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Macroeconomic Policies for Emerging and Developing Economies
by Partha Ray A VasudevanThis book examines the relevance of the concepts and hypotheses of macroeconomics in the contemporary world. It discusses the current debates on theory and practices of macroeconomic policies with a focus on developing economies emerging from the impact of Covid-19 pandemic. The volume advocates for a symbiotic relationship between macroeconomic policies and development strategies. It analyses several issues related to macroeconomic tools, which include openness, capital flows, exchange rate and financial strategies. It underscores the need to design a development strategy that accounts for the economic context of the countries concerned. Further, the book advocates for well-regulated macrofinancial policies promoting sustainable growth. It also provides recommendations to policy makers on formulating a sound and inclusive macroeconomic policy essential for financial stability. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of macroeconomics, public administration, development studies, management and policymaking. It will also be useful to economists, policymakers and journalists working on emerging and developing economies.
The Curriculum: Theory and Practice (Curriculum Development Ser.)
by A Vic Kelly′This book will be of interest to educational practitioners, and many other professionals concerned with the education and development of the young′ - ESCalate `A very well-respected book [and a] Curriculum classic...[which offers] balance to current official publications...One of its strengths is the coherent argument that runs throughout. It is very much a product of the wide knowledge and experience of the author.′ - Jenny Houssart, Senior Lecturer, Department of Learning, Curriculum & Communication, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Praise for previous editions: `I use this book as an essential course text for a module on curriculum theory. It is an excellent text for the whole course′ `Vic Kelly′s writing is always concise and informative, but also at times challenging′ `A most comprehensive text that takes the reader beyond content/balance issues values, beliefs and assumptions on the curriculum′ This is the sixth edition of a book that has been regularly revised and updated since it was first published in the mid-1970s. A V Kelly′s now classic work focuses on the philosophical and political dimensions of curriculum, and especially on the implications for schools and societies of various forms of curriculum. The book outlines what form a curriculum should take if it is concerned to promote a genuine form of education for a genuinely democratic society. Kelly summarises and explains the main aspects of curriculum theory, and shows how these can and should be translated into practice, in order to create an educational and democratic curriculum for all schools at all levels. The book also seeks to show that the politicization of the school curriculum has led to the establishment of policies and practices which demonstrate a failure to understand these principles of curriculum theory and practice. As a result, policies and practices have been implemented which fall short of being adequate. In view of the rapid pace of educational change imposed by various governments over the last 35 years, including New Labour, this book is more relevant than ever.
Environmental and Hydrological Systems Modelling
by A W JayawardenaMathematical modelling has become an indispensable tool for engineers, scientists, planners, decision makers and many other professionals to make predictions of future scenarios as well as real impending events. As the modelling approach and the model to be used are problem specific, no single model or approach can be used to solve all problems, and there are constraints in each situation. Modellers therefore need to have a choice when confronted with constraints such as lack of sufficient data, resources, expertise and time. Environmental and Hydrological Systems Modelling provides the tools needed by presenting different approaches to modelling the water environment over a range of spatial and temporal scales. Their applications are shown with a series of case studies, taken mainly from the Asia-Pacific Region. Coverage includes: Population dynamics Reaction kinetics Water quality systems Longitudinal dispersion Time series analysis and forecasting Artificial neural networks Fractals and chaos Dynamical systems Support vector machines Fuzzy logic systems Genetic algorithms and genetic programming This book will be of great value to advanced students, professionals, academics and researchers working in the water environment.
Facial Expression Recognition: Selected works of Andy Young (World Library of Psychologists)
by A W YoungIn the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major theoretical and practical contributions. This volume of self-selected papers recognises Andy Young’s major contribution to the study of face perception, for which he received the BPS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. Focusing on his work in facial expression recognition, a specially written introduction gives an overview of his work and contextualises the selection in relation to developments in the field during this time. Divided into five distinct sections, the book covers work on both theoretical and experimental approaches to facial expression recognition, neuropsychology, functional brain imaging, and applications of research. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of cognitive psychology or neuropsychology interested in face perception. It will also appeal to those with an interest in the highly varied applications of the research and provide insight into a number of clinical disorders.
Tomatoes (Crop Production Science in Horticulture)
by Gary Vallad A W van Heusden Bielinski Santos M E Saltveit Chieri Kubota Martine Dorais J M CostaThis new edition of a successful, practical book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of all aspects of the production of the tomato crop, within the context of the global tomato industry. Tomatoes are one of the most important horticultural crops in both temperate and tropical regions and this book explores our current knowledge of the scientific principles underlying their biology and production. Tomatoes 2nd Edition covers genetics and breeding, developmental processes, crop growth and yield, fruit ripening and quality, irrigation and fertilisation, crop protection, production in the open field, greenhouse production, and postharvest biology and handling. It has been updated to: reflect advances in the field, such as developments in molecular plant breeding, crop and product physiology, and production systems. include a new chapter on organic tomato production. present photos in full colour throughout. Authored by an international team of experts, this book is essential for growers, extension workers, industry personnel, and horticulture students and lecturers.
The Language Families Of Africa: Second edition (Routledge Revivals)
by A WernerPublished in 1925, this introduction provides an accessible account of language families in Africa. Covering the five families of African languages: the Sudan family, the Bantu family, the Hamitic family, the Bushman family and the Semitic family, it provides a detailed study of the languages, phonetics and linguistic content. The book will be of use to anyone interested in the history and development of human speech.
Guide to Clinical Management of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
by Steven D Nathan A Whitney Brown Christopher S KingThis clinically focused pocket guide offers a concise yet complete overview of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, covering the most recent information on aspects such as pathophysiology, management, treatment, and clinical trials. The text is easily accessible and offers pulmonologists and other health care professionals with an excellent quick reference tool. Full color images and figures enhance and summarize key aspects of the text. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a condition that affects the alveoli and leads to serious lung damage, and the idiopathic nature of this disease means that the origin or cause is unknown. This disease is relatively rare, affecting 3 in 10,000 people, but it is becoming more common. Physicians should be aware of the early stages and symptoms of this disease so management strategies can be implemented quickly, and the best treatment can be administered.
Higher Education in German Occupied Countries (Routledge Library Editions: Education)
by A WolfThis book gives a comprehensive account of what happened to higher education in Austria, Belgium, the former Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Russia and the former Yugoslavia during 1938-1944. It reveals the mentality of the German cultural experts and it describes the reactions of the peoples in the occupied countries.
Higher Education in Nazi Germany: Or Education for World Conquest (Routledge Library Editions: Responding to Fascism)
by A WolfHigher Education in Nazi Germany was first published in 1944, when it was apparent that Germany was likely to lose the war. Developing themes that were to become commonplace in the analysis of totalitarian regimes, it provides an account of how higher education became a means of both installing and re-enforcing the dominant state ideology.
A World History of Christianity
by A World History of ChristianityChristianity is the most global of religions. However, most books on the subject fail to do justice to the history of Christianity outside Europe and North America. This prodigious work provides the first genuinely global one-volume study of the rise, development, and impact of the Christian faith. Written by an international team of specialists, this comprehensive volume covers the full breadth of Christian history while also taking seriously the geographical diversity of the story: extensive chapters cover North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, India, China and its neighbors, and Australia and the Pacific. Though unified in scope, these chapters each focus on what matters most in the specific time and place covered, ensuring that readers are introduced to the major themes—social, theological, political, and cultural—that together constitute Christianity's role in world history. Ideally suited for classroom study as well as for independent reading, A World History of Christianity will serve as the definitive study of church history for the coming generation worldwide. Contributors: Mary B. Cunningham Gillian Evans Robert E. Frykenberg Martin Goodman Adrian Hastings Mary Heimann David Hilliard Robert Bruce Mullin Andrew Pettegree Gary Tiedemann Philip Walters Benedicta Ward Kevin Ward
Reef-Platform Coral Boulders
by James P Terry Samuel Etienne A Y LauThe primary goal here is to present a treatise on the significance and value of coarse clastic carbonate sediments (i.e. large coral boulders) on tropical coastlines for understanding both modern and pre-historical (Holocene) high-magnitude marine inundation events. There has been a rapid groundswell of interest in large carbonate blocks on tropical coasts over the last decade, yet it is not widely appreciated that such features were observed and recorded back in the early explorations of Matthew Flinders on the Great Barrier Reef in the 1800s. This book will illuminate how various characteristics of datable carbonate blocks torn up from coral reefs and deposited on reef platforms yield importance evidence about the storms and tsunamis that emplaced them over decadal and centennial timescales. No comprehensive review has so far been published. A need now exists for a 'definitive reference' on coral boulder research, which details the earliest observations, changing terminology, sedimentology, and relevance for coastal hazard research in the tropics. A wide range of examples will be incorporated from across Asia, Australia, the Pacific and the Americas, as well as a full up-to-date review of the existing literature.
Neural Network Control Of Robot Manipulators And Non-Linear Systems
by F W Lewis S. Jagannathan A YesildirakThere has been great interest in "universal controllers" that mimic the functions of human processes to learn about the systems they are controlling on-line so that performance improves automatically. Neural network controllers are derived for robot manipulators in a variety of applications including position control, force control, link flexibility stabilization and the management of high-frequency joint and motor dynamics.The first chapter provides a background on neural networks and the second on dynamical systems and control. Chapter three introduces the robot control problem and standard techniques such as torque, adaptive and robust control. Subsequent chapters give design techniques and Stability Proofs For NN Controllers For Robot Arms, Practical Robotic systems with high frequency vibratory modes, force control and a general class of non-linear systems. The last chapters are devoted to discrete- time NN controllers. Throughout the text, worked examples are provided.
A Perfect Crime
by A Yi Anna HolmwoodOn a normal day in provincial China, a bored high-school student goes about his regular business. But he's planning the brutal murder of his only friend, a talented violinist. He invites her round, strangles her, stuffs her body into a washing machine and flees town. On the run, he is initially anxious, but soon he alerts the police to his whereabouts, surrenders to undercover agents in a pool bar, and sabotages all efforts by China's judiciary system, a steady stream of psychologists and his family to overturn the death penalty, all without ever showing a shred of remorse.A Perfect Crimeis both a vision of China's heart of darkness - the despair that traps the rural poor and the incoherent rage lurking behind their phlegmatic front - and a technically brilliant excursion into the claustrophobic realm of classic horror and suspense. With exceptional tonal control, A Yi steadily reveals the psychological backstory that enables us to make sense of the story's dramatic violence and provides chillingly apt insights into the psychology behind a murder committed simply as an intellectual challenge to relieve the daily tedium of existence.
Two Lives: Tales of Life, Love and Crime (Fiction without Frontiers)
by A YiSeven stories, seven whispers into the ears of life: A Yi’s unexpected twists of crime burst from the everyday, with glimpses of romance distorted by the weaknesses of human motive. A Yi employs his forensic skills to offer a series of portraits of modern life, both uniquely Chinese, and universal in their themes. His years as a police officer serve him well as he teases the truth from simple observation, now brought into the English language in a masterful translation by Alex Woodend. The stories include Two Lives, Attic, Spring, Bach, Predator. The first in the new Flame Tree Press series, Stories from China. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
Wake Me Up at Nine in the Morning
by A YiA thrilling journey through China's dark criminal underworld, from a celebrated voice in Chinese literature When Hongyang is found dead after a night of debauched drinking, it looks as if his reign of terror has finally come to an end. Few in this insular community have much reason to mourn his passing: Hongyang is an infamous mob boss, a man with plenty of enemies. But now it seems that his years of crime have also earned him some very dangerous friends. As his funeral draws near, those who knew him come together to look back on a life characterised by corruption, deceit and a flair for violence. Their recollections will keep Hongyang's legacy alive, with terrifying consequences. From the master of Chinese noir fiction comes this explosive new novel about the power of one man, unravelled by a tangled web of secrets.
Former Lover's Marriage Plot: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by A YueThis was the story of a tyrannical CEO of a rich beauty! When the white lotus appears between childhood and childhood, is love still stable? Johann, as the real estate mogul's woman, was a rich and beautiful woman, rich and beautiful. When a man she loved since childhood and a white lotus flower appeared before everyone, she chose to leave arrogantly, never looking back. But who could tell her who was this man who clung to her and insisted on marrying her?
Former Lover's Marriage Plot: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by A YueThis was the story of a tyrannical CEO of a rich beauty! When the white lotus appears between childhood and childhood, is love still stable? Johann, as the real estate mogul's woman, was a rich and beautiful woman, rich and beautiful. When a man she loved since childhood and a white lotus flower appeared before everyone, she chose to leave arrogantly, never looking back. But who could tell her who was this man who clung to her and insisted on marrying her?
Former Lover's Marriage Plot: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by A YueThis was the story of a tyrannical CEO of a rich beauty! When the white lotus appears between childhood and childhood, is love still stable? Johann, as the real estate mogul's woman, was a rich and beautiful woman, rich and beautiful. When a man she loved since childhood and a white lotus flower appeared before everyone, she chose to leave arrogantly, never looking back. But who could tell her who was this man who clung to her and insisted on marrying her?
Former Lover's Marriage Plot: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by A YueThis was the story of a tyrannical CEO of a rich beauty! When the white lotus appears between childhood and childhood, is love still stable? Johann, as the real estate mogul's woman, was a rich and beautiful woman, rich and beautiful. When a man she loved since childhood and a white lotus flower appeared before everyone, she chose to leave arrogantly, never looking back. But who could tell her who was this man who clung to her and insisted on marrying her?
Former Lover's Marriage Plot: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by A YueThis was the story of a tyrannical CEO of a rich beauty! When the white lotus appears between childhood and childhood, is love still stable? Johann, as the real estate mogul's woman, was a rich and beautiful woman, rich and beautiful. When a man she loved since childhood and a white lotus flower appeared before everyone, she chose to leave arrogantly, never looking back. But who could tell her who was this man who clung to her and insisted on marrying her?
Exotic Kondo Effects in Metals: Magnetic Ions in a Crystalline Electric Field and Tunelling Centres
by D L Cox A ZawadowskiThis provides a major review of the two-level system Kondo model, as applied to metallic glasses, nanoscale devices and some doped semiconductors; and the quadripolar and magnetic two-channel Kondo models developed for rare-earth and actinide ions with crystal splitting metals. These contrast with the simple single-channel model, and allow the study of non-Fermi liquid physics. This book forms a valuable and unique source of information for statistical and condensed matter physicists and graduate students.Key Features: * An invaluable and unique source of information on this highly popular area of condensed matter physics* Based upon a special edition of the Advances in Physics journal* Magnetic impurities in metals present a major challenge to condensed matter physicists, for which a strong starting point has long been the early insights of Kondo into the resistance medium
Evil Love Bond: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by A ZhangRuthless win love when all the heart into hatred but a sword killing no blood to save his father the devil deep swallow encounter sword soul to save from entanglement because of his father s missing party dance yi left duxiu mountain villa alone with her maidservant to find her father but did not expect to be hunted down all the way because he saved all the way together when the layers of veil was lifted the family the betrayal of love and what to do with her
Light Sources 2004 Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on the Science and Technology of Light Sources (Institute of Physics Conference Series)
by A ZissisHeld every three years, The International Symposia on the Science and Technology of Light Sources (LS) provide a unique forum for the international community of engineers, scientists, research organizations, and academia from the lighting industry. In Light Sources 2004, leaders in their respective fields discuss the latest findings and exciting de
Lo Stoicismo Oggi: Pratiche filosofiche per la vita quotidiana
by A cura di Patrick UssherLo Stoicismo Oggi. Pratiche filosofiche per la vita quotidiana raccoglie saggi, testimonianze e riflessioni sulla filosofia praticata da Epitteto e Marco Aurelio. Una saggezza antica che ancora oggi può insegnarci a vivere con maggiore serenità d’animo le sfide e le avversità quotidiane. A parlarci dell’attualità delle pratiche filosofiche e di vita dello stoicismo sono autori con diverse esperienze e background culturali. Meditazione buddista, ricerca della mindfulness, terapia cognitivo comportamentale, pratiche oggi molto seguite, mostrano molti punti in comune con l’approccio stoico alla ricerca della felicità. Uno stile di pensiero improntato all’auto consapevolezza, all’autocontrollo, al distacco dagli interessi materiali, ma anche alla compassione verso gli altri.
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