This book is an illustrative and comprehensive guide designed to help readers understand and navigate the complex world of academic writing and research in economics.
This book contains revised selected papers fromthe Second International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security inthe Balkans, BalkanCryptSec 2015, held in Koper, Slovenia, in September 2015.
Die Kryptologie, eine jahrtausendealte "Geheimwissenschaft", gewinnt zusehends praktische Bedeutung für den Schutz von Kommunikationswegen, Datenbanken und Software.
The process of European integration and the transfer of political authority from the national to the European level have led to the emergence of a field of EU policy making in Brussels, which attracts professionals and experts from all EU member states.
The two volume set LNCS 12972 + 12973 constitutes the proceedings of the 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2021, which took place during October 4-8, 2021.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems, NordSec 2021, which was held online during November 2021.
Containing data on number theory, encryption schemes, and cyclic codes, this highly successful textbook, proven by the authors in a popular two-quarter course, presents coding theory, construction, encoding, and decoding of specific code families in an "e;easy-to-use"e; manner appropriate for students with only a basic background in mathematics offerin
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There has been an upsurge in scholarship concerned with theories of social practices in various fields including sociology, geography and management studies.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data, SocialSec 2022, which took place in Xi'an, China, in October 2022.
Digital Forensic Art Techniques: A Professional's Guide to Corel PainterTM illustrates hands-on techniques to digitally create forensic art for police and investigative purposes.
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From Markov Jump Processes to Spatial Queues aims to develop a unified theory of spatial queues that yields concrete results for the performance analysis of mobile communication networks.
In this collection of essays, biographies and Nobel lectures, ten Nobel Laureates from five continents give various and startling perspectives on current questions about modernity and tradition, unity and diversity, integration, identity, integrity, gender and sexual roles in a multicultural world of change.
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This book offers a practical presentation of stochastic partial differential equations arising in physical applications and their numerical approximation.
Death, Decomposition, and Detector Dogs: From Science to Scene, Second Edition is designed to help canine handlers, detectives, death investigators, crime scene personnel (including forensic laboratory personnel, technicians, and supervisors), and attorneys understand the science involved when utilizing human remains detector (HRD) canines as a locating tool.
This research monograph summarizes solutions to reconfigurable fault-tolerant control problems for nonlinear dynamical systems that are based on the fault-hiding principle.
Despite occupational diseases in construction contributing to a significant proportion of fatalities, and permanent and temporary incapacities, they have not gained as much attention as occupational injuries from practitioners and researchers.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2014, held in Hong Kong, China, in October 2014.
The biggest online threat to businesses and consumers today is ransomware, a category of malware that can encrypt your computer files until you pay a ransom to unlock them.
The revised tenth edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's countries - each representative of a different type of legal system.
Using facet theory and Hackett's pioneering development of the declarative mapping sentence (DMS) as a qualitative methodology, this volume explains the process of formulating and applying the DMS to critically assess female representation in science fiction.
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Researchers in special education have been developing a knowledge base of evidence-based practices that improve the outcomes of students with disabilities.
Measuring the abundance of individuals and the diversity of species are core components of most ecological research projects and conservation monitoring.
This book covers a variety of topics in the field of mechatronics engineering, with a special focus on innovative control and automation concepts for applications in a wide range of field, including industrial production, medicine and rehabilitation, education and transport.
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Causal analytics methods can revolutionize the use of data to make effective decisions by revealing how different choices affect probabilities of various outcomes.
Standards, Emergence, and Complex Outcomes redefines how we think about standards, framing them as interfaces that govern interactions and connect causes to their effects.
