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Reliable Systems on Unreliable Networked Platforms

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 12th International Monterey Workshop on Networked Systems with ...

Rise and Decline of Industry in Central and Eastern Europe

In the course of the tremendous political and economic upheaval starting in 1989/1990 many industrial cities and regions ...

Semantic Multimedia : Third International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, SAMT 2008, Koblenz, Germany, December 3-5, 2008. Proceedings

The book cover topics such as semantic analysis and multimedia, semantic retrieval and multimedia, semantic metadata management ...

Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity : Cross-National Perspectives in Classifications and Identity Politics

This open access book examines the question of collecting and disseminating data on ethnicity and race in order to describe ...

Socioeconomic Inequality and Educational Outcomes

Education systems generally aim to narrow the achievement gap between low- and high-SES students and to improve the performance ...

Structural Change and Exchange Rate Dynamics

Structural change, economic growth and adequate exchange rate adjustment are key challenges in the context of EU eastern ...

Student Misconceptions and Errors in Physics and Mathematics Exploring Data from TIMSS and TIMSS Advanced

This book explores the nature and extent of students’ misconceptions and misunderstandings related to core concepts in ...

Systems Modeling and Simulation

The Asia Simulation Conference 2006 (JSST 2006) was aimed at exploring challenges in methodologies for modeling, control ...

Teacher Quality, Instructional Quality and Student Outcomes : Relationships Across Countries, Cohorts and Time

This volume offers insights from modeling relations between teacher quality, instructional quality and student outcomes in ...

Teaching Tolerance in a Globalized World

This open access thematic report identifies factors and conditions that can help schools and education systems promote tolerance ...

The EU and the Economies of the Eastern European Enlargement

The enlargement of the European Union towards the East from May 2004 has generated an increase of about 100 million inhabitants ...

The Economics of Big Science Essays by Leading Scientists and Policymakers

The essays in this book identify the key ingredients for success in capitalizing on public investments in scientific projects ...

The Globalization of Science Curricula

This open access book provides a significant and timely investigation into the impacts that globalization has exerted on ...

The Information Society in an Enlarged Europe

The book presents a benchmarking study of the 10 new member states and 3 candidate countries of the European Union as compared ...

Theoretical and Practical Advances in Computer-based Educational Measurement

Presents a multitude of different, yet related, innovations in educational measurement and provides insight in their practical ...

Trade Specialization in the Enlarged European Union

Economic integration in general and Eastern enlargement of the European Union in particular created a wider European single ...

Traditions in German-Speaking Mathematics Education Research

This book includes a short survey of the development of educational research on mathematics in German speaking countries, ...

Turbulence in Fluids : Fourth Revised and Enlarged Edition

This is the 4th edition of a book originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. It is an exhaustive monograph on turbulence ...

Uncertainty Assessment of Large Finite Element Systems

The treatment of uncertainties in the analysis of engineering structures remains one of the premium challenges in structural ...

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 ...

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