Learn IT - Books tags environmental

The Esoteric Investor: Alternative Investments for Global Macro Investors

FT Press, 2011

Massive demographic, environmental, economic, and regulatory shifts are generating huge new investment opportunities with an exceptionally high probability of success over the coming years and decades. In The Esoteric Investor, a world-class portfolio manager identifies these investments, and shows how your best...

Creativity: Understanding Innovation in Problem Solving, Science, Invention, and the Arts

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

How cognitive psychology explains human creativity

Conventional wisdom holds that creativity is a mysterious quality present in a select few individuals. The rest of us, the common view goes, can only stand in awe of great creative achievements: we could never paint Guernica or devise the structure of the DNA molecule because...

Integrative Physiology in the Proteomics and Post-Genomics Age

Humana Press, 2005

There is a perception in the scientific community that the discipline of Physiology is in crisis, or at least, in a phase of profound transition and change. At the root of the problem is confusion between objectives (the biological questions to be solved) and the methods and technologies to be applied. Traditionally, ever since...

Cancer Precursors: Epidemiology, Detection, and Prevention

Springer, 2002

Dramatic advances in our understanding of cancer causation have come from epidemiologic and laboratory research, particularly over the past two decades. These developments have included a broadening interest in the critical events that take place during the early stages of the dynamic multistep process leading to invasive...

Seasonal Patterns of Stress, Immune Function, and Disease

Cambridge University Press, 2002

Most animals exhibit seasonal variation in their reproduction and survival simply because most of them live in environments in which food availability varies seasonally. This is true in the tropics as well as at the higher latitudes, but at the higher latitudes the combined challenge of food shortage and low temperature makes...

Professional Android Sensor Programming

Wrox Press, 2012

ANDROIDS ARE ALIVE. THEY CAN LOCATE THEMSELVES, see, listen, and understand speech. They can sense radio signals and detect orientation, movement, and environmental properties. Can your computer do all of that?

The availability of sensors is one feature Android devices have that makes them different from other computers. Without...

Poisoning and Toxicology Handbook, Fourth Edition (Poisoning and Toxicology Handbook

CRC Press, 2007

A unique reference containing detailed reviews of more than 900 drugs and poisons, the Poisoning and Toxicology Handbook, Fourth Edition provides the latest information on medicinal, biological, herbal, and non-medicinal agents, and antidotes. Increasing its depth and scope with analyses of newer drugs, chemicals,...

Obesity And Binge Eating Disorder (Bibliotheca Psychiatrica)

Karger, 2005

Overweight and obesity have quite recently become a major problem affectingmany countries worldwide. Obviously, both environmental and genetic This publication gives a comprehensive overview on the current knowledge ofthe pathophysiological mechanisms in the regulation of hunger and satiety. An insight into the important facets of...

A Strategy for Using Multicriteria Analysis in Decision-Making: A Guide for Simple and Complex Environmental Projects

Springer, 2011

First of all, it is necessary to point out that this is not a mathematical book, albeit obviously the subject of decision-making rests a good deal on this discipline, since it is almost impossible to take decisions without the help of some indicators, ratios, weights, procedures, algorithms, etc. which are in essence mathematical...

Knowledge Needs and Information Extraction: Towards an Artificial Consciousness (ISTE)

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

The title of this book is both subversive and ambitious. It is subversive because few academic publications deal with this subject. There has, of course, been work done in robotics on artificially reproducing a “human” movement. One can also find more cognitive works about the way of reasoning – i.e. storing and...

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...

Managing Business Risk: A Practical Guide to Protecting Your Business

Kogan Page, 2009

The balance between risk and reward is the very essence of business: you have to take risks in order to generate returns and, generally speaking, higher returns involve greater risks. However, there is a difference between risks taken as a result of careful judgement and those taken unwittingly.

In a world of...

Result Page: 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14