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This book summarizes a series of research work on integrated process planning and scheduling (IPPS) done by the authors, focusing on discussing the properties, novel solution methods and applications of process planning, scheduling and IPPS problems under different machining environments.

With its easy-to-use format, this book provides a collection of annual data on China's 56 ethnic groups. In this book, data are presented on an ethnic group-by-ethnic group basis, and the ethnic groups are ordered alphabetically, from the Achang to the Zhuang.

During the last few years cavity-optomechanics has emerged as a new field of research. It is valuable to researchers in nano science, quantum optics, quantum information, gravitational wave detection and other cutting edge fields.

possible macro-projects capable of massive changes in the coastlines of the Dead Sea, Red Sea and Persian Gulf caused by canal and massively scaled hydropower dam installations; relevant macro-projects for the Black Sea and Baltic Sea;

This book sets forth the explorations and thoughts on Chinese enterprise management practices from both academic and practical perspective, extracts the management theory of Chinese characteristics, and represents the efforts to establish and develop Chinese organization and management.

Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the design of modern organizational and information systems. Selected case studies complement their views and lead to a summary of BPM expertise that is unique in its coverage of the most critical success factors of BPM.

The book describes experience in application of coastal altimetry to different parts of the World Ocean.

Das Handbuch gibt einen Überblick über zentrale Methoden im Bereich der empirischen Organisationsforschung. In modernen Gesellschaften sind in nahezu allen Lebensbereichen Organisationen – wie z.B. Betriebe und Unternehmen, Verwaltungen, Schulen und Hochschulen, Krankenhäuser oder Vereine – von entscheidender Bedeutung. Organisationsbezogene Fragestellungen besitzen damit sowohl in der soziologischen als auch in der ökonomischen Forschung einen großen Stellenwert. Daraus resultiert nicht nur ein vermehrter Bedarf an Organisationsdaten, sondern es ergeben sich zugleich auch spezifische Fragen des methodischen Vorgehens im Rahmen von empirischen Organisationsstudien. Vor diesem Hintergrund thematisieren ausgewiesene Expertinnen und Experten in den einzelnen Beiträgen sowohl Fragen der Erhebung, Sekundärnutzung und Auswertung von Organisationsdaten als auch der Datenarchivierung und -aufbereitung. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf den Analysepotenzialen existierender Datenbestände und den Anwendungsfeldern einschlägiger quantitativer sowie qualitativer Erhebungsmethoden in der Organisationsforschung. Damit leistet das Handbuch zugleich einen wichtigen Beitrag zur weiteren methodischen Fundierung der empirischen Organisationsforschung. Durch die explizite Berücksichtigung unterschiedlicher Organisationstypen – u.a. Hochschulen, Krankenhäuser, multinationale Unternehmen, Interessenorganisationen, öffentliche Verwaltungen und Parteien – bietet das Handbuch zudem ein breites Anwendungsspektrum für empirische Untersuchungen.

The book is lavishly illustrated with dozens of color images that depict the full range of common and rare conditions. Diagnostic Liquid-Based Cytology offers highly practical guidance and information needed to solve common diagnostic challenges in liquid-based cytology preparations.

The two-volume set LNCS 10031 and LNCS 10032 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2016, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in December 2016.

Taking the important cue of the "affective turn" in cultural theory in recent years, the contributors address questions such as: what are the representations of affective/emotional energies and intensities surrounding the ethnic figures/strangers in visual culture (e.g.

A wide range of applications are considered, including imaging of atherosclerotic and non-atherosclerotic coronary artery disease, coronary revascularization, ischemic heart disease, non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, valvular heart disease, cardiac tumors, and pericardial disease.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Rough Sets is devoted to the entire spectrum of rough sets related issues, from logical and mathematical foundations, through all aspects of rough set theory and its applications, such as data mining, knowledge discovery, and intelligent information processing, to relations between rough sets and other approaches to uncertainty, vagueness, and incompleteness, such as fuzzy sets and theory of evidence. Volume XX in the series is a continuation of a number of research streams that have grown out of the seminal work of Zdzislaw Pawlak during the first decade of the 21st century.

This book is an indispensable tool for anyone involved in the research, development, or manufacture of new or existing vaccines. whole infectious attenuated organisms, such as live-attenuated and inactivated whole-cell bacterial vaccines and antiviral vaccines using attenuated or inactivated viruses;

In this booklet, experts from across the world, including members of the ISAKOS Knee Arthroplasty Committee, offer clear, up-to-date guidance on all aspects of soft tissue or ligament balancing in primary total knee arthroplasty with the aim of enabling the reader to achieve optimal patient outcomes.

This journal subline serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, theories, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods, and tools in all different genres of edutainment, such as game-based learning and serious games, interactive storytelling, virtual learning environments, VR-based education, and related fields. It covers aspects from educational and game theories, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, and systems design.  The 25 papers presented in the 13th issue were organized in topical sections named: learning games and visualization; virtual reality and applications; 3D graphics technology, multimedia computing, and others. 

This volume contains a selection of authoritative essays exploring thecentral questions raised by the conjectured technological singularity.In informed yet jargon-free contributions written by active researchscientists, philosophers and sociologists, it goes beyond philosophicaldiscussion to provide a detailed account of the risks that the singularityposes to human society and, perhaps most usefully, the possible actionsthat society and technologists can take to manage the journey to anysingularity in a way that ensures a positive rather than a negativeimpact on society. The discussions provide perspectives that cover technological,political and business issues. The aim is to bring clarity and rigorto the debate in a way that will inform and stimulate both experts andinterested general readers.

The application ofmultiple computational intelligence technologies, such as fuzzy systems,evolutionary computation, neural systems, consensus theory, etc., aims tosupport human and other collective intelligence and to create new forms of CCIin natural and/or artificial systems.

This volume uses cutting-edge theory and empirical analysis of channels of international interaction to build new knowledge about strategies of entrepreneurs, domestic and multinational firms, governments, and international organizations facing increasing globalization.

This book focuses on the treatment anddisposal technology used for solid waste in China, puts forward an optimalmanagement scheme that takes into account the complete lifecycle, andintroduces a new technical model that reflects the synergies of resourceutilization and secondary pollution control.

Helping readers discover and explore plant phenology's perspectives in terms of spatiotemporal patterns, processes and mechanisms, the book will also equip young scientists and graduate students to understand the causes of spatiotemporal variation in vegetation seasonality.