This volume addresses how we can find happiness and well-being in the material world. It builds on previous works that find that materialism is... Læs mere
This volume presents the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Vibration Problems, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.
This book is intended for students and soil scientists who want to know about the state of the art in soil sciences in Chile. Finally, the book shows how man has induced severe soil... Læs mere
This book presents advanced statistical techniques used to analyze demographic data, which it illustrates through modelling maternal and child health in the African context using data from Demographic and Health Surveys in several countries in the continent.
This book looks at the centrality of models for knowledge claims in science education and explores the modeling of mental processes, knowledge, cognitive development, and conceptual learning.
Thus a synthetic polymer coated with ECM proteins would result in a scaffold that mimics the natural cellular... Læs mere
The latter is applied to a general analysis of eight-vertex models yielding as special cases the two-dimensional Ising model and the six-vertex model.... Læs mere
Tourism bureaus and government agencies are increasingly interested in issues of sustainable tourism, specifically in understanding and measuring the impact of tourism on the quality of life of the residents of the host communities.