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  1. 241

    SonicWALL secure wireless network : integrated solutions guide by ScienceDirect (Online service)

    Published: Syngress, 2008
    Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 483 pages) : illustrations.
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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)

    Published: Springer, 2009
    Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 412 pages) : illustrations.
    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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  3. 243

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

    Published: Springer, 2018
    Description: 1 online resource.
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  4. 244

    Learn Swift on the Mac : for OS X and iOS by Malik, Waqar

    Published: Apress, 2015
    Description: 1 online resource : color illustrations.
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    Artificial intelligence and evolutionary computations in engineering systems : proceedings of ICAIECES 2017 by International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computations in Engineering Systems Madanapalle, India, SpringerLink (Online service)

    Published: Springer, 2018
    Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
    Contents: “…2.4 Performance Measures3 Experimental Results; 4 Conclusions; Bibliography; 3 Distributive MPPT Approach Using ANFIS and Perturb & Observe Techniques Under Uniform and Partial Shading Conditions; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 MPPT Techniques; 2.1 Perturb & Observe (P & O) Technique; 2.2 Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS); 2.3 Series-Connected Distributed Maximum Power Point Tracking (DMPPT); 3 Simulation Model; 4 Results and Discussion; 5 Conclusion; References; 4 Performance of MPPT in Photovoltaic Systems Using GA-ANN Optimization Scheme; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Related Works.…”
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  7. 247

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

    Published: Academic Press, 2014
    Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 884 pages) : illustrations.
    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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  8. 248

    Research and management practices for conservation of the Persian leopard in Iran by SpringerLink (Online service)

    Published: Springer, 2020
    Description: 1 online resource (xxx, 228 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
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  9. 249

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

    Published: CQ Press, 2017
    Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 413 pages) : illustrations.
    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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  10. 250

    Effective team management with VSTS and TFS : a guide for scrum masters by Chandrasekara, Chaminda, Yapa, Sanjaya

    Published: Apress, 2018
    Description: 1 online resource.
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  11. 251

    Creating blogs with Jekyll by Dhillon, Vikram

    Published: Distributed to the Book trade worldwide by Springer. 2016
    Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 345 pages) : illustrations (some color).
    Contents: “…Navigation BarPhotography Specialties; Portfolio; The Blog; Footer; Blog Post Layout; Embedding Photography; Content Delivery Network (CDN); MailChimp Campaign; Summary; Further Reading; Chapter 10: Open Debates; Rules of the Game; Navigating GitHub; Repository Overview; Issues; Pull Requests; Wiki; Pulse and Graphs; GitHub Pages; Prototyping; Jekyll Collections; Theming the Debate; Phases; Summary; Further Reading; Chapter 11: Open Research; A New Platform; KaTeX; Plot.ly; IPython; Reveal.js; Planning the Theme; Exploring Git; Git Internals; Distributed Development Model; Let's Git Coding.…”
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  12. 252

    Comprehensive regional reform : the transformation and breakthrough in China's educational reform by Liu, Guihua, Wang, Xiaofei

    Published: Springer, 2020
    Description: 1 online resource (xv, 301 pages).
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    Compositional data analysis : CoDaWork, L'Escala, Spain, June 2015 by CoDaWork (Conference) La Escala, Spain), SpringerLink (Online service)

    Published: Springer, 2016
    Description: 1 online resource (x, 209 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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  14. 254

    AdvancED Flex application development : building rich media X by SpringerLink (Online service)

    Published: Friends of Ed ; Distributed to the Book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York, 2008
    Description: 1 online resource (xx, 491 pages) : illustrations.
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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)

    Published: Springer, 2022
    Description: 1 online resource (835 pages).
    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)

    Published: This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature, 2017
    Description: 1 online resource (xv, 307 pages)
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    Market-led strategic change : a guide to transforming the process of going to market 3rd ed. by Piercy, Nigel

    Published: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002
    Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 762 pages) : illustrations.
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    Super-flexibility for knowledge enterprises : a toolkit for dynamic adaptation Second edition. by Bahrami, Homa, Evans, J. Stuart

    Published: Springer, 2010
    Description: 1 online resource (xv, 208 pages) : illustrations.
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    Pro Android 3 by Komatineni, Satya

    Published: Apress : Distributed to the Book trade worldwide by Springer Science+Business Media, 2011
    Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 1175 pages) : illustrations.
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    CFO techniques : a hands-on guide to keeping your business solvent and successful by Guzik, Marina

    Published: Apress ; Distributed to the Book trade by Springer, 2011
    Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 366 pages)
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