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Economic Issues Today: Alternative Approaches
Alternative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Written in non-technical, everyday language that is accessible to the undergraduate audience, and requiring no background in economic analysis, this acclaimed text provides a unique approach to understanding what the practice of economics is all about. The authors address fourteen current economic...
Mathematical Geosciences
Hybrid Symbolic-Numeric Methods
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This book showcases powerful new hybrid methods that combine numerical and symbolic algorithms. Hybrid algorithm research is currently one of the most promising directions in the context of geosciences mathematics and computer mathematics in general.
One important topic addressed here with...
by David B. Holian, Charles L. Prysby
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Voter perceptions of the personal traits of presidential candidates are widely regarded to be important influences on the vote. Media pundits frequently explain the outcome of presidential elections in terms of the personal appeal of the candidates. Despite the emphasis on presidential character traits...
Shiga toxins
A Review of Structure, Mechanism, and Detection
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This book presents an overview of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), with in-depth coverage of key areas such as recent Shiga toxin-related poisonings in Europe and the US, the structure, production, and mechanism of action of Shiga toxin, and current methods of detection.
The globalization...
Self-adjoint Extensions in Quantum Mechanics
General Theory and Applications to Schrödinger and Dirac Equations with Singular Potentials
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This exposition is devoted to a consistent treatment of quantization problems, based on appealing to some nontrivial items of functional analysis concerning the theory of linear operators in Hilbert spaces. The authors begin by considering quantization problems in general, emphasizing the nontriviality...
by Joop Hermens, Antoon Opperhuizen, Dirk T.H.M. Sijm
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
An important purpose of The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry is to aid the understanding of distribution and chemical reaction processes which occur in the environment. Volume 2, Part E of this series is dedicated to ozone photochemistry, nonenzymatic oxydation systems, QSAR in environmental chemistry and biotransformation of chemicals in fish.
by Irving B. Weiner, Roger L. Greene
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The Handbook of Personality Assessment provides comprehensive guidance on the administration, scoring, and interpretation of the most widely-used instruments. Written by two of the field's foremost authorities, this well-balanced guide blends theory and application to provide a foundational reference...
Text-Dependent Questions, Grades 6-12
Pathways to Close and Critical Reading
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Fisher & Frey’s answer to close and critical reading
Learn the best ways to use text-dependent questions as scaffolds during close reading and the big understandings they yield. But that’s just for starters. Fisher and Frey also include illustrative video, texts and questions, cross-curricular...
The American Economy: A Student Study Guide
A Student Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
A student study guide to accompany the principle work, 'The American economy: how it works and how it doesn't'.
Anthropology and Food Policy
Human Dimensions of Food Policy in Africa and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Addressing broad issues of production, distribution, and consumption, the seven essays in this volume introduce readers to anthropological work in food policy. They show how information gathered from fieldwork—especially at the individual, family, and community levels—can help professionals plan and assess policies.
by Encarnación López Béjar
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Clasificar los distintos tipos de maquinaria, herramientas y medios auxiliares utilizados para el corte del bloque de piedra natural, identificando sus características y capacidades. Realizar las operaciones de preparación y aserrado de bloques de piedra natural siguiendo los procedimientos establecidos...
A Focus on Fractions
Bringing Research to the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
A Focus on Fractions is a groundbreaking effort to make the mathematics education research on how students develop their understanding of fraction concepts readily accessible and understandable to pre- and in-service K– 8 mathematics educators. Using extensive annotated samples of student work,...
Advanced Manufacturing
The New American Innovation Policies
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
How to rethink innovation and revitalize America's declining manufacturing sector by encouraging advanced manufacturing, bringing innovative technologies into the production process.
The United States lost almost one-third of its manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2010. As higher-paying manufacturing...
by Greg Lopez, Bridget Welsh, John Funston
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Prominent scholars across the political divide and academic disciplines analyze how the dominant political parties in Malaysia and Singapore, United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and the People’s Action Party (PAP), have stayed in power. With a focus on developments in the last decade and...