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Toward Well-Oiled Relations?
With China replacing the United States as the world's leading energy user and net oil importer, its relations with the Middle East is becoming a major issue with global implications. Horesh and his contributors set out to analyse the implications of China's growing presence in the Middle East.
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-53978-6
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- XII, 239
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- The Nottingham China Policy Institute Series
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Inventory Control
This third edition, which has been fully updated and now includes improved and extended explanations, is suitable as a core textbook as well as a source book for industry practitioners. It covers traditional approaches for forecasting, lot sizing, determination of safety stocks and reorder points, KANBAN policies and Material Requirements Planning. It also includes recent advances in inventory …
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- 978-3-319-15729-0
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Adhesion G Protein-coupled Receptors: Molecular, Physiological and Pharmacolo…
Latest research on Adhesion GPCRs has unearthed surprising revelations about the events that govern the signal transduction of these receptor molecules and the cellular and organ requirements for these signals. Unexpected and unprecedented findings suggest that Adhesion GPCRs constitute a group of receptors that sense mechanical stimuli and transcode them into metabotropic signals through the a…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-41523-9
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- XIV, 403
- Series Title
- Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology
- Call Number
- 615 ADH a
Geology of the Nepal Himalaya
This book addresses the geology of the entire Himalayan range in Nepal, i.e., from the Gangetic plain in the south to the Tethyan zone in the north. Without a comprehensive look at the various Himalayan zones, it is practically impossible to fully grasp the processes at work behind the formation and development of the spectacular Himalaya. However, the goal is not merely to document all the sci…
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- 978-3-319-02495-0
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- -
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- 550 DIT g
Toward Sustainable Operations of Supply Chain and Logistics Systems
This book addresses critical issues in today’s logistics operations and supply chain management, with a special focus on sustainability. In dedicated chapters the authors address aspects concerning multimode logistics operations, reverse network configuration, forward and reverse supply chain integration, improvement of the production operations and management of the recovery activities, as w…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-19005-1
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- XI, 550
- Series Title
- EcoProduction
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- -
Geology and Resource Potential of the Congo Basin
This book summarizes the geomorphology, geology, geochronology, geophysics and mineral resources of the Congo Basin, one of the world’s most enigmatic and poorly understood major intra-continental sedimentary basins, and its flanking areas of Central Africa. It provides an up to date analysis of the large region’s origin and evolution. The book’s nineteen chapters take the reader through …
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- 978-3-642-29481-5
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- XLII, 417
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- -
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- 550 GEO
Additive Manufacturing Technologies: 3D Printing, Rapid Prototyping, and Dire…
This book covers in detail the various aspects of joining materials to form parts. A conceptual overview of rapid prototyping and layered manufacturing is given, beginning with the fundamentals so that readers can get up to speed quickly. Unusual and emerging applications such as micro-scale manufacturing, medical applications, aerospace, and rapid manufacturing are also discussed. This book p…
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- Ed. 2
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- 978-1-4939-2113-3
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- XXI, 498
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- -
- Call Number
- 621 GIB a
Toward Robotic Socially Believable Behaving Systems - Volume II
This volume presents a collection of research studies on sophisticated and functional computational instruments able to recognize, process, and store relevant situated interactional signals, as well as, interact with people, displaying reactions (under conditions of limited time) that show abilities of appropriately sensing and understanding environmental changes, producing suitable, autonomous…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-31052-7
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- XIV, 207
- Series Title
- Intelligent Systems Reference Library
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Sustainable Access to Energy in the Global South
Presenting the best papers of the 3rd EPFL-UNESCO Chair Conference on Technologies for Development, this publication offers a valuable collection of innovative case studies exploring access to energy and renewable energy technologies in the Global South. It investigates the key determinants for successfully providing energy to resource-poor communities and examines a wide range of technologies …
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- 978-3-319-20209-9
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- XVIII, 254
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- -
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Toward Robotic Socially Believable Behaving Systems - Volume I
This volume is a collection of research studies on the modeling of emotions in complex autonomous systems. Several experts in the field are reporting their efforts and reviewing the literature in order to shed lights on how the processes of coding and decoding emotional states took place in humans, which are the physiological, physical, and psychological variables involved, invent new mathemati…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-31055-8
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- XVI, 240
- Series Title
- Intelligent Systems Reference Library
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