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Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law: Essays in Comparative Legal History …
Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F. W. Maitland’s famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own ‘hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history’
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- 9781108955195
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- 340.209 EVE c
Sustained Simulation Performance 2015
The book presents the state of the art in high-performance computing and simulation on modern supercomputer architectures. It covers trends in hardware and software development in general, and the future of high-performance systems and heterogeneous architectures specifically. The application contributions cover computational fluid dynamics, material science, medical applications and climate re…
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- 978-3-319-20340-9
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- XII, 218
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Ethical Counselling and Medical Decision-Making in the Era of Personalised Me…
This book offers an overview of the main questions arising when biomedical decision-making intersects ethical decision-making. It reports on two ethical decision-making methodologies, one addressing the patients, the other physicians. It shows how patients’ autonomous choices can be empowered by increasing awareness of ethical deliberation, and at the same time it supports healthcare professi…
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- 978-3-319-27690-8
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- 4 illustrations in colour
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Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada
In probing the impact of Alberta’s powerful oil lobby on the health of democracy in the province, contributors to the volume engage with an ongoing discussion of the erosion of political liberalism in the West. In addition to examining energy policy and issues of government accountability in Alberta, they explore the ramifications of oil dependence in areas such as Aboriginal rights, environm…
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- 9781771990301
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Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data: Lessons from an Int…
Living with Machines is the largest digital humanities project ever funded in the UK. The project brought together a team of twenty-three researchers to leverage more than twenty-years' worth of digitisation projects in order to deepen our understanding of the impact of mechanisation on nineteenth-century Britain.
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- 9781009175548
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- 025.042 AHN c
JIMD Reports, Volume 19
JIMD Reports publishes case and short research reports in the area of inherited metabolic disorders. Case reports highlight some unusual or previously unrecorded feature relevant to the disorder, or serve as an important reminder of clinical or biochemical features of a Mendelian disorder.
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- 978-3-662-46190-7
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Estuarine Morphodynamics of the Sunderbans
This book is the outcome of rigorous and continuous research work done by the author over about three decades on the open ecosystem and dynamic environment of the estuarine Sunderbans. The objective of this work is to identify the field and factors changing gradually upon this active delta over the years, decades and centuries. The deltaic Sunderbans yet not mature enough, has been changing in …
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- 978-3-319-11343-2
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- 26 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
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Collaboration-Based Approaches
Collaboration-based approaches to healthcare improvement attract much attention. They involve networks of people coming together to cooperate around a common interest, with shared goals of improving care and mutual learning. Longstanding examples of collaborative approaches have been associated with some success in improving outcomes and reducing harm.
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- 9781009236867
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- 307.1 MAR c
JIMD Reports, Volume 18
JIMD Reports publishes case and short research reports in the area of inherited metabolic disorders. Case reports highlight some unusual or previously unrecorded feature relevant to the disorder, or serve as an important reminder of clinical or biochemical features of a Mendelian disorder.
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- 978-3-662-44863-
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Estimation and Testing Under Sparsity École d'Été de Probabilités de Sai…
Taking the Lasso method as its starting point, this book describes the main ingredients needed to study general loss functions and sparsity-inducing regularizers. It also provides a semi-parametric approach to establishing confidence intervals and tests. Sparsity-inducing methods have proven to be very useful in the analysis of high-dimensional data. Examples include the Lasso and group Lasso m…
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- 978-3-319-32774-7
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- XIII, 274
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