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Convex Analysis and Global Optimization
This book presents state-of-the-art results and methodologies in modern global optimization, and has been a staple reference for researchers, engineers, advanced students (also in applied mathematics), and practitioners in various fields of engineering. The second edition has been brought up to date and continues to develop a coherent and rigorous theory of deterministic global optimization, hi…
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- 2
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- 9783319314846
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- Springer Optimization and Its Applications
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- 518.6
Fugitive Borders: Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Ce…
Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these te…
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- 9783839445020
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Convex optimization in normed spaces : theory, methods and examples
Este trabajo pretende servir como guía para estudiantes de posgrado e investigadores que deseen familiarizarse con las principales herramientas teóricas y prácticas para la minimización numérica de funciones convexas en espacios de Hilbert. Por lo tanto, contiene las principales herramientas necesarias para realizar investigaciones independientes sobre el tema. También es un libro de text…
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- 1
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- 9783319137100
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- xiv, 124 pages
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- SpringerBriefs in Optimization
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- 515.64
Waste Stabilisation Ponds
"Waste Stabilisation Ponds is the third volume in the series Biological Wastewater Treatment. The major variants of pond systems are fully covered, namely: facultative ponds anaerobic ponds aerated lagoons maturation ponds The book presents in a clear and informative way the main concepts, working principles, expected removal efficiencies, design criteria, design examples, construction aspects,…
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- 9781843391630
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Growing Stock Volume Estimation in Temperate Forested Areas Using a Fusion Ap…
"The PhD thesis written by Mr. Ackermann is an outstanding and in-depth scientific study that closes a research gap and paves the way to new developments. Despite the extremely complex issues, his work is very understandable and excellently elaborated." Prof. Dr. Christiane Schmullius "The PhD thesis written by Mr. Ackermann is an excellent and very comprehensive work performed at the highes…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-13137-5
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- XXV, 307
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- Springer Theses
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- 551 NIC g
Creating Healthy and Sustainable Buildings: An Assessment of Health Risk Factors
The open access book discusses human health and wellbeing within the context of built environments. It provides a comprehensive overview of relevant sources of literature and user complaints that clearly demonstrate the consequences of lack of attention to health in current building design and planning. Current designing of energy-efficient buildings is mainly focused on looking at energy probl…
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The Battle of Vouillé, 507 CE: Where France Began
This volume highlights the heretofore largely neglected Battle of Vouillè in 507 CE, when the Frankish King Clovis defeated Alaric II, the King of the Visigoths. Clovis` victory proved a crucial step in the expulsion of the Visigoths from Francia into Spain, thereby leaving Gaul largely to the Franks. It was arguably in the wake of Vouillè that Gaul became Francia, and that "France began." Th…
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- 9781614510994
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Advanced Macroeconomics: An Easy Guide
Macroeconomic policy is one of the most important policy domains, and the tools of macroeconomics are among the most valuable for policy makers. Yet there has been, up to now, a wide gulf between the level at which macroeconomics is taught at the undergraduate level and the level at which it is practiced. At the same time, doctoral-level textbooks are usually not targeted at a policy audience, …
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- 9781909890695
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Metaphors of Death and Resurrection in the Qur’an: An Intertextual Approach…
Through extensive textual analysis, this open access book reveals how various passages of the Qur’an define death and resurrection spiritually or metaphorically. While the Day of Resurrection is a major theme of the Qur’an, resurrection has largely been interpreted as physical, which is defined as bones leaving their graves. However, this book shows that the Qur’an sometimes alludes to de…
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- 9781350244542
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- 272 pages
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Aromatic Hydroxyketones: Preparation & Physical Properties: Aromatic Hydroxyk…
An important resource for the synthesis of intermediates of specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals. Aromatic Hydroxyketones from Butanone to Dotriacontanone provides the reader with exhaustive information covering structure, preparation, physicochemical characteristics, as well as a related bibliography. The handbook is presented in dictionary style, with a logical classificati…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-14185-5
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- XXIII, 1449
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- 546 MAR a
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