Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3031009118 ISBN 13 : 9783031009112
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book will contemplate the nature of our participatory digital media culture, the diversity of actors involved, and how the role of the news librarian has evolved-from information gatekeeper to knowledge networker, collaborating and facilitating content creation with print and broadcast media professionals. It will explore how information professionals assist in the newsroom, drawing on the author's experiential knowledge as an embedded research librarian in the media industry. The past decade has seen significant changes in the media landscape. Large media outlets have traditionally controlled news and information flows, with everyone obtaining news via these dominant channels. In the digital world, the nature of what constitutes news has changed in fundamental ways. Social media and technologies such as crowdsourcing now play a pivotal role in how broadcast media connects and engages with their audiences. The book will focus on news reporting in the age of social media, examining the significance of verification and evaluating social media content from a journalistic and Information Science (IS) perspective. With such an emphasis on using social media for research, it is imperative to have mechanisms in place to make sure that information is authoritative before passing it on to a client as correct and accurate. Technology innovation and the 24/7 news cycle are driving forces compelling information professionals and journalists alike to adapt and learn new skills. The shift to tablets and smartphones for communication, news, and entertainment has dramatically changed the library and media landscape. Finally, we will consider automated journalism and examine future roles for news library professionals in the age of digital social media. 64 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 331933848X ISBN 13 : 9783319338484
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This well illustrated book presents a compact history of the Solar System from its dusty origins 4,600,000 years ago to the present day. Its primary aim is to show how the planets and their satellites, comets, meteors, interplanetary dust, solar radiation and cosmic rays continually interact, sometimes violently, and it reflects humanity's progress in exploring and interpreting this history. The book is intended for a general readership at a time when human and robotic exploration of space is often in the news and should also appeal to students at all levels. It covers the essentials but refers to a large literature which can be accessed via the internet. 112 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319260251 ISBN 13 : 9783319260259
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Written by a team of international experts, this third edition designed to guide public health personnel or teams in any country that investigates reports of alleged waterborne illnesses. The manual is based on epidemiologic principles and investigative techniques that have been found effective in determining causal factors of disease incidence. The guidelines are presented in the sequence usually followed during investigations and are organized so that an investigator can easily find the information needed in any phase of an investigation.The book services as a guide to:- Develop a waterborne disease surveillance and emergency operations program- Handle illness alerts and water-related complaints that may be related to illness- Interview ill persons, those at risk, and controls- Develop a case definition- Transport waterspecimens and clinical specimens- Trace sources of contamination- Identify factors responsible for contamination, survival of pathogenic microorganisms or toxic substances, and/or propagation of pathogens- Collate and interpret collected data- Report information about the outbreakThis edition has been extensively updated. A section has been added on water not intended for drinking as a source of illness. The chapter on 'collection and analysis of data' has been significantly expanded to explain how data is collected and used to suggest possible vehicles, routes, and agents. The book is designed to improve the quality of investigation of outbreaks and disease surveillance.The International Association for Food Protection is a non-profit association of food safety professionals. Dedicated to the life-long educational needs of its Members, IAFP provides Members with an information network through its two scientific journals (Food Protection Trends and Journal of Food Protection), its educational Annual Meeting, international meetings and symposia along with international interaction between food safety professionals. 164 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319300326 ISBN 13 : 9783319300320
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is devoted exclusively to Lebesgue spaces and their directderived spaces. Unique in its sole dedication, this book explores Lebesguespaces, distribution functions and nonincreasing rearrangement.Moreover, it also deals with weak, Lorentz and the more recent variableexponent and grand Lebesgue spaces with considerable detail to theproofs. The book also touches on basic harmonic analysis in theaforementioned spaces. An appendix is given at the end of the book givingit a self-contained character. This work is ideal for teachers, graduatestudents and researchers. 476 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 331930562X ISBN 13 : 9783319305622
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book celebrates the final spaceflight in the Mercury series, flown by NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper, wholed an adventurous life in the cockpit of airplanes and spacecraft alike, and on his Mercury mission he became the last American ever to rocket into space alone. He flew in the Mercury and Gemini programs and served as head of flight crew operations in both the Apollo and Skylab programs.Based on extensive research andfirst-person interviews,this is a complete history of the Faith 7 flight and its astronaut. Cooper later gainednotoriety following the release of the movie,The Right Stuff, in which he was depicted by Dennis Quaid, but Burgess discovers there was even more drama to his story. It completes the 'Pioneers in Early Spaceflight' subseries in fitting fashion. 312 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319338544 ISBN 13 : 9783319338545
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Bob Mizon, one of the world's best known campaigners against the veil of light pollution that has taken away the starry sky from most of the world's population,takes readers to a hundred places in the UK and the USA where the wonders of the night sky might still be enjoyed in perfect or near-perfect night skies.Visiting small hotels and simple campsites, and savoring vast dark-sky reserves where the night sky is actively protected, The Million-Star Hotel celebrates the black skies of yesteryear - which may become a reality for more and more of us as modern technology reins in lighting and puts it only where needed. How can you prepare for your stay beneath the stars What astronomy can you do during the daytime What kind of equipment will you need Questions such as these are answered, and if town dwellers return inspired - and, Bob hopes, also inspired to look with fresh eyes at their own local lighting - there is enough information here for them to equip themselves for some urban astronomy too. 340 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319318357 ISBN 13 : 9783319318356
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book relates the history of asteroid discoveries and christenings, from those of the early pioneering giants of Hersehel and Piazzi to modern-day amateurs. Moving from history and anecdotal information to science, the book's structure is provided by the names of the asteroids, including one named after the author.Free from a need to conform to scientific naming conventions, the names evidence hero-worship, sycophancy, avarice, vanity, whimsy, erudition and wit, revealing the human side of astronomers, especially where controversy has followed the christening. Murdin draws from extensive historical records to explore the debate over these names. Each age reveals its own biases and preferences in the naming process. Originally regarded as 'vermin of the skies,' asteroids are minor planets, rocky scraps left over from the formation of the larger planets, or broken fragments of worlds that have collided. Their scientific classification as 'minor' planets makes them seem unimportant, but over the past decades asteroids have been acknowledged to be key players in the Solar System. This view of their starring role even alters the trajectories of spacecraft: NASA's policy for new space missions en route to the outer planets is that they must divert to study passing asteroids whenever possible. This book provides for readers a complete tour of the fascinating world of asteroids. 220 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319270796 ISBN 13 : 9783319270791
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A zebrafish, the hull of a miniature ship, a mathematical equation and a food chain - what do these things have in common They are examples of models used by scientists to isolate and study particular aspects of the world around us.This book begins by introducing the concept of a scientific model from an intuitive perspective, drawing parallels to mental models and artistic representations. It then recounts the history of modelling from the 16th century up until the present day. The iterative process of model building is described and discussed in the context of complex models with high predictive accuracy versus simpler models that provide more of a conceptual understanding. To illustrate the diversity of opinions within the scientific community, we also present the results of an interview study, in which ten scientists from different disciplines describe their views on modelling and how models feature in their work. Lastly, itincludes a number of worked examples that span different modelling approaches and techniques. It provides a comprehensive introduction to scientific models and shows how models are constructed and used in modern science. It also addresses the approach to, and the culture surrounding modelling in different scientific disciplines. It serves as an inspiration for model building and also facilitates interdisciplinary collaborations by showing how models are used in different scientific fields. The book is aimed primarily at students in the sciences and engineering, as wellas students at teacher training colleges but will also appeal to interested readers wanting to get an overview of scientific modelling in general and different modelling approaches in particular. 108 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319331671 ISBN 13 : 9783319331676
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This SpringerBrief introduces the development and practical application of a module-oriented development framework for domain specific system-dynamic libraries (SDL approach), which can be used in the simulation of multi-causal and dynamic relationships on different levels of an industry, as an example the construction industry. Multidisciplinary research and development teams, scientists from different domains as well as practitioners can develop SDL units from varying perspectives based on this approach. For example, the explanation of the risk situation of a company, the identification and evaluation of project risks, endangered operational procedures on various functional levels, or to improve the understanding of the decision making process in detail. This book is an excellent source for researchers, programmers and practitioners. It enables the development of suitable simulation systems from the beginning and demonstrates that it is possible to connect the development of simulation models and daily work. It provides advanced-level students from different domains with a comprehensive overview and clear understanding of a new and valuable modeling technique. 120 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3031010345 ISBN 13 : 9783031010347
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book conveys the fundamentals of Linked Lexical Knowledge Bases (LLKB) and sheds light on their different aspects from various perspectives, focusing on their construction and use in natural language processing (NLP). It characterizes a wide range of both expert-based and collaboratively constructed lexical knowledge bases. Only basic familiarity with NLP is required and this book has been written for both students and researchers in NLP and related fields who are interested in knowledge-based approaches to language analysis and their applications. Lexical Knowledge Bases (LKBs) are indispensable in many areas of natural language processing, as they encode human knowledge of language in machine readable form, and as such, they are required as a reference when machines attempt to interpret natural language in accordance with human perception. In recent years, numerous research efforts have led to the insight that to make the best use of available knowledge, the orchestrated exploitation of different LKBs is necessary. This allows us to not only extend the range of covered words and senses, but also gives us the opportunity to obtain a richer knowledge representation when a particular meaning of a word is covered in more than one resource. Examples where such an orchestrated usage of LKBs proved beneficial include word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling, semantic parsing, and text classification. This book presents different kinds of automatic, manual, and collaborative linkings between LKBs. A special chapter is devoted to the linking algorithms employing text-based, graph-based, and joint modeling methods. Following this, it presents a set of higher-level NLP tasks and algorithms, effectively utilizing the knowledge in LLKBs. Among them, you will find advanced methods, e.g., distant supervision, or continuous vector space models of knowledge bases (KB), that have become widely used at the time of this book's writing. Finally, multilingual applications of LLKB's, such as cross-lingual semantic relatedness and computer-aided translation are discussed, as well as tools and interfaces for exploring LLKBs, followed by conclusions and future research directions. 148 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319425463 ISBN 13 : 9783319425467
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th InternationalConference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics, CICM 2016, held inBialystok, Poland, in July 2016.The 10 full papers and 2 short papers presentedwere carefully reviewed and selectedfrom a total of 41 submissions. The papers are organized in topicalsections according to the five tracks of the conference:Calculemus; Digital Mathematics Libraries; Mathematical KnowledgeManagement; Surveys and Projects; and Systems and Data. 180 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319414976 ISBN 13 : 9783319414973
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language, CNL 2016, held in Aberdeen, UK, in July 2016. The 11 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. The topicsrange from natural languageswhich are controlled, to controlled languages with a natural languageflavour; and from more theoretical results to interfaces, reasoning engines andreal-life applications of CNLs. 144 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319418262 ISBN 13 : 9783319418261
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop and Challenge on Computational Methods and Clinical Applications for Spine Imaging, CSI 2015, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2015, in Munich, Germany, in October 2015. The 9 workshop papers and 6 challenge contributions were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. The papers cover all major aspects related to spine imaging. 172 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319235427 ISBN 13 : 9783319235424
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In the first chapters the author describes how our knowledge of the position of Earth in space and time has developed, thanks to the work of many generationsof astronomers and physicists. He discusses how our position in the Galaxy was discovered, and how in 1929, Hubble uncovered the fact that the Universe is expanding, leading to the picture of the Big Bang. He then explains how astronomers have found that the laws of physics that were discovered here on Earth and in the Solar System(the laws of mechanics, gravity, atomic physics, electromagnetism, etc.) are valid throughout the Universe. This is illustrated by the fact that all matter in the Universe consists of atoms of the same chemical elements that we know on Earth. This unity is all the more surprising when one realizes that in the original Big Bang theory, different parts of the Universe could never have communicated with each other. It then is a mystery how they could have shared the same physical laws.This problem was solved by the introduction of the idea of inflation, a phase of extremely rapid expansion of the Universe during the first fraction of a second following the Big Bang. The author explains how the unity of the Universe finds its origin in the Big Bang prior to inflation. The book addresses the many fundamental questions about the Universe and its contents from the perspective of the Big Bang: the formation of structure in the Universe, the questions of the mysterious dark matter and dark energy, the possibilities of other Universes (the Multiverse) and of the existence of intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe. 328 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3031010353 ISBN 13 : 9783031010354
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book covers the topic of temporal tagging, the detection of temporal expressions and the normalization of their semantics to some standard format. It places a special focus on the challenges and opportunities of domain-sensitive temporal tagging. After providing background knowledge on the concept of time, the book continues with a comprehensive survey of current research on temporal tagging. The authors provide an overview of existing techniques and tools, and highlight key issues that need to be addressed. This book is a valuable resource for researchers and application developers who need to become familiar with the topic and want to know the recent trends, current tools and techniques, as well as different application domains in which temporal information is of utmost importance. Due to the prevalence of temporal expressions in diverse types of documents and the importance of temporal information in any information space, temporal tagging is an important task in natural language processing (NLP), and applications of several domains can benefit from the output of temporal taggers to provide more meaningful and useful results. In recent years, temporal tagging has been an active field in NLP and computational linguistics. Several approaches to temporal tagging have been proposed, annotation standards have been developed, gold standard data sets have been created, and research competitions have been organized. Furthermore, some temporal taggers have also been made publicly available so that temporal tagging output is not just exploited in research, but is finding its way into real world applications. In addition, this book particularly focuses on domain-specific temporal tagging of documents. This is a crucial aspect as different types of documents (e.g., news articles, narratives, and colloquial texts) result in diverse challenges for temporal taggers and should be processed in a domain-sensitive manner. 152 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319397796 ISBN 13 : 9783319397795
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This monograph deals with the mathematics of extending given partial data-sets obtained from experiments;Experimentalists frequently gather spectral data when the observed data is limited, e.g., by the precision of instruments; or by other limiting external factors. Herethe limited information is a restriction, and the extensions take the form of full positive definite function on some prescribed group.It is therefore both an art and a science to produce solid conclusions from restricted or limited data.While the theory of is important in many areas of pure and applied mathematics, it is difficult for students and for the novice to the field, to find accessible presentations which cover all relevant points of view, as well as stressing common ideas and interconnections. We have aimed at filling this gap, and we have stressed hands-on-examples. 260 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319316664 ISBN 13 : 9783319316666
Vendeur : Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This book uses the example of a partnership journey between universities, schools, the local health industry as well as a number of government organisations which worked to ensure the growth of physical education in primary education. The initiative employed the United Nations (UN) ideals as a model and contextualised them within local schools and communities. What began as a pathway seed quickly grew to involve multi-stakeholder partnerships and therefore explores how the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) may be implemented at a grass roots level. 188 pp. Englisch.
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Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319421077 ISBN 13 : 9783319421070
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The five-volume set LNCS 9786-9790 constitutes the refereed proceedingsof the 16th International Conference on Computational Science and ItsApplications, ICCSA 2016, held in Beijing, China, in July 2016.The 239 revised full papers and 14 short papers presented at 33 workshopswere carefully reviewed and selected from 849 submissions. They are organized in five thematical tracks: computational methods, algorithms and scientific applications; high performance computing and networks; geometric modeling, graphics and visualization; advanced and emerging applications; and information systems and technologies. 664 pp. Englisch.
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Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319415271 ISBN 13 : 9783319415277
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The two-volume set LNCS 9779 and LNCS 9780 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2016, held in Toronto, ON, USA, in July 2016.The total of 46 full and 12 short papers presented in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 195 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: probabilistic systems; synthesis; constraint solving; model checking; program analysis; timed and hybrid systems; verification in practice; concurrency; and automata and games. 560 pp. Englisch.
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Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319420917 ISBN 13 : 9783319420912
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The five-volume set LNCS 9786-9790 constitutes the refereed proceedingsof the 16th International Conference on Computational Science and ItsApplications, ICCSA 2016, held in Beijing, China, in July 2016.The 239 revised full papers and 14 short papers presented at 33 workshopswere carefully reviewed and selected from 849 submissions. They are organized in five thematical tracks: computational methods, algorithms and scientific applications; high performance computing and networks; geometric modeling, graphics and visualization; advanced and emerging applications; and information systems and technologies. 664 pp. Englisch.
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Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319420887 ISBN 13 : 9783319420882
Vendeur : Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The five-volume set LNCS 9786-9790 constitutes the refereed proceedingsof the 16th International Conference on Computational Science and ItsApplications, ICCSA 2016, held in Beijing, China, in July 2016.The 239 revised full papers and 14 short papers presented at 33 workshopswere carefully reviewed and selected from 849 submissions. They are organized in five thematical tracks: computational methods, algorithms and scientific applications; high performance computing and networks; geometric modeling, graphics and visualization; advanced and emerging applications; and information systems and technologies. 732 pp. Englisch.
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Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319342150 ISBN 13 : 9783319342153
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book outlines how cooperatives can be used as a tool for development and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts. This book also examines the successes and challenges for emerging and existing cooperatives in Africa, while delivering both practical lessons and insights into the theory. It presents completely new materials on the cooperative movement, against a backdrop of increasing global recognition of the roles of cooperatives and collective action in socio-economic development. Readers are invited to consider how, as an economic model that seeks to advance member collective interests, cooperatives are invaluable tools for human, economic and social development. Social and human geographers find this a remarkably impactful contribution to the literature surrounding cooperatives in Africa and cooperative theory in general. Policy experts and students also find the research informative and insightful. 116 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319308246 ISBN 13 : 9783319308241
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores an Australian regional community's reaction to, and involvement with, the Boer War. It argues that after the initial year the war became an 'occasional war' in that it was assumed that the empire would triumph. But it also laid the foundations for reactions to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. This is the first exploration of the place of the Boer War in Australian history at the community level. Indeed, even at the national level the literature is limited. It is often forgotten that, despite the claims that Australia became a federation via peaceful means, the colonies and the new nation were, in fact, at war. This study aims to bring back into focus a forgotten part of Australian and imperial history, and argues that the Australian experience of theBoer War was more than the execution of Morant and Hancock. 140 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319417177 ISBN 13 : 9783319417172
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th Russian Summer School on Information Retrieval, RuSSIR 2015, held in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in August 2015.The volume includes 5 tutorial papers, summarizing lectures given at the event, and 6revised papersfrom the school participants. The papers focus on various aspects of information retrieval. 208 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319315706 ISBN 13 : 9783319315706
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This brief describes how non-volatile change of the resistance , due to the application of electric voltage allows for fabrication of novel digital memory devices. The author explains the physics of the devices and provides a concrete description of the materials involved as well as the fundamental properties of the technology. He details how charge trapping, charge transfer and conductive filament formation effect resistive switching memory devices. 104 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319421018 ISBN 13 : 9783319421018
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 8.1 International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2016, held in Campinas, Brazil, in August 2016.The 16 full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: organisational semiotics: theory and research; semiotics of interactions and socially aware user interface design; digital business ecosystems; knowledge management and engineering; and trends, challenges and new issues in education, health and eScience systems. 272 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319316575 ISBN 13 : 9783319316574
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores humanity's relationship with the natural world throughout evolutionary history, and the need to reorient this onto a symbiotic basis. It integrates the themes of natural and artificial selection, the characteristics of historic 'revolutions', and directed versus random change. Inspiring community-based projects, mainly from the developing world, show how ecosystem regeneration uplifts human livelihoods in a positively reinforcing cycle, embodying lessons germane to co-creating a Symbiocene era wherein humanity's substantial influence (the Anthropocene) achieves increasing symbiosis with the natural processes shaping the former Holocene epoch. The Ecosystems Revolutionprovides practical, positive examples, highlighting the attainability of an 'ecosystems revolution'. 180 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319292625 ISBN 13 : 9783319292625
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is devoted to the exploration of environmental Prometheanism, the belief that human beings can and should master nature and remake it for the better. Meyer considers, among others, the question of why Prometheanism today is usually found on the political right while environmentalism is on the left.Chapters examine the works of leading Promethean thinkers of nineteenth and early and mid-twentieth century Britain, France, America, and Russia and how they tied their beliefs about the earth to a progressive, left-wing politics. Meyer reconstructs the logic of this 'progressive Prometheanism' and the reasons it has vanished from the intellectual scene today.The Progressive Environmental Prometheans broadens the reader's understanding of the history of the ideas behind Prometheanism. This book appeals to anyone with an interest in environmental politics, environmental history, global history, geography and Anthropocene studies. 232 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319420844 ISBN 13 : 9783319420844
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The five-volume set LNCS 9786-9790 constitutes the refereed proceedingsof the 16th International Conference on Computational Science and ItsApplications, ICCSA 2016, held in Beijing, China, in July 2016.The 239 revised full papers and 14 short papers presented at 33 workshopswere carefully reviewed and selected from 849 submissions. They are organized in five thematical tracks: computational methods, algorithms and scientific applications; high performance computing and networks; geometric modeling, graphics and visualization; advanced and emerging applications; and information systems and technologies. 680 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Springer International Publishing Jul 2016, 2016
ISBN 10 : 3319323148 ISBN 13 : 9783319323145
Vendeur : BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Allemagne
Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 104 pp. Englisch.