Some of the ways in which the food industry is likely to be affected by developments in biotechnology include the following: The modification of food components to give products... Læs mere
with the issues involved in the management of salmon fishing. marketing and distribution and Chapter 8 discusses the workings of salmon markets and the main factors... Læs mere
We were attracted to the Bayesian approach because it seemed the best analytic framework available for dealing with decision making under... Læs mere
We are all familiar with impact. In applied mathematics, impacts have provided interesting theoretical problems with elegant solutions but it has been difficult to... Læs mere
Optimization techniques are used to find the values of a set of parameters which maximize or minimize some objective function of... Læs mere
The importance of international liner shipping needs little emphasizing. Notwithstanding, people in general know surprisingly little about the basic facts of the liner shipping... Læs mere
Temperature is one facet in the mosaic of physical and biotic factors that describes the niche of an animal. In spite of this no recent book provides a comprehensive treatment of the biology of animals in relation to temperature.
This book contains some of the papers presented at the 15th Annual... Læs mere
Proceedings of the 97th Colloquium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Brussels, Belgium, June 8-13, 1987
Three important studies were initiated in the 19708 to investigate the relation ship between climatic variations and agriculture: by the National Defense University (1980) on Crop Yields and Climate Change to the Year eooo, by the U.s.
In the micrometeorological literature, reference is sometimes made to the 'Businger-Dyer Profiles' or the 'Dyer-Businger profiles/relations' without referring to the origin of these relations.