BOOKS with Alphabet B (Ba, Bb,Bc, Bd, Be…... )

Overview: In time for the looming COBOL crisis,Beginning COBOL for Programmers is a comprehensive, sophisticated tutorial, and modular skills reference on the COBOL programming language for established programm.Beginning COBOL for Programmers. is a comprehensive, sophisticated tutorial and modular skills reference on the COBOL programming language for established programmers. This book is for you if you are a developer who would like to—or must—add COBOL to your repertoire. Perhaps you recognize the opportunities presented by the current COBOL skills crisis, or are working in a mission critica

Overview: Expert analysis on current pulses research.Integrated biofortication approach to improve food security.Timely companion publication to the International Year of Pulses 2016.More than 20 million childhood deaths occur every year due to the micronutrient deficiency and diet-related non-communicable diseases (cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes). The United Nations (UN) recently announced that the increase in chronic, non-communicable diseases has resulted in 36 million deaths around the world annually, claiming more lives than all other causes co

Overview: 978-3-531-02963-4978-3-322-88493-0

Overview: 978-3-662-02540-6978-3-662-02538-3Series ISSN 0723-8835

Overview: This book is essential reading for anyone studying A level History or Sociology, British Politics, the British Constitution, or British Studies. It is also extremely interesting and valuable reading for anyone who wants to understand how Britain developed after the second world war to how, and what, it is now. It treats history as enjoyment, and takes no knowledge for granted. All events and ideas are explained in ordinary language, and quotations from contemporary newspapers give a lively sense of the atmosphere of the recent past. The book covers political events, economics and soc

Overview: Looks at key texts from the George Eliot, Anna Sewell and Elizabeth Gaskell.Touches on issues as diverse as mobility, philanthropy and female desire.Looks at some lesser-studied texts in addition to tThis five-volume series, .British Women’s Writing From Brontë to Bloomsbury, 1840–1940., historically.contextualizes and traces developments in women’s fiction from 1840 to 1940. Critically assessing.both canonical and lesser-known British women’s writing decade by decade, it redefines the landscape.of women’s authorship across a century of dynamic social and cultural change. With each o

Overview: A comprehensive review of the marine biodiversity status and trends.An analysis of the importance of marine biodiversity for human being and conservation.A perspective using marine sciences and socialThe oceans cover over 70% of our planet. They are host to a biodiversity of tremendous wealth. Its preservation is now a global priority featuring in several international conventions and a confirmed objective of European policies and national strategies. Understanding the dynamics and the uses of the marine biodiversity is a genuine scientific challenge. Fourteen international experts h

Overview: Provides an integrative, holistic perspective combining the influences of medical, psychological, and sociocultural aspects of EDs.Adds novel and at times controversial state-of-the-art perspectives t.This book uniquely combines cutting-edge medical, psychological, and sociocultural topics pertinent to eating disorders. In the medical realm, the book focuses on Eating Disorders’ newly investigated associations with ADHD and sleep disorders, and on innovative treatments of osteoporosis in anorexia nervosa. Novel contributions in the psychological realm address families’ trans-generati

Overview: 978-3-642-94051-4978-3-642-94451-2

Overview: Presents the authors’ latest research on improved variants of BBO and hybridization of BBO with other algorithms, as well as the application of BBO to a variety of domains.Illustrates important mechan.This book introduces readers to the background, general framework, main operators, and other basic characteristics of biogeography-based optimization (BBO), which is an emerging branch of bio-inspired computation. In particular, the book presents the authors’ recent work on improved variants of BBO, hybridization of BBO with other algorithms, and the application of BBO to a variety of d

Overview: Contains detailed illustrations.The only advanced-level book to focus on branching morphogenesis.Brings together many different branching systems in one volume, in a way that highlights their similari.Branching morphogenesis, the creation of branched structures in the body, is a key feature of animal and plant development. This book brings together, for the first time, expert researchers working on a variety of branching systems to present a state-of-the-art view of the mechanisms that control branching morphogenesis. Systems considered range from single cells, to blood vessel and dr

Overview: Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Sixth Edition teaches all of us—including those who have never used Linux—how to use Ubuntu productively, whether you come from Windows or Mac or the world of open source.This sixth edition of .Beginning Ubuntu Linux. introduces all of us—newbies, power users and system administrators—to the Natty Narwhal Ubuntu release.. . Based on the bestselling fifth edition, this edition introduces the new Unity interface while not neglecting the finely-tuned administration techniques for new users present in previous editions. Whether you aim to use it in the home or in

Overview: Provides easy-to-understand information and guidelines about the design and construction of binoscopes.Compares the optical and mechanical aspects of viewing the sky through binoscopes vs. a telescope.Provides easy to understand information and guidelines about the design and construction of binoscopes .Focusing on both homemade and commercial products, this book provides the reader with simple and straightforward information about the modelling and building of binoscopes. Binoscopes can be thought of as binoculars enlarged to the size of telescopes: essentially, a combination of the

Overview: Eine betriebswirtschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: Robert Holzmann richtet den Fokus seiner Untersuchungen auf Compliance als sozialen Problembereich und schlägt eine Brücke zwischen existierenden sozialwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen zu ethischem Fehlverhalten und der betrieblichen Praxis. Auf Basis einer stringent meta-analytischen Vorgehensweise verdichtet der Autor hierfür bisherige Erkenntnisse der experimentellen Moralpsychologie zur Ableitung konkreter Handlungsempfehlungen. Wirtschaftskriminelle und ethische Verfehlungen belasten nicht nur den kurzfristigen

Overview: JOHN L. INNES University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada The interactions between biomass burning and climate have been brought into focus by a number of recent events. Firstly, the Framework Convention on Climate Change and, more recently, the Kyoto Protocol, have drawn the attention of policy makers and others to the importance of biomass burning in relation to atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Secondly, the use of prescribed fires has become a major management tool in some countries; with for example the area with fuel treatments (which include prescribed burns and

Overview: Das Lernprogramm "Bilanzen lesen und verstehen" ist der Grundkurs eines Manager­ Schulungsprogramms des Internationalen Arbeitsamtes. Das IAA ist verantwortlich für ein weltweites Programm der Manager-Ausbildung und -Schulung in etwa 35 Ländern der Erde. Die Kurse des IAA werden normalerweise gemeinsam mit den Schulungszentren der einzelnen Länder organisiert, bis diese Zentren in der Lage sind, selbständig weiterzuarbeiten. Es besteht wohl kein Zweifel darüber, daß viele Mißverständnisse zwischen Arbeit­ geber und Arbeitnehmer oder Gewerkschaften vermieden werden können, wenn beide

Overview: Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols.Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results.Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts.This volume discusses the importance of imaging, fluid, and genetic biomarkers in detecting the earliest pre-symptomatic stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The chapters in this book are separated into five parts. Part one explores the reasons why we need improved approaches for early detection and diagnosis of AD. Part two describes clinical and research techniques for preclinical AD diagnosis. Part three looks at t

Overview: .This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration, WBIR 2024, held in conjunction with the 27th International conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2024, in Marrakesh, Morocco in October 2024...The 28 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. These papers have been categorized under the following topical sections: Architectures; Robustness; Atlas/ Fusion; Feature/ Similarity Learning & Efficiency..978-3-031-73479-3978-3-031-73

Overview: .This is a reference book. Although it might conceivably be read in the order in which the subjects appear it was designed to be consulted subject to subject as one uses a dictionary or encyclopedia. To facilitate quick identification and location of building materials, characteristics and problems they are first listed in the table of contents, repeated in the chapter headings and listed in the index. In addition to describing how building materials respond to environmental stresses in terms of their mechanical, electrical, chemical and thermal properties, brief references to their

Overview: 978-1-349-18256-5978-1-349-18254-1