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This collection is a group of 20 papers selected from those originally presented during the WorldCALL III conference held in Fukuoka, Japan, in August 2008 on computer-assisted language learning. Sect
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This volume constitutes the second of three parts of the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, CCSIT 2010, held in Bangalore, India
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First published just over 50 years ago and now in its Eighth Edition, Bill Hayt and John Buck’s Engineering Electromagnetics is a classic text that has been updated for electromagnetics education toda
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The first, in a 2-series set of books focusing on North America, this book offers detailed listings of all the major Shakespeare plays on stage and screen. Exploring each of the play’s performance his
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Following a May 2006 report on the state of simulation-based engineering science in the US, the National Science Foundation commissioned a second study to assess its state worldwide, expanding to incl
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