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Presents some fundamental concepts behind the basic theories and tools of discrete element methods (DEM), its historical development, and its scope of applications in geology, geophysics and rock engineering. This book includes coverage of both explicit and implicit DEM approaches. It also provides introductions to some alternative approaches.

Covers various aspects of the biology of pearl oysters, their anatomy, reproduction, genetics, and diseases. This book considers how they are farmed from spawning and culturing larvae in hatcheries to adults in the ocean, and how various environmental factors, including pollution affect them.

Studies in Natural Products Chemistry: Bioactive Natural Products (Part XIII) is the latest in a series that covers the synthesis or testing and recording of the medicinal properties of natural products, providing cutting-edge accounts of the fascinating developments in the isolation, structure elucidation, synthesis, biosynthesis, and pharmacology of a diverse array of bioactive natural products. Natural products in the plant and animal kingdom offer a huge diversity of chemical structures that are the result of biosynthetic processes that have been modulated over the millennia through genetic effects. With the rapid developments in spectroscopic techniques and accompanying advances in high-throughput screening techniques, it has become possible to quickly isolate and determine the structures and biological activity of natural products, thus opening up exciting opportunities in the field of new drug development to the pharmaceutical industry.

Human activities and development focusing on economic growth have an adverse impact on natural and inhabited environment day after day. This book presents various aspects of environment and the associated problems along with solutions proposed to achieve an harmonic co-existence of man and natural life as well as sustainable development.

Neuroscience for Addiction Medicine: From Prevention to Rehabilitation - Methods and Interventions is the latest volume from Progress in Brain Research focusing on new trends and developments in addiction research. This established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as popular emerging subfields such as addiction. This volume takes an integrated approach to review and summarize some of the most recent progress from the subfield of addiction research, with particular emphasis on potential applications in a clinical setting. Explores new trends and developments in basic and clinical research in the addiction subfield of neuroscienceUses an integrated approach to review and summarize recent progressEmphasizes potential applications in a clinical settingEnhances the literature of neuroscience by further expanding the established international series Progress in Brain Research