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Farm-level Modelling: Techniques, Applications and Policy
by Paul Wilson • Maria Espinosa • Michael Michael • David David • Stephen Hynes • Sergio Gomez y Paloma • Patrick Abbot • Maria Maria • Arnaud Arnaud • Stephen Stephen • Filippo Arfini • Michele Michele • César Revoredo-Giha • Cathal Cathal • Pavel Pavel • Bruce Bruce • Wei Wei Wei Wei • Thomas Thomas • Roberto Solazzo • Mario Veneziani • Patrick Gillespie • Fiona Thorne • Thia Hennessy • Vera Eory • Jinxiu Ding • Weiwei Wang • Eleonore Guillem • Dave Murray-Rust • Joana Guimarães Ferreira • Alexander GochtAgriculture is the product of a complex mixture of behavioural, biophysical and market drivers. Understanding how these factors interact to produce crops and livestock for food has been the focus of economic investigation for many years. The advent of optimisation algorithms and the exponential gro... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates
by George FarahBroadcast to tens of millions of Americans, the presidential debates are the Super Bowl of politics. A good performance before the cameras can vault a contender to the front of the pack, while a gaffe spells national embarrassment and can savage a candidacy. The slim margin for error has led the two... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Medical Mysteries eOmnibus
by Jim Leavesley • George Biro3 books by 2 physicians who explore medical questions like what killed Jane Austin, did a mistake cause World War I, and did Freud use cocaine?... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
How Isaac Newton Lost His Marbles: And more medical mysteries, marvels and mayhem
50 intriguing stories of famous patients, doctors, medical experiments, disasters and triumphs.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1999 -
What Killed Jane Austen?
Tales of famous patients, doctors, discoveries and disasters.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
Texas Criminal Jury Charges
Texas Criminal Jury Charges provides the most comprehensive and authoritative set of criminal jury charges available in Texas. This affordable resource offers more than 650 pre-drafted instructions, detailed legal discussions with 1,100 supporting citations, and dozens of strategies. Use it to: * P... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Volume 2: Special Sessions 18th International Conference (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #332)
by Alfonso González-Briones • Roussanka Loukanova • Roberto Casado-Vara • Sara Rodríguez González • George Katranas • José Manuel Machado • Jaroslaw WikarekThis book highlights the latest research on distributed computing and artificial intelligence. DCAI 2021 is a forum to present applications of innovative techniques for studying and solving complex problems in artificial intelligence and computing areas. The present edition brings together past expe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Essays in Contemporary Economics
This book is a collection of original essays grouped into four parts under the headings "Greece and European integration," "Issues in the Methodology of Economics," "Institutions and the Free Market Economy," and "Insights for Today from Ancient Greece. " The essays appeal to both researchers in the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Democracy and an Open-Economy World Order
The essays in this volume explore several key issues facing democracies today. They discuss the dilemma of how to protect civil liberties and individual freedoms in the light of external threats and assess the policies adopted by governments in this area. The book also addresses the question of how ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Creative Crisis in Democracy and Economy
Developments across the millennia suggest that, even though democracies and free market economies are continuously challenged by crises and disturbances, such as natural disasters, wars, or technological revolutions, in the countries where they take roots civil liberties deepen and per capita prospe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Democracy and Money: Lessons for Today from Athens in Classical Times (Banking, Money and International Finance)
The authors of this book argue that post-war fiscal and monetary policies in the U.S. are prone to more frequent and more destabilizing domestic and international financial crises. So, in the aftermath of the one that erupted in 2008, they propose that now we are sleepwalking into another, which und... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Large-Scale Inverse Problems and Quantification of Uncertainty (Wiley Series in Computational Statistics #712)
by Lorenz Biegler • Matthias Heinkenschloss • Youssef Marzouk • Karen Willcox • Omar Ghattas • George Biros • Bart van Bloemen Waanders • Luis Tenorio • David Keyes • Bani MallickThis book focuses on computational methods for large-scale statistical inverse problems and provides an introduction to statistical Bayesian and frequentist methodologies. Recent research advances for approximation methods are discussed, along with Kalman filtering methods and optimization-based app... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Patient Surveillance After Cancer Treatment
by Yoshihiko Maehara • Julie A. Margenthaler • Riccardo A. Audisio • David Y. Johnson • Craig C. Earle • Katherine S. Virgo • John F Thompson • Frank E Johnson • George P BrowmanPatient Surveillance After Cancer Treatment covers the history of cancer patient surveillance after curative-intent treatment, the rationale, the methodologies used in the past and at present, the methodologies that will probably emerge in the future, the costs of surveillance, the definitions of va... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Molecular Imaging, Reconstruction and Analysis of Moving Body Organs, and Stroke Imaging and Treatment
by Kanwal K. Bhatia • Fei Gao • Kuangyu Shi • Mauricio Reyes • M. Jorge Cardoso • Bernhard Kainz • Tal Arbel • Tom Vercauteren • Theo van Walsum • Roman Peter • Adrian Dalca • Roland Wiest • Wiro Niessen • Bart J. EmmerThis book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the International Workshop on Computational Methods for Molecular Imaging, CMMI 2017, the International Workshop on Reconstruction and Analysis of Moving Body Organs, RAMBO 2017, and the International Stroke Workshop: Imaging and Treatment Chal... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Management: An International Perspective (2nd Edition)
by Razaq Raj • Neil Robinson • Ian Rotherham • Alan Clarke • Nour Farra-Haddad • Carlos Fernandes • Silvia Aulet • Vitor Ambrósio • Elizabeth Ifeyinwa Benson • Nigel Bond • Miguel Brázio • Geoffrey Skoll • Dolors Vidal • Ruth Blackwell • Hadil Faris • Maria Leppakari • Michael O’ Regan • Yasin Bilim • Jorge Coelho • Jaeyeon Choe • Tahir Rashid • Samson Olawale Fadare • Sevde Düzgüner • Maximiliano Korstanje • Lluis Prats • Vincent Zamitt • Anna Trono • Kevin Griffin • Agnes RaffayWithin the past 10 years 'Religious Tourism' has seen both economic and education-sector growth on a global scale. This book addresses the central role of religious tourism and interrelationships with other aspects of pilgrimage management. It provides practical applications, models and illustration... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Management: An International Perspective (Cabi Religious Tourism And Pilgrimage Ser.)
by Neil Robinson • Ian Rotherham • Alan Clarke • Nour Farra-Haddad • Carlos Fernandes • Silvia Aulet • Vitor Ambrósio • Elizabeth Ifeyinwa Benson • Nigel Bond • Miguel Brázio • Geoffrey Skoll • Ruth Blackwell • Hadil Faris • Maria Leppakari • Michael O’ Regan • Yasin Bilim • Jorge Coelho • Jaeyeon Choe • Tahir Rashid • Samson Olawale Fadare • Sevde Düzgüner • Lluis Prats • Vincent Zamitt • Agnes Raffay • Associate Professor Anna Trono • Professor Maximiliano Korstanje • Dolors Vidal-CasellasWithin the past 10 years 'Religious Tourism' has seen both economic and education-sector growth on a global scale. This book addresses the central role of religious tourism and interrelationships with other aspects of pilgrimage management. It provides practical applications, models and illustration... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Molecular Breeding in Wheat, Maize and Sorghum: Strategies for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Yield
by Pradeep Kumar • Natasha Sharma • Shabir Hussain Wani • Santosh Kumar • Muhammad Sarwar Khan • Charan Singh • Rod Snowdon • Pardeep Kumar • Professor David Edwards • Andrea Acuna • Muhammad Amjad Ali • John Amalraj • Maria Arguello • Arushi Arora • Diana Ballesteros • Bhoja R Basnet • Salma Bhyan • Richard Boyles • Faïçal Brini • Yibo Cao • S Antony Ceasar • Nidhi Chakma • Subhadra Chakrabarty • Moutoshi Chakraborty • Harmeet Singh Chawla • Dharampal Choudhary • Mukesh Choudhary • M C Dagla • Mônica Furaste Danilevicz • Abhijit Kumar Das • Haixiao Dong • Kate Dreher • Susanne Dreisigacker • Xiaorong Fan • Maria Laura Federico • Cassandria Tay Fernandez • Ertugrul Filiz • Monika Garg • Claudia Teixeira Guimaraes • Karama Hamdi • K Hariprasanna • Firoz Hossain • Guanghui Hu • Zhaorong Hu • B S Jat • Caifu Jiang • Faiz Ahmad Joyia • Mehar Kamboj • Chikkappa Karjagi • Lovenpreet Kaur • Emna Khanfir • Rajesh Khulbe • Bhupender Kumar • Firat Kurt • Zhao Li • Yun-Hua Liu • Ningthaipuilu Longmei • Damar Lopez-Arredondo • Jurandir Vieira de Magalhaes • T Maharajan • Jacob Marsh • R. Esten Mason • Clémentine Mercé • Ghulam Mustafa • Vignesh Muthusamy • Sudha K Nair • Zhongfu Ni • Kazutoshi Okuno • Geoffrey Onaga • Huiru Peng • Jorge Fernando Pereira • Sacn Perera • Bhukya Prakash • Lydia Pramitha • P Rajendrakumar • Mantena Raju • Savaram Vr Rao • Ali Razzaq • P Sanjana Reddy • Trenton Roberts • G Victor Roch • Umesh R Rosyara • Pawan Saini • Sindhu Sareen • Gajanan Saykhedkar • André Schaffasz • Armin Scheben • Tariq Shehzad • Sonia Sheoran • Ishwar Singh • Prabha Singh • Vishal Singh • Nithya Subramanian • Qixin Sun • Madhumal Thayil Vinayan • Yiqiao Wang • Steffen Windpassinger • Kerstin Wydra • Yinping Jiao • Mingming Xin • Ines Yacoubi • Pranjal Yadava • Yingyin Yao • Kuohai Yu • Yaping Yuan • Pervez Haider Zaidi • Hong-Bin Zhang • Meiping Zhang • Zhiwu Zhang • Rajkumar U ZunjareThe global population is projected to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, and food and feed production will need to increase by 70%. Wheat, maize and sorghum are three key cereals which provide nutrition for the majority of the world's population. Their production is affected by various abiotic stresse... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023