Palgrave, 2019. — 280 p. This innovative edited collection explores digital business models (DBMs) in theory and practice to contribute to knowledge of how companies, organizations and networks can design, implement and apply DBMs. It views DBMs in a range of contexts and forms, which can be integrated in a number of ways, and aims to inspire and enable academics, students and...
Brill, 2001. — 232 p.
Ancient texts are ambiguous, and the Hebrew Bible is no exception. One might even frame the history of a religion as a history of a belief system’s management of ambiguity. Applying a linguistic model, Aaron systematically examines and veritably celebrates this inherent ambiguity in order to understand God-related idioms in the Hebrew Bible, more...
Academic Press, 2013. — 160 p. The purpose of this book is to introduce in a concise and self-contained form the concepts, ideas, applications and examples of efficiency-driven drug discovery to the biomedical community at large. The book emphasizes the use of 'new variables' and more objective numerical methods to drive drug discovery in an encompassing way. These 'new variables'...
Springer, 2013. — 192 p. The book provides a comprehensive review of the role of and technical considerations regarding robotic surgery for conditions of the kidney and associated conditions of the upper urinary tract. In addition to serving as a reference regarding indications, preoperative and postoperative management, complications, and evidence-based outcomes, this text also...
Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2020. — 410 p. Transforming the way we live, work, and engage with our environment, 5G and beyond technologies will provide much higher bandwidth and connectivity to billions of devices. This brings enormous opportunities but of course the widespread deployment of these technologies faces challenges, including the need for reliable...
Springer, 2015. — 239 p.
This book is about elite types of thought processes and architectures for big data and modeling that can enable smart and real-time decisions. Today’s world is abundant with data and models; many new problems are formulated and solved everyday; many artificial-intelligence, mathematical, and statistical models exist, but there is a lack of scholarly work...
Springer, 2017. — 333 p. This text provides a comprehensive, sate of the art review of complications related to anorectal surgical procedures old and new. As anorectal surgery has evolved throughout the decades, newer and at times unexpected complications arise as of necessity. Any surgeon not familiar with these, may be perplexed as to how to manage these specific complications...
Springer, 2016. — 167 p. This book is designed to help students and researchers understand the latest research and development trends in the domain of geospatial information and communication (GeoICT) technologies. Accordingly, it covers the fundamentals of geospatial information systems, spatial positioning technologies, and networking and mobile communications, with a focus on...
Springer, 2019. — 112 p. This book aims to help students, researchers and policy makers understand the latest research and development trends in the application of WebGIS for Disaster Management and Emergency Response. It is designed as a useful tool to better assess the mechanisms for planning, response and mitigation of the impact of disaster scenarios at the local, regional or...
Springer, 2018. — 174 p. This book is a surgical manual, intended to present and discuss the use of robotic surgery for abdominal wall hernia repair. It comprises the most important surgical approaches in the field, presenting step by step procedures in a clear and didactic way. Abdominal wall hernias are very common conditions, easily identifiable in clinical practice and that...
Springer, 2013. — 338 p. Provides the guidelines to use finite elements in each phase of designing a satellite structure, but also includes practical examples and illustrations to explain how they can be applied. Introduces an approach which applies stochastic finite element method in analysis of satellite structure and uses finite element method in manufacturing simulation to...
IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995. — 303 p. This book illustrates important ways in which new parallel hardware is being used to improve the speed and usefulness of a variety of information systems. It contains thirteen original papers that survey the latest trends in performance enhancing architectures for smart information systems. The machines featured in the text have been...
Springer, 2014. — 325 p. This volume provides an up-to-date account of the achievements pertaining to the application of capsaicin and capsaicin-like molecules in the therapy of various human ailments such as pain, non-allergic rhinitis, obesity, tumors and gastrointestinal, dermatologic and urologic disorders. It discusses the basic functions of the capsaicin receptor (TRPV1),...
Springer, 2018. — 197 p. This book takes the reader on a journey from the moment that raw wood material enters the factory to the final pellet consumption. It starts by reviewing biomass application and its role for the future development of renewable energies, discussing different biomass conversion methods as alternatives to direct utilization. The second chapter then...
Springer, 2015. — 759 p. Proceedings of ENUMATH 2013, the 10th European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Lausanne, August 2013. This book gathers a selection of invited and contributed lectures from the European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (ENUMATH) held in Lausanne, Switzerland, August 26-30, 2013. It provides an...
Springer, 2006. — 752 p. The International Workshop on 3D Geoinformation is a refereed workshop. We received more than 70 technical papers. After a careful selection we have admitted 51 papers, which are included in this book. The selected papers were divided into two categories, i.e, oral and poster presentations as indicated in this book. Covers: Data collection and modeling:...
Springer, 2006. — 411 p. The Cryptographers' Track at the RSA Conference 2007, San Fancisco, CA, USA, February 5-9, 2007, Proceedings. The RSA Conference, with over 15,000 attendees and 300 exhibitors, is the largest computer security event of the year. The Cryptographers’ Track (CT- RSA) is a research conference within the RSA Conference. Starting in 2001, CT-RSA continues to its...
2nd edition. — Wiley, 2013. — 523 p. This new edition of the book continues the successful formula of the first edition, providing a concise and thorough overview of Electrophysiology supplemented by challenging questions readers can use to test their knowledge and prepare for examinations. Comprehensively updated and significantly expanded to include the latest recommendations,...
CRC Press, 2016. — 290 p.
Developed from the efforts of a multiyear, international project examining how persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic (PBT) chemicals are evaluated and managed, Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) Chemicals: Technical Aspects, Policies, and Practices focuses on improving the processes that govern PBTs. Incorporating science and policy...
CRC Press, 2015. — 360 p. Ophthalmology is a highly specialized field with complex conditions and a wide range of practitioners. This book provides an overview of clinical ophthalmology using the visually driven "mindmaps" format, a tool that summarizes topics with a logical pictorial structure to aid in memory retention. With this book, clinicians can obtain information quickly,...
BPB Publications, 2023. — 88 p. This book will teach you how to analyze algorithms to handle the difficulties of sophisticated programming. It will then help you understand how advanced data structures are used to store and manage data efficiently. Moving on, it will help you explore and work with Divide and Conquer techniques, Dynamic programming, and Greedy algorithms....
Springer, 2018. — 390 p. This volume provides a comprehensive and world-class review of the field of histiocytic neoplasms and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). It reviews all the advances in the field of histiocytoses during the last ten years, particularly with regards to the genomic findings in LCH and other histiocytic neoplasms and the new suggested classification of...
Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2003. — 256 p. — (NATO Science Series). — ISBN: 1-58603-324-7. This work reports critical analyses on complexity issues in the continuum setting and on generalization to new examples, which are two basic milestones in learning from examples in connectionist models. The problem of loading the weights of neural networks, which is often framed as continuous...
Springer, 2007. — 406 p. This volume brings together the key research issues in clinical and laboratory science relating to metastasis in prostate cancer. Coverage ranges from the most fundamental aspects of the molecular biology of metastasis, to the patient in the clinic. The therapeutic approaches range from conventional drug design to immunogene therapy. Prostate cancer is an...
Wiley, 2010. — 945 p.
Third Edition
The renowned Principles and Practice of Geriatric Psychiatry, now in its third edition, addresses the social and biological concepts of geriatric mental health from an international perspective. Featuring contributions by distinguished authors from around the world, the book offers a distinctive angle on issues in this continually developing...
Springer, 2006. — 275 p. Swarm Intelligence is an innovative distributed intelligent paradigm for solving optimization problems that originally took its inspiration from the biological examples by swarming, flocking and herding phenomena in vertebrates. Data Mining is an analytic process designed to explore large amounts of data in search of consistent patterns and/or systematic...
Springer, 2006. — 787 p. This volume presents the proceedings of the 9th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC9), September 20th - October 08th, 2004, held on the World Wide Web. It contains plenary lectures, original papers and tutorials presented during the conference. The book brings together outstanding research and developments in the field...
Springer, 2009. — 327 p. Along the years, rough set theory has earned a well-deserved reputation as a sound methodology for dealing with imperfect knowledge in a simple though mathematically sound way. This edited volume aims at continue stressing the benefits of applying rough sets in many real-life situations while still keeping an eye on topological aspects of the theory as...
Springer, 2015. — 356 p.
This Volume presents the selected papers from the 5 Parallel Symposiums of the 2014 Fourth World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2014) held in Malacca, Malaysia. The theme of WICT 2014 'Innovating ICT for Social Revolutions'. WICT 2014 is Co-Organized by Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA and Universiti...
IOS Press, 2002. — 917 p. Intelligent Systems cover a broad area of knowledge-based systems, computational intelligence, soft computing, and their hybrid combinations. Research and development in intelligent systems have enabled us to not only solve a range of problems which were previously considered too difficult but also have enabled a larger number of other problems to be...
Springer, 2004. — 163 p. This book presents the basic principles and the guidelines for the design of IR and microwave radiometers intended for the detection of weak electromagnetic signals in a noisy background. Significant attention is paid in this book to the discussion of the origin of the noises and consideration of the physical factors limiting the sensitivity of photo...
Routledge, 2019. — 159 p. This book is a unique collection of comprehensive cases that explore concepts and issues surrounding strategic marketing. Chapters explain what strategic marketing is, and then discuss strategic segmentation, competitive positioning, and strategies for growth, corporate branding, internal brand management, and corporate reputation management. With case...
Information Science Publishing, 2008. — 319 p. With the onslaught of emergent technology in academia, libraries are privy to many innovative techniques to recognize and classify geospatial data—above and beyond the traditional map librarianship. As librarians become more involved in the development and provision of GIS services and resources, they encounter both problems and...
Morris Book Publishing, 2010. — 97 p. The book informs readers about how to build a shelter; start a fire; find or prepare drinkable water; navigate when lost; find food, and other important skill to survive and stay alive. This handy pocket-sized guide includes two popouts, and incorporates color photos, charts, and illustrations as needed throughout the interior.
Springer, 2017. — 263 p. This work presents invited contributions from the second "International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics". Addressing several research fields across the mathematical sciences, all of the papers were prepared by faculty members at universities in the Gulf region or prominent international researchers. The current volume is the first of its kind in...
Springer, 2016. — 227 p. This book assists appropriate headache assessment and decision-making in pediatrics. It covers many aspects and causes of headache disorders in children and adolescents using case studies to illustrate important points in history, examination, diagnosis, choice of management approach, therapy selection, and communication of the most helpful advice to...
Packt, 2023. — 360 p. Learn how to use Python scripts in Blender 3.3 to automate tasks, optimize your workflow, think like a 3D programmer, and start creating your tools quickly Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features: Discover ready-to-go scripts that provide a clear solution to your problems Find out how to automate repetitive tasks in an...
Springer, 2015. — 73 p.
Marine fronts are part of the structural complexity of the sea; they are narrow boundaries separating different water masses. Fronts are caused by diverse forcing and occur throughout the world ocean at several spatial and temporal scales. Unlike terrestrial ecotones, they show high biological production, affecting pelagic and benthic organisms of all...
CRC Press, 2013. — 346 p. The book covers the very recent developments undertaken for monitoring forest areas from global to national levels using Earth observation satellite data. It describes operational tools and systems for monitoring forest ecosystems, discussing why and how researchers currently use remotely sensed data to study forest cover and loss over large areas. The...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2013. — 332 p. In this massive best seller in England, one of Britain's most popular and esteemed historians tells the epic story of the birth of the country. Peter Ackroyd, whose work has always been underpinned by a profound interest in and understanding of England's history, now tells the epic story of England itself. In Foundation the chronicler of...
Elsevier, 2014. — 169 p. Introductory Immunology quickly acquaints readers with natural immune responses manifesting in diseases and disorders. The book presents a complete picture of natural defenses to infectious agents, as well as the mechanisms that lead to autoimmune dysfunction. In addition, it examines immunologically based diseases, giving the reader sufficient...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 774 p. Smart and Functional Textiles is an application-oriented book covering a wide range of areas from multifunctional nanofinished textiles, coated and laminated textiles, wearable e-textiles, textile-based sensors and actuators, thermoregulating textiles, to smart medical textiles and stimuli-responsive textiles. It also includes chapters on 3D printed...
Springer, 1997. — 146 p. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been experiencing a steady and unprecedented growth in terms of general interest, theory development, and new applications in the last decade or so. GIS is an inter-disciplinary field that brings together many diverse areas such as computer science, geography, cartography, engineering, and urban planning....
Wiley, 1991. — 335 p.
Although devoted to constructions of good codes for error control, secrecy or data compression, the emphasis is on the first direction. Introduces a number of important classes of error-detecting and error-correcting codes as well as their decoding methods. Background material on modern algebra is presented where required. The role of error-correcting codes...
Oxbow Books, 2013. — 323 p. In the last fifty years, the investigation of maritime archaeological sites in the sea, in the coastal zone and in their interconnectiong locales, has emerged as one of archaeology's most dynamic and fast developing fields. No longer a niche interest, maritime archaeology is recognised as having central relevance in the integrated study of the human...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 581 p. No country can rival the sheer diversity of intelligence organizations that Germany has experienced over the past 300 years. Given its pivotal geographical and political position in Europe, Germany was a magnet for foreign intelligence operatives, especially during the Cold War. As a result of this, it is no wonder that during certain periods of...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. - 379 p.
Remote Sensing of Landscapes with Spectral Images is designed as a textbook and reference for graduate students and professionals in a variety of disciplines including ecology, forestry, geology, geography, urban planning, archeology, and civil engineering, who want to use spectral images to help solve problems in the field....
Mercury Learning and Information, 2019. — 745 p. This book is designed as a self-teaching, calculus-based introduction to the concepts of physics. Numerous examples, applications, and figures provide readers with simple explanations. Standard topics include vectors, conservation of energy, Newton’s Laws, momentum, motion, gravity, relativity, waves, fluid mechanics, circuits,...