This open access volume features a data-rich portrait of what young adults think about the world.

Furthermore, it investigates the interaction, cooperation and fusion of transnational organized crime and Islamist terrorism and highlights new communication technologies as vital tools for terrorism.In light of asymmetrical security threats in western democracies as well as in conflict regions, this timely book examines the actors, strategies and tactics of Islamist terrorism and transnational organized crime around the globe. The New Terrorism Lastly, the book provides an analysis of asymmetrical strategies and tactics used by terrorist organisations, and of low-level terrorism.

Following this development, the research interest especially in the strategies pursued by PSFs has grown substantially. Entrepreneurial Strategies of Professional Service Firms In addition to a detailed case study report, it offers a comprehensive theoretical framework and argues that PSFs have to employ a set of seven specific entrepreneurial strategies – including for example service delivery, people development, and client acquisition strategies – in order to successfully manage the entrepreneurial phase.

Network, Smart and Open The book’s primary aim is to investigate how these innovations could influence information systems (with a particular focus on accounting and management information systems) by enhancing their information potentialities and improv ing accounting methodologies, performance measurement systems, data management, information systems architectures, and external and internal reporting. The book discusses the relevance of these three new concepts in connection with technological and organizational innovations (i.This book presents a collection of original research papers addressing the relationship between information systems (IS) and innovation.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Natural Computing, TPNC 2021, held virtually, in December 2021. The 9 full papers presented together with 3 invited talks, in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions.The papers are organized in topical sections named Applications of Natural Computing, Deep Learning and Transfer Learning, Evolutionary and Swarm Algorithms..

In this concise introduction to the complexities of contemporary western intelligence and its dynamics during an era of globalization, Adam Svendsen discusses intelligence cooperation in the early 21st century, with a sharp focus on counter-terrorism and WMD counter-proliferation during the 'War on Terror.'.

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The papers present the state of the art numerical simulation in domains such as (1) New trends in modelling for marine, river & urban hydraulics; (2) Stakeholders & practitioners of simulation; (3) 3D CFD & applications. Advances in Hydroinformatics. The book is a collection of extended papers which have been selected for presentation during the SIMHYDRO 2012 conference held in Sophia Antipolis in September 2012.

At least 10 years have elapsed since a comprehensive monograph concer­ ned with the broad subject of cryogenics has been published. Furthermore, the level of treatment is more advanced and a certain knowledge of fundamental engineering and physics principles has been assumed.

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Technologies, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning Post-COVID-19.The academic community and those interested in education agree that education after the corona pandemic will not be the same as before. This book aims to assess the experience of education during COVID-19 pandemic and explore the future of application of technologies and artificial intelligence in education. Education delivery requires the support of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and machine learning to fight and aspire to new diseases.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2015, held in Poznań, Poland, in September 2015.They were organized in topical sections named: interoperability and information integration; multimedia information management and retrieval and digital curation; personal information management and personal digital libraries; exploring semantic web and linked data; user studies for and evaluation of digital library systems and applications; applications of digital libraries; digital humanities; and social-technical perspectives of digital information.  The 22 full papers and 14 poster and demo papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions.

Find The Devil's Double by Dominic Cooper in Blu-ray (AC-3, Dolby, Widescreen)..

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These elements of our world, physicists and chemists tell us, are different forms of quantum energy. Cairns-Smith in this provocative, witty, and highly accessible discussion of conscious awareness, free will, and science.G.

The research described in the thesis first develops an automatic load modelling tool (ALMT) that can be used to automatically build load model from actual measured power system data without human intervention and the benefits of the ALMY are explored.Power System Loads and Power System Stability Thirdly, a novel probabilistic methodology for determining the accuracy levels of critical load model parameters has been developed. This book will be of interest to students and researchers within the field of electrical engineering, as well as industry professionals.

This book contains updates on several different approaches for comparative purposes but concentrates on developments in the area of laser-produced plasmas, whereby transient population inversion and gain between ion states is pumped by optical lasers interacting with pre-formed plasmas.

Aus dieser Tatsache ergibt sich, daß die betriebliche Personalpolitik ein Hauptbestandteil des Aufgabengebietes der Unternehmensleitung sein muß. Betriebliche Personalpolitik Einflußnahme auf das Betriebsleben ist Einflußnahme auf das Leben der betriebsangehörigen Menschen schlechthin.

The former was first made possible by the advent of the Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek (DLVO) theory of the stability of lyophobic colloids in 1948.

Cell-Based Assays Using iPSCs for Drug Development and Testing. The volume presents a variety of protocols that will be useful to researchers working in the field of disease modeling, drug discovery, and the cell biology of various tissues. Chapters in this book cover topics such as requirements and preconditions for using human induced pluripotent cell lines in assay development; the culture of iPSCs and iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes by bioreactor technologies; distinctions between hepatocytes, vascular endothelial cells, cardiomyocytes, renal podocytes, and neurons; and high content assays of mitochondrial function and autophagy.Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.

Each session (day) saw two principal speakers expounding the different views; the session chairmen were asked to summarize the ensuing discussions. Kinetics of Interface Reactions Phenomenological approaches have been based on a small number of rate equations for the concentrations or mole numbers of the various species involved in a par­ ticular system with the relevant rate constants either fitted (in the form of the Arrheniusparametrization) to experimental data or calculated on the basis of microscopic models. It was our intention to concentrate on just three topics related to the kinetics of interface reactions which, in our opinion, were frequently obscured unnecessarily in the literature and whose fundamental nature warranted an extensive discussion to help clarify the issues, very much in the spirit of the Discussions of the Faraday Society.

Trends in Ambient Intelligent Systems The book addresses implications of ambient intelligence in areas of domestic living, elderly care, robotics, communication, philosophy and others. The objective of this edited volume is to show that Ambient Intelligence is a boon to humanity with conceptual, philosophical, methodical and applicative understanding. The book contains research work, with in-depth state of the art from augmented sensors, embedded technology and artificial intelligence along with cutting-edge research and development of technologies and applications of Ambient Intelligent Networks..

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Oncology, ISMCO 2021, held in October 2021.

Together, medical anthropology and the history of medicine offer a useful lens with which to understand Victorian texts. Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë's literary representations of illness and disease reflect the major role illness played in the lives of the Victorians and its frequent reoccurrence within the Brontës' personal lives. Reading the Brontë Body. An in-depth analysis of the history of nineteenth-century medicine provides the necessary cultural context to understand these representations, giving modern readers a sense of how health, illness, and the body were understood in Victorian England.

Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben..

Part I - LNICST 357 - details original research and results of wireless and satellite technology for a smarter global communication architecture..

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This book contains the proceedings of the first Workshop on Interface Phenomena, organized jointly by the surface science groups at Dalhousie University and the University of Maine. It was our intention to concentrate on just three topics related to the kinetics of interface reactions which, in our opinion, were frequently obscured unnecessarily in the literature and whose fundamental nature warranted an extensive discussion to help clarify the issues, very much in the spirit of the Discussions of the Faraday Society. Kinetics of Interface Reactions Phenomenological approaches have been based on a small number of rate equations for the concentrations or mole numbers of the various species involved in a par­ ticular system with the relevant rate constants either fitted (in the form of the Arrheniusparametrization) to experimental data or calculated on the basis of microscopic models..

It contains chapters in the field of Ambient Intelligent Networks, which received highly positive feedback during the review process.The book also aims to schematically demonstrate developments in the direction of augmented sensors, embedded systems and behavioral intelligence towards Ambient Intelligent Networks or Smart Living Technology.

The 3 full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Oncology, ISMCO 2021, held in October 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. Mathematical and Computational Oncology.

Anne, Emily, and Charlotte Brontë's literary representations of illness and disease reflect the major role illness played in the lives of the Victorians and its frequent reoccurrence within the Brontës' personal lives.Together, medical anthropology and the history of medicine offer a useful lens with which to understand Victorian texts. Reading the Brontë Body.

Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Part II – LNICST 358 - presents 6 workshop papers: High Speed Space Communication and Space Information Networks (HSSCSIN); Integrated Space and Onboard Networks (ISON); Intelligent Satellite Operations, Managements, and Applications (ISOMA); Intelligent Satellites in Future Space Networked System (ISFSNS); Satellite Communications, Networking and Applications (SCNA); Satellite Internet of Things; Trusted Data Sharing, Secure Communication (SIOTTDSSC). The 91 full papers and workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 200 submissions.Wireless and Satellite Systems The theme of WISATS 2020 is “Intelligent Wireless and Satellite Communications for Beyond 5G”.

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The joint symposium of ICA commissions is always one of the most important event for cartographers.

Combining two important and growing areas of applied mathematics—control theory and modeling—this textbook introduces and builds on methods for simulating and tackling concrete problems in a variety of applied sciences. This approach not only fosters an understanding of the basic topics, but also leads the way to new, independent research. Emphasizing "learning by doing," the authors focus on examples and applications to real-world problems.

  The purpose of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications(SERA 2012) held on May 3- June 1, 2012 in Shanghai, China was to bring together scientists, engineers, computer users, and students to share their experiences and exchange new ideas and research results about all aspects (theory, applications and tools) of Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications, and to discuss the practical challenges encountered along the way and the solutions adopted to solve them. Critical to both contributors and readers are the short publication time and world-wide distribution-this permits a rapid and broad dissemination of research results.

The 9 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions for inclusion in this volume. Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XII Teams: The papers consider different aspects of team working: what kinds of knowledge sharing best contribute to effective team performance and how to organize a tea m to function effectively in different kinds of scenarios..

The contributors move through a variety of related topics, all aimed at revealing how humans and things must increasingly interact. It explores how emotion-related processes are increasing in importance rapidly.

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They were organized in topical sections named: big and smart data; business and enterprise modeling; ICT project management; process management; smart infrastructure; and applications. Big Data Analytics helps to understand and enhance enterprises by linking many fields of information technology and business.Business Information Systems The 24 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions..

Das Buch gibt nicht nur Sachverständigen eine unverzichtbare Hilfestellung bei der Arbeit mit Spezialimmobilien, sondern auch Mitarbeitern von Kreditinstituten oder Asset Managern. Seit der Veröffentlichung der Erstauflage im Jahr 2005 hat sich der Blick auf Spezialimmobilien stark verändert; sei es etwa durch die Implementierung neuer Rechtsverordnungen, durch die Finanzkrise oder durch geänderte Zielsetzungen von Developern und Investoren. In über 35 Einzelbeiträgen werden die Besonderheiten bei der Bewertung von Spezialimmobilien aufgegriffen und anhand der aktuellen Entwicklungen systematisch erläutert..

The book focuses on one of the most problematic areas of Turkish penal justice: the overreliance on custodial measures and a corresponding growth in the prison population, and compares Turkey with two major European countries in this respect: England and Wales and Germany. Alternatives to Imprisonment in England and Wales, Germany and Turkey.

Miraculously, structured images appear briefly as we continue to apply the distortion procedure to successive images. It is not very farfetched to introduce a certain amount of randomness and irreversibility in the above example. More importantly, the set of all pixels, the whole portrait, was transformed by the distortion mechanism. A Scientific American article on chaos, see Crutchfield et al.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Computer Science Conference, ICSC '95, held in Hong Kong in December 1995. ICSC '95 was devoted to computer graphics and image analysis applications. Image Analysis Applications and Computer Graphics.The 55 revised full papers presented together with 21 posters were selected from a total of 155 submissions.

It also looks at the application of malicious software to computer crime and information warfare.

Environmental Remote Sensing in Egypt.This volume also presents a thorough explanation of the remote sensing role showing physical fundamentals of the climate change phenomenon including gas emissions, and the impact on resources concerning the sustainable development of Egypt.

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