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Next Generation Intelligent Environments
This book covers key topics in the field of intelligent ambient adaptive systems. It focuses on the results worked out within the framework of the ATRACO (Adaptive and TRusted Ambient eCOlogies) project. The theoretical background, the developed prototypes, and the evaluated results form a fertile ground useful for the broad intelligent environments scientific community as well as for industria…
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- 2
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- 978-3-319-23451-9
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- XXI, 346
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Pediatric Neuro-oncology
Pediatric Neuro-Oncology is undergoing a rapid transformation within all of its key disciplines. Rapid advances in our understanding in the biology of medulloblastoma, pontine glioma, low-grade and high-grade glioma, ependymoma, embryonal tumors abundant neuropil and true rosettes (ETANER), and typical rhabdoid teratoid tumor (ATRT) have ushered in a new era of clinical and molecular diagnostic…
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- 978-1-4939-1541-5
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- T 616.994 SCH p c.1
Applications of Maxwell's Equations
Overview: This book was developed at Simon Fraser University for an upper-level physics course. Along with a careful exposition of electricity and magnetism, it devotes a chapter to ferromagnets. According to the course description, the topics covered were “electromagnetics, magnetostatics, waves, transmission lines, wave guides,antennas, and radiating systems.”
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- 530 COC a
New Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility
Providing a timely contribution to the ongoing questions surrounding topics which are by definition subject to varying stakeholder interpretations, this book addresses “the missing link” between theoretical CSR concepts and everyday management practice. It acts as a guide to awaken managers to the advantages of adopting a CSR “mindset” when developing sustainable business strategies. Th…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-06793-9
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- XVI, 641
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- FOM-Edition
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Synthetic DNA and RNA Programming
Dear Colleagues, Synthetic biology is a broad and emerging discipline that capitalizes on recent advances in molecular biology, genetics, protein and RNA engineering and omics technologies. These technologies have transformed our ability to reveal the biology of the cell and the molecular basis of disease.
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- 978-3-03921-735-9
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- 570 SYN
An Information Technology Framework for Predictive, Preventive and Personalis…
This book explores how PPPM, clinical practice, and basic research could be best served by information technology (IT). A use-case was developed for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The subject was approached with four interrelated tasks: (1) review of clinical practices relating to HCC; (2) propose an IT system relating to HCC, including clinical decision support and research needs; (3) determi…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-12166-6
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- Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine
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- 616.99 INF i
Web Information Systems and Technologies 10th International Conference, WEBI…
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2014, held in Barcelona, Spain, April 2014, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), and technically sponsored by the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS). The purpose o…
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- 978-3-319-27030-2
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- XV, 380
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The Humanitarian Challenge
Drawing on theory and practice, and spanning a broad range of subject matter, the book explores the origin of key concepts such as human security, reconciliation and resilience and questions their effectiveness in the pursuit of humanitarian ends. It also charts current developments in the humanitarian system, in particular in its legal and financial frameworks. Issues relating to humanitaria…
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- 978-3-319-13470-3
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- XII, 286
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Recent Progress in Brain and Cognitive Engineering
For ‘Recent Progress in Brain and Cognitive Engineering’ Brain and Cognitive Engineering is a converging study field to derive a better understanding of cognitive information processing in the human brain, to develop “human-like” and neuromorphic artificial intelligent systems and to help predict and analyze brain-related diseases. The key concept of Brain and Cognitive Engineerin…
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- 978-94-017-7239-6
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Against All Odds: An Empirical Study about the Situative Pedagogical Ethos of…
It is nearly impossible to overestimate the significance of a professional ethos in pedagogical situations. Most theories of education understand ethos and ethical acting as belonging to the core of the pedagogical profession. Despite this evidence, remarkably few empirical studies exist on ethos. This book has three main aims: 1) to conceptualize the pedagogical ethos at the theoretical level,…
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- 978-94-6209-941-8
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- XVIII, 330
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- Moral Development and Citizenship Education
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- 658 FOR a
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