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Index and Query Methods in Road Networks
This book presents the index and query techniques on road network and moving objects which are limited to road network. Here, the road network of non-Euclidean space has its unique characteristics such that two moving objects may be very close in a straight line distance. The index used in two-dimensional Euclidean space is not always appropriate for moving objects on road network. Therefore, t…
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- 978-3-319-10788-2
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- XI, 161
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- -
- Call Number
- 004 FEN i
mHealth in Practice: Mobile Technology for Health Promotion in the Developing…
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. There has recently been an explosion of interest around the application of mobile communication technologies to support health initiatives in developing countries (mHealth). As a result, there is a need to promote and share rigorous research for better informed p…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781780932811, 9781780932804
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- 256
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 616.075 MHE m
Innovative Concepts and Applications for Smart Water Cities: Towards Integrat…
Smart cities are emerging worldwide, including economic, institutional, social, and technical concepts in interaction with existing infrastructure to achieve sustainability and increase quality of life. Additionally, digitalisation projects in the field of urban water infrastructure (UWI) aim to increase capacity of existing infrastructure to deal with future challenges caused by climate change…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783991060840
- Collation
- 144
- Series Title
- Forum Umwelttechnik und Wasserbau, 32
- Call Number
- 574.5 OBE i
Also Innovators: How one computer salesman contributed to the digital revolution
‘Thank you for your order, Mr Mainframe Customer. The cost is £5 million and the lead-time for manufacture will be two years. In the meantime you will have to build a special computer centre to our specification. For our part, our project team will help you recruit and train potential programmers and we shall advise on how you might use the system.’ How different from today when the custom…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781760462987
- Collation
- 292
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- -
- Call Number
- 920 YAR a
Confucianism: Its Roots and Global Significance
In Confucianism: Its Roots and Global Significance, English language readers get a rare opportunity to read the work in a single volume of one of Taiwan’s most distinguished scholars. Although Lee Ming-huei has published in English before, the corpus of his non-Chinese writings is in German. Readers of this volume will discover the hard-mindedness and precision of thinking associated with Ger…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780824878320; 9780824878313
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- -
- Series Title
- Confucian Cultures
- Call Number
- 299.512 CON c
The Human Factor of Cybercrime
Cybercrimes are often viewed as technical offenses that require technical solutions, such as antivirus programs or automated intrusion detection tools. However, these crimes are committed by individuals or networks of people which prey upon human victims and are detected and prosecuted by criminal justice personnel. As a result, human decision-making plays a substantial role in the course of an…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780429460593
- Collation
- 432
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- -
- Call Number
- 364.4 HUM h
Rural quality of life
The 2020 World Happiness Report suggests that rural residents in Northern and Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand are generally happier than their urban counterparts. Similar findings have been reported in country-level studies and broader regional research, especially in Europe. Such findings go against conventional wisdom in the field and represent something of a conundru…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781526161642, 9781526161642
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- 505
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 301.298 RUR r
Money Matters: Addressing the Financial Sustainability of Security Sector Reform
Although the financial sustainability of United Nations (UN) support to institutional capacity building in post-conflict contexts may be the least analysed topic on the peacebuilding agenda, understanding the costs of rebuilding and maintaining the security sector should be one of the most important priorities for security sector reform (SSR) practitioners today. Through innovative partnerships…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781911529385
- Collation
- 35
- Series Title
- SSR Papers, 11
- Call Number
- 320 KEA m
Animal Death
Animal death is a complex, uncomfortable, depressing, motivating and sensitive topic. For those scholars participating in Human-Animal Studies, it is – accompanied by the concept of 'life' – the ground upon which their studies commence, whether those studies are historical, archaeological, social, philosophical, or cultural. It is a tough subject to face, but as this volume demonstrates, on…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781743325247
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Animal Publics
- Call Number
- 571.81 ANI a
Biblical Theology of Life in the New Testament
This publication deals with A Biblical Theology of Life based on the New Testament. It forms the second of a two volume publication on A Biblical Theology of Life. These two volumes trace the concept of life throughout Protestant canon, working with the final form of the biblical books in Hebrew (vol. 5) and Greek (vol. 6) Scripture. This is done by providing the reader with a book-by-book over…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781776341788, 9781776341764,
- Collation
- 268
- Series Title
- Reformed Theology in Africa Series, 6
- Call Number
- 261.2 BIB b
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