Authors:Fabien De Meester, Fabien De Meester, Ronald R. Wats
Publisher: Humana Press
Keywords: prevention, columbus, concept, disease, promotion, type, food, health, wild
Number of Pages: 574
Published: 2007-11-19
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 1588296687
ISBN-13: 9781588296689

It is essential to force a U-turn in the way contemporary medicine approaches ill-health diseases. Early prevention of primary risk factors is a far more promising approach compared to late acute treatment of secondary risk factors in reducing the cost burden of Public Health, not mentioning the expected benefits of the former versus the latter approaches with regards to the Quality of Life. Wild-Type Food in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: The Columbus Concept is one of the first books to focus on the role of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in unhealthy diets. The volume is divid

Author: W.J. Meester
Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD
Keywords: entrepreneurs, preferences, locational
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2004-05-14
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 379080178X
ISBN-13: 9783790801781

In this book, locational preferences of firms in The Netherlands and Germany are studied from a behavioural point of view. Stated preferences of entrepreneurs in each country are examined, using various types of statistical analysis. The influence of both firm and place characteristics is analysed. Special attention is given to the relation between distance and rating. Other topics mentioned are changes in the rating patterns in time, the relation of locational preferences with other types of spatial preferences and with locational behaviour. The results of the analyses may be regarded as rele

Authors:Ronald Meester, Rahul Roy,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: mathematics, tracts, cambridge, percolation, continuum
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1996-06-13
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 052147504X
ISBN-13: 9780521475044

Many phenomena in physics, chemistry, and biology can be modeled by spatial random processes. One such process is continuum percolation, which is used when the phenomenon being modeled is made up of individual events that overlap e.g., individual raindrops that eventually make the ground evenly wet. This is a systematic, rigorous account of continuum percolation. The authors treat two models, the Boolean model and the random connection model, in detail, and they discuss related continuum models. Meester and Roy explain all important techniques and methods and apply them to obtain results o

Authors:Alain F. Zuur, Elena N. Ieno, Erik H.W.G. Meester,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: guide, beginner
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0387938362
ISBN-13: 9780387938363

Based on their extensive experience with teaching R and statistics to applied scientists, the authors provide a beginner’s guide to R. To avoid the difficulty of teaching R and statistics at the same time, statistical methods are kept to a minimum. The text covers how to download and install R, import and manage data, elementary plotting, an introduction to functions, advanced plotting, and common beginner mistakes. This book contains everything you need to know to get started with R. “Its biggest advantage is that it aims only to teach R...It organizes R commands very efficiently, wit

Authors:Fabien De Meester, Sherma Zibadi, Ronald Ross Watson
Publisher: Humana Press
Keywords: nutrition, health, promotion, disease, dietary, intakes, modern
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2010-06-21
List price: $219.00
ISBN-10: 1603275703
ISBN-13: 9781603275705

The industrial and agricultural revolutions have dramatically changed our lifestyles including where we get foods and what we eat. Modern diets have moved away from a close association with historically beneficial foods and diets towards foods and diets with increased fats and contaminants  and with much lower intakes of fruits and vegetables.  Modern Dietary Fat Intakes in Disease Promotion focuses on the scientific evidence that define such risks in modern diets with the consequences of increased illness, cancer and disease. There is also an emphasis on methods to reverse negative componen