BOOKS with Alphabet S (Sa, Sb,Sc, Sd, Se…... )

Overview: Explains why and how secessionism continues to play a divisive role in politics in many African countries.Provides insights in the interplay between the international legal order, geopolitical interesSecessionism perseveres as a complex political phenomenon in Africa, yet often a more in-depth analysis is overshadowed by the aspirational simplicity of pursuing a new state. Using historical and contemporary approaches, this edited volume offers the most exhaustive collection of empirical studies of African secessionism to date. The respected expert contributors put salient and lesser

Overview: Includes regional case studies of Zimbabwe, South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Namibia and Botswana.Includes issues such as climate change, disaster management, local economic development, and This book is the first to consider the roles, challenges and governance responses of secondary cities in southern Africa to changing circumstances. Among the challenges are governance under conditions of resource scarcity, managing informality, the effects and responses to climate change and the changing roles of the cities within the national space economy. It fills the gap in the liter

Overview: Standard reference book with selected and easily retrievable data from the fields of physics and chemistry collected by acknowledged international scientist.Also available online in http://materials.s.The present volume contains data on properties of semiconducting IIa-VI Compounds with Mg and Sr. These properties refer to the structure of the material, its thermal and thermodynamic behavious as well as its lattice...All chapters are organized along the respective material system in question. The data have been assessed and proved by an expert in this field and are presented in a con

Overview: Focuses on the theoretical evolution, structural elements, subjective and objective quality of life development analysis.Explores the theoretical core of quality of life from the perspective of WesterThis book makes a systematic empirical analysis of the quality of life of Chinese residents from the perspective of social change, expounds the connotation, theory, elements, and research methodology of the quality of life, and focuses on the diachronic dynamic analysis of the multidimensional elements of the quality of life from the perspective of life course and life cycle. According t

Overview: Presents valuable resource for students and statisticians using survey sampling.Offers new sampling designs.Provides sampling methods and application of statistical inference methods in economics rese.This short monograph provides a synthesis of new research on sampling designs that are dependent on sample moments or the order statistics of auxiliary variables. The range of survey sampling methods and their applications has gradually increased over time, and these applications have led to new theoretical solutions that provide better sampling designs or estimators. Recently, several

Overview: Recent results from high-energy scattering and theoreticaldevelopments of string theory require a change in our understanding ofthe basic structure of space-time. This book is about the advancementof ideas on the stochastic nature of space-time from the 1930s onward.In particular, the author promotes the concept of space as a set ofhazy lumps, first introduced by Karl Menger, and constructs a novelframework for statistical behaviour at the microlevel. The variouschapters address topics such as space-time fluctuation and randompotential, non-local fields, and the origin of stochastici

Overview: A synthesis of current thinking.New approach to sand dune conservation.Links geomorphology with sand dune vegetation management.Provides a unique overview with links to many relevant information sourc.This book deals with the development of temperate coastal sand dunes and the way these have been influenced by human activity. The different states in which the habitat exists both for the beach/foredune and inland dune are reviewed against the pressures exerted upon them. Options for management are considered and the likely consequences of taking a particular course of action highlight

Overview: Integrates fish genetic resources and biodiversity with real-world conservation strategies.Features the application of the latest tools and methodologies in fish genetics and conservation research.Inc.This book explores fish genetic resources while emphasizing the importance of genetic diversity for the sustainability of global fish populations. Amidst challenges like overfishing and climate change, preserving fish genetic resources is vital. This book acts as a resource guide and provides an overview of fish genetics, conservation challenges, and sustainable strategies. This work is

Overview: My purpose in these studies is to example a careful reading of the too easily despised, too hastily evaluated and too frequently misunderstood poetry of the French fifteenth century. I have begun at the tum of the century with three of the more substantial writers of the first generation (Nesson, Char­ tier, Taillevent), and while I have in each case read the poet‘s entire work I have tried to concentrate my efforts on the single poem which seemed his most substantial in terms of the number and importance of the concerns which animate it, the vigor and complexity of his response, and

Overview: Provides statistical tools for working with the latest research data in NGS.Contains chapters written by leading statisticians in the field of NGS.Useful for students and researchers that work in biom.Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is the latest high throughput technology to revolutionize genomic research. NGS generates massive genomic datasets that play a key role in the big data phenomenon that surrounds us today. To extract signals from high-dimensional NGS data and make valid statistical inferences and predictions, novel data analytic and statistical techniques are needed. This

Overview: Written by a distinguished international group of contributors from leading world research centres and universities.Well-organized format provides concise, readable, easily searched entries with a weaEntomology as a science of inter-depended branches like molecular entomology, insect biotechnology, has made rapid progress. This also implies that there is an urgent need to manage the available resources. In the past five decades, entomology has taken giant steps ahead. The aim of this work is to integrate perspectives across molecular and biochemistry, physiology, reproduction, develo

Overview: In the study of language, as in any other systematic study, there is no neutral terminology. Every technical term is an expression of the assumptions and theoretical presuppositions of its users; and in this introduction, we want to clarify some of the issues that have surrounded the assumptions behind the use of the two terms "speech acts" and "pragmatics". The notion of a speech act is fairly well understood. The theory of speech acts starts with the assumption that the minimal unit of human communica­ tion is not a sentence or other expression, but rather the performance of certai

Overview: Reviews 3D model systems in safety and toxicity of cosmetics and personal care products.Presents significant achievements in recent skin cell culture approaches.Examines properties and applications of.Efforts are being made by research organizations and cosmetic industries worldwide to develop more precise and targeted 3D models that mimic humans for testing cosmetic and personal health care product ingredients, following a complete ban on animal testing. This book includes several subtopics dedicated to the progress made, challenges faced, roadblocks encountered, and future prospect

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Overview: Explores a new and rapidly growing energy resource from the perspectives of both renewability and sustainability.Offers an overview of the market potential of existing and emerging technologies.IncludBiomass is a vital source of renewable energy, because it offers a wide range of established and potential methods for energy generation. It is also an important facet of the progression toward a sustainable energy future. The need for further development in the provision of bioenergy is underlined by challenges affecting the biomass resource base, including rising demand for biomass for

Overview: Includes international collaborations and current perspectives on serious game research.Offers practical knowledge on how to conduct serious games research.Critically examines various methods of serioThis volume brings together research on how gameplay data in serious games may be turned into valuable analytics or actionable intelligence for performance measurement, assessment, and improvement. Chapter authors use empirical research methodologies, including existing, experimental, and emerging conceptual frameworks, from various fields, such as: computer science software engineering

Overview: Introduces a road map for conducting improvement projects that formulates the key questions and ensures that the project goals are achieved.Provides tools that support the practitioner in answering th.The current, second edition of this book reflects the 15 years of practical experience with the Six Sigma+Lean toolbox. It is a comprehensive collection of all the tools necessary for project work and running workshops when improving processes. All tools have been illustrated in a clear and comprehensible structure with examples and tips for applying the tools included. The chronology c

Overview: Presents recent research on Software Engineering in IoT, Big Data, Cloud and Mobile Computing.Provides recent advances and applications.Written by experts in the field.This edited book presents scientific results of the International Semi-Virtual Workshop on Software Engineering in IoT, Big data, Cloud and Mobile Computing (SE-ICBM 2020) which was held on October 15, 2020, at Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea. The aim of this workshop was to bring together researchers and scientists, businessmen and entrepreneurs, teachers, engineers, computer users, and students to discuss the numer

Overview: Every little wiggle has a meaning all its own. This is our underlying faith, that details of seismic waveshapes can tell us the details of the nature of the earth. But their voices are obscured by many irrelevancies. They speak in a high-noise environment, and we have been able to decipher only a small portion. However, things are looking up: better tech­ niques are lessening the irrelevancies, and we are learning to read. In exploration of unknown areas, determining the nature of the rocks present is often the difficult aspect. Most of the properties of rocks that can be measured at

Overview: Sheds light on women’s daily struggles, their difficulties, contradictions, fragilities, and also their successes and achievements.Contributes to timely debates on the conditions of resistance and chaThis book contributes to timely debates on the conditions of resistance and changes with the aim to offer a ray of hope in times of ecological, economic, social and democracy crisis worldwide. In the context of the crisis of social reproduction, impoverishment and growing inequalities, myriads of women-led grass-root initiatives are bubbling up. They reorganize social reproduction; redef