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The history of Italian colonial affairs has recently attracted renewed interest from historians and economists. This study fits into this area of research and analyses crucial aspects of the decolonisation of Somalia, the history of the presence of Italian banking in Somaliland;

In this book, the business of international freight forwarding is examined from both a theoretical and empirical point of view with a special emphasis on multimodal transport chains, including sea or air transport operations.

Includes a detailed description of decision aids, closely studies how decision aids are related to the decision behavior of customers, and develops a comprehensive system of decision aids, which is very flexible, increases both customer satisfaction and confidence, and can be used intuitively.

This book offers a detailed, rigorous, and self-contained presentation of the theory of hyperbolic conservation laws from the basic theory to the forefront of research. It contains details and information about numerical approximation for the Cauchy problem.

Spanning physics, chemistry, proteomics, photosynthesis and spintronics, this book describes photon generation processes from nuclear reactions, electron motion and discrete quantum transitions, and shows the use of photons in modern natural and life sciences.

This book presents a unique method for utilizing existing literature to explain the success of treaties in managing hydrologic stress, and shows how treaty design can shape basin management, helping nations to better achieve their goals in a changing climate.

This book examines use of the voice as a biometric measure for personal authentication, offering an overview of advances in speaker authentication, and including useful algorithms and techniques for improving overall system robustness and performance.

This book offers a clear account of the ways that science and technology are outstripping the capacity of previous ethical regulations to cope with current issues in genomic research, together with practical illustrations of possible ways to move forward.

Tearing and interconnecting methods, such as FETI, FETI-DP, BETI, etc., are among the most successful domain decomposition solvers for partial differential equations.

Opening with a summary of long-standing problems in elementary particle physics, this book explains the newly discovered multi-dimensional objects called D-branes, describes their application and projects future roads for unified ultimate theory of our world.

This book offers a general description of the laser, theoretical and operational details of gas, solid state, free-electron and semiconductor lasers. Includes a uniform treatment of gas and solid-state lasers on one hand, and semiconductor lasers on the other.

Many decision problems in Operations Research are defined on temporal networks, that is, workflows of time-consuming tasks whose processing order is constrained by precedence relations.

This wide-ranging treatment of physical hydrology in permafrost areas systematically elucidates the role of seasonally and perennially frozen ground on the distribution, storage and flow of water and is a useful book in an age of development in these areas.

This book covers practical aspects of mass measurements, describing concepts of gravitational, inertial and conventional mass and the variation of acceleration of gravity, and Metric Convention and International Prototype Kilogram and BIPM standards.

Is meaningful communication possible between two intelligent parties without a common language or background? In this work, a theoretical framework is proposed in which it is possible to address when and to what extent such semantic communication is possible.

Teaching programming for engineers in a rigorous manner, this volume introduces pointer-based memory manipulation in the first chapter, and moves on from C to Matlab and Octave programming, all of which are important methods for engineers in any sector.

Since the publication of the first edition of the present volume in 1980, the stochastic stability of differential equations has become a very popular subject of research in mathematics and engineering.

In this outstanding work, the author shows how non-orthogonal representations for electronic states can be used to construct corrective projections and, furthermore, how DFT+U may be implemented with a linearly increasing cost with respect to system size.

This report covers two investigations into gas-phase ion spectroscopy; the first using tunable vacuum-ultraviolet radiation to identify negative ions from photoexcited polyatomic molecules, and the second studying ion flow tube mass spectrometry.

This thesis explores four interesting topics within the vital field of plasmonics: extraordinary optical transmission, negative refractive index metamaterials, plasmonic devices for controlling SPPs, and field enhancement phenomena near metal nanoparticles.

Summarizing almost ten years of intensive research into multi- and cross-lingual information access, this book is a comprehensive description of the technologies involved in designing and developing systems for multilingual information retrieval.

It is this understanding of adaptation that urges an increasing number of states today to revive territorial autonomy and restore an original understanding of self-determination in which democracy is a pivotal factor in establishing congruence between the states and their nations.

Synthesizing topics in mathematical programming with soft computing and proper orthogonal decomposition, this monograph shows with consistency the methods to use and the problems that need tackling in structural analyses. Examples and exercises are included.

This book exposes and provocatively illustrates the limits of current corporate governance and organisational structures to cope with new challenges regarding changes in acquisitions. It offers best practice recommendations for boards and top management.

This work is a multidisciplinary analysis of the issue of insider dealing from the perspective of the applicability of criminal law to regulate it. Further, it analyses the foundations of criminal law and justifications that are given for its application. The second step relies on classical but often forgotten principles of criminal law.

This book investigates the normative foundations of the post-war welfare state in Germany, with special emphasis on constitutional issues. Its analysis of constitutional and legal context is unique, as is its interrogation of the concept of the 'social'.

Emphasizing etiology, diagnosis and treatment, this book assembles all the information on growth plate injuries into one readily accessible source. It has been collated with the aid of the unique resources of the American Mayo Clinic and its follow-up work.

In the burgeoning literature on welfare regimes and typologies, this comparative study offers a stimulating new perspective. Kaufmann, the doyen of the sociology of social policy in Germany, emphasizes norms, culture and history, in contrast to political economy approaches.

This volume presents mathematical models that predict phase compositions for various technological processes. It studies the thermodynamics and kinetics of specific stages of complex pyrometallurgical processes, which enable design optimization.