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A Day's Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

A Day's Work

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-07
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  • Publisher: iUniverse

Are you frustrated with your life, tired of your job? Do you feel that all your dreams and hopes have eluded you? Well, we all felt like this at one point in our lives. The question is: Were we willing to do something about it? In A Day's Work Markus Wagner sets out to change his unhappy life and escape his much-hated job but returns heavily disillusioned. Seeking a job he ends up trying his luck at his old company. When he is turned down, a dormant, dark side of Markus comes to light; a side that he himself doesn't seem to have been fully aware of either. He runs amok, killing his boss and taking a young intern hostage. Michael Lehner, a former coworker of Markus, is unexpectedly and against his will drawn into the unpleasant course of incidents, as are many others like the janitor of the company building and a police detective. A Day's Work is the story of a series of desperate people whose paths in life cross by accident, and ironically fate is merciless on them and doesn't show any sign of reason or moral.

Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-01-20
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence, ACALCI 2017, held in Geelong, VIC, Australia, in January/February 2017. The 32 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: artificial life and computational intelligence and optimization algorithms and applications.

Medical Informatics in a United and Healthy Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1064

Medical Informatics in a United and Healthy Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-08-14
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

This volume contains the proceedings of the twenty-second International Conference on Medical Informatics Europe MIE 2009, that was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 30 August to 2 September 2009. The scientific topics present in this proceedings range from national and trans-national eHealth roadmaps, health information and electronic health record systems, systems interoperability and communication standards, medical terminology and ontology approaches, and social networks to Web, Web 2.0, and Semantic Web solutions for patients, health personnel, and researchers. Furthermore, they include quality assurance and usability of medical informatics systems, specific disease management and telemedicine systems, including a section on devices and sensors, drug safety, clinical decision support and medical expert systems, clinical practice guidelines and protocols, as well as issues on privacy and security. Moreover, bioinformatics, biomedical modeling and simulation, medical imaging and visualization and, last but not least, learning and education through medical informatics systems are parts of the included topics.

Advances in Metaheuristics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

Advances in Metaheuristics

Metaheuristics have been a very active research topic for more than two decades. During this time many new metaheuristic strategies have been devised, they have been experimentally tested and improved on challenging benchmark problems, and they have proven to be important tools for tackling optimization tasks in a large number of practical applications. In other words, metaheuristics are nowadays established as one of the main search paradigms for tackling computationally hard problems. Still, there are a large number of research challenges in the area of metaheuristics. These challenges range from more fundamental questions on theoretical properties and performance guarantees, empirical alg...

Semiconductor Nanophotonics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 572

Semiconductor Nanophotonics

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in the development of semiconductor nanostructures and nanophotonic devices. It covers epitaxial growth processes for GaAs- and GaN-based quantum dots and quantum wells, describes the fundamental optical, electronic, and vibronic properties of nanomaterials, and addresses the design and realization of various nanophotonic devices. These include energy-efficient and high-speed vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) and ultra-small metal-cavity nano-lasers for applications in multi-terabus systems; silicon photonic I/O engines based on the hybrid integration of VCSELs for highly efficient chip-to-chip communication; ...

Economic Evaluations in Exploration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Economic Evaluations in Exploration

This fully updated textbook is intended for the economic geologist who deals with the evaluation of deposits at an early stage of development. It offers rules for quick and easy calculations based on the application of approximate data. It provides both the student and the geologist in the field with a complete set of rules and methods enabling them to perform a quick initial evaluation of the deposit without the support of specialists or computers – even if he is left to his own resources. All rules for calculations are illustrated with examples, and mistakes and pitfalls the authors encountered during their careers are pointed out.

Mining, Society, and a Sustainable World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 519

Mining, Society, and a Sustainable World

This is the first book of peer-reviewed, edited papers that examines the minerals industry in relation to sustainable development. The book takes a proactive, positivist, and solution-oriented approach, while not shying away from the fundamental problems.

Progress in Sustainable Energy Technologies: Generating Renewable Energy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 737

Progress in Sustainable Energy Technologies: Generating Renewable Energy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-10-29
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  • Publisher: Springer

This multi-disciplinary volume presents information on the state-of-the-art in sustainable energy technologies key to tackling the world’s energy challenges and achieving environmentally benign solutions. Its unique amalgamation of the latest technical information, research findings and examples of successfully applied new developments in the area of sustainable energy will be of keen interest to engineers, students, practitioners, scientists and researchers working with sustainable energy technologies. Problem statements, projections, new concepts, models, experiments, measurements and simulations from not only engineering and science, but disciplines as diverse as ecology, education, economics and information technology are included, in order to create a truly holistic vision of the sustainable energy field. The contributions feature coverage of topics including solar and wind energy, biomass and biofuels, waste-to-energy, renewable fuels, geothermal and hydrogen power, efficiency gains in fossil fuels and energy storage technologies including batteries and fuel cells.

Quality of Life Through Quality of Information
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1284

Quality of Life Through Quality of Information

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-16
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  • Publisher: IOS Press

Medical informatics and electronic healthcare have many benefits to offer in terms of quality of life for patients, healthcare personnel, citizens and society in general. But evidence-based medicine needs quality information if it is to lead to quality of health and thus to quality of life. This book presents the full papers accepted for presentation at the MIE2012 conference, held in Pisa, Italy, in August 2012. The theme of the 2012 conference is ‘Quality of Life through Quality of Information’. As always, the conference provides a unique platform for the exchange of ideas and experiences among the actors and stakeholders of ICT supported healthcare. The book incorporates contributions...

Economic Evaluations in Exploration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 173

Economic Evaluations in Exploration

This textbook is a translation of the German textbook "Rechnen fUr Lagerstattenkundler und Rohstoffwirtschaftler, Teil 1" published by the Ellen Pilger Publishing Company. Those passages in the German edition which were especially written for the German readership were transform ed for English speaking readers. Compared with the German edition many chapters have been slightly amended. The main new additions in this English version are the chapter on linear optimization in Chapter 10.2 and Chapter 12 on the comparison of ore deposits. The textbook is intended for the economic geologist who deals with the evaluation of deposits at an early stage of development. Once an ex ploration project has...