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Botany Illustrated, Second Edition This easy-to-use book helps you acquire a wealth of fascinating information about plants. There are 130 pages with text, each facing 130 pages of beautiful illustrations. Each page is a separate subject. Included is a coloring guide for the realistic illustrations. The illustration pages are composed of scientifically accurate line drawings with the true sizes of the plants indicated. Using colored pencils and the authors' instructions, you can color the various plant structures to stand out in vivid clarity. Your knowledge of plants increases rapidly as you color the illustrations. There is a balanced selection of subjects that deal with all kinds of plants. However, the emphasis is on flowering plants, which dominate the earth. Drawings show common houseplants, vegetables, fruits, and landscape plants. They also show common weeds, wild flowers, desert plants, water plants, and crop plants. Botany Illustrated has three sections. An Introduction to Plants gives you facts on everything from cells to seeds. The Major Groups section is from fungi to algae, ferns, conifers, and flowering plants. In Flowering Plant Families are magnolias to asters, and water-plantains to orchids, with the families of major interest included. You will find plants used for food, ornamentals, lumber, medicines, herbs, dyes, and fertilizers, whether wild or poisonous, or of special importance to our Earth's ecosystem. Topics that will be of interest to you include: Why leaves ˜turn' color in autumn How certain plants devour insects How a flower develops into a fruit with seeds Why some plants only flower at certain times of the year How water, nutrients, and sugars move within a plant, including tall trees How flowers are pollinated The ˜inside' story of how plants manufacture their own food How plants are named and classified How vines ˜climb' Why ˜pinching' makes plants ˜bushy' How plants reproduce sexually Why shoots grow towards light How specific leaf colors can indicate specific mineral deficiencies Botany Illustrated is especially easy to use because of its great flexibility. You can read the text and look at the drawings, read the text and color the drawings, or just enjoy coloring the drawings. No matter where your interests lead you, you will quickly find your knowledge of plants growing! Thus, this beautiful book will be of great value to students, scientists, artists, crafters, naturalists, home gardeners, teachers, and all plant lovers.

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Limnology is the study of the structural and functional interrelationships of organisms of inland waters as they are affected by their dynamic physical, chemical, and biotic environments. Limnology: Lake and River Ecosystems, 3rd Edition, is a new edition of this established classic text. The coverage remains rigorous and uncompromising and has been thoroughly reviewed and updated with evolving recent research results and theoretical understanding. In addition, the author has expanded coverage of lakes to reservoir and river ecosystems in comparative functional analyses.

Limnology. --- Limnologie --- Ecosystemen --- Waterbeheer --- 556.55 --- Limnology --- Aquatic sciences --- Freshwater biology --- Limnology. Lakes. Reservoirs. Ponds --- 556.55 Limnology. Lakes. Reservoirs. Ponds --- Acqui 2006

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The second edition of this book has been written for the same audience as the first edition. It is designed to be a "first port of call" for people wishing to study efficiency and productivity analysis. The book provides an accessible introduction to the four principal methods involved: econometric estimation of average response models; index numbers; data envelopment analysis (DEA); and stochastic firontier analysis (SFA). For each method, we provide a detailed introduction to the basic concepts, give some simple numerical examples, discuss some of the more important extensions to the basic methods, and provide references for further reading. In addition, we provide a number of detailed empirical applications using real-world data. The book can be used as a textbook or as a reference text. As a textbook, it probably contains too much material to cover in a single semester, so most instructors will want to design a course around a subset of chapters. For example, Chapter 2 is devoted to a review of production economics and could probably be skipped in a course for graduate economics majors. However, it should prove useful to undergraduate students and those doing a major in another field, such as business management or health studies.

Microeconomics --- Quantitative methods (economics) --- Economic production --- Industrial economics --- Economics --- Operational research. Game theory --- Production management --- bedrijfsplanning --- bedrijfsorganisatie --- economie --- micro-economie --- speltheorie --- econometrie --- operationeel onderzoek --- industriële marketing --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- Production (Economic theory) --- Production functions (Economic theory) --- Industrial productivity --- Acqui 2006

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It is not an exaggeration that much of what people devote in their hfe re­ solves around optimization in one way or another. On one hand, many decision making problems in real applications naturally result in optimization problems in a form of integer programming. On the other hand, integer programming has been one of the great challenges for the optimization research community for many years, due to its computational difficulties: Exponential growth in its computational complexity with respect to the problem dimension. Since the pioneering work of R. Gomory [80] in the late 1950s, the theoretical and methodological development of integer programming has grown by leaps and bounds, mainly focusing on linear integer programming. The past few years have also witnessed certain promising theoretical and methodological achieve­ ments in nonlinear integer programming. When the first author of this book was working on duality theory for n- convex continuous optimization in the middle of 1990s, Prof. Douglas J. White suggested that he explore an extension of his research results to integer pro­ gramming. The two authors of the book started their collaborative work on integer programming and global optimization in 1997. The more they have investigated in nonlinear integer programming, the more they need to further delve into the subject. Both authors have been greatly enjoying working in this exciting and challenging field.

Integer programming. --- Nonlinear programming. --- Programming (Mathematics) --- Integer programming --- Nonlinear programming --- Mathematical optimization. --- Operations research. --- Computer science. --- Optimization. --- Operations Research/Decision Theory. --- Operations Research, Management Science. --- Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics. --- Mathematics of Computing. --- Math Applications in Computer Science. --- Informatics --- Science --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- Optimization (Mathematics) --- Optimization techniques --- Optimization theory --- Systems optimization --- Mathematical analysis --- Maxima and minima --- Operations research --- Simulation methods --- System analysis --- Decision making. --- Management science. --- Mathematical models. --- Computer science—Mathematics. --- Models, Mathematical --- Quantitative business analysis --- Management --- Problem solving --- Statistical decision --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Decision making --- Acqui 2006 --- Programmation non lineaire

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Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen’s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual’s welfare should not be measured in terms of her income, but in terms what she can actually do or be, her capabilities. In Chapters 1 and 2, Kuklys describes the capability approach from a standard welfare economic point of view and provides a comprehensive literature review of the empirical applications in this area of research. In the remaining chapters, novel econometric techniques are employed to operationalise the concepts of functionings and capability to investigate inequality and poverty in terms of capability in the UK. Kuklys finds that capability measurement is always a useful complement to traditional monetary analysis, and particularly so in the case of capability-deprived disabled individuals.

Microeconomics --- Economic schools --- economisch denken --- Sen, Amartya --- People with disabilities --- Poverty --- Social choice --- Welfare economics --- 330.580 --- AA / International- internationaal --- GB / United Kingdom - Verenigd Koninkrijk - Royaume Uni --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Economic conditions --- Mathematical models --- Gecontroleerde economie. Geleide economie. Welvaarststaat. Algemeenheden --- Sen, Amartya, --- Amadiya Sen, --- Amartya Kumar Sen, --- Amartya Sen, --- Amartya Sena, --- ʻAmāttaya Sen, --- Sen, A. K. --- Sen, Amadiya, --- Sen, Amarty K. --- Sen, Amartya K. --- Sen, Amartya Kumar --- Sen, Amartya Kumar, --- Sen, Armatya, --- Sena, Amartya, --- 阿瑪蒂亚・森, --- Mathematical models. --- Economic theory. --- Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods. --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Welfare economics - Mathematical models. --- Social choice - Mathematical models. --- Poverty - Mathematical models. --- People with disabilities - Great Britain - Economic conditions - Case studies. --- Acqui 2006 --- Welvaartseconomie.