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Ajith Abraham, Aswani Kumar Cherukuri, Ana Maria Madureira, Azah Kamilah Muda
This volume presents 70 carefully selected papers from a major joint event: the 8th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2016) and the 8th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN 2016). SoCPaRCASoN 2016, which …

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Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, November 6-8, 2017, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Jerry Chun-Wei Lin, Jeng-Shyang Pan, Shu-Chuan Chu, Chien-Ming Chen
This volume of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing highlights papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC 2017). Held from 6 to 8 November 2017 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, the conference was co-sponsored by Springer, …
Junjie Xiao
The book provides an intensive overview on exercise for cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment, from basic research to clinical practice. The volume firstly summarizes the acute and chronic response to exercise. Secondly, evidence for exercise as medicine for the heart …

View book details for Power Politics in Asias Contested Waters

Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea
Enrico Fels, Truong-Minh Vu
This volume offers a comprehensive and empirically rich analysis of regional maritime disputes in the South China Sea (SCS). By discussing important aspects of the rise of Chinas maritime power, such as territorial disputes, altered perceptions of geo-politics and challenges …
Ilias S. Kotsireas, Anna Nagurney, Panos M. Pardalos
This volume results from the Second International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters held in Kalamata, Greece, June 29-July 2, 2015. The conference covered particular topics involved in natural and man-made disasters such as war, chemical spills, and wildfires. Papers in …
João M. Fernandes, Ricardo J. Machado
This book focuses on various topics related to engineering and management of requirements, in particular elicitation, negotiation, prioritisation, and documentation (whether with natural languages or with graphical models). The book provides methods and techniques that help to characterise, in a …
Silvia Cinque, Daniel Ericsson
In the fields of management and organization, there is an ongoing debate about different ontological assumptions about people in and around organizations, and the dangers of self-fulling prophecies, i.e., the phenomena in which unsubstantiated, unethical, or dysfunctional assumptions about people …

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11th International Conference, PCT 2017, Kazan, Russia, April 37, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Leonid Sokolinsky, Mikhail Zymbler
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parallel Computational Technologies, PCT 2017, held in Kazan, Russia, in April 2017. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The papers …
Lyle Micheli, Cynthia Stein, Michael O'Brien, Pierre d’Hemecourt
Spinal Injuries and Conditions in Young Athletes provides a comprehensive, in-depth review of the mechanisms and management of back injuries and problems occurring in this ever-growing and active population. Led by Dr. Lyle Micheli and his co-editors, an award-winning group …

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Third Conference, SVCC 2022, Virtual Event, August 1719, 2022, Revised Selected Papers
Luis Bathen, Gokay Saldamli, Xiaoyan Sun, Thomas H. Austin, Alex J. Nelson
This open access book constitutes refereed proceedings of the Third Conference on Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference, SVCC 2022, held as virtual event, in August 1719, 2022.The 8 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 …
Dana Kulić, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Oussama Khatib, Gentiane Venture
Experimental Robotics XV is the collection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan on October 3-6, 2016. 73 scientific papers were selected and presented after peer review. The papers span a broad range of …
Oskar Paris
This book provides a broad overview on the relationship between structure and mechanical properties of carbon nanomaterials from world-leading scientists in the field. The main aim is to get an in-depth understanding of the broad range of mechanical properties of …

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Mechatronics and Intelligent Robotics (ICMIR2017) Volume 2
Feng Qiao, Srikanta Patnaik, John Wang
This book gathers the Proceedings of the International Conference on Mechatronics and Intelligent Robotics (ICMIR2017), held in Kunming, China, on May 2021, 2017. The book covers a total of 172 papers, which have been divided into seven different sections: Intelligent …
Christophe-Toussaint Soulard, Coline Perrin, Elodie Valette
This book gives an overview of frameworks, methods, and case studies useful for the analysis of the relations between agriculture and the city, in Europe and the Mediterranean. Its originality lies in the analysis of urban food systems sustainability from …

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Recent Technological and Scientific Advances
Tomáš Březina, Ryszard Jabłoński
This book presents nearly 90 carefully selected contributions at the 12th International Conference Mechatronics, which took place in Brno, Czech Republic on 68 September 2017. Reflecting the most progressive and constantly changing areas of mechatronics, these proceedings includes papers concerning …
Igor I. Gorban
The monograph compares two approaches that describe the statistical stability phenomenon one proposed by the probability theory that ignores violations of statistical stability and another proposed by the theory of hyper-random phenomena that takes these violations into account. There are …
Gernot Wassmer, Werner Brannath
This book provides an up-to-date review of the general principles of and techniques for confirmatory adaptive designs. Confirmatory adaptive designs are a generalization of group sequential designs. With these designs, interim analyses are performed in order to stop the trial …

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Scottish Independent Music 1983-1995
Grant McPhee
By 1983, many of Scotlands post-punk bands had broken up or moved south to chase the major labels in London. That vacuum was filled by an influx of young musicians who were determined to remake the scene in their own …
Mihai Lupu, Katja Mayer, Noriko Kando, Anthony J. Trippe
This second edition provides a systematic introduction to the work and views of the emerging patent-search research and innovation communities as well as an overview of what has been achieved and, perhaps even more importantly, of what remains to be …

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Transforming Courts, Institutions, and Rights
Pedro Fortes, Larissa Boratti, Andrés Palacios Lleras, Tom Gerald Daly
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to law and policy responses to contemporary problems in Latin America, such as human rights violations, regulatory dilemmas, economic inequality, and access to knowledge and medicine. It includes 19 chapters written by sociologists, lawyers, …
Shyamsunder Mandayam, Sarmishtha Palit Sagar
This book comprises the proceedings of the Conference and Exhibition on Non Destructive Evaluation (NDE 2020). The contents of the volume encompass a vast spectrum from Conventional to Advanced NDE including novel methods, instrumentation, sensors, procedures, and data analytics as …

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Third International Conference, FCS 2020, Tianjin, China, November 1517, 2020, Proceedings
Guangquan Xu, Kaitai Liang, Chunhua Su
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Frontiers in Cyber Security, FCS 2020, held in Tianjin, China*, in November 2020. The 39 full papers along with the 10 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected …
Robert Kirkpatrick
This volume offers comprehensive 'state-of-the-art' overviews of educational policies concerning the teaching of English in a large number of Asian countries. Each contribution is written by a leading expert and gives a clear assessment of current policies and future trends. …
P John Williams, Alister Jones, Cathy Buntting
Twenty-five years ago there was increasing optimism in policy, curriculum and research about the contribution that technology education might make to increased technological literacy in schools and the wider population. That optimism continues, although the status of technology as a …

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Second IFIP TC 12 International Conference, ICIS 2017, Shanghai, China, October 25-28, 2017, Proceedings
Zhongzhi Shi, Ben Goertzel, Jiali Feng
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligence Science, ICIS 2017, held in Shanghai, China, in October 2017.The 38 full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. They …
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