Icp imprint: 267 books
Small Firms as Innovators
From Innovation to Sustainable Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Small Firms as Innovators: From Innovation to Sustainable Growth provides a rich empirical analysis of innovation in the context of small business. The book first introduces the general innovation patterns present in small firms. It then progresses to demonstrate how these firms create and strengthen...
Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems
The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) Integrated Crop and Economic Assessments — Joint Publication with American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America(In 2 Parts)
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
“Top agricultural scientists from around the world have taken up the challenge of sustainable agriculture, with the specific focus on integrating agronomic, climatological, biophysical and socio-economic perspectives and processes. Every chapter (of the Handbook) contributes to addressing the growing...
Resonance
From Probability to Epistemology and Back
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Resonance examines some building blocks of epistemology as a prelude to the careful analysis of the foundations of probability. The concept of resonance is introduced to shed light on the philosophical problems of induction, consciousness, intelligence and free will. The same concept is later applied...
Statistical Turbulence Modelling for Fluid Dynamics — Demystified
An Introductory Text for Graduate Engineering Students
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This book is intended for self-study or as a companion of lectures delivered to post-graduate students on the subject of the computational prediction of complex turbulent flows. There are several books in the extensive literature on turbulence that deal, in statistical terms, with the phenomenon itself,...
Managing Diversity in Singapore
Policies and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Singapore society is increasingly becoming diverse. During the first few decades of nation building, policies were designed to homogenise aspects of Singaporean society while enshrining principles to allow restricted amounts of diversity. Fast forward
A Mathematical Approach to Multilevel, Multiscale Health Interventions
Pharmaceutical Industry Decline and Policy Response
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This book, based on published studies, takes a unique perspective on the 30-year collapse of pharmaceutical industry productivity in the search for small molecule “magic bullet” interventions. The relentless escalation of inflation-adjusted cost per approved medicine in the United States — from...
by David W A Rees
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Engineering structures considered include bars, columns, struts, tubes, vessels, beams, springs and frames. The loadings imposed upon them are, typically, tension, compression and shear, bending, torsion and pressure, separately and in combination. The mechanics of such structures examine the manner...
The Cyprus Bail-in
Policy Lessons from the Cyprus Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
On June 28th 2012, the small island of Cyprus became the fifth government to request an economic bail-out from the Eurozone after losing access to international capital markets. Less than a year later, a €10 billion second rescue deal was agreed upon — an unprecedented agreement that bailed in...
Exploring Big Historical Data
The Historian's Macroscope
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
The Digital Humanities have arrived at a moment when digital Big Data is becoming more readily available, opening exciting new avenues of inquiry but also new challenges. This pioneering book describes and demonstrates the ways these data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for...
by Hélène Pellissier
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Chiral titanium complexes are low-cost, low-toxicity and high-efficiency catalysts. Impressive progress on enantioselective titanium-catalysed transformations has been achieved in the past seven years, with exciting new discoveries ranging from basic reactions to novel methodologies. Despite this,...
by A B Piunovskiy
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
This invaluable book provides approximately eighty examples illustrating the theory of controlled discrete-time Markov processes. Except for applications of the theory to real-life problems like stock exchange, queues, gambling, optimal search etc, the main attention is paid to counter-intuitive,...
by Ricardo Almeida, Shakoor Pooseh, Delfim F M Torres
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This book fills a gap in the literature by introducing numerical techniques to solve problems of fractional calculus of variations (FCV). In most cases, finding the analytic solution to such problems is extremely difficult or even impossible, and numerical methods need to be used.
The authors...
Bazaar of Opportunities for New Business Development
Bridging Networked Innovation, Intellectual Property and Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Bazaar of Opportunities for New Business Development goes beyond the paradigm of open innovation and underlines the variety of opportunities that firms may have in innovation and new business development with external actors. This book shows readers that firms can interact, innovate, and do business...
by Oscar Núñez, Héctor Gallart-Ayala, Claudia P B Martins;Paolo Lucci
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
There is a growing need for high-throughput separations in food and environmental research that are able to cope with the analysis of a large number of compounds in very complex matrices. Whereas the most common approach for solving many analytical problems has often been high-performance liquid chromatography...