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William H. Greene, Lynda Khalaf, Robin Sickles, Michael Veall, Marcel-Cristian Voia
This proceedings volume examines the state-of-the art of productivity and efficiency analysis and adds to the existing research by bringing together a selection of the best papers from the 8th North American Productivity Workshop (NAPW). It also aims to analyze …
Brian Clive Devlin, Samantha Disbray, Nancy Regine Friedman Devlin
This book provides the first detailed history of the Bilingual Education Program in the Northern Territory of Australia. This ambitious and innovative program began in 1973 and at different times it operated in English and 19 Aboriginal languages in 29 …

View book details for Narrating Childhood with Children and Young People

Diverse Contexts, Methods and Stories of Everyday Life
Lisa Moran, Kathy Reilly, Bernadine Brady
This volume draws together scholarly contributions from diverse, yet interlinking disciplinary fields, with the aim of critically examining the value of narrative inquiry in understanding the everyday lives of children and young people in diverse spaces and places, including the …
Xinbing Wang
MotionCast for Mobile Wireless Networks provides an overview on the research for mobile ad-hoc networks regarding capacity and connectivity. Wireless ad-hoc networks are useful when there is a lack of infrastructure for communication. The proposed notion MotionCast is for the …
Yang Yang
This is an open access book. This book focuses on the research of advanced structures and anti-seismic in civil engineering. It features the most cutting-edge research directions and achievements related to civil and structural engineering. Subjects in this book include:Engineering …

View book details for Electric Vehicle Sharing Services for Smarter Cities

The Green Move project for Milan: from service design to technology deployment
Daniele Fabrizio Bignami, Alberto Colorni Vitale, Alessandro Lué, Roberto Nocerino, Matteo Rossi, Sergio Matteo Savaresi
This book examines electric car sharing in cities from a variety of perspectives, from service design to simulation, from mathematical modeling to technology deployment, and from energy use improvement to the integration of different kinds of vehicle. The contents reflect …
Wenzhong Shi, Michael F. Goodchild, Michael Batty, Mei-Po Kwan, Anshu Zhang
This open access book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect of the city that involves its functioning, control, management, and future planning. It introduces new models and tools being …

View book details for High-Performance Computing Systems and Technologies in Scientific Research, Automation of Control and Production

10th International Conference, HPCST 2020, Barnaul, Russia, May 1516, 2020, Revised Selected Papers
Vladimir Jordan, Nikolay Filimonov, Ilya Tarasov, Vladimir Faerman
This book constitutes selected revised and extended papers from the 10th International Conference on High-Performance Computing Systems and Technologies in Scientific Research, Automation of Control and Production, HPCST 2020, Barnaul, Russia, in May 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pancemic the …

View book details for Numerical Simulation in Physics and Engineering

Lecture Notes of the XVI 'Jacques-Louis Lions' Spanish-French School
Inmaculada Higueras, Teo Roldán, Juan José Torrens
This book presents lecture notes from the XVI Jacques-Louis Lions Spanish-French School on Numerical Simulation in Physics and Engineering, held in Pamplona (Navarra, Spain) in September 2014. The subjects covered include: numerical analysis of isogeometric methods, convolution quadrature for wave …
G. P. Biswas, Sushanta Mukhopadhyay
The book is based on the research papers presented in Second International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology (RAIT 2014), held at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India. It provides the latest developments in the area of information technology …

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Second International Conference, OL2A 2022, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal, October 24-25, 2022, Proceedings
Ana I. Pereira, Andrej Košir, Florbela P. Fernandes, Maria F. Pacheco, João P. Teixeira, Rui P. Lopes
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications, OL2A 2022, held in Braganca, Portugal, in October 2022. The 53 full papers and 3 short papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 145 …

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Leveraging Digital Technology to Combat Climate Change
Theo Lynn, Pierangelo Rosati, David Kreps, Kieran Conboy
Digitalisation and environmental sustainability are two of the megatrends impacting industry and society. This open access Pivot is a timely exploration of some of the challenges and prospects related to digital sustainability from two main perspectives: how digital technologies can …
Fakher Chaari, Jacek Leśkow, Antonio Napolitano, Andrea Sanchez-Ramirez
In the last decade the research in signal analysis was dominated by models that encompass nonstationarity as an important feature. This book presents the results of a workshop held in GrodekPoland in February 2013 which was dedicated to the investigation …

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Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA 2015) held in Kochi, India during December 16-18, 2015
Václav Snášel, Ajit Abraham, Pavel Krömer, Millie Pant, Azah Kamilah Muda
This Volume contains the papers presented during the 6th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications IBICA 2015 which was held in Kochi, India during December 16-18, 2015. The 51 papers presented in this Volume were carefully reviewed …
Robert L. King
This volume includes the full proceedings from the 1991 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The research and presentations offered in this volume cover many aspects of marketing science including marketing strategy, consumer behavior, …
Sehijpal Singh Khangura, Paramjit Singh, Harwinder Singh, Gurinder Singh Brar
This book comprises the proceedings of International Conference on Research and Innovations in Mechanical Engineering (ICRIME 2013) organized by Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana with support from AICTE, TEQIP, DST and PTU, Jalandhar. This international conference served as a …

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20th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2019, Turin, Italy, September 2325, 2019, Proceedings
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Dario Antonelli
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2019, held in Turin, Italy, in September 2019. The 56 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 141 submissions. They …

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Mathematical Techniques for Engineers
Marcelo Epstein
This monograph presents a graduate-level treatment of partial differential equations (PDEs) for engineers. The book begins with a review of the geometrical interpretation of systems of ODEs, the appearance of PDEs in engineering is motivated by the general form of …
Larisa Beilina, Maïtine Bergounioux, Michel Cristofol, Anabela Da Silva, Amelie Litman
This proceedings volume gathers peer-reviewed, selected papers presented at the Mathematical and Numerical Approaches for Multi-Wave Inverse Problems conference at the Centre Internacional de Rencontres Mathematiques (CIRM) in Marseille, France, in April 2019. It brings the latest research into new, …

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17th Chinese Conference, IGTA 2022, Beijing, China, April 2324, 2022, Revised Selected Papers
Yongtian Wang, Huimin Ma, Yuxin Peng, Yue Liu, Ran He
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2022, held in Beijing, China, during April 2324, 2022.The 25 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected …
P. Odmalm
This book explores the changing nature of party competition in four West European countries. It pays special attention to how different ideological positions give rise to contradictory cues when parties engage with atypical election issues like the EU and immigration.
Šárka Hošková-Mayerová, Fabrizio Maturo, Janusz Kacprzyk
This book presents a broad spectrum of problems related to statistics, mathematics, teaching, social science, and economics as well as a range of tools and techniques that can be used to solve these problems. It is the result of a …
Carol Yeh-Yun Lin, Leif Edvinsson, Jeffrey Chen, Tord Beding
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the biggest event of worldwide proportion was the 2008 global financial crisis, which was caused primarily by ineffective governance, failed surveillance systems, and implementation flaws. While fiscal and monetary policies succeeded in …
Marta C. Antonelli
The development of the brain and nervous system is shaped not just by a genetic program, but also by the effects of multiple environmental stimuli. There are currently no book-length treatments of perinatal neurodevelopment. The proposed book seeks to fill …
Joseph C. Doll, Beth L. Pruitt
Piezoresistor Design and Applications provides an overview of these MEMS devices and related physics. The text demonstrates how MEMS allows miniaturization and integration of sensing as well as efficient packaging and signal conditioning. This text for engineers working in MEMS …
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