1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462878903321

Titolo

Challenges of african transformation [[electronic resource] ] : exploring through innovation approach / / edited by Mammo Munchie and Baskaran Angathevar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2013

ISBN

0-7983-0349-2

0-7983-0350-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

aMuchieMammo

BaskaranAngathevar

Disciplina

338.064

Soggetti

Economic development - Africa

Developing countries

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Contributing authors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Science and technology indicators in Africa: historical development and challenges -- Chapter 2. Building systems for innovation 'Take off' in African economies -- Chapter 3. Innovation in Africa, toward a realistic vision -- Chapter 4. Innovations systems in renewable natural resource management and sustainable agriculture: a literature review -- Chapter 5. Low-income countries and innovation studies: a review of recent literature -- Chapter 6. Human capital, R&D and endogenous occupational choice -- Chapter 7. Building systems of innovation in an African setting: the cluster initiative development approach -- Chapter 8. Are north-south technological spillovers substantial? A dynamic panel data model estimation -- Chapter 9. Where are the flags of our father? Rethinking linkages between social policies and innovation policies -- Chapter 10. Design theory of Letanta -- Chapter 11. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

A brief overview of the African economic picture reveals a paradox where the continent that has rich mineral resources, nearly a billion people and a land mass which includes the sizes of China, USA, India,



Western Europe, Argentina together and still is larger than the sum of these regions is in an unacceptable state of being an object of aid, debt and loans despite the vast resources both known and yet to be expolored in it for the whole post-colonial period.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452844803321

Autore

Temin Peter

Titolo

The Roman market economy [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Temin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-283-84827-9

1-4008-4542-4

Edizione

[Core Textbook]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Collana

The Princeton economic history of the Western world

Disciplina

330.937

Soggetti

Wirtschaft

Markt

Kreditwesen

Bankgeschäft

Handel

Geld

HISTORY / Ancient / Rome

Electronic books.

Rome Economic conditions

Rome Economic policy

Rome Commerce

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface and acknowledgments -- Economics and ancient history -- Prices -- Introduction: data and hypothesis tests -- Wheat prices and trade in the early Roman empire -- Price behavior in Hellenistic Babylon -- Price behavior in the Roman empire -- Markets in the Roman empire -- Introduction: Roman microeconomics -- The grain trade -- The labor market -- Land ownership -- Financial intermediation -- The



Roman economy -- Introduction: Roman macroeconomics -- Growth theory for ancient economies -- Economic growth in a Malthusian empire -- Appendix to chapter 10 -- Per capita GDP in the early Roman empire -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were critical to ancient Rome's prosperity. Peter Temin, one of the world's foremost economic historians, argues that markets dominated the Roman economy. He traces how the Pax Romana encouraged trade around the Mediterranean, and how Roman law promoted commerce and banking. Temin shows that a reasonably vibrant market for wheat extended throughout the empire, and suggests that the Antonine Plague may have been responsible for turning the stable prices of the early empire into the persistent inflation of the late. He vividly describes how various markets operated in Roman times, from commodities and slaves to the buying and selling of land. Applying modern methods for evaluating economic growth to data culled from historical sources, Temin argues that Roman Italy in the second century was as prosperous as the Dutch Republic in its golden age of the seventeenth century. The Roman Market Economy reveals how economics can help us understand how the Roman Empire could have ruled seventy million people and endured for centuries.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146344403321

Autore

Claudia Manfredi

Titolo

Models and analysis of vocal emissions for biomedical applications : 3rd International workshop ... / / edited by Claudia Manfredi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze, : Firenze university press, 2003

ISBN

88-8453-154-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p. ) : ill

Collana

Proceedings e report

Altri autori (Persone)

ManfrediClaudia

Disciplina

616

Soggetti

Voice disorders

Laryngectomy

Nervous System Physiological Phenomena

Models, Theoretical

Respiratory Physiological Phenomena

Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures

Verbal Behavior

Language Arts

Diagnosis

Communication

Circulatory and Respiratory Physiological Phenomena

Investigative Techniques

Language

Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena

Behavior

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms

Information Science

Psychology

Speech

Models, Biological

Speech Production Measurement

Voice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Proceedings, Florence, 2003.

On cover: Università degli studi di Firenze, DET, Dipartimento di



elettronica e telecomunicazioni ...

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

This book of Proceedings collects the papers presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications, MAVEBA 2003, held 10-12 December 2003, Firenze, Italy. The workshop is organised every two years, and aims to stimulate contacts between specialists active in research and industrial developments, in the area of voice analysis for biomedical applications. The scope of the Workshop includes all aspects of voice modelling and analysis, ranging from fundamental research to all kinds of biomedical applications and related established and advanced technologies.