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Overview: Critical analysis of today’s dominant logic and extension of lead market paradigm.Delivers new assessment tools for identifying emerging lead markets.Explores opportunities for frugal innovations and This book focuses on the small car segment of India‘s automotive industry to explain the emergence of lead markets. The authors contend that the current understanding of lead markets does not sufficiently explain the business practices that are born out of the intensified globalization of innovation. Lead markets are considered crucial for the global diffusion of new products and this bo

Overview: Over more than two centuries the development of economic theory has created a wide array of different theories, concepts and results. Nevertheless, there is no general theory, which mrifies these varied theories into a comprehensive one. Economics has been split between partial and conflicting representations of the functioning of market economies. We have a collection of separate theories such as the Marxian economics, the Keynesian economics, the general equilibrium theory, and the neoclassical growth theory. These diverse economic theories have co-existed but not in a structured r

Overview: In the centennial year of the birth of Sir John Cockcroft, first master of my Cam­ bridge College, Churchill, and the first man to split the atomic nucleus by artificial means, it is indeed relevant to consider the outcome of his efforts at developing atomic power. From the earliest days of the construction of Calder Hall-the first nuclear power station in Britain-and the establishment of the British Atomic Re­ search Center at Harwell, and the Chalk River Nuclear Station in Canada, through the "Windscale" nuclear accident in Britain, up to the present, when some 20% of UK energy is

Overview: 978-3-540-44630-9978-3-540-44632-3Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: .This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2020, held in July 2020 in Belgrade, Serbia. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 63 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The papers are organized in 12 cohesive topical sections as follows: Swarm intelligence and nature-inspired computing; swarm-based computing algorithms for optimization; particle swarm optimization; ant colony optimization; brain storm optimization algorithm; bacteria

Overview: Contains a large number of original pictures of great quality covering the entire cardiac anatomy.Reviews a wide variety of adult and embryo hearts.Presents information in an accessible and concise fo​This heart anatomy book describes the cardiac development and cardiac anatomy in the development of the adult heart, and is illustrated by numerous images and examples. It contains 550 images of dissected embryo and adult hearts, obtained through the dissection and photography of 235 hearts. It has been designed to allow the rapid understanding of the key concepts and that everything sh

Overview: Deals with ageing in the context of Irish writing specifically - the first book to do so.Offers a new perspective on canonical Irish writers.Appeals to scholars in Irish Studies, gender, history and sAge is a missing category in Irish literary criticism and this book is the first to explore a range of familiar and not so familiar Irish texts through a gerontological lens. Drawing on the latest writing in humanistic, critical and cultural gerontology, this study examines the portrayal of ageing in fiction by Elizabeth Bowen, Molly Keane, Deirdre Madden, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Joh

Overview: An Introduction to Modern European Philosophy contains scholarly but accessible essays by seven British academics on Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Habermas, Foucault, and the ‘Events‘ of 1968. Written for English-speaking readers, it describes the varied traditions within 19th and 20th century European philosophy, reflecting the dynamism and plurality within the European tradition and presenting opposing points of view. It deals with both French and German philosophers, plus Kierkegaard, and is not confined to any o

Overview: 978-3-662-15492-2978-3-540-38240-9Series ISSN 0724-6145 Series E-ISSN 1616-8542

Overview: Innovationen sind essentiell für das Erlangen dauerhafter Wettbewerbsvorteile und damit für das Wachstum und den Erfolg von Unternehmen. Sie bergen aber auch hohe Risiken. Fragen nach der Größe des Marktpotenzials einer Innovation, der Entwicklung der Absatzmengen und der Steuerung von Marktpotenzial und Absatzmengenentwicklung können vor der Markteinführung von den bisherigen Ansätzen nicht zufriedenstellend beantwortet werden...Claudio Felten entwickelt ein Modell, das Diffusionsprozesse von Innovationen mikroökonomisch auf der Grundlage deskriptiv geeigneter Theorien zur Abbildung

Overview: Praxisnahe Darstellung der klinischen Neuroimmunologie - mit sekundären Krankheitsbildern aus der Inneren Medizin.Übersichten, Tabellen und Praxistipps für die optimale klinische Anwendbarkeit mit konMit diesem Praxisbuch können klinisch tätige Neurologen über die aktuellen therapeutischen Strategien in der Neuroimmunologie und in den Nachbardisziplinen informiert bleiben. Der interdisziplinäre Ansatz erleichtert differenzialdiagnostische Überlegungen, da auch internistische Systemerkrankungen berücksichtigt sind. Die 2. Auflage wurde thematisch u.a. ergänzt um Kapitel zu endokrinen

Overview: Discusses timely topics at the intersection between design and digital communication.Describes some challenges that digital media causes to brands, institutions, education and society.Proposes practicThis book reports on research findings and practical lessons featuring advances in the areas of digital and interaction design, graphic design and branding, design education,  society and communication in design practice, and related ones. Gathering the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Digital Design and Communication, Digicom 2021, held on November 4–6, 2021, in Barcel

Overview: Present recent advances in wireless networks and information systems.Edited outcome of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Networks and Information Systems (WNIS 2009) incl. selected papers.The purpose of WNIS 2009, the 2009 International Conference on Wireless N- works and Information Systems, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information systems and applications in the context of wireless networks and mobile technologies. Information systems and information technology are pervasive in the whole communications field, which is quite

Overview: Aus dem Inhalt J. Albert: Bild- und Videogenerierung mit Varianten endlicher Automaten M. Bartsch: Das Jahr-2000-Problem und die Haftung aus Softwarepflegeverträgen A. Brüggemann-Klein, R. Klein, B. Landgraf: BibRelEx: Erschließung bibliographischer Datenbasen durch Visualisierung von annotierten inhaltsbasierten Beziehungen J. Desel: Formaler Umgang mit semi-formalen Ablaufbeschreibungen B. Feldmann-Pempe, R. Krieger, G. Schlageter: Herausforderung an künftige Bildungssysteme: Lernerzentrierung und Praxisnähe V.H. Haase: "Active Scorecard" (Unternehmen als Regelkreis) P. Haubner: Us

Overview: Examines projectbased writing, digital writing and multimodal writing as modern trends in education.Revisits syllabi, grading policy and feedback to develop students’ critical thinking abilities.JuxtaThis book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of academic writing and information literacy in a new digital dimension, drawing on recent trends towards project-based writing, digital writing and multimodal writing in Education, and synthesising theory with practice to provide a handy toolkit for teachers and researchers. The author combines a practical orientation to tea

Overview: This second volume of papers dealing with scientific and ethical aspects of animal welfare covers a variety of topics and areas of inves­ tigation. It will be of particular interest to those readers seeking more insight into such subjects as farm animal welfare and humane husbandry systems; animal experimentation, especially in the field of psychology; and pain in animals, notably its recognition and alleviation. Several of our selections deal with very specific subjects that are germane to animal welfare: the use of T-61 for euthanizing cats and dogs, a new humane method of stunning

Overview: Providing a ready access to the main facts of Poe‘s life and career, this Chronology will be of service to the student, scholar or general reader who wishes to check a point quickly without referring to the detailed narratives offered by the standard biographies. The Chronology includes details of Poe‘s works, both those published in his lifetime and those which appeared posthumously. There is a full index of persons, places and works referred to.978-1-349-40170-3978-0-230-37337-2Series ISSN 2947-1265 Series E-ISSN 2947-1273

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Overview: Serves as a companion book for human resource practitioners and a ‘how-to book’ on understanding employee personality differences.Identifies how the evolving landscape creates challenges and opportuni.This book is an essential guide for academics and practitioners to understand employees’ differences in personality and how best to motivate them accordingly. The authors provide an in-depth perspective of how organizations can better prepare for the new realities of the workplace. Amidst the war for talent and a continually evolving workplace that has reduced employee psychological att

Overview: Includes coverage of traditional and non-traditional machining based on energy beams, abrasives and fluids.Includes advanced level material with an emphasis on analytical and quantitative reasoning.Co.This book provides readers with the fundamental, analytical, and quantitative knowledge of machining process planning and optimization based on advanced and practical understanding of machinery, mechanics, accuracy, dynamics, monitoring techniques, and control strategies that they need to understanding machining and machine tools. It is written for first-year graduate students in mechan