Liss 2014

Author : Zhenji Zhang,Zuojun Max Shen,Juliang Zhang,Runtong Zhang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1800 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662438718

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LISS 2014 by Zhenji Zhang,Zuojun Max Shen,Juliang Zhang,Runtong Zhang Pdf

The proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Services Sciences (LISS’2014) gather 259 papers on the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of logistics, informatics, service operations and service science. The books is divided into four main sections focusing on different aspects: Service Management, Logistics Management, Information Management, and Engineering Management. It also covers ten special sessions: Advanced Management Decision Making Techniques and Application; Freight Transportation and Information Technology; Free Trade Zone (FTZ) and Supply Chain Management; Innovation in Service Science; Comprehensive Service; International Trade and Investment of Service Industries Theories and Practices, Trends and Strategies; Supply Chain Management, Industrial Economy and Urban Logistics; Management Process Optimization Modeling & Data Analysis; Logistics Management & IOT Technology Application; and Digital Publishing & Media. The papers in each section describe state-of-art research works that are often oriented towards real-world applications and highlight the benefits of related methods and techniques for developing the emerging field of service science, logistics and informatics.

Author : Runtong Zhang,Zhenji Zhang,Kecheng Liu,Juliang Zhang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1386 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642406607

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LISS 2013 by Runtong Zhang,Zhenji Zhang,Kecheng Liu,Juliang Zhang Pdf

Information and communication technology has helped to provide a more effective network infrastructure and development platform for logistics and service operations. In order to meet the needs of consumers and particularly to promote low-carbon development processes, new types of services will also emerge. LISS 2013 is a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of logistics, informatics, service operations and service science. Experts and researchers from related fields will discuss current issues and future development opportunities discuss and analyze developing trends and exchange the latest research and academic thought. The theme of the conference is Logistics and Service Science based on the Internet of Things.

Author : Irina Wandrey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110546545

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Jewish Manuscript Cultures by Irina Wandrey Pdf

Hebrew manuscripts are considered to be invaluable documents and artefacts of Jewish culture and history. Research on Hebrew manuscript culture is progressing rapidly and therefore its topics, methods and questions need to be enunciated and reflected upon. The case studies assembled in this volume explore various fields of research on Hebrew manuscripts. They show paradigmatically the current developments concerning codicology and palaeography, book forms like the scroll and codex, scribes and their writing material, patrons, collectors and censors, manuscript and book collections, illuminations and fragments, and, last but not least, new methods of material analysis applied to manuscripts. The principal focus of this volume is the material and intellectual history of Hebrew book cultures from antiquity to the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, its intention being to heighten and sharpen the reader’s understanding of Jewish social and cultural history in general.

Author : Connie K. Porcaro
Publisher : Plural Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781635503586

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Improving Speech Intelligibility in Adults by Connie K. Porcaro Pdf

Being intelligible to a listener means getting your message across and improving speech intelligibility is one of the most common goals for clients working with a speech-language pathologist (SLP). Improving Speech Intelligibility in Adults: Clinical Application of Evidence-Based Strategies is a professional resource for practicing SLPs working with adults with communication disorders, such as dysarthria, acquired apraxia of speech, and voice disorders. This book incorporates current research findings to support the use of evidence-based strategies in clinical situations. While other books may focus on “drilling” and “practicing” a list of words, sentences, and topics to use with a client to change their behaviors, Improving Speech Intelligibility in Adults uniquely focuses on the speaker and the listener in tandem. The author takes a noteworthy approach in how the listener can change behaviors to assist with understanding. The text presents a comprehensive approach to improving speech intelligibility by including ways to enhance the communication environment during in-person or teletherapy exchanges to enhance understanding between speaker and listener.

Author : Lisa Wade
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393285109

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American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus by Lisa Wade Pdf

"A must-read for any student—present or former—stuck in hookup culture’s pressure to put out." —Ana Valens, Bitch Offering invaluable insights for students, parents, and educators, Lisa Wade analyzes the mixed messages of hookup culture on today’s college campuses within the history of sexuality, the evolution of higher education, and the unfinished feminist revolution. She draws on broad, original, insightful research to explore a challenging emotional landscape, full of opportunities for self-definition but also the risks of isolation, unequal pleasure, competition for status, and sexual violence. Accessible and open-minded, compassionate and honest, American Hookup explains where we are and how we got here, asking, “Where do we go from here?”

Author : Chung Hyuk Park,Raquel Ros,Sonya S. Kwak,Chien-Ming Huang,Séverin Lemaignan
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9782889664023

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Editorial: Towards Real World Impacts: Design, Development, and Deployment of Social Robots in the Wild by Chung Hyuk Park,Raquel Ros,Sonya S. Kwak,Chien-Ming Huang,Séverin Lemaignan Pdf

Author : A. Neil Crowson,Cynthia M. Magro
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781496365156

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Biopsy Interpretation of the Skin by A. Neil Crowson,Cynthia M. Magro Pdf

Part of the popular Biopsy Interpretation Series, Biopsy Interpretation of the Skin: Primary Non-Lymphoid Cutaneous Neoplasia, Second Edition, is a concise, practical resource with a strong focus on diagnosis. It offers guidelines on how and when to biopsy the skin and provides superb coverage of common and uncommon non-lymphoid neoplasms of the skin. Focusing on the daily tasks and needs of the general pathologist, this updated Second Edition is an excellent bench reference and education resource for the interpretation of the most common skin biopsies.

Author : Carlo Maria Croce,Alfredo Ferro,Alessandro Laganà
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9782889450961

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Bioinformatics of Non-Coding RNAs with Applications to Biomedicine: Recent Advances and Open Challenges by Carlo Maria Croce,Alfredo Ferro,Alessandro Laganà Pdf

The recent discovery of small and long non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) has represented a major breakthrough in the life sciences. These molecules add a new layer of complexity to biological processes and pathways by revealing a sophisticated and dynamic interconnected system whose structure is just beginning to be uncovered. Genetic and epigenetic aberrations affecting ncRNA gene sequences and their expression have been linked to a variety of pathological conditions, including cancer, cardiovascular and neurological diseases. Latest advances in the development of high throughput analysis techniques may help to shed light on the complex regulatory mechanisms in which ncRNA molecules are involved. Bioinformatics tools constitute a unique and essential resource for non-coding RNA studies, providing a powerful technology to organize, integrate and analyze the huge amount of data produced daily by wet biology experiments in order to discover patterns, identify relationships among heterogeneous biological elements and formulate functional hypotheses. This Research Topic reviews current knowledge, introduces novel methods, and discusses open challenges of this exciting and innovative field in connection with the most important biomedical applications. It consists of four reviews and six original research and methods articles, spanning the full scope of the Research Topic.

Author : Anja Shortland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192547507

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Kidnap by Anja Shortland Pdf

Kidnap for ransom is a lucrative but tricky business. Millions of people live, travel, and work in areas with significant kidnap risks, yet kidnaps of foreign workers, local VIPs, and tourists are surprisingly rare and the vast majority of abductions are peacefully resolved - often for remarkably low ransoms. In fact, the market for hostages is so well ordered that the crime is insurable. This is a puzzle: ransoming a hostage is the world's most precarious trade. What would be the "right" price for your loved one - and can you avoid putting others at risk by paying it? What prevents criminals from maltreating hostages? How do you (safely) pay a ransom? And why would kidnappers release a potential future witness after receiving their money? Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business uncovers how a group of insurers at Lloyd's of London have solved these thorny problems for their customers. Based on interviews with industry insiders (from both sides), as well as hostage stakeholders, it uncovers an intricate and powerful private governance system ordering transactions between the legal and the criminal economies.

Author : Carolin Liss,Ted Biggs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134819027

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Piracy in Southeast Asia by Carolin Liss,Ted Biggs Pdf

This book combines multi-disciplinary ethnographic and theoretical approaches to examine piracy in Southeast Asia and the regional and international responses to this threat. During the piracy boom of the early to mid-2000s, the issue of piracy in Southeast Asia received substantial academic attention. Recent scholarship, however, has shifted the focus to Somali piracy and the resurgence of piracy in Southeast Asia has largely been neglected in the academic community. This volume seeks to remedy this gap in the current literature. The primary aim is to examine how piracy has evolved in Southeast Asia over the past ten years, to address why piracy has re-emerged as a security threat, to evaluate efforts at maintaining security in regional waters, and to offer an analysis of what might be expected in the next decade. The contributions are drawn from academics, policy makers, and military officers, covering a range of disciplines including international relations, socio-cultural anthropology, security studies, history, law, and Asian studies. Taken together, the contributions in this volume provide a better understanding of contemporary piracy in Southeast Asia and suggest avenues to successfully combat piracy in this region. This book will be of much interest to students of maritime security, Asian politics, security studies, and international relations in general.

Author : Ivan Russo,Ilenia Confente
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351669351

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Customer Loyalty and Supply Chain Management by Ivan Russo,Ilenia Confente Pdf

Many business-to-business (B2B) managers think that customers act rationally and base decisions mostly on price, customer loyalty isn’t considered. Companies outsource various activities, which enable them to improve efficiency, reduce costs, focus more on core competencies and improve their innovation capabilities. Supply Chain Management synchronizes the efforts of all parties—particularly suppliers, manufacturers, retailers, dealers, customers—involved in achieving customer’s needs. Despite much research, the relationship between customer loyalty and the supply chain strategy remains insufficiently explored and understood by practitioners and academics, while the theme has been extensively developed within marketing literature. Customer Loyalty and Supply Chain Management is the result of years of work by the authors on different projects concerning the overlapping areas of supply chains, logistics and marketing, drawing a connection between the literature to provide a holistic picture of the customer loyalty framework. Emphasis is given to the B2B context, where recent research has provided some clues to support the fact that investment in operations, new technologies and organizational strategy have had a significant role in understanding B2B loyalty, particularly in the context of global supply chains. Moreover, the book provides a modernized and predictive model of B2B loyalty, showing a different methodological approach that aims at capturing the complexity of the phenomenon. This book will be a useful resource for professionals and scholars from across the supply chain who are interested in exploring the dimension of customer loyalty in the challenging supplier and customer context.

Author : Vittorio Murino,Cigdem Beyan,Gentiane Venture,Agnieszka Wykowska
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889638079

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Computational Approaches for Human-Human and Human-Robot Social Interactions by Vittorio Murino,Cigdem Beyan,Gentiane Venture,Agnieszka Wykowska Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : Quande Qin,Xunpeng Shi,Lin Zhang,Bangzhu Zhu
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9782889760497

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Rethinking Green Energy Development: Cognitive Biases by Quande Qin,Xunpeng Shi,Lin Zhang,Bangzhu Zhu Pdf

Author : Fivos Papadimitrou
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031481857

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Geo-Topology by Fivos Papadimitrou Pdf

Geo-Topology is an exploration of the depth and breadth of the relationships between Geography and Topology, with applications ranging from Landscape Geography to Social Geography and from Spatial Analysis to Geospatial Technologies. It shows how topics of geographical research (landscapes, borders, spatial social relationships etc) can be examined by using mathematical concepts and methods of Topology, exposing the realm of geo-topological modelling and visualization through Point-Set Topology, Knot Theory, Reeb graphs, Topological Surfaces (i.e. Möbius bands and Klein bottles), Differential Topology, Network Analysis, Combinatorial Topology, Braid Theory and Ultrametric Topology. Besides geographers, this book is a trove of new ideas for landscape ecologists, mathematicians, data scientists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists and educators. Geo-Topology is a systematic introduction to topological thinking in Geography, also by highlighting the significance of Topology for Geographical Education, as well as for the Philosophy and Epistemology of Geography.

Author : Robert F. Barsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317534334

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Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law by Robert F. Barsky Pdf

This book describes the experiences of undocumented migrants, all around the world, bringing to life the challenges they face from the moment they consider leaving their country of origin, until the time they are deported back to it. Drawing on a broad array of academic studies, including law, interpretation and translation studies, border studies, human rights, communication, critical discourse analysis and sociology, Robert Barsky argues that the arrays of actions that are taken against undocumented migrants are often arbitrary, and exercised by an array of officials who can and do exercise considerable discretion, both positive and negative. Employing insights from a decade-long research project, Barsky also finds that every stop along the migrant’s pathway into, and inside of, the host country is strewn with language issues, relating to intercultural communication, interpretation, gossip, hearsay, and the challenges of peddling of linguistic wares in the social discourse marketplace. These language issues are almost always impediments to anodyne or productive interactions with host country officials, particularly on the "front-lines" where migrants encounter border patrol and law enforcement officers without adequate means of communicating their situation or understanding their rights. Since undocumented people are categorized as ‘illegal’, they can be subjected to abuse and exploitation by host country officials, who can choose to either tolerate or punish them on the basis of unpredictable, changeable, and even illusory or "arbitrary" laws and regulations. Citing experts at every level of the undocumented immigrant apparatuses worldwide, from public defenders to interpreters, Barsky concludes that the only viable policy to address prevailing abuses and inequalities is to move towards open borders, an approach that would address prevailing issues and, surprisingly, provide security and economic benefits to both host and home countries.