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Urban Vulnerability and Climate Change in Africa A Multidisciplinary Approach
Urbanisation and climate change are among the major challenges for sustainable development in Africa. The overall aim of this book is to present innovative approaches to vulnerability analysis and for enhancing the resilience of African cities against climate change-induced risks. Locally adapted IPCC climate change scenarios, which also consider possible changes in urban population, have been …
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- 978-3-319-03982-4
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Why Architects Still Draw
An architect's defense of drawing as a way of thinking, even in an age of electronic media. Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D-scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi offers an elegant and ardent defense of drawing by hand as a way of thinking. Belardi is no Luddite; h…
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Proceedings of 4th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defen…
* Penelitian terbaru dalam Komputasi Tingkat Lanjut, Jaringan, dan Informatika, * Menyajikan masalah penelitian terkini dengan solusi baru, * Menyajikan teori dan aplikasi. --> Dunia militer selalu menunjukkan minat yang besar pada evolusi perangkat lunak dan cara pembuatannya selama bertahun-tahun. Standar pertama untuk kualitas perangkat lunak berasal dari Departemen Pertahanan AS (2167A dan …
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- 978-3-319-27896-4
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- Kemajuan dalam Sistem Cerdas dan Komputasi (AISC)
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- 004.21 CIA s
Fire and Snow : Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones
Fellow Inklings J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis may have belonged to different branches of Christianity, but they both made use of a faith-based environmentalist ethic to counter the mid-twentieth-century's triple threats of fascism, utilitarianism, and industrial capitalism. In Fire and Snow, Marc DiPaolo explores how the apocalyptic fantasy tropes and Christian environmental ethics of the Mi…
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- 9781438470450
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- SUNY Press Open Access
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- 800 DIP f
AXMEDIS 2007 Conference Proceedings
The AXMEDIS International Conference series has been established since 2005 and is focused on the research, developments and applications in the cross-media domain, exploring innovative technologies to meet the challenges of the sector. AXMEDIS2007 deals with all subjects and topics related to cross-media and digital-media content production, processing, management, standards, representation, s…
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- 9788884536785
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- 005
Asset Management and Institutional Investors
This book analyses investment management policies for institutional investors. It is composed of four parts. The first one analyses the various types of institutional investors, institutions which, with different objectives, professionally manage portfolios of financial and real assets on behalf of a wide variety of individuals. This part goes on with an in-depth analysis of the economic, techn…
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- 978-3-319-32796-9
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- XIII, 468
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Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation How Access to Microdata is Transforming…
In the light of better and more detailed administrative databases, this open access book provides statistical tools for evaluating the effects of public policies advocated by governments and public institutions. Experts from academia, national statistics offices and various research centers present modern econometric methods for an efficient data-driven policy evaluation and monitoring, assess …
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- 978-3-319-78461-8
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Risk Analysis of Natural Hazards
This volume investigates the interdisciplinary and cross-cutting challenges in the risk analysis of natural hazards. It brings together leading minds in engineering, science, philosophy, law, and the social sciences. Parts I and II of this volume explore risk assessment, first by providing an overview of the interdisciplinary interactions involved in the assessment of natural hazards, and then …
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- 978-3-319-22126-7
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Fundamentals of the Mechanics of Solids
This distinctive textbook aims to introduce readers to the basic structures of the mechanics of deformable bodies, with a special emphasis on the description of the elastic behavior of simple materials and structures composed by elastic beams. The authors take a deductive rather than inductive approach and start from a few first, foundational principles. A wide selection of exercises, many wi…
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- 978-1-4939-3133-0
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The Early Period of the Calculus of Variations
This monograph explores the early development of the calculus of variations in continental Europe during the Eighteenth Century by illustrating the mathematics of its founders. Closely following the original papers and correspondences of Euler, Lagrange, the Bernoullis, and others, the reader is immersed in the challenge of theory building. We see what the founders were doing, the difficulties …
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- 978-3-319-38945-5
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- XII, 293, 59 b/w illustrations
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