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Local Drivers for Improvement Capacity: Six Types of School Organisations
This book presents systematically six types of schools, with different improvement capacities. Different schools have different capacities for school improvement, depending on the school infrastructure, norms and routines for the improvement process, improvement roles, and improvement history. The organisation of the improvement capacity is understood on the basis of sensemaking processes among…
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- 978-3-319-12724-8
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Advances in National Brand and Private Label Marketing: Second International …
This book presents the latest research and recent studies in the field of national brand and private label marketing. It covers a wide range of topics, including retailing, marketing, general business, psychology, economics and statistics. It addresses diverse areas of application, such as brand naming and packaging decisions, price elasticity, positioning, branding, consumer motivation, online…
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- 978-3-319-20182-5
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- XI, 211
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- Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics
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- 658.8 ADV a
Local Cosmopolitanism: Imagining and (Re-)Making Privileged Places
This book offers a unique perspective on cosmopolitanism, examining the ways it is constructed and reconstructed on the small scale in an ongoing process of matching the local with the global, a process entailing mutual transformation. Based on a wide range of literatures and a series of case studies, it analyzes the different versions and functions of cosmopolitanism and points to the need to…
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- 978-3-319-19030-3
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Local Content Policies in Resource-rich Countries
This book analyses the role of local content (LC) policy in the economic development of five resource-rich countries: Brazil, Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia and the UK. The authors situate LC policy within a framework of sustainability in the form of industrial diversification and innovation-led growth, and examine how effective LC policies are in facilitating sectoral and economy-wide catching up.…
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- 978-1-137-44786-9
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Loadings in Thermal Barrier Coatings of Jet Engine Turbine Blades: An Experim…
This book discusses complex loadings of turbine blades and protective layer Thermal Barrier Coating (TBC), under real working airplane jet conditions. They obey both multi-axial mechanical loading and sudden temperature variation during starting and landing of the airplanes. In particular, two types of blades are analyzed: stationary and rotating, which are widely applied in turbine engines pro…
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- 978-981-10-0919-8
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Programming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++
Programming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++ is written by Kenneth Leroy Busbee, a faculty member at Houston Community College in Houston, Texas. The materials used in this textbook/collection were developed by the author and others as independent modules for publication within the Connexions environment. Programming fundamentals are often divided into three college cou…
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- 005 BUS p
Advances in Nanomaterials
This book provides a review of the latest research findings and key applications in the field of nanomaterials. The book contains twelve chapters on different aspects of nanomaterials. It begins with key fundamental concepts to aid readers new to the discipline of nanomaterials, and then moves to the different types of nanomaterials studied. The book includes chapters based on the applications …
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- 978-81-322-2668-0
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- XVIII, 429
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- Advanced Structured Materials
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- 620.5 ADV a
Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -- PCM 2015: 16th Pacific-Rim C…
The two-volume proceedings LNCS 9314 and 9315, constitute the proceedings of the 16th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2015, held in Gwangju, South Korea, in September 2015. The total of 138 full and 32 short papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 224 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: image and audio processing;…
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- 978-3-319-24078-7
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- XXIII, 683
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 005.7 ADV a
Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -- PCM 2015: 16th Pacific-Rim C…
The two-volume proceedings LNCS 9314 and 9315, constitute the proceedings of the 16th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2015, held in Gwangju, South Korea, in September 2015. The total of 138 full and 32 short papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 224 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: image and audio processing;…
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- 978-3-319-24075-6
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- XXIV, 735
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 005.7
Advances in Modelling and Control of Non-integer-Order Systems: 6th Conferenc…
This volume presents selected aspects of non-integer, or fractional order systems, whose analysis, synthesis and applications have increasingly become a real challenge for various research communities, ranging from science to engineering. The spectrum of applications of the fractional order calculus has incredibly expanded, in fact it would be hard to find a science/engineering-related subject …
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- 978-3-319-09900-2
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- XIV, 295
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- Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
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- 519.4 ADV a
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