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Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds
The Role of Teachers and Teacher Educators, Part I
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Cultivating Curious and Creative Minds presents a plethora of approaches to developing human potential in areas not conventionally addressed. Organized in two parts, this international collection of essays provides viable educational alternatives to those currently holding sway in an era of high-stakes...
Life Cycle Assessment in Industry and Business
Adoption Patterns, Applications and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
1.1 Life Cycle Assessment (LeA): a fascinating and sophisticated tool The greening of the economy is not a new task, but it is a challenge for which a lot of tasks still have to be done. It is known that the main source of environ mental deterioration by industry is not any more the chimneys and...
Advanced H∞ Control
Towards Nonsmooth Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
This compact monograph is focused on disturbance attenuation in nonsmooth dynamic systems, developing an H**∞ approach in the nonsmooth setting. Similar to the standard nonlinear H**∞ approach, the proposed nonsmooth design guarantees both the internal asymptotic stability of a nominal closed-loop...
by Michael J. Campbell, T. D. V. Swinscow
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
The new edition of this international bestseller continues to throw light on the world of statistics for health care professionals and medical students.
Revised throughout, the 11th edition features new material in the areas of
relative risk, absolute risk and numbers needed to treat
diagnostic...
Subsidies to Chinese Industry
State Capitalism, Business Strategy, and Trade Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
How did China move so swiftly in capital-intensive industries without labor-cost or scale advantage from bit player to the largest manufacturer and exporter in the world? This book argues that subsidies contributed significantly to China's success. Industrial subsidies in key Chinese manufacturing...
by T.V.S. Ramamohan Rao, Ranjul Rastogi
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Discretionary Managerial Behavior presents a quantification of the managerial behavior within decentralized organizations. The volume provides practical insights into the internal functioning of the firm, the relationships between the managers at different organizational echelons, and the conditioning...
by T.V. Paul
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons. What explains this? According to the author, the answer lies in a prohibition inherent in the tradition of non-use, a time-honored obligation that has been adhered to by all nuclear states—thanks to a consensus view...
Digitized Lives
Culture, Power, and Social Change in the Internet Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
In a remarkably short period of time the Internet and associated digital communication technologies have deeply changed the way millions of people around the globe live their lives. But what is the nature of that impact? In chapters examining a broad range of issues—including sexuality, politics,...
Compression Schemes for Mining Large Datasets
A Machine Learning Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This book addresses the challenges of data abstraction generation using a least number of database scans, compressing data through novel lossy and non-lossy schemes, and carrying out clustering and classification directly in the compressed domain. Schemes are presented which are shown to be efficient...
Integrity in the Business Panorama
Models of European Best-Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
This volume explores the value of business integrity and ethics as a "best practice" model in business strategy. The authors define business integrity, explore areas in which integrity is often absent or discredited, and provide a framework and tools to help build better business ethics...
Environmental Quality Analysis
Theory & Method in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book brings together state-of-the-art papers describing comprehensive approaches to residuals management and emphasizes the need for interdisciplinary solutions to complex environmental problems. Originally published in 1972
Writings to Stem Your Existential Dread
Scribes Divided Anthology, Vol. 1: Flash Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Scribes Divided presents an anthology of fifty-three memorable flash fiction stories. Ranging from comedy to horror to romance and from the supernatural to the super-real, these ultra-short tales will stop you in your tracks. In this book, award-winning authors from around the world will terrorize, mesmerize, and tantalize you into forgetting for a moment your Existential Dread.
Offbeat
With Oxnard’S Finest
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Cops everywhere have their stories.
The retired police officers of the Oxnard Police Department are no exception.
Like the stories told by officers anywhere, Oxnard PD's stories, too, seem to grow each time they are retold until few can offer an iron-clad guarantee that they are today...
The Ecology and Management of Wetlands
Volume 1: Ecology of Wetlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 16-20 June 1986. The seed for this symposium arose from a group of physiologists , soU scientists and biochemists that met in Leningrad, USSR in July 1975 at the 12th Botanical Conference...