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"After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Austria transformed itself from an empire to a small Central European country. Formerly an important player in international affairs, the new republic was quickly sidelined by the European concert of powers. The enormous losses of territory and population in Austria’s post-Habsburg state of existence, however, did not result in a politi…
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Innovations in Knowledge Management The Impact of Social Media, Semantic Web…
This book discusses emerging trends in the field of managing knowledge work due to technological innovations. The book is organized in 3 sections. The first section, entitled "Managing Knowledge, Projects and Networks", discusses knowledge processes and their use, reuse or generation in the context of an organization. The second section, entitled "Managing Knowledge using Social Media", focuses…
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- 978-3-662-47826-4
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- XVIII, 267
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- 004
Innovations in Dryland Agriculture
This book is a ready reference on recent innovations in dryland agriculture and reinforces the understanding for its utilization to develop environmentally sustainable and profitable food production systems. It covers the basic concepts and history, components and elements, breeding and modelling efforts, and potential benefits, experiences, challenges and innovations relevant to agriculture in…
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- 978-3-319-47927-9
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- XVI, 571
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- 630 INN
Innovations in Derivatives Markets Fixed Income Modeling, Valuation Adjustme…
This book presents 20 peer-reviewed chapters on current aspects of derivatives markets and derivative pricing. The contributions, written by leading researchers in the field as well as experienced authors from the financial industry, present the state of the art in: • Modeling counterparty credit risk: credit valuation adjustment, debit valuation adjustment, funding valuation adjustment, a…
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- 978-3-319-33445-5
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- X, 449
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- 330 INN
Innovations in Computer Science and Engineering Proceedings of the Third ICI…
The book is a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented at the third International Conference on Innovations in Computer Science and Engineering (ICICSE 2015) held at Guru Nanak Institutions, Hyderabad, India during 7 – 8 August 2015. The book discusses a wide variety of industrial, engineering and scientific applications of the emerging techniques. Researchers from a…
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- 978-981-10-0417-9
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- XVII, 316
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- 004 INN
Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications Proceedings of the 6t…
This Volume contains the papers presented during the 6th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications IBICA 2015 which was held in Kochi, India during December 16-18, 2015. The 51 papers presented in this Volume were carefully reviewed and selected. The 6th International Conference IBICA 2015 has been organized to discuss the state-of-the-art as well as to …
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- 978-3-319-28030-1
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- XIII, 588
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- 004 INN
Ambivalences of Creating Life: Societal and Philosophical Dimensions of Synth…
"Synthetic biology" is the label of a new technoscientific field with many different facets and agendas. One common aim is to "create life", primarily by using engineering principles to design and modify biological systems for human use. In a wider context, the topic has become one of the big cases in the legitimization processes associated with the political agenda to solve global problems wit…
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- 978-3-319-21088-9
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- XVII, 335
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- Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment
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- 100 AMB a
Healing and Change in the City of Gold: Case Studies of Coping and Support in…
This volume collects case studies on the lives of people living in post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. In doing so, it considers how people manage, respond to, narrate and/or silence their experiences of past and present violence, multiple insecurities and precarity in contexts where these experiences take on an everyday continuous character. Taking seriously how context shapes the meani…
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- 978-3-319-08767-2
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- VIII, 187
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- Peace Psychology Book Series
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- 150 HAN
Reducing Restraint and Restrictive Behavior Management Practices
This book presents an evidence-based framework for replacing harmful, restrictive behavior management practices with safe and effective alternatives. The first half summarizes the concept and history of restraint and seclusion in mental health applications used with impaired elders, children with intellectual disabilities, and psychiatric patients. Subsequent chapters provide robust data and ma…
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- 978-3-319-17569-0
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- XV, 249
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- Autism and Child Psychopathology Series
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- 155
Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences
This book develops a philosophical account that reveals the major characteristics that make an explanation in the life sciences reductive and distinguish them from non-reductive explanations. Understanding what reductive explanations are enables one to assess the conditions under which reductive explanations are adequate and thus enhances debates about explanatory reductionism. The account of r…
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- 978-3-319-25310-7
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- XI, 277
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- History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
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- 101
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