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These Eighty Years': Or, The Story of an Unfinished Life
Henry Solly (1813–1903) was a British Unitarian minister and social reformer who supported universal suffrage, the abolition of slavery and free education. He is remembered today for his contribution to the development of the working-class movement in late Victorian Britain, and especially for being involved in the foundation of institutions such as Working Men's Clubs, the Charity Organizati…
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Forensic Economics: Assessing Personal Damages in Civil Litigation
This edited collection addresses the major issues encountered in the calculation of economic damages to individuals in civil litigation. In federal and state courts in the United States, as well as in other nations, when one party sues another, the suing party is required not only to prove that the harm was, indeed, caused by the other party, but also to claim and demonstrate that a specified d…
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- 978-1-137-56392-7
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- XIX, 327 hlm.
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Foreign Language Education in Japan
Language education is a highly contested arena within any nation and one that arouses an array of sentiments and identity conflicts. What languages, or what varieties of a language, are to be taught and learned, and how? By whom, for whom, for what purposes and in what contexts? Such questions concern not only policy makers but also teachers, parents, students, as well as businesspeople, politi…
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- 978-94-6300-325-4
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- XII, 192 hlm.
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Foreign Aid in China
Foreign aid has connected China and the international community through many channels, and created new types of strong partnerships throughout the world. As a recipient country, China and donors have engaged in an unprecedentedly deep level of cooperation on development-related issues. China’s development experience has resulted in key changes to the relationships and partnerships between Chi…
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- 978-3-662-44273-9
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- VII, 370 hlm.
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Forecasting High-Frequency Volatility Shocks
This thesis presents a new strategy that unites qualitative and quantitative mass data in form of text news and tick-by-tick asset prices to forecast the risk of upcoming volatility shocks. Holger Kömm embeds the proposed strategy in a monitoring system, using first, a sequence of competing estimators to compute the unobservable volatility; second, a new two-state Markov switching mixture mode…
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- 978-3-658-12596-7
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- XXIX, 171 hlm.
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Force-Controlled Robotic Assembly Processes of Rigid and Flexible Objects
This book provides comprehensive and integrated approaches for rigid and flexible object assembly. It presents comparison studies with the available force-guided robotic processes and covers contact-state modeling, scheme control strategies, and position searching algorithms. Further, it includes experimental validations for different assembly situations, including those for the assembly of ind…
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- 978-3-319-39185-4
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- XXI, 184 hlm.
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Football Traumatology: New Trends
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries commonly experienced by football (soccer) players. It will be of particular value for orthopedists and sports medicine practitioners, and will provide the information required by trainers and medical staff regarding the traumatic lesions associated with the sport. It is also ant…
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- 978-3-319-18245-2
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- XV, 392 hlm.
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Foot Steps of the Ancient Great Glacier of North America
John K. DeLaski, M.D. practiced medicine in the Penobscot Bay region of Maine and, in addition, was a naturalist with keen powers of observation. His study of the landscape led to the conclusion that a thick glacier had overtopped the highest hills, flooded all of Penobscot Bay, extended far to the east and west and probably was part of a greater continental glacier. He published these very cri…
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- 978-3-319-13200-6
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- X, 202 hlm.
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Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region
This work presents the findings of an extensive study on the state-of-the-art regarding the problem of food waste in Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The results show that the problem of food waste can be found at different levels in each country and that our knowledge of it is limited by the current lack of studies in the area. The problem is primarily due to fo…
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- 978-3-319-10906-0
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- XII, 222 hlm.
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- Environmental Science and Engineering
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Food Security and Risk Reduction in Bangladesh
This book draws examples from food security issues in Bangladesh. The book is structured around those issues and underlying causes of food security, the implications from different sectors, policy analysis, and the role and actions of various stakeholders from different sectors to ensure food security. Bangladesh is situated in a climatically vulnerable position and is impacted frequently by…
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- 978-4-431-55411-0
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- XII, 273 hlm.
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- Disaster Risk Reduction
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