Privatization as a Conservation Policy
Author: Joseph H. Vogel
With each species lost to the mass extinction crisis, the natural economy of the nation and of the world is greatly diminished. An endangered animal may hold the cure for cancer; a threatened plant could someday become ... |
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Using Wild Genetic Resources for Food and Raw Materials
Author: Robert Prescott-Allen & Christine Prescott-Allen
Tomatoes could not be grown commercially without the help of their wild relatives. A single wild species of rice has helped double rice production in Asia. Wild silk-worms are enabling India to expand its silk industry. ... |
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Author: Roderick Macdonald
Much of our current economic malaise began with the financial crisis of 2007-2010. There are many simplistic explanations that are incomplete or simply wrong: the financial crisis was caused by greed, the Republican part ... |
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Author: Zbigniew Michalewicz
Genetic algorithms are founded upon the principle of evolution, i.e., survival of the fittest. Hence evolution programming techniques, based on genetic algorithms, are applicable to many hard optimization problems, such ... |
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Author: Masatoshi Sakawa
Since the introduction of genetic algorithms in the 1970s, an enormous number of articles together with several significant monographs and books have been published on this methodology. As a result, genetic algorithms ha ... |
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Author: Shu-Heng Chen
After a decade of development, genetic algorithms and genetic programming have become a widely accepted toolkit for computational finance. Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming in Computational Finance is a pioneeri ... |
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Practice and Principles
Author: Angus Clarke
Contributions to this study are drawn both from health professionals engaged in genetic counselling and from observers and critics with backgrounds in law, philosophy, biology, and the social sciences. This diversity wil ... |
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Author: Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Greenhaven's < I>Contemporary Issues Companion< /I> series provides readers with a wealth of information on topics of current interest. Each anthology examines an important social issue in a variety of ways, from persona ... |
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Author: Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Greenhaven's < I>Contemporary Issues Companion< /I> series provides readers with a wealth of information on topics of current interest. Each anthology examines an important social issue in a variety of ways, from persona ... |
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Author: Eric Lichtfouse
Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as cli ... |
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Author: Colin Carter, Ian Sheldon, GianCarlo Moschini & others
Genetically modified (GM) (or transgenic) crops are produced using plant biotechnology to select desirable characteristics in plants and transfer genes from one organism to another. As a result, crops can survive under h ... |
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Economics and Politics
Author: Gerald C. Nelson
Genetically modified crops have become a topic of great interest among scientists, regulators, consumers, farmers, and politicians. Despite their potential benefits, public hostility toward these crops is causing dramati ... |
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Author: T. McGleenan, U. Wiesing & F. Ewald
Compiled by a well known and respected team of editors and contributors from interdisciplinary backgrounds, this book has its origins in the Euroscreen project, a research project funded by the European Commission to exa ... |
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Medical Underwriting and Social Policy
Author: Mark A. Rothstein
Insurance companies routinely use an individual's medical history and family medical history in determining eligibility for life insurance; this is part of the process of medical underwriting. Insurers have also long use ... |
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World Oil Since 1970
Author: M. A. Adelman
Pictures of oil as the glittering prize, the source of global power and empires, or the hub of an energy crisis have gushed through the media since 1973. What actually happened was very different. M. A. Adelman had writt ... |
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The Natural History of Creativity
Author: H. J. Eysenck
Genius: The Natural History of Creativity presents a novel theory of genius and creativity, based on the personality characteristics of creative persons and geniuses. Starting with the fact that genius and creativity are ... |
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A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
Author: Howard Bloom
Is global capitalism on its last legs? Is the era of American leadership over? Has the West begun a decline into a new Dark Age? Does American civilisation deserve to survive? These are the unnerving questions raised by ... |
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A Radical Re-vision of Capitalism
Author: Howard Bloom
Is global capitalism on its last legs? Has the West begun a decline into a new Dark Age? Does Western civilization even deserve to survive as it is now? These are just some of the unnerving questions raised by the Great ... |
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