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Mutual Insurance 1550-2015
In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers. We have privileged this system over mutual or micro-insurance, whose long and rich history we tend to forget. Yet, mutual and micro-insurance is becoming increasingly important, both in the Western and in the non-Western world and bears re-examination. This book traces the track record of mutual insurance…
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- 978-1-137-53109-4
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- XIII, 321
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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Theoretical Aspects of Computing - ICTAC 2015 12th International Colloquium,…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, ICTAC 2015, held in Cali, Colombia, in October 2015. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 7 invited talks, 3 tool papers, and 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as algebra and category…
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- 978-3-319-25150-9
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(Dis)Obedience in Digital Societies: Perspectives on the Power of Algorithms …
Algorithms are not to be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon - they embed themselves, currently still very subtle, into our political and social system. Algorithms shape human behavior on various levels: they influence not only the aesthetic reception of the world but also the well-being and social interaction of their users. They act and intervene in a political and so…
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- 9783732857630
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- 302.23 OBE o
Multicultural China
With its easy-to-use format, this book provides a collection of annual data on China’s 56 ethnic groups. It is a resource book that profiles the demography, employment and wages, livelihood, agriculture, industry, education, science and technology, culture, sports, and public health for each of these ethnic groups. This material, which is compiled from a variety of sources, will be of great v…
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- 2194-7937
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- XIX, 434
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- Current Chinese Economic Report Series
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Multimodal Optimization by Means of Evolutionary Algorithms
This book offers the first comprehensive taxonomy for multimodal optimization algorithms, work with its root in topics such as niching, parallel evolutionary algorithms, and global optimization. The author explains niching in evolutionary algorithms and its benefits; he examines their suitability for use as diagnostic tools for experimental analysis, especially for detecting problem (type) p…
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- 978-3-319-07406-1
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- XX, 189
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- Natural Computing Series
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Intelligent Environmental Sensing
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- 978-3-319-12891-7
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Intelligent Decision Technologies 2016: Proceedings of the 8th KES Internatio…
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- 978-3-319-39629-3
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Intelligent Decision Technologies 2016: Proceedings of the 8th KES Internatio…
This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by…
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- 978-3-319-39626-2
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Multibody Mechatronic Systems
This volume contains the Proceedings of MUSME 2014, held at Huatulco in Oaxaca, Mexico, October 2014. Topics include analysis and synthesis of mechanisms; dynamics of multibody systems; design algorithms for mechatronic systems; simulation procedures and results; prototypes and their performance; robots and micromachines; experimental validations; theory of mechatronic simulation; mechatronic s…
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- 2211-0984
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- XIV, 581
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- Mechanisms and Machine Science
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Modelling Behaviour
This book reflects and expands on the current trend in the building industry to understand, simulate and ultimately design buildings by taking into consideration the interlinked elements and forces that act on them. This approach overcomes the traditional, exclusive focus on building tasks, while posing new challenges in all areas of the industry from material and structural to the urban scale.…
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- 978-3-319-24206-4
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- XXV, 544
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