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Overview: up-to-date results.fast track conference proceedings.state-of-the-art report978-3-642-13671-9978-3-642-13672-6Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: by Jerome L. Stein Disenchantment with Keynesian econollics developed during the post-1968 period when the rate of growth of output declined, the rate of unemployment rose, and the rate of inflation increased in the U.S. and in other countries. This paradox, called stagflation, was inconsistent with the tenet of Keynesian economics that cyclical movemants in prices and output relative to their respective trends are positively correlated. A search occurred for a more satisfactory theory of macroeconomics which could explain the paradox of stagflation and the observed economic phenomen

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Overview: The contributions in this volume focus on the use of generalconnectivity (unstructured) adaptive meshes for Lagrangiancalculations but contain asubstantial amount of material onEuler and arbitrary Lagrange-Eulertechniques as well.Contributions on the smooth particle hydrodynamicsmethodand on deterministic vortex methods broaden the scope of thematerial and allow comparisons of different, though allied,techniques to be made.The format of the conference was designedto optimize theinteraction among the attendees. An edited versionofroundtable discussions is included in these proceedings

Overview: This first full-length scholarly study about animal horror cinema defines the popular subgenre and describes its origin and history in the West. The chapters explore a variety of animal horror films from a number of different perspectives. This is an indispensable study for students and scholars of cinema, horror and animal studies.978-1-349-55349-5978-1-137-49639-3

Overview: Wie wird die Börse der Zukunft aussehen? Wird es noch Börsen geben, wie wir sie heute kennen, oder werden die mehr oder weniger selbständig agierenden Börsenplätze verschwinden und wird stattdessen ein weltumspannendes Börsensystem, womöglich dezentralisiert, entstehen? Als mögliche Zukunftsoption gewinnen sogenannte Alternative-Trading-Systems (ATS) bei der funktionalen Umsetzung des Börsenstrukturwandels an Bedeutung. ..Auf der Basis ökonomischer Kriterien analysiert Matthias Ludwig die Motivation zum Betreiben von ATS aus Anbietersicht und das mögliche Motivationsprofil aus Nachfr

Overview: Argues that developmental imperatives were emphasized in Australian aid policy between 1945 and 1975.Provides new insights into the connections between colonial policy in Papua New Guinea and foreign .This book examines Australian colonial and foreign aid policy towards Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia in the age of international development (1945–1975). During this period, the academic and political understandings of development consolidated and informed Australian attempts to provide economic assistance to the poorer regions to its north. Development was central to the Australia

Overview: Eine politikwissenschaftliche Bilanz der Agenda 2010-ReformenDie sozialdemokratische Agenda 2010 ist in vielerlei Hinsicht ein noch nicht ausreichend erklärtes politisches Phänomen. Weder wurde bislang der systematische Versuch unternommen, zu klären, was überhaupt Inhalt dieses diffusen Reformpakets war, noch ist abschließend geklärt, was die strategischen Ziele der Schröderschen Reformagenda waren und ob bzw. wie diese überhaupt erreicht wurden – kurz: Warum sich die SPD für diese Politik entschieden hat. Der vorliegende Band beantwortet diese offenen Fragen.978-3-531-17948-3978-3-

Overview: Significant progress has been made in understanding the defense mechanism of rice and pathogenicity of the fungus.The rice and blast system has become a model pathosystem for understanding the molecul.Rice blast, caused by the fungal pathogen .Magnaporthe grisea., is one of the most destructive rice diseases worldwide and destroys enough rice to feed more than 60 million people annually. Due to high variability of the fungal population in the field, frequent loss of resistance of newly-released rice cultivars is a major restraint in sustainable rice production. In the last few years,

Overview: Angina pectoris with normal coronary arteriograms is a commonentity which has puzzled cardiologists almost since the advent ofcoronary arteriography. Despite major advances in the understanding ofthe pathophysiology of angina in recent years and a multitude ofstudies on the subject, the cause and mechanisms underlying thesyndrome of angina with normal coronary arteries remain unknown.Indeed, results of investigations are controversial and speculationstill prevails regarding the nature of the so called `Syndrome X‘..Almost every important aspect of Syndrome X has been tackled in thebo

Overview: Reports on advanced methods for sustainable design in the built environment.Describes a wealth of different examples of sustainable infrastructure projects.Discusses the environmental, social, and eco.This book discusses human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture. It reports on advanced engineering methods for sustainable infrastructure design, architecture as well as on assessments of the efficient methods and the social, environmental, and economic impact of various designs and projects. The book covers a

Overview: .This collection explores the methods and challenges of containing corrosive and abrasive materials at extreme temperatures, whether they are used across commodities or technology specific. There is much to be learned from cross-commodity and cross-technology perspectives and this collection creates a platform for the exchange of ideas on the challenges, solutions, failures, and successes in furnace containment designs and applications while bringing together perspectives from industry, design houses, and research institutions. Topics include, but are not limited to:. ..·       Advan

Overview: Is the first to provide a general assessment of Academic Scepticism in Early Modern Philosophy.Is the first to be wholly devoted to this important but largely neglected issue.Brings together a group oThis book explores how far some leading philosophers, from Montaigne to Hume, used Academic Scepticism to build their own brand of scepticism or took it as its main sceptical target. The book offers a detailed view of the main modern key figures, including Sanches, Charron, La Mothe Le Vayer, Bacon, Gassendi, Descartes, Malebranche, Pascal, Foucher, Huet, and Bayle. In addition, it provi

Overview: Focuses on the accusations of satanic ritual abuse in America’s white middle-class suburban daycare centers.Examines the influential relationship between the satanic panic, conservative politics, and This book examines the “satanic panic” of the 1980s as an essential part of the growing relationship between tabloid media and American conservative politics in the 1980s. It argues that widespread fears of Satanism in a range of cultural institutions was indispensable to the development and success of both infotainment, or tabloid content on television, and the rise of the New Right, a

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2016, and three parallel workshops, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in September 2016. The workshops are the Third Workshop on New Methods and Tools for Big Data, MT4BD 2016, the 5th Mining Humanistic Data Workshop, MHDW 2016, and the First Workshop on 5G - Putting Intelligence to the Network Edge, 5G-PINE 2016.The 30 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented at the main conference were car

Overview: Offers descriptions of numerous data analysis techniques, including but not limited to exploratory data analysis, estimation and model building, inferential methods and data compaction.Utilizes an eff.Applied Data Analysis and Modeling for Energy Engineers and Scientists .fills an identified gap in engineering and science education and practice for both students and practitioners. It demonstrates how to apply concepts and methods learned in disparate courses such as mathematical modeling, probability,statistics, experimental design, regression, model building, optimization, risk anal

Overview: Praxisbeispiele und Anwendungsbibliothek in einem Buch.Includes supplementary material: Ein neues Programm ist oft mit vielen Unsicherheiten und Schwierigkeiten verbunden. Die Autoren zeigen, wie es auch anders gehen kann und vermitteln mit ihrem Buch einen problemlosen und einfachen Einstieg zur 3D-Architektursoftware ArchiCAD 13 in zwei Teilen. .Teil 1: Der Leser startet zunächst mit einem Übungsprojekt und lernt dabei den Umgang mit ArchiCAD 13 und den wichtigsten Befehlen des Programms kennen. Der so gewonnene Überblick des wichtigsten Repertoires an Werkzeugen und Befehlen gibt

Overview: Edited and written by active educators practicing in various fields, providing diverse perspectives on the broad range of methods of active learning.Provides practical examples to implement various me.This book is designed to aid the faculty of medical and other health related schools in developing the pedagogical skills to transform their teaching in multiple settings including the classroom, the conference room, the ambulatory office, and the hospital from a passive learning experience to an active learning experience. In this transformation, the teacher morphs from the ‘all knowin

Overview: Provides a model that uses relationships not individuals as fundamental units of analysis.Links individual experience with theoretical and pedagogical models.Presents a heuristic device for twenty-fir.The need for a new method for assessment and imaging of families, couples, and individuals has emerged in response to changes in family forms during the twentieth century. In the twentieth century divorce, remarriage, out-of wedlock child bearing, and alternate life styles have replaced monogamy as predominant form of marriage and the family. The methods of representation and assessment

Overview: .Perceiving the economy as a complex dynamic system, generates a need for new tools for its study. As a constructive simulation method, Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) has in recent years proven its strength and extensive applicability. Fields of study are widely spread within economics, with a cluster around financial markets. This book is based on communications given at AE’2006 (Aalborg, Denmark) – the second symposium on Artificial Economics, and covers both wellknown questions of economics, like the existence of market efficiency, as well as new questions raised by the