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Table of Contents: “…Last -- Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Why Pro Athletes Aren't Heroes / Joe Queenan -- Performance Art: The Faux Creativity of Lady Gaga / Emily Esfahani Smith -- Project Runway: The Surprising Virtues of Style / Herb London and Stacy London -- Back to Betty Crocker: Why Everyday Cooking Matters / Megan McArdle -- In Search of the Next Great American Songbook / Wilfred M. …”
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Blue future : protecting water for people and the planet forever / by Barlow, Maude

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Multinary Alloys Based on III-V Semiconductors / by Tomashyk, Vasyl

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Discrete mathematics : graph algorithms, algebraic structures, coding theory, and cryptography / by Sridharan, Sriraman, Balakrishnan, R. (Rangaswami)

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Gender and corporate boards the route to a seat at the table / by Brown, Scarlett

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Spectral Arctic : A History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration / by McCorristine, Shane, 1983-

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Mobile robots for dynamic environments /

Table of Contents: “…Mobile robots for earth exploration: applications, technologies and image processing techniques for navigation / Filippo Bonaccorso -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Applications of robots for earth explorations -- 5.2.1 Volcanic explorations -- 5.2.2 Meteorite search -- 5.2.3 Search and rescue -- 5.2.4 Humanitarian demining -- 5.2.5 Underground explorations -- 5.3 Related technologies -- 5.3.1 Sun synchronous robots -- 5.3.2 Traversability analysis -- 5.3.3 Localization and map building -- 5.3.4 Traction control -- 5.4 Current challenges -- 5.5 A road detection and obstacle avoidance method of using a stereo camera for autonomous navigation -- 5.5.1 Related works and overview -- 5.5.2 Drivable surface detection outline -- 5.5.3 Drivable surface detection setup -- 5.5.4 Obstacle detection -- 5.5.5 Control of the robotic platform -- 5.5.6 Final considerations -- 5.6 Conclusions and future work -- 5.7 References.…”
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Multicriteria decision aid and artificial intelligence links, theory and applications / by Doumpos, Michael

Table of Contents: “…s Method 7.5 Discussion 7.6 Conclusion References Part Four Multiobjective Optimization 8 Interactive Approaches Applied to Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms 8.1 Introduction 8.1.1 Methods Analyzed in this Chapter 8.2 Basic Concepts and Notation 8.2.1 Multiobjective Optimization Problems 8.2.2 Classical Interactive Methods 8.3 MOEAs Based on Reference Point Methods 8.3.1 A Weighted Distance Metric 8.3.2 Light Beam Search Combined with NSGA-II 8.3.3 Controlling the Accuracy of the Pareto Front Approximation 8.3.4 Light Beam Search Combined with PSO 8.3.5 A Preference Relation Based on a Weighted Distance Metric 8.3.6 The Chebyshev Preference Relation 8.4 MOEAs Based on Value Function Methods 8.4.1 Progressive Approximation of a Value Function 8.4.2 Value Function by Ordinal Regression 8.5 Miscellaneous Methods 8.5.1 Desirability Functions 8.6 Conclusions and Future Work References 9 Generalized DEA and Computational Intelligence in Multiple Criteria Decision Making 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Generalized Data Envelopment Analysis 9.2.1 Basic DEA Models: CCR, BCC and FDH Models 9.2.2 GDEA Model 9.3 Generation of Pareto Optimal Solutions using Generalized DEA and Computational Intelligence 9.3.1 GDEA in Fitness Evaluation 9.3.2 GDEA in Deciding the Parameters of Multi-objective PSO 9.3.3 Expected Improvement for Multi-objective Optimization Using GDEA 9.4 Summary References 10 Fuzzy Multiobjective Optimization 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Solution Concepts for Multiobjective Programming 10.3 Interactive Multiobjective Linear Programming 10.4 Fuzzy Multiobjective Linear Programming 10.5 Interactive Fuzzy Multiobjective Linear Programming 10.6 Interactive Fuzzy Multiobjective Linear Programming with Fuzzy Parameters 10.7 Interactive Fuzzy Stochastic Multiobjective Linear Programming 10.8 Related Works and Applications References Part Five Applications in Management and Engineering 11 MCDA & Agents: Supporting Effective Resource Federation in Virtual Organizations 11.1 Introduction 11.2 The Intuition of Multiple Criteria Decision Aid in Multi-agent Systems 11.3 Resource Federation Applied 11.3.1 Describing the Problem in a Cloud Computing Context 11.3.2 Problem Modeling 11.3.3 Assessing Agents' Value Function for Resource Federation 11.4 An Illustrative Example 11.5 Conclusions References 12 Fuzzy AHP Using Type II Fuzzy Sets: An Application to Warehouse Location Selection 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Multicriteria Selection 12.2.1 The ELECTRE (Élimination Et Choix Traduisant la Realite) Method 12.2.2 PROMETHEE (Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations) 12.2.3 TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Situation) 12.2.4 The WSM (Weighted Sum Model) Method 12.2.5 MAUT (Multi-attribute Utility Theory) 12.2.6 AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) 12.3 Literature Review on Fuzzy AHP 12.4 Buckley's Type-1 Fuzzy AHP 12.5 Type-2 Fuzzy Sets 12.6 Type-2 Fuzzy AHP 12.7 An Application: Warehouse Location Selection 12.8 Conclusion References 13 Applying Genetic Algorithms to Optimize Energy Efficiency in Buildings 13.1 Introduction 13.2 State-of-the-Art Review 13.3 An Example Case Study 13.3.1 Basic Principles and Problem Definition 13.3.2 Decision Variables 13.3.3 Decision Criteria 13.3.4 Decision Model 13.4 Development and Application of a Genetic Algorithm for the Example Case Study 13.4.1 Development of the Genetic Algorithm 13.4.2 Application of the Genetic Algorithm, Analysis of Results and Discussion 13.5 Conclusions References 14 Nature-Inspired Intelligence for Pareto Optimality Analysis in Portfolio Optimization 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Literature Review 14.3 Methodological Issues 14.4 Pareto Optimal Sets in Portfolio Optimization 14.4.1 Pareto Efficiency 14.4.2 Mathematical Formulation of the Portfolio Optimization Problem 14.5 Computational Results 14.5.1 Experimental Setup 14.5.2 Efficient Frontier 14.6 Conclusion References Index.…”
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Koenig and Schultz's disaster medicine comprehensive principles and practices /

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Part I: 1. Disaster research and epidemiology Megumi Kano, Michele M. Wood, Judith M. …”
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The road to information literacy librarians as facilitators of learning /

Table of Contents: “…/ Jana Varlejs -- Learning on the job, teaching on the job : CPDWL and a new qualification for the research information-literate librarian / Clare M. …”
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Ebla and its landscape early state formation in the ancient Near East /

Table of Contents: “…Town Archaeology -- A Long Journey : Fifty Years of Research on the Bronze Age at Tell Mardikh/Ebla / P. …”
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Criticism of religion on Marxism and theology, II / by Boer, Roland, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…-- Pascal's miracle -- Kierkegaard's encounter -- Paul's fable -- Conclusion : necessary fables -- The conundrums of Giorgio Agamben -- The search for Paul -- Christology, or the problem of Jesus Messiah -- Faith, law and grace as placeholder of the void -- Pre-law, or trying to make sense of Paul -- Conclusion : relativising theology -- The self-exorcism of Georg Lukács -- A world abandoned by God -- Leap-frogging Christianity -- Autobiographical exorcism -- The Bible and the beekeeper's manual -- An apparent absence? …”
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Aesopic conversations popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / by Kurke, Leslie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- The Aesopic challenge to Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers.…”
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The galaxy is rated G essays on children's science fiction film and television /

Table of Contents: “…. / Daniel O'Brien -- The Search for "a More Civilized Age," or the Failure of Utopian Desire in the Star Wars Franchise / R.C. …”
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Russia in 2020 : scenarios for the future /

Table of Contents: “…Society, politics, and the search for community in Russia / Samuel Greene ; The inertia of passive adaptation / Lev Gudkov ; Between nomenklatura and elites / Nikolay Petrov ; The evolution of civic activeness / Jens Siegert -- Ideology and culture. …”
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Fear and loathing in the North : Jews and Muslims in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region /

Table of Contents: “…Settlement -- Jews and the Black Death in fourteenth-century Prussia : a search for traces / Cordelia Hess -- Jewish physicians in the Teutonic Order's Prussian state in the late Middle Ages / Michalina Duda -- The Muslim people of Desht-i Qipchaq in fifteenth-century Prussia / Krzysztof Kwiatkowski -- Karaite settlement in medieval Lithuania / Veronika Klimova -- III. …”
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Korean screen cultures : interrogating cinema, tv, music and online games /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Chiunhyang at War: Rediscovering Franco-North Korean film Moranbong (1959) / Mark Morris -- Framing South Korea and Vietnam's Past and Present in Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait / Jessica Conte -- Searching for Traces of Absence: Korean Diaspora in Contemporary Korean Cinema / Juyeon Bae -- If You Were Me: Human Rights Discourses and Transnational Crossings in South Korean Omnibus Films / David Scott Diffrient -- Cosmopolitan Strivings and Racialization: the Foreign Dancing Body in Korean Popular Music Videos / CedarBough T. …”
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Plant IT integrating information technology into automated manufacturing / by Brandl, Dennis

Table of Contents: “…Knowledge -- Quick, quick, knowledge management -- Don't drown in manufacturing paperwork -- What's the one right answer, enterprise search for manufacturing? -- "How may I help you?" …”
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Fantastic realities 49 mind journeys and a trip to Stockholm / by Wilczek, Frank

Table of Contents: “…The Dirac equation ; Fermi and the elucidation of matter ; The standard model transcended ; Masses and molasses ; In search of symmetry lost ; From 'Not wrong' to (maybe) right ; Unification of couplings. -- Methods of our madness. …”
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