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This engaging open access book discusses how a values and valuing perspective can facilitate a more effective mathematics pedagogical experience, and allows readers to explore multiple applications of the values perspective across different education…

This new open access edition supported by the Fragility Fracture Network aims at giving the widest possible dissemination on fragility fracture (especially hip fracture) management and notably in countries where this expertise is sorely needed. It…

The use of plant extracts for therapeutic purposes knows a wide diffusion. The vegetal origin of
these products intercepts people’s desire to cure themselves with natural drugs; this aspect, together with
effectiveness and regulatory opportunities,…

The title of the book Educational Psychology - Between Certitudes and Uncertainties is relevant for the dynamic and low predictable research from genetics, neurosciences, technologies, etc. that produce challenges and exchanges across sciences. This…

Plantnaturalpr oductsar eavaluablesour ceofcompoundswithahealthypotentiale ff ecton
livingor ganisms,includinganimalsandhumans.Thesenaturalcompoundsar ecommonlycalled
phytochemicals,specificallyindicatingtheiroriginfr omtheplantkingdom.Itisfr…

This Open Access Brief analyzes the dynamics in which children’s selves emerge through their everyday activities of meaning construction, both in their relationships with family and within school education. It begins with a discussion of new…

Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) is one of the most successful polymers that has been used
to produce medicines, such as drug carriers (DC). This is one of the few polymers that the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) has approved for human…

Over the past two decades, considerable research efforts in academia and industry have gone into pharmaceutical cocrystals. As a result, a large number of studies on both fundamental aspects and applications of cocrystallisation have been published,…

This book provides an overview of the research related to psychological assessment across South Africa. The thirty-six chapters provide a combination of psychometric theory and practical assessment applications in order to combine the currently…

Today, new technologies, such as microarrays or high-performance sequencing, are producing
more and more genomic data. This fact has brought new opportunities and challenges in the fields
of computational biology and bioinformatics, since this huge…