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Advances in energy system optimization : proceedings of the first Internation…
The papers presented in this open access book address diverse challenges in decarbonizing energy systems, ranging from operational to investment planning problems, from market economics to technical and environmental considerations, from distribution grids to transmission grids, and from theoretical considerations to data provision concerns and applied case studies. While most papers have a cle…
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- 9783030321574
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- viii, 178p. : ill.
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- 621.319 ADV a
Rethinking productivity in software engineering
Get the most out of this foundational reference and improve the productivity of your software teams. This open access book collects the wisdom of the 2017 "Dagstuhl" seminar on productivity in software engineering, a meeting of community leaders, who came together with the goal of rethinking traditional definitions and measures of productivity. The results of their work, Rethinking Productiv…
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- 9781484242216
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- xxviii, 310p. : ill.
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- 005.1 RET r
Architects of Buddhist leisure
Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s culture of Buddhist leisure through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites. In conversation with noted theorists of materi…
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- 9780824865986
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- xi, 215 p.; 22 cm.
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- Contemporary Buddhism
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- 155.09 MCD a
Big data in context : legal, social and technological insights
This book sheds new light on a selection of big data scenarios from an interdisciplinary perspective. It features legal, sociological and economic approaches to fundamental big data topics such as privacy, data quality and the ECJ’s Safe Harbor decision on the one hand, and practical applications such as smart cars, wearables and web tracking on the other. Addressing the interests of research…
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- 9783319624617
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- xii, 120p. : ill.
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- SpringerBriefs in Law
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- 343.099 BIG b
Entrepreneurship : a new perspective
The entrepreneur has been neglected over the years in formal economic theorizing. Previously there has been only eclectic theories such as human capital theory and network dynamics which discuss certain perspectives of entrepreneurial behaviour. This insightful book closes this gap in entrepreneurship literature. Inspired by modern physics, author Thomas Grebel brings together an evolutionary m…
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- 9780203478745
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- xx, 203p. : ill.
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- 338.04 GRE e
Vocational teacher education in central Asia : developing skills and facilita…
Over the last 3 years, internationally approved curricula have been developed in the GIZ programme “Professional Education and Training in Central Asia” in the area of food technology and vocational training. With the aim to ensure sustainability and to assisst in the implementation of the programme, an 18-month-strategy for “project-based learning” titled USPECH (Russian for “suc…
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- 9783319730936
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- 370.113 DRU v
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