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Fighting for Votes
Parties, the Media, and Voters in an Ontario Election
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Elections are not just about who casts ballots – they reflect the citizens, parties, media, and history of an electorate. Fighting for Votes examines how these factors interacted during a recent Ontario election.
The authors begin by examining the province’s political culture and history....
Your Best Medicine
From Conventional and Complementary Medicine--Expert-Endorsed Therapeutic Solutions to Relieve Symptoms and Speed Healing
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Integrative medicine—the practice of combining remedies from various therapeutic disciplines to optimize relief and speed healing—is transforming both how health professionals treat disease and how patients manage their own care. Your Best Medicine introduces the reader to this new world of healing...
Global tea science
Current status and future needs
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
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Achieving sustainable cultivation of cassava Volume 2
Genetics, breeding, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Originating in South America, cassava is now grown in over 100 countries around the world. It is the third most important source of calories in the tropics after rice and maize. Its caloric value, as well as its ability to tolerate dry conditions and poor soils, makes it a key food security crop in...
Relationships Between Perception and Action
Current Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is the fruit of a study group on perception and action that worked at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiP) of the University of Bielefeld, FRG in the academic year 1984-1985. We express our gratitude to the ZiF for hosting the group and for providing fmancial and organizational...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 2
Breeding, pests and diseases
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...
Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 2
Breeding and nutrition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
To meet growing demand, the FAO has estimated that world poultry production needs to grow by 2-3% per year to 2030. Much of the increase in output already achieved has been as a result of improvements in commercial breeds combined with rearing in more intensive production systems. However, more intensive...
by a cura di Péter Tusor e Matteo Sanfilippo
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Questo volume raccoglie gli atti dell’omonimo convegno organizzato a Budapest (8-12 maggio 2013) dall’Istituto per la Storia Ecclesiastica “Lendület” dell’Accademia Ungherese delle Scienze e dell’Università Cattolica Péter Pázmány e in collaborazione con il DISUCOM (Università della...
Applied Critical Leadership in Education
Choosing Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Educational leaders are seeing the increasing need for practical transformative models and theories to address academic, cultural, and socio-economic gaps separating learners at all levels of the educational system. Applied Critical Leadership in Education explores a leadership model arising from...
by P.K. Kapur, Hoang Pham, A. Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Software Reliability Assessment with OR Applications is a comprehensive guide to software reliability measurement, prediction, and control. It provides a thorough understanding of the field and gives solutions to the decision-making problems that concern software developers, engineers, practitioners,...
by Rodrigo C. Barros, Alex A. Freitas, André C.P.L.F de Carvalho
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Presents a detailed study of the major design components that constitute a top-down decision-tree induction algorithm, including aspects such as split criteria, stopping criteria, pruning and the approaches for dealing with missing values. Whereas the strategy still employed nowadays is to use a 'generic'...
by A.P. Ri'Chard
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
A teenager, determined to end the reign of his abusive, alcoholic father, ends up accused of a murder he didn't commit.
A noted Klansman, Miran Thompson, has been killed, and the prime suspect in his murder case is seventeen-year-old Larry Henderson. Complicating matters, Larry's father, Officer...
by A. P. Torre
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
When the Consortium, a planetary alliance of more than a hundred non-violent, peace-loving worlds, is suddenly forced into war with the Rengrr, a race of ferocious brutes from a nearby sector, the leaders of the Consortium must find a way to rekindle their people’s fighting spirit. With time running...
Theory of Groups and Symmetries
Finite Groups, Lie Groups, and Lie Algebras
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
The book presents the main approaches in study of algebraic structures of symmetries in models of theoretical and mathematical physics, namely groups and Lie algebras and their deformations. It covers the commonly encountered quantum groups (including Yangians). The second main goal of the book is...