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UNISA996466032703316 |
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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 |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2011 |
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[1st ed. 2011.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XIV, 434 p. 157 illus., 102 illus. in color.) |
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Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, , 2512-2029 ; ; 6843 |
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Disciplina |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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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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UNINA9910958788203321 |
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Steinmetz George <1957-> |
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The devil's handwriting : precoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa / / George Steinmetz |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 |
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9786611966553 |
9781281966551 |
128196655X |
9780226772448 |
0226772446 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (677 p.) |
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Chicago studies in practices of meaning |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-603) and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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