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Accelerating Academia: The Changing Structure of Academic Time
Filip Vostal examines the changing nature of academic time, and analyzes the 'will to accelerate' that has emerged as a significant cultural and structural force in knowledge production.
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-47360-8
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- XI, 242
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- 372.8 VOS a
Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem, GRMSE 2014, held in Ypsilanti, MI, China, in December 2014. The 73 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 296 submissions. The papers are divided into topical sections on smart city in resource management and sustainable…
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- 978-3-662-45736-8
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- XVIII, 765
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- 004 BIA
Surgery
Surgery: A Case Based Clinical Review provides the reader with a comprehensive understanding of surgical diseases in one easy to use reference that combines multiple teaching formats. The book begins using a case based approach. The cases presented cover the diseases most commonly encountered on a surgical rotation. The cases are designed to provide the reader with the classic findings on histo…
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- 978-1-4939-1726-6
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- XIX, 723
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Surfaces in Classical Geometries
Designed for intermediate graduate studies, this text will broaden students' core knowledge of differential geometry providing foundational material to relevant topics in classical differential geometry. The method of moving frames, a natural means for discovering and proving important results, provides the basis of treatment for topics discussed. Its application in many areas helps to connect …
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- 978-3-319-27076-0
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- XIII, 571
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- Universitext
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Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors
This book addresses the important physical phenomenon of Surface Plasmon Resonance or Surface Plasmon Polaritons in thin metal films, a phenomenon which is exploited in the design of a large variety of physico-chemical optical sensors. In this treatment, crucial materials aspects for design and optimization of SPR sensors are investigated and outlined in detail. The text covers the selection of…
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- 978-3-319-14926-4
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- XIII, 183
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- SpringerBriefs in Physics
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Academic Work and Careers in Europe: Trends, Challenges, Perspectives
This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years. It emphasizes standardisation and differentiation of academic career paths, impacts of new forms of quality management on academic work, changes in recruitment, employment and working conditions, and academicsâ€â€¦
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-10720-2
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- VI, 214
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- The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective
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- 378 ACA a
Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity: Confronting the Fear of Knowledge
Academic freedom is increasingly being threatened by a stifling culture of conformity in higher education that is restricting individual academics, the freedom of academic thought and the progress of knowledge – the very foundations upon which academia and universities are built. Once, scholars demanded academic freedom to critique existing knowledge and to pursue new truths. Today, while …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-51479-0
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- VI, 217
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- Palgrave Critical University Studies
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- 378 WIL a
Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality
The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-54761-3
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- X, 175
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- Palgrave Critical University Studies
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- 378 OSU a
Medical Innovation : Science, technology and practice
This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation, recurring and distinctive features can be observed across different areas of clinical practice. This book examines why medical practice develops so unevenly across and within areas of disease, and how this relates to…
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- 610
Passive and Active Measurement : 16th International Conference, PAM 2015, New…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, PAM 2015, held in New York, NY, USA, in March 2015. The 27 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: DNS and Routing, Mobile and Cellular, IPv6, Internet-Wide, Web and Peer-…
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- 978-3-319-15509-8
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- XI, 374 halaman
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 004 PAS
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