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Extended Working Life Policies = International Gender and Health Perspectives
This open access book addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, it tackles issues as gender, health status and job/ occupational characteristics that structure the capacity and outcomes associated with working longer. The volume starts wi…
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- 9783030409852
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- XXIV, 515 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Society 5.0 = A People-centric Super-smart Society
This open access book introduces readers to the vision on future cities and urban lives in connection with “Society 5.0”, which was proposed in the 5th Basic Science and Technology Plan by Japan’s national government for a technology-based, human-centered society, emerging from the fourth industrial revolution. The respective chapters summarize the findings and suggestions of joint resear…
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- 9789811529894
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- XX, 177 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Conditional Freedom
While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political geography of freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century North America by exploring the development of southern routes of escape from slavery in the U.S. South and the experienc…
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- 978-90-04-69364-7
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- Studies in Global Slavery, Volume: 14
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Handbook of Contact Mechanics = Exact Solutions of Axisymmetric Contact Problems
This open access book contains a structured collection of the complete solutions of all essential axisymmetric contact problems. Based on a systematic distinction regarding the type of contact, the regime of friction and the contact geometry, a multitude of technically relevant contact problems from mechanical engineering, the automotive industry and medical engineering are discussed. In additi…
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- 9783662587096
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- XVI, 347 ill; lamp
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Deep Neural Networks and Data for Automated Driving
Deployment of modern data-driven machine learning methods, most often realized by deep neural networks (DNNs), in safety-critical applications such as health care, industrial plant control, or autonomous driving is highly challenging due to numerous model-inherent shortcomings. These shortcomings are diverse and range from a lack of generalization over insufficient interpretability and impl…
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- 9783031012334
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- XVIII, 427
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Aramaic Daniel: A Textual Reconstruction of Chapters 1–7
The first half of the book of Daniel contains world-famous stories like the Writing on the Wall. These stories have mostly been transmitted in Aramaic, not Hebrew, as has the influential apocalypse of Daniel 7. This Aramaic corpus shows clear signs of multiple authorship. Which different textual layers can we tease apart, and what do they tell us about the changing function of the Danielic mate…
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- Volume: 73
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- 978-90-04-52130-8
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Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals
To put this research project into context, a short introduction to the status of the climate debate is given. The methodology of the research is presented in brief, followed by the socio-economic assumptions made and key technological parameters used. The storylines of the energy demand projections for the 12 industry and service sectors analysed are described. The supply side of the sec…
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- 9783030991777
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- LXXVIII, 384
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Modern Cryptography Volume 1 : A Classical Introduction to Informational and …
This open access book systematically explores the statistical characteristics of cryptographic systems, the computational complexity theory of cryptographic algorithms and the mathematical principles behind various encryption and decryption algorithms. The theory stems from technology. Based on Shannon's information theory, this book systematically introduces the information theory, statistical…
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- 1
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- 9789811909207
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- XI, 359 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash : A Renaissance within Communities in Sub-S…
This open access book shares impact stories – testimonies from various value chain actors who have been part of the Tropical Legumes (TL) projects, over the past twelve years. The Tropical Legumes projects led by ICRISAT in three parts (TLI, TLII and TLIII), constitute a major international initiative supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and jointly implemented by the Inter…
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- 1
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- 9789811508455
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- XVI, 106 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Sustainable Rice Straw Management
This open access book on straw management aims to provide a wide array of options for rice straw management that are potentially more sustainable, environmental, and profitable compared to current practice. The book is authored by expert researchers, engineers and innovators working on a range of straw management options with case studies from Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia. The book i…
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- 9783030323738
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- XIII, 192 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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