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Agriculture & related industriesNovember 1996Cereals Sector Reform in the Former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe
by Edited by Lawrence D Smith, Neil Spooner
In most countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), cereals production constitutes a major proportion of agricultural sector output, and expenditure on cereals products represents a significant component of total household expenditure. Perhaps for these very reasons, cereals sector reform in many countries has tended to lag behind that of other sectors within agriculture, and of the liberalisation process in general. This lack of reform has prevented the countries of the region from realising the full productive potential of their cereals industries and threatens to undermine food security.This book is based on a workshop on cereals sector reform and food security in the Newly Independent States (NIS) and CEE, held in Kiev, Ukraine, in December 1995. It addresses the general issues involved in the reform process and also considers the progress made, and constraints encountered, in specific countries in the region. Earlier chapters consider general features of the reforms, and the later chapters are concerned with country-specific issues. The workshop was held as part of a broader initiative by ICERC to create a framework for cooperation on the critical issues of economic transition in this region: to revitalise trade, to stimulate investment, to increase food production, to develop and conserve resources, and to take effective action on environmental problems.
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Fertilizers & manuresDecember 2000Sustainable Management of Soil Organic Matter
by Edited by Robert M Rees, B Ball, C Watson, C D Campbell
Includes some fifty edited and revised papers from an international conference on Sustainable Management of Soil Organic Matter, held by the British Society of Soil Science in Edinburgh in September 1999. The book explores the results of recent research studies examining how organic matter functions in soils, factors affecting organic matter quality and quantity and how management of organic matter can be optimised in order to achieve sustainable farming practices.
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April 1995»Paul Valéry – Glück, Dämon, Verrückter«
Tagebuch 1920–1928
by Catherine Pozzi, Max Looser, Max Looser, Max Looser, Lawrence Joseph
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January 1987Hermann Hesse
Dichter, Sucher, Bekenner. Biographie
by Joseph Mileck, Jutta Knust, Theodor A. Knust, Joseph Mileck
Joseph Mileck, der Verfasser der bislang vollständigsten, zweibändigen Hesse-Bibliographie, sagt über seine Hesse-Biographie: »Bei meinem Unterfangen ging es mir in erster Linie darum, den Menschen Hesse und seine Gedankenwelt zu zeigen, seine Schriften nach Gehalt und Gestalt zu kennzeichnen und die Aufmerksamkeit auf die enge Beziehung zwischen seinem Leben und seinem Werk zu lenken. Mein Ziel war es, den eigentlichen Hesse darzustellen, und nicht, mir einen Hesse vorzustellen, seine Werke so zu verstehen, wie er sie selber verstand, und nicht so, wie ich sie lieber verstanden hätte, und den schöpferischen Prozeß bei ihm ein wenig zu beleuchten.« Seine Studien belegen, wie eng Leben und Werk Hesses ineinandergreifen und wie hilfreich und notwendig es ist, beide gleichzeitig zu betrachten, um zu einer haltbaren Interpretation zu kommen. Damit ein möglichst umfassendes Bild des Autors entsteht, nimmt Mileck alle fiktionalen und autobiographischen Schriften Hesses in den Blick: also neben den Romanen, Gedichten und Erzählungen auch die politischen wie literarischen Aufsätze, Briefe, Tagebücher und Gedenkblätter.
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November 2018Reforming Priesthood in Reformation Zurich
Heinrich Bullinger’s End-Times Agenda
by Jon D. Wood
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Sport & leisure industriesSeptember 2006Tourism in the New Europe
The Challenges and Opportunities of EU Enlargement
by Edited by D Hall, Melanie Smith, Barbara Marciszweska
Tourism in the New Europe addresses European tourism within the framework of an enlarged European Union of 25 members. It looks at the substantial reorientation of the organisational framework of European tourism and its profound implications for future structural and geographical patterns of development. Providing a series of thematic evaluations of the relationships between tourism and EU enlargement, this book includes a country-by-country examination of each of the new member states, in terms of their current patterns and trends of tourism development and the impacts which EU accession brings to them.
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Botany & plant sciencesJune 2009Manual of Leaf Architecture
by Beth Ellis, Douglas C. Daly, Leo J. Hickey, Kirk R. Johnson, John D. Mitchell, Peter Wilf, Scott Wing
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Science & MathematicsMay 2020Optical Manipulation of Pests and Beneficial Arthropods
by David Ben-Yakir, Antoine Abrieux, Joanna C. Chiu, Joseph E. Funderbunk, Daphna Gottlieb, Gábor Horváth, Simcha Lev-Yadun, Un Taek Lim, Xavier Martini, Masami Shimoda, Robert van Tol
Arthropod pests, pollinators, and natural enemies of pests have a great economic importance to human health and food supply worldwide. Arthropods use optical cues to find food and suitable oviposition sites, daily and seasonal activities, orientation and navigation. Most arthropods have compound eyes with receptors for UV light (peak sensitivity at 360 nm) and for green-yellow light (peak sensitivity at 520-540 nm). Many arthropods also have simple eyes (ocelli) that respond to changes in light intensity. Some arthropods can detect linearly polarized light and use it as an optical cue for oviposition sites, finding of hosts and navigation.The properties of the optical cue, such as wavelength, intensity, polarization, size, shape and contrast, greatly affect their response to the optical cue. Therefore, manipulation of optical cues can interfere or enhance arthropods' activities and development. UV light has been used to attract insects for monitoring and control. The patterns of UV reflected from flowers and plants affect arthropods' preference to visit them. The absence of UV light often deters arthropods and decreases their dispersal rate. UVB induces general stress in plants which may increase their resistance to arthropod pests. Green-yellow color induces landing and favors settling (arresting) of many plant feeding arthropods. High levels of reflected sunlight (above 25% of sun radiation) deters arthropods' landing and reduces settling. The recent use of monochromatic lights to increase crop yield, or to induce desirable plant characteristics, is expected to affect the activity of the associated arthropds as well. Optical manipulations are proposed as a part of an integrated pest management (IPM) program for open-field and protected crops, and for protecting the health of humans and domestic animals. This book contains up-to-date reviews of the published literature, some unpublished results of the authors, and suggestions for future research and development of this method.
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August 2008Konjunkturzyklen
Eine theoretische, historische und statistische Analyse des kapitalistischen Prozesses
by Schumpeter, Joseph A.
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Joseph Losey
by Colin Gardner
The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt Brecht before directing noir B-pictures in Hollywood. A victim of McCarthyism, he later crossed the Atlantic to direct a series of seminal British films such as "Time Without Pity," "Eve," "The Servant," and "The Go-Between," which mark him as one of the cinema's greatest baroque stylists. His British films reflect on exile and the outsider's view of a class-bound society in crisis through a style rooted in the European art house tradition of Resnais and Godard. Gardner employs recent methodologies from cultural studies and poststructural theory, exploring and clarifying the films' uneasy tension between class and gender, and their explorations of fractured temporality.
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August 1997Literatur in den den Rheinlanden und in Westfalen – Literatur in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Texte aus hundert Jahren in vier Bänden
2: »Auf meinem Herzen liegt es wie ein Alp«. Literatur in den Rheinlanden und in Westfalen 1919–1945
by Monika R. Schloz, Volker C. Dörr, Norbert Oellers, Hartmut Steinecke, Joseph Anton Kruse
Volker C. Dörr, geboren 1966, studierte Germanistik, Philosophie und Kunstgeschichte in Bonn. Seit 2002 lehrt er als Privatdozent am Germanistischen Seminar der Universität Bonn. Er ist u. a. Mitherausgeber der beiden Bände Mit Schiller. Briefe, Tagebücher und Gespräche vom 24. Juni 1794 bis zum 9. Mai 1805 innerhalb der Frankfurter Ausgabe von Goethes Werken. Joseph A. Kruse, 1944 in Dingden bei Bocholt (heute Hamminkeln) geboren, ist seit 1975 Direktor des Heinrich-Heine-Instituts in Düsseldorf; 1986 wurde er zum Honorarprofessor an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf ernannt. Er gibt u. a. das Heine-Jahrbuch und die Heine-Studien heraus und hat zahlreiche Publikationen zu Heine und seiner Zeit sowie zu den Sammlungen des Heine-Instituts veröffentlicht.
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1961Konjunkturzyklen
Eine theoretische, historische und statistische Analyse des kapitalistischen Prozesses
by Schumpeter, Joseph A / Englisch Dockhorn, Klaus
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MedicineMay 2018Bovine Pathology
A Text and Color Atlas
by Claus D. Buergelt, Edward G. Clark, Fabio Del Piero
Illustrated with over 1000 color images of the highest quality, Bovine Pathology: A Text and Color Atlas is a comprehensive single resource to identifying diseases in dairy cattle, feedlot cattle, and their calves. With summary text describing key features, the book correlates clinical information with pathology and differential diagnoses. The text covers naked-eye macroscopic appearance, through to microscopic pathology, and the immunohistochemistry of infectious agents and tumor markers. Structured by major organ system, the disease entries follow a consistent format and clarity of display. This, combined with an integrated E-book, handy fact sheets, summary boxes and key points, helps aid understanding. Key features include: - Over 1000 superb color images to illustrate the pathologies - A thorough review of mainly western hemisphere diseases of cattle covering macroscopic appearance, microscopic appearance, and immunohistochemistry - Synoptic layout, fact sheets, summary boxes, succinct legends and key bullet points supports its use as a field guide or revision aid - Organised by major organ system which ensures that vital facts can be found quickly - A unique chapter covering calf-hood diseases Serving as an essential reference work for veterinary pathologists who perform bovine necropsies, veterinary residents and students, the book is also practical enough for bovine practitioners who need to investigate sudden death losses of cattle on the farm.
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2020Vitamin D
The healing power of the sunshine vitamin
by Uwe Gröber and Prof. Dr. Michael F. Holick
Vitamin D deficiency is a global health problem that puts the quality of life and life expectancy of more than a billion children and adults at risk worldwide. Many lifestyle diseases may be associated with vitamin D deficiency: myocardial infarction, infections, cancer, neurological diseases, stroke, type 2 diabetes, to name just a few. This 4th updated edition incorporates numerous new insights into the therapeutic effect of vitamin D, including its importance for a healthy pregnancy, prenatal imprinting, optimum sporting performance, diabetes mellitus and autoimmune diseases such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or multiple sclerosis. Since the metabolism and the effect of vitamin D are supported by a complex network of micronutrients – for example, magnesium, vitamin A or vitamin K – a specific chapter is devoted to this network. Here, the reader can discover how vitamin D successfully protects against diseases, improves the quality of life and optimises medication and treatment!
