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Engaging First Peoples in Arts-Based Service Learning Towards Respectful and…
This volume offers educators, higher education institutions, communities and organizations critical understandings and resources that can underpin respectful, reciprocal and transformative educative relationships with First Peoples internationally. With a focus on service learning, each chapter provides concrete examples of how arts-based, community-led projects can enhance and support the qual…
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- 978-3-319-22153-3
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- XI, 275
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Nonlinear Mathematical Physics and Natural Hazards
This book is devoted to current advances in the field of nonlinear mathematical physics and modeling of critical phenomena that can lead to catastrophic events. Pursuing a multidisciplinary approach, it gathers the work of scientists who are developing mathematical and computational methods for the study and analysis of nonlinear phenomena and who are working actively to apply these tools and c…
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- 1
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- 0930-8989
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- XXVI, 141
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- Springer Proceedings in Physics
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Enforcing and Trading Patents Evidence for Europe
Applying novel datasets, Fabian Gäßler analyzes how key aspects of the current patent system in Europe and Germany, respectively, affect patent enforcement and patent trade. In particular, he shows what factors determine court selection in patent litigation and how the jurisdictional separation of validity and infringement questions favors the patent holder. The author further provides empiri…
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- 978-3-658-13375-7
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- 35 b/w illustrations
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Energy and Resource Efficiency in Aluminium Die Casting
This monograph provides a field-proven approach to analyze industrial production with a cross-company scope as well as regarding all hierarchical system levels of manufacturing enterprises. The book exemplifies this approach in the context of aluminum die casting, and presents a set of measures which allow a 30 percent energy reduction along the value chain. The target audience primarily compri…
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- 978-3-319-18815-7
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- 122 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
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Energy and Finance Sustainability in the Energy Industry
This book analyses how socially responsible investments as well as the rising importance of Islamic finance are linked to the shift towards renewable energy. Academics and practitioners in the field take a global perspective and present case studies from several countries. The book is divided into three parts: The first part sheds new light on the energy shift towards renewable energy. The seco…
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- 978-3-319-32268-1
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- 6 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1
Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1. Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Balancing Simulation and Testing, 2015, the first volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including papers on: N…
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- 1
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- 2191-5644
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- IX, 531
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- Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series
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Energy Use in Global Food Production Considerations for Sustainable Food Sec…
This Brief examines the sustainability of energy use in global food production and processing. The nexus between food, water, and energy are explored against a background of climate change. Current efforts to reduce the energy intensity of food and increase sustainability are explored. Food waste and its impact on energy is covered, including regional variations and nutrient recycling method…
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- 978-3-319-16781-7
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- 4 illustrations in colour
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Energy Technology and Valuation Issues
This volume investigates the impact of energy technology innovations on economic development and presents new areas of research into the financial economics of energy as well as new studies into valuation, electricity pricing and the economic, regulatory and environmental costs of alternative energy sources. Academics and practitioners take a global perspective and present cases from several co…
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- 978-3-319-13746-9
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- 37 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
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Energy Systems and Management
Readers of this work will find examinations of the current status and future status for energy sources and technologies, their environmental interactions and the relevant global energy policies. The work begins with an overview of Energy Technologies for a Sustainable Future, which examines the correlation between population, economy and energy consumption in the past, and reviews the conventio…
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- 978-3-319-16024-5
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- 27 b/w illustrations, 108 illustrations in colour
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Obesity and Diabetes
This timely and clinically oriented book uniquely addresses the entire spectrum of treatment for severe obesity and diabetes. It thoroughly examines all aspects from robotic surgery to cell therapy, from the latest antidiabetic drugs to endoscopic procedures and devices, from appetite-inhibiting signals and nutrients to gastric arterial embolization. It offers objective and authoritative inform…
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- 978-3-319-36101-7
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- X, 282
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