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Anticipation: Learning from the Past: The Russian/Soviet Contributions to the…
This volume presents the work of leading scientists from Russia, Georgia, Estonia, Lithuania, Israel and the USA, revealing major insights long unknown to the scientific community. Without any doubt their work will provide a springboard for further research in anticipation. Until recently, Robert Rosen (Anticipatory Systems) and Mihai Nadin (MIND – Anticipation and Chaos) were deemed forerunn…
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- 978-3-319-19446-2
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- X, 520
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- Cognitive Systems Monographs
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- 006.3 ANT a
Anticipation Across Disciplines
Never before was anticipation more relevant to the life and activity of humankind than it is today. “It is no overstatement to suggest that humanity’s future will be shaped by its capacity to anticipate….” (Research Agenda for the 21st Century, National Science Foundation). The sciences and the humanities can no longer risk explaining away the complexity and interactivity that lie at th…
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- 978-3-319-22599-9
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- IX, 403
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- Cognitive Systems Monographs
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- 006.3 ANT a
The Principles of Geotourism
The book introduces tourism earth-science as a new scientific discipline by applying the principles of earth-science in the study of natural and human tourism resources. It involves studying the geo-scientific characteristics of these tourism resources through surveys, evaluation and aesthetic value assessment. It also discusses about the principles behind geopark establishment and management. …
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- 978-3-662-46697-1
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- XXIII, 264
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- Springer Geography
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The Principles of Alternative Investments Management
The purpose of this book is to present the principles of alternative investments in management. The individual chapters provide a detailed analysis of various classes of alternative investments on the financial market. Despite many different definitions of alternative investments, it can be assumed that a classical approach to alternative investments includes hedge funds, fund of funds (FOF), m…
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- 978-3-319-13215-0
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- XI, 186
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The Principles and Practice of Nutritional Support
This book provides the reader with an understanding of human nutritional and metabolic physiology and how it goes wrong in illness. Divided into three major sections, the volume instructs the reader on how and when to use nutritional support, and includes a summary of the published outcome studies on the application of nutritional support to the management of common illnesses. In this way, the …
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- 978-1-4939-1779-2
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- XVII, 241
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The Principle of Profit Models
This book mainly focuses on defining profit models, on how many main kinds of profit models there are, how profit models can change a company, and how to tailor a profit model to the needs of a certain company. In this context, profit models are classified as fixed-income, remaining-profit and profit-sharing, admission, toll, parking, fuel and sharing fees, profit sources, customer pricing, auc…
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- 978-3-662-44714-7
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- XIV, 184
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Business Intelligence with SQL Server Reporting Services
Business Intelligence with SQL Server Reporting Services helps you deliver business intelligence with panache. Harness the power of the Reporting Services toolkit to combine charts, gauges, sparklines, indicators, and maps into compelling dashboards and scorecards. Create compelling visualizations that seize your audience’s attention and help business users identify and react swiftly to chang…
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Antibody-Drug Conjugates: The 21st Century Magic Bullets for Cancer
This authoritative volume provides a holistic picture of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). Fourteen comprehensive chapters are divided into six sections including an introduction to ADCs, the ADC construct, development issues, landscape, IP and pharmacoeconomics, case studies, and the future of the field. The book examines everything from the selection of the antibody, the drug, and the linker t…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-13081-1
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- X, 252
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- AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series
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- 615.4 ANT a
The Primary Auditory Neurons of the Mammalian Cochlea
This volume details the essential role of the spiral ganglion neurons. The volume elucidates and characterizes their development, their environment, their electrophysiological characteristics, their connectivity to their targets in the inner ear and the brain, and discusses the potential for their regeneration. A comprehensive review about the spiral ganglion neurons is important for researcher…
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- 978-1-4939-3031-9
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- XIV, 286
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- Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
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The Price of Fixed Income Market Volatility
This book fills this gap and provides a unified evaluation framework of fixed income volatility while dealing with disparate markets such as interest-rate swaps, government bonds, time-deposits and credit. It develops model-free, forward looking indexes of fixed-income volatility that match different quoting conventions across various markets, and uncovers subtle yet important pitfalls arising …
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- 978-3-319-26523-0
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- XI, 250
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- Springer Finance
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