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Israel and the world economy :the power of globalization
This book provides rigorous analysis of some of the major episodes during Israel's economic transition and spells out, empirically, how globalization played a crucial role in advancing Israel's economic progress. Economists and policy makers can gain insights as to how a globalized economy can take advantage of international trade, labor mobility, its international financial links, while at the…
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Privatization experiences in the European Union
In this work, experts evaluate the varied outcomes of privatization experiences in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277501
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- 1 online resource (xix, 424 pages) :illustrations.
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Working Minds: A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis
Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) helps researchers understand how cognitive skills and strategies make it possible for people to act effectively and get things done. CTA can yield information people need—employers faced with personnel issues, market researchers who want to understand the thought processes of consumers, trainers and others who design instructional systems, health care professiona…
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Biological and Social Issues in Biotechnology Sharing
First published in 1998, this was the first book to present a comprehensive summary of both the global as well as institutional issues which are involved in biotechnology sharing. It covers the controversial subject of intellectual property rights (IPR) and the patenting of new discoveries in genetic knowledge in both agriculture and the human genome. One controversial issue is the creation of …
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Media Art and the Urban Environment: Engendering Public Engagement with Urban…
This text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of technological change, the work reviews new modes of seeing, representing and connecting within the urban setting. The book describes how technology can be exploited in order to create artworks that transcend the technology’s original purpose, thus expanding th…
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- 978-3-319-15152-6
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- XIV, 299
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- Future City (FUCI, volume 5)
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Computational intelligence techniques for comparative genomics : dedicated to…
This Brief highlights Informatics and related techniques to Computer Science Professionals, Engineers, Medical Doctors, Bioinformatics researchers and other interdisciplinary researchers. Chapters include the Bioinformatics of Diabetes and several computational algorithms and statistical analysis approach to effectively study the disorders and possible causes along with medical applications
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- xviii, 137 pages : illustrations, portraits.
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The Largest Art: A Measured Manifesto for a Plural Urbanism
Why urban design is larger than architecture: the foundational qualities of urban design, examples and practitioners Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture -- large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed; indeed, urban design as a discipline lacks a theoretical foundation. In The Largest Art , Brent R…
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- 9780262341936
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- 1 online resource (384 pages)
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The Dash—The Other Side of Absolute Knowing
An argument that what is usually dismissed as the "mystical shell" of Hegel's thought--the concept of absolute knowledge--is actually its most "rational kernel."This book sets out from a counterintuitive premise: the "mystical shell" of Hegel's system proves to be its most "rational kernel." Hegel's radicalism is located precisely at the point where his thought seems to regress most. Most curre…
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The Privatization of the Oceans
Rich with detail and provocatively argued, this study of the development of property rights in the world's fisheries tells the story of one industry's evolution and provides a useful illustration of the forces that shape economic institutions. The emergence of exclusive individual rights of access in the fishing industry began after the revolution in the international law of the sea that took p…
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Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy
"Inspired by a panel on the transformation of knowledge at the Transforming Enterprise conference"--Page x.The revolution in information technology transforms not only information and its uses but, more important, knowledge and the ways we generate and manage it. Knowledge is now seen as input, output, and capital, even if imperfectly accounted for or understood. Many businesses and public agen…
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- 9780262256452
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- 1 online resource (x, 503 pages) :illustrations
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