Discrimination and Clustering -- Probability Models and Statistical Methods -- Pattern Recognition and Computational Learning -- Time Series Analysis -- Marketing, Retailing, and Marketing Research -- Finance, Capital Markets, and Risk Management -- Production, Logistics, and Controlling -- Medicine and Health Services.
Introduction -- Recycling of magnesium slag -- Recycling of electrolytic manganese slag -- Recycling of acid sludge in lead and zinc metallurgy -- Utilization of fly ash -- Indeterminate.This book introduces the latest results in research and practice of industrial solid waste recycling in China's western regions, where more than 50% of the waste in the whole country was produced. With rapid de…
Introduction -- Chapter 1 Infusing Educational Practice with Three Implementations of Web GIS -- Chapter 2 Implementing geospatial thinking in education -- Chapter 3 Computer games in support for spatial learning purposes: lessons learned from two project based school projects on sustainable spatial planning with Minecraft in the Netherlands -- Chapter 4 Youthmetre -- Chapter 5 Brain as GIS mak…
1 iPad-agogy: Expanding or Limiting Pedagogical Skills? -- 2 Understanding Teacher Educators' Belief and Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Teacher Training Institute -- 3 Employing Websites in Language Learning for Tourism Purpose among Arabic Learners at the MARA Poly-Tech College (KPTM) -- 4 The Nature of Student Group Online Interactions in Learning ICT Education -- 5 Desi…
Data Analysis -- Optimization in Symbolic Data Analysis: Dissimilarities, Class Centers, and Clustering -- An Efficient Branch and Bound Procedure for Restricted Principal Components Analysis -- A Tree Structured Classifier for Symbolic Class Description -- A Diversity Measure for Tree-Based Classifier Ensembles -- Repeated Confidence Intervals in Self-Organizing Studies -- Fuzzy and Crisp Maha…
M. Schmittel, V. Kalsani: Functional, Discrete, Nanoscale Supramolecular Assemblies -- C. M. Drain, I. Goldberg, I. Sylvain, A. Falber: Synthesis and Applications of Supramolecular Porphyrinic Materials -- M.A. B. Bloc, C. Kaiser, A. Khan, S. Hecht: Discrete Organic Nanotubes Based on a Combination of Covalent and Non-Covalent Approaches -- A. D. Schlüter: A Covalent Chemistry Approach to G…
Chapter 1. Irrigation in the Mediterranean: An Introduction (Carles Sanchis-Ibor, François Molle) -- Chapter 2. Tunisia (Abdelkader Hamdane) -- Chapter 3. Morocco (François Molle, Oumaima Tanouti, Nicolas Faysse) -- Chapter 4. Spain (Marta García-Mollá, Carles Sanchis-Ibor, Lorenzo Avellà, José Albiac, Daniel Isidoro and Sergio Lecina) -- Chapter 5. France (Sébastien Loubier, Thierry Ruf…
Introduction to Environmental Geology -- Geologic Carbon Sequestration: Sustainability and Environmental Risk -- Dam Engineering and its Environmental Aspects -- Desertification and Impact on Human Systems -- Dredging Practices and Environmental Considerations -- Groundwater salinity due to urban growth -- Construction Planning, Environmental Impact of Foundation Studies and Earthquake Issues -…
This book assesses the use of various non-seismic and non-conventional oil and gas exploration methods in Cuba. In addition to discussing the benefits of these methods, the book demonstrates how they can be combined with geological data and conventional methods, leading to a better evaluation of prospects and exploration risks. The authors describe how potential new gaso-petroleum sites in the …
Ch. 1 From Local to Global: The Petroleum Geologist Hans Höfer von Heimhalt between Empires, Economies, and Epistemologies -- Ch. 2 The history of oil exploration in the State of São Paulo before the foundation of Petrobras (1872-1953) -- Ch. 3 Petroleum: new energy perspectives for Brazil in 1922 -- Ch. 4 Oil and State - the role of the National Petroleum Council (CNP) in the development of …