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Energy Management in Wireless Cellular and Ad-hoc Networks
This book investigates energy management approaches for energy efficient or energy-centric system design and architecture and presents end-to-end energy management in the recent heterogeneous-type wireless network medium. It also considers energy management in wireless sensor and mesh networks by exploiting energy efficient transmission techniques and protocols. and explores energy management i…
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- 978-3-319-27568-0
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- 134 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
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Energy Law: An Introduction
The aim of this short text is simply to introduce a reader to this topic. It is intended for a global audience and rather than being restricted to potential energy law students of a particular country. It is also written for students of other disciplines such as geographers, social scientists and engineers. It should also be engaging to those in a variety of professional practices who want an a…
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- 978-3-319-14191-6
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- 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
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Energy Law in Brazil Oil, Gas and Biofuels
This book describes the energy-law situation in Brazil. It focuses on three specific energy sectors: oil, natural gas and biofuel. The decision to concentrate on these areas takes into account the role that these energy sectors play in the economic, political and legal systems in Brazil, as well as the fact that they are the primary subjects of current discussions surrounding economic regulatio…
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- 978-3-319-14268-5
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- 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
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Energy Informatics 4th D-A-CH Conference, EI 2015, Karlsruhe, Germany, Novem…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th D-A-CH Conference on Energy Informatics, D-A-CH EI 2015, held in Karlsruhe, Germany, in November 2015. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed energy sources and storage, smart meters and monitoring, research lab infrastruc…
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- 978-3-319-25876-8
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- 92 b/w illustrations
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Energy Efficiency Benefits for Environment and Society
This book discusses how energy efficiency benefits the global environment, national energy security, local pollution mitigation, natural resource conservation, and utility bill reduction. In addition, this book provides many hands-on skills and knowledge to identify and develop energy efficiency projects. The literature review shows that energy efficiency has become the first fuel in the world …
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- 978-1-4471-6666-5
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- 34 illustrations in colour
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Energy Demand in Industry What Factors Are Important?
The book presents a stochastic analysis based on production risk and application of this method in the industrial sector under production risk where energy use is an input factor. Using South Korea as a case study, the book empirically models energy demand at the industrial level and analyzes the results to identify key determinants of energy demand, productions level, productions risk and ener…
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- 978-94-017-9953-9
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- 16 b/w illustrations
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Mastering Strategic Management
Mastering Strategic Management is designed to enhance student engagement in three innovative ways. The first is through visual adaptations of the key content in the book. It is well documented that many of today’s students are visual learners. To meet students’ wants and needs (and thereby create a much better teaching experience for professors), Mastering Strategic Management contains mult…
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New Perspectives on Internationalization and Competitiveness
This volume showcases contributions from leading academics, educators and policymakers derived from two workshops hosted by the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES) at George Mason University on internationalization and competitiveness. It aims to present key areas of current research and to identify basic problems within the field to promote further discussion and research. …
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- 978-3-319-11978-6
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- XV, 185
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Theory and Practices on Innovating for Sustainable Development
This book explains how income growth and better environmental qualities go hand in hand, and reviews the drivers and barriers to sustainable innovation on the basis of real-life cases. It discusses why innovation-based income growth reduces environmental impacts and how the huge global markets for sustainable innovation are currently hampered by protectionist policies. Subsequently, diverse sus…
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- 978-3-319-18636-8
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- XI, 195
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Nanotechnology in Construction
Nanotechnology has already demonstrated surprising potential for improving the performance of construction materials and many of these recent developments were facilitated by NICOM symposia. The NICOM5 proceedings will cover the emerging opportunities and future use of nanotechnology in construction and will illustrate the broad potential for application of nanotechnology to challenging problem…
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- 978-3-319-17087-9
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- XV, 509
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