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Human body size and the laws of scaling physiological, performance, growth, longevity and ecological ramifications /

Table of Contents: “…David Rollo -- Birthweight, height, brain size and intellectual ability / Thomas Samaras -- Impact of body size on resources, pollution, the environment and economics / Thomas Samaras -- Final remarks on human size, scaling and ecological implications / Thomas Samaras.…”
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Prevention of diabetes

Table of Contents: “….] -- Depression and diabetes prevention / Norbert Hermanns -- Diabetes prevention in a challenging environment / Abdul Basit and Musarrat Riaz -- Prevention of diabetes and global migration / Bishwajit Bhowmik, Victoria Telle Hjellset, and Akhtar Hussain -- Diabetes prevention in practice : examples from the real world / Konstantinos Makrilakis ... …”
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2011 rapid excavation and tunneling conference proceedings /

Table of Contents: “…Drill and blast -- pt. 5. Environment, health, and safety -- pt. 6. Future projects -- pt. 7. …”
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G is for genes : the impact of genetics on education and achievement / by Asbury, Kathryn

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Cincinnati Police Department traffic stops applying RAND's framework to analyze racial disparities / by Ridgeway, Greg, 1973-

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Dynamic economic decision making strategies for financial risk, capital markets, and monetary policy / by Silvia, John

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Research tools in natural resource and environmental economics

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to research tools in natural resouce and environmental economics / Batabyal and Nijkamp -- Dynamic analysis / Huffaker -- Stochastic analysis : tools for environmental and resource economics modeling / Xepapadeas -- Game theory : static and dynamic games / Benchekroun and Long -- Introduction to economic valuation methods / Abdullah, Markandya and Nunes -- Hedonic method: value of statistical life, wage compensation, and property value compensation -- Environmental valuation : the sum of specific damages approach / Graves -- Economic estimation of non-linear continuous-time models of intertemporally optimizing agents / Donaghy and Wymer -- Computable general equilibrium models for the analysis of economy-environment interactions / Wing -- Experimental methods and environmental and natural resource policy / Cherry and McKee -- Modeling the economics of ecosystem services at watershed scale : a spatial model of land use externalities and the regulating functions of wetalnds / Simonit and Perrings -- Geographical infromation systems models and spatial data analysis / Haining and Law -- Materials balance models / Ayres and Méndez -- Industrial ecology : reflections of an environmental economist / Førsund.…”
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Handbook of loss prevention and crime prevention

Table of Contents: “…Fennelly -- Crime prevention through environmental design in the twenty first century / Timothy Crowe -- Environment crime control / Glen Kitteringham -- Community policing/problem solving policing / Marianna Perry -- Neighborhood watch guidelines for the 21 st century / Marianna Perry -- Situational crime prevention and opportunity blocking / Severin L. …”
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Human body size and the laws of scaling physiological, performance, growth, longevity and ecological ramifications /

Table of Contents: “…David Rollo -- Birthweight, height, brain size and intellectual ability / Thomas Samaras -- Impact of body size on resources, pollution, the environment and economics / Thomas Samaras -- Final remarks on human size, scaling and ecological implications / Thomas Samaras.…”
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Prevention of diabetes

Table of Contents: “….] -- Depression and diabetes prevention / Norbert Hermanns -- Diabetes prevention in a challenging environment / Abdul Basit and Musarrat Riaz -- Prevention of diabetes and global migration / Bishwajit Bhowmik, Victoria Telle Hjellset, and Akhtar Hussain -- Diabetes prevention in practice : examples from the real world / Konstantinos Makrilakis ... …”
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2011 rapid excavation and tunneling conference proceedings /

Table of Contents: “…Drill and blast -- pt. 5. Environment, health, and safety -- pt. 6. Future projects -- pt. 7. …”
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G is for genes : the impact of genetics on education and achievement / by Asbury, Kathryn

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Women's Midlife Health

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Corporate capital structures in the United States

Table of Contents: “…Malitz -- Capital structure and the corporation's product market environment / A. Michael Spence.…”
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Microbial applications : recent advancements and future developments /

Table of Contents: “…Microbial applications in the food industry -- Microbial applications for fabric and textile industries -- Microbial peptides and peptibols -- Introspecting bacteriophage specificity and decoding phage enzyme non-specificity for antimicrobial applications -- Microbial production of enzymes : an overview -- Microbial pigments -- Role of nutrient in microbial developments and microbial metabolic diversity -- Microbes in wine and beer industries -- Use of tetracyclines and [beta]-lactams in agriculture : fate in the environment and occurrence of antibiotic-resistance determinants -- Industrial microorganisms : tolerance to antibiotics and application of antimicrobial agents -- Microbial biofuel production : an overview on recent developments -- Fungal cell factories and it applications -- Evaluation of an indirect method for rapid bacterial quantification in wastewaters -- Cyanobacteria : biotechnological and environmental applications -- Improvement of functional attributes of kernels of wild legume canavalia martima by rhizopus oligosporus.…”
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Africa in the time of cholera a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / by Echenberg, Myron J.

Table of Contents: “…Seventh pandemic in Africa, 1971-2009; 7. Risk factors: environment and geography, armed conflicts and the dispersal of refugees; 8. …”
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Women's Midlife Health

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The Hybrid Practitioner : Building, Teaching, Researching Architecture /

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Journalists, sources and credibility : new perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…journalism and unnamed sources in a changing media environment / Matt Carlson -- Journalists as "unwilling" sources: transparency and the new ethics of journalism / Angela Phillips -- Activist media as mainstream model: what can professional journalists learn from indymedia? …”
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The investment climate in Brazil, India, and South Africa a comparison of approaches for sustaining economic growth in emerging economies /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Assessing the investment climate of Brazil, India, and South Africa -- Macroeconomic and trade policy -- Macroeconomic performance -- Taxation -- Foreign trade and exchange -- The benefits of exporting : the case of Brazil -- Microeconomic framework -- Regulation -- Enforcement -- Enabling environment for growth -- Investment climate and firm location -- Access to finance -- Physical infrastructure -- Cost and availability of skilled labor -- Crime -- Potential reforms and their estimated effects -- Investment climate reform and productivity -- Examining options for microeconomic reform : access to credit -- Lessons from country experience -- A flat tax for micro and small firms : the SIMPLES reform in Brazil -- The emergence of India's software sector -- Building a respected corporate tax system in South Africa -- South Africa's accelerated and shared growth initiative -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Concept of the investment climate --Appendix B: Data sources.…”
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