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Sony vs Samsung
"Sony vs. Samsung is business history at its best! It explores the divergent fortunes of these two electronics giants in the last decade and identifies the true reasons behind Sony's decline and Samsung's rise. Contrary to popular belief, Chang shows that success (or failure) does not simply arise f... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Cybersecurity for Information Professionals: Concepts and Applications
Information professionals have been paying more attention and putting a greater focus on privacy over cybersecurity. However, the number of both cybersecurity and privacy breach incidents are soaring, which indicates that cybersecurity risks are high and growing. Utilizing cybersecurity awareness tr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Analytics and Knowledge Management (Data Analytics Applications)
The process of transforming data into actionable knowledge is a complex process that requires the use of powerful machines and advanced analytics technique. Analytics and Knowledge Management examines the role of analytics in knowledge management and the integration of big data theories, methods, an... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Capital Flows, Financial Markets and Banking Crises (Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking)
The increasing capital flows in the emerging markets and developed countries have raised various concerns worldwide. One main concern is the impact of the sharp decline of capital flows – so-called sudden stops – on financial markets and the stability of banking systems and the economy. The sudden s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Analytical Heat Transfer
by Je-Chin HanFilling the gap between basic undergraduate courses and advanced graduate courses, this text explains how to analyze and solve conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer problems analytically. It describes many well-known analytical methods and their solutions, such as Bessel functions, sep... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Introduction to THz Wave Photonics
The proposed book explores the science and technology related to terahertz wave technologies, including the latest research on electromagnetic waves with an introduction to continuous wave THz technology and an emphasis on pulsed THz technology. The book begins with a review of the history of THz wa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Experimental Methods in Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics
Experimental Methods in Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics focuses on how to analyze and solve the classic heat transfer and fluid mechanics measurement problems in one book. This work serves the need of graduate students and researchers looking for advanced measurement techniques for thermal, flow, ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Analytical Heat Transfer
Analytical Heat Transfer explains how to analyze and solve conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer problems. It enables students to tackle complex engineering heat transfer problems prevalent in practice. Covering heat transfer in high-speed flows and unsteady highly turbulent flows, th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
The Movements of Movements: Part 2: Rethinking Our Dance
by Jai SenThis collection provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within grassroots struggles from 2006 to 2010. Rethinking Our Dance, the second of two volumes, offers a wide range of essays from frontline activists in Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, Niger, and Taiwan, a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Biomass to Renewable Energy Processes
by Jay ChengBiomass to Renewable Energy Processes, Second Edition, explains the theories of biological processes, biomass materials and logistics, and conversion technologies for bioenergy products such as biogas, ethanol, butanol, biodiesel, and synthetic gases. The book discusses anaerobic digestion of waste ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Oncologic Emergencies
This new resource on managing oncologic emergencies is directed at all health care professionals who care for patients with cancer or survivors. Edited and written by clinician-experts at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the book covers the full range of oncologic emergencies, fro... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
World Social Forum
by Peter Waterman • Jai Sen"A stellar collection of essays. Indispensable reading."--Immanuel Wallerstein, Fernand Braudel CenterThis comprehensive volume provides a glimpse into the wide-ranging discussions, debates, and arguments that have gone into making the World Social Forum (WSF) one of the more prominent platforms of ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Chinatown No More: Taiwan Immigrants in Contemporary New York (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)
By focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiethnic neighborhoods of Flushing and Elmhurst. As Hsiang-shui Chen documents, the political dynamics of these settlements... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1992 -
From Opinion Mining to Financial Argument Mining (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
Opinion mining is a prevalent research issue in many domains. In the financial domain, however, it is still in the early stages. Most of the researches on this topic only focus on the coarse-grained market sentiment analysis, i.e., 2-way classification for bullish/bearish. Thanks to the recent finan... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Pattern Classification of Medical Images: Computer Aided Diagnosis
This book presents advances in biomedical imaging analysis and processing techniques using time dependent medical image datasets for computer aided diagnosis. The analysis of time-series images is one of the most widely appearing problems in science, engineering, and business. In recent years this... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Colorectal Cancer Screening: Theory and Practical Application
by Han-Mo Chiu • Hsiu-Hsi ChenThis book offers a self-contained review of the theoretical and practical basis of colorectal cancer screening. Colorectal cancer is currently the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide and represents a significant burden for both public health and health care systems. However, colorectal c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Perfect Health Diet
Suffering from chronic illness and unable to get satisfactory results from doctors, husband and wife scientists Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet took an intensely personal interest in health and nutrition. They embarked on five years of rigorous research. What they found changed their lives-- and the liv... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Understanding Built Environment
This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario. The multidisciplinary focus would be helpful for the readers to cross-refer and understand others' perspectives. The text also include... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
From Poverty, Inequality to Smart City
This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario. The multidisciplinary focus would be helpful for the readers to cross-refer and understand others' perspectives. The text also include... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Managing Risk of Supply Chain Disruptions (Routledge Advances In Risk Management Ser.)
This book discusses important issues related to managing supply chain disruption risks from various perspectives. It explores the essence and principles relating to managing these risks and provides the framework and multi-goal model groups for managing such risks. The book also discusses research... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Brain Storm Optimization Algorithms: Concepts, Principles and Applications (Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization #23)
Brain Storm Optimization (BSO) algorithms are a new kind of swarm intelligence method, which is based on the collective behavior of human beings, i.e., on the brainstorming process. Since the introduction of BSO algorithms in 2011, many studies on them have been conducted. They not only offer an opt... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Family, Work and Wellbeing in Asia
This book delivers timely research on the various interfaces of family and work, and their impacts on individual wellbeing in East and Southeast Asia. It highlights changing family structures and processes, with special attention to inter-generational relationships, gender roles, cultural norms and... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
US Firms' Business Competence in the Taiwanese IT Industry
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the roles and strategies of subsidiaries of American multinational companies (MNCs) in Taiwan's IT industry. Based on semi-structured interviews with 16 managing directors of the different foreign-owned subsidiaries and 100 functional unit managers, the auth... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The Digitization of Business in China: Exploring the Transformation from Manufacturing to a Digital Service Hub (Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series)
One of the first of its kind, this book examines the digitalization of Chinese businesses both theoretically and practically. Taking a fresh and unique approach, the authors seek to adopt individual theories for each empirical case explored and investigate the dramatic digital transformation that Ch... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Pangu Descendant Warrior: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
Q city's summer was not as hot as other cities. As a seaside city, it had the characteristics that a seaside city should have. Although the weather was hot, the sea breeze still gave people a chill, except for those hot-blooded teenagers in high school …The third high school is a comprehensive stron... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020