Sonic Skills : Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s-Present)
This book explains why, indeed, listening for knowledge plays an ambiguous, if fascinating, role in the sciences. For what ...
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Sourcing of Services : International Aspects and Complex Categories
Lydia Bals provides terminological clarity regarding the field of offshoring. She identifies different types of offshoring, ...
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Sovereign Default Risk Valuation
Past cycles of sovereign lending and default in emerging markets suggest that debt crises will recur at some point. In addressing ...
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This book explores the nexus between knowledge and space with a particular emphasis on the role of educational settings that ...
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Spatial Cognition VI. Learning, Reasoning, and Talking about Space : International Conference Spatial Cognition 2008, Freiburg, Germany, September 15-19, 2008. Proceedings
This book includes spatial orientation, spatial navigation, spatial learning, maps and modalities, spatial communication, ...
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Spatial Econometrics
In recent years the so-called new economic geography and the issue of regional economic convergence have increasingly drawn ...
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Speaker Classification I
This volume and its companion volume, LNAI 4441, constitute a state-of-the-art survey for the field of speaker classification. ...
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Speaker Classification II
This two volume set, LNAI 4343 and LNAI 4441, constitutes a state-of-the-art survey for the field of speaker classification. ...
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Spectral Theory of Infinite-Area Hyperbolic Surfaces
This book introduces geometric spectral theory in the context of infinite-area Riemann surfaces, providing a comprehensive ...
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Speech Enhancement
This book is about speech enhancement. Different well-known and state-of-the-art methods for noise reduction, with one or ...
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Speech and Audio Processing in Adverse Environments
The book reflects the state of the art in important areas of speech and audio signal processing. It presents topics which ...
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Spies, Lies, And Algorithms: The History And Future Of American Intelligence / Amy B. Zegart
Spying has never been more ubiquitous—or less understood. The world is drowning in spy movies, TV shows, and novels, but ...
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Spillovers and Innovations
Innovation processes and related spillovers are of eminent importance in a modern economy. How do they relate to spatial ...
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Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law?
This book fills this gap, and addresses the question of the consequences of the "external force" of European enlargement ...
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Stability and Convergence of Mechanical Systems with Unilateral Constraints
Stability of motion is a central theme in the dynamics of mechanical systems. While the stability theory for systems with ...
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Stability of Tropical Rainforest Margins
This book contributes to an improved understanding of the processes that have destabilizing effects on ecological and socio-economic ...
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Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems
This book contains the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium, SSS 2006, held in Dallas, TX, USA, November 17-19, ...
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Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems : 10th International Symposium, SSS 2008, Detroit, MI, USA, November 21-23, 2008. Proceedings
The book addresses all safety and security-related aspects of self-stabilizing systems in various areas of distributed computing ...
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Stable Approximate Evaluation of Unbounded Operators
Spectral theory of bounded linear operators teams up with von Neumann’s theory of unbounded operators in this monograph ...
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Stakeholder Dialogues in Natural Resources Management
Participatory Processes for Natural Resource Management Ortwin Renn University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Need for ...
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