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Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality 7th International Conference, VAMR 2015…
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, VAMR 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2015, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015. The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the HCII 2015 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 48…
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- 978-3-319-21067-4
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- XVII, 546
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Virtual Realities International Dagstuhl Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, …
Virtual reality (VR) is a multidisciplinary area of research aimed at interactive human–computer-mediated simulations of artificial environments. An important aspect of VR-based systems is the stimulation of the human senses – usually sight, sound, and touch – in such a way that a user feels a sense of presence in the virtual environment. Sometimes it is important to combine real and virt…
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- 978-3-319-17043-5
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- VIII, 261
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Vertebrates and Invertebrates of European Cities:Selected Non-Avian Fauna
Vertebrates and Invertebrates of European Cities: Selected Non-Avian Fauna is the first known account of the vertebrate and invertebrate fauna of several cities in Europe and throughout the rest of the world. It excludes birds, which are described in a companion volume. The book contains eleven chapters about nine cities distributed throughout Europe. The chapters start with the history of the …
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- 978-1-4939-1698-6
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- XX, 700
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Vascular Ion Channels in Physiology and Disease
Ion channels are the major class of membrane proteins responsible for rapid and regulated transport of ions across biological membranes and for the generation and propagation of electrical signals in the brain, heart, and skeletal and vascular tissues. Ion channels are also known to play critical roles in regulation of cell proliferation, insulin secretion and intracellular signaling in a varie…
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- 978-3-319-29635-7
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- XVII, 431
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User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization 23rd International Conference,…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2015, held in Dublin, Ireland, in June/July 2015. The 25 long and 7 short papers of the research paper track were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers reflect the conference theme "Contextualizing the World", highlighting the s…
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- 978-3-319-20267-9
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- XVI, 404
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User Community Discovery
This book redefines community discovery in the new world of Online Social Networks and Web 2.0 applications, through real-world problems and applications in the context of the Web, pointing out the current and future challenges of the field. Particular emphasis is placed on the issues of community representation, efficiency and scalability, detection of communities in hypergraphs, such as …
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- 978-3-319-23835-7
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- XII, 155
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Use of Market Data in the Recruitment of High Potentials Segmentation and Ta…
In his study, Jan Posthumus uses the grounded theory method to explore the implementation of marketing instruments such as segmentation and targeting in the recruitment of high potentials in the pharmaceutical industry. The implementation of these instruments can best be understood as the result of an interaction between four categories: the identified internal need for certain groups of high p…
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- 978-3-658-10376-7
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Aging Workers and the Employee-Employer Relationship
This book focuses on the aging workforce from the employment relationship perspective. This innovative book specifically focuses on how organizations can ensure their aging workers remain motivated, productive and healthy. In 15 chapters, several experts on this topic describe how organizations through effective human resource management can ensure that workers are able to continue working at h…
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- 978-3-319-08007-9
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- XIII, 268
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- 658.3 AGI a
Urban and Regional Planning Education Learning for India
This is the first volume exclusively dedicated to planning education, with a focus on India and learning from global experiences for India. Prior to the 1990s, planning education in India was largely confined to national and local economic concerns. Within a globalized scenario, such pedagogies and theories have become outmoded. With new concerns emerging in planning, new pedagogical tools and …
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- 978-981-10-0608-1
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- 38 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
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Urban Vulnerability and Climate Change in Africa A Multidisciplinary Approach
Urbanisation and climate change are among the major challenges for sustainable development in Africa. The overall aim of this book is to present innovative approaches to vulnerability analysis and for enhancing the resilience of African cities against climate change-induced risks. Locally adapted IPCC climate change scenarios, which also consider possible changes in urban population, have been …
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- 978-3-319-03982-4
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- 16 b/w illustrations, 115 illustrations in colour
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