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Enabling Real-Time Business Intelligence International Workshops, BIRTE 2013…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprise, BIRTE 2013, held in Riva del Garda, Italy, in August 2013 and of the 8th International Workshop on Business Intelligence for the Real-Time Enterprise, BIRTE 2014, held in Hangzhou, China, in September 2014, in conjunction with VLDB 2013 an…
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Energy Policies for Sustainable Development Strategies the Case of Nigeria
In this book, a number of long-term energy scenarios are developed for Nigeria considering the impact of vital factors that may influence energy policies in the country’s future energy system. The energy scenarios were developed through the Long-Range Energy Alternatives Planning System (LEAP) model. The model identified the future energy demand and supply pattern using a least-cost combinati…
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Energy Security and Development the Global Context and Indian Perspectives
This volume provides a systematic framework for energy suppliers, policy makers, academics, students, and all others interested in energy security, and analyzes key issues concerning energy, security and sustainability with the help of a wealth of data. While sustainability is the broadest objective, energy security is an important part of it, at the global, national and societal levels. The de…
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The Relevance of Crowdfunding the mpact on the Innovation Process of Small …
Nadine Scholz shows that crowdfunding potentially shortens the development cycle of new products, thus enabling an earlier market entry. Hence, crowdfunding serves as a multifaceted early-stage support instrument for innovation implementation facilitated by the crowd's resources. It not only provides upfront cash for product development and production, more importantly it enables a firm to show…
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The Relevance of Crowdfunding the Impact on the Innovation Process of Small…
Nadine Scholz shows that crowdfunding potentially shortens the development cycle of new products, thus enabling an earlier market entry. Hence, crowdfunding serves as a multifaceted early-stage support instrument for innovation implementation facilitated by the crowd's resources. It not only provides upfront cash for product development and production, more importantly it enables a firm to show…
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Business and Security Sector Reform the Case for Corporate Security Respons…
Challenges to security and human rights involving extractive and other industries are addressed in a framework known as business and human rights (BHR), which shares many challenges and goals with SSR. This paper describes the grounds where BHR and SSR coincide in principles, actors and activities and which synergies can be built on that base. Opportunities for bridging BHR and SSR are drawn fr…
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Western Financial Assistance to the Developing World Perceptions of the Powe…
This unconventional book addresses the imbalance of power between countries that give and receive funds for international financial development, with particular attention to the outcomes and impacts of this imbalance on recipient countries. It provides an in-depth analysis of the perceptions that population segments of recipient countries have of the power plays inherent in giving and receiving…
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Well-Being in Contemporary Society
This anthology examines the practical role of well-being in contemporary society. It discusses developments such as globalization, consumerism and the rapid innovation and use of new and emerging technologies and focuses on the significant impact of these developments on the well-being of people living today. The anthology brings together researchers from various disciplines, including psycholo…
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Web-Age Information Management WAIM 2015 International Workshops: HENA, HRSU…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 2 workshops of the 16th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2015, held in Qingdao, China, June 8-10, 2015. The 9 revised full papers are organized in topical sections on the two following workshops: International Workshop on Heterogeneous Information Network Analysis and Applications (HENA 2015), and Second Internati…
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Web-Age Information Management 16th International Conference, WAIM 2015, Qin…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2015, held in Qingdao, China, in June 2015. The 33 full research papers, 31 short research papers, and 6 demonstrations were carefully reviewed and selected from 164 submissions. The focus of the conference is on following topics: advanced database and web applications, bi…
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