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Digital Literacy: Tools and Methodologies for Information Society

IGI Global, 2008

Currently in a state of cultural transition, global society is moving from a literary society to digital one, adopting widespread use of advanced technologies such as the Internet and mobile devices. Digital media has an extraordinary impact on society s formative processes, forcing a pragmatic shift in their management and organization....

Symbolic and Numerical Scientific Computation: Second International Conference, SNSC 2001, Hagenberg, Austria

Springer, 2003

Scientific computation has a long history, dating back to the astronomical tables of the Babylonians, the geometrical achievements of the Egyptians, the calendars of the Mayans, and the number theory of the ancient Chinese. The success of these activities led in many parts of the world to the development of mathematical theories trying to explain...

New Trends in Databases and Information Systems (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing)

Springer, 2012

Database and information systems technologies have been rapidly evolving in several directions over the past years. New types and kinds of data, new types of applications and information systems to support them raise diverse challenges to be addressed. The so-called big data challenge, streaming data management and processing, social networks...

Irreversible Phenomena: Ignitions, Combustion and Detonation Waves

Springer, 2007

Ideals are simple and able to be easily understood, but never exist in reality.

In this book a theory based on the second law of thermodynamics and its applications are described. In thermodynamics there is a concept of an ideal gas which satisfies a mathematical formula PV = RT. This formula can approximately be applied to the...

Principles of Renal Physiology

Springer, 2012

A good knowledge of renal physiology is essential to the understanding of many disease states. The purpose of the book is to set out the principles of renal physiology and normal renal function. Now in its 30th year of continuous publication, this new edition offers a logical progression through renal physiology and pathophysiology. In...

Bingsop's Fables: Little Morals for Big Business

Harvard Business School, 2011

For more than twenty years, Stanley Bing has peerlessly explained corporate culture and strategy with wit and insight. Now he brings us this engaging and instructive book of white-collar fables that have charmed generations of businesspeople since Greece was glorious and Rome was grand, brilliant gems of wisdom flowing from the pen of the...