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There are a plethora of international institutions, legal rules and global norms for the purpose of the international governance of science. The institutions and rules are to be interpreted in light of this freedom to guarantee the continuous existence of the knowledge-based society by means of a global administrative law of science.

This examination of the future of the 'digital society'-and its monetization-presents the business model for content producing industries and interrogates a host of issues from the economics of people's spare time to the meaning of the term 'club economics'.

This practical volume covers the fundamental principles and numerical methods related to modeling the injection molding process. It addresses the cutting edge of our understanding of simulation technologies, without losing sight of useful classical approaches.

This book addresses optical binding, offering a rigorous numerical simulation of key results in this area of emerging interest in the field of optical micromanipulation. Coverage includes new experimental findings and physical interpretations of the results.

The Greek Economy After the Crisis explores the intrinsic forces at work in Greek society in order to understand its social and economic problems. Readers will find a comprehensive, multidisciplinary analysis employing economics, politics, social psychology and organizational psychology.

This book introduces the computational intelligence tools used in practical problem solving. Beginning with search techniques, the authors review the design of knowledge-based and advanced expert systems, which incorporate uncertainty and fuzziness.

In addition to providing a self-contained introduction to p-adic lie groups, this volume discusses spaces of locally analytic functions as topological vector spaces, important to applications in representation theory.

This compact, yet comprehensive account of the cognitive and neural mechanisms of human face recognition covers the key neuroimaging techniques for investigating the brain and the clinical and neural features of prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize faces.

This book details the fundamental theory for non-standard diffusion problems in movement ecology. It features numerous exercises with solutions.

This book explores tourism economics, examining markets as imperfect, with asymmetric and incomplete information among agents, bounded rationality, and with strong externalities and public goods. Includes summary questions, exercises, case studies and more.

This textbook provides a step-by-step introduction to numerical solutions of non-linear and differential equations. The text includes a set of programs to calculate any reaction scheme on any personal computer, as well as typical examples from various related fields.

With numerous case studies complementing the theoretical aspects of the subject, and focusing on genetic diagnostics as well as on prenatal and fertility-related genetic counseling, this book is the first of its kind and includes the latest research on sSMCs.

This work examines what was responsible for a tsunami that destroyed settlements in the Mediterranean in 365 AD. It details how western Crete was lifted out of the sea by up to 10 meters in a massive earthquake, which occurred on a previously unknown fault.

Asset Prices, Booms and Recessions focuses on the dynamic interaction of financial markets and economic activity. The text encompasses the money and bond market, credit market, stock market and foreign exchange market.

This book balances comprehensive coverage with compact description to offer a interdisciplinary approach to the fundamentals of hydro energy systems. Compact and practical, the book will benefit engineers, students and others interested in the field.

This comprehensive overview presents the fundamentals, process parameters, instrumental components and applications of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS).

Linearity is a primary methodology in many problems that are studied in different branches of science, including economics and other social sciences. This undergraduate level textbook introduces students to all the fundamental notions of linear algebra.

This monograph solely presents the Fowler-Nordheim field emission (FNFE) from semiconductors and their nanostructures. The book covers a wide range of different technologically important electronic compounds, and contains 200 open research problems.

Integrating and critically evaluating data from earth- and biological sciences, this book sums up decades of the author's work on comparative functional respiratory morphology. It provides insights into the evolution of respiratory means and processes.

This clearly-expressed, well-organized book introduces designs and prototypes of nanorobotic systems in detail, examining innovative principles of three-dimensional manipulation force microscopy and parallel imaging/manipulation force microscopy.

This book provides a comprehensive and easy-to-understand overview of the most important leadership approaches in theory and practice. It examines the idea that leadership is the art of creating a world that others would love to join.

Through a detailed discussion of the empirical fundamentals of unified theories of strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions, this book emphasizes the phenomenology and the physics of fundamental interactions.

Here is the first book-length assessment of who gets what, when, and how in the Council of the European Union. The book analyzes a fresh, ten-year data set on decision making in the council that yields challenging new insights into the processes involved.

This much-anticipated second edition of the work covers a technique that is now the preferred method of simulating facies inside reservoirs and ore deposits.

Taking off from Euclid's famous assertion to the contrary, this book leads the reader on a clear path - a royal road - through the elements of modern algebraic geometry from algebraic curves to the present shape of the field to Grothendieck's theory of schemes.

Now in its second, updated edition, this authoritative and coherent text contains a rich blend of theory and practice and covers all the essential concepts and algorithms from relevant fields such as data mining, machine learning, and text processing.

Now enhanced by numerous recent results, this expanded and revised second edition covers the basics on Sobolev spaces and their role in modern analysis. Five new chapters and the augmented list of references create a broader contemporary view of the field.

This work presents cases studies of applications of geotechnology such as geography information systems, virtual reality and cellular automaton and multi-aganet systems in the field of urban planning and design.

The updated second edition of this book provides the reader with detailed guidance on the optimization of radiological diagnosis. The book is complemented by data files that can be employed in calculations and are available via a special internet page.