Springer Singapore: 3660 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
These Proceedings present selected research papers from CSNC2016, held during 18th-20th May in Changsha, China. The theme of CSNC2016 is Smart Sensing, Smart Perception. These papers discuss the technologies and applications of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and the latest progress...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
This book discusses the discipline standards of History in Australian universities in order to help historians understand the Threshold Learning Outcomes and to assist in their practical application. It is divided into two sections: The first offers a scholarly exploration of contemporary issues in...
Artists in the University
Positioning Artistic Research in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book focuses on the relationship between the university and a particular cohort of academic staff: those in visual and performing arts disciplines who joined the university sector in the 1990s. It explores how artistic researchers have been accommodated in the Australian university management...
Post-2020 Climate Action
Global and Asian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
This book summarizes assessments of the Paris Agreement to provide an excellent introduction to this research field. The AIM/CGE (Asia-Pacific Integrated Modeling /Computable General Equilibrium) model, which is the core of AIM modeling framework, is used for the assessment.
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by Zhigang Liu
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This book describes the wave characteristics of contact lines taking wind into consideration and discusses new methods for detecting catenary geometry, pantograph slide fault, and catenary support system faults. It also introduces wire-irregularity detection methods for catenary estimation, and discusses...
by JianHua Yan, ChangMing Du
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This book provides an overview of hydrogen production from renewable resources such as ethanol using plasma or plasma-catalytic technologies. Further, it presents a balanced and comprehensive treatment of the core principles, novel plasma reactors and diagnostics, as well as state-of-the-art plasma...
by Mrinmoy Majumder, Apu K. Saha
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This Brief highlights a novel model to find out the feasibility of any location to produce solar energy. The model utilizes the latest multi-criteria decision making techniques and artificial neural networks to predict the suitability of a location to maximize allocation of available energy for producing...
Contemporary Meanings of John R. Commons’s Institutional Economics
An Analysis Using a Newly Discovered Manuscript
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
This book is the first to reinterpret John R. Commons's Institutional Economics with a newly discovered manuscript written in 1927 in order to find its contemporary meanings in economic theories. Commons aimed to establish institutional economics to understand capitalism in the USA of that time, when...
Governance and Governed
Multi-Country Perspectives on State, Society and Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Building, largely, on insights from India, and case studies in Brazil, China, and South Africa, this book provides insights into the contested topic of ‘governance and governed’ from a state–society inter-relationship perspective. It argues that the centrality of an understanding of state-governance...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies. The contributors come from different...
Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India
The Politics of Spatial Restructuring and Local Contestation
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Through the analysis of Indian metropolises, this volume critiques the reality of “entrepreneurial governance” that has emerged as a major urban development practice in cities of the global south. In neoliberal India, the use of management rhetoric in urban development has rapidly led to the growth...
Data Warehouse Requirements Engineering
A Decision Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
As the first to focus on the issue of Data Warehouse Requirements Engineering, this book introduces a model-driven requirements process used to identify requirements granules and incrementally develop data warehouse fragments. In addition, it presents an approach to the pair-wise integration of requirements...
Increasing Resilience to Climate Variability and Change
The Roles of Infrastructure and Governance in the Context of Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This book highlights the role that both infrastructure and governance play in the context of resilience and adaptation to climate variability and change. Eleven case studies analyze in-depth impacts of extreme events in projects, basins and regions in the Arid Americas (Unites States and Mexico),...
Proceedings of International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development
ICT4SD 2015 Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
The two volumes of this book collect high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented in the International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD 2015) held at Ahmedabad, India during 3 – 4 July 2015. The book discusses all areas of Information and Communication Technologies and...