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Chapter and Conference Paper
Exploring Hierarchical Medical Data stored as Multi-trees in a Relational Database
Modern healthcare and medical research increasingly rely on large amounts of medical data stored in complex databases. In our previous work we have proposed a relational database design pattern and a graphical...
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Chapter
Tracking Global Flows of E-Waste Additives by Using Substance Flow Analysis, with a Case Study in China
The ongoing process of globalization and global trade of products have been an important topic in media as well as in social and economic science. Overlaid by the well-known global trade pathways for feedstock...
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Chapter
Environmental Fate Models
The environmental fate of chemicals describes the processes by which chemicals move and are transformed into the environment. Environmental fate processes that should be addressed include: persistence in air, ...
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Chapter
Human and Environmental Impact Produced by E-Waste Releases at Guiyu Region (China)
Over the last decades, the amount of electronic waste (e-waste) has increased rapidly in the world. It has become one of the emerging problems of the twenty-first century. About 50–80% of e-waste from industri...
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Article
Global random walk modelling of transport in complex systems
The Global random walk algorithm performs simultaneously the tracking of large collections of particles and permits massive simulations at reasonable costs. Applications were developed for transport in systems...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the geometric structure of regular dilations
An important role in the spectacular progress made in the understanding of the spectral theory of nonselfadjoint operators is played by the results of B. Sz.-Nagy and C. Foiaş regarding the isometric dilation ...
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Chapter
The Maximal Function of Doubly Commuting Contractions
Let D be the open unit disc and T be the unit torus in the complex plane C. Denote by m the normalized Lebesgue measure on T and by m2 =m ⊗ m the normalized Lebesgue measure on the bidimensional torus T2. For a c...
