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David M. Hunt, Mark W. Hankins, Shaun P Collin, N. Justin Marshall
Photopigments are molecules that react to light and mediate a number of processes and behaviours in animals. Visual pigments housed within the photoreceptors of the eye, such as the rods and cones in vertebrates are the best known, however, visual …
Rev. Alfred L. Decker
Jesus claimed to always be with us, yet we face all kinds and types of trials. Sometimes Goliath seems to stand on top of the mountain to stop us. Some days it seems we fell into an ocean of quicksand. …

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Second Generation Pioneers in Europe
Jens Schneider, Maurice Crul, Andreas Pott
This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories of young people with an immigrant working-class background, who made it into …
Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Evangelos Pallis, George Mastorakis
This book reports the latest advances on the design and development of mobile computing systems, describing their applications in the context of modeling, analysis and efficient resource management. It explores the challenges on mobile computing and resource management paradigms, including …
Ali Sayigh
Achieving Building Comfort by Natural Means explores examples of green building designs and methods that are currently being used around the world to achieve human comfort in buildings. The operation of buildings accounts for more than 40% of total energy …

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A Review and Synthesis of Research on ID Current Practices
WIlliam Sugar
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of cutting edge research studies on contemporary instructional design practices. Written for instructional designers, instructional technologists and researchers in the field, it provides state of the art, practically focused information and guidelines for designing …

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18th China Annual Conference, CNCERT 2021, Beijing, China, July 2021, 2021, Revised Selected Papers
Wei Lu, Yuqing Zhang, Weiping Wen, Hanbing Yan, Chao Li
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Annual Conference on Cyber Security, CNCERT 2021, held in Beijing, China, in AJuly 2021. The 14 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers …

View book details for Topics in Modal Analysis I, Volume 7

Proceedings of the 32nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2014
James De Clerck
This seventh volume of eight from the IMAC - XXXII Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including papers …

View book details for Advances in the Theory of Numbers

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference of the Canadian Number Theory Association
Ayşe Alaca, Şaban Alaca, Kenneth S. Williams
The theory of numbers continues to occupy a central place in modern mathematics because of both its long history over many centuries as well as its many diverse applications to other fields such as discrete mathematics, cryptography, and coding theory. …
Zhenyu Du
This volume contains the proceedings of the 2012 International Conference of Modern Computer Science and Applications (MCSA 2012) which was held on September 8, 2012 in Wuhan, China. The MCSA 2012 provides an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and …

View book details for Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty

15th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2014, Montpellier, France, July 15-19, 2014. Proceedings, Part I
Anne Laurent, Olivier Strauss, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Ronald R. Yager
These three volumes (CCIS 442, 443, 444) constitute the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2014, held in Montpellier, France, July 15-19, 2014. The 180 revised full papers presented …

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Classical Techniques, Recent Developments, and Memoirs of Gino Moretti
Marcello Onofri, Renato Paciorri
This book describes the revolutionary capabilities of new shock fitting algorithms; a great improvement in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for high-speed numerical simulations. Shock fitting methods provide a solution to the current difficulties and inaccuracies in shock-capturing approaches. This work …
Michael Glykas
Business Process Management (BPM) has been in existence for decades. It uses, complements, integrates and extends theories, methods and tools from other scientific disciplines like: strategic management, information technology, managerial accounting, operations management etc. During this period the main focus …

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The 81st Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Asheville, North Carolina, 2016
L. Andries van der Ark, Marie Wiberg, Steven A. Culpepper, Jeffrey A. Douglas, Wen-Chung Wang
This proceedings volume compiles and expands on selected and peer reviewed presentations given at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), organized by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and held in Asheville, North Carolina, July 11th …
Alex Mason, Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Krishanthi Padmarani Jayasundera
This book contains a collection of selected works stemming from the 2013 International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST), which was held in Wellington, New Zealand. The purpose of the book is to distill the highlights of the conference, and therefore …
Muhammad Alam, Wael Dghais, Yuanfang Chen
This book presents cutting-edge work on real-time modelling and processing, a highly active research field in both the research and industrial domains. Going beyond conventional real-time systems, major efforts are required to develop accurate and computational efficient real-time modelling algorithms …
Roxana Barbulescu, Sara Wallace Goodman, Luicy Pedroza
This open access book critically re-examines the theoretical and empirical interconnections between integration and citizenship, specifically, naturalisation. With new, empirical-grounded analyses of what we term 'citizenship-integration nexus' the central, shared contribution is showcasing how membership is informally achieved through everyday …
Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, George Mastorakis, Jordi Mongay Batalla
This book reports on the latest advances in the modeling, analysis and efficient management of information in Internet of Things (IoT) applications in the context of 5G access technologies. It presents cutting-edge applications made possible by the implementation of femtocell …

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British Sport, African Knowledge and the Nature of Empire
Angela Thompsell
This book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their …

View book details for Neuzuwanderung in Duisburg-Marxloh

Bulgarische und rumanische Zuwanderer und Alteingesessene im Ankunftsquartier
Stefan Böckler, Margarita Gestmann, Thomas Handke
Die Autoren untersuchen am Beispiel des Ankunftsquartiers Duisburg-Marxloh Herkunftssituation, Wanderungswege und -motive sowie die Lebenssituation von Zuwanderern aus Bulgarien und Rumanien. Sie analysieren die Einstellungen der schon langer im Quartier lebenden Bevolkerung zu dieser umfangreichen Neuzuwanderung und arbeiten die Bedarfe …

View book details for Forthcoming Networks and Sustainability in the IoT Era

Second International Conference, FoNeS-IoT 2021, Volume 2
Fadi Al-Turjman, Jawad Rasheed
This book aims to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to meet and share their experience and knowledge. Forthcoming Networks and Sustainability in the IoT Era (FoNeS-IoT), Volume 1 & 2, aims to …

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Papers from the Educational Technology World Conference (ETWC 2016)
Kay A. Persichitte, Atwi Suparman, Michael Spector
This is an edited volume based on expanded versions of the best 30 papers presented at ETWC 2016 in Bali. Included are contributions from the keynote speakers of ETWC 2016: Robert Branch, Tian Belawati, Steve Harmon, Johannes Cronje, Marc Childress, …

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Volume 1: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference IAS-12, Held June 26-29, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea
Sukhan Lee, Hyungsuck Cho, Kwang-Joon Yoon, Jangmyung Lee
Intelligent autonomous systems are emerged as a key enabler for the creation of a new paradigm of services to humankind, as seen by the recent advancement of autonomous cars licensed for driving in our streets, of unmanned aerial and underwater …
Rebecka Villanueva Ulfgard
This book explores how and why Mexicos approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation with the Lopez Obrador administration is unsustainable and non-transformative, overshadowed by his vision of Mexicos Fourth Transformation. Approached as …

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International Conference, HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, June 22-27, 2014. Proceedings, Part II
Constantine Stephanidis
This is the second of a two-volume set (CCIS 434 and CCIS 435) that constitutes the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2014, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in June 2014 …
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