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The Profitable Supply Chain
The Profitable Supply Chain: A Practitioner's Guide provides a first-principles approach to understanding the drivers of today’s successful supply chains, covering everything from inventory and demand management to network planning to technology-driven improvements in efficient supply chain management. Apart from introducing the latest concepts and methods, supply chain expert and consulta…
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- 978-1-4842-0526-6
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- VIII, 296, 79 b/w illustrations
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The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning
This critical ethnographic school-based case study offers insights on the interaction between ideology and the identity development of individual English language learners in Singapore. Illustrated by case studies of the language learning experiences of five Asian immigrant students in an English-medium school in Singapore, the author examines how the immigrant students negotiated a standard En…
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- 978-3-319-30211-9
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- XVII, 173, 1 b/w illustrations
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- Multilingual Education
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The Portable Medical Mentor
This text is directed at every student of medicine regardless of level of training or specialty ambitions. Without imparting any education in medicine per se, each chapter teaches the prospective medical trainee the art of being a physician. The reader will be convinced early on, that there is more to being a good doctor than medical school didactics. They will learn what residency admission ch…
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- 978-3-319-09852-4
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- XXVII, 209, 6 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
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The Politics of Contaminated Sites Management
By the end of the 1970s, contaminated sites had emerged as one of the most complex and urgent environmental issues affecting industrialized countries. The authors show that small and prosperous Switzerland is no exception to the pervasive problem of sites contamination, the legacy of past practices in waste management having left some 38,000 contaminated sites throughout the country. This book …
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- 978-3-319-11307-4
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- XIX, 159, 20 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
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Language-Learner Computer Interactions : Theory, methodology and CALL applica…
This book focuses on learner-computer interactions (LCI) in second language learning environments drawing largely on sociocultural theories of language development. It brings together a rich and varied range of theoretical discussions and applications in order to illustrate the way in which LCI can enrich our comprehension of technology-mediated communication, hence enhancing learners' digital …
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- 9789027257512
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- 005 LAN
Information Security Theory and Practice: 9th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conf…
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conference(formerly Workshop) on Information Security Theory and Practices, WISTP 2015, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in August 2015. The 14 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented together were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. WISTP 2015 sought original submissions from acade…
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- 978-3-319-24017-6
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- XII, 281
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- 004 INF
A Distributed Pi-Calculus
Distributed systems are fast becoming the norm in computer science. Formal mathematical models and theories of distributed behaviour are needed in order to understand them. This book proposes a distributed pi-calculus called Dpi, for describing the behaviour of mobile agents in a distributed world. It is based on an existing formal language, the pi-calculus, to which it adds a network layer and…
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- 9780511611063
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A Global History of Ideas in the Language of Law
This book argues that the narrowing focus of the global history of ideas on narratives in historical research, philosophy and political theory neglects the fact that the central concepts of the history of political ideas are articulated in the language of law. Key figures of the history of ideas, like Kant, Hegel and Weber, engaged deeply with the philosophy and sociology of law. This monograph…
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- 9783944773315
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Information Retrieval Technology: 11th Asia Information Retrieval Societies C…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2015, held in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in December 2015. The 29 full papers presented together with 11 short and demonstration papers, and the abstracts of 2 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. The final programme of AIRS 2015 is divided in 10 tr…
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- 978-3-319-28939-7
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- XVIII, 454
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- 004 INF
Information Retrieval: 8th Russian Summer School, RuSSIR 2014, Nizhniy Novgor…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th Russian Summer School on Information Retrieval, RuSSIR 2014, held in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia, in August 2014. The volume includes 6 tutorial papers, summarizing lectures given at the event, and 8 revised papers from the school participants.The papers focus on various aspects of information retrieval.
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- 978-3-319-25484-5
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- XIV, 359
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- 004 INF
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