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Climate Change Integration in the Multilevel Governance of Italy and Austria
How can subnational governments best integrate climate change considerations across policy areas? Which factors contribute to successful integration? With a specific focus on transport, spatial planning policies, and energy and water in selected cases located at the border of the Alpine region between Italy and Austria, this volume shows that coordination (vertical and horizontal), public pa…
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- 978-90-04-51300-6
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- Studies in Territorial and Cultural Diversity Governance, Volume: 17
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Differential Equations for Studies in Computational Electrophysiology
This open access text aims at giving you the simplest possible introduction to differential equations that are used in models of electrophysiology. It covers models at several spatial and temporal scales with associated numerical methods. The text demonstrates that a very limited number of fundamental techniques can be used to define numerical methods for equations ranging from ridiculously sim…
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- 978-3-031-30852-9
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- Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing
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Smittestopp − A Case Study on Digital Contact Tracing
This open access book describes Smittestopp, the first Norwegian system for digital contact tracing of Covid-19 infections, which was developed in March and early April 2020. The system was deployed after five weeks of development and was active for a little more than two months, when a drop in infection levels in Norway and privacy concerns led to shutting it down. The intention of this book …
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- 978-3-031-05466-2
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- Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing
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Mathematical Modeling of the Human Brain
This open access book bridges common tools in medical imaging and neuroscience with the numerical solution of brain modelling PDEs. The connection between these areas is established through the use of two existing tools, FreeSurfer and FEniCS, and one novel tool, the SVM-Tk, developed for this book. The reader will learn the basics of magnetic resonance imaging and quickly proceed to generating…
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- 978-3-030-95136-8
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- Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing
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Introduction to Scientific Programming with Python
This open access book offers an initial introduction to programming for scientific and computational applications using the Python programming language. The presentation style is compact and example-based, making it suitable for students and researchers with little or no prior experience in programming. The book uses relevant examples from mathematics and the natural sciences to present pr…
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- 978-3-030-50356-7
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- Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing
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Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After
This volume explores the variety of ways in which childhood was experienced, lived and remembered in the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states. The period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a time of rapid change, and the history of childhood reflects the impact of new expectations, lived realities and national responsibilities on the youngest members of societies u…
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- Volume: 59
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- 978-90-04-30580-9
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China: Promise or Threat?: A Comparison of Cultures
In China: Promise or Threat? Helle compares the cultures of China and the West through both private and public spheres. For China, the private sphere of family life is well developed while behaviour in public relating to matters of government and the law is less reliable. In contrast, the West operates in reverse. The book’s twelve chapters investigate the causes and effects of threats to the…
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- Volume: 96
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- 978-90-04-33060-3
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Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money
Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship, well-suited to classroom use in that it combines rigorous analysis with a lively style. Covering the period from the 1980s to the present, it is organized around the notions of text, context and metatext, meaning poetry, its socio-political and cultural surroundings, and critical discourse in the …
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- Volume: 86
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- 978-90-47-44273-8
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Vietnamese Language, Education and Change In and Outside Vietnam
Vietnam at its initial announcement of independence, in 1945, had a remarkably high rate of illiteracy. The many wars that followed have contributed to slow down the government effort in delivering literacy education to its citizens. Yet, from the 1980s, Doi Moi marked the big shift in politics, economic policies, as well as educational practices. The privatization of economic factors i…
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- 9789819990931
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- IX, 303
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English Language Education for Graduate Employability in Vietnam
his chapter provides an introduction into the book. It briefly summarizes issues related to graduate employability and points out that English language competency is an essential employability capital itself, and English language education can help develop other types of employability capital. Based on evidence from the literature, it points out that there is a mismatch between the curren…
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- 9789819943388
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- XVIII, 380
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