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Economics and Ecology of Diversification
The monoculture systems that have been encouraged by governments since the 1960s have led to major socio-economic and environmental crises. Now the diversification of tree crop systems is advancing throughout the tropics. Why and when does diversification take place? What categories of farmers diversify? What obstacles do they have to overcome, and how do public and private policies interfere i…
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- 978-94-017-7293-8
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- 92 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
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- IX, 340
Avant et Après La Prostatectomie Radicale Guide d'information et de Ressources
Avant et après la prostatectomie radicale is a research-based, comprehensive, and comprehensible resource on prostate surgery in Canada. Aimed at men, and their families, with concerns about prostate surgery, this invaluable guide includes information about preparing for surgery, details of the surgical procedure, what to expect during recovery in hospital and at home, a list of recommend reso…
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- 978-1-897425-63-3
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- 65 pages
Economic Welfare and Inequality in Iran
This book examines economic inequality and social disparity in Iran, together with their drivers, over the past four decades. During this period, income distribution and economic welfare were affected by the 1979 Revolution, the eight-year war with Iraq, post-war privatization and economic liberalization initiatives carried out under the Rafsanjani and Khatami administrations, the ascendance of…
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- 978-1-349-95024-9
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- XVI, 237
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming : 17th Intern…
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in May 2016. While agile development has already become mainstream in industry, this field is still constantly evolving and continues to spur an enormous interest both in industry and academia. To this end, the XP conference attracts a large number o…
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- 9783319335148
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- 005.1 AGI
Economic Effects of Public Investment
This book shows the necessity of measuring the incidence-basis indirect economic effects of public investments. The essential argument can be traced back to H. Mohring versus J. Tinbergen, the conclusions of one contradicting those of the other. Their arguments are called, respectively, “transfer” and “existing theory” of the indirect economic effect of public investments such as highwa…
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- 978-4-431-55223-9
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- XXIII, 297
Economic Diversification and Growth in Africa
This book presents a coherent framework for assessing economic policy making in developing countries, with special reference to those in Africa. The chapters focus on policy making issues in three critical areas that are of major importance in the African context: capacity building for domestic resource mobilization; regional integration in Africa and intra-regional trade; and export diversific…
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- 978-3-319-30848-7
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- V, 129
Economic Activities Under the Japanese Colonial Empire
The main focus of this edited volume is an examination of dynamic relationships among Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and the northeastern region of China, and the economic development of each area in East Asia from the 1910s to the end of World War II. The development of foreign trade in East Asia, the relations between industrialization and consumption in Korea, the transactions in fertilizers and the …
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- 978-4-431-55925-2
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- X, 154
Languages, Design Methods, and Tools for Electronic System Design: Selected C…
This book brings together a selection of the best papers from the seventeenth edition of the Forum on specification and Design Languages Conference (FDL), which took place on October 14-16, 2014, in Munich, Germany. FDL is a well-established international forum devoted to dissemination of research results, practical experiences and new ideas in the application of specification, design and verif…
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- 978-3-319-24457-0
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Beneficial Microorganisms in Agriculture, Aquaculture and Other Areas
This book focuses on the use of microorganisms in relation to agriculture, aquaculture and related fields, ranging from biofertilizers to poultry production. The latest innovations are also included to provide insights into the unlimited potentials of microorganisms in these areas. Individual chapters explore topics such as probiotics in poultry, biopurification of wastewater, converting agrow…
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- 978-3-319-23183-9
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- VIII, 220
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- 630
Behavioral Program Synthesis with Genetic Programming
Genetic programming (GP) is a popular heuristic methodology of program synthesis with origins in evolutionary computation. In this generate-and-test approach, candidate programs are iteratively produced and evaluated. The latter involves running programs on tests, where they exhibit complex behaviors reflected in changes of variables, registers, or memory. That behavior not only ultimately dete…
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- 978-3-319-27565-9
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- XXI, 172
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- 005.1
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