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America's Urban Future: Lessons from North of the Border
In this book, urban experts Tomalty and Mallach show how Canada, a country similar to the US in many respects, has fostered healthier urban centers and more energy‑ and resource‑efficient suburban growth. They call for a rethinking of US public policies across those areas and look closely at what may be achievable at federal, state, and local levels in light of both the constraints and oppo…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-61091-597-7
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- VIII, 300
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- -
- Call Number
- 307.2 TOM a
American League Franchises: Team Performances Inspire Business Success
This brief analyzes each of the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises in the American League, their past regular-season and postseason records and financial performances while operating as competitive, popular, and profitable or unprofitable enterprises. Using sport-specific information and relevant demographic, economic, and financial data, this brief will highlight when and how well these ML…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-25996-3
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- XX, 129
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics
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- 338.9 JOZ a
American Jewish Year Book 2014: The Annual Record of the North American Jewis…
This book, in its 114th year, provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish communities, examining the recently completed Pew Report (A Portrait of Jewish American), gender in American Jewish life, national and Jewish communal affairs and the US and world Jewish population. It also acts as an important resource with lists of Jewish Institutions, Jewish periodicals and academic…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-09623-0
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- XVIII, 923
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- American Jewish Year Book
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- 304.6 AME a
Amebiasis: Biology and Pathogenesis of Entamoeba
This book documents and presents new developments in the study of amebiasis, one of the neglected tropical diseases. Nearly 50 million people worldwide are infected with the pathogen Entamoeba histolytica, causing large-scale morbidity and mortality particularly in developing countries. This book will help clinicians for better diagnosis and management of the disease, researchers for initiating…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-4-431-55200-0
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- IX, 581
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- -
- Call Number
- 576.11 AME a
Diophantine analysis : course notes from a summer school
In July 2014, the number theory group of the Department of Mathematics at Wurzburg University organized an international summer school on Diophantine analysis. About fifty participants learned in three courses about different topics from Diophantine analysis; a fourth course gave in addition some historical background of some aspects of the early research in this direction. This volume presents…
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- 9783319488172
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- xi, 232 pages
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- 515
Ambulance Services: Leadership and Management Perspectives
This volume provides fresh insights and management understanding of the changing role of the ambulance services against the backdrop of massive cuts in health budgets around the world and the changing context of pre-hospital care within the wider healthcare networks. The challenges of funding, training and cultural transformation are now felt globally. The need to learn and adapt from suitable …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-18642-9
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- XIV, 192
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- -
- Call Number
- 614 AMB a
Dipolar Correlation Spectroscopy Higher-Order Correlation Terms in Three-Spin…
Bettina Basel presents experimental conditions which allow to extract the three-spin contribution precisely from experimental multi-spin double electron-electron resonance (DEER) signals. The theory and concepts behind the used techniques, which are among others broadband chirp pump pulses, overcoupling of microwave resonators and echo reduction measurements, are discussed and explained in deta…
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- 9783658091910
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- -
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- 540
Direct Licensing and the Music Industry How Technology, Innovation and Compet…
This book discusses the economics of the music industry in the context of the changing landscape brought about by innovation, technological change, and rapid digitization. The ability of digital technology to reduce the transaction costs of music copyright licensing has all but destroyed the traditional media business models of incumbent Performance Rights Organizations (PROs), music publishers…
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- -
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- 9783319176536
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- xxv, 293 pages
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- -
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- 346.0482
Ambient Intelligence for Health: First International Conference, AmIHEALTH 20…
This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Ambient Intelligence for Health, AmIHEALTH 2015, held in Puerto Varas, Chile, in December 2015. The 20 revised full papers and 9 short papers were reviewed and selected from 32 submissions and cover topics on technologies for implementing AmIHealth environments; frameworks related with AmIHealt…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-26508-7
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- XIV, 304
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Call Number
- 006.3 AMB a
Ambient Intelligence: 12th European Conference, AmI 2015, Athens, Greece, Nov…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2015, held in Athens, Greece, in November 2015. The 21 revised full papers presented together with 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. Over the past 20 years, the vision of Ambient Intelligence has gradually materialized into a plethora of technolog…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-26005-1
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- XIII, 372
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Call Number
- 006.3 AMB a
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