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Optimal Surface Fitting of Point Clouds Using Local Refinement : Application …
This open access book provides insights into the novel Locally Refined B-spline (LR B-spline) surface format, which is suited for representing terrain and seabed data in a compact way. It provides an alternative to the well know raster and triangulated surface representations. An LR B-spline surface has an overall smooth behavior and allows the modeling of local details with only a limited grow…
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- 978-3-031-16954-0
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- XIX, 111
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- SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences (BRIEFSEARTHSYST)
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Past, Present and Future of a Habitable Earth : The Development Strategy of E…
This perspective of this book views Earth's various layers as a whole system, and tries to understand how to achieve harmony and sustainable development between human society and nature, with the theme of " habitability of the Earth." This book is one effort at providing an overview of some of the recent exciting advances Chinese geoscientists have made. It is the concerted team effort of a gro…
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- 978-981-19-2783-6
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- XIV, 97
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- SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences (BRIEFSEARTHSYST)
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Marine Carbon Biogeochemistry : A Primer for Earth System Scientists
This open access book discusses biogeochemical processes relevant to carbon and aims to provide readers, graduate students and researchers, with insight into the functioning of marine ecosystems. A carbon centric approach has been adopted, but other elements are included where relevant or needed. The book focuses on concepts and quantitative understanding of primary production, organic matter m…
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- 978-3-030-10822-9
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- X, 118
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- SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences (BRIEFSEARTHSYST)
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The Evolution of Research on Teaching Mathematics : International Perspective…
This open access book investigates current issues related to the evolution of research on teaching mathematics and examines up to thirty years of presage-process-product research (PPPR) in mathematics with respect to conceptualization, instrumentation, and design. The book discusses the theoretical and methodological challenges associated with PPPR, critically reviews current research, and expl…
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- 978-3-031-31193-2
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- VI, 381
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- Mathematics Education in the Digital Era (MEDE, volume 22)
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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 19th Interna…
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2018, held in Porto, Portugal, in May 2018. XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice, and XP 2018 provided a playful and informal environment to learn and trigger discussions around its main theme – make, inspect, adapt. …
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- 9783319916026
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- XV, 309
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- 314
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Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century
The objective of this book is to broadly illustrate the key aspects of water governance, mapping the spectrum of decision-making from techno-centric and eco-centric approaches, to hybrid concepts and people-centric approaches. Topics covered include the challenges for water-governance models, the polycentric model, the integration challenge, water in the decision-making hierarchy, and the rise …
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- 978-3-319-43350-9
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- XXVII, 250
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- 6
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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 18th Interna…
This book is open access under a CC BY license. The volume constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2017, held in Cologne, Germany, in May 2017. The 14 full and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: improving agile processes; agil…
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- 9783319576336
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- XIII, 306
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- 283
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What People Leave Behind : Marks, Traces, Footprints and their Relevance to K…
This open access book focuses on a particular but significant topic in the social sciences: the concepts of “footprint” and “trace”. It associates these concepts with hotly debated topics such as surveillance capitalism and knowledge society. The editors and authors discuss the concept footprints and traces as unintended by-products of other (differently focused and oriented) actions th…
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- 978-3-031-11756-5
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- XIII, 359
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- Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research (FSSR, volume 7)
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Agile Processes, in Software Engineering, and Extreme Programming: 17th Inter…
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in May 2016. While agile development has already become mainstream in industry, this field is still constantly evolving and continues to spur an enormous interest both in industry and academia. To this end, the XP conference attracts a large number o…
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- 9783319335155
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- XIII, 334
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- 251
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Resilient Governance of Urban Redevelopment : State, Market and Communities i…
To examine the origins, characteristics, and outcomes of resilient governance with Chinese characteristics, this open access book takes Guangzhou, a typical Chinese city from 1990 to 2015, as an example. Through participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and the collection of secondary data, this book finds that (1) the institutional context can be described as an authoritarian land-o…
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- 978-981-99-2928-3
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- X, 77
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- SpringerBriefs in Geography (BRIEFSGEOGRAPHY)
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