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“…The author of this timely work presents an analysis of the political and organizational dynamics of Mayor Bloomberg’s and Chancellor Klein’s new mode of governance and of how their management style has shaped its design and implementation. …”

“…The three parts to the monograph are quite distinct. Part I presents a user-friendly yet comprehensive background to the general theory of Gaussian random fields, treating classical topics such as continuity and boundedness, entropy and majorizing measures, Borell and Slepian inequalities. …”

“…This book collects the contributions presented at the international congress held at the University of Bologna in January 2007, where leading scholars of different persuasions and interests offered an up-to-date overview of the current status of the research on linguistic universals. …”

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“…The authors—pioneers in the field—present extensive data and a rigorous conceptual framework to analyze the connections between the global financial crisis and NIC development. …”

“…The authors—pioneers in the field—present extensive data and a rigorous conceptual framework to analyze the connections between the global financial crisis and NIC development. …”

“…This book provides a case of the disaster governance of Japan, by presenting information and analyses on what happened in the Magnitude 9 Great East Japan Earthquake that caused the huge tsunami and the INES Level 7 Fukushima nuclear power plants accidents on March 11, 2011. …”

“…This analysis shows that an environment presenting co-opetitive (simultaneous competition and collaboration) conditions triggers the use of real options (why), that serve to transform the position, posture and propensity of businesses to innovate and thus they co-evolve (when) into more effective and efficient forms of businesses (co-specialization) (how). …”

“…This book explores the issues linked to regional integration in West Africa and presents empirical data about the experiences in = West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries to converge their economies. …”

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“…Dans la pratique, tout traducteur littéraire est confronté à des éléments qu’il juge « intraduisibles », mais les textes traduits proposés à la lecture se présentent implicitement comme les équivalents exacts des originaux et comportent rarement la trace des hésitations et interrogations des traducteurs, le plus souvent sous la forme de notes explicatives en bas de page. …”

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