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.
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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.
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This work serves as a reference concerning the automotive chassis, i.e. The first volume deals with the design of automotive components and the second volume treats the various aspects of the design of a vehicle as a system.
This timely book offers a wide-ranging study of the thesis that scientific theories are systematically "underdetermined" by the data they account for.
This is the ?rst volume of a series of edited books whose aim is to collect contributed papers in a framework that can serve as a dictionary of names of individuals who have made contributions to the discipline of MMS (Me- anism and Machine Science).