

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Elsevier

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1845694813

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9781845694814

Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity on Islands

History and Contemporary Perspectives from the Azores

By: David Chester,Angus Duncan,Rui Coutinho,Nicolau Wallenstein

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Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity on Islands

History and Contemporary Perspectives from the Azores

By: David Chester,Angus Duncan,Rui Coutinho,Nicolau Wallenstein

This volume examines the impact of and responses to historic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the Azores. Study is placed in the contexts of: the history and geography of this fascinating archipelago; progress being made in predicting future events and policies of disaster risk reduction. This is the only volume to consider the earthquake and volcanic histories of the Azores across the whole archipelago and is based, not only on contemporary published research, but also on the detailed study of archival source materials. The authors seek to show how extreme environmental events, as expressed through eruptions, earthquakes and related processes operating in the past may be considered using both complementary scientific and social scientific perspectives in order to reveal the ways in which Azorean society has been shaped by both an isolated location in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and the ever present threat of environmental uncertainty. Chapter 2, which analyses in depth the geology and tectonics of the islands is of more specialist interest, but technical terms are fully explained so as to widen the accessibility of this material. The audience for this volume includes all those who are interested in the geology, geography, history and hazard responses in the Azores. It is written, not just for the educated general reader, but for the specialist earth scientist and hazard researcher.

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251

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Routledge

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0429648103

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9780429648106

Angola at the Crossroads

Between Kleptocracy and Development

By: Rui Santos Verde

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Angola at the Crossroads

Between Kleptocracy and Development

By: Rui Santos Verde

Angola is poised between a past marked by civil war and corruption, and a future of potential economic development. This book examines the post-Civil War period which began in 2002 and saw the rise of a corrupt ruling elite, as well as recent developments in the country. These include the efforts of the current President, João Lourenço, to reform the regime through political openness, economic growth and a crackdown on corruption. Rui Santos Verde analyses the country's recent history of corruption and the current attempts at reform in order to determine whether economic and political development is on the horizon for Angola, or whether these reforms are simply a move towards consolidating President Lourenço's personal power.

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217

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0755606752

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9780755606757

Book's by Rui Sousa Mendes

Social Network Analysis Applied to Team Sports Analysis

Social Network Analysis Applied to Team Sports Analysis

Sorption Enhanced Reaction Processes

Sorption Enhanced Reaction Processes

Natural-Based Polymers for Biomedical Applications

Natural-Based Polymers for Biomedical Applications

Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity on Islands

Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity on Islands

Angola at the Crossroads

Angola at the Crossroads

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