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September 28, 2023

Spatial Planning Systems in Central and Eastern European CountriesReview and Comparison of Selected Issues

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Free Download Spatial Planning Systems in Central and Eastern European Countries:Review and Comparison of Selected Issues by Maciej J. Nowak , Andrei Mitrea , Gunta Lukstiņa , Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor , Krisztina Filepné Kovács , Velislava Simeonova , Pavel Yanchev , Evelin Jürgenson , Kätlin Põdra , Vít Řezáč , Kristina Mikalauskaite , Birute Pranevičienė , Zuzana Ladzianska , Martin Baloga
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 112 Pages | ISBN : 3031427211 | 1.4 MB
This book presents concise summaries of cutting-edge research and practical applications across the fields of physical, environmental, and human geography. It publishes compact refereed monographs under the editorial supervision of an international advisory board with the aim to publish 8 to 12 weeks after acceptance. Volumes are compact, 50 to 125 pages, with a clear focus. The series covers a range of content from professional to academic such as timely reports of state-of-the art analytical techniques, bridges between new research results, snapshots of hot and/or emerging topics, elaborated thesis, literature reviews, and in-depth case studies.

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September 28, 2023

Multivariate Dispersion, Central Regions, and Depth The Lift Zonoid Approach

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Free Download Multivariate Dispersion, Central Regions, and Depth: The Lift Zonoid Approach by Karl Mosler
English | PDF | 2002 | 303 Pages | ISBN : 0387954120 | 21.8 MB
This book introduces a new representation of probability measures, the lift zonoid representation, and demonstrates its usefulness in statistical applica tions. The material divides into nine chapters. Chapter 1 exhibits the main idea of the lift zonoid representation and surveys the principal results of later chap ters without proofs. Chapter 2 provides a thorough investigation into the theory of the lift zonoid. All principal properties of the lift zonoid are col lected here for later reference. The remaining chapters present applications of the lift zonoid approach to various fields of multivariate analysis. Chap ter 3 introduces a family of central regions, the zonoid trimmed regions, by which a distribution is characterized. Its sample version proves to be useful in describing data. Chapter 4 is devoted to a new notion of data depth, zonoid depth, which has applications in data analysis as well as in inference. In Chapter 5 nonparametric multivariate tests for location and scale are in vestigated; their test statistics are based on notions of data depth, including the zonoid depth. Chapter 6 introduces the depth of a hyperplane and tests which are built on it. Chapter 7 is about volume statistics, the volume of the lift zonoid and the volumes of zonoid trimmed regions; they serve as multivariate measures of dispersion and dependency. Chapter 8 treats the lift zonoid order, which is a stochastic order to compare distributions for their dispersion, and also indices and related orderings.

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September 28, 2023

Exploring Central and Eastern Europe’s Biotechnology Landscape

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Free Download Exploring Central and Eastern Europe’s Biotechnology Landscape by Peter T. Robbins, Farah Huzair
English | PDF | 2012 | 233 Pages | ISBN : 904819783X | 3.1 MB
At a time when the human genome has been sequenced advances in the life sciences seem to have great potential for human health, industry and the environment throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Still, for some, potential risks and ethical dilemmas remain, surrounding issues such as the appropriate use of GM crops, stem cells, genetic information, the nature of intellectual property and other challenges that come with EU accession. This book is the first of its kind to bring together experts from across Europe to explore the landscape of current life science policy and industrial development in CEE, including implications for economies, regulatory and legal frameworks, health care, ethics and human rights. It will be essential reading for researchers and students in science and technology studies, development, sociology, politics and law, and those interested in life science development in transition economies.

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September 26, 2023

The Central Asian World (Routledge Worlds)

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Free Download Globalization in World History: Fourth Edition
by Peter N. Stearns
English | 2023 | ISBN: 036789890X | 243 pages | True PDF | 12.44 MB
This landmark book provides a comprehensive anthropological introduction to contemporary Central Asia. Established and emerging scholars of the region critically interrogate the idea of a ‘Central Asian World’ at the intersection of post-Soviet, Persianate, East and South Asian worlds. Encompassing chapters on life between Afghanistan and Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Xinjiang, this volume situates the social, political, economic, ecological and ritual diversity of Central Asia in historical context. The book ethnographically explores key areas such as the growth of Islamic finance, the remaking of urban and sacred spaces, as well as decolonizing and queering approaches to Central Asia. The volume’s discussion of More-than-Human Worlds, Everyday Economies, Material Culture, Migration and Statehood engages core analytical concerns such as globalization, inequality and postcolonialism. Far more than a survey of a ‘world region’, the volume illuminates how people in Central Asia make a life at the intersection of diverse cross-cutting currents and flows of knowledge. In so doing, it stakes out the contribution of an anthropology of and from Central Asia to broader debates within contemporary anthropology.

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September 19, 2023

Lost Enlightenment Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane [Audiobook]

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Free Download Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00FTWM4U8 | 2013 | 25 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 698 MB
Author: S. Frederick Starr
Narrator: Kevin Stillwell
In this rich and sweeping history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia’s medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds – remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic, they were long assumed to have been Arabs. In fact, they were from Central Asia – drawn from the Persianate and Turkic peoples of a region that today extends from Kazakhstan southward through Afghanistan, and from the easternmost province of Iran through Xinjiang, China. Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields.

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