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This book contains the joint proceedings of the Winter School of Hakodate (WSH) 2011 held in Hakodate, Japan, March 15–16, 2011, and the 6th International Workshop on Natural Computing (6th IWNC) held
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Applied Parallel and Scientific Computing, PARA 2012, held in Helsinki, Finland, in June 2012. The 35 revised f
Distributed computing paradigms for sharing resources such as Clouds, Grids, Peer-to-Peer systems, or voluntary computing are becoming increasingly popular. While there are some success stories such a
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies, PaCT 2005, held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia in September 2005.The 38 revised full pape
International Trade Subsidy Rules and Tax and Financial Export Incentives is an inquiry into the interrelations between international trade subsidy rules and the use of tax and financial export incent
She argues with her mother. She occasionally skips class. And she alternately crushes on two totally different boys. But Chloe King is by no means your typical teenager. The girl can scale buildings
Dr. Sherwin Nuland, author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die, once again combines knowledge, compassion, and elegance of expression to shed light on the workings of our bodies from the per
Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes
Many often wonder about who they really are, why they are here, what their existence signifies, and how they should conduct their lives. In Parallel Paths to Personal Growth, author Eugene X. Pertione
This book provides an interdisciplinary collection of views on the ethical challenges and opportunities of workplaces in the Internet of things. Current developments within Ubiquitous computing (ubico
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2010, and International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP. The 47 papers were carefully selected from 157 submissions a
This volume of Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing contains accepted papers presented at SOCO 2010 held in the beautiful and historic city of Guimaraes, Portugal, June 2010. This volume present
Containing detailed papers on search computing, this book includes some visionary contributions on the latest trends and explores the background and related technologies. The papers are written by lea
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2012, held in Porto, Portugal, in April 2012. The 15 pa
Predictions for 2011-2019 In this book you will read exactly what the ancient prophecies are predicting for the dates March 12, 2016, March 12, 2017 and March 12, 2018, plus or minus 30 days. Or in J
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, HPCS 2009, held in Kingston, Canad
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Pervasive 2010, held in Helsinki, Finland, in May 2010. The 24 full papers and one note presented were
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications, ARC 2010, held in Bangkok Thailand, in March 2010. The 42 p
"Domain decomposition methods are divide and conquer methods for the parallel and computational solution of partial differential equations of elliptic or parabolic type. They include iterative algorit
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2005, held in Lake Tahoe, NV, USA in December 2005.The 33 revised full papers and 26 poste
Tells how to create free publicity, effective advertising, and successful direct mail campaigns, and discusses name and logo selection, marketing strategy, customer service, and networking
Linked Open Data (LOD) is a pragmatic approach for realizing the Semantic Web vision of making the Web a global, distributed, semantics-based information system. This book presents an overview on the
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Fast Compact Algorithms and Software for Spline Smoothing investigates algorithmic alternatives for computing cubic smoothing splines when the amount of smoothing is determined automatically by minimi
The Spinning Tops are disembodied beings who coexist with us on Earth in an invisible, parallel dimension. They send us messages of love and peace, and they help relieve our anxieties. They support us
After years of decline, poetry is once again regaining its rightful place in the field of popular art and entertainment. This growth has been spurred on by the advent of social networking, which has m
In this compelling companion volume to her acclaimed memoir Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever once again gives readers a revealing look into her famous family, whose secrets and eccentricities parallel
"It seems you have acquired about you a field that affects the links between multiple parallel worlds, causing objects and individuals from these worlds to slip into yours . . . or you to sli
'The Flaming Bullet' attempts to determine all root causes of the disturbances manifest across England in August 2011. It compares recent findings with past riots and their associated motivations. Add
What did a high school varsity basketball team and a nine-year-old boy with cancer have to do with each other during the 2010-2011 season? The basketball team encouraged and lifted up the nine-year-ol
Run, Rinse, Repeat is Coach Mike Boza's story of his 2011 Plant High School cross country team's quest to win a historic state championship and his own preparation for the 2012 ING Miami Marathon. The
C te d'Ivoire, Caught in Cross Fire, and Africa, in Dire Straits This book is a thorough analysis of the postelectoral crisis in C te d'Ivoire in 2011 that led to an unprecedented and horrid manslaugh
On April 27, 2011 sixty two tornadoes touched down in Alabama claiming two hundred and fifty three innocent lives. One of those tornadoes, an EF5 that tracked across Northern Alabama and into Tennesse
Rejoining Joy seems like a hard task, but these blogs from "Psychology Today" show you that it's possible and how to do it. Most of the blogs are from 2011, with some from 2012.Sections I and II intro
This historical mystery contains two stories which gradually merge into one. One occurs during 2011, while the other takes place in 1863 during the height of the Civil War.In 2011, after moving to Sou
The poetry and stories in section 1 are from Families published separately in conjunction with Writershed, the Women Writers Workshop, a group Kay founded in 2011, now on Amazon and Kindle. The other
