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Intensive and extensive cultivation of grapes (Vitis vinifera L.) leads to serious pest problem in vineyards in major grape growing areas of the world. Climatic conditions in India are favorable for high production of table and wine grapes, and thus also for incidence of variety of pests. These include the sucking insect pests namely thrips, hop...

Das bisher persönlichste Buch des chinesischen Nobelpreisträgers. Mo Yan erzählt von seiner Jugend, den Hindernissen auf seinem beruflichen Weg und vom Leben unter dem kommunistischen Regime. Als Junge ist Mo Yan von der Schule geflogen und auch seinen Traum, LKW-Fahrer zu werden, konnte er nicht realisieren. Also geht er zur Armee, beginnt irge...

Incorporating Knowledge Sources into Statistical Speech Recognition addresses the problem of developing efficient automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, which maintain a balance between utilizing a wide knowledge of speech variability, while keeping the training / recognition effort feasible and improving speech recognition performance. The...

This textbook offers a comprehensive theory of medical decision making under uncertainty, combining informative test theory with the expected utility hypothesis. The book shows how the parameters of Bayes? theorem can be combined with a value function of health states to arrive at informed test and treatment decisions. The authors distinguish be...

This book is in part a response to the attempts of governments to address increasing concerns over such environmental issues as the impact of climate change; carbon emissions; pressures from overpopulation of cities; coal seam gas extraction and depleting natural resources. The authors have developed a Sustainable Communities Framework (SCF) whi...

Marion Magg-Schwarzbäcker analysiert, welche gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen die Aktualität und Verbreitung von Mentoring-Programmen für Frauen in Deutschland, insbesondere an Hochschulen, hat und bezieht sich bei der empirischen Analyse auf (vorwiegend schriftliche) Dokumente eines konkreten Mentoring-Projektes. Die durch das Konzept der w...

Julia Maurer offers the first comprehensive conceptual and empirical approach to the relationships between foreign subsidiaries. She develops a novel framework for the analysis of intersubsidiary relationships and applies it to the large-scale plant engineering industry. The empirical study confirms that an MNC`s strategic orientation has a cons...