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Rangeland Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
This open access book reviews the importance of ecological functioning within rangelands considering the complex inter-relationships of production agriculture, ecosystem services, biodiversity, and wildlife habitat. More than half of all lands worldwide, and up to 70% of the western USA, are classified as rangelands—uncultivated lands that often support grazing by domestic livestock. Th…
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- 978-3-031-34036-9
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- XI, 1023
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Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of Change
This open access book explores the transformative effects of remittances. Remittances are conceptualized as flows of money, objects, ideas, traditions, and symbolic capital, mapping out a cross-border space in which people live, work, and communicate with multiple belongings. By doing so, they effect social change both in places of origin and destination. However, their power to improve individ…
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- 978-3-030-81503-5
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- XVII, 465
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Vulnerable Households in the Energy Transition
This open access book explores the energy transition / energy poverty nexus in the European Union, including the implications of the transition and related policies for the household sector. Written by experts on energy economics, energy studies and related fields, it examines the impacts and costs of the energy transition (including those caused by carbon pricing) for the economy and for famil…
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- 978-3-031-35683-4
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Chaos and Organization in Health Care
Two leading physicians' prescription for solving our health care problems: organizing the fragmented system that delivers care.One of the most daunting challenges facing the new U.S. administration is health care reform. The size of the system, the number of stakeholders, and ever-rising costs make the problem seem almost intractable. But in Chaos and Organization in Health Care, two leading ph…
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- 9780262259033
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- 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) :illustrations
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Control Theory and Systems Biology
This is a survey of how engineering techniques from control and systems theory can be used to help biologists understand the behaviour of cellular systems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258906
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- 1 online resource (ix, 345 pages) :illustrations
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Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety
A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques. Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques applied in safety and reliability engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, have changed very little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson p…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780262298247
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- 620 LEV e
Generating language-based environments
"An MIT Press classic."Facsim. of ed. originally published: ?1984.This book addresses a fundamental software engineering issue, applying formal techniques and rigorous analysis to a practical problem of great current interest: the incorporation of language-specific knowledge in interactive programming environments. It makes a basic contribution in this area by proposing an attribute-grammar fra…
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- 0262256851
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- 1 online resource (138 pages)
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- 005 REP g
Georeferencing : the geographic associations of information
An introduction to the principles of unified georeferencing, which uses placename and geospatial referencing interchangeably across all types of information storage and retrieval systems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026208354X
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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- Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing
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- 005 HIL g
Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures
This title provides an account of the sensations associated with being entangled with wireless technologies that draws on the philosophical techniques of William James's radical empiricism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289597
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- 1 online resource (255 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Texture: Human expression in the age of communications overload
"Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that there's not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged by telephone calls on landlines and cell phones, the beeps that signal text messages, and work emails on our BlackBerrys. It's too much, we cry (or type) as we update our Facebook pages, compose a blog post, or check to see…
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- 9780262289474
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- 1 online resource (ix, 303 pages)
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