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Data and text processing for health and life sciences
This open access book is a step-by-step introduction on how shell scripting can help solve many of the data processing tasks that Health and Life specialists face everyday with minimal software dependencies. The examples presented in the book show how simple command line tools can be used and combined to retrieve data and text from web resources, to filter and mine literature, and to explore t…
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- 9783030138455
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- xv, 98p. : ill.
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- 006.312 COU d
Disrupting finance : finTech and strategy in the 21st century
This open access Pivot demonstrates how a variety of technologies act as innovation catalysts within the banking and financial services sector. Traditional banks and financial services are under increasing competition from global IT companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon and PayPal whilst facing pressure from investors to reduce costs, increase agility and improve customer retention. Technolog…
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- 9783030023300
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- xxv, 175p. : ill.
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- 332.10285 DIS d
Models, methods and tools for product service design : the manutelligence pro…
This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the Manutelligence project, the goal of which is to help enterprises develop smart, social and flexible products with high value added services. Manutelligence has improved Product and Service Design by developing suitable models and methods, and connecting them through a modular, collaborative and secure ICT Platform. The use of re…
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- 9783319958491
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- ix, 143p. : ill.
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- 670 MOD m
Science of societal safety : living at times of risks and disasters
This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care of the victims. Safety and security problems in our society involve not only engineering but also social, legal, economic, cultural, and psychological issues. The enhancement …
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- 9789811327759
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- xv, 227p. : ill.
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- 363.348 SCI s
Aquaponics food production systems : combined aquaculture and hydroponic prod…
This open access book, written by world experts in aquaponics and related technologies, provides the authoritative and comprehensive overview of the key aquaculture and hydroponic and other integrated systems, socio-economic and environmental aspects. Aquaponic systems, which combine aquaculture and vegetable food production offer alternative technology solutions for a world that is increasingl…
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- 9783030159436
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- xvi, 619p. : ill.
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- 577.7 AQU a
Goods and services of marine bivalves
The aim of this book is to review and analyse the goods and services of bivalve shellfish. How they are defined, what determines the ecological functions that are the basis for the goods and services, what controversies in the use of goods and services exist, and what is needed for sustainable exploitation of bivalves from the perspective of the various stakeholders. The book is focused on the …
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- 9783319967769
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- xxv, 591p. : ill.
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- 577.6 GOO g
Recoding world literature: libraries, print culture, and Germany's pact with …
From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, B. Venkat Mani presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and circulation along routes of “bibliomigrancy,” Mani narrates how world literature is coded and recoded as literary works find new homes on faraway bookshelves. Mani argues that the proliferation of world liter…
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- First edition.
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- 9780823273409 (hardcover)
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- 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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- 809.3 MAN r
Visualizing the invisible with the human body : physiognomy and ekphrasis in …
Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient’s external characteristics and behaviour. This volume focuses initially on two types of descriptive literatur…
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- 9783110642698
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- VI, 501 p.
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- Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures
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- 480 JOH v
Adaptive strategies for water heritage : past, present and future
This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively …
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- 9783030002688
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- xix, 435p. : ill.
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- 363.61 ADA a
Fish, fishing and community in North Korea and neighbours : vibrant matter(s)
This open access book explores the histories and geographies of fishing in North Korea and the surrounding nations. With the ideological and environmental history of North Korea in mind, the book examines the complex interactions between local communities, fish themselves, wider ecosystems and the politics of Pyongyang through the lens of critical geography, fisheries statistics and management …
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- 9789811500428
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- xii, 202p. : ill.
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- 639.2095193 WIN f
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