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Overview: Reports on the results of a Europe-wide survey on the adoption of an integrated assessment approach to air quality problems.Reviews the modeling methodologies currently used for various purposes.Ident.This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license..This book reports on the results of an extended survey conducted across Europe within the framework of the APPRAISAL FP7 project to determine the extent to which an integrated assessment approach to air quality is being adopted, on the one hand, by regional and local authorities to develop air quality plans and, on the other, by resear

Overview: Reports on methods for optimal human resource management in business organizations.Focuses on reducing complexity in resource management and leadership.Describes practical approaches for improving leaThis book reports on practical approaches for facilitating the process of achieving excellence in the management and leadership of organizational resources. It shows how the principles of creating shared value can be applied to ensure faster learning, training, business development, and social renewal. In particular, the book presents novel methods and tools for tackling the complexity o

Overview: Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality.Visualization and simulation.Communication and collaboration informatics.Sensor data interpretation.Situation awareness and sensing technologies.Geometric and par.This proceedings volume chronicles the papers presented at the 35th CIB W78 2018 Conference: IT in Design, Construction, and Management, held in Chicago, IL, USA, in October 2018. The theme of the conference focused on fostering, encouraging, and promoting research and development in the application of integrated information technology (IT) throughout the life-cycle of the design, const

Overview: First comprehensive volume on feminist posthumanities, which covers new materialist forays in posthuman and more-than-human humanities.Provides a long overdue and indespensible collection of original .This companion is a cutting-edge primer to critical forms of the posthumanities and the feminist posthumanities, aimed at students and researchers who want to catch up with the recent theoretical developments in various fields in the humanities, such as new media studies, gender studies, cultural studies, science and technology studies, human animal studies, postcolonial critique, philo

Overview: The biblical text and its key figures have played a prominent role in the development of religious discourse on pressing socio-political issues. Slavery and continued discrimination were given theological sanction through the Old Testament story of Ham, but what of his descendent Nimrod the hunter?978-1-349-53050-2978-0-230-61050-7Series ISSN 2945-6975 Series E-ISSN 2945-6983

Overview: Presents an immersive study into how a mind-body practice such as Aikido fosters an aspirational, embodied, philosophical and ethical habitus of relationality towards all life.Offers epistemological, .Drawing on the author’s lifelong practice in the non-competitive and defensive Japanese art of Aikido, this book examines education as self-cultivation, from a Japanese philosophy (e.g. Buddhist) perspective. Contemplative practices, such as secular mindfulness meditation, are being increasingly integrated into pedagogical settings to enhance social and emotional learning and well-being

Overview: Up-to-date papers from world experts in a broad variety of relevant applications of approximation theory.Valuable volume for graduate students who wish to discover the state of the art in a number of This book collects up-to-date papers from world experts in a broad variety of relevant applications of approximation theory, including dynamical systems, multiscale modelling of fluid flow, metrology, and geometric modelling to mention a few. The 14 papers in this volume document modern trends in approximation through recent theoretical developments, important computational aspects and m

Overview: Presents the state of the art in probabilistic graphical models,.Includes carefully edited and reviewed surveys and research articles.In recent years considerable progress has been made in the area of probabilistic graphical models, in particular Bayesian networks and influence diagrams. Probabilistic graphical models have become mainstream in the area of uncertainty in artificial intelligence;.contributions to the area are coming from computer science, mathematics, statistics and engineering...This carefully edited book brings together in one volume some of the most important topics

Overview: Focuses on the latest research findings in systems engineering.Shares knowledge and insights from international groups researching the field.Identifies gaps in the knowledge and possible fruitful area.This book presents original studies describing the latest research and developments in the area of reliability and systems engineering. It helps the reader identifying gaps in the current knowledge and presents fruitful areas for further research in the field. Among others, this book covers reliability measures, reliability assessment of multi-state systems, optimization of multi-state

Overview: Presents the advices of about 100 managers and risk experts.Provides practical operational recommendations on how to avert disasters.Shows how to improve the quality of risk information transmission w.Some of the major industrial disasters could have been prevented. When the facts of what happened are established, their stories share a common thread: before things spiralled out of control, there were workers at the affected sites who knew that the situation was dangerous, and could become catastrophic unless immediate action was taken. But tragically, nobody dared to tell the decisio

Overview: Features diagnostic guidance for a range of simple and complex congenital heart defects.Provides coverage of many aspects of rapid diagnostic echocardiography in congenital heart diseases in children..This atlas provides a practical guide to the diagnosis of congenital heart disease using echocardiography in both adults and children. A plethora of high-quality echocardiography images provide practical examples of how to diagnose a range of conditions correctly, including aortic stenosis, tricuspid atresia, coronary artery fistula and hypoplastic left heart syndrome. ..Atlas of Echoca

Overview: Illustrates current work in scholarship and phenomenological analysis by international scholars.Offers a cross-disciplinary approach to and influence of phenomenology (philosophy, psychology, social sPhilip Blosser and Thomas Nenon The essays in the volume were assembled in honor of Lester Embree, who celebrated his 70th birthday on January 9, 2008. A preview of this volume was presented to Professor Embree at a reception sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology that was held in his honor at the 2008 meeting of the Husserl Circle at Marquette University in Milwa

Overview: Kleine Lehreinheiten und ausführliche Beweisführungen ermöglichen einen einfachen Zugang zu einem oft als schwierig und abstrakt empfundenen Gebiet.Zahlreiche Aufgaben verschiedenen Schwierigkeitsgrad.Dieses Lehrbuch zur Algebra bietet eine Einführung in die grundlegenden Begriffe und Methoden der modernen Algebra. Es werden die Themen eines Grundkurses zur Algebra ausführlich und motivierend behandelt. .Die Algebra wird von vielen Studierenden als sehr abstrakt empfunden. Daher haben sich die Autoren bemüht, die Ergebnisse und Begriffe mit zahlreichen Beispielen zu unterlegen. Die B

Overview: Focuses specifically on the debt of sovereign nations..Examines sovereign defaults from the Great Depression to the Asian Crisis of the 1990s and the recent financial crisis..Explains the methodology .The financial difficulties experienced by Greece since 2009 serve as a reminder that countries (i.e., sovereigns) may default on their debt. Many observers considered the financial turmoil was behind us because major advanced countries had adopted stimulus packages to prevent banks from going bankrupt. However, there are rising doubts about the creditworthiness of several advanced count

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Overview: Describes fluorescence imaging techniques and applications.Explains diverse roles of advanced tomographic imaging.Examines the potential synergistic use of biotechnologies. .This book is a wide-ranging guide to advanced imaging techniques and related methods with important applications in translational research or convergence science as progress is made toward a new era in integrative healthcare. Conventional and advanced microscopic imaging techniques, including both non-fluorescent (i.e., label-free) and fluorescent methods, have to date provided researchers with specific and quant

Overview: Summarizes most of known results on added masses of objects of various geometry.Essentially self-contained and includes the necessary theoretical backgroun.Easy to use in practice: most of results are.Knowledge of added body masses that interact with fluid is necessary in various research and applied tasks of hydro- and aeromechanics: steady and unsteady motion of rigid bodies, total vibration of bodies in fluid, local vibration of the external plating of different structures. This reference book contains data on added masses of ships and various ship and marine engineering structure

Overview: This proceedings, ICAST 2022, constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advancement of Science and Technology, ICAST 2022, which took place in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, in November 2022.. The 17 revised full papers and one short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 174 submissions. The papers present economic and technologic developments in modern societies related to important issues such digitization, energy transformation, impact on national economy, and its recent advancements..978-3-031-28724-4978-3-031-28725-1Series ISSN

Overview: The aging process, like most (all?) things in the universe, is a puzzle. It is such a fundamental occurrence, common to all living things, that it ironically may be the most complicated and perplexing puzzle to solve. There are, of course, puzzles sufficient in number to occupy all the scientists and philosophers who have ever lived a thousand times over. Yet what other phenomenon affects everyone of us as much as growing old? Curiosity about the ubiquity of aging as a phenomenon, boosted perhaps by an only natural fear of that same phenomenon as an undeniable manifes­ tation of our

Overview: This new Dictionary, the most comprehensive ever dedicated to diplomacy, will provide a much needed resource in the field. Not only does it contain a comprehensive range of diplomatic terms, but it also includes entries on legal terms, political events, international organisations and major figures who have occupied the diplomatic scene or written influentially about it over the last half millennium. All students of diplomacy and related subjects and members of the many diplomatic services of the world will find this book indispensable.