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Sustained Simulation Performance 2014
This book presents the state of the art in high-performance computing and simulation on modern supercomputer architectures. It covers trends in hardware and software development in general and the future of high-performance systems and heterogeneous architectures in particular. The application-related contributions cover computational fluid dynamics, material science, medical applications and c…
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- 978-3-319-10626-7
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- XIII, 238
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Italy’s Top Products in World Trade: The Fortis-Corradini Index
This book analyzes Italy’s external competitiveness in detail and introduces a new index, devised by Marco Fortis and Stefano Corradini for Fondazione Edison, that highlights the strengths of Italy’s foreign trade. Compared with the Trade Performance Index compiled and updated annually by UNCTAD/WTO’s International Trade Centre, the Fortis-Corradini Index (FCI) provides greater sectorial …
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- 978-3-319-15817-4
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Sustainable Working Lives
The purpose of this volume is to describe the impact of the increased demand for flexibility on employees and its impact on their individual work life trajectories and health. The volume offers concrete examples of interventions aimed to find innovative ways of sustainable work careers for today's workers. We focus on the school to work transition, job insecurity, job loss and re-employment and…
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- 978-94-017-9798-6
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- Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being
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Educational research : discourses of change and changes of discourse
This collection addresses concepts and theories of change, contexts and functions of reform discourses, and fields of change in educational research. It examines a wide variety of issues such as girls’ education in France, educational neuroscience, the professionalization in Child Protection, and mathematics discourses. It pays attention to the pervasiveness of crisis rhetoric in American Edu…
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- 9783319304557
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- xii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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- 370.72
Sustainable Water Use and Management
Contributing to the growing debate on the need for sustainable water use and management, with concrete examples of new approaches, concepts, arguments, methods and findings which illustrate how this can be achieved, this book will be attractive for large groups of readers familiar with one or more of the themes it tackles, and to the general public. Within this context, the book makes use of ma…
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- 978-3-319-12394-3
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- IX, 408
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- Green Energy and Technology
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Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature
This is a book about pleasure. It is a particular pleasure to acknowledge the debts I have incurred when writing this book. My greatest debt is to the two supervisors of the Cambridge dissertation on which this book is based; I owe a great deal to my Doktormutter Emily Gowers for her generosity, learnedness, and inspiration. Every page benefited from her advice. I also owe a great deal to Rich…
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- 9781009039789
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- 874.01 ROH c
Carceral Logics: Human Incarceration and Animal Captivity
Many animal lawyers react to critiques of carceral animal law by contending that punishment is no longer a priority, and that there are only but a handful of anecdotes about over-charging.
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- 9781108919210
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- 344.049 MAR c
Business School Leadership and Crisis Exit Planning: Global Deans' Contributi…
The European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) is the largest international accreditation body for business schools, with more than 950 members across 92 countries, including the world’s highestranked schools
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- 9781009083164
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- 174.4 COR b
Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law
Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law offers the first comprehensive account of the entanglements of Buddhism and constitutional law in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Tibet, Bhutan, China, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan.
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- 9781009286022
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- 342.59 GIN b
British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918
When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery was brutal, bloody and distinctly unfeminine).
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- 9781316911921
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- 617.09 BRO b
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