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Africa and the Deep Seabed Regime: Politics And International Law Of The Common Heritage Of Mankind
by Edwin EgedeThis book seeks to fill a gap in the existing literature by examining the role of African States in the development and establishment of the regime of the deep seabed beyond national jurisdiction (the Area) and the concept of the Common Heritage of Mankind.
Statistics for Non-Statisticians
by Birger MadsenThis book was written for those who need to know how to collect, analyze and present data. It is meant to be a first course for practitioners, a book for private study or brush-up on statistics, and supplementary reading for general statistics classes. The book is untraditional, both with respect to the choice of topics and the presentation. The topics were determined by what is most useful for practical statistical work: even experienced statisticians will find new topics or new approaches to traditional topics. The presentation is as non-mathematical as possible. Mathematical formulae are presented only if they are necessary for calculations and/or add to readers' understanding. A sample survey is developed as a realistic example throughout the book, and many further examples are presented, which also use data spreadsheets from a supplementary website.
Laser Processing and Chemistry
by Dieter BäuerleLaser Processing and Chemistry gives an overview of the fundamentals and applications of laser-matter interactions, in particular with regard to laser material processing. Special attention is given to laser-induced physical and chemical processes at gas-solid, liquid-solid, and solid-solid interfaces. Starting with the background physics, the book proceeds to examine applications of laser techniques in micro-machining, and the patterning, coating, and modification of material surfaces. This fourth edition has been revised and enlarged to cover new topics such as 3D microfabrication, advances in nanotechnology, ultrafast laser technology and laser chemical processing (LCP). Graduate students, physicists, chemists, engineers, and manufacturers alike will find this book an invaluable reference work on laser processing.
Zukunftsfähige Wirtschaftspolitik für Deutschland und Europa
by Paul J.J. WelfensNach der Bankenkrise stehen Deutschland und die Europäische Union vor einer Reihe wirtschaftlicher Herausforderungen. Die Autoren liefern in ihren Beiträgen eine einzigartige Bestandsaufnahme der deutschen und europäischen Wirtschaftspolitik und analysieren die Reformoptionen für die Sozial-, Währungs- und Umweltpolitik. Ihr Fazit: Zielkonflikte im Bereich Wachstum, Beschäftigung und Umweltmodernisierung lassen sich durch geeignete Politikansätze minimieren. Nur durch solche innovativen Ansätze kann nachhaltiges Wachstum erreicht werden.
Lexikon - Begutachtung in der Medizin
by Marcus Schiltenwolf Markus SchwarzGutachten für Körperschaften und Gerichte zu erstellen, gehört zu den ärztlichen Pflichten. Aus medizinischer Sicht sind die von Juristen formulierten Anforderungen kaum verständlich, genauso wie für Nichtmediziner die Ausdrucksweise in medizinischen Gutachten oft missverständlich ist. Der von einem Autorenteam aus Juristen und Medizinern geschriebene Band bietet Hilfestellung bei der schwierigen Kommunikation zwischen Medizinern und Juristen. In alphabetischer Reihenfolge finden Leser alle relevanten Begriffe präzise und verständlich erläutert.
Essence of a Manager
by Krishna PillaiWhat makes a "good" manager? This is a book by a manager about managers but it is not just for managers. It is for anyone and for everyone who is interested in the way people - and not just managers - behave and function around the world. Based on actual experience the title "Essence of a Manager" is a succinct distillation of what this book is about. It is not a management manual and yet it is a map for navigation and a guide for behavior which can be valuable for practicing managers at all levels. It formulates a sound thesis to describe the qualities needed in a "good" manager and builds up from elemental qualities to develop a holistic view of a good manager. Nine fundamental attributes are proposed as being necessary and sufficient to describe a "good" manager. It is applied management philosophy for a thinking manager and deals with the fundamental drivers which lie deeper than language or culture and which control human behavior.
Heart Rate and Rhythm
by Michael C. Sanguinetti Onkar N. Tripathi Ursula RavensPathological heart rhythms are a major health issue. In this book experts from various fields provide an important context for understanding the complicated molecular and cellular mechanisms that underlie normal and pathophysiological cardiac rhythms. Individual chapters cover a full range of topics, including the ionic basis of pacemaking, the role of specific channels and transporters in sinoatrial node pacemaking, altered intracellular Ca2+ handling in response to disease, computer modeling of the action potentials of pacemaker and working cardiomyocytes, genetic and molecular basis of inherited arrhythmias and a review of established and novel antiarrhythmic agents. Due to the key importance of the specialized pacemaker cells and tissue (sinoatrial and atrioventricular nodes) in maintaining heart rate and rhythm, special emphasis is placed on the peculiar electrophysiology of these cells.
Supply Chain Finance Solutions: Relevance - Propositions - Market Value
by Erik Hofmann Oliver BelinThe book "Supply Chain Finance Solutions" offers orientation in the new discipline of Supply Chain Finance (SCF) by investigating the need for and nature of SCF, along with its characteristics and enablers. Due to the novelty of the Supply Chain Finance approach, there are still many knowledge gaps. This lack of research leads to uncertainties about the successful implementation of SCF solutions within companies as there is little quantified evidence on the achievable cost savings and other potential benefits. The authors close this gap by providing the latest information on business concepts and the SCF market. Based on a sample SCF model, the worldwide market size for such solutions and potential cost savings to companies engaged in SCF are analyzed. The work underlines the generally agreed-upon attractiveness and future relevance of SCF solutions by creating win-win situations; for all actors in the end-to-end supply chain as well as for external service providers.
Compiler Design: Analysis and Transformation
by Sebastian Hack Helmut Seidl Reinhard WilhelmWhile compilers for high-level programming languages are large complex software systems, they have particular characteristics that differentiate them from other software systems. Their functionality is almost completely well-defined - ideally there exist complete precise descriptions of the source and target languages. Additional descriptions of the interfaces to the operating system, programming system and programming environment, and to other compilers and libraries are often available. The book deals with the optimization phase of compilers. In this phase, programs are transformed in order to increase their efficiency. To preserve the semantics of the programs in these transformations, the compiler has to meet the associated applicability conditions. These are checked using static analysis of the programs. In this book the authors systematically describe the analysis and transformation of imperative and functional programs. In addition to a detailed description of important efficiency-improving transformations, the book offers a concise introduction to the necessary concepts and methods, namely to operational semantics, lattices, and fixed-point algorithms. This book is intended for students of computer science. The book is supported throughout with examples, exercises and program fragments.
Compiler Design: Syntactic and Semantic Analysis
by Sebastian Hack Helmut Seidl Reinhard WilhelmWhile compilers for high-level programming languages are large complex software systems, they have particular characteristics that differentiate them from other software systems. Their functionality is almost completely well-defined - ideally there exist complete precise descriptions of the source and target languages. Additional descriptions of the interfaces to the operating system, programming system and programming environment, and to other compilers and libraries are often available. This book deals with the analysis phase of translators for programming languages. It describes lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis, specification mechanisms for these tasks from the theory of formal languages, and methods for automatic generation based on the theory of automata. The authors present a conceptual translation structure, i.e., a division into a set of modules, which transform an input program into a sequence of steps in a machine program, and they then describe the interfaces between the modules. Finally, the structures of real translators are outlined. The book contains the necessary theory and advice for implementation. This book is intended for students of computer science. The book is supported throughout with examples, exercises and program fragments.
Sensor Networks with IEEE 802.15.4 Systems
by Roberto Verdone Gianluigi Ferrari Marco Martalo' Chiara BurattiThis book presents a simple, yet complete, approach to the design and performance analysis of distributed processing algorithms and techniques suitable for IEEE 802.15.4 networks. In particular, the book focuses on the bottom two layers of the ISO/OSI stack (Physical and Medium Access Control), discussing also a few issue related to routing. The book is a the synergistic combination of signal processing aspects on the one hand and MAC and connectivity issues on the other hand. The goal of the book is to clearly link physical layer aspects with medium access and topology aspects, in order to provide the reader with a clear understanding of how to approach the design of proper distributed signal processing and medium access algorithms in this context.
Speech Spectrum Analysis
by Sean A. FulopThe accurate determination of the speech spectrum, particularly for short frames, is commonly pursued in diverse areas including speech processing, recognition, and acoustic phonetics. With this book the author makes the subject of spectrum analysis understandable to a wide audience, including those with a solid background in general signal processing and those without such background. In keeping with these goals, this is not a book that replaces or attempts to cover the material found in a general signal processing textbook. Some essential signal processing concepts are presented in the first chapter, but even there the concepts are presented in a generally understandable fashion as far as is possible. Throughout the book, the focus is on applications to speech analysis; mathematical theory is provided for completeness, but these developments are set off in boxes for the benefit of those readers with sufficient background. Other readers may proceed through the main text, where the key results and applications will be presented in general heuristic terms, and illustrated with software routines and practical "show-and-tell" discussions of the results. At some points, the book refers to and uses the implementations in the Praat speech analysis software package, which has the advantages that it is used by many scientists around the world, and it is free and open source software. At other points, special software routines have been developed and made available to complement the book, and these are provided in the Matlab programming language. If the reader has the basic Matlab package, he/she will be able to immediately implement the programs in that platform---no extra "toolboxes" are required.
Experimental Methods in Hydraulic Research
by Paweł RowińskiIt is clear that hydraulic research is developing beyond traditional civil engineering to satisfy increasing demands in natural hazards assessment and also environmental research. Our ability to describe processes in nature rests on the observation and experimental methods as well as on theoretical basics of various disciplines. Under such conditions experimental methods draw from various areas of human activities and research, i.e. from physics, biology, chemistry, aerospace research, oceanic research etc. The current volume is the result of a meeting that took place during the 30th International School of Hydraulics in Poland and presents both the state-of-the-art and ongoing research projects in which experimental methods play a key role. Authors from numerous leading laboratories and from various countries guarantee a representative sample of different studies at the frontier of the field
The Individual and the Welfare State
by Mathis Schröder Martina Brandt Karsten Hank Axel Börsch-SupanOur health, our income and our social networks at older ages are the consequence of what has happened to us over the course of our lives. The situation at age 50+ reflects our own decisions as well as many environmental factors, especially interventions by the welfare state. This book explores the richness of 28,000 life histories in thirteen European countries, collected as part of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Combining these data with a comprehensive account of European welfare state interventions provides a unique opportunity to answer the important public policy questions of our time - how the welfare state affects people's incomes, housing, families, retirement, volunteering and health. The overarching theme of the welfare state creates a book of genuinely interdisciplinary analyses, a valuable resource for economists, gerontologists, historians, political scientists, public health analysts, and sociologists alike.
Der Springer-Verlag
by W. Buchge H. D. Kaiser Heinz SarkowskiEin Katalog der sämtlichen Veröffentlichungen eines Verlags ist die Leistungsbilanz seiner Arbeit und damit auch ein Ausdruck des Dankes gegenüber dem Gründer und den Verlegergene rationen die ihm nachfolgten. Er ist zugleich die objektivste Dokumentation der Geschichte des Verlags, indem er die Pro duktion seit dem Gründungsjahr nach Einzeltiteln registriert. Der Vorschlag, die Veröffentlichungen des Springer-Verlags seit seiner Gründung möglichst vollständig in einem Katalog nachzuweisen, geht auf das Jahr 1978 zurück. Zunächst stieß der Gedanke auf Skepsis, denn Julius Springer hatte in den ersten Jahren seiner Tätigkeit zahlreiche Broschüren veröffentlicht, die nur für den Tag bestimmt waren. Viele von ihnen fehlen schon in den ältesten der erhaltenen Verlagskataloge aus den 1880er Jahren. Manche wurden nicht einmal in den Leipziger Meßkatalogen angezeigt. In Einzelfällen mag dies auch poli tische Vorsicht geboten haben. Erste Recherchen ergaben dann, daß auch für die Zeit des Vormärz eine weitgehende Vollständigkeit zu erreichen war. Julius Springer hatte sich nämlich keineswegs gescheut, seine politischen Schriften im Börsenblatt anzuzeigen. Bei weiteren Nachforschungen konnten dann auch die meisten dieser Schrif ten in Bibliographien der Zeit ermittelt und gelegentlich auch über den Leihverkehr beschafft werden.
Thermische Turbomaschinen
by Walter TraupelDas Werk gibt eine umfassende Darstellung der theoretischen Grundlagen zur Berechnung und Auslegung von Dampfturbinen, Gasturbinen und Turbokompressoren. Der erste Band behandelt die thermodynamische Prozeßführung von Dampf- und Gasturbinenanlagen und die thermodynamisch-strömungstechnische Berechnung der Turbomaschinen selbst. Um zu einem vertieften Verständnis zu führen, wird die Theorie stets aus den Grundwissenschaften heraus entwickelt, weshalb auch ein kurzer Abriß der thermodynamischen und strömungstechnischen Grundlagen an den Anfang gestellt ist.
Maschinenelemente
by Hans Winter Burkhard Neumann Gustav NiemannDas dreibändige Werk Maschinenelemente ist längst zum Standardwerk auf dem Gebiet der Maschinenelemente geworden. Der vorliegende Band 3 bietet Studenten und Praktikern sowohl einen Überblick als auch reichhaltige Detailinformationen über das gesamte Wissensgebiet der Schraubrad-, Kegelrad-, Schnecken-, Ketten-, Riemen-, Reibradgetriebe, Kupplungen, Bremsen und Freiläufe. Auf der Basis einer sorgfältigen Analyse der Funktionen werden Auslegung, Konstruktion und Berechnung von Getrieben und Kupplungen methodisch dargestellt. Dabei werden alle für den Konstrukteur und Ingenieur wichtigen Aussagen über die hier behandelten Maschinenelemente, wie zulässige Spannungen, Reibungszahlen, Konstruktionsdaten oder sonstige Erfahrungswerte, umfassend erläutert. Der klare Aufbau, die Beispiele zu allen Berechnungen sowie die umfangreiche Literaturliste bieten dem Leser besonderen Nutzen.
Konstruieren mit Konstruktionskatalogen
by Karlheinz RothKonstruieren mit Konstruktionskatalogen bedeutet mit systematisch und übersichtlich aufbereiteten technischen, physikalischen und mechanischen Unterlagen zu arbeiten. Band 1: Konstruktionslehre enthält das methodische Vorgehen beim Konstruieren, sowohl ausschließlich diskursiv als auch gekoppelt mit intuitivem Arbeiten, mit oder ohne Rechnerhilfe, und ist auch als Lehrbuch gut einsetzbar.
Thermische Turbomaschinen: Geänderte Betriebsbedingungen, Regelung, Mechanische Probleme, Temperaturprobleme
by Walter TraupelDas Buch behandelt ausführlich das Verhalten der thermischen Turbomaschinen unter geänderten Betriebsbedingungen und darauf aufbauend ihre Regelungseigenschaften. Weiter werden die spezifischen Festigkeitsprobleme der Turbomaschinen dargestellt. Diesen Kapiteln ist ein allgemeines Kapitel über die Grundlagen der Festigkeitsrechnungen vorausgeschickt, das zwar diejenigen Aspekte besonders hervorhebt, die im Turbomaschinenbau vor allem wichtig sind, aber auch für verwandte Gebiete bedeutsam ist, da eine geraffte Darstellung dieser Art bis heute fehlt. Der Bestimmung der Temperaturverteilung in den maßgebenden Konstruktionsteilen (insbes. in der gekühlten Gasturbine) ist ein weiteres Kapitel gewidmet. Den Abschluß bilden die Ausführungen über die Schaufelschwingungen und die lauftechnischen Probleme der Rotoren.
Marine Ecological Geography
by Dmitry Ya FashchukIn Chapter 1 the methodological principles of systemization and visualization of multidimensional ecological information for its operational dissemination among potential users are stated. Their realization results in creation of the geographic-and ecologic model of marine basin as an information base for diagnosis of the marine ecosystem state, estimation of consequences of economic activity, and modelling of its changes with the use of mathematical tools. In Chapter 2 the geographic-and-ecological aspects of mathematical modelling of marine ecosystems, the possibilities and peculiarities of the most adequate models, the Russian hydrodynamic model of oil spills "SPILLMOD" and hydroecological model of organogenic compound transformation in the sea, are investigated. In the following six Chapters the examples of practical realization of geographic-and-ecological (as information source) and mathematical (as computing apparatus) modelling at the investigations of specific ecological problems associated with consequences of natural hazards and economic activity on aquatory and within the whole Black Sea basin are given.
Utility Maximization in Nonconvex Wireless Systems
by Johannes BrehmerThis monograph develops a framework for modeling and solving utility maximization problems in nonconvex wireless systems. The first part develops a model for utility optimization in wireless systems. The model is general enough to encompass a wide array of system configurations and performance objectives. Based on the general model, a set of methods for solving utility maximization problems is developed in the second part of the book. The development is based on a careful examination of the properties that are required for the application of each method. This part focuses on problems whose initial formulation does not allow for a solution by standard methods and discusses alternative approaches. The last part presents two case studies to demonstrate the application of the proposed framework. In both cases, utility maximization in multi-antenna broadcast channels is investigated.
Hydrogeological and Environmental Investigations in Karst Systems
by James W. Lamoreaux Bartolomé Andreo Francisco Carrasco Juan José Durán Pablo JiménezWATER RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT provides a detailed introduction to the full range of advanced, multidisciplinary techniques used in the study of water resources from understanding individual aquifers to the protection and management of water in a sustainable way, compatible with the preservation of the environment. Based on a masters course from UNESCO's International Hydrological Program, this textbook is accompanied by color figures and graphics, illustrating clearly the content of the text and showing real examples from the field. Each chapter also contains a list of exercises and practical activities as well as case studies.
Higher Oxidation State Organopalladium and Platinum Chemistry
by Allan J. CantyKyle A. Grice, Margaret L. Scheuermann and Karen I. Goldberg: Five-Coordinate Platinum(IV) Complexes.- Jay A. Labinger and John E. Bercaw: The Role of Higher Oxidation State Species in Platinum-Mediated C-H Bond Activation and Functionalization.- Joy M. Racowski and Melanie S. Sanford: Carbon-Heteroatom Bond-Forming Reductive Elimination from Palladium(IV) Complexes.- Helena C. Malinakova: Palladium(IV) Complexes as Intermediates in Catalytic and Stoichiometric Cascade Sequences Providing Complex Carbocycles and Heterocycles.- Allan J. Canty and Manab Sharma: h1-Alkynyl Chemistry for the Higher Oxidation States of Palladium and Platinum.- David C. Powers and Tobias Ritter: Palladium(III) in Synthesis and Catalysis.- Marc-Etienne Moret: Organometallic Platinum(II) and Palladium(II) Complexes as Donor Ligands for Lewis-Acidic d10 and s2 Centers.
Brain, Behavior and Epigenetics (Epigenetics and Human Health)
by Arturas Petronis Jonathan MillBiomedical research in the first decade of the 21st century has been marked by a rapidly growing interest in epigenetics. The reasons for this are numerous, but primarily it stems from the mounting realization that research programs focused solely on DNA sequence variation, despite their breadth and depth, are unlikely to address all fundamental aspects of human biology. Some questions are evident even to non-biologists. How does a single zygote develop into a complex multicellular organism composed of dozens of different tissues and hundreds of cell types, all genetically identical but performing very different functions? Why do monozygotic twins, despite their stunning external similarities, often exhibit significant differences in personality and predisposition to disease? If environmental factors are solely the cause of such variation, why are similar differences also observed between genetically identical animals housed in a uniform environment? Over the last couple of decades, epigenetics has undergone a significant metamorphosis from an abstract developmental theory to a very dynamic and rapidly developing branch of molecular biology. This volume represents a compilation of our current understanding about the key aspects of epigenetic processes in the brain and their role in behavior. The chapters in this book bring together some of the leading researchers in the field of behavioral epigenetics. They explore many of the epigenetic processes which operate or may be operating to mediate neurobiological functions in the brain and describe how perturbations to these systems may play a key role in mediating behavior and the origin of brain diseases.
Qualitätssicherung in der Ästhetischen Medizin durch universitäre Weiterbildung
by Stefan HammesMit dem Buch werden die Standards für eine interdisziplinäre, universitäre und praxisorientierte Ausbildung in der ästhetischen Lasermedizin definiert. Das Beispiel des ersten Weiterbildungsstudienganges in Deutschland mit dem universitären Abschluss Diploma in Aesthetic Laser Medicine (DALM) zeigt, wie das Risikomanagement in der ästhetischen Medizin konkrete Form annehmen kann. Der Band enthält einen Fragenkatalog zur Vorbereitung auf die Prüfung.