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by Toshiharu Ishikawa
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
This book clarifies the mechanisms of economic globalization in changing industries’ locations and shows how industries’ locations have changed through those mechanisms. First, the book deals with the retailing industry. Introducing the concept of a contact price into the market area analysis,...
Multiplying Mighty Davids?
The Influence of Energy Cooperatives on Germany's Energy Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This book systematically describes and evaluates the impact of energy cooperatives as a key driving force in the German energy transition toward a sustainability-oriented energy sector. Based on a comprehensive survey and three case studies, it provides an instructive overview of the overall dimensions...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This book is a comprehensive economic and legal study of the theoretical and practical aspects of the problems of increasing energy efficiency; self-motivation of energy saving by business entities within the framework of their corporate responsibility; regulatory mechanisms to stimulate energy conservation...
American Shale Energy and the Global Economy
Business and Geopolitical Implications of the Fracking Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
This brief explores the business and global implications of the American shale energy, or natural gas, revolution. Specifically, it provides a rational, comprehensive look at the major business themes and management implications that surround the new abundance of natural gas in the United States and...
Digital Business Leadership
Digital Transformation, Business Model Innovation, Agile Organization, Change Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book provides specialists and executives with a clear, yet practical set of recommendations to meet the challenges of digital transformation and ensure long-term success as a leader in a primarily digital business world. The authors describe the fundamental principles of digitization and its...
Project Management for the Built Environment
Study Notes
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This book presents the fundamentals of project management as applied in the built environment and more specifically for the construction industry. It presents the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) using practical examples to show how various project management principles and concepts can...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
SOIL: beneath our feet / food and fiber / ashes to ashes, dust to dust / dirt!Soil has been called the final frontier of environmental research. The critical role of soil in biogeochemical processes is tied to its properties and place—porous, structured, and spatially variable, it serves as a conduit,...
by Ton J. Cleophas, Aeilko H. Zwinderman
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
The current book is the first publication of a complete overview of machine learning methodologies for the medical and health sector. It was written as a training companion and as a must-read, not only for physicians and students, but also for any one involved in the process and progress of health...
Farm Tractors
The Case Guide to Tractor Selection, Operation, Economics and Servicing
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Despite the fact that the farmer spends more on machinery than anything else except the land and despite the fact that he spends more on tractors than on any other machine, there are few books on the choice and operation of tractors to fit modern farming conditions. Most of this book is about farming...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
When a young graduate student sat before Percival Bailey in 1960 and spoke of his longstanding interest in zoology and his recent interest in the nervous system, he asked the then Director of the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute if there was support in the scientific establishment for research...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Louis Kriesberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
On the occasion of his 90th birthday Louis Kriesberg provides an informative account of his career, tracing the trajectory of his discoveries, contributions, and stumbles as he sought to help the advance toward a more sustainable and just peace in the world. His work contributes to ideas and practices...
Invertebrate Biology
A Functional Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Courses on the invertebrates have two principal aims: (1) to introduce students to the diversity of animal life and (2) to make them aware that organisms are marvellously integrated systems with evolutionary pasts and ecological presents. This text is concerned exclusively with the second aim and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
This book focusses on evolutionary, structural and functional aspects of pore-forming proteins, bringing together prominent researchers in the fields of structural biology and cellular and biophysical techniques. The focus is on the MACPF/CDC protein super family that was originally discovered because...