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Overview: In this unique volume, twelve pioneers of historicalarchaeology offer reminiscences of the early part of their respectivecareers,circa 1920 to 1940. Each scholar had to overcome numerousbiases heldby historians and archaeologists-thus each chapterdocuments astep in the field‘s march from a marginal to a mainstreamdiscipline.The book makes for facinating reading for archaeologists,anthropologists, and historians of science, and reminds us of thewords of C.H. Fairbanks: ‘‘what is past is prelude; study the past.‘‘978-1-4899-0957-2978-1-4899-0955-8

Overview: Professional knowledge management is imperative for the success of enterprises. One decisive factor for the success of knowledge management projects is the coordination of elements such as corporate culture, enterprise organization, - man resource management, as well as information and communication techn- ogy. The proper alignment and balancing of these factors are currently little understood—especially the role of information technology, which is often - garded only as an implementation tool, though it can be a catalyst by making new knowledge management solutions possible. This co

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2017, held in Nice, France, in October/November 2017. .The 24 revised full papers presented together with one abstract of a keynote talk and 11 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. .The intention of the papers is to showcase research in several domains, ranging from foundations of agent theory and engineering aspects of agent systems, to emerging interdisciplinary areas of agent-

Overview: Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols.Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results.Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts.This volume covers a wide array of topics on protein-protein docking ranging from the fundamentals of the method and its recent developments to docking tools and examples of protein-protein docking applications. The chapters in this book are organized into four parts. Part One looks at the fundamentals of protein-protein docking such as rigid and flexible docking, and sampling and scoring in protein-protein docking.

Overview: This Fourth Edition of Principles of Seed Science and Technology, like the fIrst three editions, is written for the advanced undergraduate student or lay person who desires an introduction to the science and technology of seeds. The fIrst nine chapters present the seed as a biological system and cover its origin, development, composition, function (and sometimes nonfunction), performance and ultimate deterioration. The last nine chapters present the fundamentals of how seeds are produced, conditioned, evaluated and distributed in our modern agricultural society. Two new chapters have

Overview: Focuses on the fundamentals of spread spectrum communication systems and their use in commercial applications such as mobile cellular and satellite communications.Includes exercise sets at the end of This textbook provides a concise but lucid explanation of the fundamentals of spread-spectrum systems with an emphasis on theoretical principles. The choice of specific topics is tempered by the author’s judgment of their practical significance and interest to both researchers and system designers. Throughout the book, learning is facilitated by many new or streamlined derivations of the

Overview: Addressing a critical growth area in materials science, this volume features papers presented at the 2012 International Conference on 3D Materials Science, organized by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). With the top researchers in the world assessing the state-of-the-art within the various elements of three-dimensional materials science, this collection provides the premier forum for authoritative presentations on all aspects of the science, including characterization, visualization, quantitative analysis, modeling, and investigation of structure-property relationships

Overview: Praxisthemen theoretisch hinterfragen.Sachverhalte neu bewerten.Bekannte Themen anders denken.Mit seinen Beiträgen wendet sich der Band bewusst gegen Mainstream-Positionen in Wissenschaft und Praxis rund um Public Relations. Die teilweise essayistische Form der Beiträge wurde bewusst gewählt, um einen kreativeren Umgang der Mitwirkenden mit ihren jeweils ausgewählten Gegenständen zu erleichtern. Die Auswahl orientiert sich an Themenfeldern, die in enger Verbindung mit dem Wirken von Klaus Kocks zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis stehen..Herausgekommen sind zwölf theoretische Reflexione

Overview: Provides an understanding of the mechanisms of persister formation.Gives an insight into the role of persisters in infectious disease.Discusses the aspects of persister formation in antibiotic resisteThis volume is a collection of chapters from the leading experts in the relatively new and burgeoning field of persister cell studies. Persisters play a leading role in the recalcitrance of chronic infections, and enable the development of classical antibiotic resistance. The focus of the book is on studies that provide an understanding of the mechanisms of persister formation, antibioti

Overview: Based on the winner of ECPR‘s 2016 Jean Blondel Prize for Best PhD.Provides one of the first comprehensive comparative studies of presidential veto power in Europe.Selects innovative case studies from.This book examines the use of presidential powers in Central and East Europe between 1990 and 2010. Focussing on presidential vetoes and the formation of governments, it maps patterns of presidential activism and its determinants across nine democracies. Thereby, it combines the analysis of original quantitative data on the use of presidential powers with in-depth case studies in an inn

Overview: Up to date results.State of the art research.Fast-track conference proceedingsThis volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2012, held in Kuching, Malaysia, in September 2012. The 60 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers, 22 short papers, and 11 poster papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 240 submissions. The topics roughly include AI foundations, applications of AI, cognition and intelligent interactions, computer-aided education, constraint and search, creativi

Overview: Spanning from the Caribbean to East Asia and covering almost 3,000 years of history, from Classical Antiquity to the eve of the twenty-first century, Persistent Piracy is an important contribution to the history of the state formation as well as the history of violence at sea.978-1-349-46940-6978-1-137-35286-6

Overview: Die physikalische Untersuchung von Fasern, Fäden, Garnen und Geweben hat im allgemeinen zum Ziele, die Gebrauchsfähigkeit zahlenmässig so umfassend wie möglich zu beschreiben. Diesem Zweck dienen verschiedene Untersuchungen an fertigen Waren, die man d.ann in Vergleich zu den Eigenschaften der un­ verarbeiteten Fasern und Garne setzen kann. Voraussetzung ist aber dabei, daß man Untersuchungsmethoden für Gewebe hat, die einigermaßen den Bean­ spruchungen entsprechen, denen die Ware beim Gebrauch unterworfen ist. Dass Reißfestigkeitsmessungen diesen Zweck im allgemeinen nicht erfüllen,

Overview: Presents recent research on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence.Provides proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence.Written by experts .This book reports a set of novel research initiatives on ambient intelligence and ubiquitous computing that help researchers and practitioners identify recent advances, as well as the frontiers in these study domains. During the last two decades, both study areas have gained great interest in industry and academia due to the benefits of using smart solutions in various application domai

Overview: Thousands of articles and many books have been published on the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). There are, however, no studies or case reports and only several articles published on the anesthetic considerations for a person with AIDS or in pain with AIDS. There is no literature on the pain management of AIDS patients. Writing on this subject must be considered trailblazing. The reason anesthesiologists should know about AIDS has rapidly extended from concern over transmission of infection to anesthetic and analgesic considerations. The anesthesiologist may also be part of

Overview: Focuses on psychoeducational assessment and report writing for kindergarten through grade 12.Details report components, including referral, background, assessment methods, and how to build a case for This textbook provides in-depth instruction for conducting psychoeducational assessments of children in grades K-12 and conveying results through detailed, well-written reports. It takes readers step by step through the assessment process – collecting data, writing reports, and communicating conclusions – for students with conditions spanning the range of IDEA classifications such as aut

Overview: 978-3-540-07351-2978-3-642-80963-7

Overview: A comprehensive and global account of polio.Unlike some competing works in the market Williams has written this with a broad international perspective.Backed by authoritative research: author has consThe story of mankind‘s struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medicine, it was a battleground between good and bad science. Gareth Williams takes an original view of the journey to understanding and defeating polio.978-1-137-50658-0978-1-137-29976-5

Overview: 978-1-4613-7366-7978-1-4615-5195-9

Overview: Includes deep mathematical notions in connection with motivating applications.Suitable for graduate students and researchers in mathematical biology.Co-published jointly with Mathematical Biosciences This expository book presents the mathematical description of evolutionary models of populations subject to interactions (e.g. competition) within the population. The author includes both models of finite populations, and limiting models as the size of the population tends to infinity. The size of the population is described as a random function of time and of the initial population (the