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Whistled Languages A Worldwide Inquiry on Human Whistled Speech
The main focus of this monograph on whistled speech is the result of a worldwide inquiry primarily based on the author’s unprecedented fieldwork and laboratory experience. The different questions raised by the origin and the evolution of whistled forms of languages are also explored, including the role of environmental constraints in the emergence of whistled speech, their phonetic and phonol…
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- 978-3-662-45837-2
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- IX, 182
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The Impact of Corruption on International Commercial Contracts
This volume presents national reports describing the legal instruments that are available to prevent the payment of bribes for acquiring contracts. Anti-corruption is one of the preeminent issues in the modern global commercial order and is tackled with the help of criminal law and contract law in different ways in different countries. The reports included in this volume, from very diverse part…
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- 978-3-319-19054-9
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- XIV, 446
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- Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law
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Writing in Knowledge Societies
The editors of Writing in Knowledge Societies provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings. The essays in this book examine the multiple, subtle, yet consequential ways in which writing is epistemic, articulating the central role of writing in creating, shapin…
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- 9781602352681
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- 411 STA w
The Cambridge Handbook of Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Interdisciplin…
Dalam dekade terakhir, kecerdasan buatan (AI) telah menjadi kekuatan pengganggu di seluruh dunia, menawarkan potensi inovasi yang sangat besar tetapi juga menciptakan bahaya dan risiko bagi individu dan masyarakat tempat mereka tinggal. Volume ini membahas tantangan filosofis, etika, hukum, dan sosial yang paling mendesak yang ditimbulkan oleh AI. Kontributor dari berbagai disiplin ilmu dan sek…
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- 9781009207898
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- T 343.0999 VOE r c.1
Drivers of bank lending : new evidence from the crisis
After the recent financial crisis has hooked the banking system to its very foundations, Hartmut Brinkmeyer contributes to the question of how bank characteristics influence bank loan supply during crisis periods by developing a well-founded theoretical framework. The econometrical design deploys a number of remarkably innovative ideas such as the implementation of a bank-specific, self-chosen …
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- 9783658071745
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- 247 pages
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- 332.49
Mathematics for Computer Science
This text explains how to use mathematical models and methods to analyze problems that arise in computer science. Proofs play a central role in this work because the authors share a belief with most mathematicians that proofs are essential for genuine understanding. Proofs also play a growing role in computer science; they are used to certify that software and hardware will always behave cor…
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- 510 LEH m
Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2016: Smart Systems for the…
This book contains the papers presented at the 20th anniversary edition of the AMAA conference held in Brussels, Belgium in 2016. The theme of the conference was “Smart Systems for the Automobile of the Future”. The automobile is currently being reshaped at unprecedented pace. Automation and electrification are the two dominant megatrends which dramatically change the choice and design of c…
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- 978-3-319-44766-7
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- XIII, 268
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- Lecture Notes in Mobility
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- 388.31
Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2015: Smart Systems for Gre…
This edited volume presents the proceedings of the AMAA 2015 conference, Berlin, Germany. The topical focus of the 2015 conference lies on smart systems for green and automated driving. The automobile of the future has to respond to two major trends, the electrification of the drivetrain, and the automation of the transportation system. These trends will not only lead to greener and safer drivi…
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- 978-3-319-20855-8
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- XI, 275
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- Lecture Notes in Mobility
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- 388.31 ADV a
Educational Research: Discourses of Change and Changes of Discourse
This collection addresses concepts and theories of change, contexts and functions of reform discourses, and fields of change in educational research. It examines a wide variety of issues such as girls’ education in France, educational neuroscience, the professionalization in Child Protection, and mathematics discourses. It pays attention to the pervasiveness of crisis rhetoric in American Edu…
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- 978-3-319-30455-7
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- 3 b/w illustrations
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- XII, 227
Lattice QCD for Nuclear Physics
With ever increasing computational resources and improvements in algorithms, new opportunities are emerging for lattice gauge theory to address key questions in strongly interacting systems, such as nuclear matter. Calculations today use dynamical gauge-field ensembles with degenerate light up/down quarks and the strange quark and it is possible now to consider including charm-quark degrees …
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