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Landscapes and Landforms of Brazil
This book presents Brazil as a country of continental dimensions. Its territory has a large variety of rock types, geological structures and climates. The country has a large variety of landscapes, such as the humid plains of the Amazon River, the dry plateaus of the semi-arid region or the subtropical mountains of the southern region. On the coast, some plateaus and mountains, like the Serra d…
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- 978-94-017-8023-0
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Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence: 12th International Conference…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2015, held in Skövde, Sweden, in September 2015. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. They discuss theory and tools for modeling decisions, as well as applications that encompass decision making processes an…
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- 978-3-319-23239-3
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- XXVI
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Minority Marketing: Research Perspectives for the 1990s:Proceedings of the 19…
This volume includes the full proceedings from the 1993 Minority Marketing Congress held in Long Beach, Mississippi under the theme Minority Marketing: Research Perspectives for the 1990s. It provides a variety of quality research in the field of minority marketing in order to assimilate and enhance knowledge of marketing practices for minority enterprises. It includes papers on various topics …
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- 978-3-319-17385-6
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- XI, 115
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- Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
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Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice: Pattern and Process
This work provides in-depth analysis of the origins of landscape ecology and its close alignment with the understanding of scale, the causes of landscape pattern, and the interactions of spatial pattern with a variety of ecological processes. The text covers the quantitative approaches that are applied widely in landscape studies, with emphasis on their appropriate use and interpretation. Th…
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- 978-1-4939-2794-4
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Landscape Culture - Culturing Landscapes: The Differentiated Construction of …
In this book an international group of authors reflects mechanisms of the cultural and social construction of landscapes. International migration and global exchange are associated with a multitude of different cultural meanings of landscapes. The logics of multi-cultural perceptions and meanings of landscape call for trans-disciplinary research, and for guidance on addressing culturally sensit…
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- 978-3-658-04284-4
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Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice
New digital technologies, from AI-fired “legal tech” tools to virtual proceedings, are transforming the legal system. But much of the debate surrounding legal tech has zoomed out to a nebulous future of “robo-judges” and “robo-lawyers.” This volume is an antidote. Zeroing in on the near- to medium-term, it provides a concrete, empirically minded synthesis of the impact of new digita…
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- 9781009255301
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- 340.0285 ENG l
Insect Conservation and Urban Environments
Includes chapters on assessing changes among assemblages and in individual species, the variety of general threats (notably habitat changes and impacts of alien species) and more particularly urban threats. The first global overview and synthesis of the impacts of urbanisation on insects and their relatives and the needs and theoretical and practical background to conserving them in urban envir…
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- 978-3-319-21223-4
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- XIII, 244
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- 590 NEW i
Inside Interesting Integrals
What’s the point of calculating definite integrals since you can’t possibly do them all?. What makes doing the specific integrals in this book of value aren’t the specific answers we’ll obtain, but rather the methods we’ll use in obtaining those answers; methods you can use for evaluating the integrals you will encounter in the future. This book is written in a light-hearted man…
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- 978-1-4939-1276-6
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- XXIII, 412
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- 510 NAH i
Insight into Designing Biocompatible Magnesium Alloys and Composites
This book critically summarizes the effects of various suitable alloying elements and particulate reinforcements on mechanical and degradation properties of pure Mg and Mg alloys targeting biomedical applications. The suitability of alloying elements and particulate reinforcements are discussed based on their levels of toxic effects on human body. First attempt is made to study and discuss on…
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- 978-981-287-371-2
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- XII, 109
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- 631 GUP i
Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana
Knowing Women is a study of same-sex desire in West Africa, which explores the lives and friendships of working-class women in southern Ghana who are intimately involved with each other. Based on in-depth research of the life histories of women in the region, Serena Owusua Dankwa highlights the vibrancy of everyday same-sex intimacies that have not been captured in a globally pervasive language…
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- 9781108863575
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- 306.76 DAN k
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