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Interdisciplinary research is a method that has become efficient in
accelerating scientific discovery. The integration of such
processes in problem solving and knowledge generation is a vital
part of learning and instruction. Promoting Interdisciplinarity in
Knowledge Generation and Problem Solving is a pivotal reference
source for the latest scholarly research on interdisciplinary
projects from around the world, highlighting the broad range of
circumstances in which this approach can be effectively used to
solve problems and generate new knowledge. Featuring coverage on a
number of topics and perspectives such as industrial design,
ethnographic methods, and methodological pluralism, this
publication is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, and
students seeking current research on the promotion of
interdisciplinarity for knowledge production.
This book highlights the various types of nanomaterials currently
available and their applications in three major sectors: energy,
health, and the environment. It addresses a range of aspects based
on the fact that these materials' structure can be tailored at
extremely small scales to achieve specific properties, thus greatly
expanding the materials science toolkit. Further, the book pursues
a holistic approach to nanomaterial applications by taking into
consideration the various stakeholders who use them. It explores
several applications that could potentially be used to improve the
environment and to more efficiently and cost-effectively produce
energy, e.g. by reducing pollutant production during the
manufacture of materials, producing solar cells that generate
electricity at a competitive cost, cleaning up organic chemicals
that pollute groundwater, removing volatile organic compounds
(VOCs) from the air, and so on. Given its scope, the book offers a
valuable asset for a broad readership, including professionals,
students, and researchers from materials science/engineering,
polymer science, composite technology, nanotechnology, and
biotechnology whose work involves nanomaterials and nanocomposites.
The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of
Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until
recently, the book's philosophical reception has been shaped, for
the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of
science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new collection of essays takes
a renewed look at this work. This volume concentrates on particular
issues addressed or raised in light of recent scholarship and
without the pressure of the immediate concerns scholars had at the
time of the Structure's publication. There has been extensive
research on all of the major issues concerning the development of
science which are discussed in Structure, work in which the
scholars contributing to this volume have all been actively
involved. In recent years they have pursued novel research on a
number of topics relevant to Structure's concerns, such as the
nature and function of concepts, the complexity of logical
positivism and its legacy, the relation of history to philosophy of
science, the character of scientific progress and rationality, and
scientific realism, all of which are brought together and given new
light in this text. In this way, our book makes new connections and
undertakes new approaches in an effort to understand the
Structure's significance in the canon of philosophy of science.
The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of
Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until
recently, the book's philosophical reception has been shaped, for
the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of
science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new collection of essays takes
a renewed look at this work. This volume concentrates on particular
issues addressed or raised in light of recent scholarship and
without the pressure of the immediate concerns scholars had at the
time of the Structure's publication. There has been extensive
research on all of the major issues concerning the development of
science which are discussed in Structure, work in which the
scholars contributing to this volume have all been actively
involved. In recent years they have pursued novel research on a
number of topics relevant to Structure's concerns, such as the
nature and function of concepts, the complexity of logical
positivism and its legacy, the relation of history to philosophy of
science, the character of scientific progress and rationality, and
scientific realism, all of which are brought together and given new
light in this text. In this way, our book makes new connections and
undertakes new approaches in an effort to understand the
Structure's significance in the canon of philosophy of science.
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Heterogeneous Data Management, Polystores, and Analytics for Healthcare - VLDB Workshops, Poly 2022 and DMAH 2022, Virtual Event, September 9, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
El Kindi Rezig, Vijay Gadepally, Timothy Mattson, Michael Stonebraker, Tim Kraska, …
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This book constitutes revised selected papers from two VLDB
workshops: The International Workshop on Polystore Systems for
Heterogeneous Data in Multiple Databases with Privacy and Security
Assurances, Poly 2022, and the 8th International Workshop on Data
Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2022,
which were held virtually on September 9, 2022. The proceedings
include 3 full papers each from Poly 2022 and from DMAH 2022. DMAH
deals with innovative data management and analytics technologies
highlighting end-to-end applications, systems, and methods to
address problems in healthcare, public health, and everyday
wellness, with clinical, physiological, imaging, behavioral,
environmental, and omic - data, and data from social media and the
Web. Poly is focusing on the broader real-world polystore problem,
which includes data management, data integration, data curation,
privacy, and security.
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Heterogeneous Data Management, Polystores, and Analytics for Healthcare - VLDB Workshops, Poly 2021 and DMAH 2021, Virtual Event, August 20, 2021, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
El Kindi Rezig, Vijay Gadepally, Timothy Mattson, Michael Stonebraker, Tim Kraska, …
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This book constitutes revised selected papers from two VLDB
workshops: The International Workshop on Polystore Systems for
Heterogeneous Data in Multiple Databases with Privacy and Security
Assurances, Poly 2021, and the 7th International Workshop on Data
Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2021,
which were held virtually on August 2021. For Poly 2021, 7 full and
2 short papers were accepted from 10 submissions; and for DMAH
2021, 4 full papers together with 2 invited papers were accepted
from a total of 7 submissions. The papers were organized in topical
sections as follows: distributed information systems in
enterprises, enterprise access to data constructed from a variety
of programming models, data management, data integration, data
curation, privacy, and security innovative data management and
analytics technologies highlighting end-to-end applications,
systems, and methods to address problems in healthcare.
This book highlights the various types of nanomaterials currently
available and their applications in three major sectors: energy,
health, and the environment. It addresses a range of aspects based
on the fact that these materials' structure can be tailored at
extremely small scales to achieve specific properties, thus greatly
expanding the materials science toolkit. Further, the book pursues
a holistic approach to nanomaterial applications by taking into
consideration the various stakeholders who use them. It explores
several applications that could potentially be used to improve the
environment and to more efficiently and cost-effectively produce
energy, e.g. by reducing pollutant production during the
manufacture of materials, producing solar cells that generate
electricity at a competitive cost, cleaning up organic chemicals
that pollute groundwater, removing volatile organic compounds
(VOCs) from the air, and so on. Given its scope, the book offers a
valuable asset for a broad readership, including professionals,
students, and researchers from materials science/engineering,
polymer science, composite technology, nanotechnology, and
biotechnology whose work involves nanomaterials and nanocomposites.
"Takilma Tales: The Hippie History of Takilma, Oregon," explores
the evolution of a small village near the former town of Waldo; a
Gold Rush ghost town, in remote Southwest Oregon. In the 60's and
70's, young hippies flocked to the run-down mining and logging town
of Takilma on the edge of the Siskiyou Mountains, which straddle
the border between California and Oregon. In that wilderness, the
hippies transformed the small town, and with hard work and
dedication, they created an intentional community, with its own
medical clinic, community building, alternative school and food
co-operative. This is a collection of stories from Takilma
residents and a loose compilation of the history of the place, from
'Natives to Nowadays'; in the words of many of its founding
members. The author, herself a resident of Takilma for over 33
years, takes the reader on a fascinating account woven of the
memories of numerous free-thinking, New-Age, back-to-the-land
people who still reside there. If you've ever wanted to know what
the hippie movement was all about; read this book.
This book discusses market power of cooperatives in Ethiopia and
investigates the factors that influence market power. A standard
analytical tool such as Herfindahl index, the commonly used
competition assessment tool, is employed to analyze the degree of
market concentration within the defined marketplace. The share of
cooperatives is significantly low indicating that the market is
dominated by non cooperative firms. The book comprises six
chapters. The first chapter dovetails market power of cooperatives;
second chapter deals with empirical studies on market power and
conceptual framework; the methodological approach is discussed in
the third chapter. Chapter four is devoted for analyzing the market
power of cooperatives; factors explaining market power of
cooperatives is analyzed in the fifth chapter using binary
dependent logistic regression model; and in final chapter major
findings, conclusion and recommendations for policy implications
are offered.
Climate variability and associated risks in the Central Rift Valley
(CRV) of Ethiopia put farmers under fragile situations. Although
tef (Eragrostis tef) is an important cereal crop in Ethiopia, crop
responses to water studies are scanty. Thus, ETc and Kc of three
tef varieties determined and long-term climatic conditions of three
tef growing areas viz. Alemtena, Debre Zeit and Melkassa analyzed.
Seasonal ETc 289.5, 378.5 and 387mm, recorded for DZ-Cr-37,
DZ-01-196 and DZ-01-354, respectively. The pooled Kc values were
0.3, 1.0, 1.2 and 0.7 for initial, development, mid-season and
late-season stages, respectively. The studied sites receive
rainfall from March to May and from June to September which
contributes 18-32% and 66-73% to the annual rainfall, respectively.
The mean length of the growing period extends from 98-114 and is
highly variable. The seasonal effective rainfall failed to meet the
ETc of 100 days maturity tef varieties in 40-43% of the seasons at
Alemtena and Melkassa. It was concluded that analysis of long-term
climate data using crop specific coefficients would help to provide
better advice in designing appropriate crop management practices
and to minimize risk.
Sesame seed is the most important cash crop in major regions of
Ethiopia. Farmers in the sub sector generated the biggest share of
income from sales of sesame seeds. In this book, it is indicated
that 94% of sesame production is supplied to the market. Major
determinant factors for market supply were estimated by OLS
regression. Sesame market performance was measured using indicators
of marketing margins and levels of market integration. Major
marketing cost components were identified and transport cost has
been identified as the major cost constituent. Market concentration
ratios of traders were measured using CR4 market concentration
measures. From the analysis, it is proved that there existed tight
oligopoly at different market levels.This book will be useful to
marketing researchers, economists, policy makers, and any
development practitioners
Agricultural cooperatives in Ethiopia are charged with the purpose
of becoming market outlet for smallholder farmers. Though
cooperatives are constrained by different problems, the development
strategy of the country advocates the expansion of the cooperatives
in rural Ethiopia for better agricultural market participation and
commercialization of the smallholder agriculture. Before two and
three decades, the impact of these cooperatives on the betterment
of the vast majority of smallholders was trivial. Specifically, the
services of these cooperatives had little impact on earning,
bargaining power and commercialization of smallholders'
agriculture. Therefore, in view of the current role of agricultural
cooperatives in Ethiopia and the commercialization of smallholder
agenda, this book shows the major economic impact of agricultural
cooperatives on price, income and commercialization of smallholder
agriculture.
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