Authors:Shenggen Fan, Linxiu Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang,
Publisher: International Food Policy Research Institute
Keywords: research, food, policy, institute, report, ifpri, international, investments, poverty, inequality, rural, china, public, role, growth
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 2002-05-15
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0896291286
ISBN-13: 9780896291287
In the past two decades, China has achieved world renown for reducing rural poverty. However, it is becoming harder to reduce poverty and inequality further in China, even though its economy continues to grow. This report compares the impact specific rural public investments can have on promoting growth and reducing poverty and inequality. Returns to these investments are calculated for the nation as a whole and for three economic zones in the west, central, and coastal regions of the country. Government expenditures that have the highest impact on poverty and growth include education, agricul
Author: William D. Faust
Publisher: Wiley-American Ceramic Society
Keywords: technical, 68th, institute, forum, enamel, porcelain, science, proceedings, engineering, papers, collection, presented
Number of Pages: 219
Published: 2007-02-26
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0470097353
ISBN-13: 9780470097359
The Porcelain Enamel Institute showcases and promotes innovations in materials and processing to improve the overall efficiency of enamelling operations, encourages product use in all possible applications, and advances and protects the legitimate interests of the industry and its individual members. Papers that comprise this book are taken from the 68th Annual Porcelain Enamel institute Technical Forum, May 15-18, 2006. Organized and sponsored by The American Ceramic Society and The American Ceramic Society’s Engineering Ceramics Division in conjunction with the Nuclear and Envir
Author: Leader to Leader Institute (Formerly The Drucker F
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: leader, drucker, guide, foundation, facilitator, institute, assessment, five, important, question, peter, tool
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-11-09
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0470531231
ISBN-13: 9780470531235
The Leader to Leader Institute’s best-selling The Five Most Important Questions Self-Assessment Tool has helped facilitators, leaders, and consultants guide thousands in unleashing their organizations’ full potential in serving their mission and clients. The third edition of this critical resource builds on the original and offers facilitators working with nonprofits and social sector organizations, as well as business and government, a clear and accessible model for helping participants achieve results that align mission, goals, and plans. At the heart of this tool are Peter F
Authors:Ali Minai, Ali Minai, Yaneer Bar-Yam,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: systems, complex, book, institute, england, series, new, complexity, international, themes, proceedings, fourth, unifying, conference
Number of Pages: 390
Published: 2008-03-27
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 3540738487
ISBN-13: 9783540738480
In June of 2002, over 500 professors, students and researchers met in Boston, Massachusetts for the Fourth International Conference on Complex Systems. The attendees represented a remarkably diverse collection of fields: biology, ecology, physics, engineering, computer science, economics, psychology and sociology, The goal of the conference was to encourage cross-fertilization between the many disciplines represented and to deepen understanding of the properties common to all complex systems. This volume contains 43 papers selected from the more than 200 presented at the conference. Topics inc
Author: Structural Engineering Institute
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Keywords: reliability, engineering, design, based, sei, institute, reports, practice, manual, committee, utility, pole, structures, prepared, structural
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2006-08-15
List price: $89.00
ISBN-10: 0784408459
ISBN-13: 9780784408452
Reliability-Based Design of Utility Pole Structures provides state-of-the-art technical information on the design of utility pole structures. Among other useful features, this manual demonstrates how poles differing in material can be designed to equivalent reliability levels, provides means for quantifying adjusting reliability, offers design incentives for more reliable poles, and facilitates innovation and introduction of new material. With its technically innovative subject matter and detailed design examples, this manual will benefit pole manufacturers as well as electrical, structural, a
Author: Eric Wertheim
Publisher: US Naval Institute Pre
Keywords: naval, world, combat, fleets, guide, institute, systems, ships, aircraft
Number of Pages: 1124
Published: 2007-03-30
List price: $250.00
ISBN-10: 159114955X
ISBN-13: 9781591149552
Internationally acknowledged as the best one-volume reference to the world s naval and paranaval forces, this popular Naval Institute guide is both comprehensive and affordable. Updated biennially since 1976, it has come to be relied on for all-inclusive, accurate, and up-to-date data on the ships, navies, coast guards, and naval aviation arms of more than 180 countries and territories. Large fleets and small maritime forces get equally thorough treatment as evidenced in this new edition, which highlights major and even minor developments that could have an impact on the world scene. A thoroug
Authors:S McVitie, D McComb,
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: physics, conference, electron, institute, microscopy, analysis, september, series, group, proceedings
Number of Pages: 279
Published: 2004-02-19
List price: $219.95
ISBN-10: 0750309679
ISBN-13: 9780750309677
Electron microscopy is now a mainstay characterization tool for solid state physicists and chemists as well as materials scientists. Containing the proceedings from the Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group (EMAG) conference in September 2003, this volume covers current developments in the field, primarily in the UK. These conferences are biennial events organized by the EMAG of the Institute of Physics to provide a forum for discussion of the latest developments in instrumentation, techniques, and applications of electron and scanning probe microscopies.
