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Designing digital work : concepts and methods for human-centered digitization
Combining theory, methodology and tools, this open access book illustrates how to guide innovation in today’s digitized business environment. Highlighting the importance of human knowledge and experience in implementing business processes, the authors take a conceptual perspective to explore the challenges and issues currently facing organizations. Subsequent chapters put these concepts int…
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- 9783030122591
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- xxi, 435p. : ill.
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- 650.0285 OPP d
Nutrition, health adn athletic performance
Optimal nutrition is fundamental for enhancing training, recovery and performance in sport. Therefore, research has aimed to determine the efficacy of appropriate intake of nutrients, fluids, and supplements and their role in exercise performance. The purpose of this Special Issue entitled “Nutrition, Health and Athletic Performance” is to highlight recent research examining aspects of spor…
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- 9783038426271
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- 530p.: ill.
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- 610 NUT n
Cooperative connected and automated mobility (CCAM) : technologies and applic…
Cooperative connected and automated mobility (CCAM) has the potential to reshape the transportation ecosystem in a revolutionary way. Transportation systems will be safer, more efficient and more comfortable. Cars are going to be the third living space, as passengers will have the freedom to use their car to live, work and travel. Despite the massive effort devoted, both by academia and industr…
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- 9783039281596
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- IX, 115 p.
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- 661 FER c
Area-wide management of fruit fly pests
Fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) pests have a profound impact on horticultural production and economy of many countries. It is fundamental to understand their biology and evaluate methods for their suppression, containment, or eradication. Area-Wide Management of Fruit Fly Pests comprises contributions from scientists from around the world on several species of tephritids working on diverse sub…
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- 9780429355738
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- 634.049774 ARE a
Public participation, science and society : tools for dynamic and responsible…
The field of public participation is developing fast, with phenomena such as citizen science and crowdsourcing extending the resource base of research, stimulating innovation and making science more accessible to the general population. Promoting public participation means giving more weight to citizens and civil society actors in the definition of research needs and in the implementation of…
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- 9781351272964
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- xvii, 133p. : ill.
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- 659.295 PUB p
Responsible Innovation : Business Opportunities and Strategies for Implementa…
This Open Access book, Responsible innovation provides benefits for society, for instance more sustainable products, more engagement with consumers and less anxiety about emerging technologies. As a governance tool it is mostly driven by research funders, including the European Commission, under the term “responsible research and innovation” (RRI). To achieve uptake in private industry is a…
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- 9789402417203
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- 630 JAR r
Heterogeneity, high performance computing, self-organization and the cloud
This open access book addresses the most recent developments in cloud computing such as HPC in the Cloud, heterogeneous cloud, self-organising and self-management, and discusses the business implications of cloud computing adoption. Establishing the need for a new architecture for cloud computing, it discusses a novel cloud management and delivery architecture based on the principles of self-or…
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- 9783319760384
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- XXI, 165 p.
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- 658.4038 LYN h
Black, white and gold : gold mining in Papua New Guinea, 1878-1930
Australian goldminers were among the first white men to have sustained contact with Papua New Guineans. Some Papua New Guineans welcomed them, worked for them, traded with them and learnt their skills and soon were mining on their own account. Others met them with hostility, either by direct confrontation or by stealthy ambush. Many of the indigenous people and some miners were killed. The min…
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- 9781921934346
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- xx, 298p. : ill.
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- 622.3420995 NEL b
State, communities and forests in contemporary Borneo
The name ‘Borneo’ evokes visions of constantly changing landscapes, but with important island-wide continuities. One of the continuities has been the forests, which have for generations been created and modified by the indigenous population, but over the past three decades have been partially replaced by tree crops, grass or scrub. This book, the first in the series of Asia-Pacific Environm…
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- 9781920942526
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- xiv, 208p. : ill.
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- 634.92095983 STA s
Technologies for development
This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action, medical and inf…
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- 9783319910673
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- 621 HOS t
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