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Yeasts play a crucial role in the sensory quality of a wide range of foods. This book provides a comprehensive review of the methods for their detection, identification and analysis as well as the role of yeasts in several food products including dairy products, meat, fruit, bread and beverages.

From the inauspicious beginnings in 1884 of a town named Bug, the two communities of Sedro and Woolley grew together, consolidated in 1898 by a lifeline of three railways: the Seattle & Northern, Seattle & International, and Fairhaven & Southern. Nestled in the beautiful Skagit Valley, Sedro-Woolley was carved out of the rich forest that, along with the discovery of a coal vein north of the city, cemented the area's prosperity and attracted th...

Pictured is the legendary Myers Field c. 1950, where Norfolk ballplayers, visiting major league stars, and Piedmont League opponents once dueled upon its dirt and grass. The story of baseball in Norfolk, Virginia is as fascinating and enduring as the game itself. Christy Mathewson, Phil Rizzuto, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, and a myriad of other charismatic players from the game spent time developing their raw and untested skills on the diamonds o...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Gute Recherche bildet das Fundament für kompetente Berichterstattung und ist damit ein essentieller Teil journalistischer Arbeit. Die technischen Möglichkeiten zu recherchieren sind heute, zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts, besser denn je. Das Internet erleichtert die Suche nach wertvollen Informationen. Doch in vielen Redaktionen gibt es weniger Journalisten als die Jahre zuvor, es fehlt an Zeit und Geld für aufwe...

Methylenediphenyl diisocyanate[MDI] and toluene diisocyanate [TDI] are chemicals produced at a total rate of about four million tonnes per annum. They are reactive intermediates employed in the production of polyurethanes and other polymers which are used in a wide diversity of applications involving many thousands of workers worldwide. The safe handling of MDI and TDI requires close attention to working practices in their transportation, sto...

Financial mathematics has recently enjoyed considerable interest on account of its impact on the finance industry. In parallel, the theory of Lévy processes has also seen many exciting developments. These powerful modelling tools allow the user to model more complex phenomena, and are commonly applied to problems in finance. Lévy Processes in Finance: Pricing Financial Derivatives takes a practical approach to describing the theory of Lévy-bas...

In this book, James Cracraft and Daniel Rowland gather a group of authors from a wide variety of backgrounds - including history and architectural history, linguistics, literary studies, geography and political science - to survey the political and symbolic meanings of many different kinds of structures. Fourteen heavily illustrated chapters demonstrate the remarkable fertility of the theme of architecture, broadly defined, for a range of fiel...

Philology--the discovery, editing, and presentation of historical texts--was once a firmly established discipline that formed the core study for students across a wide range of linguistic and literary fields. Although philology departments are steadily disappearing from contemporary educational establishments, in this book Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht demonstrates that the problems, standards, and methods of philology remain as vital as ever. For two...

In den 1950er Jahren begann Hans-Werner Seiffert im Auftrag der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften mit der Bearbeitung des Wielandschen Briefwechsels. In den Jahren 1963 bis 1983 wurden die Bände 1 bis 5 veröffentlicht. Seit 1982 hat Siegfried Scheibe mit seinen Mitarbeitern neue editorische Grundlagen erarbeitet und erstmals vollständige Sammlungen des Materials angelegt. In den Jahren seit 1992 konnten in rascher Folge die Nachträge zu d...

Grasping Reality addresses the methodology of a sophisticated realistic approach to scientific as well as everyday recognition by using schemes and interpretative constructs to analyze theories and the practice of recognition from a hypothesis-realistic vantage point.The three main theses are: (1) Any "grasping" of real objects, processes, entities etc. is deeply dependent on scheme interpretations and interpretative constructs - in short, on ...

This book is concerned with statistical methods for the analysis of data collected from a survey. A survey could consist of data collected from a questionnaire or from measurements, such as those taken as part of a quality control process.

Is elite status revealed through statistics? The author of this book considers statistics of both the traditional and sabermetric sort, argues that the greats are proved not by broad statistical comparison with all other pitchers, but by their record against one another, and finds the nine pitchers who make up the true elite: Young, Mathewson, Johnson, Alexander, Grove, Spahn, Seaver, Clemens, and Maddux.

In this compelling volume, ten distinguished thinkers -- William G. Lycan, Galen Strawson, Jeffrey Poland, Georges Rey, Frances Egan, Paul Horwich, Peter Ludlow, Paul Pietroski, Alison Gopnik, and Ruth Millikan -- address a variety of conceptual issues raised in Noam Chomsky's work. Distinguished list of critics: William G. Lycan, Galen Strawson, Jeffrey Poland, Georges Rey, Frances Egan, Paul Horwich, Peter Ludlow, Paul Pietroski, Alison Gopn...

Using recently declassified State Department records, Mohammad Gholi Majd describes the manner in which the U.S. government guided and assisted American museums in acquiring vast quantities of Persian antiquities and archaeological finds. In the evolution of American-Persian relations, the importance of the antiquities story has remained unrecognized.

In Administrative Renewal, the periodic efforts to reorganize the executive branch during the 20th century are examined and analyzed. Receiving special attention are the landmark commissions, such as the Hoover Commissions of mid-century, to determine how they influenced the theory and practice of democratic administration.

Finite, Contingent, and Free is a Roman Catholic perspective that views acceptance as the proper response to the conditions of human existence, and the foundation for ethics.

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Theodore Rosenof details how realignment theory emerged as the predominant explanation of electoral change and how, after decades of analysis, it remains a subject of continuing influence and controversy. The first history of this important theory, Realignment weaves history and political science into a compelling look at American elections.

November 12, 1956 was the 90th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the great teacher of China's democratic revolution. The Chinese people held huge meetings and conducted other forms of activity in Peking and other great cities to pay tribute to the tremendous contribution he made to the Chinese revolution and to learn from his revolutionary work and experience. This book contains a selection of speeches made at the commemoration meet...

The "importance of understanding" has become almost an obsession with significant portions of American business. There remain, however, many companies that attempt to operate as they traditionally have in the past - placing great faith in the owner's or manager's judgment as to what is required to remain competitive. In this paper, the author has articulated clearly the fundamentals of sound intelligence practice and has identified some guidel...