This book provides insights into the current state of sorghum genomics. It particularly focuses on the tools and strategies employed in genome sequencing and analysis, public and private genomic resources and how all this information is leading to direct outcomes for plant breeders. The advent of affordable whole genome sequencing in combination with existing cereal functional genomics data has…
All aspects of breast augmentation are covered in this comprehensive guide. It is divided into sections that include anatomy, preoperative consultation, the varieties of implants with pocket positioning, the varieties of surgical procedures and approaches, complications, mammography and medical legal aspects. The extensive array of information that is imparted to the surgeon without equal makes…
This book discusses the risks and opportunities that arise in Emerging Asia given the context of a new environment in global liquidity and capital flows. It elaborates on the need to ensure financial and overall economic stability in the region through improved financial regulation and other policy measures to minimize the emergent risks. "Managing Elevated Risk: Global Liquidity, Capital Flows…
ABSTRACT This book explores and interrogates the food–water–energy nexus, arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India’s economic development. The book sheds light on different experiences faced in states across India, including the consequences of electricity tariff reforms and related policies on irrigated agriculture. Part 1 focuses on the historical development of agricult…
In the last decade methods and techniques based on supersymmetry have provided deep insights in quantum chromodynamics and other non-supersymmetric gauge theories at strong coupling. This book summarizes major advances in critical solitons in supersymmetric theories, and their implications for understanding basic dynamical regularities of non-supersymmetric theories. After an extended introduct…
"Life in Transit is the long-awaited sequel to Shimon Redlich’s widely acclaimed Together and Apart in Brzezany, in which he discussed his childhood during the War and the Holocaust. Life in Transit tells the story of his adolescence in the city of Lodz in postwar Poland. Redlich’s personal memories are placed within the wider historical context of Jewish life in Poland and in Lodz during t…
In Doubts on Avicenna, Ayman Shihadeh offers an extended study and critical edition of Sharaf al-Dīn al-Masʿūdī’s al-Mabāḥith wa-l-Shukūk, a key and hitherto unstudied source for twelfth-century Arabic philosophy. This text inaugurates the long commentarial tradition on Avicenna’s Ishārāt. Readership: All interested in the history of medieval Arabic philosophy and rational theolog…
Hunter-gatherer research has played a historically central role in the development of anthropological and evolutionary theory. Today, research in this traditional and enduringly vital field blurs lines of distinction between archaeology and ethnology, and seeks instead to develop perspectives and theories broadly applicable to anthropology and its many sub disciplines. In the groundbreaking …
Hasil Simposium Asia Pasifik ke-18 tentang Sistem Cerdas dan Evolusioner, Ditulis oleh para ahli terkemuka dari kawasan Asia Pasifik. --> Buku ini berisi kumpulan makalah yang diterima untuk dipresentasikan dalam Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES 2014) ke-18, yang diadakan di Singapura dari tanggal 10 hingga 12 November 2014. IES 2014 disponsori oleh Memetic Co…
Hasil Simposium Asia Pasifik ke-18 tentang Sistem Cerdas dan Evolusioner, Ditulis oleh para ahli terkemuka dari kawasan Asia Pasifik. --> Buku ini adalah kumpulan makalah yang dipresentasikan pada Simposium Asia Pasifik ke-18 tentang Sistem Cerdas dan Evolusioner (IES 2014) di Singapura. Simposium yang disponsori oleh Memetic Computing Society dan disponsori bersama oleh berbagai institusi term…