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Qt 5 Projects: Develop cross-platform applications with modern UIs using the powerful Qt framework

Packt Publishing, 2018

Design, build, and deploy powerful applications with amazing user interfaces on embedded, mobile, and desktop platforms

Key Features

Easily compile, run, and debug your applications from the powerful Qt Creator IDE

Future-proof your applications with Qt Test and modern...

Innovative Software Development in GIS (ISTE)

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

At a time when people use more and more geographic information and tools, the management of geographical information in software systems still holds many challenges and motivates researchers from different backgrounds to propose innovative solutions.
Representing geographical space beyond our mere perception is key to making relevant...

Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property

Zone Books, 2010

At the end of the twentieth century, intellectual property rights collided with everyday life. Expansive copyright laws and digital rights management technologies sought to shut down new forms of copying and remixing made possible by the Internet. International laws expanding patent rights threatened the lives of millions of people around the...

Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change: Ecological and Socio-economic Valuations

Springer, 2010

Tropical rainforests are disappearing due to agricultural intensification and climate change, causing irreversible losses in biodiversity and associated ecosystem functioning. Ecosystem properties and human well-being are profoundly influenced by environmental change, which is often not considered during land use intensification....

Water-Quality Engineering in Natural Systems

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

FOCUSING ON CONTAMINANT FATE AND TRANSPORT, DESIGN OF ENVIRONMENTAL-CONTROL SYSTEMS, AND REGULATORY CONSTRAINTS

This textbook details the fundamental equations that describe the fate and transport of contaminantsin the water environment. The application of these fundamental equations to the design of environmental-control...

The Chemistry of Bio-based Polymers

John Wiley & Sons, 2014

An exhaustive and timely overview of renewable polymers from a respected chemist and successful author

The recent explosion of interdisciplinary research has fragmented the knowledge base surrounding renewable polymers. The Chemistry of Bio-based Polymers brings together, in one volume, the research and work of...

Biodiversity under Threat (Issues in Environmental Science and Technology)

Royal Society of Chemistry, 2007

'This is a timely, thoughtful and authoritative account of the current state of play on the ecological battlefront'. Rouvray D., 2008. Biodiversity for chemists. Chemistry World, 5 (1), p.p.64-65.

There is much public concern about threats to global biodiversity. Industrial pollution, changes in agricultural practices...

The Biogeochemistry of Submerged Soils

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Submerged soils and the wetlands they support are of huge practical importance: in global element cycles, as centres of biodiversity, in global food production. They are also uniquely interesting scientifically because of their peculiar biogeochemistry and the adaptations of plants and microbes to it.

This book describes the...

Modelling Urban Development with Geographical Information Systems and Cellular Automata

CRC Press, 2008

Urban development and migration from rural to urban areas are impacting prime agricultural land and natural landscapes, particularly in the less developed countries. These phenomena will persist and require serious study by those monitoring global environmental change. To address this need, various models have been devised to analyze urbanization...

Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)

Springer, 2004

GRASS GIS software was developed in response to the need for improved
analysis of landscape “trade offs” in managing government lands and the
emerging potential of computer-based land analysis tools. During the last
decades of the 20th century, government land managers in the U.S. (and
across the world) faced...

State Space Grids: Depicting Dynamics Across Development

Springer, 2012

Human development from birth through adulthood is a complex interplay of many interacting forces. Children’s internal processes are manifest in behaviors that are sculpted by their experiences, most notably with primary caregivers. Because the discipline of psychology explores human behavior and cognition, the techniques employed for...

A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008

A sweeping narrative history of world trade--from Mesopotamia in 3000 B.C. to the firestorm over globalization today--that brilliantly explores trade's colorful and contentious past and provides new insights into its future

Adam Smith wrote that man has an intrinsic "propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for...

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