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The Dynamics of Transculturality
The purpose of this volume is to identify and analyze the mechanisms and processes through which concepts and institutions of transcultural phenomena gain and are given momentum. Applied to a range of cases, including examples drawn from ancient Greece and modern India, the early modern Portuguese presence in China and politics of elite-mass dynamics in the People’s Republic of China, the boo…
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- 978-3-319-09740-4
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- IX, 277
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- Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context
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Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3: Proceedings of the…
Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantifi cation, Volume 3. Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Dynamics of Multiphysical Systems: From Active Materials to Vibroacoustics, 2016, the third volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. Th e collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamen…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-29753-8
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- VIII, 379; 43 b/w illustrations, 215 illustrations in colour
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- Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series
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Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3:Proceedings of the …
Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3. Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Balancing Simulation and Testing, 2015, the third volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dyna…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-15223-3
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- IX, 372
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- Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series
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Stochastic Analysis for Finance with Simulations
This book is an introduction to stochastic analysis and quantitative finance; it includes both theoretical and computational methods. Topics covered are stochastic calculus, option pricing, optimal portfolio investment, and interest rate models. Also included are simulations of stochastic phenomena, numerical solutions of the Black–Scholes–Merton equation, Monte Carlo methods, and time seri…
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- 978-3-319-25589-7
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- 82 b/w illustrations, 107 illustrations in colour
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- XXXII, 657
Logistics Management: Products, Actors, Technology - Proceedings of the Germ…
This book gathers papers presented at the Logistik-Management-Konferenz 2013, which was organized by the VHB Wissenschaftliche Kommission Logistik and held in Bremen, Germany. The papers reflect the current state-of-the-art in logistics and supply chain management, focusing on environmental sustainability in logistics and supply chain network dynamics and control. The target audience primarily …
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- 978-3-319-13177-1
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Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia
Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia redirects the largely western-oriented study of citizenship to postcolonial states. Providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens interpret and realize the recognition of their property, identity, security and welfare in the context of a weak rule of law and clientelistic politics, this study highlights the importance of stud…
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- 9789004329669
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- 323 CIT
Advances in ICT for Business, Industry and Public Sector
This contributed volume is a result of discussions held at ABICT’13(4th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT) in Krakow, September 8-11, 2013. The book focuses on Advances in Business ICT approached from a multidisciplinary perspective and demonstrates different ideas and tools for developing and supporting organizational creativity, as well as advances in decision support syste…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-11328-9
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- VIII, 189
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- Studies in Computational Intelligence
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- 006.3 ADV a
Advances in Human Factors in Cybersecurity: Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 Inte…
This book reports on the latest research and developments in the field of cybersecurity, giving a special emphasis on personal security and new methods for reducing human error and increasing cyber awareness, and innovative solutions for increasing the security of advanced Information Technology (IT) infrastructures. It covers a wealth of topics, including methods for human training, novel Cybe…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-41932-9
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- XII, 445
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- Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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- 006.3 ADV a
Advances in Estimation, Navigation, and Spacecraft Control: Selected Papers o…
This book presents selected papers of the Itzhack Y. Bar-Itzhack Memorial Sympo- sium on Estimation, Navigation, and Spacecraft Control. Itzhack Y. Bar-Itzhack, professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, was a prominent and world-renowned member of the applied estimation, navigation, and spacecraft attitude determination communities. He t…
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- 978-3-662-44785-7
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- XIV, 550
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- 629.13 ADV a
The Coexistence of Genetically Modified, Organic and Conventional Foods
Since their commercial introduction in 1996, genetically modified (GM) crops have been adopted by farmers around the world at impressive rates. In 2011, 180 million hectares of GM crops were cultivated by more than 15 million farmers in 29 countries. In the next decade, global adoption is expected to grow even faster as the research pipeline for new biotech traits and crops has increased almost…
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- 978-1-4939-3727-1
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- XII, 426
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- Natural Resource Management and Policy
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