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Strange footprints on the land : Vikings in America / by Irwin, Constance H. Frick

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Grand Theater Urbanism Chinese Cities in the 21st century /

Table of Contents: “…Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction: City Branding and Cultural Facilities-boosting Chinese cities -- Development of Theaters and the City in Beijing: the 1950s and After the 1980s -- To Be Cultural Capital-grand theaters in Shanghai -- Guangzhou Opera House: Building a Gated Public Space -- City Center Shifting and Cultural Facilities - Performance Space in Shenzhen -- Growing with the City: Theatrical Buildings in Chongqing -- The Henan Art Center: From Dilemma to Ambition -- The Shanxi Grand Theater: "Renaissance" of Chinese Drama Land -- A Butterfly by the Lake - Wuxi Grand Theater -- The National Taichung Theater: experimenting publicity of metropolitan urbanism -- From Colonial to Global-performance space in Hong Kong -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture

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Natural Fibres: Advances in Science and Technology Towards Industrial Applications From Science to Market /

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Handbook of international futurism /

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Women Researching in Africa The Impact of Gender /

Table of Contents: “…: Reflections of a feminist tightrope walker's research on 'land grabbing' and the dilemmas of 'fieldworking' while parenting; Rama Salla Dieng -- 3. …”
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Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management

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Gender and food from production to consumption and after.

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Patrimonial capitalism and empire

Table of Contents: “…Patrimonialism in America : The public domain in the making of modernity from colonial times to the late nineteenth century / John Hall -- Explaining the great continuity : ethnic institutions, colonialism, and social development in Spanish America / James Mahoney -- Limits of empire : the French colonial state and local patrimonialism in North Africa / Mounira Charrad, Daniel Jaster -- Patrimonialism, imperialism, and colonialism at the Cape of Good Hope under Dutch East India Company rule, c.1652-1795 / Kerry Ward -- Grandpa State instead of Bourgeois State : patrimonial politics in chinas Age of Commerce, 1644-1839 / Ho-Fung Hung -- Antipodean patrimonialism? …”
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The Geography of Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Africa

Table of Contents: “…Part I -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Climate Change, Urban Planning and Sustainable Development in Africa: The Difference worth Appreciating; Michael Addaney and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah -- Part II: Climate Change Adaptation in urban Africa: land tenure, biodiversity conservation and local responses -- Chapter Two: Towards Sustainable Development in Africa: The Challenge of Urbanization and Climate Change; Matthew Ogwu -- Chapter Three: Community-Based Mapping Methodology for Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study of Quarry Road West Informal Settlement, Durban, South Africa; Bahle Mazeka, Catherine Sutherland, Sibongile Buthelezi and Duduzile Khumalo -- Chapter Four: Urban Residents and Communities Responses to Climate Change Impacts in Tamale, Ghana; Patrick Brandful Cobbinah and Enoch Akwasi Kosoe -- Chapter Five: Urban Farmers' Perceptions of and Responses to Climate Variability in Ibadan, Nigeria; Bolanle Wahab and Ayobami Popoola -- Chapter Six: Placing Climate Change in Wetland Conservation and Urban Agriculture Contestations in Harare, Zimbabwe; Luckymore Matenga -- Chapter Seven: Heritage Preservation in a Changing Climate: The Potential of Green Infrastructure on the Île de Saint-Louis, Senegal; Samantha McLean -- Chapter Eight: Competing Interests in Urban Biodiversity Management in the Context of a Changing Climate: A Case Study of the Giba Gorge Environmental Precinct, South Africa; Chuma Banji Chinzila, Andrew Emmanuel Okem, Fathima Ahmed and Urmila Bob -- Chapter Nine: Exploring the Future of Nairobi National Park in a Changing Climate and Urban Growth; Obed Matundura Ogega, Hellen Njoki Wanjohi and James Mbugua -- Part III: Urban Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: Towards Policy and Practice -- Chapter Ten: Connecting climate change to poverty reduction: Poverty Reduction Co-Benefits of Climate Change-Related Projects in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa; Andrew Emmanuel Okem -- Chapter Eleven: Beyond climate change adaptation in urban Africa: A synthesis of urban food (in)security; Bright Nkrumah -- Chapter Twelve: Thinking into the future: Constructing social security law as climate change adaptation strategy in urban South Africa; Ademola Oluborode Jegede and Crystal Mokoena -- Chapter Thirteen: Governing river rehabilitation for climate adaptation and water security in Durban, South Africa; Partick Martel, Catherine Sutherland, Sibongile Buthelezi and Duduzile Khumalo -- Part IV: Climate Change Adaptation Planning and Institutional Responses in Urban Africa -- Chapter Fourteen: Towards Citizen-led Planning for Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Ghana: Hints from Japanese "Machizukuri" Activities; Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Kofi Diko, Matthew Abunyewah, Michihiro Kita -- Chapter Fifteen: Climate Change Adaptation in Ghana: The Future of Spatial Planning; Patrick Brandful Cobbinah and Nelson Nyabanyi N-yanbini -- Chapter Sixteen: Institutional Responses to Climate Change Adaptation: Flood Management at the Metropolitan Level in Accra, Ghana; Prosper Issahaku Korah and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah -- Chapter Seventeen: Adaptation Governance and Building Resilience in the face of Climate Change in African Cities: Policy Responses and Emerging Practices from Accra; Michael Addaney -- Chapter Eighteen: Missed Opportunities: Financing Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Ghana and Uganda; Stephen Diko.…”
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Enabling gender equality future generations of the global world /

Table of Contents: “…Turning globalization and the diffusion of democracy into opportunities for women and girls / Barbara Wejnert -- Women's portrait through gender lenses / Kanchan Saxena -- Sexual harassment against women in the workplace : a critical study on the regulatory framework in Sri Lanka / Muthukuda Arachchige Dona Shiroma Jeeva Shirajanie Niriella -- Gender, power and knowledge : deciphering the dialectics of inclusion-exclusion in academia in India / Smita Verma -- Trauma and fear of long-distance mothering among Indonesian female migrant domestic workers / Elisabeth Dewi -- Job loss, unemployment benefits, and mental health of middle-aged US women / Yujia Liu ... …”
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Mechatronics for Cultural Heritage and Civil Engineering

Table of Contents: “…1 Mechatronics in the process of cultural heritage and civil infrastructure management -- Part I - ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION -- 2 Timed cellular automata based tool for the analysis of urban road traffic models -- 3 Process analysis of cable-driven parallel robots for automated construction -- 4 Design of reconfigurable cable-driven parallel robots -- 5 Distance geometry in active structures -- 6 New trends in residential automation -- Part II - DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE -- 7 Digital technology and mechatronic systems for the architectural 3D metric survey -- Cultural Heritage documentation, analysis and management using Building Information Modeling: state-of-the-art and perspectives -- 9 3D survey system and digital simulations for structural monitoring of rooms at the Uffici Museum in Florence -- 10 Spacagna, Modoni, GIS based study of the land subsidence in the city of Bologna -- 11 Infrared thermography of walls in residential buildings in historic workers' housing estates in Upper Silesia -- Part III - MONITORING OF CIVIL STRUCTURES -- 12 Structural Health Monitoring systems for Smart Heritage and infrastructures in Spain -- 13 Data-driven approach to Structural Health Monitoring using statistical learning algorithms -- 14 Vibration-based monitoring of civil structures with subspace-based damage detection -- 15 Numerical and experimental investigations of reinforced masonry structures across multiple scales -- 16 Monitoring and maintenance of customized structures for underground environments: the case of Gran Sasso National Laboratory.…”
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Computational Intelligence International Joint Conference, IJCCI 2015 Lisbon, Portugal, November 12-14, 2015, Revised Selected Papers /

Table of Contents: “…-- On Routine Evolution of New Replicating Structures in Cellular Automata -- Application of Adaptive Differential Evolution for Model Identification in Furnace Optimized Control System -- Multi-Strategy Genetic Algorithm for Multimodal Optimization -- GPGPU Vs Multiprocessor SPSO Implementations to Solve Electromagnetic Optimization Problems -- Multi-Robot Cooperative Tasks using Combined Nature-Inspired Techniques -- GEML: Evolutionary Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning of Multi-class Classification with Grammatical Evolution -- For Sale or Wanted: Directed Crossover in Adjudicated Space -- Design of an Autonomous Intelligent Demand-Side Management System by using Electric Vehicles as Mobile Energy Storage Units by Means of Evolutionary -- Particle Convergence Time in the PSO Model with Inertia Weight -- A Modified Fuzzy Lee-Carter Method for Modeling Human Mortality -- Synchronization of Uncertain Chaotic Systems using Generalized Predictive Control based on Fuzzy PID Controllers -- An Order Hyperresolution Calculus for Gödel Logic with Truth Constants and Equality, Strict Order, Delta -- Using Evidence Theory in Land Cover Change Prediction to Model Imperfection Propagation with Correlated Inputs Parameters -- Choosing Suitable Similarity Measures to Compare Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets that Represent Experience-Based Evaluation Sets -- Bayesian Logistic Regression using Vectorial Centroid for Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets -- A Comparison of Learning Rules for Mixed Order Hyper Networks -- Pedestrian Action Prediction using Static Image Feature -- Gaussian Nonlinear Line Attractor for Learning Multidimensional Data -- Mining Significant Frequent Patterns in Parallel Episodes with a Graded Notion of Synchrony and Selective Participation -- A Heteroassociative Learning Model Robust to Interference -- AnExtended Q Learning System with Emotion State to Make Up an Agent with Individuality -- Inedited SVM Application to Automatically Tracking and Recognizing Arm-and-Hand Visual Signals to Aircraft -- Learning-Based Distance Evaluation in robots' vision: A Comparison of ANFIS, MLP, SVR and Bilinear Interpolation Models.…”
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Mechanics IUTAM USNC/TAM A History of People, Events, and Communities / by Herakovich, Carl T.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Mechanics: An Engineering Science -- Brief History Of Mechanics -- The Giants Of Mechanics -- Ancient Greece (Bc) -- The Renaissance -- Industrial Revolution -- Paris And École Polytechnique -- Technological Revolution -- Major Developments In Mechanics -- Mechanics At Göttingen -- International Research Council -- The Innsbruck Conference -- International Applied Mechanics Congresses -- Mechanics In The United States -- Land Grant Colleges -- National Academy Of Sciences (Nas) -- First Flight -- National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics (Naca) -- National Research Council (Nrc) -- Immigrants To United States -- Other Immigrants To The United States -- Asme Applied Mechanics Division -- International Congresses - American Involvement -- International Union Of Theoretical And Applied Mechanics -- IUTAM General Assembly -- IUTAM Bureau -- USNC/TAM -- USNC/TAM Time Line -- The Independent Years -- A Committee Of The National Academy Of Sciences -- USNCTAM Constitution And Bylaws -- USNCTAM Member Societies -- USNC/TAM Members -- USNC/TAM Officers -- USNC/TAM Chairs -- Secretaries Of The USNC/TAM -- USNC/TAM In IUTAM Leadership Positions -- USNC/TAM Diversity -- Academic Genealogy -- Gender Diversity -- Ethnic And Racial Diversity -- Age Diversity -- Mechanics Specialty -- USNC/TAM Activities -- Meetings With Governmental Agency Representatives -- Scordim Reports -- U. …”
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Bioremediation Advances in Research and Applications /

Table of Contents: “…Removal of Dye from WastewaterBioremediation Strategies; Biomedical Waste Management; Microbial Assisted Degradation; Factors Which Affect Drug Stability; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3; The Significance of Microbial Cell Surface Energy in Wastewater Bioremediation; Abstract; Introduction; Microbial Cell Surface Free Energy: Components, Estimation Methods and Approaches; Application of Surface Free Energy in Wastewater Treatment; Flocculation and Sedimentation; Adhesion in Biofilm-Mediated Systems; Granulation or Aggregation; Pollutants Removal; Microbial Fuel Cells; Conclusion…”
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Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA 2015) held i...

Table of Contents: “…Multiset Genetic Algorithm Approach to Grid Resource Allocation -- Secure Cloud Multi-tenant Applications with Cache in PaaS -- HAWK EYE: Intelligent Analysis of Socio Inspired Cohorts for Plagiarism -- Mechanism of Fuzzy ARMS on Chemical Reaction -- The Power of Hybridity and Context Free in HP System -- Enhanced Bee Colony Algorithm for Efficient Load Balancing and Scheduling in Cloud -- Robust Optimized Artificial Neural Network Based Pem Fuelcell Voltage Tracking -- Gravitational Search Algorithm to Solve Open Vehicle Routing Problem -- PIRIDS :A Model on Intrusion Response System Based on Biologically Inspired Response Mechanism in Plants -- Particle Swarm Optimization Method Based Consistency Checking in UML Class and Activity Diagrams -- Data Centric Text Processing Using MapReduce -- Request Reply Detection Mechanism for Malicious MANETs -- Ensemble of Flexible Neural Trees for Predicting Risk in Grid Computing Environment -- A Novel Approach for Malicious Node Detection in MANET -- Improving The Productivity In Global Software Development -- Prediction of Heart Disease Using Random Forest and Feature Subset Selection -- Software Requirement Elicitation Using Natural Language Processing -- Application of Hexagonal Coordinate Systems for Searching the K-Nn In 2d Space -- Locality Aware MapReduce -- Hybrid Feature Selection using Correlation coefficient and Particle Swarm Optimization on Microarray Gene Expression Data -- Resource AwareAdaptive Scheduler for Heterogeneous Workload with Task Based Job Sampling -- Generating Picture Arrays Based on Grammar Systems with Flat Splicing Operation -- Identification of Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction Using Combined Kernels -- Debris Detection and Tracking system in water bodies using Motion Estimation technique -- Debris Detection and Tracking System in Water Bodies Using Motion Estimation Technique -- Understanding the Consequences of Social Isolation Using Fireworks Algorithm -- Ant Pheromone Evaluation Models Based Gateway Selection in MANET -- A Review on How Human Aging Influences Facial Expression Recognition (FER) -- An Intelligent Approach for Diabetes Classification, Prediction and Description -- A Novel Algorithm for Utility-Frequent Item Set Mining in Market Basket Analysis -- Exact Computation of 3D Geometric Moment Invariants for ATS Drugs Identification -- D-MBPSO:An Unsupervised Feature Selection Algorithm Based on PSO -- Delay Scheduling with Reduced Workload on JobTracker in Hadoop -- Reducing Travel Time in VANETs with Parallel Implementation of MACO (Modified ACO) -- FS-EHS: Harmony Search Based Feature Selection Algorithm for Steganalysis Using ELM -- A Hybrid Dimension Reduction Technique for Document Clustering -- 2D Image Reconstruction After Removal of Detected Salient Regions Using Exemplar-Based Image Inpainting -- Solution to Constrained Test Problems Using Cohort Intelligence Algorithm -- Placement Strategies for Faulty Cells in Module Relocation Based BISR Approach -- Fetal Heart Rate Variability: Multiple Regression Models Using Autoregressive Analysis and Fast Fourier Transform -- Restricted Boltzmann Machine based Energy Efficient Cognitive Network -- An Overview of Computational Intelligence Technique in Drug Molecular Structure Identification -- An Effective Bio-Inspired Methodology for Optimal Estimation and Forecasting of Co2 Emission in India -- Conceptual Voice Based Querying Support Model for Relevant Document Retrieval -- Online Pairwise Ranking Based on Graph Edge-Connectivity -- Fuzzy Variable Stiness in Landing Phase for Jumping Robot -- An Extended Study on the Association Between Elicitation Issues and Software Project Performance: A Theoretical Model -- Compact Design of Rectangular Patch Antenna With Symmetrical U Slots on Partial Ground for UWB Applications -- Compact Design of Rectangular Patch Antenna with Symmetrical U slots on Partial Ground for UWB Applications -- Big Data Challenges And Solutions in Healthcare: A Survey -- Experimental Study on Bound Handling Techniques for Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization -- Role of Bio-inspired Optimization in Disaster Operations Management Research -- Optimal Reservoir Release for Hydropower Generation Maximization Using Particle Swarm Optimization.…”
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Housing and Housing Politics in European Metropolises Jahrbuch StadtRegion 2017/2018 /

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Environment and social justice an international perspective /

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Computational Intelligence in Data Mining-Volume 1 Proceedings of the International Conference on CIDM, 5-6 December 2015 /

Table of Contents: “…Malayalam Spell Checker Using N-Gram Method -- Chapter 24. Sample Classification Based on Gene Subset Selection -- Chapter 25. …”
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Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving SocProS 2015, Volume 1 /

Table of Contents: “…Chemo-inspired Genetic Algorithm and Application to Model Order Reduction Problem -- Chapter 4. Grammatical Evolution Using Fireworks Algorithm.-Chapter 5. …”
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