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Organized around two broad themes: Graph Theory with path-breaking contributions on the theory of flows in networks and project scheduling, Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding with the invention of the family of ELECTRE methods and methodological contribution to decision-aiding which lead to the creation of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA).

A variety of psychological traditions and methodological approaches formed a body of human error research in different parts of Europe.

In semigroup theory there are certain kinds of band decompositions, which are useful in the study of the structure semigroups. This book focuses attention on such classes of semigroups and provides a systematic review on this subject. The first chapter is an introduction. The remaining chapters are devoted to special semigroup classes.

The workplace is changing drastically these days. The translation of changes in the workplace into an improved curriculum requires serious analysis of the essence of the changes at the work place, and the way technology may enable student learning.

Focusing on the topics of self-awareness, temporality, and alterity, this anthology contains contributions by prominent phenomenologists from Germany, Belgium, France, Japan, USA, Canada and Denmark, all addressing questions very much in the center of current phenomenological debate.

A key objective of the Central European Economies (CEE) on their transition path from planned to more market-oriented economies has been membership of the European Union (EU).

Art Line Thought discusses the main issues that beset our time and philosophy by locating these same issues in artworks and describing closely what is shown there.

Von Tschudi (1847), for example, observed 'in the cordillera the effect of the diminished atmospheric pressure on the human frame shows itself in intolerable symptoms of weariness and an extreme difficulty of breathing .

At the end of the nineteenth century he was the leader in putting Russian progressive culture in touch with Western Marxism, breaking away from Populism and, at the same time, resuming materialistic tradition within Russian progressive thought.

Proceedings of the 166th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in The Hague, the Netherlands, August 15--19, 1994

Philosophy of development is a fascinating area of research at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, and education.

Based on the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cortona, Italy, July 8-22, 1988

Biotechnology offers great potential to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth, food security and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Twenty-three chapters, written by a wide range of scholars and stake-holders, provide an up-to-date analysis of agricultural biotechnology developments in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

This is a variegated picture of science and mathematics classrooms that challenges a research tradition that converges on the truth. The book is for educational researchers, research students, and practitioners with an interest in optimizing the effectiveness of classrooms as environments for learning.

Devoted to the basic notions of vector bundles and their applications. This book explains important notions and geometric constructions connected with the theory of vector bundles. It contains illustrations and applications to various problems in mathematics and sciences. It is intended for graduate students from pure and applied mathematics.

What is art? This perennial question is forcefully thrown open by the electronic expansion of its field and proliferation of arts. This book addresses this question with philosophical underpinnings.

It discusses the main existing theories including the size principle, conflict of interest theory, dominant player theory, policy distance theory and power excess theory. Both simple game theory and social choice theory are extensively applied in the treatment of the theories.

The great amount of new, and often very important findings have made the previous book outdated and a new synthesis is needed. Our Polish friend, Piotr Ceryngier, who has recently specialised in parasites, updated perfectly the parts on parasites and pathogens in Chapter 8.

In Greek geometry, there is an arithmetic of magnitudes in which, in terms of numbers, only integers are involved. GEOMETRIC PROOFS OF ALGEBRAIC RULES Until the second half of the 19th century, Euclid's Elements was considered a model of a mathematical theory.

Since the US stock market crashed on October 19, 1987, many studies have been conducted to learn from this experience in the hopes of avoiding a similarly adverse future fall.

Based on the lectures given during the Eurocourse on `Scientific-Technical Backgrounds for Biotechnology Regulations' held at the Joint Research Centre Ispra, Italy, June 4--7, 1991

Today, the rapidly growing number of scientists working hard to expand our under standing of our ocean realm are the ocean voices we should listen to.

In the late 1980s, as the empirical appeal of macro-economic exchange rate models began to fade, a few people including Professor Charles Goodhart at the London School of Economics and researchers at Olsen & Associates in Zurich, started to collect intra-daily exchange rate data.

The papers in Governance, Decentralization and Reform in China, India and Russia, which were presented at a ZEF conference in May 1999, deal with three critical aspects of governance in China, India, and Russia: political reforms at the local level;

The type of research methodologies used in analysing stock returns in the book is outlined in this technical chapter. Summary Statistics for a set of Data A set of numbers which are generated by agents' actions in the market, and which can take different values if the agents were to repeat their actions, are known as random variables.

In medicine the understanding and interpretation of the complex reality of illness currently refers either to an organismic approach that focuses on the physical or to a 'holistic' approach that takes into account the patient's human sociocultural involvement.

The book's originality also lies in the way in which the author discusses NATO's adaptation within a framework provided by international relations theory, and in particular concepts which stress the role and importance of transnational political processes and international regimes.

Other essays develop original positions concerning history, tradition, narrative, the time of generations, the coherence of one's life, and the place of time in the visual arts.

This volume contains the latest findings on the correlation between the climate change and biogenic gas emission, plant response to elevated levels of carbon dioxide, temperature, ozone and UV-B in combination and alone, regulatory mechanism of methane, nitrous oxide and ammonia emission and their mitigating options.