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Ecological Continuum from the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Watersheds to the Ea…
The book provides a cross-disciplinary and multi-scale assessment of a world top river, the Changjiang (Yangtze River) and its adjacent marginal environment, the East China Sea. The studies in this volume bridges the watersheds of the river and the marginal sea through a combined approach of hydro-dynamics, geochemistry, sedimentary processes, ecology and fishery. The response of ecosystem to t…
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- 978-3-319-16338-3
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- XIV, 201
Benchmarking for Performance Evaluation : A Production Frontier Approach
This book provides a detailed introduction to the theoretical and methodological foundations of production efficiency analysis using benchmarking. Two of the more popular methods of efficiency evaluation are Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), both of which are based on the concept of a production possibility set and its frontier. Depending on the assumed obj…
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- 978-81-322-2253-8
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- XIV, 281
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- 658
Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs
In six comprehensively illustrated chapters, the authors explain ecodesign concepts, including the importance of preserving and restoring natural systems while also adapting to climate change; minimizing congestion on highways and at airports by making development more compact, and by making it easier to walk, cycle and take trains and mass transit; crafting and managing regulations to insure b…
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- 978-1-59726-521-8
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- VIII, 265
Taylor’s 7th Teaching and Learning Conference 2014 Proceedings
These conference proceedings showcase a rich and practical exchange of approaches and vital evidence-based practices taking place around the world. They clarify the complex challenges involved in bringing about a holistic educational environment in schools and institutes of higher learning that fosters greater understanding and offer valuable insights on how to avoid the pitfalls that come with…
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- 978-981-287-399-6
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- IX, 608
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Benchmarking Collaborative Networks
Limited potential of financial, organizational, human and technology resources doesn't provide SMEs sufficient opportunities to access information and knowledge necessary in competition. Observing the methods and tools used by large companies, this book studies the conditions under which it would be possible to provide support to SMEs at a lower cost and with greater methodological and organiz…
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- 978-3-319-16736-7
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- XIX, 169
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- 658
Taylor Coefficients and Coefficient Multipliers of Hardy and Bergman-Type Spaces
This book provides a systematic overview of the theory of Taylor coefficients of functions in some classical spaces of analytic functions and especially of the coefficient multipliers between spaces of Hardy type. Offering a comprehensive reference guide to the subject, it is the first of its kind in this area. After several introductory chapters covering the basic material, a large variety of …
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- 978-3-319-45644-7
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- XVI, 323
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- RSME Springer Series
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EcoJustice, Citizen Science and Youth Activism
This volume draws on the ecojustice, citizen science and youth activism literature base in science education and applies the ideas to situated tensions as they are either analyzed theoretically or praxiologically within science education pedagogy. It uses ecojustice to evaluate the holistic connections between cultural and natural systems, environmentalism, sustainability and Earth-friendly mar…
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- 978-3-319-11607-5
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- XV, 460
Bench Scale Calorimetry in Chemical Reaction Kinetics
This book describes new and efficient calorimetric measurement methods, which can be used to accurately follow the chemical kinetics of liquid phase reaction systems. It describes apparatus and techniques for the precise measuring of the rate of heat liberation in discontinuous and continuous isothermal as well as non-isothermal reactions. The presented methodology can be used to follow the dev…
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- 978-3-319-12532-9
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- XX, 243
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- 620
Taurine 9
Taurine 9 contains original articles and critical reviews based on the oral and poster presentations of XIX International Taurine Meeting held in Kraków, Poland in May 2014. The purpose of the book is to present current ideas, new avenues and research regarding biological functions and clinical applications of taurine and taurine derivatives. It focuses on all aspects of taurine research inclu…
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- 978-3-319-15126-7
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- XVII, 905
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- Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Task-Space Sensory Feedback Control of Robot Manipulators
This book presents recent advances in robot control theory on task space sensory feedback control of robot manipulators. By using sensory feedback information, the robot control systems are robust to various uncertainties in modelling and calibration errors of the sensors. Several sensory task space control methods that do not require exact knowledge of either kinematics or dynamics of robots, …
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- 978-981-287-062-9
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- VII, 223
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- Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering
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