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Geographic Information Systems and Science

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Geographic Information Systems and Science has become the pre-eminent textbook in its field, for students and practitioners alike. Its unique approach communicates the richness and diversity of GIS in a lucid and accessible format. This fully revised and updated second edition reinforces the view of GIS as a gateway to science and...

The Family Business Group Phenomenon: Emergence and Complexities

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This edited collection analyses the unexplored concept of the family business group, evaluating the opportunities and advantages that it creates for entrepreneurs. Raising a number of important questions, the authors construct a new research agenda for the complex topic of the family business group, which will ultimately assess its...

Marine Biofouling: Colonization Processes and Defenses

CRC Press, 2003

Recent instances of bioinvasion, such as the emergence of the zebra mussel in the American Great Lakes, generated a demand among marine biologists and ecologists for groundbreaking new references that detail how organisms colonize hard substrates, and how to prevent damaging biomass concentrations.

Marine Biofouling:...

Euroscepticism: Party Politics, National Identity and European Integration (European Studies 20)

Rodopi, 2004

The accelerated pace of European integration since the early 1990s has been accompanied by the emergence of increasingly prominent and multiform oppositions to the process. The term Euroscepticism has appeared with growing frequency in a range of political, media, and academic discourses. Yet, the label is applied to a wide range of...

More About High-volume Web Sites (IBM Redbooks)

IBM Press, 2004

In 1999, Dr Willy Chiu, noticing the emergence of many large and complex customer Web sites, and observing how they often failed to deliver the expected robustness and customer satisfaction, set up a new team within IBM called the High-Volume Web Sites (HVWS) team. This team was chartered to work with customers and IBM internal teams involved in...

Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing

New Riders Publishing, 2006

From the RFID tags now embedded in everything from soda cans to the family pet, to smart buildings that subtly adapt to the changing flow of visitors, to gestural interfaces like the ones seen in Minority Report, computing no longer looks much like it used to. Increasingly invisible but present everywhere in our lives, it has moved off the desktop...

MicroComputed Tomography: Methodology and Applications

CRC Press, 2008

Due to the availability of commercial laboratory systems and the emergence of user facilities at synchrotron radiation sources, studies of microcomputed tomography or microCT have increased exponentially.

MicroComputed Technology provides a complete introduction to the technology, describing how to use it...

Mobile Ad Hoc Networking

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

The wireless arena has been experiencing exponential growth in the past decade. We have
seen great advances in network infrastructures, growing availability of wireless applications,
and the emergence of omnipresent wireless devices such as portable or handheld
computers, PDAs, and cell phones, all getting more powerful in their...

Evolvable Hardware (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation)

Springer, 2006

Evolvable hardware (EHW) refers to hardware whose architecture/structure and functions change dynamically and autonomously in order to improve its performance in carrying out tasks. The emergence of this field has been profoundly influenced by the progress in reconfigurable hardware and evolutionary computation. Traditional hardware can be...

American History Through Literature 1870-1920

Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005

This A-Z, cross-referenced and illustrated title provides a unique overview of the period following the Civil War through the emergence of the United States as a world power at the end of World War I. The set features more than 250 survey entries. Subjects include: political topics (Reform, Women's Suffrage); ideas in context (Scientific...

The Prehistory of Language (Studies in the Evolution of Language)

Oxford University Press, 2009

'When, why, and how did language evolve?' 'Why do only humans have language?' This book looks at these and other questions about the origins and evolution of language. It does so via a rich diversity of perspectives, including social, cultural, archaeological, palaeoanthropological, musicological, anatomical, neurobiological, primatological, and...

Mobile Intelligence (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

Nowadays, it is very common to see people everywhere and at anytime use mobile telecommunications devices, such as cellular/mobile phones, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), or laptop equipped with wireless connectivity to communicate with the network and access information. This phenomenon, which is generally known as mobile computing is...

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