This is an extensive revision of a book that I wrote over ten years ago. just as I learned the basics of variography and kriging from books for mining engineers, this book could be used by scientists from many fields to learn the basics of the subject.
With America fervently espousing both national and state testing, the differential performance by race and social class raises the specter of tests as barriers to life milestones such as promotion, graduation, and college admissions.
This volume marks the end of an eight-year program of research on population issues, launched in 1990 by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research: The NWO Priority Program on Population Issues.
This book - the first published on this topic in plants - presents the reader with an overview of recent research on nitric oxide (NO) in plants,... Læs mere
Plant molecular biology has produced an ever-increasing flood of data about genes and genomes. This book brings together contributions from evolutionary biologists,... Læs mere
Once considered merely `selfish' or `parasitic' DNA, transposable elements are today recognized as being of major biological significance. The topics of... Læs mere
The papers collected here represent the most recent work on a much neglected problem in practical reasoning.
Is economic growth good for the environment? This view has received increasing support since the early 1990s from empirical evidence that has challenged the traditional environmentalist's belief that economic growth degrades the environment.
Industrial Policies after 2000 investigates industrial policy during a time of deregulation, privatization and a growing interest in small government. That includes the neoclassical `market' approach, game theoretical models, and institutional economics.
Epithelial cells probably constitute the most diverse group of cells found in the body.