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Overview: This volume contains the written versions of lectures held at the "23. Internationale Universit~tswochen fUr Kernphysik" in Schladming, Austria, in February 1984. Once again the generous support of our sponsors, the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, the Styrian Government and others, had made it possible to organize this school. The aim of the topics chosen for the meeting was to present different aspects of stochastic methods and techniques. These methods have opened up new ways to attack problems in a broad field ranging from quantum mechanics to quantum field theory. Than

Overview: Collects the experiences of eight Latin American countries with different approaches regarding STI policy to chart the evolution of the policy making process in Latin America.Compares similarities, le.This book examines the implementation of science, technology and innovation (STI) policy in eight Latin American countries and the different paths these policies have taken. It provides empirical evidence to examine the extent to which STI policies are contributing to the development of the region, as well as to the solution of market failures and the stimulus of the region’s innovation

Overview: Illustrates the latest studies conducted by service engineering researchers and presents a synthesized concept of serviceology.Addresses data mining, simulation, design, Virtual Reality, production ma.This pioneering book on food study pursues an interdisciplinary approach to service science and the service engineering field. Further, it highlights a range of experiments conducted at actual business sites to verify the effectiveness of the proposed methodologies and theories. .In modern society, food study has become more complex, as it involves multiple fields of science. For instan

Overview: Is a good reference material for cutting edge research in the field of sustainable civil engineering.Showcases the latest sustainability initiatives and innovations in civil engineering.Fosters symbioThis book presents the select proceedings of the international conference on Sustainable Practices and Innovations in Civil Engineering 2021 (SPICE 2021). The topics covered include the addition and replacement of cementitious materials in concrete, thereby enhancing the strength and durability characteristics of concrete, instrumentation and testing in structural engineering, ground imp

Overview: A reference tool with around 30 original maps.A summary of political life in Europe in 2012.Key figures on Europe with comments and analysis.Written by the best experts on European affairs.The Schuman 2012 Report on the State of the Union is both a reference and a tool. A reference: bringing together contributions from leading specialists, including an interview with Jean-Claude Trichet, former President of the European Central Bank. This Report proposes a novel analytical framework, so that everyone can form his/her opinion on a series of key questions: .The European Union and the C

Overview: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, SMARTGREENS 2018, and the 4th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems, VEHITS 2018, held in Funchal-Madeira, Portugal in March 2018..The 18 full papers presented during SMARTGREENS 2018 and VEHITS 2018 were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers reflect topics such as smart cities and green ICT systems; vehicle technology and intelligent transport systems.978-3-030-2

Overview: Put content on screen with Views and Controls.Preview application UI in various forms.Display REST API data from a web server in appsDive into the world of developing for all of Apple platforms with SwiftUI, Apple’s new framework that makes writing applications faster and easier with fewer lines of code. This book teaches the basics of SwiftUI to help you write amazing native applications using XCode..For developers already familiar with ReactNative, this book reviews the declarative, state-based DSL that manages the UI and updates it automatically will feel just like what they’re us

Overview: Offers a deeply contextualized study of the impact of Syrian refugees on host communities.Assesses the coping mechanism set up by governments in the MENA region.Analyzes the socio-economic and politicThis edited volume investigates the political and socioeconomic impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on Lebanon and Jordan, and these countries’ mechanisms to cope with the rapid influx of refugees. The sudden population increase has resulted in severe pressures on infrastructures and services, as well as growing social tensions between the refugees and host communities. These chapters us

Overview: .There has been a surging interest in developing systems for analyzing big graphs generated by real applications, such as online social networks and knowledge graphs. This book aims to help readers get familiar with the computation models of various graph processing systems with minimal time investment..This book is organized into three parts, addressing three popular computation models for big graph analytics: think-like-a-vertex, think-likea- graph, and think-like-a-matrix. While vertex-centric systems have gained great popularity, the latter two models are currently being actively

Overview: The first substantial study of this hugely influential Victorian Prime Minister for twenty years. Incorporates the findings of the latest specialist research in a single accessible volume for studentsSir Robert Peel (1788-1850) is always remembered for three things: his creation of the Metropolitan Police, his principal role in the repeal of the Corn Laws and his status as founder of the modern Conservative Party. This is quite sufficient to make him the key statesman of the early Victorian period, but there were many other aspects of his personality and politics which make the study

Overview: Solid-State NMR is a branch of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance which is presently experiencing a phase of strongly increasing popularity. The most striking evidence is the large number of contributions from Solid-State Resonance at NMR meetings, approaching that ofliquid­ state resonance. Important progress can be observed in the areas of methodological developments and applications to organic and inorganic matter. One volume devoted to more or less one of each of these areas has been published in the preceding three issues. This volume can be considered an addendum to this series. Select

Overview: Kompetenter Leitfaden für Unternehmen und Organisationen.Industrieübergreifende und unabhängige Hinweise, für jede Branche anwendbar.Neue, differenzierte Sicht, kompakt und übersichtlich aufbereitet.IDieser Herausgeberband widmet sich den Kernfragen der Arbeitswelt 4.0. Praxisnah und anschaulich zeigen die Autoren auf, wie Führungskräfte in Organisationen verschiedener Art die komplexen Herausforderungen meistern können, um in ihren strategischen Geschäftsfeldern und Arbeitsmärkten zukunftsfähig zu bleiben. Eindrückliche Beispiele aus der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie,

Overview: Auswirkungen gesellschaftlicher Wandlungsprozesse verstehen.Soziale Kohäsion als positive Zielvorstellung.Interdisziplinäre AusrichtungDie Prozesse sozialen Wandels in gegenwärtigen Gesellschaften verlaufen nicht fortschrittslogisch widerspruchsfrei, sondern vielfältig gebrochen. Soziale Verwerfungen, geschlechtliche Ungleichheitslagen und Exklusionsmechanismen führen zu weiteren Veränderungsdynamiken. Die Auswirkungen der beschleunigten Modernisierungsprozesse eröffnen ebenso Befreiungspotenziale wie problematische Entwicklungen. Ausgangsfragen für den vorliegenden Band sind daher:

Overview: The present work is a study of the method of contemporary Soviet philosophy. By "Soviet philosophy" we mean philosophy as published in the Soviet Union. For practical purposes we have limited our attention to Soviet sources in Russian in spite of the fact that Soviet philosophical works are also published in other languages (see B 2029(21)(38». The term "method" is taken in the sense usual in Western books on methodology .1 In view of the content of the first chapter it will be useful to explain the last term a little more fully. By method we mean a procedure and it is obvious that t

Overview: Highlights a subject that has so far been neglected in the literature.Provides examples of successful teaching strategies for low-proficiency users of English.Offers a theoretical framework for furthe.This book analyses the development of academic literacy in low-proficiency users of English in the Middle East. It highlights the challenges faced by students entering undergraduate education in the region, and the strategies used by teachers to overcome them. The author focuses on a large-scale undergraduate teacher programme run in Oman by the University of Leeds, providing clear poin

Overview: Singular resource for the fire safety community offers sound understanding of human behavior during emergencies.Consensus-based resource developed from the work of the leading researchers throughout tThis single resource for the fire safety community distills the most relevant and useful science and research into a consensus-based guide whose key factors and considerations impact the response and behavior of occupants of a building during a fire event..The Second Edition of .SFPE‘s Engineering Guide: Human Behavior in Fire .provides a common introduction to this field for the broad f

Overview: Covers best practices for materials characterization and equipment design.Features in-depth coverage of all types of organic, inorganic, and composite aerogels, from silica based aerogels to polymer a.This indispensable handbook provides comprehensive coverage of the current state-of-the-art in inorganic, organic, and composite aerogels – from synthesis and characterization to cutting-edge applications and their potential market impact. Built upon Springer’s successful Aerogels Handbook published in 2011, this handbook features extensive revisions and timely updates, reflecting the c

Overview: Signs of War and Peace focuses on the role public display plays in the conflict in Northern Ireland. In doing so, it ranges freely over other times, places, and events that shed light on the social and political processes and dynamics involved in public display traditions, such as the Saint Patrick‘s Day parades in Boston, Massachusetts, and the popular spontaneous shrines to Lady Diana in London. The book is about the nature of public display, its relationships to class-based aesthetics, tradition, and popular style. It is also about contest, conflict, and civil war, and the ways th

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Overview: Covers the most important, pervasive, top-level, strategic inventions, decisions, and their associated rationales about the overall structure and associated characteristics and behaviour.Provides an uThis book comprises the select proceedings of the annual convention of the Computer Society of India. Divided into 10 topical volumes, the proceedings present papers on state-of-the-art research, surveys, and succinct reviews. The volumes cover diverse topics ranging from parallel processing to system buses, and from computer architecture to VLIW (very long instruction word). This book f