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Overview: Explores the revival of Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism.Addresses the whole range of issues facing this research program.Details differentiations, standpoints, and new perspectives.This book features many of the leading voices championing the revival of Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism (AN) in contemporary philosophy. It addresses the whole range of issues facing this research program at present. Coverage in the collection identifies differentiations, details standpoints, and points out new perspectives..This volume answers a need: AN is quite new to contemporary philosophy, d

Overview: Provides a concise analysis of public expenditures on social and economic services in the context of government intervention in agriculture.Comprehensively evaluates the impacts of various public inve.This book provides a blueprint for the allocation of public expenditures “in” and “for” agriculture at the dis-aggregated state level and suggests a reorientation in favour of disadvantaged regions where the marginal returns on additional investments would be higher. It provides insights into the inter-linkages between public expenditures, private investment, rural poverty, and agricult

Overview: State-of-the-art research.Fast-track conference proceedings.Unique visibilityThe abundance of information and increase in computing power currently enable researchers to tackle highly complicated and challenging computational problems. Solutions to such problems are now feasible using advances and innovations from the area of Artificial Intelligence. The general focus of the AIAI conference is to provide insights on how Artificial Intelligence may be applied in real-world situations and serve the study, analysis and modeling of theoretical and practical issues. This volume contains p

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of five international workshops held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in conjunction with the 28th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2016, in June 2016...The 16 full and 9 short papers were carefully selected from 51 submissions...The associated workshops were the Third International Workshop on Advances in Services DEsign based on the Notion of CApabiliy (ASDENCA) co-arranged with  the First International Workshop on Business Model Dynamics and Information Sys

Overview: Provides an overview of South African Karst Systems.Presents a multi-dimensional analysis of the groundwater sources in South Africa.Contains many color photographs of World Heritage Site.This book combines the results of the research activities in the assessment of water resources environment and an integrated water resource monitoring program to support preservation efforts of the aquatic environment of the Cradle of Humankind (COH), World Heritage Sites. A poor understanding of the surface and groundwater resources of the COH property has precipitated often alarmist reporting in t

Overview: Required reading for any professional Flex 3 developer wanting to master the advanced techniques required in today‘s industry.There’s a real need for this book: The Flex 3 developer community requires.Whether you‘re a Flex 3 beginner or intermediate user, this book provides the necessary information to help you develop into an expert. Using a practical hands-on approach, it illustrates exactly how to create robust and scalable enterprise-grade rich Internet applications (RIAs)...The book is divided into three parts. The first part discusses the architectural and design aspects of Fle

Overview: 1. 1 Klassische Physik und Quantenphysik Die Atom- und Quantenphysik, in die dieses Buch einführt, ist im wesentlichen ein Kind des ersten Drittels dieses Jahrhunderts. Die Einteilung der klassischen Physik in Gebiete wie Mechanik, Akustik, Wärmelehre, Elektrizität, Optik mußte erweitert werden, als bei fortschreitender Kenntnis vom Aufbau der Materie Atome und Quanten Gegenstand der physikalischen Forschung wurden. Zur klassischen Physik kommt deshalb im 20. Jahr­ hundert die Physik der Atome und der Licht- oder Energie-Quanten hinzu. Ziel der Atomphysik ist das Verständnis des Aufb

Overview: 978-94-010-8847-3978-94-009-5313-0

Overview: The ARCS series of conferences has over 30 years of tradition reporting hi- quality results in computer architecture and operating systems research. While the conference is proud of its long tradition, it is also proud to represent a - namic, evolving community that closely follows new research trends and topics. Thus, over the last few years, ARCS has evolved towards a strong focus on s- tem aspects of pervasive computing and self-organization techniques (organic and autonomic computing). At the same time it has expanded from its roots as a German Informatics Society (GI/ITG) confer

Overview: 978-1-4419-5185-4978-1-4757-2602-2

Overview: Broadens the reader’s understanding of a widely-used type of fuzzy control.Explains control design for positive, saturating and 2-dimensional systems.Treats practical effects of relevance to many chem.This monograph puts the reader in touch with a decade’s worth of new developments in the field of fuzzy control specifically those of the popular Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) type. New techniques for stabilizing control analysis and design based on multiple Lyapunov functions and linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), are proposed. All the results are illustrated with numerical examples and figures

Overview: 978-1-349-17293-1

Overview: Presents Advanced Computational Methods for Knowledge Engineering.Edited outcome of the 1st International Conference on Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Applications ICCSMA 2013, held in WarsThe book consists of 29 extended chapters which have been selected and invited from the submissions to the .1.st. International Conference on Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Applications. (ICCSAMA 2013) held on 9-10 May, 2013 in Warsaw, Poland. The book is organized into five parts, which are: Advanced Optimization Methods and Their Applications, Queuing Theory and Applications

Overview: First comprehensive introduction to applied spatial data analysis with R..Extensive practical examples, with data sets, allowing the reader to follow the presentation in a hands-on way..Brings the reaWe began writing this book in parallel with developing software for handling and analysing spatial data withR (R Development Core Team, 2008). - though the book is now complete, software development will continue, in the R community fashion, of rich and satisfying interaction with users around the world, of rapid releases to resolve problems, and of the usual joys and frust- tions of get

Overview: Frühpädagogik im DiskursDie frühen Entwicklungsjahre von Kindern sind in den vergangenen Jahren in zunehmendem Ausmaß ins Blickfeld der öffentlichen und fachlichen Aufmerksamkeit geraten. Neben der Familie richtet sich das Interesse insbesondere auf Einrichtungen der Kindertagesbetreuung. Das Spektrum der einschlägigen Diskussionen reicht von der Neu- bzw. Wiederentdeckung der Kitas als Bildungseinrichtungen bis hin zu deren Eingliederung in neue Netzwerke des Kindesschutzes. Der Band ‘Aufwachsen in Dialog und sozialer Verantwortung‘ setzt hier spezifische Akzente. Er zeichnet einers

Overview: The authors describe the implementation of modern features of man-machine interfaces.They offer design guidelines, case studies and they discuss the algorithms for the implementation.Two easy-to-handl.Contemporary man-machine interfaces are increasingly characterized by multimodality, nonintrusiveness, context-sensitivity, adaptivity, and teleoperability. The implementation of such properties relies on novel techniques in felds such as, e.g., computer vision, speech technology, trainable classifiers, robotics, and virtual reality...This book puts special emphasis on technological asp

Overview: Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art research.Up-to-date resultsThese four volumes (CCIS 297, 298, 299, 300) constitute the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2012, held in Catania, Italy, in July 2012.The 258 revised full papers presented together with six invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on fuzzy machine learning and on-line modeling; computing with words and decision making; so

Overview: Offers a wide-ranging consideration of religious app use in multiple religious and cultural contexts.Combines insights from digital anthropology with digital religion and media studies.Provides an ant.This edited volume deploys digital ethnography in varied contexts to explore the cultural roles of mobile apps that focus on religious practice and communities, as well as those used for religious purposes (whether or not they were originally developed for that purpose). Combining analyses of local contexts with insights and methods from the global subfield of digital anthropology, the

Overview: Introduces the field of aerosol research and remote sensing.Comprehensively explains the basic principles of radiative transfer and remote sensing.Presents the various instruments and the inversion alThis book gives a much needed explanation of the basic physical principles of radiative transfer and remote sensing, and presents all the instruments and retrieval algorithms in a homogenous manner. The editors provide, for the first time, an easy path from theory to practical algorithms in one easily accessible volume, making the connection between theoretical radiative transfer and ind

Overview: Contains work by leading figures on Holocaust studies, including Deborah Lipstadt, the late Robert Wistrich, Elhanan Yakira and Robert van Pelt.Includes a diverse range of academic responses to contem.Divided into five discrete sections, this book examines the issue of Holocaust denial, and in some cases "Holocaust inversion" in North America, Europe, and the Middle East and its relationship to the history of antisemitism before and since the Holocaust. It thus offers both a historical and contemporary perspective. This volume includes observations by leading scholars, delivering pow