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The Legal Status of the Caspian Sea
Current Challenges and Prospects for Future Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This book analyzes the legal and economic situation concerning the removal and allocation of the natural resources in the Caspian Sea – the largest enclosed body of salt water in the world, which not only constitutes a fragile ecosystem with great fishery resources, but is also rich in oil and gas...
Introduction to Hydro Energy Systems
Basics, Technology and Operation
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2011
The authors have tried to strike a balance between a short book chapter and a very detailed book for subject experts. There are three prime reasons behind for doing so: first, the field is quite interdisciplinary and requires simplified presentation for a person from non-parent discipline. The second...
Capacity Withdrawals in the Electricity Wholesale Market
Between Competition Law and Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This book examines the issue of capacity withdrawals in the electricity wholesale market. Electricity generators can exercise market power in the wholesale market either by withdrawing generation capacity, or by pricing above competitive levels in order to achieve a higher market price and, thereby,...
Open Tourism
Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Co-Creation Challenging the Tourism Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Thisbook examines the concepts of open innovation, crowdsourcing and co-creation from a holistic point of view and analyzes them considering their suitability to the tourism industry. Methods, theories and models are discussed and examined regarding their practical applicability in tourism. The bookillustrates...
Globalization of Professional Services
Innovative Strategies, Successful Processes, Inspired Talent Management, and First-Hand Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
In the past, services had a strong local and national focus. Professional services were very likely to be independently and autonomously organized from country to country in order to cater to local needs and local legal requirements. This has since changed radically, and highly integrated business...
Privacy Online
Perspectives on Privacy and Self-Disclosure in the Social Web
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Communications and personal information that are posted online are usually accessible to a vast number of people. Yet when personal data exist online, they may be searched, reproduced and mined by advertisers, merchants, service providers or even stalkers. Many users know what may happen to their...
Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2015 Workshops
WESOA, RMSOC, ISC, DISCO, WESE, BSCI, FOR-MOVES, Goa, India, November 16-19, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 13th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2015, held in Goa, India in November 2015.
The conference hosted the following seven workshops: 11th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications, WESOA...
by J. Christian Lang
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Quantitativeapproachesforsolvingproductionplanningandinventorymanagement problems in industry have gained growing importance in the past years. Due to the increasinguse of AdvancedPlanningSystems, a widespreadpracticalapplicationof the sophisticated optimization models and algorithms developed by...
Automotive Development Processes
Processes for Successful Customer Oriented Vehicle Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
The global crisis the automotive industry has slipped into over the second half of 2008 has set a fierce spotlight not only on which cars are the right ones to bring to the market but also on how these cars are developed. Be it OEMs developing new models, suppliers integerating themselves deeper into...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Nanoparticles for Gene Delivery into Stem Cells and Embryos, by Pallavi Pushp, Rajdeep Kaur, Hoon Taek Lee, Mukesh Kumar Gupta. Engineering of Polysaccharides via Nanotechnology, by Joydeep Dutta. Hydroxyapatite-Packed Chitosan-PMMA Nanocomposite: A Promising Material for Construction of Synthetic...
Introduction to Nano
Basics to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book covers the basics of nanotechnology and provides a solid understanding of the subject. Starting from a brush-up of the basic quantum mechanics and materials science, the book helps to gradually build up understanding of the various effects of quantum confinement, optical-electronic properties...
by Antonio Gugliotta, Aurelio Somà, Maksym Spiryagin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Real-time simulations of the behaviour of a rail vehicle require realistic solutions of the wheel-rail contact problem which can work in a real-time mode. Examples of such solutions for the online mode have been well known and are implemented within standard and commercial tools for the simulation...
by Gennady Evtugyn
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Today, biosensors are broadly applied in research, clinical diagnosis and monitoring, as well as in pharmaceutical, environmental or food analysis. In this work, the author presents the essentials that advanced students and researchers need to know in order to make full use of this technology. This...
Prosecuting International Crimes and Human Rights Abuses Committed Against Children
Leading International Court Cases
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
This casebook addresses selected precedent-setting rulings of various international human rights and international criminal courts with a focus on the child victims of international crimes and human rights abuses. The cases are analysed from the children’s human rights perspective and the question...