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The Rise and Decline of the State

Cambridge University Press, 1999

The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all moderninstitutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, either voluntarily or involuntarily, many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. Regardless of whether they fall apart or...

A Guide to MATLAB Object-Oriented Programming

CRC Press, 2007

I am an admitted object-oriented fanatic. I have been designing and implementing object-oriented software for more than twenty years. When I started designing and implementing object-oriented MATLAB®, I encountered many detractors. They would say things like “The object model isn’t complete,” “You can’t have public...

The Automotive Chassis: Volume 2: System Design (Mechanical Engineering Series) (v. 2)

Springer, 2009

This work serves as a reference concerning the automotive chassis, i.e. everything that is inside a vehicle except the engine and the body. It is the result of a decade of work mostly done by the FIAT group, who supplied material, together with other automotive companies, and sponsored the work. The first volume deals with the design of...

Data Storage for Social Networks: A Socially Aware Approach (SpringerBriefs in Optimization)

Springer, 2012

Evidenced by the success of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, online social networks (OSNs) have become ubiquitous, offering novel ways for people to access information and communicate with each other. As the increasing popularity of social networking is undeniable, scalability is an important issue for any OSN that wants to serve a large...

Bone Densitometry in Clinical Practice: Application and Interpretation (Current Clinical Practice)

Humana Press, 2003

This fully updated and dramatically expanded edition will allow family physicians and specialists to fully understand not only what they need to do, but also why. New to this edition-over half the book-are discussions of the clinical guidelines for selecting patients for densitometry measurements, various questionnaires and indices that have...

Quality of Telephone-Based Spoken Dialogue Systems

Springer, 2004

An increasing number of telephone services are offered in a fully automatic way with the help of speech technology. The underlying systems, called spoken dialogue systems (SDSs), possess speech recognition, speech understanding, dialogue management, and speech generation capabilities, and enable a more-or-less natural spoken interaction with the...

Breakthrough Strategic IT and Process Planning

World Scientific Publishing, 2009

This book is the first publication that combines the principles of business process management with strategic IT planning; the result being a groundbreaking work on strategic IT and process planning. While Breakthrough Strategic IT and Process Planning focuses on the real world of organizations, extensive treatment is also devoted to the...

20 Minutes to a Top Performer: Three Fast and Effective Conversations to Motivate, Develop, and Engage Your Employees (Business Books)

McGraw-Hill, 2009

Transform Average Employees into Powerhouse Performers

“I cannot think of a more important message and timely book. 20 Minutes to a Top Performer offers quick, simple techniques for managers to improve their effectiveness in communicating with their teams.”
Steven Fine, vice president for...

Automatic Algorithm Recognition and Replacement: A New Approach to Program Optimization

MIT Press, 2000

Optimizing compilers have a fundamental problem. No matter how powerful their optimizations
are, they are no substitute for good application algorithms. Consider the case of
sorting. For sufficiently large data sets, a merge sort algorithm compiled with a less powerful
optimizer will always out-perform a selection sort algorithm...

The Traveler's Web: An Extreme Searcher Guide to Travel Resources on the Internet

CyberAge Books, 2007

According to a recent survey by the Travel Industry Association of America, nearly 80 million Americans turned to the Internet for help with travel planning in 2005. The same survey reports that the Internet is now used for some aspect of travel planning in more than 75 percent of all trips. You can count on these numbers rising in the years ahead....

Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Semiconductors and Nanostructures

CRC Press, 2005

This book consists of recent new developments in the field of ultrafast dynamics in semiconductors and nanostructures. It consists of eight chapters. Chapter 1 reviews spin dynamics in a high-mobility, two-dimensional electron gas. Chapter 2 deals with generation, propagation, and nonlinear properties of high-amplitude, ultrashort strain solitons...

Complex Networks: Second International Workshop, CompleNet 2010, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 13-15, 2010

Springer, 2012

The International Workshop on Complex Networks—CompleNet (www.complenet.org)—was initially proposed in 2008 with the first workshop taking place in 2009. The initiative was the result of efforts from researchers from the Bio-Complex Laboratory in the Department of Computer Sciences at Florida Institute of...

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