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Alberta’s Day Care Controversy From 1908 to 2009 and Beyond
Day care in Alberta has had a remarkably durable history as a controversial issue. Since the late 1950s, disputes over day care programs, policies, and funding have been a recurring feature of political life in the province. Alberta’s Day Care Controversy traces the development of day care policies and programs in Alberta, with particular emphasis on policy decisions and program initiatives t…
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Fairness in Academic Course Timetabling
This monograph deals with theoretical and practical aspects of creating course timetables at academic institutions. The task is typically to create a timetable that suits the requirements of the stakeholders – students, lecturers, and the administration – as well as possible. The book presents an exposition of the basic combinatorial problems and solution methods for course timetabling and …
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- 978-3-319-12799-6
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Fair Queueing
This monograph provides a detailed analysis on fair queueing rules from a normative, a strategic, and a non-cooperative viewpoint. The queueing problem is concerned with the following situation: There is a group of agents who must be served in a facility. The facility can handle only one agent at a time and agents incur waiting costs. The problem is to find the order in which to serve agents an…
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- 978-3-319-33771-5
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Facing Up to Global Warming What is Going on and How You Can Make a Difference?
In this volume, Professor N.F. Gray offers a comprehensive primer on climate change, sustainability, and how the two concepts are related. This book consists of fifteen chapters, each treating a specific aspect of the current global crisis, including scientific background as well as an up to date appraisal of the issue at hand. It covers the reasons behind climate change and the effect it will …
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- 978-3-319-20146-7
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- 28 b/w illustrations, 155 illustrations in colour
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Face and Facial Expression Recognition from Real World Videos International …
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the International Workshop on Face and Facial Expression Recognition from Real World Videos in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition held in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2014. The 11 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions and cover topics such a…
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- 978-3-319-13737-7
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FXTAS, FXPOI, and Other Premutation Disorders
This book should serve as a resource for professionals in all fields regarding diagnosis, management, and counseling of patients with FXTAS, FXPOI and their families, as well as presenting the molecular basis for disease that may lead to the identification of new markers to predict disease risk and eventually lead to target treatments. The book will present information on all aspects of FXTA…
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- 978-3-319-33898-9
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- 10 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
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Methods in Computational Biology
Modern biology is rapidly becoming a study of large sets of data. Understanding these data sets is a major challenge for most life sciences, including the medical, environmental, and bioprocess fields. Computational biology approaches are essential for leveraging this ongoing revolution in omics data. A primary goal of this Special Issue, entitled “Methods in Computational Biology”, is the …
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- 978-3-03921-164-7
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FMEA Using Uncertainty Theories and MCDM Methods
This book offers a thorough and systematic introduction to the modified failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) models based on uncertainty theories (e.g. fuzzy logic, intuitionistic fuzzy sets, D numbers and 2-tuple linguistic variables) and various multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approaches such as distance-based MCDM, compromise ranking MCDM and hybrid MCDM, etc. As such, it provides e…
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- 978-981-10-1466-6
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- 28 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
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The Development of Immunologic Competence
A clear perspective for understanding several diseases and also the entire lymphoid system emerges through the experiments and extensive histopathological studies of patients with primary immunodeficiency diseases that are described in these chapters. Researchers in the life sciences, in biomedicine and the history of medicine will all find something of value in this highly engaging work. It…
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Algorithms and Data Structures With Applications to Graphics and Geometry
A program can be designed with the barest of tools, paper and pencil, or in the programmer's head. In the realm of such informal environments, a program design may contain vague concepts expressed in an informal notation. Before he or she can execute this program, the programmer needs a programming environment, typically a complex system with many distinct components: a computer and its oper…
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