Environmental reporting is still in its infancy, having emerged only in the latter part of
the 1980s. Companies are under increasing pressure to be transparent and accountable
in the whole spectrum of their business. In recent years, a number of companies
have seen the need to introduce environmental reporting, placing environmental...
The Linked Open Data Project started just four years ago in 2007. In that short time
Linked Data has grown into an almost mainstream activity for many governments
around the world. As of this writing, the US Government’s open data site listed
twenty one countries whose governments publish open data regarding the operations
of...
Context-aware services provision refers to the ability to locate an 802.11 device and provide services based on this location
information. Services can be offered to the located device itself or to another application based on the device location. Typical
examples of services offered to the located devices include a map of a shopping...
In the last few decades economic losses due to natural disasters have increased
exponentially worldwide and little progress has been seen in reducing
their rate of fatalities. This also holds for earthquake disasters and
is mainly due to increasing population and industrial density in high hazard
and vulnerability areas....
Creatine and creatine phosphate (CP, also called phosphocreatine, PCr) are
important metabolites in high-energy phosphorus metabolism. They rank
with dietary carbohydrates fats, proteins and other compounds as central
components of the metabolic system involved in the provision of energy for
work and exercise performance....
Organizations find that it's the business process that constitutes the heart of an enterprise
and is a differentiating factor. They've found that it's the processes that make or break an
enterprise. Operational efficiency is a differentiating factor, and research shows that it's the
processes that provide operational...
Wireless ad hoc sensor networks have recently become a very active research subject
as well as a topic of rapid technological progress and large-scale practical development
and application activities. However, a solid foundational and theoretical
background seems still necessary for sensor networking to achieve its full potential....
Sets forth the state of the science and technology in plasma protein production
With contributions from an international team of eighty leading experts and pioneers in the field, Production of Plasma Proteins for Therapeutic Use presents a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge about the...
AngularJS is the leading framework for building dynamic JavaScript applications that take advantage of the capabilities of modern browsers and devices. AngularJS, which is maintained by Google, brings the power of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern to the client, providing the foundation for complex and rich web apps. It allows you to...
Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services is written specifically for Windows professionals who already know PowerShell and want to learn to host Windows workloads in the Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) cloud service. The cloud offers information technology workers significant cost savings and agility unimaginable even just a few...
This book carries forward recent work on visual patterns and structures in digital images and introduces a near set-based a topology of digital images. Visual patterns arise naturally in digital images viewed as sets of non-abstract points endowed with some form of proximity (nearness) relation. Proximity relations make it possible to...
Web services generalize the idea of the Web beyond the exchange of simple Web
pages in order to enable the provision of a broad range of different services. By com-
posing Web services, cross-organizational and collaborative business processes can
be realized in a highly dynamic and flexible way, which is particularly important if...
