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The Coral Reef Era: From Discovery to Decline
Relying heavily on primary source material Part 1 traces the sequential evolution of scientific thought and practice as the author explores the way this evolution is reflected in the search for understanding corals. At each stage, answers lead to fresh questions that challenge investigators to solve the riddle and new branches of science emerge. Then, with the first enigma finally understood, a…
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- 978-3-319-07479-5
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- XV, 195
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- Humanity and the Sea
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Principles and Procedures of the Justice System
Ernesto Miranda (D) was convicted for kidnapping, rape, and robbery by the Arizona criminal courts. D appealed to the Arizona Supreme Court but the conviction was sustained. The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to determine the role police have in protecting the rights of the accused from issues arising in four different cases (Miranda v. Arizona; Vignera v. New York; Westover v. United St…
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- 340.114 ALV p
Advances in Information Retrieval: 37th European Conference on IR Research, E…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 37th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2015, held in Vienna, Austria, in March/April 2015. The 44 full papers, 41 poster papers and 7 demonstrations presented together with 3 keynotes in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 305 submissions. The focus of the papers were on following topics: aggregated search and diversity, clas…
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- 978-3-319-16354-3
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- XXXII, 852
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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- 004.5 ADV a
Information Systems : A Manager's Guide to Harnessing Technology
This book is written for a world that has changed radically in the past decade. At the start of the prior decade, Google barely existed and well-known strategists dismissed Internet advertising models (Porter, 2001). By decade’s end, Google brought in more advertising revenue than any firm, online or off, and had risen to become the most profitable media company on the planet. Today billions …
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Linear Stochastic Systems: A Geometric Approach to Modeling, Estimation and I…
This book presents a treatise on the theory and modeling of second-order stationary processes, including an exposition on selected application areas that are important in the engineering and applied sciences. The foundational issues regarding stationary processes dealt with in the beginning of the book have a long history, starting in the 1940s with the work of Kolmogorov, Wiener, Cramér and h…
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- 978-3-662-45750-4
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Linear Parameter-Varying and Time-Delay Systems: Analysis, Observation, Filte…
This book provides an introduction to the analysis and control of Linear Parameter-Varying Systems and Time-Delay Systems and their interactions. The purpose is to give the readers some fundamental theoretical background on these topics and to give more insights on the possible applications of these theories. This self-contained monograph is written in an accessible way for readers ranging from…
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- 978-3-662-44050-6
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Advances in Estimation, Navigation, and Spacecraft Control: Selected Papers o…
This book presents selected papers of the Itzhack Y. Bar-Itzhack Memorial Sympo- sium on Estimation, Navigation, and Spacecraft Control. Itzhack Y. Bar-Itzhack, professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, was a prominent and world-renowned member of the applied estimation, navigation, and spacecraft attitude determination communities. He t…
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- 978-3-662-44785-7
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- XIV, 550
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- 629.13 ADV a
Advances in Enterprise Engineering IX: 5th Enterprise Engineering Working Con…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2015, held in Prague, Czech Republic, during May 15–19, 2015. EEWC aims at addressing the challenges that modern and complex enterprises face in a rapidly changing world. The participants of the working conference share a belief that dealing with these challenges requires rigorous and scientific s…
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- 978-3-319-19297-0
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- XV, 161
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- Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
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- 650 ADV a
Life-cycle Cost Approach for Management of Environmental Resources: A Primer
This book demonstrates the application of Life-cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) in the management of infrastructure and other investment projects in the context of developing countries. The main goal is to identify potential opportunities for the adoption LCCA in developing countries, with the help of case studies and best practices. The editors observe that developing countries are plagued with poor…
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- 978-3-319-06287-7
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Exploring the Raspberry Pi 2 with C++
You have a Pi 2, but what exactly can you do with it? This book takes you on a tour of the Pi 2 hardware and all of the fantastic things that you can do to create innovative and useful projects with your Pi. Start with creating a workstation that does actual work, and move into installing a custom kernel, creating a clock, learning the ins and outs of the GPIO interface, and pick up some useful…
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- 978-1-4842-1739-9
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- 28 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
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