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Selection Methods in Plant Breeding

Written for plant breeders, researchers and post-graduate students, this book provides a comprehensive review of the methods ...

Selective Digestive Tract Decontamination in Intensive Care Medicine: a Practical Guide to Controlling Infection

More than 20 years ago it was recognized by Stoutenbeek and colleagues that patients in the intensive care unit suffered ...

Self-Governance and Sami Communities : Transitions in Early Modern Natural Resource Management

The book gives a new portrayal of how proficiently and systematically indigenous inhabitants organized and governed natural ...

Self-Managed Networks, Systems, and Services

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second IEEE International Workshop on Self-Managed Networks, Systems, ...

Self-Organized Morphology in Nanostructured Materials

In this volume, concepts of nonlinear dynamics and self-organization are applied to topics in materials sciences with emphasis ...

Self-Reported Population Health: An International Perspective based on EQ-5D

The EQ-5D instrument, as a standardized, cross-culturally validated measure of self-assessed health has a hugely important ...

Semantic Systems. In the Era of Knowledge Graphs 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2020, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 7–10, 2020, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2020, ...

Semantic Web : Revolutionizing Knowledge Discovery in the Life Sciences

This book seeks to offer students, researchers, and professionals a glimpse of the technology, its capabilities and the reach ...

Semantic Web Services

Semantic Web services combine Web services communication technology with the intelligent processing of ontology-based metadata ...

Semantic Web, Ontologies and Databases : VLDB Workshop, SWDB-ODBIS 2007, Vienna, Austria, September 24, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

Among the topics addressed are semantics-aware data models and query languages; ontology-based views, mapping, transformations, ...

Semantics in Acquisition

This book is unique in that it relates two linguistic subfields: Semantics and Language Acquisition. The volume contains ...

Semi-Markov Risk Models for Finance, Insurance and Reliability

This book presents applications of semi-Markov processes in finance, insurance and reliability, using real-life problems ...

Semiconductor Nanostructures

This book reports on the state of the art of the growing of quantum dots, the theory of self-organised growth, the theory ...

Semiconductor Optics

The book on Semiconductor Optics has been favourably received by the s- dents and the scienti?c community worldwide. After ...

Semiparametric Modeling of Implied Volatility

This book fills a gap in the financial literature by bringing together both recent advances in the theory of implied volatility ...

Sensing Issues in Civil Structural Health Monitoring

Civil infrastructure systems are generally the most expensive assets in any country, and these systems are deteriorating ...

Sepsis

Sepsis is a multi-factorial disease process and this volume provides comprehensive and in-depth reviews of both the basic ...

Sepsis Management in Resource-limited Settings

The book includes an overview chapter outlining the current challenges and future directions of sepsis management as well ...

Service Availability (vol. # 3335)

Service Availability (vol. # 4328)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Service Availability Symposium, ...