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Author : Ann Beattie
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1991-01-02
Distortions written by Ann Beattie and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-02 with Fiction categories.
Haunting and disturbingly powerful, these stories established Ann Beattie as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction and an absolute master of the short-story form. Beattie captures perfectly the profound longings that came to define an entire generation with insight, compassion, and humor.
Leveraging Distortions
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Author : Collin Rice
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-08-17
Leveraging Distortions written by Collin Rice and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-17 with Science categories.
An examination of how scientists deliberately and justifiably use pervasive distortions of relevant features to explain and understand natural phenomena. A fundamental rule of logic is that in order for an argument to provide good reasons for its conclusion, the premises of the argument must be true. In this book, Collin Rice shows how the practice of science repeatedly, pervasively, and deliberately violates this principle. Rice argues that scientists strategically use distortions that misrepresent relevant features of natural phenomena in order to explain and understand--and that they use these distortions deliberately and justifiably in order to discover truths that would be otherwise inaccessible. Countering the standard emphasis on causation, accurate representation, and decomposition of science into its accurate and inaccurate parts, Rice shows that science's epistemic achievements can still be factive despite their being produced through the use of holistically distorted scientific representations. Indeed, he argues, this distortion is one of the most widely employed and fruitful tools used in scientific theorizing. Marshalling a range of case studies, Rice contends that many explanations in science are noncausal, and he presents an alternate view of explanation that captures the variety of noncausal explanations found across the sciences. He proposes an alternative holistic distortion view of idealized models, connecting it to physicists' concept of a universality class; shows how universality classes can overcome some of the challenges of multiscale modeling; and offers accounts of explanation, idealization, modeling, and understanding.
Distortions To Agricultural Incentives In Europe S Transition Economies
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Author : Kym Anderson
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2008-06-05
Distortions To Agricultural Incentives In Europe S Transition Economies written by Kym Anderson and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-05 with Political Science categories.
The vast majority of the world's poorest households depend on farming for their livelihood. During the 1960s and 1970s, most developing countries imposed pro-urban and anti-agricultural policies, while many high-income countries restricted agricultural imports and subsidized their farmers. Both sets of policies inhibited economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Although progress has been made over the past two decades to reduce those policy biases, many trade- and welfare-reducing price distortions remain between agriculture and other sectors as well as within the agricultural sector of both rich and poor countries. Comprehensive empirical studies of the disarray in world agricultural markets first appeared approximately 20 years ago. Since then the OECD has provided estimates each year of market distortions in high-income countries, but there has been no comparable estimates for the world's developing countries. This volume is the first in a series (other volumes cover Africa, Asia, and Latin America) that not only fill that void for recent years but extend the estimates in a consistent and comparable way back in time--and provide analytical narratives for scores of countries that shed light on the evolving nature and extent of policy interventions over the past half-century. 'Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Europe's Transition Economies' provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in the economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia that are transitioning away from central planning. The book includes country and subregional studies of the ten transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe that joined the European Union in 2004 or 2007, of seven other large member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and of Turkey. Together these countries comprise over 90 percent of the Europe and Central Asia region's population and GDP. Sectoral, trade, and exchange rate policies in the region have changed greatly since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, but price distortions remain. The new empirical indicators in these country studies provide a strong evidence-based foundation for evaluating policy options in the years ahead.
The Pure Theory Of International Trade And Distortions Routledge Revivals
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Author : Bharat Hazari
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-05
The Pure Theory Of International Trade And Distortions Routledge Revivals written by Bharat Hazari and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-05 with Business & Economics categories.
First published in 1978. This book provides a simple, systematic, yet rigorous treatment of the key aspects of the pure theory of international trade and distortions. The opening chapter presents the standard two-factor, two-commodity barter model of international trade and a comprehensive treatment of the important properties and relationships. The rest of the book consists of four sections: parts One and Two are devoted to an analysis of factor market imperfections, and Parts Three and Four consider the trade-theoretical consequences of product market imperfections. A concluding chapter presents some generalised theorems. This book would be of interest to students of economics.
Distortions To Agricultural Incentives In Latin America
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Author : Kym Anderson
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2008-10-02
Distortions To Agricultural Incentives In Latin America written by Kym Anderson and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-02 with Political Science categories.
The vast majority of the world's poorest households depend on farming for their livelihood. During the 1960s and 1970s, most developing countries imposed pro-urban and anti-agricultural policies, while many high-income countries restricted agricultural imports and subsidized their farmers. Both sets of policies inhibited economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Although progress has been made over the past two decades to reduce those policy biases, many trade- and welfare-reducing price distortions remain between agriculture and other sectors as well as within the agricultural sector of both rich and poor countries. Comprehensive empirical studies of the disarray in world agricultural markets first appeared approximately 20 years ago. Since then the OECD has provided estimates each year of market distortions in high-income countries, but there has been no comparable estimates for the world's developing countries. This volume is the second in a series (other volumes cover Africa, Asia, and Europe's transition economies) that not only fills that void for recent years but extends the estimates in a consistent and comparable way back in time and provides analytical narratives for scores of countries that shed light on the evolving nature and extent of policy interventions over the past half-century. 'Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America' provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in the economies of South America, plus the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Mexico. Together these countries constitute about 80 percent of the region's population, agricultural output, and overall GDP. Sectoral, trade, and exchange rate policies in the region have changed greatly since the 1950s, and there have been substantial reforms, especially in the 1980s. Nonetheless, numerous price distortions in this region remain, others have been added, and there have even been some policy reversals in recent years. The new empirical indicators in these country studies provide a strong evidence-based foundation for assessing the successes and failures of the past and for evaluating policy options for the years ahead.
Development Of Flow Distortions In A Full Scale Nacelle Inlet At Mach Numbers 0 63 And 1 6 To 2 0
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Author : Thomas G. Piercy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Development Of Flow Distortions In A Full Scale Nacelle Inlet At Mach Numbers 0 63 And 1 6 To 2 0 written by Thomas G. Piercy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Aerodynamics, Supersonic categories.
Modeling Methods For Process Induced Distortions Of Cfrp Parts Produced In The Prepreg Autoclave Process
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Author : Tim Frerich
language : en
Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Release Date : 2023-06-20
Modeling Methods For Process Induced Distortions Of Cfrp Parts Produced In The Prepreg Autoclave Process written by Tim Frerich and has been published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-20 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Process induced distortions are a challenge in the production of high-performance components made of carbon fiber reinforced plastics. In order to prevent the distortions, a prediction is of great utility. For components manufactured in the prepreg autoclave process, which is often used in the aerospace industry, prediction methods are investigated within this work. First, the state of the art is discussed and, based on this, two promising approaches are identified, which are further investigated and implemented: A rapid simulation approach and a complex one, which requires more effort but allows further investigations of the distortions. For the latter approach, new material models and rules of mixture are developed that take into account modern material architectures with interleaf layers. Using these material models, the observed material behavior can be represented more accurately than with material models from the literature. The results obtained by both approaches are compared with experimental results. A good agreement can be shown between the measurements and the simulation.
Measurements And Calculations Of The Effects Of Distortions In The Collector Surface Of Efficiencies Of Umbrella Type Solar Collectors
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Author : Victor R. Bond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Measurements And Calculations Of The Effects Of Distortions In The Collector Surface Of Efficiencies Of Umbrella Type Solar Collectors written by Victor R. Bond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Materials categories.
Labor Market Distortions Rural Urban Inequality And The Opening Of The People S Republic Of China Economy
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Author : Thomas Hertel
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 2008-05
Labor Market Distortions Rural Urban Inequality And The Opening Of The People S Republic Of China Economy written by Thomas Hertel and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05 with Business & Economics categories.
Evaluates the impact of some key factor market reforms on rural-urban inequality & income distribution, using a household-disaggregated, recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium model of the People¿s Republic of China. It also explores how these factor market reforms interact with product market reforms currently under way as part of the country¿s World Trade Org. (WTO) accession process. The simulation results show that reforms in the rural land rental market & hukou system, as well as increasing off-farm labor mobility, would reduce the urban-rural income ratio dramatically. Furthermore, the combination of WTO accession & factor market reforms improves both efficiency & equality significantly. Charts, tables & graphs.
Virtual Distortion Method
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Author : Jan Holnicki-Szulc
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Virtual Distortion Method written by Jan Holnicki-Szulc and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
The theory of virtual distortions provides an efficient tool which can be used to treat many problems that differ from the physical point of view. The objective of this book is to present a general concept of the Virtual Distortion Method with the necessary theoretical background and a variety of its applications to problems of structural analysis and design. The book is focussed more on theoretical aspects of the problems than on the practical design of structurÄB. Nevertheless, a number of numerical algorithms discussed in the book has already been developed as a computational system capable to solve various problems of structural analysis.