Technology and Business Model Innovation: Challenges and Opportunities Proceedings of the International Conference on Business and Technology (ICBT2023) Volume 2

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Beyond stock stories and folktales : African Americans' paths to STEM fields

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Fingerprints : processing, analysis and understanding by Hawthorne, Mark R., Plotkin, Sharon, Douglas, Bracey-Ann

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The sacred and the sinister : studies in medieval religion and magic

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From Cyrus to Alexander : a history of the Persian Empire by Briant, Pierre

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Development of marine resources

Table of Contents: “…Ecophysiological needs; 2.3.1.1. Light; 2.3.1.2. Temperature; 2.3.1.3. pH and inorganic carbon; 2.3.1.4. …”
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Architecture for psychiatric environments and therapeutic spaces by Chrysikou, Evangelia

Table of Contents: “…Title Page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Part 1 -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Care in the Community -- 1.2 Design for Domesticity -- 1.3 Mental health service users and their needs -- 1.4 Towards a Model for Rehabilitation -- 1.5 Structure of the Book and Presentation of Ideas -- 2 History of mental health and its expression in architecture -- 2.1 The onset of psychiatry: from God-given medicine to the deep roots of Western psychiatry and "back" to the Great Confinement -- 2.2 From the ideals of the French Revolution to the asylums -- 2.3 The transition from the "second Age of Confinement" to social psychiatry -- 2.4 Social psychiatry and the return of the mentally ill into the community -- 2.5 The rationalisation of mental health care under the managerial perspective and the involvement of social services -- 2.6 Community Care in the UK and France from the Eighties on -- 2.7 Key messages regarding Community Care -- 3 My view: the SCP model -- 3.1 Opposing frameworks for the planning of mental health services -- 3.1.1 Specialists' concepts -- 3.1.2 Normalisation theory -- 3.1.3 Social exclusion in the community -- 3.1.4 From exclusion to social valorization -- 3.1.5 What lies between the asylum and the misinterpretation of domesticity: the need for a new paradigm -- 3.1.6 Safety and security -- 3.1.7 Competence -- 3.1.8 Personalisation and choice -- 3.2 The physical milieu of the psychiatric units -- 3.2.1 The interface with the community: location, scale and external appearance -- 3.2.2 Outdoor areas -- 3.2.3 Internal organisation of facilities -- 3.2.4 Decoration of facilities -- 3.2.5 Patterns -- 3.2.6 Colour -- 3.2.7 Light -- 3.2.8 Furniture and fittings -- 3.2.9 Dealing with tough budgets: small changes -- 3.3 Need for research -- 4 The physical context -- 4.1 The selection of cases.…”
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Graphene and carbon nanotubes : ultrafast relaxation dynamics and optics by Malic, Ermin

Table of Contents: “…3.3.6 Generation of a Femtosecond White-Light Continuum3.4 Single-Color and Two-Color Pump-Probe Experiments on Graphene; 3.4.1 Graphene Samples; 3.4.2 Review of Single-Color Experiments; 3.4.3 Review of Two-Color Experiments; Part One Electronic Properties -- Carrier Relaxation Dynamics; 4 Relaxation Dynamics in Graphene; 4.1 Experimental Studies; 4.1.1 High-Resolution Experiment in the Infrared; 4.1.2 Pump-Probe Experiment Close to the Dirac Point; 4.2 Relaxation Channels in Graphene; 4.2.1 Coulomb-Induced Relaxation Channels; 4.2.2 Auger Scattering Channels.…”
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Wilson Lines in Quantum Field Theory by Cherednikov, Igor Olegovich

Table of Contents: “…A.10 Local compactness and compactificationA. 11 Quotient topology; A.12 Fundamental group; A.13 Manifolds; A.14 Differential calculus; A.15 Stokes' theorem; A.16 Algebra: Rings and modules; A.17 Algebra: Ideals; A.18 Algebras; A.19 Hopf algebra; A.20 Topological, C*-, and Banach algebras; A.21 Nuclear multiplicative convex Hausdorff algebras and the Gel'fand spectrum; B Notations and conventions in quantum field theory; B.1 Vectors and tensors; B.2 Spinors and gamma matrices; B.3 Light-cone coordinates; B.4 Fourier transforms and distributions; B.5 Feynman rules for QCD; C Color algebra.…”
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Mastering Ansible - Second Edition. by Keating, Jesse

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Dynamic Resource Allocation in Embedded, High-Performance and Cloud Computing. by Indrusiak, Leando Soares

Table of Contents: “…4.2 Performing Runtime Admission Control and Load Balancing to Cope with Dynamic Workloads4.3 Experimental Results; 4.3.1 Number of Executed Tasks, Rejected Tasks and Schedulability Tests; 4.3.1.1 Periodic workload; 4.3.1.2 Random workload; 4.3.2 Dynamic Slack, Setpoint and Controller Output; 4.3.2.1 Periodic workload; 4.3.2.2 Light workload; 4.3.3 Core Utilization; 4.3.4 Case Study: IndustrialWorkload Having Dependent Jobs; 4.4 RelatedWork; 4.5 Summary; Chapter 5 -- Search-Based Heuristics for Modal Application; 5.1 System Model and Problem Formulation; 5.1.1 Application Model.…”
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Macro- to microscale heat transfer : the lagging behavior by Tzou, D. Y.

Table of Contents: “…3.6 Conductive and Thermodynamic Temperatures3.7 Kinetic Theory; References; 4 Temperature Pulses in Superfluid Liquid Helium; 4.1 Second Sound in Liquid Helium; 4.2 Experimental Observations; 4.3 Lagging Behavior; 4.4 Heating Pulse in Terms of Fluxes; 4.5 Overshooting Phenomenon of Temperature; 4.6 Longitudinal and Transverse Pulses; References; 5 Ultrafast Pulse-Laser Heating on Metal Films; 5.1 Experimental Observations; 5.2 Laser Light Intensity; 5.3 Microscopic Phonon-Electron Interaction Model; 5.4 Characteristic Times -- The Lagging Behavior; 5.5 Phase Lags in Metal Films.…”
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Optical networks and components : fundamentals and advances. Volume II, Advances in optical networks and components by Sahu, Partha Pratim (Writer on optical networks)

Table of Contents: “…2.2.6 M/G/1 Queues -- 2.2.7 M/G/1 Queues with Vacations -- 2.3 Networks of Queues -- 2.4 Time Reversibility -- Burke's Theorem -- 2.5 Interconnection with Other Networks -- 2.5.1 Gateways -- 2.5.2 Bridges -- 2.5.2.1 Spanning Bridges -- 2.5.2.2 Source Routing Bridges -- 2.5.2.3 Quality of Bridge Services -- 2.5.3 Routers -- 2.5.4 Repeaters -- Summary -- Exercises -- References -- Chapter 3 Routing and Wavelength Assignment -- 3.1 Light paths -- 3.2 LP Formulation of RWA and Its Reduction -- 3.2.1 Reduction of Size of LP Formulation -- 3.2.2 Randomized Rounding -- 3.2.3 Graph Coloring…”
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Forensic analytical techniques by Stuart, Barbara (Barbara H.)

Table of Contents: “…2.2.4 Gunshot Residue2.2.5 Explosives; 2.2.6 Paint; 2.2.7 Documents; 2.3 Density; 2.3.1 Methods; 2.3.2 Glass; 2.3.3 Soil; 2.3.4 Polymers; 2.4 Light Examination; 2.4.1 Methods; 2.4.2 Fingerprints; 2.4.3 Body fluids; 2.4.4 Documents; 2.5 Summary; References; Chapter 3 Microscopic Techniques; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Optical Microscopy; 3.2.1 Methods; 3.2.2 Interpretation; 3.2.3 Fibres; 3.2.4 Paint; 3.2.5 Drugs; 3.2.6 Glass; 3.2.7 Soil; 3.2.8 Documents; 3.2.9 Firearms; 3.3 Transmission Electron Microscopy; 3.3.1 Method; 3.3.2 Interpretation; 3.3.3 Paint; 3.4 Scanning Electron Microscopy.…”
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Fathers : three short films from contemporary Africa.

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Glassy Disordered Systems : Glass Formation and Universal Anomalous Low-Energy Properties by Klinger, Michael I.

Table of Contents: “…Negative-U centres model of photostructural changes in semiconducting glasses. 16.2. Gap-light frequency dependence. 16.3. Temperature dependence -- 17. …”
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Graphene

Table of Contents: “…Graphene; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; 1 Synthesis, Characterization, and Selected Properties of Graphene; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Synthesis of Single-Layer and Few-Layered Graphenes; 1.2.1 Mechanical Exfoliation; 1.2.2 Chemical Exfoliation; 1.2.3 Chemical Vapor Deposition; 1.2.4 Arc Discharge; 1.2.5 Reduction of Graphite Oxide; 1.3 Synthesis of Graphene Nanoribbons; 1.4 Selected Properties; 1.4.1 Magnetic Properties; 1.4.2 Electrical Properties; 1.4.2.1 Supercapacitors; 1.4.2.2 Photovoltaics and Photodetectors; 1.4.2.3 Field Emission and Blue Light Emission.…”
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Soil and Water Pollution Monitoring, Protection and Remediation by Twardowska, Irena

Table of Contents: “…Xenobiotic pharmaceuticals in water and methods to prevent their appearance in drinking water.Photolytic and Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceuticals -- 4.10. UV/VIS light-enhanced photocatalysis for water treatment and protection -- 4.11..New horizons in purification of liquids. …”
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Edge Computing with Amazon Web Services A Practical Guide to Architecting Secure Edge Cloud Infrastructure with AWS. by Howard, Sean

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Fish behavior. 1, Eco-ethology by Quignard, Jean-Pierre

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