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This study emphasizes the importance of different environmental cultures and of political conjunctures in a single country of which different environm- tal groups take advantage.

The Painted Stork extensively covers this species beyond its stronghold in India and Sri Lanka, to other countries such as Eastern Asia. Recent studies provide a comprehensive review of the painted stork, and explore how monsoon rains affect nesting patterns.

This book furnishes the critical information to deal with this threat and provides all the necessary information that First Responders, Hospitals, HazMat Teams, Fire and Rescue Services, and other First Responders need to know when dealing with dangerous chemical agents.

This book analyses British action in the Southern hemisphere in the late 18th century, examining two Royal Navy ships, one off the Argentinean coast and one off the Southeast Australian coast. The author goes beyond a descriptive analysis of wrecks by treating them and their cargoes as embodiments of 18th century social relations.

Natural duality theory is one of the major growth areas within general algebra. This combination of local simplicity and global complexity ensures that, for the study of natural duality theory, unary algebras are an excellent source of examples and counterexamples. A number of results appear here for the first time.

Overviews manufacturing systems from the ground up, following the same concept as in the first edition. Delves into the fundamental building blocks of manufacturing systems: manufacturing processes and equipment.

This focus was timely partly because of the currently running BIOTA Africa programmes (BIOdiversity Monitoring Transect Analysis in Africa). BIOTA is an interdisciplinary research project focusing on sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa (http://www.biote-africa.de).

This volume addresses advanced DEA methodology and techniques developed for modeling unique new performance evaluation issues. Many numerical examples, real management cases and verbal descriptions make it very valuable for researchers and practitioners.

This is the second in a two-volume handbook on sample preparation for the transmission electron microscope. It describes 14 different preparation techniques, including 22 detailed protocols for preparing thin slices for TEM analysis.

This book offers an in-depth examination of the mechanical analyses and modeling of advanced small-scale structures and heterogeneous material systems, discussing real-life reliability issues for the benefit of both researchers and engineers.

This book covers production of hydrocolloid (water-soluble polymer) beads, including techniques to change and to estimate their physical and chemical properties. Covers uses of beads in agriculture, biotechnology, environmental studies, medicine and food.

This book is a comprehensive treatment of engineering undergraduate differential equations as well as linear vibrations and feedback control. It provides a streamlined and efficient treatment of material normally covered in three courses.

This book provides a comprehensive and detailed exposition of a new mathematical approach for studying the dynamics of articulated multibody systems. The approach is useful in a wide range of applications including robotics and aerospace systems.

This book provides models and procedures to be used by electricity market agents to make informed decisions under uncertainty. These procedures rely on well established stochastic programming models, which make them efficient and robust.

This book illustrates how models of complex systems are built up and provides indispensable mathematical tools for studying their dynamics. This second edition includes more recent research results and many new and improved worked out examples and exercises.

Written by a specialist in geophysical fluid dynamics and an applied mathematician, this book provides an accessible introduction to new methods for analysing Lagrangian motion in geophysical flows, and surveys research in geophysical fluid dynamics that makes use of them.

Like all classical Greek texts on science, Euclid's works on optics initially came to the West mainly through medieval Arabic texts and commentaries. This book presents a critical translation of an Arabic texts and of Arabic commentaries on the text, and places the whole in a historical context.

This book takes the reader on a journey around the globe and through centuries of history, exploring the transformations that mathematical proof has undergone from its inception at the time of Euclid and Pythagoras to its versatile, present-day use.

I originally planned to join the discussion on care and economics at a different, more policy-oriented level, hoping to identify the conditions under which caring services are taken to the market. Caring activities were treated in the context of household work, unpaid work, or subsistence and informal work.

The book gives an extended review of theoretical and observational aspects of neutron star physics. It describes all layers of neutron stars, from the surface to the core, with the emphasis on their structure and equation of state.

The Last Flight of NASA's First Space Shuttle

Face recognition has been actively studied over years. This work provides a comprehensive review of this biometric, especially face recognition from video, assembling a collection of various approaches that are able to recognize human faces under various unconstrained situations. It is useful for researchers and practitioners in the industry.

The myth of the sexual inactivity of older people has long been exploded. This valuable work assembles the latest material on a range of sexual concerns experienced by our elders, from HIV/AIDS to body image problems, and includes telling personal testimony.

Supporting the assertion that multiple views of data have a greater prospect of revealing prominent patterns than single views, this book provides a portal into the open source data analysis system called R though exposition by example.

Presenting aspects of numerical analysis applicable to statisticians, this volume enables students to craft their own software and to understand both the advantages and challenges of numerical methods. Topics include numerical stability, accurate approximations, computational complexity and more.

This book will benefit individuals interested in a non-mathematics-based theory of capital. Coverage includes the factors that led to the financial market turmoil of 2008. Additionally, the author proposes ideas for avoiding economic crises in the future.

This hands-on manual for archaeology in Great Britain provides a unique user guide to practicing archaeology within the diverse settings of England, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

This book describes the tools and concepts needed to measure patterns extracted from the EEG and ECoG. It emphasizes the need for single trial analysis using new methods as well as large, high-density spatial arrays of electrodes for pattern sampling.