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Extension of Data Envelopment Analysis with Preference Information Value Eff…
This book provides an introduction to incorporating preference information in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with a special emphasis in Value Efficiency Analysis. In addition to theoretical considerations, numerous illustrative examples are included. Hence, the book can be used as a teaching text as well. Only a modest mathematical background is needed to understand the main principles. The on…
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- 978-1-4899-7528-7
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Film and the City The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema
Examining fourteen Canadian films produced from 1989 to 2007, including Denys Arcand’s Jésus de Montréal (1989), Jean-Claude Lauzon’s Léolo (1992), Mina Shum’s Double Happiness (1994), Clément Virgo’s Rude (1995), and Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg (2007), Film and the City is the first comprehensive study of Canadian film and “urbanity”—the totality of urban culture and life. Dra…
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- 9781927356593.01
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- 319 pages
Extending SSIS with .NET Scripting A Toolkit for SQL Server Integration Serv…
Extending SSIS with .NET Scripting is a timeless and comprehensive scripting toolkit for SQL Server Integration Services to solve a wide array of everyday problems that SSIS developers encounter. The detailed explanation of the Script Task and Script Component foundations helps you develop your own scripting solutions, but this book also shows a broad arsenal of readymade and well-documented sc…
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- 978-1-4842-0638-6
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- 271 b/w illustrations
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Extended Abstracts Spring 2015 Interactions between Representation Theory, A…
This book includes 33 expanded abstracts of selected talks given at the two workshops "Homological Bonds Between Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory" and "Brave New Algebra: Opening Perspectives," and the conference "Opening Perspectives in Algebra, Representations, and Topology," held at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) in Barcelona between January and June 2015. These activit…
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- 978-3-319-45441-2
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Extended Abstracts Spring 2014 Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics; …
The two parts of the present volume contain extended conference abstracts corresponding to selected talks given by participants at the "Conference on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics 2014" (HAMSYS2014) (15 abstracts) and at the "Workshop on Virus Dynamics and Evolution" (12 abstracts), both held at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) in Barcelona from June 2nd to 6th, 2014, and f…
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- 978-3-319-22129-8
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- 12 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
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Familiar and Foreign Identity in Iranian Film and Literature
Challenging neocolonialist stereotypes, these critical excursions into Iranian literature and film reveal the limitations of collective identity as it has been configured within and outside of Iran. Through the examination of works by, among others, the iconic female poet Forugh Farrokhzad, the expatriate author Goli Taraqqi, the controversial memoirist Azar Nafisi, and the graphic novelist Mar…
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- 9781927356869.01
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- 272 pages
Exponentiated Distributions
This book contains entirely new results, not to be found elsewhere. Furthermore, additional results scattered elsewhere in the literature are clearly presented. Several well-known distributions such as Weibull distributions, exponentiated Burr type XII distributions and exponentiated exponential distributions and their properties are demonstrated. Analysis of real as well as well-simulated data…
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- 978-94-6239-079-9
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Advances in Cryptology -- ASIACRYPT 2015: 21st International Conference on th…
The two-volume set LNCS 9452 and 9453 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2015, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in November/December 2015. The 64 revised full papers and 3 invited talks presented were carefully selected from 251 submissions. They are organized in topical sect…
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- 978-3-662-48797-6
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- XXV, 810
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Exploring the Strategy Space of Negotiating Agents A Framework for Bidding, …
This book reports on an outstanding thesis that has significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in the area of automated negotiation. It gives new practical and theoretical insights into the design and evaluation of automated negotiators. It describes an innovative negotiating agent framework that enables systematic exploration of the space of possible negotiation strategies by recombining diff…
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- 978-3-319-28243-5
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- 37 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
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Exploring the Role of Strategic Intervention in Form-focused Instruction
The monograph is devoted to the notion of strategic intervention and its application in the foreign language classroom, in particular with reference to teaching grammar structures. The first four chapters, which are theoretical in nature, address such concepts as form-focused instruction, language learning strategies and strategies-based instruction. The last chapter provides insight into the r…
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