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Victims of Obtrusive Violence Children and Adolescents in Kenya
This volume describes how children’s experience with violence may affect and endanger their education, as well as their physical safety and their general well-being. It includes all forms of physical , psychological and sexual abuse, and neglect against children at home, at school, and in public spaces in two different areas of Kenya (rural and urban), while taking into account its environmen…
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- 978-3-319-22807-5
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- XI, 128
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Vibro-Acoustics, Volume 1
This three-volume book gives a thorough and comprehensive presentation of vibration and acoustic theories. Different from traditional textbooks which typically deal with some aspects of either acoustic or vibration problems, it is unique of this book to combine those two correlated subjects together. Moreover, it provides fundamental analysis and mathematical descriptions for several crucial ph…
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- 978-3-662-47807-3
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- XVII, 373
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Vehicular ad hoc Networks Standards, Solutions, and Research
This book presents vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) from the their onset, gradually going into technical details, providing a clear understanding of both theoretical foundations and more practical investigation. The editors gathered top-ranking authors to provide comprehensiveness and timely content; the invited authors were carefully selected from a list of who’s who in the respective fiel…
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- 978-3-319-15497-8
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- XII, 544
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Vehicular Engine Design
This book provides an introduction to the design and mechanical development of reciprocating piston engines for vehicular applications. Beginning from the determination of required displacement and performance, coverage moves into engine configuration and architecture. Critical layout dimensions and design trade-offs are then presented for pistons, crankshafts, engine blocks, camshafts, valves,…
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- 978-3-7091-1859-7
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- XVI, 386
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Variational Analysis and Aerospace Engineering Mathematical Challenges for t…
This book presents papers surrounding the extensive discussions that took place from the ‘Variational Analysis and Aerospace Engineering’ workshop held at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture in 2015. Contributions to this volume focus on advanced mathematical methods in aerospace engineering and industrial engineering such as computational fluid dynamics metho…
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- 978-3-319-45680-5
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- 64 b/w illustrations, 219 illustrations in colour
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Low-tech Innovation: Competitiveness of the German Manufacturing Sector
This book highlights the economic relevance of the so-called low-tech industries and firms. Non R&D intensive firms continue to be the economic backbone of several developed industrial countries. They form the core of National Innovation Systems and contribute significantly to growth and employment. However, due to their lack of R&D activity, they are easily overlooked in the general innovation…
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- 978-3-319-09973-6
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Valuing Banks A New Corporate Finance Approach
This book aims to overcome the limitations the variations in bank-specifics impose by providing a bank-specific valuation theoretical framework and a new asset-side model. The book includes also a constructive comparison of equity and asset side methods. The authors present a novel framework entitled, the “Asset Mark-down Model”. This method incorporates an Adjusted Present Value model, whi…
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- 978-1-137-56142-8
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- 19 b/w illustrations
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Biomolecular Interfaces : Interactions, Functions and Drug Design
The book focuses on the aqueous interface of biomolecules, a vital yet overlooked area of biophysical research. Most biological phenomena cannot be fully understood at the molecular level without considering interfacial behavior. The author presents conceptual advances in molecular biophysics that herald the advent of a new discipline, epistructural biology, centered on the interactions of w…
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- 978-3-319-16850-0
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- 612.015
Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in Chi…
Yi-Tang Lin menyajikan proses historis dimana statistik menjadi bahasa kesehatan global untuk organisasi kesehatan lokal dan internasional. Berdasarkan bahan arsip dari tiga benua, penelitian ini menyelidiki upaya sekolah kesehatan masyarakat, yayasan filantropi, dan organisasi internasional untuk mengubah angka menjadi bahasa internasional untuk kesehatan masyarakat. Line menunjukkan bagaimana…
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- 9781108991339
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- T 610.21 LIN s
Stand out of our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
James Williams berpendapat bahwa ancaman generasi berikutnya terhadap kebebasan manusia telah muncul dalam sistem persuasi cerdas yang semakin mengarahkan pikiran dan tindakan kita. Karena teknologi digital telah membuat informasi melimpah, perhatian kita telah menjadi sumber daya yang langka dan dalam "ekonomi perhatian" digital, teknologi bersaing untuk menangkap dan mengeksploitasi perhatian…
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- 9781108453004
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- T 621.382 WIL s
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