Authors:Marco Festa-Bianchet, Marco Apollonio,
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: conservation, wildlife, behavior
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2003-05-12
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 155963958X
ISBN-13: 9781559639583

Efforts to conserve wildlife populations and preserve biological diversity are often hampered by an inadequate understanding of animal behavior. How do animals react to gaps in forested lands, or to sport hunters? Do individual differences?in age, sex, size, past experience?affect how an animal reacts to a given situation? Differences in individual behavior may determine the success or failure of a conservation initiative, yet they are rarely considered when strategies and policies are developed. Animal Behavior and Wildlife Conservation explores how knowledge of animal behavior may help incre

Authors:Marco Dorigo, Marco Colombetti,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: robotics, autonomous, agents, intelligent, engineering, shaping, experiment, behavior, robot
Number of Pages: 203
Published: 1997-11-06
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0262041642
ISBN-13: 9780262041645

foreword by Lashon Booker "[This] book gives a clear and comprehensive exposition of [the authors] extensive experience in integrating reinforcement learning and autonomous robotics. Their continuing contribution is to the development of a distinct engineering discipline (`Behavior engineering’) through which such robots can be created. I am excited because their efforts combine some of the best theoretical ideas with a strong eye for the practical - for what will actually work." -- Stewart W. Wilson, The Rowland Institute for Science To program an autonomous robot to act re

Authors:Marco Apollonio, Marco Festa-Bianchet, Danilo Mainar
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: culture, ethology, science, systems, mating, vertebrate
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2000-12-15
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 9810242603
ISBN-13: 9789810242602

A review of the relationship of mating systems with other aspects of vertebrate biology. It seeks to present many stimulating perspectives and ideas on mating systems studies. While many of the contributors present their own research, in all cases they underline the general relevance of their work and speculate on future directions of scientific enquiry.

Authors:Marco Taisch, Klaus-Dieter Thoben, Marco Montorio,
Publisher: Taylor & Franci
Keywords: engineering, monographs, water, earth, sciences, proceedings, balkema, manufacturing, ict, systems, perspective, advanced
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2007-03-13
List price: $109.95
ISBN-10: 0415429129
ISBN-13: 9780415429122

Manufacturing plays a vital role in European economy and society, and is expected to continue as a major generator of wealth in the foreseeable future. A competitive manufacturing industry is essential for the prosperity of Europe, especially in the face of accelerating deindustrialisation. This book provides a broad vision of the future of manufacturing, analysed from a system-management viewpoint and with a special focus on ICT-related matters. Each contribution presents a complex and multidisciplinary research domain from a specific perspective. The first part of the book gives an overview

Author: Michael Burga
Publisher: Compass Point Book
Keywords: marco, polo, exploring, world, road, silk, china
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2002-01-01
List price: $22.60
ISBN-10: 0756501806
ISBN-13: 9780756501808

A biography of the thirteenth-century Venetian explorer whose book about his travels across Asia and work for Kubla Khan helped to launch the Age of Exploration.

Authors:Marco van de Weert, Marco van de Weert, Eva Horn Mø
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: aspects, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, biopharmaceuticals, immunogenicity
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2008-03-21
List price: $209.00
ISBN-10: 0387758402
ISBN-13: 9780387758404

A particular issue for biopharmaceuticals that has not been addressed comprehensively in any book, is the potential of an immune response to the biopharmaceutical product. That is, the human body marks the drug as a foreign body, and develops antibodies against the drug. These antibodies may be relatively harmless, but may also cross-react with the endogenous compound, causing autoimmunogenicity. Recent adverse experiences in Europe with Janssen-Ortho s blockbuster product Eprex has increased the attention towards potential immunogenicity of biopharmaceuticals, above all from the regulatory ag

Author: Marco Polo
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Keywords: world, literature, classics, wordsworth, marco, polo, travels
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-08-05
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1853264733
ISBN-13: 9781853264733

Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo’s journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which covered the Asian continent, but which was almost unknown to Polo’s contemporaries. Encompassing a twenty-four year period from 1721, Polo’s account details his travels in the service of the empire, from Beijing to northern India and ends with the remarkable story of Polo’s re