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Miracle of Education
"Finnish pupils’ success in international student assessment tests and the characteristics of the Finnish educational system are the focus of interest all around in the world. The significance of Finnish educational policy and societal atmosphere are continuously discussed. This book provides explanations, answers and reflections to these questions. Over 30 expert authors have contributed to …
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- 978-94-6300-776-4
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- XIV, 292
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Military Logistics
This book highlights recent advances in the development of effective modeling and solution approaches to enhance the performance of military logistics. It seeks to further research in global defense-related topics, including military operations, governmental operations and security, as well as nation support. Additionally its purpose is to promote the global exchange of information and ideas am…
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- 978-3-319-12074-4
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- XII, 172
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- Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series
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The SenticNet Sentiment Lexicon: Exploring Semantic Richness in Multi-Word Co…
The research and its outcomes presented in this book, is about lexicon-based sentiment analysis. It uses single-, and multi-word concepts from the SenticNet sentiment lexicon as the source of sentiment information for the purpose of sentiment classification. In 6 chapters the book sheds light on the comparison of sentiment classification accuracy between single-word and multi-word concepts, fo…
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- 978-3-319-38971-4
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Statics of Historic Masonry Constructions
Masonry constructions are the majority of the buildings in Europe’s historic centers and the most important monuments in its architectural heritage. Given the age of much of these constructions, the demand for safety assessments and restoration projects is pressing and constant. Nevertheless, there is a lack of a widely accepted approach to studying the statics of masonry structures. Simp…
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- 978-3-319-24569-0
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Migration, Regionalization, Citizenship
From the perspectives of the political sciences as well as literature and language studies, this volume looks comparatively at Canadian and European constellations of cultural and linguistic diversity. By so doing, it takes Canada as exemplary for the effects of transnationalization, regionalization, and cultural and linguistic diversification on notions of citizenship and processes of identity…
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- 978-3-658-06582-9
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- VII, 270
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- Politikwissenschaftliche Paperbacks
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The Sense of Things
This book proposes a new interpretative key for reading and overcoming the binary of idealism and realism. It takes as its central issue for exploration the way in which human consciousness unfolds, i.e., through the relationship between the I and the world—a field of phenomenological investigation that cannot and must not remain closed within the limits of its own disciplinary borders. The b…
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- 978-3-319-15395-7
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Statics and Rotational Dynamics of Composite Beams
A helicopter, with its capability of vertical take-off and landing, is a crucial means of aerial transportation. In fire-fighting rescue operations and missions for helping survivors of an earthquake or an avalanche, helicopters have played vital roles. The expansion of the domain of the application of helicopters, however, faces a few serious constraints; among them is the relatively poor r…
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- 978-3-319-14959-2
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Modern Manufacturing Engineering
This book covers recent research and trends in Manufacturing Engineering. The chapters emphasize different aspects of the transformation from materials to products. It provides the reader with fundamental materials treatments and the integration of processes. Concepts such as green and lean manufacturing are also covered in this book.
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- 978-3-319-20151-1
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- VIII, 321
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- Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology
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Gas Explosion Technology and Biomass Refinery
The book introduces gas explosion technology (GET) and its applications in biomass refineries. In this book an overview of GET is provided, the mechanisms are thoroughly discussed. The chapters also cover the latest processes and equipments of GET, including equipment selection, parameter determination and engineering scaling-up. Last but not least the applications of GET are introduced in deta…
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- 978-94-017-7412-3
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- 572
Minority Marketing: Research Perspectives for the 1990s
This volume includes the full proceedings from the 1993 Minority Marketing Congress held in Long Beach, Mississippi under the theme Minority Marketing: Research Perspectives for the 1990s. It provides a variety of quality research in the field of minority marketing in order to assimilate and enhance knowledge of marketing practices for minority enterprises. It includes papers on various topics …
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- 978-3-319-17385-6
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- XI, 115
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- Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science
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