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Overview: Argues that emotions affect the understanding of scientific evidence.Examines how foresight thinking can anticipate the impact of scientific developments and emerging technologies on citizens’ lives.DPolicymakers prepare society for the future and this book provides a practical toolkit for preparing pro-active, future-proof scientific policy advice for them. It explains how to make scientific advisory strategies holistic. It also explains how and where biases, which interfere with the proper functioning of the entire science-policy ecosystem, arise and investigates how emotions and o

Overview: Mit Bauten verändert der Mensch die vorgefundene Welt in der sichtbarsten Weise, macht er die Welt bewohnbar und schafft für alle Lebensvollzüge die ihm angemes­ sen erscheinenden Räume. Gebäude zeigen dauerhafter und einprägsamer als ande­ re Kulturgüter mit ihren verschiedenen Nutzungsarten und Ästhetiken den sozialen und kulturellen Wandel und den Zivilisationsstandard der gegenwärtigen und der früheren Epochen. Die Beziehung zwischen der gebauten Umwelt - den Hervorbringungen von Ar­ chitektur, Stadt- und Wohnungsbau - und dem sozialen Handeln der Individuen und Gruppen kann als

Overview: Presents a taxonomical and ecological evaluation of stem anatomical features of all life forms of dicotyledonous Angiosperms.Contains more than 2000 color illustrations.Has a high aesthetic value.Open.This work, published in two volumes, contains descriptions of the wood and bark anatomies of 3000 dicotyledonous plants of 120 families, highlighting the anatomical and phylogenetic diversity of dicotyledonous plants of the Northern Hemisphere. The .first volume. principally treats families of the Early Angiosperms, Eudicots, Core Eudicots and Rosids, while the second concentrates on th

Overview: Up-to-date results.Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art researchThis book constitutes selected best papers from the 10th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, EA 2011, held in Angers, France, in October 2011. Initially, 33 full papers and 10 post papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. This book presents the 19 best papers selected from these contributions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ant colony optimization; multi-objective optimization; analysis; implementation and robotics; combinatorial optimization; learning

Overview: This book provides an account of the state-of-the-art inthermochemical biomass conversion and arises from the thirdconference in a series sponsored by the International Energy Agency‘sBioenergy Agreement. Fundamental and applied research topics areincluded, reflecting recent advances as well as demonstration andcommercial innovation.978-94-010-4582-7978-94-011-1336-6

Overview: Authored by nationally and internationally recognized pathologists.Features visual diagnostic criteria with detailed figure legends.A quick reference guide for the diagnosis of usual and unusual disea.Bone is a living tissue prone to develop a diverse array of inflammatory, metabolic, genetic, reactive, circulatory and neoplastic abnormalities.  .The Atlas of Bone Pathology. describes and selectively illustrates the normal and pathologic conditions that afflict human bone, focusing heavily on tumor and tumor-like conditions of bone and their non-neoplastic mimics.  Supplemented with

Overview: Adopts a multidisciplinary approach to Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora studies.Is the first book to compile research on Sri Lankan Tamils in the Australian context.Encompasses academic and creative interpreThis book is the first compilation of the experiences of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Australia. It explores the theme of home—from what is left behind to what is brought or (re)created in a new space—and all the complex processes that ensue as a result of leaving a land defined by conflict. The context of the book is unique since it focuses on the ten-year period since the Sri Lanka

Overview: Provides innovative and traditional techniques in stratigraphy.These techniques contribute to geological and paleobiological researches, for example:.charting the course and complexities of the evolut.Few, if any, fundamental disciplines in the earth sciences have seen so many dramatic changes and developments as stratigraphy. The discipline has come to be applied progressively, and indispensably, to nearly all branches of the earth sciences, including such endeavors as charting the course and complexities of life evolution through time, understanding how ancient ecosystems developed

Overview: Presents high-quality research in the areas of tourism, technology, and systems.Features the outcomes of ICOTTS 2020, held at the University of Cartagena, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.Serves as a This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology & Systems (ICOTTS 2020), held at the University of Cartagena, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from 29th to 31st October 2020. The book is divided into two volumes, and it covers the areas of technology in tourism and the tourist experience, generations and te

Overview: Provides a quick and easy reference on nuclear medicine for medical students and referring physicians.Focuses on the clinical indications for the common nuclear medicine procedures without going into This book, now in an extensively revised second edition, summarizes the basic principles of nuclear medicine and describes the clinical applications of commonly used nuclear medicine procedures and techniques. Readers will find clear explanation of clinical indications, the pathophysiological basis of functional procedures, and the complementary role of nuclear medicine and molecular ima

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Overview: Shows how data science can be used in practice.Provides an application-oriented introduction.Highlights the concrete operational benefitThis book offers an introduction to the topic of data science based on the visual processing of data. It deals with ethical considerations in the digital transformation and presents a process framework for the evaluation of technologies. It also explains special features and findings on the failure of data science projects and presents recommendation systems in consideration of current developments. Machine learning functionality in business analytic

Overview: One of my favorite quotes is from a letter of Charles Darwin (1887): "I have long discovered that geologists never read each other‘s works, and that the only object in writing a book is proof of earnestness, and that you do not form your opinions without undergoing labour of some kind. " It is not clear if this private opinion of Darwin was one that he held to be absolutely true, or was one of those opinions that, as with most of us, coincides with our "bad days," but is replaced with a more optimistic view on our "good days. " I hold the sense of the statement to be true in general,

Overview: No symposium of this size can be organized without the help of many dedicated persons. EUSAI was organized by Philips Research in close cooperation with the ITEA Ambience project. Many people were involved in this joint effort and we are greatly indebted to them for their valuable contribution to the organization of EUSAI. Special thanks in this respect go to Ad de Beer for taking care of the local arrangements and to Maurice Groten for guaranteeing the financial budget. EUSAI has succeeded in bringing together a wealth of information on the research progress in ambient intelligence,

Overview: First systematic account of Charron‘s influence among major French Philosophers.First book to show that Academic skepticism was more relevant than Pyrrhonism in Early Modern Philosophy.Provides new re.This book is the first systematic account of Pierre Charron’s influence among the major French philosophers in the period (1601-1662). It shows that Charron’s .Wisdom. was one of the main sources of inspiration of Pierre Gassendi’s first published book, the .Exercitationes adversus aristoteleos.. It sheds new light on La Mothe Le Vayer, who is usually viewed as a major free thinker. By

Overview: Includes supplementary material: Patienten und ihre behandelnden Ärzte werden zunehmend zu Partnern im diagnostischen und therapeutischen Prozess. Bei vielen allergischen Erkrankungen hängt der Therapieerfolg direkt von der Mitarbeit des informierten Patienten ab. Vorliegendes Buch + CD-ROM stellt effiziente Hilfsmittel für die Allergie-Patienteninformation bereit. Während der umfangreiche lexikalische Teil (mit vielen auf der CD anklickbaren Verweisen) die Praxishelfer fundiert über allergologische Sachverhalte informiert, bietet eine Bibliothek von Informationsblättern Tipps und In

Overview: Eine Studie aus dem Bereich Religionswissenschaft.Includes supplementary material: .Christiane Altmann untersucht erstmals die Debatte um den Lubavitcher .rebe., Rabbi Schneerson, den sog. „Messias von Brooklyn“. Anders als die bisherigen Studien schildert die Autorin den Messianismus im Kontext jüdischer Konfliktstrategien und vertritt die These, dass die biblische Erlösungsgestalt auch in der Moderne nicht an Attraktivität eingebüßt hat. Der Messias, als zentraler Glaube des Judentums, birgt nicht nur revolutionäres Potenzial, sondern auch eine innovative Kraft. Christiane Altmann

Overview: Addresses novelty to enhance building both vision-systems and planning-based systems.Establishes formal definitions of novelty subtypes that will help produce a consistent lexicon for researchers.InclThis book presents the first unified formalization for defining novelty across the span of machine learning, symbolic-reasoning, and control and planning-based systems.  Dealing with novelty, things not previously seen by a system, is a critical issue for building vision-systems and general intelligent systems.  The book presents examples of using this framework to define and evaluate in

Overview: Differential Geometry is a wide field. We have chosen to concentrate upon certain aspects that are appropriate for an introduction to the subject; we have not attempted an encyclopedic treatment. Book II deals with more advanced material than Book I and is aimed at the graduate level. Chapter 4 deals with additional topics in Riemannian geometry. Properties of real analytic curves given by a single ODE and of surfaces given by a pair of ODEs are studied, and the volume of geodesic balls is treated. An introduction to both holomorphic and Kähler geometry is given. In Chapter 5, the ba

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living, IWAAL 2013, held in Carillo, Costa Rica, in December 2013. The 13 full papers and 7 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. The focus of the papers is on following topics: AAL environments, user interaction and assistive solutions, sensing and activity recognition and key application domains.978-3-319-03091-3978-3-319-03092-0Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349