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Ageing in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic
This Open Access Book contains reports on the situation of people in the second half of life during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The analyses are based on the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) and they provide insights on four main areas of life: income and work, subjective health and well-being, social support and loneliness as well as societal participation. This book is useful for s…
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- 978-3-658-40487-1
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- VIII, 253
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Theory and Practice of Sociosensitive and Socioactive Systems
We would like to thank our project executing agency VDI/VDE-IT and especially Constantin von Dewitz for their constructive collaboration, as well as the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for its support, especially Katrin Nostadt and Annette Eickmeyer-Hehn. Cornelius Höller participated in the project as a substitute for parental leave, after previously also contributing as an …
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- 9783658369460
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- XV, 166
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The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda
This open access handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested cooperation’. Development actors, including governments providing aid or South-South Cooperation, developing countries, and non-governmental actors (civil society, philanthropy, and businesses) constantly challenge underlying narratives and norms of developme…
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- 1st Edition
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- 9783030579388
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Comprehensive Utilization of Magnesium Slag by Pidgeon Process
This open access book introduces the magnesium resources in the world and the layout of this industry, the harmless handling/recycling of magnesium slag, and the process of magnesium silicothermic reduction (Pidgeon process) to produce the slag. Examples and experimental data in this book are from the author group’s research programs, as well as the recent researches in China. The book could …
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- 978-981-16-2171-0
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- XI, 141
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- SpringerBriefs in Materials (BRIEFSMATERIALS)
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The Beauty of Geology: Art of Geology Mapping in China Over a Century
This open access book contains a collection of rare geologic maps and figures made by Chinese geologists in the last century. Preserved in National Geological Archives of China, these artworks demonstrate the development and innovation of geological mapping technology in China in the past 100 years. The collections are highly scientific and artistic, with most of the hand-drawn maps featured wi…
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- 1
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- 9789811337864
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- IX, 119 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Rainfall Infiltration in Unsaturated Soil Slope Failure
This is an open access book. The aim of this book is to provide a thorough grounding in rainfall-induced landslides from three aspects: the coupling effect of hydraulic and mechanic; the analytical, numerical, and physical simulation methods, and the controlling factors underlying the problem of rainfall-induced landslides. The improved numerical methods, nonlinear, and linear iterative methods…
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- 978-981-19-9736-5
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- XIV, 130
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
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- 620 WUL r
The Prehistoric Maritime Frontier of Southeast China : Indigenous Bai Yue and…
This open access book presents multidisciplinary research on the cultural history, ethnic connectivity, and oceanic transportation of the ancient Indigenous Bai Yue (百越) in the prehistoric maritime region of southeast China and southeast Asia. In this maritime Frontier of China, historical documents demonstrate the development of the “barbarian” Bai Yue and Island Yi (岛夷) and their …
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- 9789811640797
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- XXIII, 264 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- 4
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Advances in Automotive Production Technology – Towards Software-Defined Man…
This volume of the series ARENA2036 compiles the outcome of the 2nd Stuttgart Conference on Automotive Production (SCAP2022). The peer-reviewed contributions in this book are arranged thematically in three parts and cover a wide variety of topics: (A) Software-defined Manufacturing, (B) Data-driven Technologies, and (C) Advanced Manufacturing and Sustainability. SCAP2022 was organized by…
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- 9783031279331
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- X, 388 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Race, Capital, and Equity in Higher Education : Challenging Differential Acad…
This open access book examines the structural and cultural factors that explain the persistence of an attainment gap between white and Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students in UK universities. So-called ‘deficit’ approaches have long represented the orthodoxy in higher education strategy-making, yet they overlook the structural and institutional factors that reproduce attainment…
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- 9783031516177
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- XXXVI, 279 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Supercomputing Frontiers: 4th Asian Conference, SCFA 2018, Singapore, March 2…
Ini merupakan hasil dari Konferensi Superkomputer Asia ke-4, SCFA 2018, yang diadakan di Singapura pada bulan Maret 2018. Supercomputing Frontiers akan berganti nama menjadi Supercomputing Frontiers Asia (SCFA), yang berfungsi sebagai program teknis untuk SCA18. Program teknis untuk SCA18 terdiri dari empat jalur: • Aplikasi, Algoritma & Pustaka • Pemrograman Perangkat Lunak Sistem • Arsi…
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- 1
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- 9783319699530
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- X, 293
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- 004.11 YOK s
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