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A Debt Against the Living
Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that the earth belongs to the living. His letter to James Madison is often quoted for the proposition that we should not be bound to the 'dead hand of the past', suggesting that the Constitution should instead be interpreted as a living, breathing document. Less well-known is Madison's response, in which he said the improvements made by the dead - including the U…
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- 9781108304221
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Cancer Epidemiology Among Asian Americans
Cancer Epidemiology in Asian Americans is a comprehensive volume that provides the most current research on cancer etiology within this fast growing population sub-group in the United States. The book explores epidemiologic methods that are typically used in migrant studies, providing descriptive epidemiology of cancer patterns separately in Chinese, Japanese, Filipino and other Asian ethnic gr…
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- 978-3-319-41118-7
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- 616.99
Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa : Selected Studies
Women judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and theoretical and empirical analysis, this book provides a timely and broad-ranging assessment of gender and judging in African judiciaries.Employing different theoretical approaches, the book investigate…
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- 1000473309
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- 340 GEN
Identifying Product and Process State Drivers in Manufacturing Systems Using …
The book reports on a novel approach for holistically identifying the relevant state drivers of complex, multi-stage manufacturing systems. This approach is able to utilize complex, diverse and high-dimensional data sets, which often occur in manufacturing applications, and to integrate the important process intra- and interrelations. The approach has been evaluated using three scenarios from d…
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- 978-3-319-17610-9
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- XVIII, 272
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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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Perspectives in Shape Analysis
Tujuan dari buku ini adalah untuk menyoroti kemajuan terbaru yang mengatasi tantangan ini dari perspektif yang berbeda dengan bantuan alat terbaru untuk konsep geometris, algoritmik, dan numerik. Karena analisis bentuk 3-D dan model bentuk yang dapat dideformasi telah mendapat banyak perhatian baru-baru ini, alat analisis bentuk klasik dari geometri diferensial sekarang memiliki pengaruh baru d…
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- 978-3-319-24726-7
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- Mathematics and Visualization (MATHVISUAL)
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- 516.15 BRE p c.1
Business Relationship Management and Marketing : Mastering Business Markets
Relationship management, key account management and customer orientation are concepts that have become central to modern management. This book is dedicated to illustrating and reflecting these concepts and their corresponding methods and instruments in depth. It is thereby focused on the business-to-business realm and equally applies to traditional industrial markets as well as to business-to-b…
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- 978-3-662-43856-5
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The Helmholtz Equation Least Squares Method
This book represents the HELS (Helmholtz equation least squares) theory and its applications for visualizing acoustic radiation from an arbitrarily shaped vibrating structure in free or confined space. It culminates the most updated research work of the author and his graduate students since 1997. The book contains six chapters. The first serves as a review of the fundamentals in acoustics and …
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- 978-1-4939-1640-5
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- XIII, 233, 21 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
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- Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing
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The Principle of Profit Models
This book mainly focuses on defining profit models, on how many main kinds of profit models there are, how profit models can change a company, and how to tailor a profit model to the needs of a certain company. In this context, profit models are classified as fixed-income, remaining-profit and profit-sharing, admission, toll, parking, fuel and sharing fees, profit sources, customer pricing, auc…
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- 978-3-662-44714-7
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- XIV, 184
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Market-Consistent Actuarial Valuation
This is the third edition of this well-received textbook, presenting powerful methods for measuring insurance liabilities and assets in a consistent way, with detailed mathematical frameworks that lead to market-consistent values for liabilities. Topics covered are stochastic discounting with deflators, valuation portfolio in life and non-life insurance, probability distortions, asset and liab…
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- 978-3-319-46636-1
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