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Developing Disaster Resilient Housing in Vietnam: Challenges and Solutions
This book provides a comprehensive understanding on disaster resilient housing within the Vietnam context particularly and the developing world generally. The book has identified the root causes of housing vulnerability, restrictions to safe housing development, concepts of disaster resilient housing, key issues/factors implementers and building designers need to consider, and ways of achieving…
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- 9783319267432
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- xxiv, 245 pages
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- 691
Patterns of Intuition, Musical Creativity in the Light of Algorithmic Composi…
I wish to thank all institutions and people who contributed to the work for the project and the making of this book. In the first place, I wish to acknowledge the role of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), whose funding made possible a project of this scale. I am grateful also to Springer Verlag for their professional and pleasant cooperation throughout the publication of this volume. I am parti…
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- 978-94-017-9561-6
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- T 780.904 NIE p c.1
Optimized Response-Adaptive Clinical Trials Sequential Treatment Allocation …
Two-armed response-adaptive clinical trials are modelled as Markov decision problems to pursue two overriding objectives: Firstly, to identify the superior treatment at the end of the trial and, secondly, to keep the number of patients receiving the inferior treatment small. Such clinical trial designs are very important, especially for rare diseases. Thomas Ondra presents the main solution tec…
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- 978-3-658-08344-1
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Optimization, Control, and Applications in the Information Age In Honor of P…
Recent developments in theory, algorithms, and applications in optimization and control are discussed in this proceedings, based on selected talks from the ‘Optimization Control and Applications in the Information Age’ conference, organized in honor of Panos Pardalos’s 60th birthday. This volume contains numerous applications to optimal decision making in energy production and fuel manage…
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- 978-3-319-18567-5
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Quantitative Ecology : A New Unified Approach
Quantitative Ecology introduces and discusses the principles of ecology from populations to ecosystems including human populations, disease, exotic organisms, habitat fragmentation, biodiversity and global dynamics. The book also reformulates and unifies ecological equations making them more accessible to the reader and easier to teach.
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- 978-1-946135-53-7
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- 570 LEH q
Integrating Practice-based Experiences into Higher Education
This book advances understandings about and practices for effectively integrating practice-based (e.g. workplace) experiences in higher education programs. This issue is becoming of increasing salient because higher education programs globally are increasingly focussing on preparing students for specific occupations. Such imperatives are reflected in the cooperative education movement in North …
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- 978-94-017-7230-3
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Development for Sustainable Agriculture The Brazilian Cerrado
Brazil has become one of today's major producers and net exporters of grains. This was achieved by converting barren land into one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world. Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing areas. The transformation of Cerrado is one of the crucial factors that enabled …
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- 9781137431356
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- 338.16
Pathways of a Cell Biologist, Through Yet Another Eye
Di Bagian 1 berikut ini, Melalui Mata yang Lain, saya mengingat masa kecil saya di dunia bebas diikuti oleh pengalaman saya yang kurang sehat di Jepang sebagai mahasiswa selama perang. Pada saat Jepang menyerang Pearl Harbor, saya telah bertemu Katsuma Dan (Katy), dan harapan baru dalam penelitian ilmiah mulai meresap dalam diri saya. Dari Bagian 2, saya menggambarkan hidup saya sebagai ilmuwan…
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- 978-981-10-0947-1
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- Biographies (BIOGS)
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- T 571.84 INO p c.1
New Trends in Applied Harmonic Analysis
This volume is a selection of written notes corresponding to courses taught at the CIMPA School: "New Trends in Applied Harmonic Analysis: Sparse Representations, Compressed Sensing and Multifractal Analysis". New interactions between harmonic analysis and signal and image processing have seen striking development in the last 10 years, and several technological deadlocks have been solved throug…
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- 2296-5009
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- XXVIII, 334
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- Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis
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GPU Computing and Applications
This book presents a collection of state of the art research on GPU Computing and Application. The major part of this book is selected from the work presented at the 2013 Symposium on GPU Computing and Applications held in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Oct 9, 2013). Three major domains of GPU application are covered in the book including (1) Engineering design and simulation; (2)…
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