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Data Analysis and Business Modeling with Excel 2013

Manage, analyze, and visualize data with Microsoft Excel 2013 to transform raw data into ready to use information

by David Rojas ...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionExcel 2013 is one of the easiest to use data analysis tools you will ever come across. Its simplicity and powerful features has made it the go to tool for all your data needs. Complex operations with Excel, such as creating charts and graphs, visualization, and analyzing data make it a great tool for managers, data scientists, financial data analysts, and those who work ... Read more

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Key FeaturesBook DescriptionExcel 2013 is one of the easiest to use data analysis tools you will ever come across. Its simplicity and powerful features has made it the go to tool for all your data needs. Complex operations with Excel, such as creating charts and graphs, visualization, and analyzing data make it a great tool for managers, data scientists, financial data analysts, and those who work
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Precarious Democracy

Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil

by Benjamin Junge, Sean T. Mitchell, Alvaro Jarrin, Lucia Cantero, Lila Moritz Schwarcz, Jessica Jerome, Isabela Kalil0, Rosana Pinheiro-Machado1, Lucia Mury Scalco2, Patricia de Santana Pinho3, Karina Biondi4, John Collins5, David Rojas6, Andrezza Alves Spexoto Olival7, Alexandre de Azevedo Olival8, Falina Enriquez9, Moisés Kopper0, Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer1, LaShandra Sullivan2, Carlos Eduardo Henning3, Melanie A. Medeiros4, Patrick McCormick5, Erika Schmitt6, James Kale7 ...

Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century’s second decade. In 2010, the country’s outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval. As the presidency passed to his Workers' Party successor, Dilma Rousseff, many across the world hailed Brazil as a model of progressive governance in the Global South. Yet, by 2019, those progressive gains were being dismantled as the far right-wing ... Read more

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Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century’s second decade. In 2010, the country’s outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval. As the presidency passed to his Workers' Party successor, Dilma Rousseff, many across the world hailed Brazil as a model of progressive governance in the Global South. Yet, by 2019, those progressive gains were being dismantled as the far right-wing
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Industrial PID Controller Tuning

With a Multiobjective Framework Using MATLAB®

by José David Rojas, Orlando Arrieta, Ramon Vilanova ...

Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
Industrial PID Controller Tuning presents a different view of the servo/regulator compromise that has been studied for a long time in industrial control research. Optimal tuning generally involves comparison of cost functions (e.g., a quadratic function of the error or a time-weighted absolute value of the error) but without taking advantage of available multi-objective optimization methods. The ... Read more

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Industrial PID Controller Tuning presents a different view of the servo/regulator compromise that has been studied for a long time in industrial control research. Optimal tuning generally involves comparison of cost functions (e.g., a quadratic function of the error or a time-weighted absolute value of the error) but without taking advantage of available multi-objective optimization methods. The
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United States and Chile

Coming in From the Cold

by David R. Mares, Francisco Rojas Aravena ...

Series series Contemporary Inter-American Relations
The United States and Chile is the ideal introduction to U.S.- Chilean relations. From our strained Cold War relations and the Allende assassination to current democratic and economic development, senior scholars Mares and Aravena deftly trace the path of the relationship from early partners, through tense Cold War stand-offs, to the slowly warming relations of the present. The authors include ... Read more

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The United States and Chile is the ideal introduction to U.S.- Chilean relations. From our strained Cold War relations and the Allende assassination to current democratic and economic development, senior scholars Mares and Aravena deftly trace the path of the relationship from early partners, through tense Cold War stand-offs, to the slowly warming relations of the present. The authors include
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Financial Regulation

Why, How and Where Now?

by Charles Goodhart, Philipp Hartmann, David T. Llewellyn, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Steven Weisbrod ...

Series series CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR'S SYMPOSIUM
Financial Regulation presents an important restatement of the purposes and objectives of financial regulation. The authors provide details and data on the scale, nature and costs of regulatory problems around the world, and look at what sort of countries and sectors require special attention and policies. Key topics covered include:* the need to recast the form of regulation* incentive structures ... Read more

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Financial Regulation presents an important restatement of the purposes and objectives of financial regulation. The authors provide details and data on the scale, nature and costs of regulatory problems around the world, and look at what sort of countries and sectors require special attention and policies. Key topics covered include:* the need to recast the form of regulation* incentive structures
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Materials for Sustainable Energy Applications

Conversion, Storage, Transmission, and Consumption

by David Munoz-Rojas, Xavier Moya ...

The impending energy crisis brought on by the running out of finite and non-homogenously distributed fossil fuel reserves and the worldwide increase in energy demand has prompted vast research in the development of sustainable energy technologies in the last few decades. However, the efficiency of most of these new technologies is relatively small and therefore it needs to be increased to ... Read more

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The impending energy crisis brought on by the running out of finite and non-homogenously distributed fossil fuel reserves and the worldwide increase in energy demand has prompted vast research in the development of sustainable energy technologies in the last few decades. However, the efficiency of most of these new technologies is relatively small and therefore it needs to be increased to
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Microbiome

The Universe Inside You

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Illustrated by David Rojas Márquez, Ph.D., Martin Bustamante ...

From the time we're born, we acquire bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microbes from other people, everything we touch, and everything we eat. This makes up what some call a super-organism: The human microbiome. It includes 10 to 100 trillion microbial cells on and in the human body. The most well-known part of the human microbiome and its vital ecosystem's role in human health.This highly ... Read more

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From the time we're born, we acquire bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microbes from other people, everything we touch, and everything we eat. This makes up what some call a super-organism: The human microbiome. It includes 10 to 100 trillion microbial cells on and in the human body. The most well-known part of the human microbiome and its vital ecosystem's role in human health.This highly
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Vulnerability and Adaptation to Drought on the Canadian Prairies

by Margot Hurlbert, Jose Armando Boninsegna, Barrie Bonsal, Darrell Corkal, Amber Fletcher, Monica Hadarits, Tom Harrison, Samantha Kerr0, Erin Knuttila1, Suren Kulshreshta2, Gregory Marchildon3, Elma Montana4, Bruce Morito5, Jeremy Pittman6, Alejandro Rojas7, David Sauchyn8, Paula Santibanez9, A. Unvoas0, Johanna Wandel1, James Warren2, Virginia Whittrock3, Elaine Wheaton4 ...

Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The drought of 2001-02 was, for example, the most recent large-area, intense, and prolonged drought in Canada and one of Canada's most costly natural disasters in a ... Read more

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Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The drought of 2001-02 was, for example, the most recent large-area, intense, and prolonged drought in Canada and one of Canada's most costly natural disasters in a
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Writing Taiwan

A New Literary History

by Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...

Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
W**riting Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry, travel writing, and realist, modernist, and postmodern fiction. The ... Read more

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W**riting Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry, travel writing, and realist, modernist, and postmodern fiction. The
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Mass Production of Beneficial Organisms

Invertebrates and Entomopathogens

Edited by Juan A. Morales-Ramos, M. Guadalupe Rojas, David I. Shapiro-Ilan ...

Mass Production of Beneficial Organisms: Invertebrates and Entomopathogens is an essential reference and teaching tool for researchers in developed and developing countries working to produce "natural enemies" in biological control and integrated pest management programs. As we become aware of the negative impact of pesticides in human health and on the environment, interest is rapidly increasing ... Read more

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Mass Production of Beneficial Organisms: Invertebrates and Entomopathogens is an essential reference and teaching tool for researchers in developed and developing countries working to produce "natural enemies" in biological control and integrated pest management programs. As we become aware of the negative impact of pesticides in human health and on the environment, interest is rapidly increasing
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Invertebrates and Entomopathogens

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Mass Production of Beneficial Organisms: Invertebrates and Entomopathogens, Second Edition explores the latest advancements and technologies for large-scale rearing and manipulation of natural enemies while presenting ways of improving success rate, predictability of biological control procedures, and demonstrating their safe and effective use. Organized into three sections, Parasitoids and ... Read more

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Mass Production of Beneficial Organisms: Invertebrates and Entomopathogens, Second Edition explores the latest advancements and technologies for large-scale rearing and manipulation of natural enemies while presenting ways of improving success rate, predictability of biological control procedures, and demonstrating their safe and effective use. Organized into three sections, Parasitoids and
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Sacrificing Families

Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders

by Leisy J. Abrego ...

Widening global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children, and both mothers and fathers often find that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Their dreams are straightforward: with more money, they can improve their children's lives. But the reality of their experiences is often harsh, and structural barriers—particularly those ... Read more

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Widening global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children, and both mothers and fathers often find that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Their dreams are straightforward: with more money, they can improve their children's lives. But the reality of their experiences is often harsh, and structural barriers—particularly those
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