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Bread and Roses : Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class
Bread and Roses is an Australian first, a collection of stories from academics who identify as coming from working-class backgrounds. At once inspiring and challenging, the collection demonstrates how individual narratives are both personal and structural, in that they illustrate the ways in which social forces shape individual lives. Central themes in the book are generational changes in unive…
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- 978-94-6300-127-4
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- 370
Wireless Traffic Steering For Green Cellular Networks
This book introduces wireless traffic steering as a paradigm to realize green communication in multi-tier heterogeneous cellular networks. By matching network resources and dynamic mobile traffic demand, traffic steering helps to reduce on-grid power consumption with on-demand services provided. This book reviews existing solutions from the perspectives of energy consumption reduction and renew…
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- 978-3-319-32721-1
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- XI, 128
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Wireless Sensor Networks 12th European Conference, EWSN 2015, Porto, Portuga…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12 European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, EWSN 2015, held in Porto, Portugal, in February 2015. The 14 full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. They cover a wide range of topics grouped into five sessions: services and applications, mobility and delay-tolerance, routing and …
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- 978-3-319-15582-1
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- XII, 310
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Mandatory Reporting Laws and the Identification of Severe Child Abuse and Neg…
This book provides the first comprehensive international coverage of key issues in mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect. The book draws on a collection of the foremost scholars in the field, as well as clinicians and practice-based experts, to explore the nature, history, impact and justifiability of mandatory reporting laws, their optimal form, legal and conceptual issues, and practi…
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- 978-94-017-9685-9
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Framework for Analysis and Identification of Nonlinear Distributed Parameter …
In this work, the Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) approaches combined systematically to analyze and identify systems. The generalized Polynomial Chaos (gPC) expansion is applied to reduce the computational effort. The framework using gPC based on Bayesian UQ proposed in this work is capable of analyzing the system systematically and reducing the disagreement between the model predictions and th…
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- 978-3-7315-0642-3
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- 005 JAN f
Widening Participation, Higher Education and Non-Traditional Students Suppor…
This book highlights the problems that have developed as students lack either the social or cultural capital to take the opportunity of Higher Education through conventional routes. This might be due to leaving school early, lacking entry qualifications or wanting to further their education and prospects after entering the workplace. Foundation courses help to widen participation and create a r…
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- 978-1-349-94969-4
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- XIX, 198
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Why Multimodal Literacy Matters (Re)conceptualizing Literacy and Wellbeing t…
Literacy research has focused increasingly on the social, cultural, and material remaking of human communication. Such research has generated new knowledge about the diverse and interconnected modes and media through which people can and do make meaning and opened up definitions of literacy to include image, gaze, gesture, print, speech, and music. And yet, despite all of the attention to multi…
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- 978-94-6300-708-5
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- XII, 156
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New Developments in Statistical Modeling, Inference and Application:Selected …
The papers in this volume represent the most timely and advanced contributions to the 2014 Joint Applied Statistics Symposium of the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) and the Korean International Statistical Society (KISS), held in Portland, Oregon. The contributions cover new developments in statistical modeling and clinical research: including model development, model check…
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- 978-3-319-42570-2
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- XIV, 214
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- ICSA Book Series in Statistics
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Who’s to Blame for Greece? Austerity in Charge of Saving a Broken Economy
Greece's economy symbolizes in many ways the Eurozone's economic problems and divergent interests as it amasses most of the economic disadvantages characterizing the Eurozone's economy itself. This book presents the economic and political challenges to Greece and the EU member states.
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- 978-1-137-54920-4
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- XV, 236
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Brain-Computer Interfaces : Current Trends and Applications
The success of a BCI system depends as much on the system itself as on the user’s ability to produce distinctive EEG activity. BCI systems can be divided into two groups according to the placement of the electrodes used to detect and measure neurons firing in the brain. These groups are: invasive systems, electrodes are inserted directly into the cortex are used for single cell or multi unit …
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- 978-3-319-10978-7
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- 611.8
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