BOOKS with Alphabet C (Ca, Cb,Cc, Cd, Ce…... )

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Workshops on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems, COIN 2014. The workshops were co-located with AAMAS 2014, held in Paris, France, in May 2014, and with PRICAI 2014, held in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, in December 2014...The 16 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. The papers cover a wide range of topics from work on formal aspects of normative and team based systems, to software

Overview: Includes supplementary material: The four-volume set LNCS 8925, 8926, 8927, and 8928 comprises the refereed post-proceedings of the Workshops that took place in conjunction with the 13th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2014, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in September 2014. The 203 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. They were presented at workshops with the following themes: where computer vision meets art; computer vision in vehicle technology; spontaneous facial behavior analysis; consumer depth cameras for computer vis

Overview: Readers will learn how to perform CT coronary angiography.An Overview of the Current technical status and applications of CT is presented.Four CT scanners from four vendors will be presented and discu.Coronary CT angiography has attained increasing scientific attention at academic institutions and has become a highly accurate diagnostic modality. Extending this knowledge into a practice setting is the purpose of "Coronary CT Angiography". This book will assist you in integrating cardiac CT into your daily practice, while also giving an overview of the current technical status and app

Overview: .Computers, Chess, and Cognition. presents an excellent up-to-date description of developments in computer chess, a rapidly advancing area in artificial intelligence research. This book is intended for an upper undergraduate and above level audience in the computer science (artificial intelligence) community. The chapters have been edited to present a uniform terminology and balanced writing style, to make the material understandable to a wider, less specialized audience. The book‘s primary strengths are the description of the workings of some major chess programs, an excellent revie

Overview: A completely updated and revised second edition.Provides new insights into the causes and consequences of coral bleaching.Includes more than 50 % more new references than the first edition.One of the most serious consequences of global climate change for coral reefs is the increased frequency and severity of mass coral bleaching events and, since the first edition of this volume was published in 2009, there have been additional mass coral bleaching events. This book provides comprehensive information on the causes and consequences of coral bleaching for coral reef ecosystems, from th

Overview: Offers detailed information about the history, discovery, and current knowledge of many astronomical objects.Serves as a an educational tool by making sense of the menagerie of astronomical objects th.Since the invention of the telescope 400 years ago, astronomers have rapidly discovered countless celestial objects. But how does one make sense of it all?.Astronomer and former NASA Chief Historian Steven J. Dick brings order to this menagerie by defining 82 classes of astronomical objects, which he places in a beginner-friendly system known as "Astronomy’s Three Kingdoms.” Rather than

Overview: Covers a new approach to environmental and energy-efficiency problems.Discusses over fifty projects built over a ten-year period.Includes descriptions, photographs and plans.Includes supplementary matThe book presents Slovenia’s contemporary timber architecture. Thanks to its abundant forests, Slovenia has preserved the tradition of wood construction. As much as 60% of its surface is covered by forests. Slovenia is also the third most forested country in Europe. The high share of forest-covered surface allows for a sustainable production of high-quality wood. In the past, wood was us

Overview: Describes a historiography aimed at addressing the question of how computing shaped and transformed Swedish society between 1950 and 1980.Presents a user-centered perspective on the history of computi.This book reviews the shift in the historiography of computing from inventors and innovations to a user-perspective, and examines how the relevant sources can be created, collected, preserved, and disseminated. The text describes and evaluates a project in Sweden that documented the stories of around 700 people. The book also provides a critical discussion on the interpretation of oral

Overview: Presents some of the very latest developments in security research from leading experts in the field communications and multimedia security.Includes supplementary material: .Communications and Multimedia Security. is an essential reference for both academic and professional researchers in the fields of Communications and Multimedia Security...This state-of-the-art volume presents the proceedings of the Eighth Annual IFIP TC-6 TC-11 Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security, September 2004, in Windermere, UK. The papers presented here represent the very latest developments

Overview: Corporate Hospitality hat sich in den zurückliegenden Jahren zu einem bedeutenden Finanzierungsinstrument für Sporteventveranstalter und zu einem beliebten Kommunikationsinstrument für Unternehmen entwickelt. Untersuchungen zu den spezifischen Wirkungszusammenhängen dieses Instruments im Relationship-Marketing liegen bisher nur in Ansätzen vor. Stefan Walzel erarbeitet daher zunächst ein konsistentes Evaluationsmodell mit Fokus auf die beziehungstheoretischen Konzepte der affektiven und konativen Wirkungen. Im zweiten Schritt schlägt er alternative Forschungsdesigns zur empirischen E

Overview: Provides approaches for the conservation of a unique ecosystem in Africa.Of utmost importance for nearly all tropical forests worldwide.Boxes containing technical subjects and a glossary make this booTanzania is one of the most biologically diverse nations in the world. Traveling from west to east across Tanzania, one encounters an incredible array of ecosystems and species. Beginning at Lakes Victoria, Tanganyika, and Nyasa that form much of the western boundary of Tanzania, one finds the most diverse and some of the most spectacular concentrations of endemic fish in any of the worl

Overview: Troy analyses how the understanding of religion in Realism and the English School helps in working towards the greater good in international relations, studying religion within the overall framework of international affairs and the field of peace studies.978-1-349-34876-3978-1-137-03003-0

Overview: Can institutions, in the sense of formal organizations, be considered vulnerable to moral burdens? The contributors to this book critically examine the idea of the ‘collective‘ or ‘institutional‘ moral agent in, inter alia , the guise of states, transnational corporations, the UN and international society. The viability of treating these entities as bearers of moral responsibilities is explored in the context of some of the most critical and debated issues and events in international relations, including the genocide in Rwanda, development aid, the Kosovo campaign and global justice.

Overview: .This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks, CSoNet 2020, held in Dallas, TX, USA, in December 2020...The 20 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. Additionally the book includes 22 special track papers and 3 extended abstracts. The selected papers are devoted to topics such as Combinatorial Optimization and Learning; Computational Methods for Social Good Applications; NLP and Affective Computing; Privacy and Security; Blockchain; Fact-Checking, Fake News and Malware Detec

Overview: A wide spectrum of multiscale analysis results (like convergence proofs) can be found in this book.Presents practically important information such as derivations of mean-field equations, methods to haMultiscale models in social applications combine mean-field and kinetic equations with either microscopic or macroscopic level descriptions. In this book the reader will find not only a wide spectrum of multiscale analysis results (like convergence proofs), but also practically important information such as derivations of mean-field equations, methods to handle hard contacts numerically,

Overview: Edited by one of the leading pioneers in the field.Reader-friendly and practical structure.Concise and step-by-step approach.This manual provides a comprehensive overview of how the cardiac catheterization laboratory in a pediatric cardiology division works. Chapters are organized in the order in which a case progresses. Specific types of cases are discussed in detail and hemodynamics is covered in depth. Information tables and line illustrations are used throughout the text to further emphasize important concepts and information...Lisa Bergersen, M.D. is affiliated with the Children

Overview: Describes methods for adaptive coastal environmental management.Introduces the Balance Sheet Decision Support System.Offers case studies on blue carbon capture, managed realignment and the English coaThis book applies the ‘ecosystem services’ framework to coastal environments, showing how it could facilitate an adaptive management strategy. The contributors describe a decision support system (DSS) based on the 3 Ps – pluralism, pragmatism and precaution – that leads to a more flexible, ‘learn by doing’ approach to the stewardship of coastal environments. The book lays out a “Balance

Overview: C-XSC is a tool for the development of numerical algorithms delivering highly accurate and automatically verified results. It provides a large number of predefined numerical data types and operators. These types are implemented as C++ classes. Thus, C-XSC allows high-level programming of numerical applications in C and C++. The most important features of C-XSC are: real, complex, interval, and complex interval arithmetic; dynamic vectors and matrices; subarrays of vectors and matrices; dotprecision data types, predefined arithmetic operators with maximum accuracy; standard functions

Overview: Holistic field that combines the insights of traditional archaeology, archaeological science, and digital archaeology.Southern Levant presents a unique opportunity for archaeologists to evaluate theor.This volume asks how the current Information Technology Revolution influences archaeological interpretations of techno-social change. Does cyber-archaeology provide a way to breathe new life into grand narratives of technological revolution and culture change, or does it further challenge these high-level theoretical explanations? Do digital recording methods have the potential to creat

Overview: The task the editors have set themselves is to survey the field of clinical hemorheology from basic principles to up-to-date research. It is only in a new science like this that it is possible to span the whole field in a book of this size. Hemorheology, as a new approach to the study and management of a wide range of circulatory diseases, is now beginning to appear with increasing frequency in general as well as specialized medical journals. Hemorheology is also just beginning to creep into the undergraduate medical curriculum. Therefore, the majority of graduate doctors are unequip