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The two-volume set LNCS 8346 and 8347 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2013, held in Hangzhou, China,
The two-volume set LNCS 8346 and 8347 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2013, held in Hangzhou, China,
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2013, held in Nantes, France, in July 2013. The 63 full papers pres
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This book focuses on the notion of “vintage innovation” and its application in various old technology-based communities of practice. Some communities of practice resist and react to technological chan
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In A Hunting We Did Go: True Mountain Adventures, the author takes you on his journeys into the mountains. While you read, you feel like he is right there beside you, sharing his experiences with you.
The book provides an updated and detailed overview on advances in bioethanol. It looks at the historical perspectives, chemistry, sources and production of ethanol and discusses biotechnology breakthr
This book provides a comprehensive up-to-date presentation of some of the classical areas of reliability, based on a more advanced probabilistic framework using the modern theory of stochastic proces
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This book offers an essential bridge between college-level introductions and advanced graduate-level books on special relativity. It begins at an elementary level, presenting and discussing the basic
This book presents an analysis and a critical discussion on performance management systems. It seeks to advance the current state of knowledge in the subject by introducing a holistic performance mana
Not only are European industries shrinking and experiencing diminishment of their capability to add value, but Europe has lost more than a third of its GDP, which had been primarily based on manufactu
Becoming a caregiver is increasingly an inevitable experience for many people and, therefore, a likely life transition. Drawing on research and personal experiences of working with family caregivers,
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, DILS 2013, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in July 2013. The 10 revised paper
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Hybrid Learning, ICHL 2013, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in August 2013. The 35 papers presented in this volume we
"The book is great! It's clear and easy to read, with loads of examples that showed my students what to do." -- Larry Snyder, Emeritus Professor, University of Washington, Department of Com
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of eight international workshops held in Valencia, Spain, in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Advanced Information System
This volume consists of twenty peer-reviewed papers from the special session on pseudodifferential operators and the special session on generalized functions and asymptotics at the Eighth Congress of
Offering constructive insight into the interconnection of language, cognition and affect, this book presents and analyzes theoretical and empirical research on foreign and second language processes. C
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I thought I heard God's call. I was on the path to religious Brotherhood. Life was going smoothly, and then suddenly, I met Robert, a teen whose life was filled with trials never faced by people decad
You might not be able to change your past, but you can change your future by changing your actions today. In Don't Rock My Boat, author Abiola Olaifa takes you on a journey of self-discovery in order
