Nathalie: 677 books
The Risk of Social Policy?
The electoral consequences of welfare state retrenchment and social policy performance in OECD countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
The Risk of Social Policy? uses a comparative perspective to systematically analyse the effects of social policy reforms and welfare state retrenchment on voting choice for the government. It re-examines twenty elections in OECD countries to show if and how social policy issues drive elections.
This...
Water and Environment in the Selenga-Baikal Basin
International Research Cooperation for an Ecoregion of Global Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The water resources of the Selenga River/Lake Baikal system are of fundamental importance for the ecosystems and socio-economic development of the region. In this large-scale river and lake basin, there are strong contrasts between regions of relatively pristine nature and massive anthropogenic impacts...
Boosting ALL Children's Social and Emotional Brain Power
Life Transforming Activities
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Proven, brain-based techniques that build social and emotional intelligence and problem-solving skills!
Because children’s brains are still developing during the K–12 years, educators can positively influence students’ development, including strengthening the essential skills of empathy,...
Current Research in Egyptology 2011
Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
The twelfth annual Current Research in Egyptology symposium aimed to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of the field of Egyptology. Papers in these proceedings reflect this multidisciplinarity, with research based on Archaeology, Linguistics, Cultural Astronomy, Historiography, Botany, Religion...
by Nathalie Giglioli-Guivarc'h
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
Advances in Botanical Research publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences. Currently in its 68th volume, the series features varied reviews by recognized experts on all aspects of plant genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, physiology and...
Food Structure and Moisture Transfer
A Modeling Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
It's well known that the structural characteristics of food materials influence their mass transfer, especially their water transfer properties during such processes as drying, hydration, and storage. In porous cereal-based products, for example, effective water diffusivity is highly affected by the...
Stand in Faith
Gilgal Devotionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
In this collection of 365 inspirational messages, you will find daily words to encourage you. Each message will bring you hope, strengthen your faith, and deepen your trust in God. Whether you are in a season of triumph or challenge, there is a message for you to give you a new perspective, to invoke...
by Dr. Nathalie M. Djonda
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
T his book addresses all Africans of the North, South, East, and West. It also applies to persons other than Africans. If you are African and if you live in the Occident, know that this book is written to help you better understand your situation. This book speaks about the problems that the African...
Form, Art and the Environment
Engaging in Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Form, Art and the Environment: Engaging in Sustainability adopts a pluralistic perspective of environmental artistic processes in order to examine the contributions of the arts in promoting sustainable development and culture at a grassroots level and its potential as a catalyst for social change...
by Evelyne Lutton, Nathalie Perrot, Alberto Tonda
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Researchers and practitioners in food science and technology routinely face several challenges, related to sparseness and heterogeneity of data, as well as to the uncertainty in the measurements and the introduction of expert knowledge in the models. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs), stochastic optimization...
Yoga for Lawyers
Mind-Body Techniques to Feel Better All the Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Lawyers are twice as likely to be alcoholics than the general population, and three times more likely to suffer a heart attack. Yoga for Lawyers is here to help! Written by lawyers, for lawyers, this is a short, user-friendly yoga book focused on effective ways to de-stress every day, throughout the...
Turkey’s European Future
Behind the Scenes of America’s Influence on EU-Turkey Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
by Jean-Michel Muller, Nicolas Brunie, Florent de Dinechin
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Floating-point arithmetic is the most widely used way of implementing real-number arithmetic on modern computers. However, making such an arithmetic reliable and portable, yet fast, is a very difficult task. As a result, floating-point arithmetic is far from being exploited to its full potential....
by Nathalie Godin, Pascal Reynaud, Gilbert Fantozzi
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
In this book, two kinds of analysis based on acoustic emission recorded during mechanical tests are investigated.
In the first, individual, analysis, acoustic signature of each damage mechanism is characterized. So with a clustering method, AE signals that have similar shapes or similar features...