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Water Science
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The hazards of and potential for landslide, earthquake and tunnel collapse are here analysed through a number of tried-and-tested computer packages for optimum human control, prediction and management.
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Software Engineering & Systems Development
Georisk & Hazards
Tunnelling & Underground Engineering
Reference

Supersymmetry: Basics and Concepts provides an overall survey of supersymmetry from a unified and up-to-date viewpoint. The author's approach reflects the free logic that characterizes present day research rather than fact-bound induction. Main topics include: simple systems with supersymmetry taken from particle mechanics, the classical limit of supersymmetric quantum mechanics, the double cover of the Lorentz group and other group theoretical matters, and a representative sample process involving supersymmetric lepton-photon interactions.
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Mathematical Physics
Applied Physics
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Chemistry
Polymers & Plastics
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Chemistry
Polymers & Plastics
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This comprehensive treatise provides an in-depth understanding of allelopathy—the mysterious, complex biochemical interactions among plants and microbes. This little-understood phenomenon can lead to changes in nutrient dynamics, vegetation structure, and species diversity. Allelopathy in Agroecosystems explains how this interaction can be used as an environmentally safe method of weed and pest management. The fascinating original research presented here offers incalculable potential for rescuing farmed-out land, increasing crop yields, and cutting back on expensive soil additives.
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Botany
Biodiversity
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Professional

This comprehensive treatise provides an in-depth understanding of allelopathy—the mysterious, complex biochemical interactions among plants and microbes. This little-understood phenomenon can lead to changes in nutrient dynamics, vegetation structure, and species diversity. Allelopathy in Agroecosystems explains how this interaction can be used as an environmentally safe method of weed and pest management. The fascinating original research presented here offers incalculable potential for rescuing farmed-out land, increasing crop yields, and cutting back on expensive soil additives.
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Botany
Biodiversity
Reference
Professional

Developments in multimedia database management have exploded during the past decade. Until now, however, there has been little information available on providing a complete set of services for multimedia databases, including their management, mining, and integration on the Web for electronic enterprises. Managing and Mining Multimedia Databases fills that gap. It explores database management system techniques for text, image, audio, and video databases. It addresses the issues and challenges of mining multimedia databases to extract information and discusses the directions and challenges related to integrating multimedia databases for the Web.
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Databases
Data Preparation & Mining
Statistics
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Professional

Este libro es la mejor narración en lengua castellana, y quizás la mejor tout court, sobre la Conferencia de El Cairo que consiguió la aprobación de un ambicioso Programa de Acción dirigido a mejorar el estatus de las mujeres en la familia, la sociedad y la economía, reducir las inequidades entre los sexos, atender las necesidades insatisfechas en materia de planificación familiar, ralentizar el crecimiento de la población mundial, reducir la pobreza, impulsar el desarrollo económico, preservar el medio ambiente y frenar pautas de consumo insostenibles. Además, basta con interesarse por las relaciones internacionales multilaterales para encontrar de provecho la lectura de este libro porque narra, de primera mano, la génesis, laboriosa organización y complejo desarrollo de una gran conferencia intergubernamental.
Joaquín Arango
Jyoti Shankar Singh fue director ejecutivo adjunto del Fondo de Población de Naciones Unidas (FNUAP). También coordinador ejecutivo tanto de la Conferencia Internacional sobre Población de 1984 como de la Conferencia Internacional sobre la Población y el Desarrollo (CIPD) de 1994. Ha sido asesor especial del FNUAP durante la CIPD+5. En la actualidad es coordinador ejecutivo de la Conferencia Mundial de las Naciones Unidas contra el Racismo (Durban, 2001).