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This volume brings together the most up to date analyses of civil society in Africa from the best scholars and researchers working on the subject. Being the first of its kind, it casts a panoramic look at the African continent, …
Two groups of animals, bats and odontocetes (toothed whales), have independently developed the ability to orient and detect prey by biosonar (echolocation). This active mechanism of orientation allows these animals to operate under low light conditions. Biosonar is a conceptual …
View book details for The EU in International Sports Governance
A Principal-Agent Perspective on EU Control of FIFA and UEFA
This book demonstrates that the European Union (EU) can curtail the autonomy of FIFA and UEFA by building upon insights from the principal-agent model. The author argues that EU institutional features complicate control, but do not render the EU powerless, …
View book details for The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2
Experiencing Imperialism
This is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from international scholars concerned with examining the British experience of Empire since the eighteenth century. It considers themes such as national identity, modernity, culture, social class, diplomacy, consumerism, gender, postcolonialism, and perceptions …
View book details for Dependable Computing EDCC 2022 Workshops
SERENE, DREAMS, AI4RAILS, Zaragoza, Spain, September 12, 2022, Proceedings
This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the Workshops of the 18th European Dependable Computing Conference, EDCC: 13th Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems, SERENE 2022; Third Worskhop on Dynamic Risk Management for Autonomous Systems, DREAMS 2022, Third Workshop on …
View book details for Terrorism Revisited
Islamism, Political Violence and State-Sponsorship
This book develops a conceptual approach to understanding the face of contemporary terrorism as manifested in the recent attacks in Mumbai and Paris. By analyzing the historical evolution of terrorism and by offering case studies on different forms of terrorism …
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Functional Inequalities
As Richard Bellman has so elegantly stated at the Second International Conference on General Inequalities (Oberwolfach, 1978), There are three reasons for the study of inequalities: practical, theoretical, and aesthetic. On the aesthetic aspects, he said, As has been pointed …
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International Joint Conference, IJCCI 2014 Rome, Italy, October 22-24, 2014 Revised Selected Papers
The present book includes a set of selected extended papers from the sixth International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2014), held in Rome, Italy, from 22 to 24 October 2014. The conference was composed by three co-located conferences: The …
View book details for Distributed Systems and Applications of Information Filtering and Retrieval
DART 2012: Revised and Invited Papers
This volume focuses on new challenges in distributed Information Filtering and Retrieval. It collects invited chapters and extended research contributions from the special session on Information Filtering and Retrieval: Novel Distributed Systems and Applications (DART) of the 4th International Conference …
View book details for Complex Networks & Their Applications V
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications (COMPLEX NETWORKS 2016)
This book highlights cutting-edge research in the field of network science, offering scientists, researchers and graduate students a unique opportunity to catch up on the latest advances in theory and a multitude of applications. It presents the peer-reviewed proceedings of …
View book details for Local Cosmopolitanism
Imagining and (Re-)Making Privileged Places
This book offers a unique perspective on cosmopolitanism, examining the ways it is constructed and reconstructed on the small scale in an ongoing process of matching the local with the global, a process entailing mutual transformation. Based on a wide …
This volume tracks the development in the United States of the field of Bioethics, Ethics applied to the disciplines of medicine, nursing, and health care in general, including medical research and the complex economic and political problems surrounding the provision …
This ambitious multidisciplinary volume assembles diverse critical-theory approaches to the current and future states of networked learning. Expert contributors expand upon the existing literature by analyzing the ethical aspects of networked learning and the ongoing need for more open, inclusive, …
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Disentangling the Sources of Hysteresis
This work investigates the time series properties of the unemployment rate of the Spanish regions over the period 1976-2011. For that purpose, the authors employ the PANIC procedures of Bai and Ng (2004), which allows to decompose the observed unemployment …
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15th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2014, Shanghai, China, May 23-24, 2014, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2014, held in Shanghai, China, in May 2014. The 39 revised papers presented at the main conference were carefully …
This book describes the strategy used for sequencing, assembling and annotating the tomato genome and presents the main characteristics of this sequence with a special focus on repeated sequences and the ancestral polyploidy events. It also includes the chloroplast and …
Research into social systems is challenging due to their complex nature. Traditional methods of analysis are often difficult to apply effectively as theories evolve over time. This can be due to a lack of appropriate data, or too much uncertainty. …
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This book provides a comprehensive presentation of classical and advanced topics in estimation and control of dynamical systems with an emphasis on stochastic control. Many aspects which are not easily found in a single text are provided, such as connections …
This book provides the state-of-the art of the present understanding of avalanche phenomena in both functional materials and geophysics. The main emphasis of the book is analyzing these apparently different problems within the common perspective of out-of-equilibrium phenomena displaying spatial …
This book makes use of the LISP programming language to provide readers with the necessary background to understand and use fuzzy logic to solve simple to medium-complexity real-world problems. It introduces the basics of LISP required to use a Fuzzy …
This volume explores intergenerational practices and their impact on social sustainability, with an emphasis on developing programmatic efforts to address profound social challenges such as underperforming educational and work-related systems, failing support systems for dependent or vulnerable populations, and community …
View book details for Advocating Transitional Justice in Africa
The Role of Civil Society
This edited volume examines the role of local civil society in shaping understandings and processes of transitional justice in Africa a nursery of transitional justice ideas for well over two decades. It brings together practitioners and scholars with intimate knowledge …
View book details for Challenges in Mechanics of Time Dependent Materials, Volume 2
Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics
Challenges in Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, Volume 2 of the Proceedings of the 2016 SEM Annual Conference& Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the second volume of ten from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research …
View book details for Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice IV
4th IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IFIP AI 2015, Held as Part of WCC 2015, Daejeon, South Korea, October 4-7, 2015, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IFIP AI 2015, Held as Part of WCC 2015, in Daejeon, South Korea, in October 2015. The 13 full papers presented were carefully …
Mobile robots and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have enabled great potentials and a large space for ubiquitous and pervasive applications. Robotics and WSNs have mostly been considered as separate research fields and little work has investigated the marriage between these …
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