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This book constitutes the proceedings of the second workshop on Business Process Modeling Notation, BPMN 2010, held in Potsdam, Germany, in October 2010. The 6 research papers presented were carefully
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This short primer provides a concise and tutorial-style introduction to transport phenomena in Newtonian fluids , in particular the transport of mass, energy and momentum.The reader will find detailed
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Whilst scientific research can be crucial in guiding innovation and development throughout the world, it can be too detached from real world applications, particularly in developing and emerging count
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Terror strikes Matt Jax and his bounty-hunting family when their teenage son Nathan comes up missing. While in the midst of various bounties and captures, which are detailed in several chapters, Domin
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