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Total Books: 1901 - 1920 /2342

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 ...

Sourcing of Services : International Aspects and Complex Categories

Lydia Bals provides terminological clarity regarding the field of offshoring. She identifies different types of offshoring, ...

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 ...

Space, Place and Educational Settings

This book explores the nexus between knowledge and space with a particular emphasis on the role of educational settings that ...

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, ...

Spatial Econometrics

In recent years the so-called new economic geography and the issue of regional economic convergence have increasingly drawn ...

Speaker Classification I

This volume and its companion volume, LNAI 4441, constitute a state-of-the-art survey for the field of speaker classification. ...

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. ...

Spectral Theory of Infinite-Area Hyperbolic Surfaces

This book introduces geometric spectral theory in the context of infinite-area Riemann surfaces, providing a comprehensive ...

Speech Enhancement

This book is about speech enhancement. Different well-known and state-of-the-art methods for noise reduction, with one or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spillovers and Innovations

Innovation processes and related spillovers are of eminent importance in a modern economy. How do they relate to spatial ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stability of Tropical Rainforest Margins

This book contributes to an improved understanding of the processes that have destabilizing effects on ecological and socio-economic ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stakeholder Dialogues in Natural Resources Management

Participatory Processes for Natural Resource Management Ortwin Renn University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Need for ...

Total Books: 1901 - 1920 /2342