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Systems Thinking and E-participation: Ict in the Governance of Society

Information Science Publishing, 2009

Systems Thinking and E-Participation: ICT in the Governance of Society provides a systemic-based inquiry platform to explore boundaries, limits, and advantages of information and communication technology use in public decision making processes. This publication examines the impact of governmental technologies useful to those involved with...

Computer Vision Using Local Binary Patterns (Computational Imaging and Vision)

Springer, 2011

Humans receive the great majority of information about their environment through sight, and at least 50% of the human brain is dedicated to vision. Vision is also a key component for building artificial systems that can perceive and understand their environment. Computer vision is likely to change society in many ways; for example, it...

Advances in Information Retrieval: 31th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2009, Toulouse, France

Springer, 2009

These proceedings contain the papers presented at ECIR 2009, the 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval. The conference was organized by the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), in cooperation with the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer Society (BCS-IRSG) and was...

Cybercrime: Criminal Threats from Cyberspace (Crime, Media, and Popular Culture)

Praeger Publishers, 2010

This book is an outstanding contribution to the interdisciplinary series on Crime, Media, and Popular Culture from Praeger Publishers. Because of the pervasiveness of media in our lives and the salience of crime and criminal justice issues, we feel it is especially important to provide a home for scholars who are engaged in innovative and...

Geometric Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimization (Algorithms and Combinatorics 2)

Springer, 1988

This book develops geometric techniques for proving the polynomial time solvability of problems in convexity theory, geometry, and - in particular - combinatorial optimization. It offers a unifying approach based on two fundamental geometric algorithms: - the ellipsoid method for finding a point in a convex set and - the basis reduction...

Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty

Crown, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America

“If you’re one of those people who despair that nothing changes, and dream that something can, this is a story of...

Managing IT in Government, Business & Communities

IRM Press, 2003

This guide presents the most current research and findings about the challenges governments around the world are now placing on small business IT entrepreneurs and how they are providing increased resources to support this emphasis. Described are how organizations and society rely heavily on virtual technologies for communication and how...

Engineering and Social Justice (Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology and Society)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2008

In recent years, some leaders in the engineering community in the United States and other countries have been seeking to cast engineering as a profession in service to humanity. This characterization is often propelled by “the problem” of an overall dearth of students entering engineering and a specific concern about underrepresentation...

Alternative Energy Edition 1. (3 Volume set)

Thomson Gale, 2006

"The editors ably achieve their goal of showing students the connections between science and people's lives in the nineteenth century, thus helping to make both science and history more relevant to their own."
-- ARBA (2002) (ARBA 20030201)

"These volumes offer a perspective on how scientific...

Humanitarian and Relief Logistics: Research Issues, Case Studies and Future Trends

Springer, 2013

This edited volume highlights recent research advances in humanitarian relief logistics. The contributed chapters span the spectrum of key issues and activities from preparedness to mitigation operations (response), planning and execution. The volume also presents state-of-the-art methods and systems through current case studies.

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Standard Practice in Sexual Medicine

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

The International Standard Reference Work for Sexual Medicine

Under the auspices of the International Society for Sexual Medicine (the leading international professional society in the field), a multidisciplinary group of international contributors identify the most current standards of practice for diagnosing and treating sexual...

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....

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