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Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa; A Multi-faceted Economic Approach
Volume ini adalah kumpulan studi terpilih tentang kemiskinan dan kesejahteraan di Afrika Timur. Sebelas penulis setuju untuk memasukkan makalah mereka ke dalam jilid ini. Studi-studi tersebut dapat dikelompokkan menjadi empat domain: kemiskinan anak dan malnutrisi, dinamika dan faktor penentu kemiskinan, ukuran kemiskinan multidimensi, dan hubungan energi-lingkungan-kemiskinan. Argumen inti unt…
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- 978-3-319-30981-1
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- Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being
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- 362.5 HES p
The Enigma of Money
This book provides a new way of understanding modern money and markets by stressing their self-fulfilling/self-destructive properties as institutions from evolutionary perspectives. In contrast to an unrealistic view of the neoclassical general equilibrium theory that models the price mechanism of a “concentrated market” without using money, presented here is an alternative theory of market…
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- 978-9811018183
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- 07 pages
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The Engineering Approach to Winter Sports
The Engineering Approach to Winter Sports presents the state-of-the-art research in the field of winter sports in a harmonized and comprehensive way for a diverse audience of engineers, equipment and facilities designers, and materials scientists. The book examines the physics and chemistry of snow and ice with particular focus on the interaction (friction) between sports equipment and snow/ice…
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- 978-1-4939-3020-3
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- VIII, 383
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The end of automobile dependence
In this publication, Newman and Kenworthy look at how we can accelerate a planning approach to designing urban environments that can function reliably and conveniently on alternative modes. They consider a refined and more civilized automobile playing a very much reduced and manageable role in urban transportation. The authors examine the rise and fall of automobile dependence using updated dat…
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- 978-1-61091-613-4
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- XIV, 308, 49 b/w illustrations
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Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XIX Special…
The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all domains. An increase in the demand for resource sharing across different sites connecte…
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- 978-3-662-46562-2
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Poverty Alleviation in China; A Theoretical and Empirical Study
Sejak reformasi dan pembukaan China dimulai pada tahun 1978, negara ini telah menempuh perjalanan jauh di jalur sosialisme dengan karakteristik China, di bawah kepemimpinan Partai Komunis China. Lebih dari 30 tahun upaya reformasi dan pertumbuhan ekonomi spektakuler yang berkelanjutan telah mengubah China menjadi ekonomi terbesar kedua di dunia dan membuat banyak perubahan besar dalam masyaraka…
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- 978-3-662-47392-4
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- Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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- 362.5 YAN p
The Empirical Validation of House Energy Rating (HER) Software for Lightweigh…
This book reports on the first empirical validation of “AccuRate,” Australia’s national benchmark software tool for house energy ratings. The validation was conducted by the University of Tasmania in collaboration with Forest and Wood Products Australia, the Australian Government, the CSIRO and industry partners. The study presented here describes the results of graphical and statistical …
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- 978-3-319-14337-8
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- XIX, 344, 236 b/w illustrations, 60 illustrations in colour
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- Springer Theses
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Transactions on Engineering Technologies
This volume presents selected peer-reviewed, revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers who participated in the World Congress on Engineering 2015, held in London, UK, 1-3 July, 2015. This large international conference covered advances in engineering technologies and the physical sciences, with contributions on subjects including mechanical engineering, bioengineer…
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- 978-981-10-1088-0
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The Emerging Quantum
This monograph presents the latest findings from a long-term research project intended to identify the physics behind Quantum Mechanics. A fundamental theory for quantum mechanics is constructed from first physical principles, revealing quantization as an emergent phenomenon arising from a deeper stochastic process. As such, it offers the vibrant community working on the foundations of quantum …
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- 978-3-319-34792-9
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- XIII, 366, 9 b/w illustrations
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The Emergence of Israeli-Greek Cooperation
This book offers a detailed account of the recent Israeli-Greek rapprochement. For more than six decades, relations between Greece and Israel were characterized by suspicion, mutual recriminations and hostility. However, in 2009, Greek policy was unexpectedly overturned. This volume examines this new relationship in detail and explores its theoretical and regional consequences. The Introduction…
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- 978-3-319-12604-3
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- XIV, 186, 2 illustrations in colour
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