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Intelligent transport system in smart cities : aspects and challenges of vehicular networks and cloud by Meneguette, Rodolfo I., De Grande, Robson E., Loureiro, Antonio Alfredo Ferreira, 1961-

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Water-energy-nexus in the ecological transition : natural-based solutions, advanced technologies and best practices for environmental sustainability by SpringerLink (Online service), International Conference on WaterEnergyNEXUS

Contents: “…Cost-Benefit Analysis and Multi-criteria Assessments to Support the Decision-Making Processes -- Sustainability and Energy Efficiency in Twentieth-Century Italian Built Heritage -- Long-Term Effects Evaluation for Investments in the Energy and Water Sectors -- Economic Sustainability of Direct Energy Efficiency Investments for Gas and Energy Distributors to Comply with the PAEE (Italian National Plan for Energy Efficiency) -- Technical-economic Analysis of Novel Generation Aquaponic System for a Sustainable Development -- Cost Control in the Construction of Water Distribution and Collection Networks: Verification of a Multivariate Model Through Application to Case Studies -- How Can We Use the Water Cost Instrument in a Scarcity Scenario for the Power Sector in Brazil? …”
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Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2015 by Collins, Mark J. (Mark Jeffery)

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From animals to animats 11 : 11th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2010, Paris - Clos Luce, France, August 25-28, 2010 : proceedings by International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior Paris, France, SpringerLink (Online service)

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Managing nonprofit organizations in a policy world by Vaughan, Shannon K.

Contents: “…Resource Development: Grants -- The Role of Grants in the Nonprofit Sector -- Types of Grants -- Project or Program Grants -- Operating Grants -- Seed Money -- Challenge/Matching Grants -- Government Grants and Fee-for-Service Contracts -- Distribution of Government Grants -- Public Goods and Services via Government Contracts -- Foundation Funding -- Types of Foundations -- Preparing a Grant Proposal -- Getting Started -- Budget and Project Narratives -- Submitting the Proposal -- Public Policy Consequences of Grants and Contracts -- Government Funding of Policy Priorities -- Foundation Funding to Influence Policy -- Conclusion -- Questions for Review -- Assignment -- Suggested Readings -- Web Resources -- pt. …”
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Trustworthy software development processes : International Conference on Software Process, ICSP 2009, Vancouver, Canada, May 16-17, 2009 : proceedings by International Conference on the Software Process Vancouver, B.C., SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…for the Process of Re-planning for Product Releases -- Overcoming the First Hurdle: Why Organizations Do Not Adopt CMMI -- Value-Based Multiple Software Projects Scheduling with Genetic Algorithm -- Process Tools -- Meta Model Based Architecture for Software Process Instantiation -- Distributed Orchestration Versus Choreography: The FOCAS Approach -- An Architecture for Modeling and Applying Quality Processes on Evolving Software -- Process Analysis -- Evaluating the Perceived Effect of Software Engineering Practices in the Italian Industry -- Evidence-Based Insights about Issue Management Processes: An Exploratory Study -- Process Aspect: Handling Crosscutting Concerns during Software Process Improvement -- Stochastic Process Algebra Based Software Process Simulation Modeling -- Process Simulation Modeling -- Combining Aspect and Model-Driven Engineering Approaches for Software Process Modeling and Execution -- Dynamic COQUALMO: Defect Profiling over Development Cycles -- A Hybrid Model for Dynamic Simulation of Custom Software Projects in a Multiproject Environment -- On the Relative Merits of Software Reuse -- Investigating the Gap between Quantitative and Qualitative/Semi-quantitative Software Process Simulation Models: An Explorative Study -- Experience Report -- Bridge the Gap between Software Test Process and Business Value: A Case Study -- Subcontracting Processes in Software Service Organisations -- An Experience Report -- On Reducing the Pre-release Failures of Web Plug-In on Social Networking Site -- Technical Software Development Process in the XML Domain -- Process Metrics -- Software Product Quality: Ensuring a Common Goal -- Predicting Upgrade Project Defects Based on Enhancement Requirements: An Empirical Study -- Process Modeling and Representation -- Incremental Process Modeling through Stakeholder-Based Hybrid Process Simulation -- A Process-Oriented Approach for the Optimal Satisficing of Non-Functional Requirements -- A Pattern for Modeling Rework in Software Development Processes -- Achieving On-Time Delivery: A Two-Stage Probabilistic Scheduling Strategy for Software Projects -- Incrementally Introducing Process Model Rationale Support in an Organization -- A Process for Driving Process Improvement in VSEs -- Modeling Software Evolution with Game Theory -- Structural Considerations in Defining Executable Process Models -- Analyzing a Software Process Model Repository for Understanding Model Evolution -- Process Trustworthiness as a Capability Indicator for Measuring and Improving Software Trustworthiness -- A System Dynamics Model That Simulates a Significant Late Life Cycle Manpower Increase Phenomenon.…”
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Cybersecurity incident response : how to contain, eradicate, and recover from incidents by Thompson, Eric C.

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Climate change and its impacts : risks and inequalities by SpringerLink (Online service)

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Proceedings of fifth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving : SocProS 2015. Volume 1 by International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving Roorkee, India, SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…A Production Model with Stock Dependent Demand, Partial Backlogging, Weibull Distribution Deterioration and Customer Returns -- Chapter 3. …”
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Algorithms and architectures for parallel processing : 21st International Conference, ICA3PP 2021, Virtual event, December 3-5, 2021, Proceedings. Part I by International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing Online, SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Deep Learning Models and Applications -- CRFST-GCN :A Deeplearning Spital-Temporal Frame to Predict Traffic Flow -- BFR-RetinaNet: An Improved RetinaNet Model for Vehicle Detection in Aerial Images -- Learning Knowledge Graph Embeddings by Multi-Attention Mechanism for Link Prediction -- GlowImp: Combining GLOW and GAN for Multivariate Time Series Imputation -- Accurate Indoor Localization Using Magnetic Sequence Fingerprints with Deep Learning -- Wasserstein Graph Auto-Encoder -- Fine-grained Activity Recognition Based on Features of Action Subsegments and Incremental Broad Learning -- ADFA-LSTM: An Abnormal Trajectory Prediction Method Based On Bionic Neural Network -- Online Multiple Object Tracking Algorithm based on Heat Map Propagation -- Software Systems and Efficient Algorithms -- Spatio-temporal Topology Routing Algorithm for Opportunistic Network Based on Self-Attention Mechanism -- TSAEns: Ensemble Learning for KPI Anomaly Detection -- Towards Transferable Adversarial Examples using Meta Learning -- Temporal Convolution Network Based on Attention for Intelligent Anomaly Detection of Wind Turbine Blades -- Error Serial Episodes Discovery from Mobile Payment Log in Distributed ETC -- Parallel Cache Prefetching for LSM-Tree based Store: From Algorithm to Evaluation -- A Hybrid TLBO-TS Algorithm based Mobile Service Selection for Composite Services -- UPM-DMA: An Efficient Userspace DMA-Pinned Memory Management Strategy for NVMe SSD -- AHOA: Adaptively Hybrid Optimization Algorithm for Flexible Job-shop Scheduling Problem -- Trace-Navi: A High-Accuracy Indoor Navigation System based on Real-Time Activity Recognition and Discrete Trajectory Calibration -- Iterative Filling Incomplete Fingerprint Map Based on Multi-directional Signal Propagation in Large-scale Scene -- Dynamic Adjustment Policy of Search Driver Matching Distance via Markov Decision Process -- A Multi-Precision Quantized Super-Resolution Model Framework -- An Optimized GPU Implementation of Weakly-compressible SPH using CUDA-based strategies -- A Heterogeneous Multi-Core Network-on-Chip Mapping Optimization Algorithm -- A Novel 3D Intelligent Cluster Method for Malicious Traffic Fine-grained Classification -- Predicting Students Academic Performance Based on Improved PSO-Xgboost: A Campus Behavior Perspective -- Motion-sequence Authentication System: guard for smart phones -- Edge Computing and Edge Intelligence -- Joint Optimization Scheme of Multi-service Replication and Request Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing -- Flying MEC: Online Task Offloading, Trajectory Planning and Charging Scheduling for UAV-assisted MEC -- Multiple Workflows Offloading Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning in Mobile Edge Computing -- An Optimized Greedy-based Task Offloading Method for Mobile Edge Computing -- Location Aware Workflow Migration Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning in Mobile Edge Computing -- Recode-Decode-and-Compare: An Efficient Verification Scheme for Coded Edge Computing against Collusion Attack -- MGFL: Multi-granularity Federated Learning in Edge Computing Systems -- Energy Efficient Priority-Based Task Scheduling for Computation Offloading in Fog Computing -- Space-Heuristic Navigation and Occupancy Map Prediction for Robot Autonomous Exploration -- Service Dependability and Security Algorithms -- Edge DDoS attack detection method based on software defined networks -- GradMFL: Gradient Memory-based Federated Learning for Hierarchical Knowledge Transferring over Non-IID Data -- Linear Coded Federated Learning -- Verifiable Dynamic Searchable Symmetric Encryption with Forward Privacy in Cloud-assisted E-Healthcare Systems -- Security Analysis of Poisoning Attacks Against Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning -- A blockchain-based proxy oriented cloud storage public audit scheme for low-performance terminal devices -- Sunspot: A Decentralized Framework Enabling Privacy for Authorizable Data Sharing on Transparent Public Blockchains -- A Novel Protection method of continuous location sharing based on local differential privacy and conditional random field -- An Intelligent Allocation Mechanism Based on Ethereum Blockchain in Microgrid -- Data Science -- Multi-Layer Adaptive Sampling for Per-Flow Spread Measurement -- Transformer-based Rating-Aware Sequential Recommendation -- An effective single-pass approach for estimating the Z-quantile in data streams -- Fed-Tra: Improving Accuracy of Deep Learning Model on Non-IID Data in Federated Learning.…”
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Teacher empowerment toward professional development and practices : perspectives across borders by SpringerLink (Online service)

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Tamed agility pragmatic contracting and collaboration in agile software projects by Book, Matthias

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Wireless algorithms, systems, and applications : 10th International Conference, WASA 2015, Qufu, China, August 10-12, 2015 : proceedings by WASA (Conference) Qufu Shi, China), SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Privacy-Preserving Public Auditing Together with Efficient User Revocation in the Mobile Environments -- Multi-proxy Multi-signature Binding Positioning Protocol -- Efficient Network Structure of 5G Mobile Communications -- Optimal Channel Assignment Schemes in Underlay CRNs with Multi-PU and Multi-SU Transmission Pairs -- A Group Bandwidth Reservation Scheme for the Control Channel in IEEE 802.11p/1609 Networks -- k-Perimeter Coverage Evaluation and Deployment in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Modeling Flu Trends with Real-Time Geo-tagged Twitter Data Streams -- Radio Signal Based Device-Free Velocity Recognition -- Minimum-Cost Information Dissemination in Social Networks -- Finding Overlapping Communities with Random Walks on Line Graph and Attraction Intensity -- Computing an Optimal Path with the Minimum Number of Distinct Sensors -- ULRAS: Ultra-Lightweight RFID Authentication Scheme for Mobile Device -- Soft Reservation Based Prioritized Access: Towards Performance Enhancement for VoIP over WLANs -- Impact of a Deterministic Delay in the DCA Protocol -- EBRS: Event Based Reputation System for Defensing Multi-source Sybil Attacks in VANET -- iSound: A Smartphone Based Intelligent Sound Fusion System for the Hearing Impaired -- Estimation Based Adaptive ACB Scheme for M2M Communications -- Optimal Power Allocations for Two-Users Spectrum Sharing Cognitive Radio with Interference Limit -- Adaptive Resource Allocation for Anti-money Laundering Based on SMDP -- Infrastructure Deployment and Optimization for Cloud-Radio Access Networks -- A Cluster Head Rotation Cooperative MIMO Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks -- A Distributed Game-Theoretic Power Control Mechanism for Device-to-Device Communications Underlaying Cellular Network -- A Low Overhead and Stable Clustering Scheme for Crossroads in VANETs -- Online Channel Assignment, Transmission Scheduling, and Transmission Mode Selection in Multi-channel Full-duplex Wireless LANs -- Optimal Preference Detection Based on Golden Section and Genetic Algorithm for Affinity Propagation Clustering -- DRL: A New Mobility Model in Mobile Social Networks -- SGSA: Secure Group Setup and Anonymous Authentication in Platoon-Based Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems -- A Bidder-Oriented Privacy-Preserving VCG Auction Scheme -- A Secure Multi-unit Sealed First-Price Auction Mechanism -- Flow-Level Performance of Device-to-Device Overlaid OFDM Cellular Networks -- Bernoulli Sampling Based (epsilon, delta)-Approximate Frequency Query in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- Secure and Verifiable Multi-owner Ranked-Keyword Search in Cloud Computing -- A Dynamic Differentiated QoS Based Call Admission Control Service Model for Core Node in Wireless Sensor Network Topology Control -- Secure and Privacy-Preserving Location Proof in Database-Driven Cognitive Radio Networks -- SDP: Separate Design Principle for Multichannel Scheduling in Priority-Aware Packet Collection -- On Computing Multi-agent Itinerary Planning in Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks -- FFDP: A Full-Load File Delivery Protocol in Satellite Network Communication -- Energy-Aware Clustering and Routing Scheme inWireless Sensor Network -- Serial Number Based Encryption and Its Application for Mobile Networks -- Fine-Grained Searchable Encryption over Encrypted Data in Multi-clouds -- Big-Little-Cell Based "Handprint" Positioning System -- Spectrum Sublet Game Among Secondary Users in Cognitive Radio Networks -- Delivering Content with Defined Priorities by Selective Agent and Relay Nodes in Content Centric Mobile Social Networks -- Rogue Access Point Detection in Vehicular Environments -- Information-Centric Resource Management for Air Pollution Monitoring with Multihop Cellular Network Architecture -- A Novel Location Privacy Mining Threat in Vehicular Internet Access Service -- iProtect: Detecting Physical Assault Using Smartphone -- Enhancing Wireless Security Against Reactive Jamming Attacks: A Game-Theoretical Framework -- A Quasi-Dynamic Inter-Satellite Link Reassignment Method for LEO Satellite Networks -- Domatic Partition in Homogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks -- High Performance DDDT-CWT Based Compressed Sensing Recovery of Images via Structured Sparsity -- Influential Spatial Facility Prediction over Dynamic Objects -- A Heuristic Stream Order Scheduling Algorithm for Intra-Superframe Power Management in WPANs -- Minimum-Latency Broadcast and Data Aggregation Scheduling in Secure Wireless Sensor Networks -- Data-Driven Privacy Analytics: A WeChat Case Study in Location-Based Social Networks -- A Double Pulse Control Strategy for Misinformation Propagation in Human Mobile Opportunistic Networks -- Efficient Line K-Coverage Algorithms in Mobile Sensor Network -- A Trust Evolution Mechanism for Mobile Social Networks Based on Wright-Fisher -- A Localized Channel Allocation Approach for Realtime Reliable and High Throughput Communication in Multi-channel Networks -- An Efficient and Secure Delegated Multi-authentication Protocol for Mobile Data Owners in Cloud -- Cooperative Spectrum and Infrastructure Leasing on TV Bands -- Information Security Enhancement with Actual Access Statuses of Users in the Multi-user System -- Joint Secure Beamforming and User Selection for Multi-user MISO Systems with Confidential Messages -- Network Reachability Analysis on Temporally Varying Interaction Networks -- Performance of Target Tracking in Radar Network System Under Deception Attack -- Resource Allocation in Cooperative Cognitive Maritime Wireless Mesh/Ad Hoc Networks: An Game Theory View -- Security and Privacy Issues of Fog Computing: A Survey -- Mobile Data Gathering with Time-Constraints inWireless Sensor Networks -- A Poisson Distribution Based Topology Control Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks Under SINR Model -- PPSSER: Privacy-Preserving Based Scheduling Scheme for Emergency Response in Medical Social Networks -- Secrecy-Oriented Adaptive Clustering Scheme in Device-to-Device Communications -- Cooperative Beamforming and Artificial Noise Design for Secure Multi-pair Communications in Wireless Two-Way Relay Networks -- On the Stable Throughput in Wireless LANs -- Antenna Selection in Large-Scale Multiple Antenna Systems -- Energy-Balanced Backpressure Routing for Stochastic Energy Harvesting WSNs -- Motion Recognition by Using a Stacked Autoencoder-Based Deep Learning Algorithm with Smart Phones -- SDN-Based Routing for Efficient Message Propagation in VANET -- Critical Point Aware Data Acquisition Algorithm in Sensor Networks -- Constructing Virtual Backbone with Bounded Diameters in Cognitive Radio Networks -- A Simplified Attack-Defense Game Model for NSSA -- Hadoop-Based Analysis for Large-Scale Click-Through Patterns in 4G Network -- Detecting Targets Based on a Realistic Detection and Decision Model in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Ant Colony-Based Energy Control Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.…”
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Cognizance in Wireless Communication & Image Processing : ICRCWIP-2014 by International Conference on Recent Cognizance in Wireless Communication & Image Processing Jaipur, India, SpringerLink (Online service)

Contents: “…Vein Bio-Metric Template Security using Overlapped Shares Accounting for Minimum Storage -- Miniaturization of MEMs Based Smart Patch Antennas for Bio-Medical Applications -- Authentication of Primary User at Physical Layer through Approximation in Cognitive Radio -- Data Based Correlation Scheme -- A Comparative analysis of Different LFSR Based Ciphers and Parallel Computing Platforms for Development of Generic Cipher Compatible on Both Hardware and Software Platforms -- Generation of Automatic Variable Key to Make Secure Communication -- Vector Evaluated Genetic Algorithm Based Distributed Query Plan Generation in Distributed Database -- A Novel Mems Based Frequency Tunable Rectangular Patch Antenna -- Design and Optimization of Band Stop Filter using Metamaterial Structures for K-Band Applications -- Low Cost Crash Protection System for Heavy Motor Vehicles -- Effect of Parasitic Elements on the Performance of Buck-Boost Converter Used in PV System -- Effective Medium Approximation for Defining the Unavoidable Resistance of Solar Cell Front Contact -- A Novel Low Power Design Approach to Exploit the Power Usage of AMBA APB Bridge -- Solar Wind & Diesel Hybrid Energy System: A Review -- Analysis and Optimization of Stability for 6T SRAM Cell using 180nm Technology. …”
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Local government and the COVID-19 pandemic : a global perspective by SpringerLink (Online service)

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Experimental methods and instrumentation for chemical engineers 1st ed. by Patience, Gregory S.

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AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 : design patterns by Smith, Ben (Software engineer)

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Advanced ActionScript 3 : design patterns Second edition. by Smith, Ben (Software engineer)

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The new public health Third edition. by Tulchinsky, Theodore H., Varavikova, Elena

Contents: “…Contents note continued: Health Policy and Planning as Context -- The Elements of Organizations -- Scientific Management -- Bureaucratic Pyramidal Organizations -- Organizations as Energy Systems -- Cybernetics and Management -- Target-Oriented Management -- Operations Research -- Management by Objectives -- Human Relations Management -- The Hawthorne Effect -- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs -- Theory X--Theory Y -- Network Organization -- Total Quality Management -- Changing Human Behavior -- Empowerment -- Strategic Management of Health Systems -- Health System Organization Models -- Functional Model -- Corporate Model -- Matrix Model -- Skills for Management -- The Chief Executive Officer of Health Organizations -- Community Participation -- Integration: Lateral and Vertical -- Norms and Performance Indicators -- Health Promotion and Advocacy -- Philanthropy and Volunteerism -- New Organizational Models -- New Projects and their Evaluation.…”
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