Yoshimi Kuroda uses an econometric approach to investigate rice production structure and the effects of agricultural policies in Japan over the second half of the 20th century. The impact of four types of government intervention is analysed, revealing just how significant policy effects are to agricultural structure. More specifically, the book explores the negative impact that agricultural policies – such as rice price supports, set-asides, and factor input subsidies – have had on the transference of paddy lands from small-scale to large-scale farms, and investigates the efficiency and productivity of farm management.
Kuroda argues that the government of Japan must seek to redress these interventions if a more efficient production structure will ever be realised. This text is useful reading for students, academics, government researchers in economics, agricultural economists, and those interested in development economics.
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This classic work, written in a clear and interesting style, with many exercises, offers a thorough and reliable treatment of an important branch of higher analysis. It lends itself well to use in course work; however, because of its consistent clear illustrations of theoretical difficulties, the book is also ideal for self-study.
Since all higher analysis depends on the theory of numbers, Professor Knopp (formerly Professor of Mathematics, University of Tübingen) begins with an introduction to the theory of real numbers, an indispensable foundation for what is to come. This introduction is followed by an extensive account of the theory of sequences and the actual theory of infinite series. The latter is covered in two stages: (1) the classical theory (2) later developments of the 19th century.
Carefully selected exercises have been included throughout, emphasizing applications of the theory, rather than purely theoretical considerations.
Aimed at students already acquainted with the elements of differential and integral calculus, this work grew out of the author’s lectures and course work at the universities of Berlin and Königsberg. This pedagogical background helped him achieve a work of utmost clarity and precision — one that belongs in the library of every serious mathematician or student of higher analysis.
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Author: Konrad Knopp Publisher: Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486318615 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: April 2013 563 pages
Two tiger cub brothers are torn from the jungle and taken to Rome. The stronger cub is trained as a killer at the Coliseum. Emperor Caesar makes a gift of the smaller cub to his beautiful daughter, Aurelia. She adores her cub, Boots. Julius, a young animal keeper, teaches Aurelia how to earn Boots’s trust. Boots is pampered while his brother, known as Brute, lives in the cold and darkness, let out only to kill. Caesar trusts Julius to watch Aurelia and her prized pet. But when a prank backfires, Boots temporarily escapes and Julius must pay with his life. Thousands watch as Julius is sent unarmed into the arena to face the killer Brute.
From the Hardcover edition.
Author: Lynne Reid Banks Publisher: Random House Children’s Books ISBN: 9780307548078 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2009 195 pages
Useful business analysis requires you to effectively transform data into actionable information. This book helps you use SQL and Excel to extract business information from relational databases and use that data to define business dimensions, store transactions about customers, produce results, and more. Each chapter explains when and why to perform a particular type of business analysis in order to obtain useful results, how to design and perform the analysis using SQL and Excel, and what the results should look like.
Author: Gordon S. Linoff Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 9780470952528 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: September 2010 646 pages
When Andrew and Judy’s neighbor gives her dog a bath, microscopic Andrew and Judy find themselves washed off the dog and lost in the bathroom! They’ll have to use their wits–and Thudd’s storehouse of facts–if they’re to survive run-ins with mold, mildew, an ocean of soapy water, and a predatory spider on their way back to the Atom Sucker.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author: J.C. Greenburg; Debbie Palen Publisher: Random House Children’s Books ISBN: 9780307532039 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: July 2009 96 pages
The management of air quality is currently at the forefront of international debate. With authors drawn from international experts in their respective fields, Air Quality Management provides comprehensive coverage of the air quality management issue. There are chapters on improving air quality in the UK, the construction of emissions inventories and the design and operation of air monitoring networks. Validation of air pollution models, requiring source receptor modelling, is described, as is the use of geochemical or biological tolerances known as critical loads to determine the maximum allowable inputs of pollutants to the terrestrial environment. The first European Auto-Oil Study, which was sponsored by the European Commission in order to identify the most cost-effective means of meeting air quality targets, is included as a case study. There is also reference to the successes and problems of air pollution control in California, the US state which has pioneered the promotion of vigorous air pollution control measures.
Air Quality Management provides a vital source of material for all those involved in the field, whether as a student, industrialist, consultant, or government agency with responsibility in this area.
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Author: Anthony K Barbour; R M Harrison; N A Burdett; R E Hester; John Cairns Jr; Peter Doyle; P A Chave; Paul Crutzen; Hugh Fish; Michael J Gittins; John E Harries; Philip K Hopke; John T Houghton; N J King; Saburo Matsui; David H Slater; T G Spiro; David Taylor; Frederick Warner; D Middleton; D Hutchinson; M Hornung; Andreas Skouloudis; Alan C Lloyd; R L Maynard; J Bower; K Cameron; H Dyke; J R Hall; S Metcalfe Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry ISBN: 9781847550101 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2007 174 pages
How do young children develop scientific understandings, skills, and attitudes? What is effective scientific teaching and learning in the early years? How can early-years practitioners be creative providers and develop awe and wonder of the world in the children they teach?The second edition of this bestselling title celebrates good scientific practice in the early years—with children up to eight years of age. For professionals and students working with children up to eight years.
Author: Jane Johnston Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education ISBN: 9780335225958 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: April 2007 223 pages
Advances in Magnetic and Optical Resonance, Volume 15 focuses on the quantitative mathematical treatments of the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).
This book discusses the iterative methods in the design of pulse sequences for NMR excitation; fixed point theory of iterative schemes; electron-nuclear polarization transfer in the nuclear rotating frame; and LF-and RF-DNP in doped polystyrene. The multipole NMR; solid state and solution NMR of non-classical transition metal polyhydrides; and dihydrogen complexes are also elaborated. This text likewise covers the quantum mechanical exchange in polyhydrides; low-frequency magnetic resonance with a dc SQUID and operating principles of the SQUID detector.
This publication is a good source for students and researchers concerned with the application of NMR.
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Author: Warren S. Warren Publisher: Elsevier Science ISBN: 9781483281476 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2013 281 pages
Current debate about a supranational legal form for small and mid-sized enterprises has taken on a new direction and a new dynamic with the Commission’s push for the SUP. This volume carefully traces the outlines of the new company structure and reveals the possible implications of its introduction from a range of academic, practical, and legal policy perspectives.
Author: Marcus Lutter; Jens Koch Publisher: De Gruyter ISBN: 9783110422276 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: July 2015 150 pages
The idea of the nation is globally in crisis, but multiculturalism has often seemed to name a specifically national debate. Multicultural States challenges the national focus of these debates by investigating theories, policies and practices of cultural pluralism across eight countries with historical links in British colonialism: the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Ireland and Britain.
This important book combines discussions of the principles of multiculturalism with studies of specific local histories and political conflicts. The contributors discuss:
* communalism and colonialism in India
* Irish sectarianism and postmodern identity politics
* ethnic nationalism in post-apartheid South Africa
* British multiculturalism as part of the heritage industry
* feminism and Australian republicanism.
Contributors: Ien Ang, David Attwell, Homi K. Bhabha, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Abena P. A. Busia, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Terry Eagleton, John Frow, Henry A. Giroux, Ihab Hassan, Smaro Kamboureli, Maria Koundoura, Beryl Langer, Anne Maxwell, Meaghan Morris, Susan Mathieson and Jon Stratton
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Author: David Bennett Publisher: Taylor and Francis ISBN: 9781134807970 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2013 321 pages
