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China Branding: Cases from Zhejiang
by Martin J. Liu • Jun LuoThis book provides an overview of the brand construction process of manufacturing enterprises in Zhejiang province, China. There are now a number of industry-leading enterprises that are trying to build their own brands and manufacture products of higher quality in Zhejiang. The first chapter focuse... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Responsible Innovation Management (Responsible Innovation in Industry)
This book features state-of-the-art studies on the responsible innovation management. It illustrates the innovative methods from socio-economic and sustainable development dimensions and specifically mentions digitalisation’s dark side, technology application challenges and enterprises management is... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Cyberspace: Risks and Benefits for Society, Security and Development (Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications)
This book covers many aspects of cyberspace, emphasizing not only its possible ‘negative’ challenge as a threat to security, but also its positive influence as an efficient tool for defense as well as a welcome new factor for economic and industrial production. Cyberspace is analyzed from quite diff... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections: Latin American Influence in Asia (Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia)
by Jie Lu • Martín CampsThis critical interdisciplinary volume investigates modern and contemporary Asian cultural products in the non-westernized transpacific context of Asian and Latin American intellectual and cultural connections. It focuses on the Latin American intellectual, literary, and cultural influences on Asia,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Lie Groups (Latin American Mathematics Series)
This textbook provides an essential introduction to Lie groups, presenting the theory from its fundamental principles. Lie groups are a special class of groups that are studied using differential and integral calculus methods. As a mathematical structure, a Lie group combines the algebraic group str... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Tales from Two Neighbors: Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States
A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Memoirs of Pancho Villa (Texas Pan American Series)
This is a tale that might be told around a campfire, night after night in the midst of a military campaign. The kinetic and garrulous Pancho Villa talking on and on about battles and men; bursting out with hearty, masculine laughter; weeping unashamed for fallen comrades; casually mentioning his hot... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1965 -
Renewable Energy Systems
Humanity is facing a steadily diminishing supply of fossil fuels, causing researchers, policy makers, and the population as a whole to turn increasingly to alternative and especially renewable sources of energy to make up this deficit. Gathering over 80 peer-reviewed entries from the Encyclopedia o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Quantum Plasmonics
This book presents the latest results of quantum properties of light in the nanostructured environment supporting surface plasmons, including waveguide quantum electrodynamics, quantum emitters, strong-coupling phenomena and lasing in plasmonic structures. Different approaches are described for con... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Travel Writing in Dutch and German, 1790-1930: Modernity, Regionality, Mobility (Routledge Research in Travel Writing)
This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century interwar period. Drawing on a hitherto largely overlooked body of travelers whose work ranges across what is now G... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Spoof Surface Plasmon Metamaterials (Elements of Emerging Theories and Technologies in Metamaterials)
by Luis Martin-Moreno • Paloma Arroyo Huidobro • John B. Pendry • Antonio I. Fernandez-Dominguez • Francisco J. Garcia-VidalMetamaterials offer the possibility to control and manipulate electromagnetic radiation. Spoof surface plasmon metamaterials are the focus of this Element of the Metamaterials Series. The fundamentals of spoof surface plasmons are reviewed, and advances on plasmonic metamaterials based on spoof plas... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
VLSI-SoC: At the Crossroads of Emerging Trends
This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers presented at the 21st IFIP WG 10. 5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2013, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in October 2013. The 11 papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected fr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Biodiversity of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands: Science and Conservation
This open access book presents a comprehensive synthesis of the biodiversity of the oceanic islands of the Gulf of Guinea, a biodiversity hotspot off the west coast of Central Africa. Written by experts, the book compiles data from a plethora of sources – archives, museums, bibliography, official re... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Stochastic and Infinite Dimensional Analysis
by Christopher C. Bernido • Maria Victoria Carpio-Bernido • Martin Grothaus • Tobias Kuna • Maria João Oliveira • José Luís da SilvaThis volumepresents a collection of papers covering applications from a wide range ofsystems with infinitely many degrees of freedom studied using techniques fromstochastic and infinite dimensional analysis, e. g. Feynman path integrals, thestatistical mechanics of polymer chains, complex networks,... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Transcriptomics in Entomological Research
by Patrick Von Aderkas • May R Berenbaum • Bernarda Calla • Joanna C. Chiu • Jürgen Ehlting • Melanie Gee • Aman Gill • Martin Hasselmann • Matthew Huff • Brian R Johnson • Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes • William E Klingeman • Kyle M. Lewald • Shanlin Liu • Antonino Malacrinò • Guanliang Meng • Yoonseong Park • Amber Rose Paulson • Steven J Perlman • Ratnasri Pothula • Sampurna Sattar • Margaret E Staton • James P Tauber • Gary A Thompson • Will Kipling • Chengran ZhouBridging the gap between genome and phenotype, the transcriptome is a molecular-level snapshot of the act of living. Transcriptomics shows which genes are expressed into proteins in a specific tissue of a specific organism at a specific time and condition. This book gives an account of the extraordi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing: ICA3PP 2016 Collocated Workshops: SCDT, TAPEMS, BigTrust, UCER, DLMCS, Granada, Spain, December 14-16, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10049)
by José Gracia • Josef Weidendorfer • Jesus Carretero • Javier Garcia-Blas • Victor Gergel • Vladimir Voevodin • Iosif Meyerov • Juan A. Rico-Gallego • Juan C. Díaz-Martín • Pedro Alonso • Juan Durillo • José Daniel Garcia Sánchez • Alexey L. Lastovetsky • Fabrizio Marozzo • Qin Liu • Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan • Karl FürlingerThis book constitutes the refereed workshop proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2016, held in Granada, Spain, in December 2016. The 30 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. They c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Writers of the Future Volume 31
by Rebecca Moesta • Larry Niven • Orson Scott Card • L. Ron Hubbard • David Farland • Tim Napper • Martin L. Shoemaker • Amit Dutta • Choong Nyung Yoon • Krystal Claxton • Quinlan Septer • Samantha Murray • Taylor Payton • Emily Siu • Tung Chi Lee • Alex Brock • Sharon Joss • Daniel J. Davis • Michelle Lockamy • Amy H. Hughes • Kary English • Daniel Tyka • Zach Chapman • Kevin A. Anderson • Megen Nelson • Scott R. Parkin • Michael T. Banker • Auston Habershaw • Megan Kelchner • Shuangjian Liu • Steve PantazisThe future is here...the future is now! Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now, you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the Science Fiction and Fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging star... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Karstology in the Classical Karst (Advances in Karst Science)
by Hong Liu • Martin Knez • Metka Petrič • Tadej Slabe • Stanka Šebela • David C. Culver • Bojan Otoničar • Tanja Pipan • Matej Blatnik • Franci Gabrovšek • Blaž Kogovšek • Janja Kogovšek • Cyril Mayaud • Andrej Mihevc • Janez Mulec • Magdalena Năpăruş-Aljančič • Mitja Prelovšek • Nataša Ravbar • Trevor Shaw • Nadja Zupan HajnaThis book presents the latest advances in karstology by researchers at the ZRC SAZU Karst Research Institute, Slovenia – home of Classical Karst. It features interdisciplinary investigations carried out on the karst surface, subsurface, caves, and associated waters.It covers various topics, such as ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Invasive Birds: Global Trends and Impacts
by Matthew Burnett • Bill Pranty • Diederik Strubbe • Erik Matthysen • Matthieu Guillemain • Johan Elmberg • Iain Henderson • Ding Li Yong • Juan Carlos Reboreda • Alexander Cruz • Tim Adriaens • Craig R Allen • Michael L Avery • Alexander V Badyaev • Fabrice M Brescia • Sarah E Britton • Daniel M Brooks • Jessica L. Burnett • Corey T Callaghan • César Capinha • Jen Cele • Jameson F Chace • Jocelyn Champagnon • Alice Cibois • Andrew Close • Alyssa R Conn • Richard T Corlett • Adrian J Craig • Amy E Dunham • James A Eaton • David A Smith • Yvette C Smith • Mike W Eichholz • Cyril Eraud • Chris L Feare • Jason M Gleditsch • Guillaume G Gayet • Carlos Gutiérrez-Expósito • Haley E Hanson • Frank Huysentruyt • John G Innes • Salit Kark • Michael R Leven • Ricardo J Lopes • Jean-Francois Maillard • Ndivhuwo Maligana • Chloe I Marcheli • Lynn B Martin • Blake A Mathys • Myriam E Mermoz • Jean-Yves Meyer • Dai K Morgan • Katherine G Ohman • Claire Pernollet • Murray A Potter • Eileen C Rees • Luís Reino • Joana Ribeiro • Peter A Robertson • Andrew M Rogers • Philip D Round • Joana Santana • Cavin T Shivambu • Neftalí Sillero • Preshnee Singh • Pär Söderquist • Karina L Speziale • Martin J Sullivan • Jean-Claude Thibault • Martin Thibault • Berndt J van Rensburg • Eric Vidal • Joseph R Waas • Amy-Leigh Wilson • Katherine Winston • Kevin A Wood • Pierre Yésou • Jaime E ZolikExamining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including detail... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Climate, Ticks and Disease (CABI Climate Change Series #18)
by Charles Hart • Peter Cox • A. Townsend Peterson • Nicholas Johnson • Wei Liu • Jianhong Wu • Richard Wall • Domenico Otranto • Agustín Estrada-Peña • Jeremy Gray • Abdul Jabbar • Jolyon M. Medlock • Sunit Kumar Singh • Giovanni Benelli • Peter Irwin • Richard Bishop • Xue Zhang • Hao Li • DeMar Taylor • Deborah Hemming • Saeed Alasmari • Neil Alexander • Abdelghafar Alkishe • Reiko Arai • Armanda Bastos • Gervasio Henrique Bechara • John Beier • Joshua Benoit • Dennis Bente • Adrien Blisnick • René Bødker • Fernando Boinas • Sarah Bonnet • Nathalie Boulanger • Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz • Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano • Cyril Caminade • Jirí Cerny´ • Roxanne Albertha Charles • Ali Reza Chavshin • Rosalind Cornforth • Neil Coughlan • Lauren Culler • Milan Daniel • Vlasta Danielova • Mona Dehhaghi • Maria Diuk-Wasser • James P Duffy • Olivier Duron • Lars Eisen • Rebecca Eisen • Jana Elsterová • Koray Ergünay • Li-Qun Fang • Natalia Fernández-Ruiz • Erol Fikrig • Serhii Filatov • Durland Fish • Janet Foley • José De Fuente • Roman Ganta • Aysen Gargili Keles • Robin Beat Gasser • Abdul Ghafar • Naftaly Githaka • Lucy Gilbert • Maryna Golovchenko • Yuval Gottlieb • Ernest Gould • Libor Grubhoffer • Gilles J. Guillemin • Kayleigh M. Hansford • John E. Healy • Stephen Higgs • Andrew Hoodless • Yan-Jang S. Huang • Bernard Hudson • Chris Huntingford • Esther Kanduma • Sirri Kar • Maria Kazimirova • Neil Kaye • Thomas C. Kelly • Lene Jung Kjaer • Agatha Onyemowo Kolo • Eduard Korenberg • Nina Król • Chi-Chien Kuo • Timothy J. Kurtti • Xavier De Lamballerie • Patrick A. Leighton • L. Robbin Lindsay • Geoffrey E. Lynn • Ilya Maclean • Ben J. Mans • Maristela Martins de Camargo • Karen D. McCoy • Ulrike G. Munderloh • Atle Mysterud • Sukanya Narasimhan • Anna Obiegala • Dasiel Obregón Alvarez • Nick H. Ogden • Mari H. Ogihara • Stefan Vilges Oliveira • Charlotte Oskam • Kennan J. Oyen • Neha Pandey • Hamed Kazemi Panahi • John H. Pettersson • Martin Pfeffer • L. Paul Phipps • Heather J. Plumpton • Tatjana Pustahija • Ram Raghavan • Ryan O.M Rego • Annapaola Rizzoli • Isobel Ronai • Franz Rubel • Natalie Rudenko • Benjamin Ruiwen • Rufus Sage • Abdallah M. Samy • Gustavo Seron Sanches • Isabel Kinney Santos • Marcello Otake Sato • Megumi Sato • Richard Schloeffel • Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh • Ladislav Šimo • Daniel E. Sonenshine • Morgan Sparey • Frederic Stachurski • Snorre Stuen • Matias Pablo Szabó • Mike Teglas • Sam R. • Saravanan Thangamani • Georgia Titcomb • Attila J. Trájer • Michael Turell • Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji • Dana L. Vanlandingham • Laurence Vial • Margarita Villar • André B. Wilke • G. R. Wint • Zbigniew ZajacThis book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Cherries: Botany, Production and Uses (Botany, Production and Uses)
by Yan Wang • Amy Iezzoni • Gregory Lang • Matthew Whiting • Marlene Ayala • Teresa Barreneche • Tim Beliën • Michael Blanke • Jorunn Børve • Donato Boscia • Geza Bujdoso • José Antonio Campoy • Thierry Candresse • Gerard Charlot • Sezai Ercisli • Ricardo Flores • Thomas Forge • Milica Fotiric Akšic • Michael Gétaz • Daniela Giovannini • David Gónzalez-Gómez • Maria Herrero • Monika Höfer • Károly Hrotkó • Jovana Hrustic • Antonio Ippolito • Delano James • Wihelm Jelkmann • Martin Jensen • Monika Kaluzna • Moritz Knoche • Kirsten Koppler • Kouman Koumanov • Nemanja Kuzmanovic • Lynn Long • Gregorio López-Ortega • Slawomir A Lux • George Athanasios Manganaris • Marta Mari • Mekjell Meland • Monika Michalecka • Dragan Milatovic • Denise Neilsen • Gerry Neilsen • Aleksa Obradovic • László Palkovics • Vicente Pallás • Nikolaos T Papadopoulos • Janos Apostol • Gérard Charlot • Miroslawa Cieslinska • James Delano • Kirsten Köppler • Slawomir A. Lux • Vicente Pallas • Nikolaos T. Papadopoulos • Ronald Perry • Anna Poniatowska • Joël F. Pothier • Joanna Pulawska • Javier Rodrigo • José Quero-García • Elzbieta Rozpara • Michela Ruinelli • Simona Marianna Sanzani • Maria Saponari • Mirko Schuster • Manuel Joaquín Serradilla • Brankica Tanovic • Peter Toivonen • Daniel Valero • Anita Végh • Aleš Vokurka • Bénédicte Wenden • Andreas Winkler • Ana Wünsch • Juan Pablo ZoffoliSweet and sour cherries (Prunus avium and Prunus cerasus) are important fruit crops for which demand is high and growing. A significant number of new varieties, rootstocks and training systems have been released or developed in recent years in order to improve the efficiency and profitability of che... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017