Learn IT - Books tags impact

Population, Development, and the Environment: Challenges to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the Asia Pacific

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book takes the reader into some of the most intransigent social, economic, and political issues that impact achieving sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific. Through meticulous analysis of the integrated relationships between population, development, and the environment, the chapters in this volume investigate the impacts of...

Nanotechnology : Science, Innovation, and Opportunity

Prentice Hall, 2005

Inside the Emerging Multibillion-Dollar Nanotechnology Industry

Suddenly, nanotechnology isn't science fiction or mere theory: It's becoming one of the world's fastest-growing, highest-impact industries. In Nanotechnology: Science, Innovation, and...

Say It Right the First Time

McGraw-Hill, 2003

Master the communication skills that allow great leaders to produce extraordinary results.

Language creates reality. Say It Right the First Time reveals the key underlying communication principles that inspire people to perform at the highest levels. It puts you in command of the new language of leadership and...

Building Intelligent Interactive Tutors: Student-centered strategies for revolutionizing e-learning

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Computers have transformed every facet of our culture, most dramatically communication, transportation, finance, science, and the economy. Yet their impact has not been generally felt in education due to lack of hardware, teacher training, and sophisticated software. Another reason is that current instructional software is neither truly responsive...

Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies

For Dummies, 2007

When it comes to addressing most of the challenges we face as a society, it is often said that change begins at home. This is an exciting prospect—that we can make a difference around the world by changing the way we live our daily lives—and nowhere is it truer than in our efforts to improve the health of our planet,...

The Role of EU Agencies in the Eurozone and Migration Crisis: Impact and Future Challenges (European Administrative Governance)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

This book provides a wealth of empirical material to understand key aspects of EU governance including its plurality of actors and policy making modes and its functioning during crisis management. Authored by legal scholars and political scientists, it presents new research and insights on the role of EU agencies in the context of the Euro and...

Terrorism Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Homeland Security

Springer, 2008

Terrorism informatics has been defined as the application of advanced methodologies, information fusion and analysis techniques to acquire, integrate process, analyze, and manage the diversity of terrorism-related information for international and homeland security-related applications. The wide variety of methods used in terrorism informatics are...

Fiber Based Dispersion Compensation (Optical and Fiber Communications Reports)

Springer, 2007

A pulse of light spreads in time as it propagates in a fiber due to the physical phenomenon called dispersion. While dispersion can be deleterious in optical communications systems, it can also be exploited to manage the temporal and spectral shapes of pulses and their interactions with other pulses. Much of dispersion control is realized in...

Link Mining: Models, Algorithms, and Applications

Springer, 2010

This book presents in-depth surveys and systematic discussions on models, algorithms and applications for link mining. Link mining is an important field of data mining. Traditional data mining focuses on "flat" data in which each data object is represented as a fixed-length attribute vector. However, many real-world data sets are...

Animal Models of T Cell-Mediated Skin Diseases (Ernst Schering Foundation Symposium Proceedings)

Springer, 2004

Pharmaceutical companies are spending increasing amounts of money on drug discovery and development. Nevertheless, attrition rates in clinical development are still very high, and up to 90% of new compounds fail in clinical phase I - III trials, which is partially due to lack of clinical efficacy. This indicates a strong need for highly...

Endoscopic Anatomy of the Third Ventricle: Microsurgical and Endoscopic Approaches

Springer, 2006

An illustrated atlas of anatomical aspects important for combinations of microsurgical and endoscopic approaches. The basis for Professor Seeger’s renowned drawings has been anatomical preparations, cadaver dissections and intraoperative pictures. The correct proportions are derived by measuring the distances of anatomical landmarks of...

1: Cartilage and Osteoarthritis (Methods in Molecular Medicine)

Humana Press, 2004

Osteoarthritis (OA), the most common form of arthritis, is generally characterized by a slowly progressive degeneration of articular cartilage, particularly in the weight-bearing joints. It has a stronger prevalence in women, and its incidence increases with age. OA is a major and growing health concern in developed countries, owing to...

Result Page: 144 143 142 141 140 139 138 137 136 135 134 133 132 131