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SpriteBuilder is the fun and versatile game development environment that is a natural successor to Cocos2D, Cocos3D, and Chipmunk2D. In Learn SpriteBuilder for iOS Game Development, experienced game developer and author Steffen Itterheim shows you how to get the most out of SpriteBuilder to create a full-featured 2D action game that you can use as a basis for your own games.

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This volume presents the emerging applications of immersed boundary (IB) methods in computational mechanics and complex CFD calculations. It discusses formulations of different IB implementations and also demonstrates applications of these methods in a wide range of problems. It will be of special value to researchers and engineers as well as graduate students working on immersed boundary methods, specifically on recent developments and applications. The book can also be used as a supplementary textbook in advanced courses in computational fluid dynamics.

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English | ISBN: 9351501000 | 2015 | 307 pages | EPUB | 855 KB
This volume examines how various forms of governance have emerged in South Asia after colonialism, and the developmental and conflict-related challenges the region faces. Drawing from the contexts of India, Sri Lanka and Nepal, it highlights the degree of institutionalization of democracy.

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This book presents critical perspectives on the impacts of globalization in Africa with particular reference to the crisis of development and governance, the crisis of peace and security, and the environmental crisis. It explores both global and local factors that exacerbate these crises, and seeks solutions to these challenges. With a strong slant on African experience and perspectives, the book reveals that globalization has presented Africa with both challenges and opportunities for governance and existence in an increasingly inter-connected planet.

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English | ISBN: 1527505561 | 2018 | 405 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book derives from a symposium held at Cornell University in April 2014. The symposium explored development financing, which has become an important area of policy discussion in Africa and other developing areas in recent years. Using multifaceted and multidisciplinary analytical approaches, it considers the role of the banking system, the stock market, credit access, external aid, and sovereign wealth funds in the evolving development finance architecture. Further, the volume looks at Chinas role as an aid donor, the impact of BRICs partnerships in South Africa, the role of NEPAD in mobilizing resources for infrastructure development, and the links between law, trade, and regional integration. The study concurs with previous analyses that greater access to credit by the poor represents the most effective way of fighting poverty and raising the standards of living in Africa. Cornells Institute for African Development and the African Development Bank were cosponsors of the 2014 symposium.

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English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 502 Pages | ISBN : 3031465245 | 10.3 MB
This book proposes digitalization as a promising direction for green growth and sustainable development of the economy of Central Asia. It reveals the advanced and unique hands-on and case-based experience of Central Asia in ESG management with the involvement of digital technologies and provides practical recommendations on the extension of the use of digital technologies in ESG management of the development of the green economy in Central Asia.

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This book uses comparative case study methodology and extensive field work to examine and compare outcomes of four East African nations (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda) that implemented formal Information and Communications Technology policies in the 1990s. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book assesses the emergence of a new policy and technological arena from the turn of the millennium to the present. In addition to tracing the implementation and reception of these policies, Bowman considers to what extent the politics of infrastructure in four connected but distinct African nations have resulted in global participation and equitable distribution and access of infrastructure to all citizens, as well as the impact a recent history of war or peace have on the technological outcomes in these communities. The book provides us with invaluable new data on how policy and politics function in emerging democracies, and illuminates long-overlooked opportunities and conditions necessary for the distribution of new and potentially beneficial technologies in other developing countries.

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English | PDF (True) | 2023 (2024 Edition) | 337 Pages | ISBN : 3031372557 | 19.1 MB
This book comprises select proceedings of the 11th annual conference of Deep Foundations Institute of India, DFI India 2022, held during 15-17 September 2022 in Tirupati. The conference showcased advancements in deep foundation technologies through articles on research and case histories. The book presents papers on deep foundation and deep excavation technologies for metro and high-speed rail; innovative techniques and testing for geotechnical investigations; monitoring, performance, and the QA-QC of deep foundations; challenges to working and the impact of existing codes with respect to technical innovations in deep foundations; ground improvement techniques for mass stabilization; geotechnics for marine, near-shore, and coastal constructions; research, experimental and numerical methods in deep foundations and deep excavation technologies; mono-piles and other advanced deep foundation systems; deep foundations in coralline and carbonate rocks and other unique and interesting papers related to deep foundation themes.

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English | ISBN: 1498535666 | 2016 | 312 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
Many societal challenges defy simple solutions within the grasp of one academic discipline, a single type of organization, or a country acting alone. Such "wicked problems" require collaboration that crosses social, political, or geographic boundaries. Collaboration across boundaries is increasingly seen as a necessary way forward, whether for the cases of education, health care, community policing, or international trade. At the same time, collaboration poses its own challenges, and what is more, so too does crossing boundaries. Regardless of the skill set required to achieve a particular goal, collaboration and crossing boundaries make their own demands.

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English | ISBN: 9004500200 | 2021 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Controversies about History, Development and Revolution in Brazil is a critical history of Brazilian economic thought from the perspective of the country's own historical and political development in the 20th century bringing into question its consequences in the present day.