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A Manager’s Primer on e-Networking
An Introduction to Enterprise Networking in e-Business ACID Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The implementation of Enterprise Networks or e-Networking is of paramount importance for organisations. Enterprise-wide networking would warrant that the components of information architecture are organised to harness more out of the organisation's computing power on the desktop. This would also involve...
by Robert S. Baker, I. Helen Fyles
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Central Asia is vulnerable to water scarcity because it is located in semiarid and arid vegetation zones and large parts of its economy depend on water for irrigation and energy. Climate-change scenarios predict temperature increases and a rising number of extreme weather events, which will exacerbate...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
A large international conference in Intelligent Automation and Computer Engineering was held in Hong Kong, March 18-20, 2009, under the auspices of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2009). The IMECS is organized by the International Association of Engineers...
Peasants in Power
The Political Economy of Development and Genocide in Rwanda
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
This book shows how Rwanda’s development model and the organisation of genocide are two sides of the same coin. In the absence of mineral resources, the elite organised and managed the labour of peasant producers as efficient as possible. In order to stay in power and benefit from it, the presidential...
The Nuclear Imperative
A Critical Look at the Approaching Energy Crisis (More Physics for Presidents)
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
In this global wake-up call, nuclear physicist Jeff Eerkens explores remedies for the impending energy crisis, when oil and natural gas are depleted. The Nuclear Imperative demonstrates that solar, wind, and biomass power are incapable of supplying the enormous quantities of electricity and heat needed...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The diverse nature of environmental problems mankind has encountered within the last decade has developed a new understanding of the nature of environmental processes. Currently, the environment is considered as a continuum of air, soil and water as the vital components for sustaining life on earth....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
These proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Environmental Reconstruction in Headwater Areas" provide a landmark in the evolution of a distinctive movement, perhaps an emerging new philosophy, within the practice of headwater management. The Headwater Control movement traces...
African Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories and Mitigation Options: Forestry, Land-Use Change, and Agriculture
Johannesburg, South Africa 29 May – June 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to increase, so does the potential for atmospheric warming and associated climate change. In an effort to address the threat of global climate change, 155 countries signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in...
Energy Resources and Systems
Volume 2: Renewable Resources
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
This second volume of Energy Resources and Systems is focused on renewable energy resources. Renewable energy mainly comes from wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, ocean, bioenergy, ethanol and hydrogen. Each of these energy resources is important and growing. For example, high-head hydroelectric...
Critical Studies in Diversity Management Literature
A Review and Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
This book critically examines current workplace diversity management practices and explores a nuanced framework for undertaking, supporting, and implementing policies that equally favor all people. It presents critical perspectives that not only elevate respect for differences but also provide insights...
All-Embracing Manufacturing
Roadmap System
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
All-embracing manufacturing is a system that aims to dissolve the complexity of the manufacturing process and restore the inherent simplicity. It claims that production is very simple and flexible by nature. However, the complexity is a result of the production system approach which makes it rigid...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Our brain is the source of everything that makes us human: language, creativity, rationality, emotion, communication, culture, politics. The neurosciences have given us, in recent decades, fundamental new insights into how the brain works and what that means for how we see ourselves as individuals...
Thermal analysis of Micro, Nano- and Non-Crystalline Materials
Transformation, Crystallization, Kinetics and Thermodynamics
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Thermal Analysis of Micro-, Nano- and Non-Crystalline Materials: Transformation, Crystallization, Kinetics, and Thermodynamics complements and adds to volume 8 Glassy, Amorphous and Nano-Crystalline Materials by providing a coherent and authoritative overview of cutting-edge themes in this field....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
An integrated approach to environmental data management is necessitated by the complexity of the environmental problems that need to be addresses, coupled with the interdisciplinary approach that needs to be adopted to solve them. Agenda 21 of the Rio Environmental Conference mandated international...