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Mobile Networks for Biometric Data Analysis
This book showcases new and innovative approaches to biometric data capture and analysis, focusing especially on those that are characterized by non-intrusiveness, reliable prediction algorithms, and high user acceptance. It comprises the peer-reviewed papers from the international workshop on the subject that was held in Ancona, Italy, in October 2014 and featured sessions on ICT for health ca…
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- 978-3-319-39698-9
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- IX, 323
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- Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
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Injunctions in Patent Law: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Flexibility and Tailoring
Patents are important tools for innovation policy. They incentivize the creation and dissemination of new technical solutions and help to disclose their working to the public in exchange for limited exclusivity. Injunctions are important tools of their enforcement. Much has been written about different aspects of the patent system, but the issue of injunctions is largely neglected in the compar…
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- 9781108891103
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- 346.0486 CON i
Modeling and Control for a Blended Wing Body Aircraft: A Case Study
This book demonstrates the potential of the blended wing body (BWB) concept for significant improvement in both fuel efficiency and noise reduction and addresses the considerable challenges raised for control engineers because of characteristics like open-loop instability, large flexible structure, and slow control surfaces. This text describes state-of-the-art and novel modeling and control de…
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- 978-3-319-34340-2
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- XIV
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- Advances in Industrial Control
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Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession
This volume extends and deepens our knowledge about cross-border mobility and its role in an enlarged EU. More specifically, its main purpose is to enlighten the growing and yet rather uninformed debate about the role of post-enlargement migration for economic adjustment in the crisis-stricken labor markets of the Eurozone and the EU as a whole. The book addresses the political economy aspects …
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- 978-3-662-45320-9
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Metaphors of Ed Tech
The criticisms leveled at online education during the Covid-19 pandemic revealed not only a lack of understanding about how educational technology can be deployed effectively, but a lack of imagination. Martin Weller provides new ways of thinking about educational technology through a wide range of metaphors. By using metaphors as a mental model, Weller enables educators to move beyond pragmati…
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- 9781771993500.01
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- Issues in Distance Education
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- 6x9, 200
Modern Proteomics – Sample Preparation, Analysis and Practical Applications
This volume serves as a proteomics reference manual, describing experimental design and execution. The book also shows a large number of examples as to what can be achieved using proteomics techniques. As a relatively young area of scientific research, the breadth and depth of the current state of the art in proteomics might not be obvious to all potential users. There are various books and rev…
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- 978-3-319-41446-1
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- IX
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- Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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La correspondance entre Henri Poincaré, les astronomes, et les géodésiens
The letters in this volume cover Poincaré's multifaceted career in astronomy in its entirety, extending from the time of his first publications in 1880 to the end of his life in 1912. At a tender age, Poincaré established his authority in questions of celestial mechanics, and his views were soon sought after on a vast array of questions by the leading astronomers and geodesists of his time, i…
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- 978-3-7643-8293-3
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Mining, Modeling, and Recommending 'Things' in Social Media
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Mining Ubiquitous and Social Environments, MUSE 2013, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2013, and the 4th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media, MSM 2013, held in Paris, France, in May 2013. The 8 full papers included in the book are revised and significantly e…
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- 978-3-319-14723-9
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- IX
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: 8th International Conference, …
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2015, held in Chongqing, China, in October 2015. The 57 revised full papers presented together with 22 short papers and 5 keynotes were carefully selected and reviewed from 247 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on formal reasoning and …
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- 978-3-319-25159-2
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Transport of Water versus Transport over Water
This book aims at stimulating discussion between researchers working on state of the art approaches for operational control and design of transport of water on the one hand and researchers working on state of the art approaches for transport over water on the other hand. The main contribution of the book as a whole is to present novel perspectives ultimately leading to the management of an envi…
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- 978-3-319-16133-4
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- XVI, 478
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- Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series
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