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Molecular evolution : a phylogenetic approach.
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ISBN: 9780865428898 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell science

Linear Programming and Extensions
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ISBN: 0691059136 1400884179 9781400884179 Year: 2016 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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In real-world problems related to finance, business, and management, mathematicians and economists frequently encounter optimization problems. In this classic book, George Dantzig looks at a wealth of examples and develops linear programming methods for their solutions. He begins by introducing the basic theory of linear inequalities and describes the powerful simplex method used to solve them. Treatments of the price concept, the transportation problem, and matrix methods are also given, and key mathematical concepts such as the properties of convex sets and linear vector spaces are covered. George Dantzig is properly acclaimed as the "father of linear programming." Linear programming is a mathematical technique used to optimize a situation. It can be used to minimize traffic congestion or to maximize the scheduling of airline flights. He formulated its basic theoretical model and discovered its underlying computational algorithm, the "simplex method," in a pathbreaking memorandum published by the United States Air Force in early 1948. Linear Programming and Extensions provides an extraordinary account of the subsequent development of his subject, including research in mathematical theory, computation, economic analysis, and applications to industrial problems. Dantzig first achieved success as a statistics graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. One day he arrived for a class after it had begun, and assumed the two problems on the board were assigned for homework. When he handed in the solutions, he apologized to his professor, Jerzy Neyman, for their being late but explained that he had found the problems harder than usual. About six weeks later, Neyman excitedly told Dantzig, "I've just written an introduction to one of your papers. Read it so I can send it out right away for publication." Dantzig had no idea what he was talking about. He later learned that the "homework" problems had in fact been two famous unsolved problems in statistics.


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All the world's a stage : meeting William Shakespeare
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ISBN: 9028922113 9789028922112 Year: 1996 Publisher: Kapellen Pelckmans

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The simplex method : a probabilistic analysis
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ISBN: 3540170960 0387170960 3642615783 Year: 1987 Volume: 1 Publisher: Berlin Springer

Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry
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ISBN: 0691001855 9780691001852 9781400841547 Year: 1999 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

Linear programming : an introduction.
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ISBN: 0803928505 1412984750 1452216142 0585217238 9780803928503 Year: 1986 Volume: 07-060 Publisher: Beverly Hills Sage


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The neutral theory of molecular evolution
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ISBN: 0521317932 0521231094 9780521231091 9780511623486 9780521317931 Year: 1983 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press


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Culture in the state reporting procedure of the UN human rights treaty bodies : how the HRC, the CESCR and the CEDAWCee use human rights as a sword to protect andpromote culture, and as a shield to protect against harmful culture
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ISBN: 9781839700064 1839700068 9781839700095 1839700092 Year: 2020 Volume: 89 Publisher: Cambridge Intersentia

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Ever since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 there has been a debate on the issue of universality and cultural diversity. Nowadays, this debate is not so much framed in terms of opposites, but more in terms of reconciliation.00Under the international human rights framework, States are allowed to take cultural particularities into account when implementing the treaties. The UN human rights treaty bodies which monitor the implementation of the treaties by States have an important role to play in ensuring a proper balance between safeguarding the universality of the rights, while at the same time leaving room for cultural particularities in the interpretation and implementation of those rights by States. This book examines how the UN treaty bodies, in particular the Human Rights Committee, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, fulfil this role.00The research shows that human rights are used as a sword to protect and safeguard culture and cultural diversity, and as a shield to protect against harmful aspects of culture. It also looks in-depth at the dialogue between treaty bodies and States parties, and the way cultural arguments are dealt with. The study concludes that the treaty bodies are first and foremost guardians of the universality of human rights. They use their monitoring role not so much (actively) to reconcile universality and cultural diversity or to accommodate cultural variation, but more to determine the limits of such cultural variation.


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Beyond the "Vietnam syndrome" : US interventionism in the 1980s
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ISBN: 0897580273 Year: 1981 Publisher: Washington D.C. IPS

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