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1. |  By: Matthias Dehmer; Frank Emmert-Streib Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 17-AUG-2009 Insert Date: 12-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Analysis of Complex Networks
Mathematical problems such as graph theory problems are of increasing importance for the analysis of modelling data in biomedical research such as in systems biology, neuronal network modelling etc. This book follows a new approach of including graph theory from a mathematical perspective with specific applications of graph theory in biomedical and computational sciences. The book is written by renowned experts in the field and offers valuable background information for a wide audience.
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2. |  A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology By: Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis; Stig Andur Pedersen; Vincent F. Hendricks Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 05-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 12-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology
Drawing on essays from leading international and multi-disciplinary scholars, A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive and authoritative reference source to cover the key issues of technology's impact on society and our lives.
Presents the first complete, authoritative reference work in the field
Organized thematically for use both as a full introduction to the field or an encyclopedic reference
Draws on original essays from leading interdisciplinary scholars
Features the most up-to-date and cutting edge research in the interdisciplinary fields...
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3. |  The Psychology of Retirement: Coping with the Transition from Work By: Derek Milne Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 22-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 11-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Psychology of Retirement: Coping with the Transition from Work
The Psychology of Retirement is the first self-help guide to retirement based on highly proven psychological coping strategies.
Provides the most comprehensive and coherent account of the challenges of retirement and the associated aging process
Represents the culmination of over 30 years of clinical, teaching and research involvement in the main issues discussed within this book
Draws systematically on applied scientific theories, accepted professional circles, which are interpreted and communicated by an applied scientist
A constructive emphasis establishes the best...
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4. |  Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Second Edition By: Jonathan Pevsner Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 04-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 01-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Second Edition
The bestselling introduction to bioinformatics and functional genomics—now in an updated edition
Widely received in its previous edition, Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics offers the most broad-based introduction to this explosive new discipline. Now in a thoroughly updated and expanded Second Edition, it continues to be the go-to source for students and professionals involved in biomedical research.
This edition provides up-to-the-minute coverage of the fields of bioinformatics and genomics. Features new to this edition include:
Several fundamentally important proteins,...
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5. |  Structural Bioinformatics, 2nd Edition By: Jenny Gu; Philip E. Bourne Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 16-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 13-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Structural Bioinformatics, 2nd Edition
Structural Bioinformatics was the first major effort to show the application of the principles and basic knowledge of the larger field of bioinformatics to questions focusing on macromolecular structure, such as the prediction of protein structure and how proteins carry out cellular functions, and how the application of bioinformatics to these life science issues can improve healthcare by accelerating drug discovery and development. Designed primarily as a reference, the first edition nevertheless saw widespread use as a textbook in graduate and undergraduate university courses dealing...
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6. |  Practical Financial Optimization: A Library of GAMS Models By: Stavros Zenios; Andrea Consiglio; Soren S Nielson Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 09-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 13-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Practical Financial Optimization: A Library of GAMS Models
In Practical Financial Optimization: A Library of GAMS Models, the authors provide a diverse set of models for portfolio optimization, based on the General Algebraic Modelling System. 'GAMS' consists of a language which allows a high-level, algebraic representation of mathematical models and a set of solvers – numerical algorithms – to solve them. The system was developed in response to the need for powerful and flexible front-end tools to manage large, real-life models.
The work begins with an overview of the structure of the GAMS language, and discusses issues relating to the...
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7. |  Handbook of Gender, Work, and Organization By: Emma L Jeanes; David Knights,; Patricia Yancey Martin Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 17-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 07-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Handbook of Gender, Work, and Organization
This work of reference represents a remarkably complete, detailed and extensive review of the field of gender, work and organization in the second decade of the 21st century. Its authors represent eight countries and many disciplines including management, sociology, political science, and gender studies. The chapters, by top scholars in their areas of expertise, offer both reviews and empirical findings, and insights and challenges for further work. The chapters are organized in five sections: Histories and Philosophies; Organizing Work and the Gendered Organization; Embodiment;...
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8. |  Distributed Intelligence in Design By: Tuba Kocatürk; Benachir Medjdoub Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 01-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Distributed Intelligence in Design
The book contains the papers developed from the presentations at the Distributed Intelligence in Design Symposium, held in Salford in May 2009. In this context, Distributed Intelligence refers to the interdisciplinary knowledge of a range of different individuals in different organisations, with different backgrounds and experience, and the symposium discussed the media, technologies and behaviours required to support their successful collaboration.
The book focusses on:
how parametric and generative design media can be coupled with and managed alongside Building Information...
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9. |  PACS and Imaging Informatics: Basic Principles and Applications, Second Edition By: H. K. Huang, D.Sc., FRCR (Hon.), FAIMBE Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 12-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 22-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: PACS and Imaging Informatics: Basic Principles and Applications, Second Edition
The definitive guide to PACS — now with more clinically applicable material
In recent years, the field of picture archiving and communications systems—PACS—and image informatics has advanced due to both conceptual and technological advancements. This edition of PACS and Imaging Informatics: Basic Principles and Applications addresses the latest in this exciting field. In contrast to the previous edition, this updated text uses the framework of image informatics, not physics or engineering principles, to explain PACS. It is the only resource that thoroughly covers the critical issues of...
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10. |  Preventing Stress in Organizations: How to Develop Positive Managers By: Emma Donaldson-Feilder; Joanna Yarker; Rachel Lewis Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 07-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Preventing Stress in Organizations: How to Develop Positive Managers
Preventing Stress in Organizations: How to Develop Positive Managers offers an innovative, evidence-based approach to help managers prevent and reduce workplace stress in their staff.
Provides information on the critical skills managers must develop in order to prevent stress in their staff, and the key ongoing behaviours that promote a healthy work environment
Shows practitioners in occupational psychology, HR, Health and Safety and related professions how positive management can be integrated into an organization???s existing practices and processes
Serves as an essential...
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11. |  Effective Teamwork: Practical Lessons from Organizational Research, Third Edition By: Michael A. West Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 21-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 06-APR-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Effective Teamwork: Practical Lessons from Organizational Research, Third Edition
Updated to reflect the latest research evidence, the third edition of Effective Teamwork provides business managers with the necessary guidance and tools to build and maintain effective teamwork strategies.
A new edition of a bestselling book on teamwork from an acknowledged leader in the field
Offers a unique integration of rigorous research with practical guidance to develop effective leadership teams
Features new chapters on virtual teams and top management teams, plus contemporary themes of ethics and values
Utilizes research based on positive psychology techniques
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12. |  Organizational Change: Creating Change Through Strategic Communication By: Laurie K. Lewis Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 03-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 17-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Organizational Change: Creating Change Through Strategic Communication
Organizational Change integrates major empirical, theoretical and conceptual approaches to implementing communication in organizational settings. Laurie Lewis ties together the disparate literatures in management, education, organizational sociology, and communication to explore how the practices and processes of communication work in real-world cases of change implementation.
Gives a bold and comprehensive overview of communication research and ideas on change and those who bring it about
Fills in an important piece of the applied communication puzzle as it relates to...
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13. |  Digital Universe: The Global Telecommunication Revolution By: Peter B. Seel Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 13-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 07-JAN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Digital Universe: The Global Telecommunication Revolution
For the student and general reader, a tour of the digital universe that offers critical observations and new perspectives on human communication and intelligence.
Traces the development and diffusion of digital information and communication technologies, providing an analysis of trans-cultural effects among developed and developing nations
Provides a balanced analysis of the pros and cons of the adoption and diffusion of digital technologies
Explores privacy, censorship, the digital divide, online games, and virtual and augmented realities
Follows a thematic structure,...
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14. |  By: Sarah Lewis Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 15-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 23-SEP-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Positive Psychology at Work brings the fields of positive psychology and appreciative inquiry together for the first time to provide leaders and change agents with a powerful new approach to achieving organizational excellence.Draws together positive psychology and appreciative inquiry in the context of leadership organizational challenges for the first timePresents academically rigorous and referenced material in a jargon-free, accessible mannerArranged with chapters focused on specific organizational challenges to allow readers to quickly find ideas relevant to their unique...
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15. |  Software Performance and Scalability: A Quantitative Approach By: Henry H. Liu Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 26-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 11-APR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Software Performance and Scalability: A Quantitative Approach
Praise from the Reviewers:
"The practicality of the subject in a real-world situation distinguishes this book from others available on the market."
—Professor Behrouz Far, University of Calgary
"This book could replace the computer organization texts now in use that every CS and CpE student must take. . . . It is much needed, well written, and thoughtful."
—Professor Larry Bernstein, Stevens Institute of Technology
A distinctive, educational text onsoftware performance and scalability
This is the first book to take a quantitative approach to the subject of software performance...
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16. |  The Handbook of Technology and Innovation Management By: Scott Shane Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 14-JUL-2009 Insert Date: 08-APR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Handbook of Technology and Innovation Management
This timely handbook represents the latest thinking in the field of technology and innovation management, with an up-to-date overview of the key developments in the field.
The editor provides with a critical, introductory essay that establishes the theoretical framework for studying technology and innovation management
The book will include 15-20 original essays by leading authors chosen for their key contribution to the field
These chapters chart the important debates and theoretical issues under 3 or 4 thematic headings
The handbook concludes with an essay by the Editor...
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17. |  Encyclopedia of Technology and Innovation Management By: V. K. Narayanan; Gina Colarelli O'Connor Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 08-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 24-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Encyclopedia of Technology and Innovation Management
A broadly encompassing encyclopedia on the emerging topic of technology, innovation and management (TIM), this volume covers a wide array of topics. We note that TIM is an emerging field and one that is interdisciplinary, incorporating strategy and entrepreneurship, economics, marketing, organizational behavior, organization theory, physical and life sciences, and even law. We strive to ensure that all of these disciplines are represented in this volume, and that their intersections are made clear.
Entries are contributed by scholars from around the world who are leading experts in their...
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