This open access book deals with the methods and the results of the third Italian national forest inventory (INFC2015). Arma dei Carabinieri is entrusted with the realisation of the National Forest Inventory and with the decisions about the aims of the survey and data treatment. National forest inventories produce statistically based information on forests over country areas. Such information i…
Der Kauf einer Eigentumswohnung ist wirtschaftlich vorteilhaft, wenn ihr Wert größer als der gezahlte Preis ist. Der zweckadäquate Wert wird „Entscheidungswert“ oder „Grenzpreis“ genannt und ruht auf künftigen Mietüberschüssen. Stephan Walochnik diskutiert in dem Open Access-Buch, wie diese wiederum durch schwer quantifizierbare Wohnungsmerkmale beeinflusst werden, deren Berücksi…
ANG CHIH-TUNG, the Viceroy of Hupeh and Hunan, occupies a unique place among the officials of China at this time. He is a man of profound scholarship, wide information, great mental energy and restless activity. He is endowed with a strong will and no little courage and daring. As a public officer he is distinguished for his loyally, his purity, and unselfish devotion to the good of the peop…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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 …