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Transforming City Governments for Successful Smart Cities
There has been much attention paid to the idea of Smart Cities as researchers have sought to define and characterize the main aspects of the concept, including the role of creative industries in urban growth, the importance of social capital in urban development, and the role of urban sustainability. This book develops a critical view of the Smart City concept, the incentives and role of govern…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-03166-8
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- XIII, 185
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- Public Administration and Information Technology
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- -
Transformative Approaches to Sustainable Development at Universities
This book documents and disseminates experiences from a wide range of universities, across the five continents, which showcase how the principles of sustainable development may be incorporated as part of university programmes, and present transformatory projects and programmes, showing how sustainability can be implemented across disciplines. Sustainability in a higher education context is a fa…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-08837-2
- Collation
- Switzerland
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- World Sustainability Series
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- -
Systematics and Evolution
This volume includes treatments of systematics and related topics for both fungi and fungus-like organisms in four eukaryotic supergroups, as well as specialized chapters on nomenclature, techniques and evolution. These organisms are of great interest to mycologists, plant pathologists and others, including those interested in the animal parasitic Microsporidia. Our knowledge of the systematics…
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- -
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- 978-3-662-46011-5
- Collation
- XXIII, 311
- Series Title
- The Mycota
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- -
European Perspectives on the Common European Sales Law
This book presents a complete and coherent view of the subject of Common European Sales Law from a range of European perspectives. The book offers a comparison of the CESL with the CISG, as well as pre-existing instruments, including the Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) and the Principles of European Contract Law (PECL). It analyses the process of enactment of CESL and its scope of applic…
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- 978-3-319-10497-3
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- 1 b/w illustrations
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- -
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European Perspectives on Behavioural Law and Economics
This anthology highlights the theoretical foundations as well as the various applications of Behavioural Law and Economics in European legal culture. By the same token, it fosters the dialogue between European and American Law and Economics scholars. The traditional neo-classical microeconomic theory explains human behaviour by using Rational Choice. According to this model, people tend to m…
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- -
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- 978-3-319-11635-8
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- 1 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
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- -
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Integrated Imaging and Vision Techniques for Industrial Inspection
This pioneering text/reference presents a detailed focus on the use of machine vision techniques in industrial inspection applications. An internationally renowned selection of experts provide insights on a range of inspection tasks, drawn from their cutting-edge work in academia and industry, covering practical issues of vision system integration for real-world applications. Topics and feature…
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- -
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- 978-1-4471-6740-2
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- X, 541
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- -
- Call Number
- 004 INT
Global Drinking Water Management and Conservation
This book discusses different drinking water treatment technologies and what contaminants each treatment method can remove, and at what costs. The production of drinking water requires adequate management. This book attempts to fill the existing knowlegde gap about (a) water treatment technologies and their costs, (b) risk assessment methods, (c) adverse health effects of chemical contaminants,…
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- 978-3-319-11031-8
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 333.7 MOH g
Global Banking Crises and Emerging Markets
This timely reader of seminal papers published by Palgrave on behalf of Comparative Economic Studies, examines how and why foreign banks enter emerging markets and the positive benefits they bring to the host countries.
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- -
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- 978-1-349-56185-8
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- XI, 301
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- -
- Call Number
- 330 GLO
Automotive NVH Technology
This book presents seven chapters examining selected noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) topics that are highly relevant for automotive vehicle development. These include applications following the major trends toward increased passenger comfort, vehicle electrification and lightweight design. The authors of the seven chapters, all of which are experts from the automotive industry and academia…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-24055-8
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- XVIII, 117
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- -
- Call Number
- 629.222
Automotive Mechatronics : Automotive Networking, Driving Stability Systems, E…
As the complexity of automotive vehicles increases this book presents operational and practical issues of automotive mechatronics. It is a comprehensive introduction to controlled automotive systems and provides detailed information of sensors for travel, angle, engine speed, vehicle speed, acceleration, pressure, temperature, flow, gas concentration etc. The measurement principles of the diffe…
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- -
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- 978-3-658-03975-2
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- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 620.41
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