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Dynamics of disasters : key concepts, models, algorithms, and insights ; Kala…
This volume results from the "Second International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters" held in Kalamata, Greece, June 29-July 2, 2015. The conference covered particular topics involved in natural and man-made disasters such as war, chemical spills, and wildfires. Papers in this volume examine the finer points of disasters through: · Critical infrastructure protection · Resiliency · Humanita…
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- 338.7
FPGAs and Parallel Architectures for Aerospace Applications Soft Errors and …
This book introduces the concepts of soft errors in FPGAs, as well as the motivation for using commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) FPGAs in mission-critical and remote applications, such as aerospace. The authors describe the effects of radiation in FPGAs, present a large set of soft-error mitigation techniques that can be applied in these circuits, as well as methods for qualifying these circuits…
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- 978-3-319-14352-1
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- 68 b/w illustrations, 81 illustrations in colour
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Global Governance on Renewable Energy
Comparing Germany’s and Brazil’s government perspectives, Sybille Roehrkasten reveals that the ideas on global renewable energy governance are highly contested. In her study, the author sheds light on the politics behind the definition of global governance issues, focusing on two pioneers in the worldwide promotion of renewables and two decisive players in this emergent area of global coope…
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- 978-3-658-10479-5
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- XVIII, 294
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- 341.324 GLO s
Academic Work and Careers in Europe: Trends, Challenges, Perspectives
This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years. It emphasizes standardisation and differentiation of academic career paths, impacts of new forms of quality management on academic work, changes in recruitment, employment and working conditions, and academics…
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- 978-3-319-10720-2
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- VI, 214
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- The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective
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Organogenetic Gene Networks : Genetic Control of Organ Formation
All animals, including humans, derive from a single cell, which possesses all the genetic instructions needed to define how the animal will look like. However, during development, the millions of cells that derive from the zygote will only select part of this genetic information to give rise to the various organs of the body. The coordination of different cell behaviours during development resu…
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- 978-3-319-42767-6
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- 572.86 ORG
Embedded Engineering Education
This book focuses on the outcome of the European research project “FP7-ICT-2011-8 / 317882: Embedded Engineering Learning Platform” E2LP. Additionally, some experiences and researches outside this project have been included. This book provides information about the achieved results of the E2LP project as well as some broader views about the embedded engineering education. It captures projec…
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- 978-3-319-27540-6
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- 66 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
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Violence: Situation, Speciality, Politics, and Storytelling
This book considers how the concept of violence has been interpreted, used, defined, and explored by social researchers and thinkers. It does not provide a final answer to the question of what violence is or how it should be explained (or prevented), and instead offers a variety of useful ways of thinking about and theorising the phenomenon, mainly from a sociological standpoint. It outlines…
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- 364 WAS v
Ngapartji Ngapartji; In turn, in turn: Ego-histoire, Europe and Indigenous Au…
In this innovative collection, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars from Australia and Europe reflect on how their life histories have impacted on their research in Indigenous Australian Studies.
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- 9781925021738
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Ngapartji Ngapartji: In turn, in turn: Ego-histoire, Europe and Indigenous Au…
In this innovative collection, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars from Australia and Europe reflect on how their life histories have impacted on their research in Indigenous Australian Studies. Drawing on Pierre Nora’s concept of ego-histoire as an analytical tool to ask historians to apply their methods to themselves, contributors lay open their paths, personal commitments and passion in…
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From Media Hype to Twitter Storm News Explosions and Their Impact on Issues,…
The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportional and exaggerated. But these explosive news waves, as well as - nowadays - the twitter storms, are object of scientific research, because they are an important phenomenon in the public area. Sometimes it is indeed 'much ado about nothing' but in many cases these media storms …
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