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Empowering Mathematics Learners
Yearbook 2017, Association of Mathematics Educators
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
This book contributes towards the literature in the field of mathematics education, specifically on aspects of empowering learners of mathematics. The book, comprising eighteen chapters, written by renowned researchers in mathematics education, provides readers with approaches and applicable classroom...
by Sergei Abramovich
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The goal of the book is to technologically enhance the preparation of mathematics schoolteachers using an electronic spreadsheet integrated with Maple and Wolfram Alpha — digital tools capable of sophisticated symbolic computations. The content of the book is a combination of mathematical ideas...
by Oscar Núñez, Héctor Gallart-Ayala, Claudia P B Martins;Paolo Lucci
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
There is a growing need for high-throughput separations in food and environmental research that are able to cope with the analysis of a large number of compounds in very complex matrices. Whereas the most common approach for solving many analytical problems has often been high-performance liquid chromatography...
by Martin Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Dimensions of Trade Policy collects the author's significant works on international trade policy over almost 30 years of publishing. The articles cover an eclectic range of topics but are grouped into three main areas of concentration — local content protection, the economics of preferential trading...
Aqueous Lubrication
Natural and Biomimetic Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Man lubricates mostly with oil. Nature lubricates exclusively with water. Pure water is a poor lubricant, but the addition of proteins, especially glycoproteins, can modify surfaces to make them far more lubricating at slow speeds. Understanding how nature does this, and the physical structures involved,...
Maritime Governance and South Asia
Trade, Security and Sustainable Development in the Indian Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Five out of the eight South Asian countries have direct access to the Indian ocean, yet research tends to focus instead on the region's landmass. Much less attention is paid to the extensive maritime space that links South Asian countries, provides their populations with vital access to resources,...
South Asia in the New Decade
Challenges and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
At the beginning of the second decade of the new millennium, South Asia has emerged as a key regional variable in the contemporary global order. The last decade saw the region experiencing a robust phase of economic growth and development. Over time, South Asia's economic progress is expected to accelerate,...
by Jeffrey Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Most volumes in the environmental economics literature consider the environment to be a public good and hence write out a role for the private sector in a source of supply. Yet there is ample evidence of the private sector being involved, driven both by profit and altruism. This book provides the...
Human Security Studies
Theories, Methods and Themes
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Human Security Studies: Theories, Methods and Themes examines the concept of human security from different theoretical and methodological perspectives and shows how they help shed light on the different themes of global intervention. Liberal perspectives, represented by global legalism and developmentalism,...
Revealed Biodiversity
An Economic History of the Human Impact
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Revealed Biodiversity: An Economic History of the Human Impact aims to show that for several centuries environmental conditions have been substantially the product of economic fluctuations. It contests the notion of perpetual decline in species composition. The arguments are supported by far more...
by Institute for Strategic Studies, National Defense University of People's Liberation Army
China
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
In 2016, economic globalization suffered a severe crisis after over half a century of smooth development, and deglobalization was running mountains high. Not only did it trigger domestic political discord in major countries like the United States, Britain, France and Germany, but also led to international...
Advances in Atmospheric Chemistry
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The human race has altered the chemical composition of the atmosphere, as evidenced by the notorious London smog, photochemical air pollution, acid rain, stratospheric ozone depletion, and elevated greenhouse gas concentrations. The aim of this book series is to present invited summaries of important...
Emergent Information
A Unified Theory of Information Framework
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
At the dawn of the information age, a proper understanding of information and how it relates to matter and energy is of utmost importance for the survival of civilisation. Yet, attempts to reconcile information concepts underlying science and technology with those en vogue in social science, humanities,...
The Energy Conundrum
Climate Change, Global Prosperity, and the Tough Decisions We Have to Make
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive and balanced account of global energy policy; covering moral, political, social, technical and economic aspects of the subject. While The Energy Conundrum does not offer easy solutions, it provides the facts and evidence gathered from sources in government, industry,...