Knowledge-creating Milieus in Europe: Firms, Cities, Territories

This book introduces a radically spatialised approach to knowledge creation and innovation. Reflecting on an array of European urban and regional developments, it offers an updated notion of milieu as the conceptual and material space of knowledge and innovation in line with the interpretative turn in social sciences and humanities. In view of the unwillingness of mainstream economics to accomm…

Trends in Mathematical Economics Dialogues Between Southern Europe and Latin …

Brings selected contributions by leading experts from Latin America and Europe, gathered from relevant conferences in these regions Offers innovative approaches to significant problems in Mathematical Economics Broad a broad range of fields, from Game Theory and General Equilibrium to Welfare and Social Choice Theory

Trends and Applications in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining PAKDD 2015 Wor…

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-319-25660-3

Collation

XV, 289

Series Title

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Call Number

-

Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice Notes from the Trenches of Distance Edu…

Flexibility has become a watchword in modern education, but its implementation is by no means a straightforward matter. Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice sheds light on the often taken-for-granted assumptions that inform daily practice and examines the institutional dynamics that help and hinder efforts toward flexibility. The collection in international in scope, drawing on the experience o…

Basic and Clinical Toxicology of Mustard Compounds

This book offers a practical guide to the clinical management of sulphur and nitrogen mustard exposure including information on the history, pharmacology and toxicology of mustard compounds (MC). Basic and Clinical Toxicology of Mustard Compounds details the many resulting complications of sulphur mustard (SM) poisoning such as respiratory, Dermatological, Ophthalmological and Psychiatric. …

Basic Steps in Geostatistics: The Variogram and Kriging

This brief will provide a bridge in succinct form between the geostatistics textbooks and the computer manuals for `push-button' practice. It is becoming increasingly important for practitioners, especially neophytes, to understand what underlies modern geostatistics and the currently available software so that they can choose sensibly and draw correct conclusions from their analysis and mappin…

Encounters between Foreign Relations Law and International Law: Bridges and B…

Foreign relations law and public international law are two closely related academic fields that tend to speak past each other. As this innovative volume shows, the two are closely interrelated and depend on each other for their mutual construction and identity.

Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems: Selected Papers from K…

This volume consists of a number of selected papers that were presented at the 9th International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2014) in Limassol, Cyprus, after they were substantially revised and extended. The 26 regular papers and 19 short papers included in this proceedings cover all aspects of knowledge management, knowledge engineering, intellige…

Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Optio…

This book provides standards and guidelines for quantifying greenhouse gas emissions and removals in smallholder agricultural systems and comparing options for climate change mitigation based on emission reductions and livelihood trade-offs. Globally, agriculture is directly responsible for about 11% of annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and induces an additional 17% through land use change,…

Basic Principles of Concrete Structures

Based on the latest version of designing codes both for buildings and bridges (GB50010-2010 and JTG D62-2004), this book starts from steel and concrete materials, whose properties are very important to the mechanical behavior of concrete structural members. Step by step, analysis of reinforced and prestressed concrete members under basic loading types (tension, compression, flexure, shearing an…