This book collects 4 keynote and 15 theme lectures presented at the 2nd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (2ECEES), held in Istanbul, Turkey, from August 24 to 29, 2014. The conference was organized by the Turkish Earthquake Foundation - Earthquake Engineering Committee and Prime Ministry, Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency under the auspices of the European…
This book collects 5 keynote and 15 topic lectures presented at the 2nd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (2ECEES), held in Istanbul, Turkey, from August 24 to 29, 2014. The conference was organized by the Turkish Earthquake Foundation - Earthquake Engineering Committee and Prime Ministry, Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency under the auspices of the European…
This open access book analyses barriers and challenges associated with the financing of clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa. By considering various economic, financial, political, environmental and social factors, it explores the consequences of energy poverty across the region and maps the real and perceived investment risks for potential capital providers, both domestic and internationa…
Kumpulan dua volume akses terbuka LNCS 12224 dan 12225 merupakan prosiding yang telah diseleksi dari Konferensi Internasional ke-32 tentang Verifikasi Berbantuan Komputer, CAV 2020, yang diadakan di Los Angeles, CA, AS, pada bulan Juli 2020.* 43 makalah lengkap yang disajikan bersama dengan 18 makalah alat dan 4 studi kasus, ditinjau dengan cermat dan dipilih dari 240 kiriman. Makalah-makalah t…
Kumpulan dua volume akses terbuka LNCS 12224 dan 12225 merupakan prosiding yang telah diseleksi dari Konferensi Internasional ke-32 tentang Verifikasi Berbantuan Komputer, CAV 2020, yang diadakan di Los Angeles, CA, AS, pada bulan Juli 2020.* 43 makalah lengkap yang disajikan bersama dengan 18 makalah alat dan 4 studi kasus, ditinjau dengan cermat dan dipilih dari 240 kiriman. Makalah-makalah t…
This open access book is an outcome of several years of research, practice, and teaching experience of the authors on the challenges that underpin the successful switch to services for manufacturing firms. Ideal for a student as well as a practitioner, the book describes the industrial services ecosystem, the barriers and challenges, and a roadmap for building service excellence. Curated cases …
This open access book discusses firm valuation, which is of interest to economists, particularly those working in finance. Firm valuation comes down to the calculation of the discounted cash flow, often only referred to by its abbreviation, DCF. There are, however, different coexistent versions, which seem to compete against each other, such as entity approaches and equity approaches. Acronyms …
This open access book illustrates a new type of formative intervention for in-service teacher training in entrepreneurship education. The book describes a Change Laboratory and shows how teachers and workshop assistants develop the idea of a multidisciplinary project entailing the design of a self-service and parking lot in a dismissed area close to the city centre. The multidisciplinary projec…
The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative social sciences on a proper footing for the 21st century. A key focus is economics, and its implications on policy making, where the still dominant traditional approach increasingly struggles to capture the economic realities we observe in the world …
This open access book presents a catalogue of over one thousand indicators which can be used by cities' public administrators to monitor and evaluate social innovation action plans to support people-centred, collaborative or co-designed solutions to lower carbon emissions. Indicators are clustered according to a framework of social innovation solutions for climate neutrality at city level, deve…