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  • Cham : Springer International Publishing AG  (16)
  • Budapest : Central European University Press
  • Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press
  • Milton : Taylor & Francis Group
  • Münster : Unrast
  • 11
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    Milton : Taylor & Francis Group
    Description / Table of Contents: Providing a holistic overview of general chemistry and its foundational principles, this textbook is an essential accompaniment to students entering the field. It is designed with the reader in mind, presenting the development of ideas to frame and center new concepts as well as providing sources for all topics covered.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (379 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9781040037003
    DDC: 540
    Language: English
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  • 12
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Sector-Based Action Against Corruption -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Reform Concept: Move Molehills Not Mountains -- The Reform Approach: SFRA -- Important Caveat -- How This Book Came About -- The Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Corruption Basics -- Definition -- Delving Below Generalities -- The Unit of Analysis -- Identifying Core Issues: The Merits of Peer Voting -- References -- Chapter 3: Corruption Is a Management Issue -- Relevant Management Systems -- Training and Education -- Monitoring and Compliance -- Information and Communication Systems -- Specialist Expertise Group In-house -- Leadership -- Declarations of Commitment -- When Talking About Corruption, Language Matters -- Like All Risk Factors, Context Matters -- Is This Really My Responsibility? -- References -- Chapter 4: Work Within Your Sector -- Why Sectors Are a Good Locus for Reform -- What Is a Sector? -- International Sector Resources -- Construction Sector -- Health Sector -- Shipping Sector -- References -- Chapter 5: Focus -- Disaggregate the Specific Corruption Issues -- Sector Typologies -- Make Your Own Typology? -- Analysis and Context -- Analysis Methodologies -- Political Economy Analysis (PEA) -- Building Shared Understanding -- References -- Chapter 6: Remediation: Broad Framing -- Single Issue -- Broad Front -- Narrow Front -- Radical Change -- Low-Profile -- Multi-Party Collaboration -- Bundling -- Signature-Issue -- Keeping-Up-Hope -- References -- Chapter 7: Remediation: Detailed Improvement Measures -- Functional Improvement Measures -- Improve the Administrative Processes Closest to Service Delivery -- Improve Financial Management -- Improve Financial Management Processes -- Improve Management Information Systems (MIS).
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (197 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783031593369
    Series Statement: Political Corruption and Governance Series
    Language: English
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  • 13
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Contents -- Agile at Scale -- Investigating Communities of Practice in Large-Scale Agile Software Development: An Interview Study -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background and Related Work -- 3 Methodology -- 4 Results -- 4.1 Context -- 4.2 Reasons for Establishing CoPs -- 4.3 Characteristics of the Established CoPs -- 5 Discussion -- 5.1 Key Findings -- 5.2 Limitations -- 6 Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Slack Use in Large-Scale Agile Organizations: ESN Tools as Catalysts for Alignment? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 2.1 Large-Scale Agile Development in Public Sector Organizations -- 2.2 Communication in Agile Software Development -- 2.3 ESN Tools -- 3 Methods and Study Design -- 3.1 Data Collection -- 3.2 Data Analysis -- 4 Results -- 4.1 Communication Transparency -- 4.2 Communication Quality -- 4.3 Communication Discipline -- 5 Discussion -- 6 Conclusion and Further Work -- References -- Coordination in Agile Product Areas: A Case Study from a Large FinTech Organization -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 2.1 Organizing Large-Scale Agile Software Development into Product Areas -- 2.2 Frameworks for Understanding Coordination in Large-Scale Agile -- 3 Research Method -- 3.1 Case Description -- 3.2 Data Collection -- 3.3 Data Analysis -- 4 Findings -- 4.1 Organizing Teams in Product Areas -- 4.2 Product Area Coordination Meetings -- 4.3 Product Area Coordination Roles -- 4.4 Coordination Tools and Artefacts in the Product Area. -- 5 Discussion -- 5.1 Product Areas as a Distinct Organizational Level -- 5.2 The Team Typology of Product Areas -- 5.3 Pull Requests and Pair Programming as Coordination Mechanisms -- 5.4 Practical Implications -- 5.5 Evaluation of Limitations and Research Quality -- 6 Future Research and Concluding Remarks -- References -- Software Product Management in Large-Scale Agile.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (204 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783031611544
    Series Statement: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Series v.512
    Language: English
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  • 14
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part I: Revisiting Individualization in China Through the Prism of the Transition to Adulthood -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Institutionalized Individualism in Post-collectivist China -- 2.1 Varieties of Individualization -- 2.2 The Individual and the Shadow of Ancestors in Pre-Maoist China -- 2.3 The Individual and the Collective in Maoist China -- 2.4 The Rise of Individualism in Post-Maoist China -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Suzhi Discourse as a Structural Component of Institutionalized Individualism in Post-Maoist China -- 3.1 Engineering "Quality Citizens" -- 3.2 Suzhi Discourse and Hukou as Instruments of Governmentality -- 3.3 Chinese TV Drama as a Vector of Institutionalization -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: A Life-Course Perspective on the Individualization Process in Post-collectivist China -- 4.1 The Transition to Adulthood as a Period of Observation -- 4.2 A Place and Two Birth Cohorts Emblematic of the People's Republic of China's History: Beijing, the Post-1950s and Post-1980s Generations -- 4.3 A Mixed Methods Research Design to Reconstruct the Transition to Adulthood -- 4.3.1 Quantitative Data Collection -- 4.3.2 Qualitative Data Collection -- 4.3.3 Data Analysis -- Bibliography -- Part II: Coming of Age in Uncertain Times -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Exploring Pathways to Adulthood -- 5.1 A Longer Transition to Adulthood in Post-collectivist China -- 5.2 Family Roles and Responsibilities as Central Values -- 5.2.1 Marriage, "an existential question" for Young Adults and their Families -- 5.2.2 Being Good Wives and Good Mothers (Xianqi Liangmu) -- 5.2.3 "Housing [...] Is the Foundation of the Family" -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: The Rise of New Social Risks in Post-collectivist China.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (180 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783031572166
    Series Statement: Life Course Research and Social Policies Series v.17
    Language: English
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  • 15
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Preamble -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Nomenclature -- Chapter 1 About water -- 1.1 On origins -- 1.2 On the origin of life -- 1.3 On the origin of civilisation -- 1.4 On the origin and source of industry -- 1.5 To the origin -- Part I Fundamentals and derivations -- Chapter 2 Essential mathematics -- 2.1 Conventions -- 2.2 Physical quantities and their mathematical descriptions -- 2.2.1 Scalar -- 2.2.2 Vector -- 2.2.3 Tensor -- 2.2.4 Scalar product -- 2.2.5 Cross product -- 2.3 Euler vs. Lagrange -- 2.3.1 Lagrange's perspective -- 2.3.2 Euler's perspective -- 2.4 Functions -- 2.4.1 Derivations -- 2.4.1.1 Partial derivative -- 2.4.1.2 Total derivative -- 2.4.2 Integration -- 2.5 Kinematics -- 2.5.1 Dilatation -- 2.5.2 Shearing -- 2.5.3 Rotation -- 2.5.4 Velocity gradient tensor -- 2.5.5 Divergence -- 2.6 Einstein summation convention -- 2.7 Elementary fluid mechanic terms -- 2.8 Selected flow lines -- 2.8.1 Streakline -- 2.8.2 Streamline -- 2.8.3 Pathline -- 2.8.4 Streamtube -- 2.9 Selected cross-sections -- Chapter 3 Essential physics -- 3.1 Aggregate states -- 3.1.1 Solid -- 3.1.2 Liquid -- 3.1.3 Gaseous -- 3.1.4 Aggregate states of water -- 3.2 Quantities and their units -- 3.3 Newton's axioms -- 3.3.1 Lex prima - inertial law -- 3.3.2 Lex secunda - basic equation of mechanics -- 3.3.3 Lex tertia - "actio = reactio" -- 3.4 Principal physical quantities -- 3.4.1 Force -- 3.4.2 Momentum -- 3.4.3 Work -- 3.4.4 Energy -- 3.4.5 Power -- 3.4.6 Density -- 3.4.7 Stress -- 3.4.8 Deformation (rate) -- 3.4.9 Pressure -- 3.4.9.1 Absolute pressure -- 3.4.9.2 Relative pressure -- 3.4.10 Compressibility -- 3.4.11 Viscosity -- 3.4.12 Surface tension -- 3.4.13 Discharge -- 3.5 Properties of water -- Chapter 4 Introduction to potential theory -- 4.1 Introduction to potential theory -- 4.2 Parallel flow -- 4.3 Source and sink flow.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (385 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783031548604
    Language: English
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  • 16
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I Gravity Field Modelling and Height Systems -- Remarks on the Terrain Correction and the Geoid Bias -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Terrain Correction for Masses Located in the Remote Zone of the Bouguer Shell -- 3 The Terrain Correction for Masses Located Outside the Bouguer Plate -- 4 The Terrain Correction Due to Masses in the Near-Zone Inside the Bouguer Plate -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Why a Height Theory Must Be Rigorous and Physically Correct -- 1 Review -- 2 Problems with Molodensky's Approach -- 3 Arrival of Satellites and the Problem of Height Congruency -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Geodetic Heights and Holonomity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What Is a Geodetic Heigh? -- 2.1 A New Definition of a General Geodetic Height HG -- 3 The Four Height Systems Are Geodetic Heights -- 4 Holonomity of the Geodetic Heights -- 5 Comparisons and Conclusions -- References -- Physical Heights of Inland Lakes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Orthometric Height -- 3 Orthometric Height Variation at Lake Surface -- 4 Quantification: Case Studies -- 4.1 Lake Vänern, Sweden -- 4.2 Lake Michigan, USA -- 4.3 Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan -- 4.4 Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia -- 5 Conclusions and Outlook -- Appendix 1: Approximation -- Appendix 2: Normal Height Variation -- References -- The Uncertainties of the Topographical Density Variations in View of a Sub-Centimetre Geoid -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theory -- 3 Numerical Results -- 4 Conclusion and Remarks -- References -- Estimation of Height Anomalies from Gradients of the Gravitational Potential Using a Spectral Combination Method -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Spectral Combination -- 3 Numerical Experiments -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Evaluation of the Recent African Gravity Databases V2.x -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data Used for Establishing the AFRGDB_V2.x Gravity Databases.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (189 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783031553608
    Series Statement: International Association of Geodesy Symposia Series v.155
    Language: English
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  • 17
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing AG
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Foreword by Florian Schütz -- Foreword by Jan Kleijssen -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Reviewers -- Acronyms -- Part I Introduction -- 1 From Deep Neural Language Models to LLMs -- 1.1 What LLMs Are and What LLMs Are Not -- 1.2 Principles of LLMs -- 1.2.1 Deep Neural Language Models -- 1.2.2 Generative Deep Neural Language Models -- 1.2.3 Generating Text -- 1.2.4 Memorization vs Generalization -- 1.2.5 Effect of the Model and Training Dataset Size -- References -- 2 Adapting LLMs to Downstream Applications -- 2.1 Prompt Optimization -- 2.2 Pre-Prompting and Implicit Prompting -- 2.3 Model Coordination: Actor-Agents -- 2.4 Integration with Tools -- 2.5 Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning -- 2.6 Fine-Tuning -- 2.7 Further Pretraining -- 2.8 From-Scratch Re-Training -- 2.9 Domain-Specific Distillation -- References -- 3 Overview of Existing LLM Families -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Pre-Transformer LLMs -- 3.3 BERT and Friends -- 3.4 GPT Family Proper -- 3.5 Generative Autoregressors (GPT Alternatives) -- 3.6 Compute-Optimal Models -- 3.6.1 LLaMA Family -- 3.7 Full-Transformer/Sequence-to-Sequence Models -- 3.8 Multimodal and Mixture-of-Experts Models -- 3.8.1 Multimodal Visual LLMs -- 3.8.2 Pathways Language Model, PaLM -- 3.8.3 GPT-4 and BingChat -- References -- 4 Conversational Agents -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 GPT Related Conversational Agents -- 4.3 Alternative Conversational Agent LLMs -- 4.3.1 Conversational Agents Without Auxiliary Capabilities -- 4.3.2 Conversational Agents With Auxiliary Capabilities -- 4.3.2.1 Models With Non-Knowledge Auxiliary Capabilities -- 4.4 Conclusion -- References -- 5 Fundamental Limitations of Generative LLMs -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Generative LLMs Cannot Be Factual -- 5.3 Generative LLMs With Auxiliary Tools Still Struggle To Be Factual.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (249 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783031548277
    Language: English
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    Description / Table of Contents: This new edition includes 7 new chapters on machine learning and its applications to carbon cycle research, on principles underlying carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, a contemporary active research and management issue, and on community infrastructure for ecological forecasting.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (313 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    ISBN: 9781040026298
    DDC: 577/.144
    Language: English
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    Description / Table of Contents: This new edition includes 7 new chapters on machine learning and its applications to carbon cycle research, on principles underlying carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, a contemporary active research and management issue, and on community infrastructure for ecological forecasting.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (491 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    ISBN: 9781040026311
    DDC: 577/.144
    Language: English
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    Milton : Taylor & Francis Group
    Description / Table of Contents: This book contain the contributions presented at the ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress 2024, which was held from 19-25 April 2024 in Shenzhen, China. As urbanization accelerates, the pivotal role of tunnels and underground spaces in fostering environmental sustainability and improving quality of life becomes ever more pronounced.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (3729 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9781040119815
    DDC: 624.193
    Language: English
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