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Centers for Ending
The Coming Crisis in the Care of Aged People
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
As people live longer and health care costs continue to rise and fewer doctors choose to specialize in geriatrics, how prepared is the United States to care for its sick and elderly? According to veteran psychologist Seymour Sarason’s eloquent and compelling new book, the answer is: inadequately...
Conflict and Complexity
Countering Terrorism, Insurgency, Ethnic and Regional Violence
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This book follows the methodologies of complex adaptive systems research in their application to addressing the problems of terrorism, specifically terrorist networks, their structure and various methods of mapping and interdicting them as well as exploring the complex landscape of network-centric...
Economic Analysis of Music Copyright
Income, Media and Performances
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Chris Anderson's initial `Long Tail' analysis was released in 2004 just as the wave of mergers and acquisitions was sweeping the music publishing and radio industries. Music industry executives began looking for Anderson’s ‘Long Tail’ effect and with it the implied redistribution of royalty...
Seeking Transformation Through Information Technology
Strategies for Brazil, China, Canada and Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
The ability to harness Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) is increasingly at the heart of national competitiveness and sustainable development. As countries seek a way out of the present period of economic contraction, they are trying to weave ICT into their development strategies, in the...
The Planner’s Guide to Natural Resource Conservation:
The Science of Land Development Beyond the Metropolitan Fringe
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Much of the country’s recent population growth is situated in exurban areas. By many accounts exurbanization has become the dominant pattern of land development in the country and there is no indication it will slow in the foreseeable future (Theobald 2005; Brown et al. 2005; Glennon and Kretser...
Dynamic Data Analysis
Modeling Data with Differential Equations
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
This text focuses on the use of smoothing methods for developing and estimating differential equations following recent developments in functional data analysis and building on techniques described in Ramsay and Silverman (2005) Functional Data Analysis. The central concept of a dynamical system...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
New generations of IT users are increasingly abstracted from the underlying devices and platforms that provide and safeguard their services. As a result they may have little awareness that they are critically dependent on the embedded security devices that are becoming pervasive in daily modern life....
Moving Target Defense II
Application of Game Theory and Adversarial Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Our cyber defenses are static and are governed by lengthy processes, e.g., for testing and security patch deployment. Adversaries could plan their attacks carefully over time and launch attacks at cyber speeds at any given moment. We need a new class of defensive strategies that would force adversaries...
Alien Skies
Planetary Atmospheres from Earth to Exoplanets
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Planetary atmospheres are complex and evolving entities, as mankind is rapidly coming to realise whilst attempting to understand, forecast and mitigate human-induced climate change. In the Solar System, our neighbours Venus and Mars provide striking examples of two endpoints of planetary evolution,...
Universities in Change
Managing Higher Education Institutions in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Universities find themselves in dynamic change. They are confronted with growing expectations from their stakeholders, increasing international competition, and new technological challenges. Featuring insights and in-depth case studies from leading researchers and university decision makers from...
Learning Landscape Ecology
A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This title meets a great demand for training in spatial analysis tools accessible to a wide audience. Landscape ecology continues to grow as an exciting discipline with much to offer for solving pressing and emerging problems in environmental science. Much of the strength of landscape ecology lies...
The Coexistence of Genetically Modified, Organic and Conventional Foods
Government Policies and Market Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Since their commercial introduction in 1996, genetically modified (GM) crops have been adopted by farmers around the world at impressive rates. In 2011, 180 million hectares of GM crops were cultivated by more than 15 million farmers in 29 countries. In the next decade, global adoption is expected...
Global Supply Chain Security
Emerging Topics in Research, Practice and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
This volume presents new theoretical insights, practical strategies, and policy initiatives in the rapidly evolving field of global supply chain security. As businesses, governments, and society at large have become increasingly dependent on a global network to provide goods and services, protecting...
Health Services for Cancer Survivors
Practice, Policy and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Health has been conceptualized by world and national health organizations (WHO, CDC, Healthy People 2010) as more than the absence of disease. It involves a focus on physical, psychosocial, and functional aspects of life as well as the prevention of future illnesses. At this point in the development...