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Seductions of Place Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed…
The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience situated, sensuous qualities of difference. Cartier and Lew’s interesting and informative book explores contemporary issues in travel and tourism and human geography, and the complex cultural, poli…
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Urban Design Futures
The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emergin…
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Application of Data Mining Techniques in the Analysis of Indoor Hygrothermal …
The main benefit of the book is that it explores available methodologies for both conducting in-situ measurements and adequately exploring the results, based on a case study that illustrates the benefits and difficulties of concurrent methodologies. The case study corresponds to a set of 25 social housing dwellings where an extensive in situ measurement campaign was conducted. The dwellings …
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- 978-3-319-22294-3
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- X, 48
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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- 690 RAM a
On the Perception of Dynamic Emotional Expressions A Cross-cultural Comparison
This work explores the power of visual and vocal channels, in conveying emotional cues exploiting realistic, dynamic and mutually related emotional vocal and facial stimuli, and aims to report on a cross cultural comparison on how people from different Western Countries perceive emotional dynamic stimuli. The authors attempt to give an answer to the following questions evaluating the subjectiv…
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- 978-94-024-0885-0
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- VIII, 45
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- SpringerBriefs in Cognitive Computation
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Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia Past, Present, Future
The social position of learning disabled people has shifted rapidly over the last 20 years, from long-stay institutions, first into community homes and day centres, and now to a currently emerging goal of "ordinary lives" for individuals using person-centred support and personal budgets. These approaches promise to replace a century and a half of "scientific" pathological models based on expert…
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Africa in International Politics External Involvement on the Continent
Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa. The contributors work within a political economy framework in order to study how these powers have attempted to stimulate democracy, peace and prosperity in the context of neo-liberal hegemony a…
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For the Common Good Essays of Harold Lewis
For the Common Good is an anthology of selected essays by Dr. Harold Lewis, one of the intellectual leaders of the social work profession. Social work literature often reflects powerful ahistorical tendencies which, in recent years, have produced analyses of social issues that lack awareness of both the contemporary environment and the historical forces that shaped it. Lewis' insights into the …
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On the Geometry of Some Special Projective Varieties
“The book under review (awarded the 2015 Book Prize of the Unione Matematica Italiana) gives a survey of some classical and recent results on the geometry of projective varieties and its applications. … The book will be useful to anyone interested in classical algebraic geometry.” (Fyodor L. Zak, Mathematical Reviews, May, 2017) “The book under review covers fundamental aspects of the …
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- 1862-9113
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- XXVI, 232
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- Lecture Notes of the Unione Matematica Italiana
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On the Effect of Offshore Wind Farms on the Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics
Renewable energy resources now play an essential role in the energy supply debate, and especially a new interest in wind energy has resulted in the intensified construction of wind farms. Thanks to the growing demand for renewable energy, offshore wind farms (OWFs) are increasingly gaining in popularity, since yields over sea are greater and more reliable than over land. Against this background…
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- 978-3-319-08640-8
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- XVIII, 162
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- Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs
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On Hierarchical Models for Visual Recognition and Learning of Objects, Scenes…
In many computer vision applications, objects have to be learned and recognized in images or image sequences. This book presents new probabilistic hierarchical models that allow an efficient representation of multiple objects of different categories, scales, rotations, and views. The idea is to exploit similarities between objects and object parts in order to share calculations and avoid redund…
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- XV, 199
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- Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
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