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Record Nr.

UNISA996466032703316

Titolo

Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications [[electronic resource] ] : 6th International Conference, WASA 2011, Chengdu, China, August 11-13, 2011, Proceedings / / edited by Yu Cheng, Do Young Eun, Zhiguang Qin, Min Song, Kai Xing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2011

ISBN

3-642-23490-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 434 p. 157 illus., 102 illus. in color.)

Collana

Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 6843

Disciplina

005.1

Soggetti

Algorithms

Computer networks

Application software

Software engineering

Electronic digital computers—Evaluation

Information storage and retrieval systems

Computer Communication Networks

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Software Engineering

System Performance and Evaluation

Information Storage and Retrieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Annual International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2011, held in Chengdu, China, in August 2011. The 26 revised full papers and 13 invited papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers address all current trends, challenges, and state of the art solutions related to various issues in wireless networks. Topics of interests include, but not limited to, effective and efficient state-of-the-art



algorithm design and analysis, reliable and secure system development and implementations, experimental study and test bed validation, and new application exploration in wireless networks.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958788203321

Autore

Steinmetz George <1957->

Titolo

The devil's handwriting : precoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa / / George Steinmetz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007

ISBN

9786611966553

9781281966551

128196655X

9780226772448

0226772446

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (677 p.)

Collana

Chicago studies in practices of meaning

Disciplina

325/.343

Soggetti

Imperialism

Germany Colonies History

Germany Foreign relations 1888-1918

Germany Colonies Race relations

Qingdao (China) History

Germany Foreign relations China

China Foreign relations Germany

Samoa History

Namibia History 1884-1915

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-603) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Ethnography and the Colonial State -- Chapter 2. "A World Composed almost Entirely of Contradictions": Southwest Africans in German Eyes, before Colonialism -- Chapter 3. From Native Policy to Genocide to



Eugenics: German Southwest Africa -- Chapter 4. "A Foreign Race That All Travelers Have Agreed to be the Most Engaging": The Creation of the Samoan Noble Savage, by Way of Tahiti -- Chapter 5. "The Spirit of the German Nation at Work in the Antipodes": German Colonialism in Samoa, 1900-1914 -- Chapter 6. The Foreign Devil's Handwriting: German Views of China before "Kiautschou" -- Chapter 7. A Pact with the (Foreign) Devil: Qingdao as a Colony -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Colonial Afterlives -- Appendix 1: A Note on Sources and Procedures -- Appendix 2: Head Administrators of German Southwest Africa, Samoa, and Kiaochow -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Germany's overseas colonial empire was relatively short lived, lasting from 1884 to 1918. During this period, dramatically different policies were enacted in the colonies: in Southwest Africa, German troops carried out a brutal slaughter of the Herero people; in Samoa, authorities pursued a paternalistic defense of native culture; in Qingdao, China, policy veered between harsh racism and cultural exchange.Why did the same colonizing power act in such differing ways? In The Devil's Handwriting, George Steinmetz tackles this question through a brilliant cross