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Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering

By: Lawrence Chung,Brian A. Nixon,Eric Yu,John Mylopoulos

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Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering

By: Lawrence Chung,Brian A. Nixon,Eric Yu,John Mylopoulos

Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering presents a systematic and pragmatic approach to `building quality into' software systems. Systems must exhibit software quality attributes, such as accuracy, performance, security and modifiability. However, such non-functional requirements (NFRs) are difficult to address in many projects, even though there are many techniques to meet functional requirements in order to provide desired functionality. This is particularly true since the NFRs for each system typically interact with each other, have a broad impact on the system and may be subjective. To enable developers to systematically deal with a system's diverse NFRs, this book presents the NFR Framework. Structured graphical facilities are offered for stating NFRs and managing them by refining and inter-relating NFRs, justifying decisions, and determining their impact. Since NFRs might not be absolutely achieved, they may simply be satisfied sufficiently (`satisficed'). To reflect this, NFRs are represented as `softgoals', whose interdependencies, such as tradeoffs and synergy, are captured in graphs. The impact of decisions is qualitatively propagated through the graph to determine how well a chosen target system satisfices its NFRs. Throughout development, developers direct the process, using their expertise while being aided by catalogues of knowledge about NFRs, development techniques and tradeoffs, which can all be explored, reused and customized. Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering demonstrates the applicability of the NFR Framework to a variety of NFRs, domains, system characteristics and application areas. This will help readers apply the Framework to NFRs and domains of particular interest to them. Detailed treatments of particular NFRs - accuracy, security and performance requirements - along with treatments of NFRs for information systems are presented as specializations of the NFR Framework. Case studies of NFRs for a variety of information systems include credit card and administrative systems. The use of the Framework for particular application areas is illustrated for software architecture as well as enterprise modelling. Feedback from domain experts in industry and government provides an initial evaluation of the Framework and some case studies. Drawing on research results from several theses and refereed papers, this book's presentation, terminology and graphical notation have been integrated and illustrated with many figures. Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering is an excellent resource for software engineering practitioners, researchers and students.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461552699

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A Bygone Yesterday: a Family Story

By: Lawrence Freund

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A Bygone Yesterday: a Family Story

By: Lawrence Freund

A Bygone Yesterday is a remembrance written by a grandson of Samuel and Louise Freund, detailing their roots in 19th century Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) and their shoots in the New World, from New York Citys Yorkville neighborhood to Chicago and Florida. It is the history of one couple that stepped aboard a train in Central Europe on a spring day in 1891 and began a journey that would transform their lives and the lives of their descendants. Yet, at the same time, the books broad scope creates a biographical collage, putting flesh on a broad sweep of history. A Bygone Yesterday explores the lives of Samuel and Louise Freund, their ancestors, descendants and kinfolk, as well as the social and historic context of the times in which they lived, touching on, among other things, the restrictive and discriminatory family laws of 19th century Bohemia, early 20th century life in the Yorkville enclave of New York City, the tragedy of the Holocaust and the ultimate triumph of a warm and embracing family life.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499078854

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9781499078855

The Pope's Rhinoceros

By: Lawrence Norfolk

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The Pope's Rhinoceros

By: Lawrence Norfolk

“The acclaimed author of Lemprière’s Dictionary furnishes another richly textured romp steeped in history, legend, and excitement.” —Booklist The Pope’s Rhinoceros is a vivid, antic, and picaresque novel spun around one of history’s most bizarre chapters: the sixteenth-century attempt to procure a rhinoceros as a bribe for Pope Leo X. In February 1516, a Portuguese ship sank off the coast of Italy. The Nostra Senora de Ajuda had sailed fourteen thousand miles from the Indian kingdom of Gujarat. Her mission: to bribe the “pleasure-loving Pope” into favoring expansionist Portugal over her rival Spain with the most exotic and least likely of gifts — a living rhinoceros. Moving from the herring colonies of the Baltic Sea to the West African rain forest, with a cast of characters including an order of reclusive monks and Rome’s corrupt cardinals, courtesans, ambassadors, and nobles, The Pope’s Rhinoceros is at once a fantastic adventure tale and a portrait of an age rushing headlong to its crisis. “An exhausting banquet of a book . . . One of the most original, energetic, and ambitious novels of recent years.” —Kirkus Reviews “Mr. Norfolk’s heady originality and intellectual energy are apparent on every page.” —The New York Times Book Review

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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0802199429

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Renaissance Rhetoric Short-title Catalogue 1460-1700

By: Lawrence D. Green,James Jerome Murphy

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Renaissance Rhetoric Short-title Catalogue 1460-1700

By: Lawrence D. Green,James Jerome Murphy

The most accurate inventory of Renaissance rhetoric yet attempted, this substantially revised and expanded volume provides a complete list of the printed sources for study of the pervasive influence of rhetoric on Renaissance culture. It includes 1,717 authors and 3,842 rhetorical titles in 12,325 printings, published in 310 towns and cities by 3,340 printers and publishers from Finland to Mexico prior to 1700. The catalogue is presented in alphabetical order by author surnames, with place, printer, date, and library locations for each publication. An extensive introduction explores the state of bibliography in Renaissance rhetoric today.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754605094

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Brain Science under the Swastika

Ethical Violations, Resistance, and Victimization of Neuroscientists in Nazi Europe

By: Lawrence A. Zeidman

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Brain Science under the Swastika

Ethical Violations, Resistance, and Victimization of Neuroscientists in Nazi Europe

By: Lawrence A. Zeidman

Eighty years ago the largest genocide ever occurred in Nazi Europe. This began with the mass extermination of patients with neurologic and psychiatric disorders that Hitler's regime considered "useless eaters". The neuropsychiatric profession was systematically "cleansed" beginning in 1933, but racism and eugenics had infiltrated the specialty long before that. With the installation of Nazi-principled neuroscientists, mass forced sterilization was enacted, which transitioned to patient murder by the start of World War II. But the murder of roughly 275,000 patients was not enough. The patients' brains were stored and used in scientific publications both during and long after the war. Also, patients themselves were used for unethical experiments. Relatively few neuroscientists resisted the Nazis, with some success in the occupied countries. Most neuroscientists involved in unethical actions continued their careers unscathed after the war. Few answered for their actions, and few repented. The legacy of such a depraved era in the history of neuroscience and medical ethics is that codes now exist to protect patients and research subjects. But this protection is possibly subject to political extremes and individual neuroscientists can only protect patients and colleagues if they understand the dangers of a utilitarian, unethical, and uncompassionate mindset. Brain Science under the Swastika is the only comprehensive and scholarly published work regarding the ethical and professional abuses of neuroscientists during the Nazi era. The author has crafted a scathing tour de force exploring the extremes of ethical abuse, but also ways that this can be resisted and hopefully prevented by future generations of neuroscientists and physicians

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Oxford University Press

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0191044350

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A New Year’s Present from a Mathematician

By: Snezana Lawrence

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A New Year’s Present from a Mathematician

By: Snezana Lawrence

Longlisted for the BSHS Hughes Prize 2021 A New Year’s Present from a Mathematician is an exciting book dedicated to two questions: What is it that mathematicians do? And who gets to be called a ‘mathematician’ and why? This book seeks to answer these questions through a series of stories ranging from the beginning of modern mathematics through to the 20th century, but not in a usual, chronological manner. The author weaves her story around major questions concerning nature of mathematics, and links mathematicians by the substance of their ideas and the historical and personal context in which they were developed. Ideal as a gift for anyone with an interest in mathematics, this book gives a powerful insight into mathematical concepts in an easy-to-read-and-digest manner, without trivializing their nature. The attention given to engaging examples, framed within a poetic narrative structure, means that this book can be enjoyed by almost anyone, regardless of their level of mathematical education.

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CRC Press

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1000734870

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Dating the Four Gospels

By: Lawrence A. Murray

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Dating the Four Gospels

By: Lawrence A. Murray

Dating the Four Gospels This monograph begins by reviewing the various Higher Critical Analyses that tend to hold that Mark wrote first, that Matthew and Luke copied him, that John's works were probably not written by the Apostle John, and that Matthew and Luke were written long after the prophesied destruction of Jerusalem by non eye or earwitnesses. This author looks only at internal evidence within the four gospels. By comparing more than 100 verses and passages in them, he deduces that the hypothesized ""Q"" written document does not exist, and that the source is very likely the common-developed oral gospel preached by the twelve apostles from 31 to 42 AD. From these comparisons he shows the authors were first Matthew then Mark then Luke, then John, and that the three Synoptics were all written down in Greek well before 70 AD.

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Sts. Jude imPress

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0972214968

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9780972214964

Illuminating the Word in the Early Middle Ages

By: Lawrence Nees

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Illuminating the Word in the Early Middle Ages

By: Lawrence Nees

This richly illustrated study addresses the essential first steps in the development of the new phenomenon of the illuminated book, which innovatively introduced colourful large letters and ornamental frames as guides for the reader's access to the text. Tracing their surprising origins within late Roman reading practices, Lawrence Nees shows how these decorative features stand as ancestors to features of printed and electronic books we take for granted today, including font choice, word spacing, punctuation and sentence capitalisation. Two hundred photographs, nearly all in colour, illustrate and document the decisive change in design from ancient to medieval books. Featuring an extended discussion of the importance of race and ethnicity in twentieth-century historiography, this book argues that the first steps in the development of this new style of book were taken on the European continent within classical practices of reading and writing, and not as, usually presented, among the non-Roman 'barbarians'.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009239554

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The Roman Monster

An Icon of the Papal Antichrist In Reformation Polemics

By: Lawrence Buck

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The Roman Monster

An Icon of the Papal Antichrist In Reformation Polemics

By: Lawrence Buck

In December 1495 the Tiber River flooded the city of Rome causing extensive drowning and destruction. When the water finally receded, a rumor began to circulate that a grotesque monstrosity had been discovered in the muddy detritus—the Roman monster. The creature itself is inherently fascinating, consisting of an eclectic combination of human and animal body parts. The symbolism of these elements, the interpretations that religious controversialists read into them, and the history of the image itself, help to document antipapal polemics from fifteenth-century Rome to the Elizabethan religious settlement. This study examines the iconography of the image of the Roman monster and offers ideological reasons for associating the image with the pre-Reformation Waldensians and Bohemian Brethren. It accounts for the reproduction and survival of the monster's image in fifteenth-century Bohemia and provides historical background on the topos of the papal Antichrist, a concept that Philip Melanchthon associated with the monster. It contextualizes Melanchthon’s tract, “The Pope-Ass Explained,” within the first five years of the Lutheran movement, and it documents the popularity of the Roman monster within the polemical and apocalyptic writings of the Reformation. This is a careful examination and interpretation of all relevant primary documents and secondary historical literature in telling the story of the origins and impact of the most famous monstrous portent of the Reformation era.

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Penn State Press

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0271090995

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9780271090993

Anglo-Hispania beyond the Black Legend

British Campaigns, Travellers and Attitudes towards Spain since 1489

By: Mark Lawrence

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Anglo-Hispania beyond the Black Legend

British Campaigns, Travellers and Attitudes towards Spain since 1489

By: Mark Lawrence

This book traces and analyses the relationship between Britain and Spain in its various forms since 1489. So often viewed as antagonistic rivals in history, the two countries are here compared and contrasted in order to shed light on their international connection and how this has evolved over time. Mark Lawrence reflects on the similarities of their composite monarchies, their roles as successive projectors of European global power, and the common fondness for peculiarly patriotic expressions of Christianity through the ages. At the same time, Lawrence is alert to recognising other ways in which Britain and Spain have seemed worlds apart in their respective corners of the European continent. He examines how British Protestants excoriated Spain in a 'Black Legend', while Catholic propagandists dismissed rising English power as the work of pirates and heretics during the early modern period. In a series of chronological chapters rich with a diverse range of sources, Anglo-Hispania beyond the Black Legend considers the cultural exchanges which flourished amidst the growth of travel and new ideas in the 18th century, the surprising alliances of the 19th century and the shared international causes of the 20th. Whereas Spaniards feared or admired Britain for its successful political and fiscal system, the book convincingly argues, Britons romanticised Iberia for its supposed failures. It ultimately concludes that British campaigns in the 1700s and 1800s established a Romantic Spain in memoir culture which the 20th century gradually dissolved in the ideological cauldron of the 1930s and the advent of mass tourism.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350366242

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9781350366244

The Oxford Movement and Its Leaders

A Bibliography of Secondary and Lesser Primary Sources

By: Lawrence N. Crumb

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The Oxford Movement and Its Leaders

A Bibliography of Secondary and Lesser Primary Sources

By: Lawrence N. Crumb

The Oxford Movement began in the Church of England in 1833 and extended to the rest of the Anglican Communion, influencing other denominations as well. It was an attempt to remind the church of its divine authority, independent of the state, and to recall it to its Catholic heritage deriving from the ancient and medieval periods, as well as the Caroline Divines of 17th-century England. The Oxford Movement and Its Leaders is a comprehensive bibliography of books, pamphlets, chapters in books, periodical articles, manuscripts, microforms, and tape recordings dealing with the Movement and its influence on art, literature, and music, as well as theology; authors include scholars in these fields, as well as the fields of history, political science, and the natural sciences. The first edition of The Oxford Movement and Its Leaders and its supplement contained comprehensive coverage through 1983 and 1990, respectively. The Second Edition, with over 8,000 citations covering many languages, extends coverage through 2001; it also includes many earlier items not previously listed, corrections and additions to earlier items, and a listing of electronic sources.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810862808

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9780810862807

The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 1636-1691

By: Lawrence M Principe

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The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 1636-1691

By: Lawrence M Principe

Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was one of the most influential scientific and theological thinkers of his time. This is the first edition of his correspondence, transcribed from the original manuscripts. It is fully annotated, with an introduction and general index and is a set of 6 volumes covering the period of 1636 to 1691

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Taylor & Francis

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100053121X

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An Ethnography of the Gospel of Matthew

A Critical Assessment of the Use of the Honour and Shame Model in New Testament Studies

By: Louise Joy Lawrence

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An Ethnography of the Gospel of Matthew

A Critical Assessment of the Use of the Honour and Shame Model in New Testament Studies

By: Louise Joy Lawrence

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Exeter, U.K., 2002.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161480848

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9783161480843

Salvation and Spiritual Growth, Level 1

For New Converts

By: Dr. June H. Lawrence

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Salvation and Spiritual Growth, Level 1

For New Converts

By: Dr. June H. Lawrence

This text entitled Salvation and Spiritual Growth is a text book that can be used for: A New Converts Classroom or self teaching Church Bible Class or Bible School course What makes Salvation and Spiritual Growth inique is: It allows you to create your own thoughts, through thought questions. The authors answers for each question, combines as a book within a book, in the back of the book Therefore, if you need a self taught book on the following topics, purchase Salvation and Spiritual Growth: Salvation, defined as past, present and the heavenly future, with its purpose. How to resist temptation, presented through, sin, flesh and the Devil What it means to possess and use the Fruit of the Spirit. The importance and what it means to have on the Whole Armor of God

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1463418671

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Race, Modernity, Postmodernity

A Look at the History and the Literatures of People of Color Since the 1960s

By: W. Lawrence Hogue

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Race, Modernity, Postmodernity

A Look at the History and the Literatures of People of Color Since the 1960s

By: W. Lawrence Hogue

Reads and interprets eight works of literature by people of color, foregrounding the philosophical debate about modernity vs. postmodernity rather than solely issues of race.

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SUNY Press

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0791430960

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9780791430965

One Family Under God

Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism

By: Anna M. Lawrence

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One Family Under God

Love, Belonging, and Authority in Early Transatlantic Methodism

By: Anna M. Lawrence

Originally a sect within the Anglican church, Methodism blossomed into a dominant mainstream religion in America during the nineteenth century. At the beginning, though, Methodists constituted a dissenting religious group whose ideas about sexuality, marriage, and family were very different from those of their contemporaries. Focusing on the Methodist notion of family that cut across biological ties, One Family Under God speaks to historical debates over the meaning of family and how the nuclear family model developed over the eighteenth century. Historian Anna M. Lawrence demonstrates that Methodists adopted flexible definitions of affection and allegiance and emphasized extended communal associations that enabled them to incorporate people outside the traditional boundaries of family. They used the language of romantic, ecstatic love to describe their religious feelings and the language of the nuclear family to describe their bonds to one another. In this way, early Methodism provides a useful lens for exploring eighteenth-century modes of family, love, and authority, as Methodists grappled with the limits of familial and social authority in their extended religious family. Methodists also married and formed conjugal families within this larger spiritual framework. Evangelical modes of marriage called for careful, slow courtships, and often marriages happened later in life and produced fewer children. Religious views of the family offered alternatives to traditional coupling and marriage—through celibacy, spiritual service, and the idea of finding one's true spiritual match, which both challenged the role of parental authority within marriage-making and accelerated the turn within the larger society toward romantic marriage. By examining the language and practice of evangelical sexuality and family, One Family Under God highlights how the Methodist movement in the eighteenth century was central to the rise of romantic marriage and the formation of the modern family.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812204174

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9780812204179

Renewable Energy Integration

Practical Management of Variability, Uncertainty, and Flexibility in Power Grids

By: Lawrence E. Jones

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Renewable Energy Integration

Practical Management of Variability, Uncertainty, and Flexibility in Power Grids

By: Lawrence E. Jones

Renewable Energy Integration: Practical Management of Variability, Uncertainty, and Flexibility in Power Grids, Second Edition, offers a distilled examination of the intricacies of integrating renewables into power grids and electricity markets. It offers informed perspectives from internationally renowned experts on related challenges and solutions based on demonstrated best practices developed by operators around the world. The book's focus on practical implementation of strategies provides real-world context for the theoretical underpinnings and the development of supporting policy frameworks. The second edition considers myriad integration issues, thus ensuring that grid operators with low or high penetration of renewable generation can leverage the best practices achieved by their peers. It includes revised chapters from the first edition as well as new chapters. - Lays out the key issues around the integration of renewables into power grids and markets, from the intricacies of operational and planning considerations to supporting regulatory and policy frameworks. - Provides updated global case studies that highlight the challenges of renewables integration and present field-tested solutions and new Forewords from Europe, United Arab Emirates, and United States. - Illustrates technologies to support the management of variability, uncertainty, and flexibility in power grids.

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012809768X

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