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Advances in Fuzzy Decision Making: Theory and Practice
This book shows how common operation management methods and algorithms can be extended to deal with vague or imprecise information in decision-making problems. It describes how to combine decision trees, clustering, multi-attribute decision-making algorithms and Monte Carlo Simulation with the mathematical description of imprecise or vague information, and how to visualize such information. Mor…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-26494-3
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- XI, 151
- Series Title
- Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing
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- 006.3 ADV a
Extension of Data Envelopment Analysis with Preference Information Value Eff…
This book provides an introduction to incorporating preference information in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with a special emphasis in Value Efficiency Analysis. In addition to theoretical considerations, numerous illustrative examples are included. Hence, the book can be used as a teaching text as well. Only a modest mathematical background is needed to understand the main principles. The on…
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- 978-1-4899-7528-7
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- 57 illustrations in colour
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Advances in Clinical Science
The book presents the latest developments in clinical medicine, particularly involved with pulmonary care and diseases. Emphasis is placed on the role of childhood obesity, often a result of the ill effects of an unhealthy diet and nutritional deficits, in shaping propensity for inflammatory pathologies, allergies, immune deficiency and respiratory and cardiovascular sequelae in adult life. Oxi…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-21497-9
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- X, 90
- Series Title
- Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
- Call Number
- 610.28 ADV a
Experimental Economics Volume II: Economic Applications
How do applications affect behavior? Experimental Economics Volume II seeks to answer these questions by examining the auction mechanism, imperfect competition and incentives to understand financial crises, political preferences and elections, and more.
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- 978-1-137-53816-1
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- XVIII, 220
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Advances in Advertising Research (Vol. V): Extending the Boundaries of Advert…
Ivana Bušljeta Banks is a senior lecturer in the Department of Marketing and Communication at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management. Patrick De Pelsmacker is professor of marketing at the University of Antwerp, part-time professor of marketing at Ghent University (both in Belgium), and visiting professor at the Universities of Lugano, Genève (Switzerland), and IBS Moscow (Russia). Shi…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-658-08132-4
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- XI, 330
- Series Title
- European Advertising Academy
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- 658 ADV a
Recent Advances in Stem Cells: From Basic Research to Clinical Applications
This volume explores recent advances in the use of pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) and adult stem cells (ASCs) in basic and clinical applications. The chapters discuss use of PSCs for drug screening, genome editing, modeling of kidney, motor neuron diseases, and diabetes as well as their application in cancer; ASCs are discussed in the contexts of banking of umbilical cord stem cells, use of mu…
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- 610.72
Recent Advances in Prolactin Research
Recent Advances in Prolactin Research summarizes the current knowledge of prolactin (PRL), PRL receptor, PRL-dependent signaling pathways, the role of PRL in oncogenesis and PRL crosstalk with other oncogenic factors. The chapters are written by experts in these fields and focus on identifying and reviewing timely experimental findings that provide new insights into the expanding role of PRL in…
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- 610.72
Lean Management Beyond Manufacturing: A Holistic Approach
Exploring Lean manufacturing in a holistic manner, this book helps organizations to implement Lean principles successfully by offering theoretical, empirical and practical knowledge. It empirically demonstrates how a successful Lean initiative can improve organizational efficiency, and incorporates valuable primary research to substantiate findings. It argues that Lean principles need to be app…
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- 978-3-319-17410-5
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Effect of Spaceflight and Spaceflight Analogue Culture on Human and Microbial…
Many breakthroughs in biological research and translational healthcare advancements have been achieved by studying the response of biological systems to extreme environments. The spaceflight platform provides a unique environment where researchers can explore fundamental questions into cellular and molecular response mechanisms to unveil novel insight into human health and disease. Since the p…
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- 978-1-4939-3276-4
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- 21 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
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- XVIII, 301
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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- 1
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- 978-3-319-30455-7
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- -
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- 3 b/w illustrations
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- XII, 227
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