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This book explains why applications running on cloud might not deliver the same service reliability, availability, latency and overall quality to end users as they do when the applications are running
Since the 1950s, the right to conscientious objection to military service in international human rights law has excited the interest of both non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations in a
The current economic and political climate places ever greater pressure on public organizations to deliver services in a cost-efficient way. Focused on the costs of service delivery, governments acros
This volume analyses and presents the results of the trade, service and financial operations between any given country and the rest of the world. Among other issues the volume discusses tax measures o
Acclaimed as the "the most objective prosecutors in the world", the German prosecution service has long attracted the attention in the past of comparative law scholars. At first glance, the institutio
As the National Park Service prepares for its centennial in 2016, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of philanthropy in national parks, with a focus on non-profit organizations known
This ethnography describes and explains how Mennonite Disaster Service, following a well-established tradition of helping their neighbors, organized volunteer efforts for the 2005 and 2008 Gulf Coast
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This book contains mainly the selected papers of the First International Workshop on Medical and Service Robots, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 2012. The high quality of the scientific contributions
Benedetta Brevini investigates the extent to which a Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) ethos has been extended to the online world in Europe. She examines the most significant policy initiatives carri
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This volume investigates the future of public service reform in the UK. Containing original research from some of the UK's leading political thinkers, it explores the interface between citizens, the s
Mental Health Service Users in Research explores the sociological use of autobiography, examining how our identity shapes the knowledge we produce. The contributors—many of whom are former or current
Art at the Service of War is the story of how artists as diverse as modernist Paul Nash, the revolutionary Vorticist Wyndham Lewis, and young Canadians such as A.Y. Jackson came to paint Canada’s war.
In 1993, Alan J. Dixon’s political career came to an end with a defeat—the first one in his forty-three years of elected service. Beginning his legislative career in 1950 as a Democrat in the Illinois
Customers at Work is about the ongoing transformation of service relationships, focusing on the incorporation of the customer's active contribution to virtually all aspects and stages of the productio
This informative and accessible book provides a one-stop guide to navigating the many financial questions facing today’s military in all phases of service: active duty, preparing for transition or ret
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A comprehensive, practical introduction to one of the most important new trends in manufacturing, globallyThe delivery of a service component as an added value when providing products, servitization i
The service sector in most advanced economies accounts for up to seventy percent of employment and GDP and, given its growing importance, has received much research attention over the last two decades
Collects research papers, presented at the "5th CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product-Service Systems", Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany, March 14th - 15th, 2013. In this title, these re
This is the first book-length study of the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service between 1854 and1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideol
Innovations in cloud and service-oriented architectures continue to attract attention by offering interesting opportunities for research in the scientific communities. Advancements such as computation
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In 1933 Franklin Roosevelt created America's first, largest, and most highly esteemed domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps. As part of the CCC, Americans worked to rehabi
With the continuous growth of the service sector, the ability to develop and implement information systems is important in order to measure progress. Implementation and Integration of Information Syst
"This book brings together different perspectives on the understanding of e-service and mobile communication and their effect on the fields of marketing, management and information systems"--Provided
In the summer of 1968, Liberation News Service—a news outlet akin to the Associated Press of the New Left underground media—split into warring factions. Acrimony deepened as the two sides fought for c
The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, which was led by British staff, is often seen as one of the key agents of Western imperialism in China, the customs revenue being one of the major sources of Chin
Approaches to service oriented architecture and cloud computing almost always assume starting a system from scratch, which for many otherwise potential customers is not viable for financial or other r
