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Mobility Modeling for Vehicular Communication Networks
This brief presents a stochastic microscopic mobility model that describes the temporal changes of intervehicle distances. The model is consistent with simulated and empirical vehicle traffic patterns. Using stochastic lumpability methods, the proposed mobility model is mapped into an aggregated mobility model that describes the mobility of a group of vehicles. In addition, the proposed mobilit…
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- 978-3-319-25505-7
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- XIX, 63
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- SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Mobile Networks and Management
This book constitutes the post-proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, MONAMI 2015, held in Santander, Spain, in September 2015. The 16 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. In addition there appears one short and 5 invited papers. These are organized thematically in five parts starting with Cellular Network Management …
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- 978-3-319-26924-5
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- XI, 294
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- Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
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Professional Social Work in Australia
This is an unchanged republication of the first historical account of the social work profession in Australia. It traces the development of social work education and professional social work in the larger, more industrialised societies overseas before the same developments began in Australia in the late 1920s, and it notes the part played by overseas influence in the subsequent 30-odd years. Th…
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- 9781921934278
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- 302 LAW p
Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa Producing Space
A few months into the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2009/10, the promises of social media, including its ability to influence a participatory governance model, grassroots civic engagement, new social dynamics, inclusive societies and new opportunities for businesses and entrepreneurs, became more evident than ever. Simultaneously, cartography received ne…
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The Service User as a Partner in Social Work Projects and Education
To become a competent social worker it is essential to know the perspective of the service users. Therefore, service users are more and more included in field research projects and the instruction of social workers to-be. However, they are usually reduced to the role of informants and not actively taking part as co-partners. For the first time, this anthology gives an overview of courses in whi…
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The Service User as a Partner in Social Work Projects and Education
To become a competent social worker it is essential to know the perspective of the service users. Therefore, service users are more and more included in field research projects and the instruction of social workers to-be. However, they are usually reduced to the role of informants and not actively taking part as co-partners. For the first time, this anthology gives an overview of courses in whi…
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Moral Economy at Work: Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia
The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities. From concepts of individual autonomy, kinship obligations, to ways of expressi…
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- 9781800732353
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- 301 MOR m
Selling Transracial Adoption: Families, Markets, and the Color Line
"Chosen Children" examines the role of the adoption marketplace in shaping how transracial adoptive families are sorted and matched, and analyzes what these practices suggest about race in the United States. In contrast to previous work on race and adoption markets that focus on the experiences of adoptive parents, Raleigh's project focuses on adoption workers--social workers, attorneys, and co…
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- 9781439914786
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- 300 RAL s
Soziale Arbeit und die Soziale Frage
For a long time, the use of the term «Social Question» was referred to as being a phenomenon of the 19th century, related to the social changes taking place during that period. Today, however, the so-called Social Question is increasingly linked to current societal challenges, such as global migration, radical demographic change, or increased social divisions in both public and professional d…
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- 9783037771839
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Elements of Causal Inference
A concise and self-contained introduction to causal inference, increasingly important in data science and machine learning. The mathematization of causality is a relatively recent development, and has become increasingly important in data science and machine learning. This book offers a self-contained and concise introduction to causal models and how to learn them from data. After explaining th…
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