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University Success
University Success has a student-friendly format arranged to help you develop the essential skills and provide the information you need to succeed in university. This is not a textbook full of theory and extensive detail that merely discusses student success; rather, this is a how-to manual for your first year of study. The book provides realistic, practical guidance ranging from study skills t…
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- 378 MAH u
AI based Robot Safe Learning and Control
This open access book mainly focuses on the safe control of robot manipulators. The control schemes are mainly developed based on dynamic neural network, which is an important theoretical branch of deep reinforcement learning. In order to enhance the safety performance of robot systems, the control strategies include adaptive tracking control for robots with model uncertainties, compliance cont…
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- 978-981-15-5503-9
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- 006.3 ZHO a
Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2015: 12th International Symposium on Ne…
The volume LNCS 9377 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2015, held in Jeju, South Korea in October 2015. The 55 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. These papers cover many topics of neural network-related research including intelligent control, neurodynamic analysis, memristive neu…
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- 978-3-319-25393-0
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- XVI, 510
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 006.3 ADV a
Local Firm Upgrading in Global Value Chains: A Business Model Perspective
Jan Hauke Holste analyzes how a company can innovate and change its business model to the degree that it can climb up the value chain. His research synthesizes a combination of the global value chain and the business model literature to create a new framework of local firm upgrading. The findings of an empirical test of the model indicate that local firms are more than just a link within a glob…
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- 978-3-658-09768-4
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General Psychology : An Introduction
The NOBA Project is a growing collection of expert-authored, open-licensed modules in psychology, funded by the Diener Education Fund. From these open modules, Tori Kearns and Deborah Lee created an arranged open textbook for her introductory psychology class. This textbook was created under a Round One ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.
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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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