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Supercomputing for Molecular Dynamics Simulations
This work presents modern implementations of relevant molecular dynamics algorithms using ls1 mardyn, a simulation program for engineering applications. The text focuses strictly on HPC-related aspects, covering implementation on HPC architectures, taking Intel Xeon and Intel Xeon Phi clusters as representatives of current platforms. The work describes distributed and shared-memory parallelizat…
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- 978-3-319-17148-7
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- X, 76
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- SpringerBriefs in Computer Science
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Real-Time C++: Efficient Object-Oriented and Template Microcontroller Program…
With this book, Christopher Kormanyos delivers a highly practical guide to programming real-time embedded microcontroller systems in C++. It is divided into three parts plus several appendices. Part I provides a foundation for real-time C++ by covering language technologies, including object-oriented methods, template programming and optimization. Next, part II presents detailed descriptions of…
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A model of Austrian economics
After the most recent financial crisis it has become clear that there exists a crisis also in economics as a science. The prevailing paradigms have failed to anticipate and to understand the financial crisis. New approaches are therefore needed. Of particular interest should be approaches that combine insights from those parts of economics that are largely neglected by the mainstream. Hendrik H…
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- 978-3-658-07077-9
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- VIII, 104
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- 330 HAG m
Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe: Theory, Model and Practice
In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications.The main objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional and…
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- 9781000367157
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A Violent World: Modern Threats to Economic Stability
During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history. The 2000s showed how it is an illusion to imagine a peaceful world without conflict. In this book the authors explore how six major constraints are set to fix the trajectory of the global economy. Three of them are new: the aging population, the failure of technical progress, and the scarcity of savings. The other three have b…
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- 978-1-137-58993-4
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Successful Aging
This book brings together state-of-the-art research on successful aging in Asian populations and highlights how the factors that contribute to successful aging differ from those in the West. It examines the differences between the Asian and Western contexts in which the aging process unfolds, including cultural values, lifestyles, physical environments and family structures. In addition, it exa…
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- 978-94-017-9331-5
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- VI, 349
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The Routledge Companion to Innovation Management
Innovation contributes to corporate competitiveness, economic performance and environmental sustainability. In the Internet era, innovation intelligence is transferred across borders and languages at an unprecedented rate, yet the ability to benefit from it seems to become more divergent among different corporations and countries. How much an organization can benefit from innovation largely dep…
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- 9781351997072
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A Time Series Approach to Option Pricing: Models, Methods and Empirical Perfo…
The current world financial scene indicates at an intertwined and interdependent relationship between financial market activity and economic health. This book explains how the economic messages delivered by the dynamic evolution of financial asset returns are strongly related to option prices. The Black Scholes framework is introduced and by underlining its shortcomings, an alternative approach…
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- 978-3-662-45037-6
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- XVI, 188
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- 332 CHO t
A Systematic Review of Rural Development Research: Characteristics, Design Qu…
Rapid urbanisation, inequalities in income and service levels within and between communities, and population and economic decline are challenging the viability of rural communities worldwide. Achieving healthy and viable rural communities in the face of rapidly changing social, ecological and economic conditions is a declared global priority. As a result, governments all over the world, in both…
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- 978-3-319-17284-2
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- X, 63
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- SpringerBriefs in Public Health
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- 615 EVA s
A Solar Car Primer: A Guide to the Design and Construction of Solar-Powered R…
This exciting primer on Solar Racing literally starts from the ground up, describing how the interactions of a vehicle with its environment circumscribe its ultimate success, from aerodynamics to resistance and propulsion. By demonstrating how to mathematically model these underlying physical phenomena, the author helps solar racing competitors carefully select key characteristics of the vehicl…
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- 978-3-319-17494-5
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- XXV, 466
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