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Recommender Systems Handbook
This second edition of a well-received text, with 20 new chapters, presents a coherent and unified repository of recommender systems’ major concepts, theories, methodologies, trends, and challenges. A variety of real-world applications and detailed case studies are included. In addition to wholesale revision of the existing chapters, this edition includes new topics including: decision making…
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- 978-1-4899-7637-6
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- 006.3
Alice Munro: Understanding, Adapting and Teaching
The book offers a new approach to the study of Alice Munro's fiction. Its innovative quality consists in juxtaposing a variety of literary analyses of selected stories with two other ways of looking at her fiction: the perspectives of film adaptation and of pedagogy. The book is divided into three parts which mirror the key words in the title: understanding, adapting and teaching. Part One cons…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-24061-9
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- XII, 161
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- Second Language Learning and Teaching
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- 400 ALI a
The Manual of Strategic Economic Decision Making
The author's first book on this topic, a primer introducing learners to the basic complexities and nuances associated with learning Bayes’ theorem and inverse probability for the first time, was meant for non-statisticians unfamiliar with the theorem—as is this book. This new book expands upon that approach and is meant to be a prescriptive guide for building BBN and executive decision-maki…
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- 978-3-319-48414-3
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- XXVIII, 260
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- 658.2
Disciplinary intuitions and the design of learning environments
As children, we would have spilt glasses of milk, dropped things, and broken things. As children, therefore, we would have developed intuitions about how the world?works?, but we would not necessarily have been able to explain these?workings?. It would only have been till we entered formal schooling that we would have learned codifications of canon within each respective discipline, and consequ…
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- 9789812871824
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- 214 pages
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- 331.55
Algebraic Informatics: 6th International Conference, CAI 2015, Stuttgart, Ger…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Algebraic Informatics, CAI 2015, held in Stuttgart, Germany, in September 2015. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers cover topics such as data models and coding theory; fundamental aspects of cryptography and security; algebraic and stocha…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-23021-4
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- VIII, 223
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 519.6 ALG a
The Malaysia-Japan Model on Technology Partnership
The selected papers included in this proceedings on Malaysia-Japan Academic Scholar Conference (MJASC) 2013, are related to nano-science engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, computer science, information technology etc. This proceedings will be a source of research findings for Malaysia and Japan specifically, and other countries in general, especially amo…
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- 978-4-431-54439-5
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- XVII, 418
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The Introverted Presenter
The surefire sequence of steps for The Introverted Presenter begins with defining your presentation’s audience and objective. The next step is to write the script of your speech in stages, constructing it on the basis of proven structural rules, cognitive laws, and dramatic tricks. Then you incrementally refine and tighten your script by delivering it iteratively, first in front of a mirror a…
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- 978-1-4842-1088-8
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- XIII, 100
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Algal Biorefinery: An Integrated Approach
This book critically discusses different aspects of algal production systems and several of the drawbacks related to microalgal biomass production, namely, low biomass yield, and energy-consuming harvesting, dewatering, drying and extraction processes. These provide a background to the state-of-the-art technologies for algal cultivation, CO2 sequestration, and large-scale application of these s…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-22813-6
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- XXII, 467
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- 660.6 ALG a
Air Flow Management in Raised Floor Data Centers
The Brief discuss primarily two aspects of air flow management in raised floor data centers. Firstly, cooling air delivery through perforated tiles will be examined and influence of the tile geometry on flow field development and hot air entrainment above perforated tiles will be discussed. Secondly, the use of cold aisle containment to physically separate hot and cold regions, and minimize hot…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-25892-8
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- XX, 72
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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- 333.79 ARG a
Fundamentals of Infrastructure Management
The authors believe this free of charge book, Fundamentals of Infrastructure Management, will expand the impact of the material and help improve the practice of infrastructure management. By ‘free of charge,’ we mean that the material can be freely obtained, but readers should devote time and effort to mastering the material. We have provided problem assignments for various chapters, and we…
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- 624 COF f
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