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Since the outbreak of mad cow disease and avian flu, consumers have become more
concerned about safety issues of meat products. Therefore, meat traceability is now
used as a strategic tool to cope with this food safety crisis. In…

There is clear evidence that Heat island has changed cities microclimate from their
original and it has led to increased overheating risk, longer summer periods and
higher energy consumption for cooling. Understanding of the relation between…

The business man is the national hero of America, as native to the soil and as typical of the country as baseball
or Broadway or big advertising. He is an interesting figure, picturesque and not unlovable, not so dashing
perhaps as a knight in…

This book grew out of my lecture notes for a graduate course in in-
ternational macroeconomics and Þnance that I teach at the Ohio State
University. The book is targeted towards second year graduate stu-
dents in a Ph.D. program. The material is…

This book is designed to assist a novice user of ergonomic methods in learning and
then carrying out their own analysis on a product. It also supports the expert as an
aide-memoire. It is probably best used as a reference source or supplement to…

This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. Reprinted material is quoted with
permission, and sources are indicated. A wide variety of references are listed. Reasonable efforts have been made to…

The invitation to write this book generated the time-honoured mix of emotions, but despite some trepidation (relating most notably to time pressures and self-doubt), the challenge was irresistible. We knew the book would be timely in view of the…

Behavioral finance argues that some financial phenomena can plausibly be understood using models in which some agents are not fully rational. The field has two building blocks: limits to arbitrage, which argues that it can be difficult for rational…

With the building of the International Space Station (ISS), humans are committing
themselves to a continuing presence in space. This enterprise follows earlier space
stations under the Salyut, Skylab, and Mir programs. But the ISS represents a…

This article tells the story of the making of Spanish independent feature film The
Cosmonaut. It highlights that this story was shared with the film’s audience while the
film was made. Therefore, so the argument, the story of The Cosmonaut was…