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Firms’ Location Selections and Regional Policy in the Global Economy
This book offers a new understanding of how firms determine their location and what kinds of regional economic policies are needed to attract factories to a country and a region in a highly globalized economic setting. The theoretical and empirical analyses examine the influence of the transfer pricing system, corporate tax rates, and a country’s industrial structure on a firm’s decision to…
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- 978-4-431-55366-3
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- XII, 288
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Numerical Methods and Modelling for Engineering
This textbook provides a step-by-step approach to numerical methods in engineering modelling. The authors provide a consistent treatment of the topic, from the ground up, to reinforce for students that numerical methods are a set of mathematical modelling tools which allow engineers to represent real-world systems and compute features of these systems with a predictable error rate. Each method …
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- 978-3-319-21175-6
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- XVII, 332
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Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications ENUMATH 2015
The European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (ENUMATH), held every 2 years, provides a forum for discussing recent advances in and aspects of numerical mathematics and scientific and industrial applications. The previous ENUMATH meetings took place in Paris (1995), Heidelberg (1997), Jyvaskyla (1999), Ischia (2001), Prague (2003), Santiago de Compostela (2005), Gra…
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- 978-3-319-39927-0
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- XIV, 643
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- Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering
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Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications - ENUMATH 2013:Proceedings of…
This book gathers a selection of invited and contributed lectures from the European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (ENUMATH) held in Lausanne, Switzerland, August 26-30, 2013. It provides an overview of recent developments in numerical analysis, computational mathematics and applications from leading experts in the field. New results on finite element methods, mul…
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- 978-3-319-10704-2
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- XVI, 810
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- Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering
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Nuclear Threats and Security Challenges
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union the nuclear threats facing the world are constantly evolving and have grown more complex since the end of the Cold War. The diversion of complete weapon systems or nuclear material to rogue nations and terrorist organizations has increased. The events of the past years have proved the necessity to reevaluate these threats on a level never before consider…
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- 978-94-017-9893-8
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- IX, 285
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- NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics
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Nuclear Terrorism and National Preparedness
The nuclear crisis in Fukushima and growing threats of nuclear terrorism must serve as a wake-up call, prompting greater action to prepare ourselves for nuclear and radiological disasters. Our strategy to prepare for these threats is multi-layered and the events of these past years have proved the necessity to re-evaluate the national and international preparedness goals on a scale never before…
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- 978-94-017-9890-7
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- IX, 263
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Novel Mechanisms of Memory
This book integrates discoveries from recent years to show the diversity of molecular mechanisms that contribute to memory consolidation, reconsolidation, extinction, and forgetting. It provides a special focus on the processes that govern functional and structural plasticity of dendritic spines. In nine chapters, new and important ideas related to learning and memory processes will be presente…
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- 978-3-319-24362-7
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- XI, 181
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Children after a Natural disaster : Materials for educators and tearchers
"Catastrophes and natural disasters lead to numerous problems in the education of children and teenagers, who present as the most vulnerable subjects in the communities affected. Often, in these circumstances, adults (educators, teachers, parents) do not know how to respond to their needs, reactions and feelings. What do we need to know about childhood trauma? What answers should we give to chi…
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- 9788891767974
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- 362 VAC c
Notes on the Infinity Laplace Equation
This BCAM SpringerBriefs is a treaty of the Infinity-Laplace Equation, which has inherited many features from the ordinary Laplace Equation, and is based on lectures by the author. The Infinity-Laplace Equation has delightful counterparts to the Dirichlet integral, the mean value property, the Brownian motion, Harnack's inequality, and so on. This "fully non-linear" equation has applications t…
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- 978-3-319-31531-7
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- IX, 68
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- SpringerBriefs in Mathematics
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Nordic-Iberian Cod Value Chains:Explaining salted fish trade patterns
This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of cultural, regional and economic factors affecting international food trade. Contributions from expert authors illuminate the importance of food culture prevailing in the market as a basis for decisions about food trading. Central concepts include value chains, conventions and public infrastructure and their importance for international trade. The …
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- 978-3-319-16404-5
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- X, 223
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- MARE Publication Series
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