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Food, Science and Society
Exploring the Gap Between Expert Advice and Individual Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
There is widespread concern amongst consumers about the safety and acceptability of food, and there are clearly communication gaps between consumers, many food professionals and food industry. This book offers accounts of the two-way nature of this difficult communication process and steps that can...
Higher Education in Vietnam
Flexibility, Mobility and Practicality in the Global Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Higher and tertiary education are crucial to modern nations. Vietnam has great potential, but its universities and colleges are poor-performing, under-funded and slow to change compared to those in neighbouring East Asian nations. This book analyses the problem and provides constructive solutions for the reform of higher education.
Achieving sustainable production of poultry meat Volume 3
Health and welfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
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Modelling Population Dynamics
Model Formulation, Fitting and Assessment using State-Space Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This book gives a unifying framework for estimating the abundance of open populations: populations subject to births, deaths and movement, given imperfect measurements or samples of the populations. The focus is primarily on populations of vertebrates for which dynamics are typically modelled within...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Volume 1
From improved varieties to local applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Maize is one of the most important and widely grown cereal crops in the world and is a staple food for almost a billion people, particularly in the developing world. It has been estimated that maize yields need to increase by 60% by 2050. There is an urgent need to increase yields in the face of such...
Caffeine
Chemistry, Analysis, Function and Effects
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Caffeine is known to stimulate the central nervous system but what other functions does it have? This book covers the latest scientific knowledge in a uniquely structured format and is specifically designed to link chemistry with health and nutrition to provide a broad, appealing book. Coverage begins...
The Rabbit Hole
Weird Stories, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
How do you like your weirdness? A subtle nudge towards the untoward? A quick zap of zany? Or a full-on assault of aberration? Whatever your taste, you'll find it here, and many more strains of strange that you didn't suspect existed. From magic rain to a talking (severed) head, extraordinary eggs...
L'interpellation plébéienne en Amérique latine
Violences, actions directes et virage à gauche
Language: French
Release Date: August 21, 2012
L’Amérique latine a été la scène de grands soulèvements dans la décennie 2000. Ce livre cherche à saisir ces formes d’intervention populaire en scrutant le récit de ceux qui y ont participé : la plèbe.
From the Pleistocene to the Holocene
Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...
by W. Loeffler, R.E. Steiner, G.M. Bydder
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The second volume of Frontiers in European Radiology covers two very promising techniques in diagnostic radiology, namely digital radiography and nuclear mag netic resonance imaging. Leading experts in both fields from Europe and the Unit ed States were invited to give a critical overview; digital...
Homicide Justified
The Legality of Killing Slaves in the United States and the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented. Andrew T. Fede cites a wide range of cases—across time, place, and circumstance—to illuminate legal, judicial, and other complexities surrounding this regrettably common...
by Prof Richard B. Ferguson, Dr R. Gebbers, Dr Chenghai Yang
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Precision agriculture is based on the ability to identify inter and intra-field variability and to use this information for more targeted crop management. By using resources more efficiently, precision agriculture can make agriculture more productive and sustainable. This volume reviews the key elements...
Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Tomography of Intracranial Tumors
A Clinical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book represents the second, fully revised edition of the original volume published in 1982. Experience in neuroradiology has confirmed the outstanding value of computed tomography (CT) for the diagnosis of space-occupying lesions within the skull and orbit. It might be assumed, then, that the...
by Tânia da Costa Garcia, Lia Tomás, Paulo de Tarso Salles
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 18, 2014
A discussão sobre o significado e as funções da música sempre ocupou um lugar controverso entre os pensadores por causa da pluralidade de papéis que ela desempenhou historicamente, seja como instrumento educacional seja como discurso filosófico ou mesmo suporte para diversas manifestações...