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Overview: Includes supplementary material: .More and more often practitioners in process industry have to adapt their global production networks to changes in the competitive environment. A majority of the supply network design models proposed by academia does not sufficiently capture the economic and technical questions that have to be resolved. This work seeks to provide the necessary operations research decision support tools. It builds on the example of specialty chemicals industry, which faces a strong increase of competitive pressure and historically grown production networks that typica

Overview: Presents most recent techniques to solve new problems using case-based reasoning in an innovative way.Continuation of the previous volume “Successful Case-based Reasoning Applications – 1” SCI Volume .Case-based reasoning paradigms offer automatic reasoning capabilities which are useful for the implementation of human like machines in a limited sense.. .This research book is the second volume in a series devoted to presenting Case-based reasoning (CBR) applications. The first volume, published in 2010, testified the flexibility of CBR, and its applicability in all those fields where

Overview: 978-3-642-95467-2978-3-642-95466-5Series ISSN 1431-7877

Overview: Let readers gain a complete understanding of the subject, and serves as a stepping-stone to further activities.Discusses the latest developments concerning the implementation of space activities in Af.This peer-reviewed book provides detailed insights into how space and its applications are, and can be used to support the development of the full range and diversity of African societies, as encapsulated in the African Union’s Agenda 2063. Following on from Part 1 to Part 3, which was highly acclaimed by the space community, it focuses on the role of space in supporting the UN Sustaina

Overview: Sozialwissenschaftliche StudieMittagessen in der Schule ist auch Schule. So lautet das Fazit dieser kamera-ethnographischen Untersuchung von Anna Schütz. zum ganztagsschulischen Mittagessen aus erziehungswissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Vor allem die Dominanz schulischer Handlungs- und Interaktionsmuster und die Formalisierung des vermeintlich familiären Settings wird durch die Beschreibung der konkreten Praxis gemeinsamer Mahlzeiten an Schulen und den Vergleich unterschiedlicher Mittagessenssettings deutlich. Hier zeigt sich neben Spielräumen für peerkulturelle Praktiken eine Tendenz

Overview: First book in systems neuroscience.Articles from wide range of fields; systems neuroscience, neurology, engineering, and psychology.A solid foundation for researchers who aim to contribute scientifica.Rapidly growing knowledge in systems neuroscience may contribute to expand the range of activities in persons with disabilities, but in its practical application, cooperation between experts in different research fields is necessary. In this conference, the guest speakers and audiences will be from wide range of research fields; e.g., systems-neuroscience, neurology, engineering, psycho

Overview: The Symposium ·Symmetries in Science VI: From the Rotation Group to Quantum Algebras· was held at the Cloister Mehrerau, Bregenz, Austria, during the period August 2-7, 1992. The Symposium was held in honor of Professor Lawrence C. Biedenharn on the occasion of his 70th birthday. During the academic year 1966/67 I worked as research associate with Larry at Duke University and we have ever since maintained close contact. It was thus natural for me to take the initiative and to organize this Symposium in honor of Larry as a great scientist and friend. The response which the Symposium r

Overview: Presents an authentic effort to present an approach to interculturality which is intercultural and multivoiced.Offers an approach to criticality that adds strong and convincing elements to current per.This book offers a snapshot of interculturality as a complex, unstable and highly political object of research and education when it locates at the centre of multifaceted dialogues between teachers and students; students and students; teachers, students, scholars and readers. The context of the book is a Chinese course on intercultural communication education where students engage with

Overview: 978-90-247-0286-2978-94-010-3618-4

Overview: I am pleased to present the Fifth Edition of the Plastics Engineering Handbook. Last published in 1976, this version of the standard industry reference on plastics processing incorporates the numerous revisions and additions necessitated by 14 years of activity in a dynamic industry. At that last printing, then-SPI President Ralph L. Harding, Jr. anticipated that plastics pro­ duction would top 26 billion pounds in 1976 (up from 1.25 billion in 1947, when the First Edition of this book was issued). As I write, plastics production in the United States had reached almost 60 billion pou

Overview: Explains everything you want to know about sex, including the things you were afraid to ask.Debunks some common misunderstandings about sex and presents scientific facts.S=EX2 is smart, original, extr.You have in your hands the most rigorous, complete and readable book ever written about the fascinating science of human sexuality. This book goes beyond the well-worn sexual education advice and the usual evolutionist psychology. After .The Brain Snatcher., Pere Estupinyà comes back with the first popular science book on sex aimed at a wide audience. While there are some tips for the m

Overview: Presents solved exercises in each chapter.Introduces the concepts of fractional integral and derivative.Recalls the integral transform methodology.This book contains a brief historical introduction and state of the art in fractional calculus. The author introduces some of the so-called special functions, in particular, those which will be directly involved in calculations. The concepts of fractional integral and fractional derivative are also presented. Each chapter, except for the first one, contains a list of exercises containing suggestions for solving them and at last the resolut

Overview: In Sex, Gender and Science , Myra Hird outlines the social study of science and nature, specifically in relation to ‘sex‘, sex ‘differences‘ and sexuality. She examines how Western understandings of ‘sex‘ are based less upon understanding material sex differences, than on a discourse that emphasizes sex dichotomy over sex diversity and argues for a feminist engagement with scientific debate that embraces the diversity and complexity of nature.978-1-4039-2177-2978-0-230-51071-5

Overview: Zur Modernität der GenossenschaftsideeAufgrund aktueller gesellschaftlicher Veränderungsprozesse, die sowohl auf wirtschaftliche Umbrüche als auch auf die demografische Entwicklung zurückgehen, lässt sich eine Rückbesinnung auf den genossenschaftlichen Kooperations- und Selbsthilfeansatz beobachten. Die Stärkung der Eigeninitiative steht dabei ebenso im Mittelpunkt wie die Förderung gemeinschaftlicher Anliegen. Dieses Buch umreißt den historischen Kontext, bietet Beiträge zum wirtschaftlichen und sozialpolitischen Hintergrund und zeigt konkrete Potenziale der Genossenschaftsidee für

Overview: Lawton Chiles GovernorofFlorida, 1991-1998 Social Change, Public Policy and Community Collaborations: Training Human Development Professionalsfor the Twenty-First Century is more than the name of the Third National Applied Developmental Science Conference; it is more than the name of a book prepared from the proceedings of this conference. It describes one of the largest and most complex challenges facing state government, higher education and communities in the coming decade. The answer to this challenge will not be found in a college or program in our higher education institution n

Overview: Presents contributions from an international selection of preeminent experts in the field.Discusses topics on social-media content analysis, and examines social-media system design and analysis.DescriThis timely text/reference presents the latest advances in various aspects of social media modeling and social media computing research. Gathering together superb research from a range of established international conferences and workshops, the editors coherently organize and present each of the topics in relation to the basic principles and practices of social media modeling and computi

Overview: Written by experts.Includes exercises at the end of each chapter.Offers a natural mathematical framework for the formulation of many new models in Finance.This research monograph presents results to researchers in stochastic calculus, forward and backward stochastic differential equations, connections between diffusion processes and second order partial differential equations (PDEs), and financial mathematics. It pays special attention to the relations between SDEs/BSDEs and second order PDEs under minimal regularity assumptions, and also extends those results to equations with multi

Overview: Sets out a range of pedagogical innovations for improving teaching and learning for student engagement.Draws on a range of in-depth case studies across a range of teaching and learning environments.ExThis book outlines a range of innovative methods to gather student feedback, and explores the complex relation between student engagement, student satisfaction, and student success. Drawing on results from a set of numerous case-studies carried out at a school of education, the book reports on a range of theoretically-informed teaching innovations, including focus groups, learning analyt

Overview: Presents case studies and experiments including the pioneering study of tagging systems.Covers performance of commercial search engines.Illustrates that the substance matter of this book has a robustl.Social Semantics: The Search for Meaning on the Web .provides a unique introduction to identity and reference theories of the World Wide Web, through the academic lens of philosophy of language and data-driven statistical models. The Semantic Web is a natural evolution of the Web, and this book covers the URL-based Web architecture and Semantic Web in detail. It has a robust empirical s

Overview: This is a study about perceptions of well-being. Its purpose is to investigate how these perceptions are organized in the minds of different groups of American adults, to find valid and efficient ways of measuring these percep­ tions, to suggest ways these measurement methods could be implemented to yield a series of social indicators, and to provide some initial readings on these indicators; i.e., some information about the levels of well-being perceived by Americans. The findings are based on data from more than five thousand Americans and include results from four separate represe