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Data Analysis and Business Modeling with Excel 2013
Manage, analyze, and visualize data with Microsoft Excel 2013 to transform raw data into ready to use information
2015
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Key FeaturesBook DescriptionExcel 2013 is one of the easiest to use data analysis tools you will ever come across. Its simplicity and powerful features has made it the go to tool for all your data needs. Complex operations with Excel, such as creating charts and graphs, visualization, and analyzing data make it a great tool for managers, data scientists, financial data analysts, and those who work closely with data. Learning data analysis and will help...
Materials for Sustainable Energy Applications
Conversion, Storage, Transmission, and Consumption
2017
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The impending energy crisis brought on by the running out of finite and non-homogenously distributed fossil fuel reserves and the worldwide increase in energy demand has prompted vast research in the development of sustainable energy technologies in the last few decades. However, the efficiency of most of these new technologies is relatively small and therefore it needs to be increased to eventually replace conventional technologies based on fossil fuels. The required efficiency increase p...
Two Visions of the Art World
Competition, Community, and Creative Work
2026
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Scholars and journalists focus on money and power when they talk about contemporary art. Two Visions of the Art World: Competition, Community, and Creative Work provokes an argument with the dominant art world narrative that focuses on extreme competition. From this perspective, artists are trapped in the world of exclusive galleries, snobby museums, and the art market's relentless pressures. This book offers an alternative perspective: dual layer theory. Rojas and de la Torre arg...
United States and Chile
Coming in From the Cold
2013
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The United States and Chile is the ideal introduction to U.S.- Chilean relations. From our strained Cold War relations and the Allende assassination to current democratic and economic development, senior scholars Mares and Aravena deftly trace the path of the relationship from early partners, through tense Cold War stand-offs, to the slowly warming relations of the present. The authors include information on General Augusto Pinochet's human rights violations, his current prosecution for th...
Mass Production of Beneficial Organisms
Invertebrates and Entomopathogens
2022
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Mass Production of Beneficial Organisms: Invertebrates and Entomopathogens, Second Edition explores the latest advancements and technologies for large-scale rearing and manipulation of natural enemies while presenting ways of improving success rate, predictability of biological control procedures, and demonstrating their safe and effective use. Organized into three sections, Parasitoids and Predators, Pathogens, and Invertebrates for Other Applications, this second edition contains importa...
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- Jose Armando BoninsegnaBarrie BonsalDarrell CorkalAmber FletcherMonica HadaritsTom HarrisonMargot HurlbertSamantha KerrErin KnuttilaSuren KulshreshtaGregory MarchildonElma MontanaBruce MoritoJeremy PittmanAlejandro RojasDavid SauchynPaula SantibanezA. UnvoasJohanna WandelJames WarrenVirginia WhittrockElaine Wheaton
2016
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Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The drought of 2001-02 was, for example, the most recent large-area, intense, and prolonged drought in Canada and one of Canada's most costly natural disasters in a century. Vulnerability and Adaptation to Drought on the Canadian Prairies describes the impacts of ...
Industrial PID Controller Tuning
With a Multiobjective Framework Using MATLAB®
2021
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Industrial PID Controller Tuning presents a different view of the servo/regulator compromise that has been studied for a long time in industrial control research. Optimal tuning generally involves comparison of cost functions (e.g., a quadratic function of the error or a time-weighted absolute value of the error) but without taking advantage of available multi-objective optimization methods. The bookdoes make use of multi-objective optimization to account for several sources of di...
Precarious Democracy
Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil
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- Lila Moritz SchwarczBenjamin JungeJessica JeromeIsabela KalilRosana Pinheiro-MachadoLucia Mury ScalcoPatricia de Santana PinhoSean T. MitchellKarina BiondiJohn CollinsLucia CanteroDavid RojasAndrezza Alves Spexoto OlivalAlexandre de Azevedo OlivalFalina EnriquezMoisés KopperSarah LeBaron von BaeyerLaShandra SullivanCarlos Eduardo HenningAlvaro JarrinMelanie A. MedeirosPatrick McCormickErika SchmittJames Kale
2021
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Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century’s second decade. In 2010, the country’s outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval. As the presidency passed to his Workers' Party successor, Dilma Rousseff, many across the world hailed Brazil as a model of progressive governance in the Global South. Yet, by 2019, those progressive gains were being dismantled as the far right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro assumed the presidency of a bitterly divided country. Digging beneath...
Writing Taiwan
A New Literary History
2007
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W**riting Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry, travel writing, and realist, modernist, and postmodern fiction. The diversity of Taiwan literature is signaled by the range of authors treated, including Yang...
Microbiome
The Universe Inside You
2026
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From the time we're born, we acquire bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microbes from other people, everything we touch, and everything we eat. This makes up what some call a super-organism: The human microbiome. It includes 10 to 100 trillion microbial cells on and in the human body. The most well-known part of the human microbiome and its vital ecosystem's role in human health.This highly visual exploration is a fascinating look at the still-mysterious human microbiome—the virus...
Mass Production of Beneficial Organisms
Invertebrates and Entomopathogens
2013
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Mass Production of Beneficial Organisms: Invertebrates and Entomopathogens is an essential reference and teaching tool for researchers in developed and developing countries working to produce "natural enemies" in biological control and integrated pest management programs. As we become aware of the negative impact of pesticides in human health and on the environment, interest is rapidly increasing in developing biological pest control alternatives. Tremendous advances have been made in bene...
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2011
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Step-by-step instructions for creating VBA macrosHarness the power of VBA and create custom Excel applicationsMake Excel 2007 work for you! This clear, nonintimidating guide shows you how to use VBA to create Excel apps that look and work the way you want. Packed with plenty of sample programs, it explains how to work with range objects, control program flow, develop custom dialog boxes, create custom toolbars and menus, and much more....











