This book by Messrs Voisin and Lecomte comes at the right moment. It is a synthesis of M. Voisin's important study, Grass Productivity. This manual presents the chief ideas of two specialists. Since they are also excellent practitioners, they have applied these ideas before recommending them.Their evocative picture of 'the meeting of cow and grass' poses the true problem of the management of grazed grass.For the farmer, the production of meat and milk is an act of industria...

This book introduces three innovative concepts and associated financial instruments with the potential to revolutionise real estate finance.The factorisation of commercial real estate with factor-based real estate derivatives is the first concept analysed in this book. Methodological issues pertaining to factors in real estate risk analysis are covered in detail with in-depth academic reference. The book then analyses the digitalisation of commercial real estate. The environment in...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference, RSSRail 2025, in Pisa, Italy, during November 2025.The 12 full papers, 5 short papers, 3 short papers from invited speakers and 4 extended abstracts of journal-first papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions.They were focused on the following topical sections:Invited Presentations; AI & Planning; Surveys & Comparisons; Communication & Control; Industrial Experiences & Tra...

This volume considers spirit possession in the Himalayas and the various ways in which invisible powers are made present. It does so by examining material representations of these powers through artefacts, animals, plants and natural substances, while also focusing on narratives of people’s encounters with the invisible that may help them to reconfigure reality. Through these two approaches, the contributions examine new phenomena associated with the concepts of "possession" and "shamanism...

This book explores how ethnic groups living in the Himalayan regions understand nature and culture. The first part addresses the opposition between nature and culture in Asia’s major religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Shamanism. The second part brings together specialists of different representative groups living in the heterogeneous Himalayan region. They examine how these indigenous groups perceive their world. This includes understanding their mythic past, in par...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Reliability, Safety, and Security of Railway Systems. Modelling, Analysis, Verification, and Certification, RSSRail 2023, held in Berlin, Germany, during October 10–12, 2023.The 13 full papers presented in this book together with 3 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers are divided into the following topical sections: modeling for security; tooled approaches and depen...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Reliability, Safety, and Security of Railway Systems, RSSRail 2022, held in Paris, France, in June 2022.The 16 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They cover a range of topics including railways system and infrastructure advance modelling; scheduling and track planning; safety process and validation; modelling; formal verification; and...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2016, which took place in Natal, Brazil, in November 2016.The 12 papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: analysis and verification; modeling and logic; and model checking.

This book sets new trajectories for language-sensitive business and management research and pedagogy. The existence of language plurality characterises these. Empirical studies have been established as important and relevant for contemporary research. It has shifted language-sensitive research from the periphery to the centre of international management research. However, this field is rapidly changing, and new thematic approaches have begun to emerge. By addressing this, the book offers g...

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Reliability, Safety and Security of Railway Systems, RRSRail 2017, held in Pistoia, Italy, in November 2017.The 16 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: communication challenges in railway systems; formal modeling and verification for safety; light rail and urban transit; and engineering techniques and sta...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Reliability, Safety, and Security of Railway Systems, RSSRail 2019, held in Lille, France in June 2019.The 18 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. They cover a range of topics including railways system and infrastructure advance modelling; scheduling and track planning; safety process and validation; modelling; formal verification; and secur...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the FirstInternational Conference on Reliability, Safety, and Security of RailwaySystems, RSSRail 2016, held in Paris, France, in June 2016.The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed andselected from 36 initial submissions. The papers cover a wide range oftopics including failure analysis, interlocking verification, formalsystem specification and refinement, security analysis...