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Overview: 978-3-409-17011-6978-3-322-87952-3Series ISSN 0175-8802 Series E-ISSN 2945-8129

Overview: Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art research.Up-to-date resultsThe papers in this volume were the fruitful scientific results of the Second International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), held during November 23–24, 2010 in Singapore, which was jointly organized by the Social Robotics Laboratory (SRL), Interactive Digital Media Institute (IDMI), the National University of Singapore and 2 Human Language Technology Department, the Institute for Infocomm Research (I R), A*STAR, Singapore. These papers address a range of topics in social robotics and its applications.

Overview: Combines contributions from both academic experts and practitioners.Acts as a reference for the theory behind supply disruption management techniques.Combine up-to-date academic research with risk man.One of the most critical issues facing supply chain managers in today’s globalized and highly uncertain business environments is how to deal proactively with disruptions that might affect the complicated supply networks characterizing modern enterprises. .Supply Chain Disruptions: Theory and Practice of Managing Risk. presents a state-of the-art perspective on this particular issue..Sup

Overview: Provides a concise introduction to sustainable agrochemistry for a professional audience.Identifies the main scientific and technological approaches that can be applied to modern agrochemistry.Discuss.This book presents a broad range of technologies for sustainable agrochemistry, e.g. semiochemicals for pest management, nanotechnology for release of eco-friendly agrochemicals, and green chemistry principles for agriculture. It provides a concise introduction to sustainable agrochemistry for a professional audience, and highlights the main scientific and technological approaches that

Overview: Focuses on the mobilization of sovereignty discourses in national politics.Challenges traditional paradigms of national and supranational sovereignty.Brings together leading international researchers This edited volume brings together leading international researchers in an attempt to disentangle and understand the multiple conflicts of sovereignty within the European polity in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. While most research on sovereignty focuses on its international dimensions, what makes this volume distinctive is the focus on the mobilization of sovereignty discour

Overview: Besonders lerngerechte Aufbereitung durch "3x2-Didaktik".Die Analyse der zu treffenden Entscheidungen erfolgt stets als Text, grafisch und analytisch - zunächst immer möglichst allgemein, anschließendDieses Lehrbuch führt in die Grundlagen der Industrieökonomik ein. Gegenstand der Analyse sind die Entscheidungen der Unternehmen unter den Bedingungen oligopolistischen Wettbewerbs bei homogenen und bei differenzierten Gütern. Im Zentrum stehen dabei die Herleitung und die Erläuterung der optimalen Unternehmensentscheidungen mit Blick auf die Aktionsparameter Preis, Produktionskapazität

Overview: Self-contained and elementary, involving essentially linear and bilinear algebra.Unified approach to the Maslov index using Sturm sequences and quadratic forms.Appeals to both algebraists and topologi.La théorie classique des suites de Sturm fournit un algorithme pour déterminer le nombre de racines d’un polynôme à coefficients réels contenues dans un intervalle donné. L’objet principal de ce mémoire est de montrer qu’une généralisation adéquate de la théorie des suites de Sturm fournit entre autres choses:....une notion d’indice de Maslov pour un lacet algébrique de lagrangiens défi

Overview: Introduction to high-tech agriculture.Focus on Data utilization and decision-making for agriculture automation.In-depth review on the concept, principle, characteristic, applications of machine vision.Agricultural automation is the emerging technologies which heavily rely on computer-integrated management and advanced control systems. The tedious farming tasks had been taken over by agricultural machines in last century, in new millennium, computer-aided systems, automation, and robotics has been applied to precisely manage agricultural production system. With agricultural automation

Overview: 978-3-663-05250-0978-3-663-05249-4

Overview: The models and analysis approach are illustrated with detailed results from two NAEP surveys..The use of a full statistical model avoids the ad hoc methods that are otherwise necessary for the analysi.The purpose of this book is to evaluate a new approach to the analysis and reporting of the large-scale surveys for the National Assessment of Educational Progress carried out for the National Center for Education Statistics. The need for a new approach was driven by the demands for secondary analysis. .of the survey data by researchers who needed analyses more detailed than those publi

Overview: Reviews theory of dynamical systems and self-organization.Covers applications to physical and biological systems.Explores self-organization in financial markets.Includes supplementary material: .This volume of the “Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Second Edition” (ECSS), introduces the fundamental physical and mathematical concepts underlying the theory of complex physical, chemical, and biological systems. Numerous applications illustrate how these concepts explain observed phenomena in our daily lives, which range from spatio-temporal patterns in fluids from atmosphe

Overview: Presents an organizational perspective of social enterprises, which allows us to analyze issues such as their governing structure, their modes of operation and their marketing strategies, and to begin to formulate some theoretical constructs on how these entities can survive and thrive.978-1-349-34757-5978-1-137-03530-1

Overview: Featuring the Gestalt Model and the Perspectivist conception ofscience, this book is unique in its non-relativistic development ofthe idea that successive scientific theories are logicallyincommensurable. This edition includes four new appendices in whichthe central ideas of the book are applied to subatomic physics, thedistinction between laws and theories, the relation between absoluteand relative conceptions of space, and the environmental issue ofsustainable development. .978-94-017-2966-6Series ISSN 0166-6991 Series E-ISSN 2542-8292

Overview: Fast track proceedingsThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed scientific proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management, S-BPM ONE 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, in April 2012.The 12 papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions and are completed by one invited keynote paper and a summary of the tutorial onsubject-oriented business process management. S-BPM as a discipline is characterized by a seamless approach toward the analysis, modeling, implementation, execution, and maintenance of business processes, with

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2015, held in Chengdu, China, in August 2015...The 17 full and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: graphics, sketching and visualization, automation and evaluation, image processing, and posters and demo session..978-3-319-53837-2978-3-319-53838-9Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Expertise: contributions and analysis from best experts on European affairs.Accuracy: a unique set of maps, data and comments designed to better understanding of Europe today and tomorrow.Coverage: la978-2-8178-0175-9

Overview: Paying particular attention to the representation of women and to gendered notions of the nation, this book examines for the first time the marked parallels between Rushdie‘s critique of the Nehruvian legacy and the most significant recent trends in Indian historiography, especially the feminist and subalternist movements.978-0-230-24441-2

Overview: First thorough introduction to the history of the Gothic in Spain from the late-eighteenth century to the present day and first in the English language..Advances nation-specific understandings of the This book presents the first English introduction to the broad history of the Gothic mode in Spain. It focuses on key literary periods, such as Romanticism, the fin-de-siècle, spiritualist writings of the early-twentieth century, and the cinematic and literary booms of the 1970s and 2000s. With illustrative case studies, Aldana Reyes demonstrates how the Gothic mode has been a permanent

Overview: Covers all aspects of soil microbes involved in management of plant nematodes.Explores the latest evidence-based strategies for managing plant nematodes through antagonist principles.Latest, critical .The Present Volume aims to summarize and update the information on utilization of soil microbes for management of plant parasitic nematodes. This volume will include more than 16 high quality chapters dealing with paradigms and mechanisms of nematode management using soil microbes, various soil microbes and their effectiveness in management of certain nematode diseases and regional case

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Scale-Space and Morphology in Computer Vision, Scale-Space 2001, held in Vancouver, Canada in July 2001..The 18 revised full papers presented together with 23 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The book addresses all current aspects of scale-space and morphology in the context of computer vision, in particular, vector distance functions, optic flow, image registration, curve evolution, morphological segmentation, scalar images, vector