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... not English) because their ‘thinking may be deeply intertwined with their language expressions’, again indicating the very close relationship between thinking and the writing process On a more ... research and writing are intertwined Interviewees in many of these studies were also concerned about the way that external pressures might affect the process of writing a book, and the development of ... limited Furthermore, researchers interested in using them found a dearth of support from institutions or publishers 15 References Andersen, Heine (2000) ‘Influence and reputation in the social sciences

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... studied in the humanities and social sciences occur in geographical space This implies that, in principle, studies in the humanities and social sciences can be enhanced by the use of geographical information ... finding hospitals (the points in Figure 1.3a), streams (the line segments in Figure 1.3b), and parks (the continuous-line polygons in Figure 1.3c) in a given area (the broken-line polygon in Figures ... the distance between two points, of the length of a line consisting of straight segments, of the area of a polygon, of the angle of a slope, and so forth A second set of operations is used for

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... viewpoint implies that the meaning of data is not inherent in the data itself, but rather resides in the structures into which the data is incorporated Data is, in itself, only useful when set into ... Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences a record of places, people, life, and atmosphere in a target area because they provide a rich source of information about spaces or places in the real ... specifies the same feature or area in two photos by drawing a rectangle or polygon on each of the two photos In the example shown in Figure 2.10, the same building appears in two photos, and the user

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... change information was related to households’ perceptions of a change in the frequency and severity of drought, flood, soil erosion, change in the length of the growing season and the onset of ... primary source of food supply and income in the communities surveyed, poor land quality and increasing proportion of unproductive land will worsen the impact of climate change and increase households ... to the indicators that vary most across households and districts In the exposure index, frequency of climate extreme and rate of change in rainfall have the highest and positive loadings This indicates

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... CoroConsulting Decision-making and economics of adaptation to climate change in the fisheries and aquaculture sector Paul Watkiss Economics of adaptation expert United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern ... obtaining permission from the copyright holder The risk of claims resulting from infringement of any third-party-owned component in the work rests solely with the user Sales, rights and licensing ... Identification and reduction of climate change vulnerabilty in the fisheries of the Lake Chad Basin In C De Young, S Sheridan, S Davies & A Hjort, A Climate change implications for fishing communities in the

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... all of the terms may drop out of the sum, so the degree of the sum could be 0, 1, 2, or or no degree (if one polynomial is the negative of the other) Some or all of the terms may drop out of the ... lies to the right of 45 (–8, –1) This represents all real numbers between –8 and –1, not including –8 and –1 Draw parentheses at –8 and –1 and a heavy line segment between them The parentheses ... or x    x  The bottom of the ladder should be pulled feet away from the wall 55 a Use the Pythagorean theorem to find the distance from the top of the ladder to the ground In triangle ABC,

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... all of the terms may drop out of the sum, so the degree of the sum could be 0, 1, 2, or or no degree (if one polynomial is the negative of the other) Some or all of the terms may drop out of the ... lies to the right of 45 (–8, –1) This represents all real numbers between –8 and –1, not including –8 and –1 Draw parentheses at –8 and –1 and a heavy line segment between them The parentheses ... or x    x  The bottom of the ladder should be pulled feet away from the wall 55 a Use the Pythagorean theorem to find the distance from the top of the ladder to the ground In triangle ABC,

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... maintaining the institution An increase in the transaction costs leads to a state of institutional disequilibrium, and requires the contracting parties to renegotiate the rules of the game in ... and apparel sector, the relative costs of maintaining and reforming the multilateral regime seemed to exceed the expected benefits from eliminating the institution With an increasing number of ... restraints were gaining increasing prominence in pressuring policymakers to reduce trade barriers However, despite the elimination of the multilateral quota regime and the relative decline of the

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... The role of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), Australia, and the Italian Ministry of Health in supporting the preparation and implementation of the Expert Meeting is also ... implied. The responsibility for the interpretation and use of the material lies with the reader. In no event shall the World Health Organization or the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ... http://www.who.int/foodsafety The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture

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... wastewater and drinking water sources. Therefore, thethirdsectionofthisbook,“TreatmentofPharmaceuticalsinDrinkingWaterand © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC viii Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the ... without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Fate of pharmaceuticals in the environment and in water treatment systems / edited by Diana S. Aga. p. cm. Includes ... in Drinking Water and Wastewater Chapter 10 Drugs in Drinking Water: Treatment Options 217 Howard S. Weinberg, Vanessa J. Pereira, and Zhengqi Ye Chapter 11 Removal of Endocrine Disruptors and

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... galaxy, and beyond, and then zoomed in to the cells in the man’s hand, to the molecules and atoms constituting them, and eventually to the quarks inside the protons and neutrons in the nuclei of the ... presence of some properties from the presence of others, is the key to understanding and explaining the world In other words, it is the clustering of properties in natural kinds that makes the world ... can they be further split into subkinds, or further lumped into superkinds? Is there a single unique way of sorting them into kinds, or are there a number of different ways of doing so? If there...

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... accuracy of points helps automate a process of finding appropriate neighbors of points and of forming triangular patches On the other hand, if the accuracy and density is not high enough, it may increase ... Acquiring Archaeological Data 49 processing The same kinds of issues may arise, especially in connecting a number of laser-scanner data and in making interpolation of surfaces in places where point-cloud ... Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences FIGURE 3.13 Results of merging LMS-Z210 data of the Hippodrome FIGURE 3.14 Comparing point-cloud data with surface patches interpolated from the point-cloud...

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... an initial position and velocity of the feet at the beginning half of the swing phase, then remain inactive throughout the rest half of the swing phase Here the initial position refers to the ... foot swings by, pivoting on the other foot The two feet interchange in the step by landing and then shifting in a rhythmic pattern According to the ballistic walking model proposed by Mochon and ... all the client computers and integrates them into the global coordinate system to make a frame (Step 4.3.1) Since there may be many points impinging upon the same foot, where the number of points...

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... points included in the area of buildings to the population data The relationship between the actual population of each village P, and the number of sample points within the mapped buildings in ... analysis of the changing pattern of population throughout the period from the beginning of the Japanese modern era to the present day The chapter consists of six sections, including this introductory ... grid of 20-meter intervals on a map and regarded the lattice points as systematic sample points The number of such points included in the area of buildings was counted (Figure 5.1) Let N be the...

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... for being an outlying area of the other municipality, the one with the lowest commuting ratio is in the core, and the other is its outlying area An outlying municipality is included in the core ... being an outlying area of the other municipality, the one with the lowest commuting ratio is in the core, and the other is its outlying area (a) A municipality is a first-order outlying area of ... included in the outlying area of the core with which it has the strongest commuting ties A second-order outlying municipality that is an outlying area of another outlying municipality is included in...

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... Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences enables the management and searching of a single database containing archaeological information collected in Japan, Britain, and the U.S.A The object-oriented ... integrating notations and semantics (Worboys, 1994) This chapter introduces the research findings in the data modeling of archaeological information with the aim of effective information sharing and ... of SolidOfStratum class, indicating configuration of each stratigraphy, and BoundarySurfaceOfStratum, expressing the boundary surface of the stratum UnitOfStratification class, a component of the...

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... characteristics of a surface in terms of the configuration of “peaks,” “col,” and “bottoms,” (Figure 8.12) They vary, in that the rules for joining these critical points (the continuous lines in Figure ... the site social- science data archives for spatial tools of spatial-analysis literature in the social sciences All of these search engines are useful for studies in the humanities and social sciences, ... at a finite number of points in the region (the points in Figure 8.11), and so we have to estimate the surface (the surface in Figure 8.11) In this case, we click on “Estimation of a surface” (Section...

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... Examining the Effect We consider an example of how to use SAINF by examining the in uence of three infrastructural elements on the location of luxury apartment buildings in Kohtoh, Tokyo These ... for the result We put in the names of these file, and in a few seconds, a display, such as the one in Table 9.2, is shown As stated in the hypothesis H’o, if the hypothesis Ho was valid, the observed ... to count the observed number of points placed in R(di , di +1 ) We click on “Number of non-infra features” in the “SAINF-Tools” menu, and a dialog box appears, showing the layer of noninfrastructural...

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... 10.3 Software and Data Setting The software SANET consists of two components: the main program, and the interface between this and a GIS viewer The main program performs the geometric and algebraic ... realized set of points for the streets in Shibuya-Shinjuku using Tool (the number of points is the same as that in Figure 10.3) To obtain the expected K function, as many as 1000 sets of points are ... and Okabe (2004) To explain the meaning of a “clump,” we define the r-neighborhood of a point, p i , as the sub-network of a network in which the shortest-path distance from p i to any point in...

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