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QoS Management of Web Services
Quality-of-Service (QoS) is normally used to describe the non-functional characteristics of Web services and as a criterion for evaluating different Web services. QoS Management of Web Services presents a new distributed QoS evaluation framework for these services. Moreover, three QoS prediction met... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
QoS Prediction in Cloud and Service Computing
This book offers a systematic and practical overview of Quality of Service prediction in cloud and service computing. Intended to thoroughly prepare the reader for research in cloud performance, the book first identifies common problems in QoS prediction and proposes three QoS prediction models to ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Point-of-Interest Recommendation in Location-Based Social Networks (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
This book systematically introduces Point-of-interest (POI) recommendations in Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs). Starting with a review of the advances in this area, the book then analyzes user mobility in LBSNs from geographical and temporal perspectives. Further, it demonstrates how to build... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Clinical Principles and Management
The 2nd edition of this book incorporates the tremendous clinical advances that have occurred in the field of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the past 5 years. Since the 1st edition was published, the clinical use of tDCS has moved from its infancy, and is now in a thrilling new ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Critical Care Obstetrics
by George R. Saade • Michael A. Belfort • Michael R. Foley • Jeffrey P. Phelan • Luis D. Pacheco • Gary A. DildyA new edition of the proven guide to providing emergency care for mothers-to-be in acute medical distress Now in its sixth edition, Critical Care Obstetrics offers an authoritative guide to what might go seriously wrong with a pregnancy and delivery and explains how to manage grave complications. Wr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Advanced Concepts in Lumbar Degenerative Disk Disease
In this book, leading international specialists in the field join forces to discuss topics, issues and approaches that are of key importance in the optimal treatment of lumbar degenerative disk disease. The coverage is wide ranging, from current understanding of physiopathology and genetics and mod... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Smart Business: 18th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2019, Munich, Germany, December 14, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #403)
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 18th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2019, which took place in Munich, Germany, in December 2019. The purpose of WeB is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss findings, novel ideas, and lessons learned to address major ch... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Latinos in the New Millennium
by John A. Garcia • Michael Jones-Correa • Valerie Martinez-Ebers • Gary M. Segura • Rodney E. Hero • Luis R. FragaLatinos in the New Millennium is the most current and comprehensive profile of Latinos in the United States: looking at their social characteristics, group relations, policy positions and political orientations. The authors draw on information from the 2006 Latino National Survey (LNS), the largest ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Radio's Second Century: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives
by Bruce Mims • John Allen Hendricks • Daniel Riffe • Brad Clark • Mark Ward • Lu Wu • Laith Zuraikat • Joseph R. Blaney • David Crider • Rachel Sussman-Wander Kaplan • John F. Barber • Emily W. Easton • John Mark Dempsey • Anjuli Joshi Brekke • Anne F. MacLennan • Archie McLean • Michael Nevradakis • Simon OrderOne of the first books to examine the status of broadcasting on its one hundredth anniversary, Radio’s Second Century investigates both vanguard and perennial topics relevant to radio’s past, present, and future. As the radio industry enters its second century of existence, it continues to be a domi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Extraction 2018: Proceedings Of The First Global Conference On Extractive Metallurgy (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series)
by Jeff Adams • Michael L. Free • David Dreisinger • Dean Gregurek • John Goode • Shijie Wang • Gisele Azimi • Boyd R. Davis • Michael S. Moats • Joël Kapusta • Thomas P. Battle • Mark E. Schlesinger • Gerardo Raul Alvear Flores • Evgueni Jak • Graeme Goodall • Edouard Asselin • Alexandre Chagnes • Matthew Jeffrey • Jaeheon Lee • Graeme Miller • Jochen Petersen • Virginia S. T. Ciminelli • Qian Xu • Ronald Molnar • Wenying Liu • Niels Verbaan • Ian M. London • Alex Forstner • Ronel Kappes • Tarun BhambhaniThis three volume set presents papers from the first collaborative global metallurgy conference focused exclusively on extractive topics, including business and economic issues. Contributions examine new developments in foundational extractive metallurgy topics and techniques, and present the latest... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Writers of the Future Volume 31
by Rebecca Moesta • Larry Niven • Orson Scott Card • L. Ron Hubbard • David Farland • Tim Napper • Martin L. Shoemaker • Amit Dutta • Choong Nyung Yoon • Krystal Claxton • Quinlan Septer • Samantha Murray • Taylor Payton • Emily Siu • Tung Chi Lee • Alex Brock • Sharon Joss • Daniel J. Davis • Michelle Lockamy • Amy H. Hughes • Kary English • Daniel Tyka • Zach Chapman • Kevin A. Anderson • Megen Nelson • Scott R. Parkin • Michael T. Banker • Auston Habershaw • Megan Kelchner • Shuangjian Liu • Steve PantazisThe future is here...the future is now! Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now, you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the Science Fiction and Fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging star... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Invasive Birds: Global Trends and Impacts
by Matthew Burnett • Bill Pranty • Diederik Strubbe • Erik Matthysen • Matthieu Guillemain • Johan Elmberg • Iain Henderson • Ding Li Yong • Juan Carlos Reboreda • Alexander Cruz • Tim Adriaens • Craig R Allen • Michael L Avery • Alexander V Badyaev • Fabrice M Brescia • Sarah E Britton • Daniel M Brooks • Jessica L. Burnett • Corey T Callaghan • César Capinha • Jen Cele • Jameson F Chace • Jocelyn Champagnon • Alice Cibois • Andrew Close • Alyssa R Conn • Richard T Corlett • Adrian J Craig • Amy E Dunham • James A Eaton • David A Smith • Yvette C Smith • Mike W Eichholz • Cyril Eraud • Chris L Feare • Jason M Gleditsch • Guillaume G Gayet • Carlos Gutiérrez-Expósito • Haley E Hanson • Frank Huysentruyt • John G Innes • Salit Kark • Michael R Leven • Ricardo J Lopes • Jean-Francois Maillard • Ndivhuwo Maligana • Chloe I Marcheli • Lynn B Martin • Blake A Mathys • Myriam E Mermoz • Jean-Yves Meyer • Dai K Morgan • Katherine G Ohman • Claire Pernollet • Murray A Potter • Eileen C Rees • Luís Reino • Joana Ribeiro • Peter A Robertson • Andrew M Rogers • Philip D Round • Joana Santana • Cavin T Shivambu • Neftalí Sillero • Preshnee Singh • Pär Söderquist • Karina L Speziale • Martin J Sullivan • Jean-Claude Thibault • Martin Thibault • Berndt J van Rensburg • Eric Vidal • Joseph R Waas • Amy-Leigh Wilson • Katherine Winston • Kevin A Wood • Pierre Yésou • Jaime E ZolikExamining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including detail... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Advances in Broadband Communication and Networks
by David Johnson • David Burton • Li Li • Homayoun Nikookar • Mark Bishop • Peter Fischer • Evangelos Bekiaris • F. Zhang • Ming Xu • R. J. Evans • C. Lin • Z. Liu • Thomas Magedanz • Y. Li • J. I. Agbinya • O. Sevimli • S. Lal • S. Selvadurai • A. Al-Jumaily • S. Reisenfeld • Graham I Hooker • Ross Hennessey • Craig Lobsey • Andrew Maclean • Andrew D. Hellicar • Kieran Greene • Greg Hislop • Stephen Hanham • Nasiha Nikolic • Jia Dn • Greg P. Timms • John D. Bnnton • Michael L. Brothers • John W. Archer • Val Dyadyuka • Leigh Stokes • B. Yang • Y. Mo • B. Wicks • C. Ta-Minh • G. Felic • K. Wang • P. Nadagonda • T. Walsh • E. Skafidas • Kuan Lun Huang • Jinhong Yuan • Hajime Suzukia • Iain B. Collings • George Lam • Mark Hedley • Jian Andrew Zhang • Eu-Suk Shim • Jee-Hyun Kim • Hyoung-Kyu Song • Young-Hwan You • J. Renato Nascimento • Marius Iulian Corici • Fabricio Carvalho de Gouveia • Yaw Nkansah-Gyekye • Eugene Zilberg • Murad Karrar • Saroj Lal • Budi Thomas Jap • Sara Lal • Frank Chiang • Robin Braun • Bashar Ramadanny • Ibrahim S. Raada • Xiaojing Huang • Raad RaadBroadband communications has become the major focus for industry for offering rich multimedia IP services in next generation networks. This book deals with the state-of-the-art and the underlying principles of key technologies which facilitate broadband telecommunications including millimetre wave g... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Transgenic Insects: Techniques and Applications (CABI Biotechnology Series #3)
by Brian L. Weiss • Arvind Sharma • Andrew Hammond • Nicole Klein • John Mumford • Ricardo Pereira • Lucy Carter • Claudia Emerson • Guy Smagghe • Ravi V. Durvasula • Tony Nolan • Serap Aksoy • Aaron Roberts • Hassan M. Ahmed • Omar S. Akbar • Yehonatan Alcalay • Luke Alphey • Yael Arien • Rotem Daniel Avraham • Camilla Beech • Nicholas J. Bongio • Vanessa Bottino-Rojas • L. Roman Carrasco • Jackson Champer • Isabelle Coche • Carolina Concha • Rocco D’Amato • Brinda Dass • Jason A. Delborne • Ellen M. Dotson • Matthew P. Edgington • Guido Favia • Adam P. Forshaw • Alexander W.E. Franz • Marisa L. Guido • Monika Gulia-Nuss • Daniella An Haber • Alfred M. Handler • Keith R. Hayes • Ivy Hurwitz • Anthony A. James • Thomas P. Kelly • Ana Kormos • Lee Benjamin Lamdan • David J. Lampe • Rosemary S. Lees • Maria Vittoria Mancini • Aditi Mankad • Andrew Nuss • David A. O’Brochta • Riccardo Papa • Philippos Aris Papathanos • Michael Pham • Megan Quinlan • Robyn Raban • Jason L. Rasgon • Yasha Rohwer • Nathan Rose • Marc F. Schetelig • Kristof De Schutter • Hideki Sezutsu • Gregory S. Simmons • Toshiki Tamura • Delphine Thizy • Lea Pare Toe • Ernst A. Wimmer • Liu YangTechnology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to bene... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Biotechnology of Fruit and Nut Crops
by Stephen Adkins • Nuria Alburquerque • Maria Luisa Badenes • Luciana Baldoni • Araceli Barceló-Muñoz • Pedro M. Barros • A. T. Basford • Muhammad Ajmal Bashir • Diego Silva Batista • Julianne Biddle • Manuel Blasco • J. R. Botella • Patrick Brown • Lorenzo Burgos • John E. Carlson • Luis A. Cañas • Elisabeth Carmona • David Chagné • Rekha Chaudhury • Elisabeth Chevreau • V. E. Chhatre • Yelda Özden Çiftçi • C. Claflin • Yuval Cohen • Elena Corredoira • Valerio Cristofori • Niccolò Cultrera • Abhaya Dandekar • Maurecilne Lemes da Silva • Sadanand A. Dhekney • Leo D’Souza • Ofere Francis Emeriewen • Kate Evans • M. Faize • Fábio Gelape Faleiro • Ana Paula Farinha • Vicente Vicente • Yolanda Ferradás • Antonio Figueira • Maureen M.M. Fitch • Henryk Flachowsky • M. Foale • Svetlana Y. Folimonova • María Victoria González • Isabel María González-Padilla • Julie Graham • Dennis J. Gray • Magda-Viola Hanke • Smitha Hegde • Professor Jose Ignacio Hormaza • Uma Jaiswal • Nikki Jennings • Hülya Akdemir Koç • Ossama Kodad • Nerea Larrañaga • Chuck Leslie • Z. J. Li • Amanda De Lopes • Carlos López-Encina • Rodolfo López-Gómez • Jorge Lora • Zheng-Rong Luo • S. K. Malik • Roberto Mariotti • Óscar Martínez • Pedro Martínez-Gómez • Antonio J. Matas • José Mercado • Scott Merkle • Sara Montanari • Gloria Moore • Soraya Mousavi • Isabel Narváez • María Del Naval • Q. T. Nguyen • Shashikiran Nivas • M. Margarida Oliveira • Ahmet Onay • Guillermo Padilla • Elena Palomo-Ríos • Andreas Peil • Leandro Pena • Rosa M. Pérez-Clemente • Cesar Petri • Paula M. Pijut • Marcos Vinícius Pinheiro • Clara Pliego • Fernando Pliego-Alfaro • Simon H.T. Raharjo • Manoj K Rai • Manuel Rey • Gabino Ríos • Alain Rival • Diego Ismael Rocha • M. B. Rosenberg • M. Rouard • Nicolas Roux • Eddo Rugini • D. Ruiz • J. Sardos • Danielle Camargo Scotton • Cristian Silvestri • Michael K Smith • Guo-Qing Song • Veysel Süzerer • Alicia Talavera • Ryutaro Tao • Takuya Tetsumura • Engin Tilkat • Pablo Ric Varas • Wagner Vendrame • Francisco Javier Viéitez • Hazel Wetzstein • Roxana Yockteng • Qing-Lin ZhangThis book covers the biotechnology of all the major perennial fruit and nut species. Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2005, there has been significant progress in cell culture, genomics and genetic transformation for many of these species. This book covers these biotechnolo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Climate, Ticks and Disease (CABI Climate Change Series #18)
by Charles Hart • Peter Cox • A. Townsend Peterson • Nicholas Johnson • Wei Liu • Jianhong Wu • Richard Wall • Domenico Otranto • Agustín Estrada-Peña • Jeremy Gray • Abdul Jabbar • Jolyon M. Medlock • Sunit Kumar Singh • Giovanni Benelli • Peter Irwin • Richard Bishop • Xue Zhang • Hao Li • DeMar Taylor • Deborah Hemming • Saeed Alasmari • Neil Alexander • Abdelghafar Alkishe • Reiko Arai • Armanda Bastos • Gervasio Henrique Bechara • John Beier • Joshua Benoit • Dennis Bente • Adrien Blisnick • René Bødker • Fernando Boinas • Sarah Bonnet • Nathalie Boulanger • Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz • Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano • Cyril Caminade • Jirí Cerny´ • Roxanne Albertha Charles • Ali Reza Chavshin • Rosalind Cornforth • Neil Coughlan • Lauren Culler • Milan Daniel • Vlasta Danielova • Mona Dehhaghi • Maria Diuk-Wasser • James P Duffy • Olivier Duron • Lars Eisen • Rebecca Eisen • Jana Elsterová • Koray Ergünay • Li-Qun Fang • Natalia Fernández-Ruiz • Erol Fikrig • Serhii Filatov • Durland Fish • Janet Foley • José De Fuente • Roman Ganta • Aysen Gargili Keles • Robin Beat Gasser • Abdul Ghafar • Naftaly Githaka • Lucy Gilbert • Maryna Golovchenko • Yuval Gottlieb • Ernest Gould • Libor Grubhoffer • Gilles J. Guillemin • Kayleigh M. Hansford • John E. Healy • Stephen Higgs • Andrew Hoodless • Yan-Jang S. Huang • Bernard Hudson • Chris Huntingford • Esther Kanduma • Sirri Kar • Maria Kazimirova • Neil Kaye • Thomas C. Kelly • Lene Jung Kjaer • Agatha Onyemowo Kolo • Eduard Korenberg • Nina Król • Chi-Chien Kuo • Timothy J. Kurtti • Xavier De Lamballerie • Patrick A. Leighton • L. Robbin Lindsay • Geoffrey E. Lynn • Ilya Maclean • Ben J. Mans • Maristela Martins de Camargo • Karen D. McCoy • Ulrike G. Munderloh • Atle Mysterud • Sukanya Narasimhan • Anna Obiegala • Dasiel Obregón Alvarez • Nick H. Ogden • Mari H. Ogihara • Stefan Vilges Oliveira • Charlotte Oskam • Kennan J. Oyen • Neha Pandey • Hamed Kazemi Panahi • John H. Pettersson • Martin Pfeffer • L. Paul Phipps • Heather J. Plumpton • Tatjana Pustahija • Ram Raghavan • Ryan O.M Rego • Annapaola Rizzoli • Isobel Ronai • Franz Rubel • Natalie Rudenko • Benjamin Ruiwen • Rufus Sage • Abdallah M. Samy • Gustavo Seron Sanches • Isabel Kinney Santos • Marcello Otake Sato • Megumi Sato • Richard Schloeffel • Seyyed Javad Seyyed-Zadeh • Ladislav Šimo • Daniel E. Sonenshine • Morgan Sparey • Frederic Stachurski • Snorre Stuen • Matias Pablo Szabó • Mike Teglas • Sam R. • Saravanan Thangamani • Georgia Titcomb • Attila J. Trájer • Michael Turell • Rika Umemiya-Shirafuji • Dana L. Vanlandingham • Laurence Vial • Margarita Villar • André B. Wilke • G. R. Wint • Zbigniew ZajacThis book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022