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Upon What Does the Turtle Stand?

This book brings together the reflections of independent researchers from around the world. Sixteen authors from fourteen ...

Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto and How to Observe Them

This book tells the story of two giants and a dwarf. The giants, Uranus and Neptune, are mostly huge balls of gas, and they ...

Urban Informatics

This book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect ...

Urban Planning Against Poverty How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Global South

This book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the ...

Urban Playground : How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities / Tim Gill

Reveals how seeing cities through the eyes of children strengthens the case for planning and transportation policies that ...

Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality A Global Perspective

This book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions ...

Using CAMELS as an early warning indicator to predict financial failure in Syrian banks during Covid-19 (Analytical study on a sample of Syrian banks) أماني محمد ياسر سيف ؛ هديل سليم رغفان ؛ سارة مصطفى حزريني ؛ إشراف د. ليلاس اللحام

Banks play an important role in financing economic development through their impact on the performance and effectiveness ...

VOCUS: A Visual Attention System for Object Detection and Goal-Directed Search

This monograph presents a complete computational system for visual attention and object detection: VOCUS (Visual Object detection ...

Validity and Reliability in Built Environment Research : A Selection of Case Studies / ian Ahmed, Alex Opoku, Ayokunle Olanipekun, Monty Sutrisna

Presents case studies that emphasize reliability and validity in different examples of qualitative, quantitative and mixed ...

Values Education and Lifelong Learning

The aim of this book is to provide an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international ...

Values and Valuing in Mathematics Education

This engaging book discusses how a values and valuing perspective can facilitate a more effective mathematics pedagogical ...

Vector Semantics / András Kornai

Links the formal theory of word vectors to the cognitive theory of linguistics. The computational linguists and deep learning ...

Venezuela: A Petro-State Using Renewable Energies : A Contribution to the Global Debate about New Renewable Energies for Electricity Generation

In spite of the economic role of oil, Venezuela has started developing hydroelectricity since the 1950s. At present, the ...

Venus and Mercury, and How to Observe Them

Mercury and Venus - known as the "inferior planets" because they are closer to the Sun than the Earth is - have always ...

Verbal and Nonverbal Features of Human-Human and Human-Machine Interaction : COST Action 2102 International Conference, Patras, Greece, October 29-31, 2007. Revised Papers

This book is organized in topical sections on static and dynamic processing of faces, facial expressions and gaze as well ...

Vergleichsweise menschlich? : Ambulante Sanktionen als Alternative zur Freiheitsentziehung aus europäischer Perspektive = Comparatively human? : Outpatient sanctions as an alternative to imprisonment from a European perspective

Ambulatory sanctions are often seen as a humane alternative to deprivation of liberty. The nature of intervention, the perspective ...

Verified Software: Theories, Tools, Experiments : First IFIP TC 2/WG 2.3 Conference, VSTTE 2005, Zurich, Switzerland, October 10-13, 2005, Revised Selected Papers and Discussions

The book includes a general introduction to the area, which also presents the vision of a grand challenge project: the "verifying ...

Verifying Treaty Compliance

International treaties requiring binding commitments on the part of the member states and appropriate compliance verification ...

Victim-Offender Mediation with Youth Offenders in Europe

This book documents the state of the art on Victim-Offender Mediation with youth offenders in 15 European nations.It provides ...

Vienna - A Doctor´s Guide : 15 walking tours through Vienna’s medical history

This book describes a total of 15 walking tours through old medical Vienna. Naturally, these tours are concentrated on the ...

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