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Library statistics for the twenty-first century world : proceedings of the co…
An international collaboration between IFLA, the UNESCO Institute of Statistics and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed standards for new library indicators for the twenty-first century. The existing international library statistics were developed nearly 40 years ago. This book presents the first results using the new statistics, and look forward to the next s…
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- 9783598441677
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- 302 p.
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- IFLA Publications, 138
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- 026 LIB l
Toward a cognitive classical linguistics : he embodied basis of constructions…
This volume gathers a series of papers that bring the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories of embodied meaning developed in cognitive linguistics. Building on the momentum currently enjoyed by cognitive-functional approaches to language within the field of Classics, its contributors adopt, in particular, a ‘constructional’ app…
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- 9783110616347
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- VIII, 273 p.
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- 480 MOC t
Risk Measures with Applications in Finance and Economics
Risk measures play a vital role in many subfields of economics and finance. It has been proposed that risk measures could be analysed in relation to the performance of variables extracted from empirical real-world data. For example, risk measures may help inform effective monetary and fiscal policies and, therefore, the further development of pricing models for financial assets such as equities…
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- 9783038974444
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- 658.57 RIS r
Research assessment in the humanities : towards criteria and procedures
This book analyses and discusses the recent developments for assessing research quality in the humanities and related fields in the social sciences. Research assessments in the humanities are highly controversial and the evaluation of humanities research is delicate. While citation-based research performance indicators are widely used in the natural and life sciences, quantitative measures for …
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- 9783319290164
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- xviii, 247p. : ill.
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- 371.26 RES r
Precedence: social differentiation in the Austronesian World
This collection of papers is the sixth volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers that comprise this volume examine the concept of precedence as a form of local discourse and as a mechanism for ordering status, at different levels, within specific Austronesian-speaking societies. This is the first volume of its kind to focus entirely on precedence and to provide an explication of…
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- 9781921536472
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- 303.33 VIS p
Behind the scenes: the politics of planning Adelaide
Behind the Scenes examines planning in the City of Adelaide from 1972 until 1993 within the historical framework of City/State relations from 1836 when the Province of South Australia was founded. During this 21-year period, the City had its own planning and development control legislation separate from the rest of the State. Dr Llewellyn-Smith examines why this situation came about, why it con…
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- 9781922064417
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- 711.40994231 LLE b
One-volume libraries : composite and multiple-text manuscripts
Composite and multiple-text manuscripts are traditionally studied for their individual texts, but recent trends in codicology have paved the way for a more comprehensive approach: Manuscripts are unique artefacts which reveal how they were produced and used as physical objects. While multiple-text manuscripts codicologically are to be considered as production units, i.e. they were originally pl…
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- 9783110496956
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- VI, 360 p.
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 9
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- 091 ONE o
The emergence of multiple-text manuscripts
The universal practice of selecting and excerpting, summarizing and canonizing, arranging and organizing texts and visual signs, either in carefully dedicated types of manuscripts or not, is common to all manuscript cultures. Determined by intellectual or practical needs, this process is never neutral in itself. The resulting proximity and juxtaposition of previously distant contents, challenge…
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- 9783110645989
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- XII, 362 p.
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 17
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- 809.93384 EME e
Semantic search for novel information
Companies frequently face the challenge of screening the continuously increasingnumber of (Web) documents and assessing the contained information with respectto its relevance and novelty. For instance, technology scouts need to discover andmonitor new technologies, while investors and stock brokers would like to beinformed about recent acquisitions. The systems that have been developed so farfo…
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- 9781614997757
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- xix, 167 p.; 22 cm.
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- Studies on the Semantic Web, Vol. 31
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- 006 FAR s
Understanding the bigger energy picture : DESERTEC and beyond
This book focuses on the global cycles of energy, water and carbon, which are not only the essentials of our main energy carriers, the fossil fuels, but are also the building blocks of life. The book offers an overview of the basic scientific facts and relationships that are needed to understand today’s energy generation and use, how they relate to global climate, the water cycle and other re…
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- 9783319579665
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- xv, 110p. : ill.
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- 333.79 DUR u
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