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Manual of parliamentary usage
It is becoming a necessity for women who are interested in topics of the day to have a knowledge of parliamentary usage. It matters not whether this interest be in religious movements, civics, politics, reforms or literary organizations.
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- 14 p. 18 cm
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Proceedings of PIANC Smart Rivers 2022 Green Waterways and Sustainable Navig…
This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 10th PIANC Smart Rivers Conference (Smart Rivers 2022). The work focuses on novel techniques for inland waterways and navigation structures. The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, engineers in the industry, and regulators of aviation authorities. As well, readers will encounter new ideas for realizing Green Waterw…
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- 9789811961380
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Made-to-Measure Future(s) for Democracy?
This open access volume analyses the development of democracy at different levels of governance (from local to global). The Basque search for an institutional and democratic model that adapts to its social needs and solves its problems offers an interesting perspective for analyzing the way in which democracy is seeking new forms of materialization from the local to the global. The volume is di…
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- 978-3-031-08608-3
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- Contributions to Political Science
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- IX, 369
Effective Statistical Learning Methods for Actuaries II
This book summarizes the state of the art in tree-based methods for insurance: regression trees, random forests and boosting methods. It also exhibits the tools which make it possible to assess the predictive performance of tree-based models. Actuaries need these advanced analytical tools to turn the massive data sets now at their disposal into opportunities.
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- 978-3-030-57556-4
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- Springer Actuarial
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- X, 228
The Geology of Kuwait
This open access book contains a set of chapters covering all aspects of geosciences related to Kuwait and adjacent regions, including Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf states. It covers basic information about the geology including a wide range of geoscientific disciplines such as marine geology, structural geology, hydrogeology and geophysics related to the region. This book is aimed at re…
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- 978-3-031-16727-0
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- Regional Geology Reviews
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- XII, 242
Made-to-Measure Future(s) for Democracy?
This open access volume analyses the development of democracy at different levels of governance (from local to global). The Basque search for an institutional and democratic model that adapts to its social needs and solves its problems offers an interesting perspective for analyzing the way in which democracy is seeking new forms of materialization from the local to the global. The volume is di…
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- 978-3-031-08608-3
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- Contributions to Political Science
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- IX, 369
Corporate Liability for Transboundary Environmental Harm
This open access book aims to elaborate on the legal prerequisites to establish the liability of corporations for transboundary environmental harm, not only by identifying existing liability rules, principles and standards but also by analysing their potential for further legal development. The authors consider international and transboundary liability law to currently be an underutilised tool …
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- 978-3-031-13264-3
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- XXVII, 640
The Evolution of China’s Anti-Poverty Strategies
This open access book presents the findings of the author’s 3 decades of studying China’s evolving anti-poverty strategies. It argues that much of the billions that nations spend yearly on economic aid is used inefficiently or to treat the symptoms but not the root causes of poverty. China, however, has evolved an effective sustainable alternative by providing the means for self-reliance to…
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- 978-981-19-7281-2
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- X, 127
Mobilities on the Margins
This open access book examines places on the margins and the dynamics through which a marginal position of a place is created. Specifically, it explores how places, mostly in sparsely populated areas, often perceived as immobile and frozen in time, come into being and develop through interference of everyday mobilities and creative practices that cut across the spheres of culture and nature as …
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- 978-3-031-41344-5
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- XVIII, 269
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Sustainable Resource Development in the 21st Century
This is an open access book. This edited volume discusses topics in environmental economics with a focus on sustainability, conservation, and responsible resource management. Written in memory of Peter Berck, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, the chapters expand upon his insights about the connections between human activities and the …
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- 978-3-031-24823-8
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- VII, 249
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