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Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516 : Study and Transcription of…
This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprece…
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- 9783030227036
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- VII, 150 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Political Leadership and Agricultural Transformation = A New Research Agenda
This open access book examines the impact of political leadership on agricultural transformation to understand why cases of successful agricultural transformation are so rare in the developing world. It highlights the importance of leadership and its interaction with the socio-political system as a key factor impacting agricultural transformation. The book takes a first step in systematically e…
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- 9783031698521
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- XV, 84 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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AI based Robot Safe Learning and Control
This open access book mainly focuses on the safe control of robot manipulators. The control schemes are mainly developed based on dynamic neural network, which is an important theoretical branch of deep reinforcement learning. In order to enhance the safety performance of robot systems, the control strategies include adaptive tracking control for robots with model uncertainties, compliance cont…
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- 9789811555039
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- XVII, 127 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Fluidized Bed Reactors for Carbon Capture = A Review of Advancing Combustion …
This open access book provides a perspective on CO2 capture technologies that employ fluidized bed rectors, (FBRs) involving pre-combustion gasification, oxy-fuel combustion, chemical looping combustion, calcium looping process, and low-temperature sorption. The state-of-the-art progress from the lab-scale FBRs to pilot-scale demonstration facilities is summarized, and the remaining challenges …
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- 9789819602742
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- VIII, 105 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Single-Event Effects, from Space to Accelerator Environments = Analysis, Pred…
This book describes the fundamental concepts underlying radiation-induced failure mechanisms in electronic components operating in harsh environments, such as in space missions or in particle accelerators. In addition to providing an extensive overview of the dynamics and composition of different radiation environments, the authors discuss the failure mechanisms, known as single-event effects (…
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- 9783031717239
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- X, 141 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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A Journey of Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems = Essays Dedicated to Peter …
This Open Access book celebrates Professor Peter Marwedel's outstanding achievements in compilers, embedded systems, and cyber-physical systems. The contributions in the book summarize the content of invited lectures given at the workshop “Embedded Systems” held at the Technical University Dortmund in early July 2019 in honor of Professor Marwedel's seventieth birthday. Provides a compre…
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- 9783030474874
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- XV, 176 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Future of Africa = Challenges and Opportunities
This open access textbook offers a critical introduction to human and economic development prospects in Africa revolving around three questions: where is Africa today, what explains the current state, and, given historical trends and what we know about the world, where do we think the continent will be in 2040? And, a final question: what can we do to create a better tomorrow? It models ambitio…
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- 9783030465902
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- XVII, 421 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Core Concepts and Methods in Load Forecasting: With Applications in Distribut…
This comprehensive open access book enables readers to discover the essential techniques for load forecasting in electricity networks, particularly for active distribution networks. From statistical methods to deep learning and probabilistic approaches, the book covers a wide range of techniques and includes real-world applications and a worked examples using actual electricity data (includi…
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- 978-3-031-27852-5
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- XV, 331
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Gestaltung vernetzt-flexibler Arbeit = Beiträge aus Theorie und Praxis für …
Dieses Open-Access-Buch umfasst fünfzehn Beiträge aus sechs Verbundvorhaben, die im Rahmen des Förderschwerpunkts „Arbeit in der digitalisierten Welt“ des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung unterschiedliche Entwicklungen im Transformationsprozess der Arbeitswelt analysieren, konkrete Lösungsansätze entwickeln und wissenschaftlich begleiten und evaluieren. Die Autoren der Bei…
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- 9783662615607
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- XIX, 264 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Brain and Human Body Modeling 2020 = Computational Human Models Presented at …
This open access book describes modern applications of computational human modeling in an effort to advance neurology, cancer treatment, and radio-frequency studies including regulatory, safety, and wireless communication fields. Readers working on any application that may expose human subjects to electromagnetic radiation will benefit from this book’s coverage of the latest models and te…
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- 9783030456238
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- XI, 407 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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