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Exploring the interface between economics and the emerging field of complexity science, this book offers the first comprehensive complex systems analysis of real-world ownership networks. Presents potent new tools for studying economic and corporate networks.

A Rand Corporation Research Study

This book considers the connections between macroeconomics and government politics. This is a revised and extended study edition that is updated to include topics such as political business cycles, government debt, and deficit and social security.

This book describes the mountain forests of Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan, the tree layers of which contain various species of the genus Fagus. Describes 21 plant communities, with data on species composition, dominance, geographical distribution and ecology.

This detailed review of long memory processes includes a thorough discussion of mathematical and probabilistic foundations and statistical methods, emphasizing their practical motivation and mathematical justification. Includes proofs and data examples.

This book reviews environmental issues related to biocomposites, and offers a new modeling method incorporating process-oriented Denitrification-Decomposition into site-specific LCA studies, to simulate carbon and nitrogen dynamics in the wheat agro-ecosystem.

From the reviews: "[...] an excellent reference book. I have no doubt it will become a much-thumbed resource for students and researchers in mineralogy and crystallography." Geological Magazine

The author begins by describing the history of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and many other conferences, and their dire predictions on global temperatures, rainfall, weather and climate, while highlighting confusion and sensationalism media reports.

With hundreds of explanatory figures and tables, this volume deals with the latest achievements in hot areas such as nanofabrication and nanotechnology, with multi-disciplinary results on promising low-cost, high-throughput nanostructure manufacturing methods.

This self-contained introduction treats thin geometries and thick buildings from a diagrammatic perspective, covers polar geometries whose projective planes are Desarguesian and offers a basic reference for study of diagram geometry. Includes many examples.

This book offers a detailed proof of the classification theorem for compact surfaces. It presents the technical tools needed to deploy the method effectively as well as demonstrates their use in a clearly structured, worked example.

This book correlates different minerals and lipids serum profiles with the prevalence of cardiovascular disorders in South Asian countries, focusing on Pakistan. The data presented will help promote understanding and more effective solutions to the problem.

This book details how hidden hunger affects human health long before malnutrition becomes obvious. It examines scientific, political and economic contexts to the problem and advocates sustainable solutions by investments in agriculture and small-scale farming.

This is a highly descriptive textbook providing an excellent introduction to the latest methodologies for mapping geomorphological formations in a variety of environments. Case studies with many examples of geomorphological maps are included.

In the last few years, Android has progressed with the debut of better fonts, new User Interface and Experience (UI/UX) APIs, tablet considerations, multi-touch capabilities, multi-tasking, faster performance, improved battery management techniques, and now Google TV Android Apps for the Android game app developer repertoire.

This book explores the technologies and approaches of fuzzy logic in the Semantic Web. Coverage includes fuzzy description logics and fuzzy ontologies, fuzzy Semantic Web ontology mapping, and fuzzy rules and their interchange in the Semantic Web.

Linking clinical ophthalmology to its basic science roots, this book reviews basic physics including the nature of light and its interaction with matter. The chemistry section covers organic and inorganic molecules, redox reactions and biological chemistry.

This volume proposes ways of overcoming the practical limitations of current theories of economic growth, synthesizing concepts in growth theory and national development to provide an updated model for agriculture-focused and late-industrializing economies.

This book takes a new approach on teaching the subject by following the chain of measurement through atmosphere, imaging, detection, spectroscopy, timing and hypothesis testing. It covers all wavelengths: radio, infrared, optical, UV, X-ray, gamma-ray.

This book presents key facts in head and neck imaging in short chapters written in an easily readable style. It uses line drawings to illustrate key concepts and tables, checklists, and algorithms will help the reader to arrive at a quick diagnosis.

This book gathers essays, speeches and academic papers of Hu Shih, revealing insights on scientific methodology, liberalism and democracy, and social problems. Volume 2 mainly covers language reform, which succeeded in both the educational and literary fields.

This detailed description of the fundamental developments in statistical theory around 1950 points out the centrally important interplay between increasingly refined mathematical techniques and the concomitant developments in methodological concepts.

This book collects essays, speeches and academic papers of Hu Shih, revealing insights on scientific methodology, liberalism and democracy, and social problems. Volume 1 traces the development of Chinese thought and reviews the applied historical methodology.

Although primarily a physicist who worked on statistical prob lems in nuclear physics, on probability theory and on computational physics he had an extensive knowledge of the philosophy of science and of philosophy, and was fluent in many languages.