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Shifting Power in Asia-Pacific?
The Rise of China, Sino-US Competition and Regional Middle Power Allegiance
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book investigates whether a power shift has taken place in the Asia-Pacific region since the end of the Cold War. By systematically examining the development of power dynamics in Asia-Pacific, it challenges the notion that a wealthier and militarily more powerful China is automatically turning...
U.S. Government Contractors and Human Trafficking
Two Case Studies of Iraq and Bosnia-Herzegovina
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2017
This Brief examines the role of United States private military contractors (PMCs) in human trafficking and forced labor in case studies of Iraq and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Through the lens of these cases, the authors explore the legal and regulatory deficiencies surrounding PMCs in conflict zones, and...
Italy’s Top Products in World Trade
The Fortis-Corradini Index
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
This book analyzes Italy’s external competitiveness in detail and introduces a new index, devised by Marco Fortis and Stefano Corradini for Fondazione Edison, that highlights the strengths of Italy’s foreign trade. Compared with the Trade Performance Index compiled and updated annually by UNCTAD/WTO’s...
Experiments and Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Combustion of Diluted Sprays
TCS 3: Third International Workshop on Turbulent Spray Combustion
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
This book reflects the results of the 2nd and 3rd International Workshops on Turbulent Spray Combustion. The focus is on progress in experiments and numerical simulations for two-phase flows, with emphasis on spray combustion. Knowledge of the dominant phenomena and their interactions allows development...
Science Education in East Asia
Pedagogical Innovations and Research-informed Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
This book presents innovations in teaching and learning science, novel approaches to science curriculum, cultural and contextual factors in promoting science education and improving the standard and achievement of students in East Asian countries. The authors in this book discuss education reform...
Post-Trial Access to Drugs in Developing Nations
Global Health Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
This book begins the discourse on post-trial access to drugs in developing countries. Underlying ethical issues in global health inequalities and global health research serve as the context of the debate. Due to rampant allegations of violations of rights of research participants, especially in developing...
Codes, Cryptology and Information Security
Third International Conference, C2SI 2019, Rabat, Morocco, April 22–24, 2019, Proceedings - In Honor of Said El Hajji
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Codes, Cryptology and Information Security, C2SI 2019, held in Rabat, Morocco, in April 2019.
The 19 regular papers presented together with 5 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions....
X-Ray Lasers 2016
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
These proceedings comprise a selection of invited and contributed papers presented at the 15th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers (ICXRL 2016), held at the Nara Kasugano International Forum, Japan, from May 22 to 27, 2016. This conference was part of an ongoing series dedicated to recent developments...
Nanophysics, Nanomaterials, Interface Studies, and Applications
Selected Proceedings of the 4th International Conference Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials (NANO2016), August 24-27, 2016, Lviv, Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This book presents some of the latest achievements in nanotechnology and nanomaterials from leading researchers in Ukraine, Europe, and beyond. It features selected peer-reviewed contributions from participants in the 4th International Science and Practice Conference Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
This book examines innovation in the fields of computer engineering and networking, and explores important, state-of-the-art developments in areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, information analysis and communication. It gathers papers presented at the 8th International Conference...
Advances in Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop WSOM 2016, Houston, Texas, USA, January 6-8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This book contains the articles from the international conference 11th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps 2016 (WSOM 2016), held at Rice University in Houston, Texas, 6-8 January 2016. WSOM is a biennial international conference series starting with WSOM'97 in Helsinki, Finland, under the guidance and...
New Trends in Databases and Information Systems
ADBIS 2018 Short Papers and Workshops, AI*QA, BIGPMED, CSACDB, M2U, BigDataMAPS, ISTREND, DC, Budapest, Hungary, September, 2-5, 2018, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed short papers, workshops and doctoral consortium papers of the 22th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2018, held in Budapest, Hungary, in September 2018.
The 20 full and the 4 short workshop papers as well...
Data Quality and Trust in Big Data
5th International Workshop, QUAT 2018, Held in Conjunction with WISE 2018, Dubai, UAE, November 12–15, 2018, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the International Workshop on Data Quality and Trust in Big Data, QUAT 2018, which was held in conjunction with the International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2018, in Dubai, UAE, in November 2018.
The 9 papers presented...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
This book contains papers presented in the main track of IITI 2018, the Third International Scientific Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry held in Sochi, Russia on September 17–21. The conference was jointly co-organized by Rostov State Transport University (Russia) and...