Markus: 1621 books
by Markus Dickinson, Chris Brew, Detmar Meurers
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language and Computers introduces students to the fundamentals of how computers are used to represent, process, and organize textual and spoken information. Concepts are grounded in real-world examples familiar to students’ experiences of using language and computers in everyday life.
A real-world...
The Large Hadron Collider
The Greatest Adventure in Town and Ten Reasons Why it Matters, as Illustrated by the ATLAS Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
When the discovery of the Higgs Boson at CERN hit the headlines in 2012, the world was stunned by this achievement of modern science. Less well appreciated, however, were the many ways in which this benefited wider society.
The Large Hadron Collider — The Greatest Adventure in Town charts...
by Markus A Höllerer, Theo van Leeuwen, Dennis Jancsary
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
This volume brings together two hitherto disparate domains of scholarly inquiry: organization and management studies on the one hand, and the study of visual and multimodal communication on the other. Within organization and management studies it has been recognized that organizational reality and...
by Chris Flowers, Markus Holzhauer
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Introducing the the Radiology Case Review Series Each book in this innovative series includes 200 cases, hundreds of superb images, and Q&A with answers, explanations, and references -- covering everything from basic principles through the latest diagnostic imaging techniques, equipment, and...
User-Centred Engineering
Creating Products for Humans
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
A new product can be easy or difficult to use, it can be efficient or cumbersome, engaging or dispiriting, it can support the way we work and think - or not. What options are available for systematically addressing such parameters and provide users with an appropriate functionality, usability and...
The Police Power
Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2005
Mention the phrase Homeland Security and heated debates emerge about state uses and abuses of legal authority. This timely book is a comprehensive treatise on the constitutional and legal history behind the power of the modern state to police its citizens.
Dubber explores the roots of the power...
The Science of Grapevines
Anatomy and Physiology
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
The Science of Grapevines: Anatomy and Physiology is an introduction to the physical structure of the grapevine, its various organs, their functions and their interactions with the environment. Beginning with a brief overview of the botanical classification (including an introduction to the concepts...
by José Viterbo, Markus Endler
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
In Ambient Intelligence (AmI) systems, reasoning is fundamental for triggering actions or adaptations according to specific situations that may be meaningful and relevant to some applications. However, such reasoning operations may need to evaluate context data collected from distributed sources and...
by Steven W. Cranford, Markus J. Buehler
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Biomateriomics is the holistic study of biological material systems. While such systems are undoubtedly complex, we frequently encounter similar components -- universal building blocks and hierarchical structure motifs -- which result in a diverse set of functionalities. Similar to the way music...
by Markus Bestehorn
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Declarative query interfaces to Sensor Networks (SN) have become a commodity. These interfaces allow access to SN deployed for collecting data using relational queries. However, SN are not confined to data collection, but may track object movement, e.g., wildlife observation or traffic monitoring....
The Dual Penal State
The Crisis of Criminal Law in Comparative-Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
This book addresses one of today's most pressing social and political issues: the rampant, at best haphazard, and ever-expanding use of penal power by states ostensibly committed to the enlightenment-based legal-political project of Western liberal democracy. Penal regimes in these states operate...
US Domestic and International Regimes of Security
Pacifying the Globe, Securing the Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This book maps the increasing convergence of US domestic and international security regimes, analyzing the trend towards global pacification in the name of 'security'.
The dream of liberal world peace after the Cold War is on the verge of collapsing into permanent global pacification – not...
The Influence of Global Ideas on Environmentalism and Human Rights
World Society and the Individual
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book explores whether individual attitudes and behaviors are swayed by global developments in a world increasingly populated by organizations, treaties, and other institutions that focus on environmentalism and human rights. It uses the sociological approach of World Society theory to investigate...
Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Irrigation
A Socio-Technical Approach in South India
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2015
This SpringerBrief reviews currently applied and potential solutions for improving the efficiency and quality of rural electricity supply in India, a major bottleneck for agricultural development. It provides background on the current state of supply and reviews recent and ongoing research and development...