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View book details for Private Data and Public Value
Governance, Green Consumption, and Sustainable Supply Chains
This book investigates the ways in which these systems can promote public value by encouraging the disclosure and reuse of privately-held data in ways that support collective values such as environmental sustainability. Supported by funding from the National Science Foundation, …
This book describes the diverse roles that growth factors and cytokines play in skeletal muscle. The extracellular environment has profound effects on the biology of skeletal muscle. The soluble portion of this environment includes a rich milieu of growth factors …
Nanoencapsulation has the potential to improve human health through its capacity to both protect bioactive compounds and release them at a specific time and location into various substances, including food. Numerous nanoencapsulation technologies have emerged in recent years, each with …
The roles and applications of various modeling approaches, aimed at improving the usefulness of energy policy models in public decision making, are covered by this book. The development, validation, and applications of system dynamics and agent-based models in service of …
View book details for Innovations in Derivatives Markets
Fixed Income Modeling, Valuation Adjustments, Risk Management, and Regulation
This book presents 20 peer-reviewed chapters on current aspects of derivatives markets and derivative pricing. The contributions, written by leading researchers in the field as well as experienced authors from the financial industry, present the state of the art in: …
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Digitale Transformation der Beschaffung
Die Auswirkungen von Digitalisierung und Industrie 4.0 werden immer greifbarer, auch fur die Beschaffung. In diesem essential wird bereits in der 2. Auflage - die digitale Transformation des Einkaufs strukturiert beschrieben und mit konkreten Anwendungsmoglichkeiten hinterlegt. Zudem wird ein Ansatz …
This book presents recent research advances on achieving seamless interoperability across all layers of communication channels in the context of emergency management and crisis response. It includes the outcomes of intensive discussions during the Workshop Command, Control and Sensor Systems …
View book details for Konsumentenverhalten
Konsumenten verstehen Marketingmanahmen gestalten
Dieses Buch vermittelt die Grundlagen des Konsumentenverhaltens verstandlich und in klarer Sprache. Warum ist der Einkaufswagen voller als geplant? Wieso will man unbedingt das neuste Smartphone? Die Autoren erklaren zunachst, wie motivationale, emotionale und kognitive Prozesse das Verhalten des Konsumenten …
View book details for Religion and Volunteering
Complex, contested and ambiguous relationships
Religion is considered a key predictor of volunteering: the more religious people are, the more likely they are to volunteer. This positive association enjoys significant support in current research; in fact, it could be considered the default perspective on the …
View book details for Actuarial Sciences and Quantitative Finance
ICASQF2016, Cartagena, Colombia, June 2016
Developed from the Second International Congress on Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance, this volume showcases the latest progress in all theoretical and empirical aspects of actuarial science and quantitative finance. Held at the Universidad de Cartagena in Cartegena, Colombia in …
View book details for Recent Developments and the New Direction in Soft-Computing Foundations and Applications
Selected Papers from the 7th World Conference on Soft Computing, May 2931, 2018, Baku, Azerbaijan
This book gathers authoritative contributions in the field of Soft Computing. Based on selected papers presented at the 7th World Conference on Soft Computing, which was held on May 2931, 2018, in Baku, Azerbaijan, it describes new theoretical advances, as …
This book addresses wound care in vascular surgery, neurosurgery and lower extremity ulcers, while also providing detailed information on the latest concepts in antimicrobial therapy. The book presents essential content on the assessment, care, measurement and repair of wounds, and …
This book covers a very broad spectrum of experimental and theoretical activity in particle physics, from the searches for the Higgs boson and physics beyond the Standard Model, to detailed studies of Quantum Chromodynamics, the B-physics sectors and the properties …
View book details for Innovations in Quantitative Risk Management
TU Munchen, September 2013
Quantitative models are omnipresent but often controversially discussed in todays risk management practice. New regulations, innovative financial products, and advances in valuation techniques provide a continuous flow of challenging problems for financial engineers and risk managers alike. Designing a sound …
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11th Chinese Conference, CTCIS 2017, Changsha, China, September 14-17, 2017, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Chinese Conference on Trusted Computing and Information Security, CTCIS 2017, held in Changsha, China, in September 2017. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. …
This book addresses both theoretical developments in and practical applications of econometric techniques to finance-related problems. It includes selected edited outcomes of the International Econometric Conference of Vietnam (ECONVN2018), held at Banking University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on January …
View book details for Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems
Theory, Methods, and Algorithms
Springer International Publishing
The 4th edition includes updated and additional examples and exercises on the core fundamental concepts of mechanics, robots, and kinematics of serial robots. New images of CAD models and physical robots help to motivate concepts being introduced. Each chapter of …
This book investigates small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) access to credit, the earning quality, and the cost of debt in the European Union. It also examines two important risk measures in financial markets: the volatility index (VIX) and Credit …
This book presents novel and advanced topics in Medical Image Processing and Computational Vision in order to solidify knowledge in the related fields and define their key stakeholders. It contains extended versions of selected papers presented in VipIMAGE 2013 IV …
View book details for Climate Change in Cities
Innovations in Multi-Level Governance
This book presents pioneering work on a range of innovative practices, experiments, and ideas that are becoming an integral part of urban climate change governance in the 21st century. Theoretically, the book builds on nearly two decades of scholarships identifying …
This book presents guidelines on quantitative and qualitative measures of the geometric features and imperfections of welds to ensure that it meets the fatigue strength requirements laid out in the recommendations of the IIW (International Institute of Welding). Welds that …
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Third International Conference, ICAI 2020, Ota, Nigeria, October 2931, 2020, Proceedings
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers of the Second International Conference on Applied Informatics, ICAI 2020, held in Ota, Nigeria, in October 2020. The 35 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The papers are organized …
View book details for Evolutionary Algorithms and Neural Networks
Theory and Applications
This book introduces readers to the fundamentals of artificial neural networks, with a special emphasis on evolutionary algorithms. At first, the book offers a literature review of several well-regarded evolutionary algorithms, including particle swarm and ant colony optimization, genetic algorithms …
This proceedings presents recent practical applications of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. It contains the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics held at University of Salamanca, Spain, at June 3rd-5th, 2015. The International …
View book details for Collaborative Networks and Digital Transformation
20th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2019, Turin, Italy, September 2325, 2019, Proceedings
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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