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Image Analysis and RecognitionL 12th International Conference, ICIAR 2015, Ni…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2015, held in Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, in July 2015. The 55 revised full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: image quality assessment; image …
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- 978-3-319-20800-8
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- XVIII, 543
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- 004.
If the Truth Be Told: Accounts in Literary Forms
If the Truth Be Told: Accounts in Literary Forms plays with the sense of truth. It is composed of six chapters, “Childhood Dangers,” “Relational Logics,” “Jesus Chronicles,” “Criminal Tales,” “Aging, Illness, and Death Lessons,” and “Telling Truths.” Each chapter includes fictional and nonfictional accounts, including poems, stories, monologues, short dramas, essays, cre…
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- 978-94-6300-456-5
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- XXII, 228
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- 370 PEL i
Identity and Personhood: Confusions and Clarifications across Disciplines
This book approaches the concept of identity from both logical-linguistic and socio-cultural perspectives, and explores its implications for our understanding of who or what we persons really are. In the process, it bridges disciplines that often remain disconnected - most notably analytic philosophy and the social sciences - and offers a novel critique of citizenship and moral education, "iden…
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- 978-981-287-480-1
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- XV, 220
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- 370 SPL i
Identity Work in the Contemporary University: Exploring an Uneasy Profession
"Academic identities research is a growing area of scholarly enquiry especially as academics themselves question the evolving nature of their roles in rapidly-changing university environments. Performative frameworks in many countries around the world reflect these changes and this volume brings a number of disciplinary perspectives to bear on how we understand the lived experiences of academic…
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- 978-94-6300-310-0
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- XIV, 222
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- 371 IDE
ApoB in Clinical Care
Now, based on the apoB algorithm, that is outlined and illustrated in this book, family physicians as well as cardiologists, endocrinologists and internists will be able to easily and accurately identify and treat these disorders. The apoB dyslipoproteinemias are major common causes of vascular disease. But until now, accurate diagnosis has not been possible. With just total cholesterol, …
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- 978-90-368-0980-1
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- XVI, 172
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- 616.462 GRA a
Anti-Money Laundering in a Nutshell: Awareness and Compliance for Financial P…
Anti–Money Laundering in a Nutshellis a concise, accessible, and practical guide to compliance with anti–money laundering law for financial professionals, corporate investigators, business managers, and all personnel of financial institutions who are required, under penalty of hefty fines, to get anti–money laundering training. Money laundering is endemic. As much as 5 percent of globa…
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- 978-1-4302-6161-2
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- XIV, 204
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- 332.4 SUL a
Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South
Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources, teaching, and student performance; and increasing cost and concern about the sustainability of education. The Research on Open Educational Resourc…
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- 9781928331483
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- 370 ADO
Adult and Continuing Education in Belarus
This publication gives an overview of central aspects of adult and continuing education in Belarus. Galina Veramejchyk presents a range of data and information regarding adult and continuing education institutions, Financing, provision, participation, staff and international relationships. She describes adult and continuing education in Belarus taking into consideration the political, geographi…
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- 9783763959143
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- 374 VER a
Finance and Occupational Pensions
This book will give readers an up-to-date understanding of occupational pensions, the economic issues they face, and some suggestions of how these issues can be tackled. The first section explains the operation of defined benefit and defined contribution pensions, along with some descriptive statistics. The second section covers selected aspects of occupational pensions. The focus of these firs…
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- 978-1-349-94863-5
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- XIV, 317
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Filtering and Control for Classes of Two-Dimensional Systems
The methods developed provide a framework for stability and performance analysis, optimal and robust controller and filter design and model approximation for the systems considered. Solutions to the design problems are couched in terms of linear matrix inequalities. For readers interested in the state of the art in linear filtering, control and model reduction, Filtering and Control for Clas…
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- 978-3-319-13698-1
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- XVI, 336
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- Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
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