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Australia’s Fertility Transition : A study of 19th-century Tasmania
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most countries in Europe and English-speaking countries outside Europe experienced a fertility transition, where fertility fell from high levels to relatively low levels. England and the other English-speaking countries experienced this from the 1870s, while fertility in Australia began to fall in the 1880s. This book investigates the fertility tran…
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- 13
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760463373
- Collation
- 318
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- -
- Call Number
- 304.6309946.MOY
Japan at War and Peace : Shidehara Kijūrō and the Making of Modern Diplomacy
The question of how to maintain the continuity of diplomacy while developing democracy without military intervention is an old and new issue. The challenge can be described as a dilemma between democracy and diplomatic coherence. This dilemma is not unique to the twenty-first century; it has been a constant challenge to the development of democracy. In non-Western countries, democratisation ori…
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- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760464974
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 952.044092.HAT
Animating film theory
Animating Film Theory provides an enriched understanding of the relationship between two of the most unwieldy and unstable organizing concepts in cinema and media studies: animation and film theory. For the most part, animation has been excluded from the purview of film theory. The contributors to this collection consider the reasons for this marginalization while also bringing attention to key…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780822376811
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- x + 359 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 791.4334 BEC a
The power of economic ideas: the origins of Keynesian macroeconomic managemen…
Economics, Keynes once wrote, can be a ‘very dangerous science’. Sometimes, though, it can be moulded to further the common good though it might need a leap in mental outlook, a whole new zeitgeist to be able do do. This book is about a transformation in Australian economists’ thought and ideas during the interwar period. It focuses upon the interplay between economic ideas, players and p…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921666278
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- 326 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 994.042 MIL t
Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Fish and Fishing Grounds
As a result of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in March 2011, a large volume of radionuclides was released into the environment, thus contaminating marine and freshwater systems. The Fisheries Research Agency has conducted research beginning soon after the accident. Our research addressed the contamination processes of radionuclides (mainly radiocesium) through water, sedime…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9784431555377
- Collation
- XI, 238p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 571.954 SUG
Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XVIII: 18th International Symposium on …
Missing data is a common occurrence in the time series domain, for instance due to faulty sensors, server downtime or patients not attending their scheduled appointments. One of the best methods to impute these missing values is Multiple Imputations by Chained Equations (MICE) which has the drawback that it can only model linear relationships among the variables in a multivariate time series. T…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030445843
- Collation
- XIV, 588p
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Call Number
- 005.74 AID r
Cultural Crowdfunding: Platform Capitalism, Labour and Globalization
"This new book analyses the strategies, usages and wider implications of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms in the culture and communication industries that are reshaping economic, organizational and social logics. Platforms are the object of considerable hype with a growing global presence. Relying on individual contributions coordinated by social media to finance cultural production (an…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781912656387
- Collation
- 128 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 658.15224 ROU c
Artificial Intelligence in Oncology Drug Discovery and Development
There exists a profound conflict at the heart of oncology drug development. The efficiency of the drug development process is falling, leading to higher costs per approved drug, at the same time personalised medicine is limiting the target market of each new medicine. Even as the global economic burden of cancer increases, the current paradigm in drug development is unsustainable. In this book,…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781789846898
- Collation
- xiii, 143
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 616.9940610724 CAS
Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange
The Mongol period (1206-1368) marked a major turning point of exchange – culturally, politically, and artistically – across Eurasia. The wide-ranging international exchange that occurred during the Mongol period is most apparent visually through the inclusion of Mongol motifs in textile, paintings, ceramics, and metalwork, among other media. Eiren Shea investigates how a group of newly-conf…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781032238432
- Collation
- xvii,207 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 391.00951 HEA M
Trusted artificial intelligence in manufacturing : a review of the emerging w…
The successful deployment of AI solutions in manufacturing environments hinges on their security, safety and reliability which becomes more challenging in settings where multiple AI systems (e.g., industrial robots, robotic cells, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs)) interact as atomic systems and with humans. To guarantee the safe and reliable operation of AI systems in the shopfloor, there is a need …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781680838763
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- xvi, 240 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 670.28563 SOL
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