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Health Dimensions of COVID-19 in India and Beyond
This open access book addresses the multiple health dimensions posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in India and other countries including nine in Asia, five in Sub-Saharan Africa, and New Zealand. It explores the impact of the pandemic on mental health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, health financing, self-care, and vaccine development and distribution. The contributing authors discuss i…
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- XXXIV, 355
Achieving Zero Hunger in India
This open access volume discloses rich set of findings and policy recommendations for India towards achieving the SDG 2.1 target of zero hunger by 2030. Through its fourteen chapters, it takes an integrated approach by examining diverse aspects of food and nutrition security through multidisciplinary lens of Agricultural Economics, Nutrition, Crop Sciences, Anthropology and Law, while being roo…
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- 978-981-99-4412-5
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- IX, 344
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Water Stress in Biological, Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Food Systems
Water Stress Management contains the invited lectures and selected oral and poster presentations of the 11th International Symposium on the Properties of Water (ISOPOW), which was held in Queretaro, Mexico 5-9 September 2010. The text provides a holistic description and discussion of state-of-the-art topics on the role of water in Biological, Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Food systems within a f…
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- 978-1-4939-2578-0
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Mathematics Education
Many in the mathematics community in the U.S. are involved in mathematics education in various capacities. This book highlights the breadth of the work in K-16 mathematics education done by members of US departments of mathematical sciences. It contains contributions by mathematicians and mathematics educators who do work in areas such as teacher education, quantitative literacy, informal educ…
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- 978-3-319-44950-0
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- Mathematics
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- 510
The Ownership of the Firm, Corporate Finance, and Derivatives
This book clarifies several ambiguous arguments and claims in finance and the theory of the firm. It also serves as a bridge between derivatives, corporate finance and the theory of the firm. In addition to mathematical derivations and theories, the book also uses anecdotes and numerical examples to explain some unconventional concepts. The main arguments of the book are: (1) the ownership of t…
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- 978-981-287-353-8
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- XII, 76, 11 b/w illustrations
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- SpringerBriefs in Finance
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- XII, 76, 11 b/w illust
The Future Use of Nordic Forests
Diverse as they are in their histories and in the organization of their forest sectors, most Nordic countries have this in common: their economies and cultures are substantially based on the utilization of various forest resources. This book explores Nordic forest futures and presents research results that form part of a scientific foundation for considering how to balance the functions of fore…
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- 978-3-319-14218-0
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- XXI, 169, 2 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
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The Essential Guide to N-of-1 Trials in Health
N-of-1 trials, a type of individualized randomized controlled trial, are relevant to almost every discipline in medicine and psychology. They can tell the clinician with precision whether a treatment works in that individual, which distinguishes from the information available from most other trial designs. They have the potential to revolutionize the way clinical medicine is practiced. Whet…
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- 978-94-017-7200-6
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- XI, 245
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The Economics of Interfirm Networks
This book is one of the first comprehensive works to fill the knowledge gap resulting from the limited number of empirical studies on interfirm networks. The in-depth empirical research presented here is based on a massive transaction relationship database of approximately 400,000 Japanese firms. This volume, unlike others, focuses on the role of interfirm networks in three different fields: (1…
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- 978-4-431-55390-8
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- X, 263, 31 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
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- Advances in Japanese Business and Economics
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The Economic Function of a Stock Exchange
In recent years, exchanges on both sides of the Atlantic have been extensively reengineered, and their organizational structures have changed from non-profit, membership organizations to for-profit, demutualized organizations. Concurrently, new alternative trading systems have emerged and the traditional functions of broker/dealer firms have evolved. How have these changes affected the delivery…
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- 978-3-319-10350-1
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- XXV, 129, 2 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
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- Zicklin School of Business Financial Markets Series
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The Econometricians
This is the seventh book in a series of discussions about the great minds in the history and theory of finance. While the series addresses the contributions of scholars in our understanding of financial decisions and markets, this seventh book describes how econometrics developed and how its underlying assumptions created the underpinning of much of modern financial theory. The author shows tha…
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- 978-1-137-34137-2
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- XXI, 261, 2 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
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- Great Minds in Finance
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