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Water, place, and equity
Many predict that by the end of the 21st century water will dominate world natural resource politics as oil does today. At present, much of the world's water is misallocated, wasted or polluted. This book argues that fairness in the allocation of water could be the cornerstone to a more secure future for mankind.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286107
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- 1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Foundational issues in human brain mapping
The field of neuroimaging has reached a watershed and critiques and emerging trends are raising foundational issues of methodology, measurement, and theory. Here, scholars reexamine these issues and explore controversies that have arisen in cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, computer science, and signal processing.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262265850
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- 1 online resource (xii, 321 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color).
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Elizabeth Blackburn and the story of telomeres :deciphering the ends of DNA
The story of molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn and her groundbreaking research on telomeres and what it reveals about the resourceful optimism that characterizes the best scientific thinking.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269117
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- 1 online resource (392 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations
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The enclave economy :foreign investment and sustainable development in Mexico…
Analyzes the extent to which foreign investment in Mexico's information technology sector brought economic, social, and environmental benefits to Guadalajara.Foreign investment has been widely perceived as a panacea for developing countries--as a way to reduce poverty and kick-start sustainable modern industries. The Enclave Economy calls this prescription into question, showing that Mexico's p…
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- 9780262273398
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- 1 online resource (x, 214 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Toward brain-computer interfacing
"A Bradford book."This volume presents a timely overview of the latest BCI research, with contributions from many of the important research groups in the field.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262256045
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- 1 online resource (xii, 507 pages) :illustrations.
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Conceptual analysis and philosophical naturalism
"A Bradford book."This volume shows how the so-called 'Canberra Plan' of metaphysical research continues to inspire (and provoke) some of the most interesting work in modern metaphysics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255202
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- 1 online resource (viii, 370 pages)
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NGO diplomacy :the influence of nongovernmental organizations in internationa…
Provides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of NGOs on intergovernmental negotiations on the environment and identifying the factors that determine the degree of NGO influence, with case studies that apply the framework to negotiations on cl.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268417
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 244 pages)
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Color ontology and color science
"A Bradford book."Here, leading scientists and philosophers examine new problems with new analytic tools, considering such topics as the psychophysical measurement of colour and its implications, and questions that arise from what we now know about the neural processing of colour information, colour consciousness, and colour language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262312493
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 419 pages) :illustrations.
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Minimum wages
This is a comprehensive review of evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment, skills, wage and income distributions, and longer-term labour market outcomes, and concludes that the minimum wage is not a good policy tool.Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has increas…
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- 9780262280563
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- 1 online resource (377 pages) :illustrations
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Biomedical signal analysis :contemporary methods and applications
"Biomedical signal analysis has become one of the most important visualization and interpretation methods in biology and medicine. Many new and powerful instruments for detecting, storing, transmitting, analyzing, and displaying images have been developed in recent years, allowing scientists and physicians to obtain quantitative measurements to support scientific hypotheses and medical diagnose…
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- 9780262259248
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 415 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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