BOOKS with Alphabet S (Sa, Sb,Sc, Sd, Se…... )

Overview: .This book traces the ancient concept of sanctuary. It examines how the contemporary sanctuary city movement contributes to a hostile asylum regime by holding asylum seekers in a suspended state where rights are indefinitely deferred. At the same time, it explores myriad subversive practices challenging this waiting state..978-1-137-48038-5Series ISSN 2731-3867 Series E-ISSN 2731-3875

Overview: Is the first book to fill the gap between computational social science and sociology.Demonstrates how computational social science answers major research questions in sociology.Depicts a “happy marria.This book provides solid sociological foundations to computational social science (CSS). CSS is an emerging research field, and many books with those words in the title are on the market. However, CSS has not become mainstream in sociology, for which there are two reasons. First, CSS does not necessarily solve major research questions in sociology. Second, its sociological foundations a

Overview: Koval provides an interdisciplinary forum for the diversestudies involved in the stress biology of eukaryotic cells. Readersgain access to the most recent information available for eukaryoticsystems ranging from plants to humans. For the student, this formatintroduces a source of potentially unifying concepts and hypotheses.Scientists will find a unique opportunity to conveniently examine thesimilarities among inducible responses initiated by a variety ofagents.978-1-4899-0071-5978-1-4899-0069-2

Overview: Provides an introduction to quantum mechanics for mathematicians.Contains many examples and exercises.Discusses recent research on Schrödinger‘s equation.This textbook presents the spectral theory of self-adjoint operators on Hilbert space and its applications in quantum mechanics. Based on a course taught by the author in Paris, the book not only covers the mathematical theory but also provides its physical interpretation, offering an accessible introduction to quantum mechanics for students with a background in mathematics. The presentation incorporates numerous physical examples t

Overview: Realities of power company choices, regulatory boundaries, and stakeholder approvals.Expectations of the responsible investor, environmental advocate, and Silicon Valley companies including Google, Fa..Realitiesof power company choices, regulatory boundaries, and stakeholderapprovals...Expectationsof the responsible investor, environmental advocate, and Silicon Valleycompanies including Google, Facebook, and Stanford University...Surprisingstories show how creativity, innovation, and planning can resolve some ofthe toughest choices facing electric power companies today, although noti

Overview: Surveys the well-known results and also presents a series of original results on the mathematical modeling of social networks.Focuses on models of informational influence, control, and confrontation.A.This book surveys the well-known results and also presents a series of original results on the mathematical modeling of social networks, focusing on models of informational influence, control and confrontation. .Online social networks are intended for communication, opinion exchange and information acquisition for their members, but recently, online social networks have been intensively

Overview: This text examines the conflicts, pressures and responsibilities involved in providing social housing through the perspective of housing practitioners. An analysis of the key issues dominating social housing provides a context within which the nature of housing management is considered with reference to concepts such as competition, partnership, consumer control, community care and equal opportunities.It will appeal to students and lecturers of social policy and health and welfare studies as well as housing studies.

Overview: Written by two of the world‘s most notable specialists in group amalgams Collates in one volume results that have previously been published in various research papers Provides a complete survey of theThe aim of this book is the classification of symplectic amalgams - structures which are intimately related to the finite simple groups. In all there sixteen infinite families of symplectic amalgams together with 62 more exotic examples. The classification touches on many important aspects of modern group theory: * p-local analysis * the amalgam method * representation theory over finite

Overview: Praxisnahe Kopfrechenaufgaben.Ein kleiner Leitfaden für kurzweilige Energie- und Klimadebatten.Sachliche und unterhaltsame AnalysenViele Menschen in Deutschland sind unzufrieden mit dem Stil öffentlicher Debatten zu Energiepolitik und Klimawandel. Denn zahlreiche Wortführer vermengen Dichtung mit Wahrheit, Gedanken mit Gefühlen und pflegen den Gestus moralischer Überlegenheit. Das vorliegende Buch nimmt sieben kontroverse Energiewendethemen unserer Zeit unter die Lupe. Der Autor legt durch sachliche und zugleich unterhaltsame Analysen den Wahrheitsgehalt der Argumentationsgebäude fre

Overview: This volume constitutes the 48 full refereed research papers accepted for presentation at the Third European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning and Uncertainty, ECSQARU ‘95, held in Fribourg, Switzerland in July 1995 under the sponsorship of the DRUMS consortium (ESPRIT II BRA 6156)..In recent years, it has become apparent that an important part of the theory of AI is concerned with reasoning on the basis of uncertain, vague, incomplete, or inconsistent information. A variety of nonclassical formalisms, both symbolic and numerical, have been developed and

Overview: Up-to-date results.State-of-the-art research.Fast-track conference proceedingsThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Language Engineering, SLE 2013, held in Indianapolis, IN, USA, in October 2013. The 17 technical papers presented together with 2 tool demonstration papers and one keynote were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. SLE’s foremost mission is to encourage, synthesize and organize communication between communities that have traditionally looked at software languages from different and yet complementary

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud computing, ESOCC 2014, held in Manchester, UK, in September 2014. The 13 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cloud technology, service composition, software development and cloud technology, cloud computing, industry track.978-3-662-44878-6978-3-662-44879-3Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Covers all major areas of demography.Addresses demographic patterns and issues from micro-level, meso-level, and macro-level.Provides an international overview of social and demographic change and pol.This book presents a cross section of the work and concerns of social demographers worldwide, covering a broad range of topics from social structure through population structure to social policy; from fertility and mortality through migration to the way in which organisations deal with the demographic environment in which they operate. Topics addressed also include morbidity and health

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Overview: Das Internet in seiner Allgegenwart hat unsere Art und Weise, wie wir interagieren, verändert. So laden Computer, Tablet und Smartphone kreativ dazu ein, Texte mit Bildern, Videos und Memes zu ergänzen. Hybride Kommunikationsstrategien sind an der Tagesordnung: Um unmittelbar, authentisch und eindeutig zu kommunizieren, bereichern die Nutzer der digitalen Welt geschriebene und gesprochene Texte um weitere Elemente zu multimodalen und multimedialen Formen. Die so erschaffenen neuen Ebenen von Referenzialität, Intertextualität und Transmedialität verlangen nach adäquaten Kriterien für

Overview: Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott‘s and Byron‘s poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people living on and around them. The author discusses Scott‘s edited collection of Border Ballads, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and his narrative poetry, and Byron‘s Childe Harold‘s Pilgrimage , cantos 1 and 2, his Eastern Tales, and his late, utopian South-Sea poem The Island. This fascinating study provides a detailed exegesis of the importance of borders to these leading poets and the public, during the early year

Overview: Covers a focused study on SEZ as China’s most open cities to know about China’s economic development.Presents the recent experience and achievements of Special Economic Zones in China.Enriches case st.This book collects the latest academic achievements, research progress and policy propositions on the study of China’s special economic zones, with the aim to reflect the history, new development and new challenges of the construction of Chinese special economic zones. It presents the successful experience of the development of Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area and the changes

Overview: Highlights recent advancements and innovations in trenchless technology.Describes how this technology is cost effective, less disruptive, environmentally friendly and faster.Presents contributions fro.This book highlights recent advancements and innovations in trenchless technology via the adoption of combined micro-tunnelling and pipe-jacking techniques. This technique is more environmentally friendly, cost effective, less time-consuming and less disruptive compared to conventional open trench excavations for urban construction and urban infrastructure renewal projects. Pipe jacking

Overview: The Workshop series of the "Koningin Wilhelmina Fonds" is a feature of the interest of this Foundation to promote research and education in the field of cancer, aiming to improve prognosis of the cancer patient. For almost a century, surgery has now been the main treatment modality for the cancer patient. During the past 50 years radiation therapy has developed as a second important modality of treatment. However, neither of the two modalities are able to cure the majority of cancer patients, as the disease is so often metastasized at presentation. Cancer chemotherapy is a modality w

Overview: Provides a holistic overview of the semantic computing and Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies to be used for the smart connected world.Includes applications and case studies from areas like manufac.This book provides an overview of the emerging smart connected world, and discusses the roles and the usage of underlying semantic computing and Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies. ..The book comprises ten chapters overall, grouped in two parts. Part I “Smart Connected World: Overview and Technologies” consists of seven chapters and provides a holistic overview of the smart connected