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Lightweight Landscape: Enhancing Design through Minimal Mass Structures
This book explains how lightweight materials and structures can be deployed in buildings to meet high environmental and aesthetic standards and emphasizes how the concept of lightness in building technology and design dovetails with the desire to enhance landscape. The first part of the book, on lightweight construction, aims to foster the use of membranes within the specific climatic context a…
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- 978-3-319-21665-2
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Advances in Databases and Information Systems: 19th East European Conference,…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 19th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2015, held in Poitiers, France, in September 2015. The 31 full papers and 18 short papers presented were carefully selected and reviewed from 135 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as database theory and access methods…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-23135-8
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- XXVIII, 474
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 005.74 ADV a
Life Cycle and Sustainability of Abrasive Tools
This monograph focuses on abrasive tools for grinding, polishing, honing, and lapping operations. The book describes the life cycle of abrasive tools from raw material processing of abrasive grits and bonding, manufacturing of monolithic or multi-layered tools, tool use to tool end-of-life. Moreover, this work highlights sustainability challenges including economic, environmental, social and te…
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- 978-3-319-28346-3
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Extension of Data Envelopment Analysis with Preference Information Value Eff…
This book provides an introduction to incorporating preference information in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with a special emphasis in Value Efficiency Analysis. In addition to theoretical considerations, numerous illustrative examples are included. Hence, the book can be used as a teaching text as well. Only a modest mathematical background is needed to understand the main principles. The on…
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- 978-1-4899-7528-7
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- 57 illustrations in colour
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Exploring the Design and Effects of Internal Knowledge Markets
This book investigates the design and implementation of market mechanisms to explore how they can support knowledge- and innovation management within firms. The book uses a multi-method design, combining qualitative and quantitative cases with experimentation. First the book reviews traditional approaches to solving the problem as well as markets as a key mechanism for problem solving. After a …
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- 978-3-319-14517-4
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- 7 b/w illustrations
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Advances in Crowdsourcing
This book attempts to link some of the recent advances in crowdsourcing with advances in innovation and management. It contributes to the literature in several ways. First, it provides a global definition, insights and examples of this managerial perspective resulting in a theoretical framework. Second, it explores the relationship between crowdsourcing and technological innovation, the develop…
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- 978-3-319-18341-1
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- VIII, 183
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- 658.421
Advances in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2015 Workshops AHA, CMS, EMoV, MoBID, MOR…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of seven workshops and a symposium, held at the 34th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2015, in Stockholm, Sweden. The 26 revised full and 8 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected out of 52 submissions to the following events: Conceptual Modelling for Ambient Assistance and Healthy Ageing, AHA-2015; Conceptual Mode…
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- 978-3-319-25747-1
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- XVIII, 360
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 005.74 ADV a
The Coexistence of Genetically Modified, Organic and Conventional Foods
Since their commercial introduction in 1996, genetically modified (GM) crops have been adopted by farmers around the world at impressive rates. In 2011, 180 million hectares of GM crops were cultivated by more than 15 million farmers in 29 countries. In the next decade, global adoption is expected to grow even faster as the research pipeline for new biotech traits and crops has increased almost…
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- 978-1-4939-3727-1
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- XII, 426
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- Natural Resource Management and Policy
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Life Cycle Impact Assessment
This book offers a detailed presentation of the principles and practice of life cycle impact assessment. As a volume of the LCA compendium, the book is structured according to the LCIA framework developed by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)passing through the phases of definition or selection of impact categories, category indicators and characterisation models (Classifi…
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- 978-94-017-9744-3
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Standards for Enterprise Management Control
This book is mainly about facilitating the dissemination of management control, a field now finding application at a growing number of organizations, among commercial practitioners. It provides essential insights on management control as applied to Chinese enterprises and cross-border organizations. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 provides the necessary background and framework for …
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- 978-3662457832
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