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Achieving sustainable cultivation of oil palm Volume 1
Introduction, breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Oil palm is widely cultivated in tropical countries for use in food processing, personal care products and other applications such as biodiesel. Cultivation faces a range of challenges such as its environmental impact (e.g. in deforestation and biodiversity loss) as well threats from pests and diseases....
by John T. Daugirdas, Peter G. Blake, Todd S. Ing
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
This will be a completely revised and updated edition of this popular handbook. It provides practical, accessible information on all aspects of dialysis with emphasis on day-to-day patient management. Authored by international experts, chapters provide complete coverage of hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis,...
Facing the Consequences
Using TIMSS for a Closer Look at U.S. Mathematics and Science Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Facing the Consequences presents a perspective on US mathematics and science education that is developed from data gathered as part of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). TIMSS is the most extensive and far-reaching cross-national comparative study of mathematics and science...
by Karen T. Van Gundy, Michael S. Staunton
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Is marijuana an innocent recreational pleasure and medicinal boon or an evil that must be outlawed to protect the American public? With the legal and social status of marijuana in transition, accurate and objective information regarding its use is necessary for informed decisionmaking in both the...
Operative Techniques in Gynecologic Surgery: REI
Reproductive, Endocrinology and Infertility
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Second in a new four-volume series, Operative Techniques in Gynecologic Surgery: Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility provides superbly illustrated, authoritative guidance on operative techniques along with a thorough understanding of how to select the best procedure, how to avoid complications,...
Lord Teach Us to Pray
A Guide to the Spiritual Life and Christian Discipleship
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Echoing the petition of the disciples, Lord, teach us to pray, this book guides the reader through the challenges of discipleship and the various stages of prayer. Fr. Kirby lovingly and expertly examines this crucial petition, shedding light on its three parts: the call to follow the Lord, to live...
Prayer
A Biblical Examination and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book is an eclectic study of some dimensions of prayer. It is a Bible-based analysis (KJV). While recognizing that the concept, prayer, is widely viewed with numerous contexts, this book is anchored in the Judeo-Christian perspective. It makes no claim to present a universally accepted definition...
Stigma Syndemics
New Directions in Biosocial Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Central to this volume, and critical to its unique creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of syndemics and stigma. Syndemics theory is increasingly recognized in social science and medicine as a crucial framework for examining and addressing pathways of interaction between...
Preventive Measures
Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1998
State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening...
Computational Intelligence and Its Applications
Evolutionary Computation, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Network and Support Vector Machine Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
This book focuses on computational intelligence techniques and their applications — fast-growing and promising research topics that have drawn a great deal of attention from researchers over the years. It brings together many different aspects of the current research on intelligence technologies...
by Dale S. Rothman, Mohammod T. Irfan, Barry B. Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Building Global Infrastructure is the fourth in a series of volumes-Patterns of Potential Human Progress-that uses the International Futures (IFs) simulation model to explore prospects for human development: how development appears to be unfolding globally and locally, how we would like it to evolve,...
by T. E. Peck, S. A. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The fourth edition of this market-leading anaesthetic book has been fully updated to include novel oral anticoagulants and neuromuscular reversal agents. Numerous other sections have been expanded or updated to reflect new research and current best practice, and the antibiotics chapter now includes...
by Barry B. Hughes, Mohammod T. Irfan, Haider Khan
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This is the first volume in an ambitious new series-"Patterns of Potential Human Progress"-inspired by the UN Millennium Development Goals (MGDs) and other initiatives to improve the global condition. The first and most fundamental of these goals-reducing poverty worldwide-is the focus of...
Nordic Model Analyses:
Stances on Syndromes Vs. Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The crux of this book is that it can help build Vision and processes for improvementsby stances on positive development syndromes versus special interests scenarios. That may even open up to serendipity. In contrast, there are specific econometric models and adjacent historic data, which lack contact...