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Preface In the autumn of 1999, the presence of brominated flame retardants in sewage sludge aroused medial attention in Sweden. As a result of this, LRF (The farmers organisation) recommended their members to renounce receiving and using sludge as a fertilizer. According to preliminary risk evaluations made at the same time, no obvious risk could be detected. VAV took the initiative to do a fur...

Product or company names used in this set are for identification purposes only. Inclusion of the names of the products or companies does not indicate a claim of ownership by IGI Global of the trademark or registered trademark. Multi-agent systems for traffic and transportation engineering / Ana L.C. Bazzan and Franziska Klugl, editor. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Summar...

Abstract Using the framework of Rita Felski in her 2015 book The Limits Critique , this essay offers a postcritical analysis William Carlos Williams’ 1915 poem “The Young Housewife.” Its intention is to show how or any can be approached through variety critical lenses, but that these may get way more immediate, rewarding ways reading. Shel Silverstein's well‐known 1964 short Giving Tree similar...

In the previous article in this series I started by giving a description of the les in the `base' LTEX distribution. In part 2, I shall cover the `tools' and `graphics' distributions. These are distributed in the tools and graphics subdirectories of the CTAN directory macros/latex/packages. Although these les are not part of the minimal base distribution they should normally be included in the ...

This preface offers a conceptual framework for putting in context the extensive work that has been done in areas related to semantic similarity measuring, approximate semantic methods, document clustering and grouping, and many others that we call generically “Quantitative Semantics”. We present some of the most relevant works in these areas, classifying them so that a kind of map emerges, allo...

and adaptability on the other need very careful adjustment. It is pleasing to read that the authors advocate giving full range to the more generous sentiments of human nature, and that they treat this subject sympathetically, but at the same time they endeavour to eliminate abuse as far as possible. The scheme of the book is interesting, it traces the history of the pension system from its ince...

a book on this subject previously. Indeed, the conception is so novel that the editor has included the interrogation mark in the title. (We wonder whether this was done before or after receiving the contributions of the various experts). Students of the social sciences, however, will agree that the time had arrived for the presentation of the data that are available for testing the validity of ...

Springer 1 Introduction This book reports on an unconventional explanation of the origin of chaos in Hamiltonian dynamics and on a new theory of the origin of thermodynamic phase transitions. The mathematical concepts and methods used are borrowed from Riemannian geometry and from elementary differential topology, respectively. The new approach proposed also unveils deep connections between the...