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The author of this fascinating volume was director-general of CERN during the crucial period of the collider's construction and recounts vividly the convoluted decision-making, technically challenging construction, and fruitful research at the facility.

This book shows enterprise business leaders, from CEOs to supervisors, what Continuous Improvement is, why it is probably the best answer in years to improved business performance, and how to implement it in the unique environment of a specific organization.

Starting from Mars outward, this concise and illustrated handbook provides thorough information on the satellites of the planets in the solar system. Readers interested in the history and mythological backgrounds of astronomy will enjoy this beautiful volume.

This book offers a self-contained exposition of the theory of computability in a higher-order context, where 'computable operations' may themselves be passed as arguments to other computable operations.

This book is a comprehensive explanation of graph and model transformation. Then in the main part the book contains detailed chapters on M-adhesive categories, M-adhesive transformation systems, and multi-amalgamated transformations, and model transformation based on triple graph grammars.

This anthological description of the history and applications of photochemistry provides photochemistry practitioners with complementary information about the field, currently not covered in existing textbooks and handbooks.

This monograph takes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to 20th and 21st -century Canadian Daoist poetry, fiction and criticism in comparative, innovative and engaging ways.

This book provides advanced theoretical and applied tools for the implementation of modern micro-econometric techniques in evidence-based program evaluation for the social sciences.

Here, the authors introduce readers to solving molecular structure elucidation problems using the expert system ACD/Structure Elucidator. They explain in detail the concepts of the Computer-Assisted Structure Elucidation (CASE) approach and point out the crucial role of understanding the axiomatic nature of the data used to deduce the structure.

- Mechanisms of mutual influence between living organisms and the environment: how life changed Earth's history whilst, at the same time, environmental pressures continue to shape the evolution of species;

This book emphasizes three very important concepts: computability, as opposed to recursion or induction; classical computability; and the art of computability, a skill to be practiced but also important in an esthetic sense of beauty and taste in mathematics.

The European system of insurance supervision under Solvency II constitutes a parallel to supervision of credit institutions under Basel III.

Marxism and 20thCentury EnglishCanadian Novels

This book is a description of some of the most recent advances in text classification as part of a concerted effort to achieve computer understanding of human language.

IT Quality Management

This text on gravity methods in geophysics is for students and earth scientists of all kinds. It covers all the basic problems, while the ideas are illustrated and documented with practical examples on scales, from the search of cavities to global geodynamics.

Osteoporosis is a global threat because it can impact every human being. This new edition points out the enormous scale of the problem in terms of human suffering, morbidity and mortality on the one hand, and the astronomical national costs on the other.

This book addresses the principles and methods for determining petroleum source rocks based on fossil spores and pollen. Studying petroliferous basins in China, we discovered that there are often as many as three different sources of the microfossils: the source rocks, the rocks along the pathway, and the reservoir rocks.

The series Topics in Current Chemistry presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in modern chemical research. Each review within the volume critically surveys one aspect of that topic and places it within the context of the volume as a whole.

Once created and scientifically verified by the sequence of events analysis, the chain of key events serves as a reference source for various levels of complex organizations and inter-organization structures in cases involving complex criminal responsibilities.

This volume focuses on several theoretical topics in world politics and analyzes prominent cases of global conflicts and their potential peaceful resolution.