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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2009, held in Huangshan, China, in June 2009. The 50 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The papers feature original research in the areas of combinatorial optimization - both theoretical issues and and applications motivated by real-world problems thus showing convincingly the usefulness and efficiency of the algorithms discussed in a practical setting.
Data mining aims at finding interesting, useful or profitable information in very large databases. The enormous increase in the size of available scientific and commercial databases (data avalanche) as well as the continuing and exponential growth in performance of present day computers make data mining a very active field. In many cases, the burgeoning volume of data sets has grown so large that it threatens to overwhelm rather than enlighten scientists. Therefore, traditional methods are revised and streamlined, complemented by many new methods to address challenging new problems. Mathematical Programming plays a key role in this endeavor. It helps us to formulate precise objectives (e.g.,...
Honor related violence is generally associated with crimes committed by people from the Middle East and adjacent areas. Perpetrators sometimes justify their deeds saying they ‘had to’ restore their honor. Theorists have argued that men from these populations exclusively correlate honor with the behaviour of their womenfolk, which they use as a pretext to further oppress and dominate women. Due to large-scale migration, western societies have become acquainted with honor related violence and honor killings. In this book, Robert Ermers addresses a number of questions related to honor related violence, including the use of predominantly negative frames regarding the cultural and social back...
Agriculture has experienced a dramatic change during the past decades. The change has been structural and technological. Structural changes can be seen in the size of current farms; not long ago, agricultural production was organized around small farms, whereas nowadays the agricultural landscape is dominated by large farms. Large farms have better means of applying new technologies, and therefore technological advances have been a driving force in changing the farming structure. New technologies continue to emerge, and their mastery and use in requires that farmers gather more information and make more complex technological choices. In particular, the advent of the Internet has opened vast ...
Healthcare, a vital industry that touches most of us in our lives, faces major challenges in demographics, technology, and finance. Longer life expectancy and an aging population, technological advancements that keep people younger and healthier, and financial issues area constant strain on healthcare organizations' resources and management. Focusing on the organization's ability to improve access, quality, and value of care to the patient may present possible solutions to these challenges. The Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems provides an extensive and rich compilation of international research, discussing the use, adoption, design, and diffusion of information communication technologies (ICTs) in healthcare, including the role of ICTs in the future of healthcare delivery; access, quality, and value of healthcare; nature and evaluation of medical technologies; ethics and social implications; and medical information management.
Over 160,000 words, phrases and proverbs have been fully defined by definitions, translations and idiomatic equivalents. The dictionary includes colloquial and slang words as well as technical terms.
Focusing on a healthcare organization's ability to improve access, quality, and value of care to the patient, this volume provides an extensive and rich compilation of international research which discusses the use, adoption, design, and diffusion of information communication technologies (ICTs) in healthcare.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Politische Soziologie, Majoritäten, Minoritäten, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1,0, Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg im Breisgau, Veranstaltung: Kultur und Konflikt, 21 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Hausarbeit werde ich mich mit dem "Ehrbegriff" und der Bedeutung der Ehre für Migranten in Deutschland beschäftigen. Ich werde speziell auf die Migrantengruppe türkischer Herkunft eingehen, weil Migranten türkischer Herkunft 1. die größte nicht-deutsche Bevölkerungsgruppe in Deutschland bilden. Und 2. weil viele der Jugendlichen bzw. auch Erwachsenen mit türkischem Migrationshintergrund sic...
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Familie, Frauen, Männer, Sexualität, Geschlechter, Note: gut, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 76 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Diplomarbeit möchte ein klareres Bild über die immanenten Normen und Wertvorstellungen, die besonders auf der jeweiligen Gewichtung des Wertes von "Ehre" basieren, von türkischen Migranten und Migrantinnen in Deutschland liefern.