Winner of the 2015 International Book Awards New Age: Non-Fiction CategoryFinalist in the 10th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards for New Age Non-Fiction CategoryFed up with living life as an opi
Winner of the 2015 International Book Awards New Age: Non-Fiction CategoryFinalist in the 10th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards for New Age Non-Fiction CategoryFed up with living life as an opi
This book is organized into thirteen chapters that range over the relevant approaches and tools in data integration, modeling, analysis and knowledge discovery for signaling pathways. Having in mind t
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed revised selected papers of the First Workshop on Big Data Benchmarks, WBDB 2012, held in San Jose, CA, USA, in May 2012 and the Second Workshop on Big Dat
Set in Malaysia, this book encompasses language and cultural policy challenges that many other multi-ethnic nations currently have to address. The people of Malaysia constitute a diverse ethnic, lingu
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Algorithms for Sensor Systems, Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Autonomous Mobile Entities, ALGOSENSORS 2013, held in Sophia Ant
This book explores teacher workplace learning from four different perspectives: social policy, international comparators, multi-professional stances/perspectives and socio-cultural theory. First, it c
Advance Praise for Indian Mujahideen: Computational Analysis and Public Policy “This book presents a highly innovative computational approach to analyzing the strategic behavior of terrorist groups an
A fully-updated and reworked version of the classic book by Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart, now joined by Rhonda Nixon, The Action Research Planner is a detailed guide to developing and conducting
This book is devoted to the Educational Data Mining arena. It highlights works that show relevant proposals, developments, and achievements that shape trends and inspire future research. After a rigor
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
Presents an exploration of lucid dreaming theory and practice within both Western and Tibetan Buddhist contexts. This book explores lucid dreaming practices, and also the techniques of Mindfulness of
Based on detailed analysis of applications in business and government sectors, this book discusses the current state and future trends of virtual advisory services in digital environments. Shows how t
This book provides a comprehensive review of the current knowledge on writing and publishing scientific research papers and the social contexts. It deals with both English and non-Anglophone science w
This book covers performance analysis of computer networks, and begins by providing the necessary background in probability theory, random variables, and stochastic processes. Queuing theory and sim
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
The objective of the book is to give a selection from the papers, which summarize several important results obtained within the framework of the Jozsef Hatvany Doctoral School operating at the Univers
The book examines the evolution and current state of corporate social responsibility (CSR), using a five-stage maturity model: defensive, charitable, promotional, strategic and transformative CSR. The
This book is about the history of product variety in the US automotive industry from the black Ford-T to hot-rodders and easy-riders up to latest trends. It focuses on the dual structure of automotive
This book introduces to the theory of structural dynamics, with focus on civil engineering structures that may be described by line-like beam or beam-column type of systems, or by a system of rectangu
??This book uses a multi-methods study of incarcerated youths to examine the pathways to gang involvement, the drug distribution system and hierarchy within gangs, levels of traumatic stress and depre
?This book provides an overview of three generations of spatial econometric models: models based on cross-sectional data, static models based on spatial panels and dynamic spatial panel data models. T
This book aims to present a viable alternative to the Hopfield Neural Network (HNN) model for analog computation. It is well known the standard HNN suffers from problems of convergence to local minima
This book examines food in the United States in the age of the Internet. One major theme running through the book is business opportunities and failures, as well as the harms to consumers and traditio
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 discusses the rapidly developing subject of mathematical analysis that deals primarily with stability of functional equations in generalized spaces. The fundamental problem in this subject w
Offering an innovative approach to coaching psychology, this book proposes a form where the coach and the coaches are less concerned with solutions and more concerned with creating space for (self-) r
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
Emphasizing the unique and sometimes competing demands of listener and speaker, this book draws on linguistic theory, psycholinguistic studies and computational modeling to examine resulting asymmetri
The book presents a basic introduction to epidemiology from the perspective of economics, using economic modeling to better understand and describe how infectious disease spreads. Three main elements
This book covers the latest advances in the rapid growing field of inter-cooperative collective intelligence aiming the integration and cooperation of various computational resources, networks and int
The essays collected in this book discuss the contemporary practice of corporate responsibility by applying the Christian principles of the unity of knowledge and pursuit of truth to the traditional p
This book examines borrowing and risk taking behavior of rural people, which might help to design financial products and delivery of services in the rural market. It also investigates the effectivenes
This book deals with condition as a main aspect in the understanding of the performance—regarding both stability and complexity—of numerical algorithms. It offers partial solutions for Smale's 17th p
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 analyzes the productivity and effectiveness of a variety of time investments in education. It explores the methods used in education to optimize the time that students are exposed to learnin
This book approaches the field of positive psychology from a post-modern perspective. It explores the consequences of combining current trends and models with supplementary participatory and transform
