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Overview: Das autogene Training zählt zu den Übenden Methoden der allgemeinen Psychotherapie: Mit Hilfe stufenweise erlernbarer Übungen und durch deren ständiges Training kann durch konzentrative Entspannung eine Form der Selbsthypnose erzielt werden, die ermöglicht, Zustände körperlicher und seelischer Unausgeglichenheit aufzulösen. Dieses Buch kann und will nicht mehr geben als Information. Eine persönliche Unterweisung durch einen in der Methode ausgebildeten Lehrer kann es nicht ersetzen. Der langjährige Erfolg des Buches macht indes deutlich, daß nicht nur die verständlich geschriebene Ei

Overview: Proposes alternative voting and election methods for political representatives.Studies the evolution of the notion of democracy in the history of political thought.Develops a computational approach aiThis book operationalizes the idea of political representation, which is fundamental to modern democracies. Both individual representatives and representative bodies are evaluated using the indices of popularity (the average percentage of the population whose opinion is represented on topical policy issues) and universality (the percentage of issues for which the prevailing public opinio

Overview: This book constitutes the presentations made at the Advanced Research Workshop on Autonomous Robotic Systems, which was held at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, June 1997. The aim of the meeting was to bring together leading researchers in the area of autonomous systems for mobility and manipulation, and the aim of this book is to share the presentations with the reader. The book presents the most recent developments in the field. Topics include sensors and navigation in mobile robots, robot co-operation, telerobotics, legged robots, climbing robots and applications. Existing and

Overview: First comprehensive overview on the different aromatase inhibitors.Includes preclinical and clinical studies.Gives outlook on future uses of aromatase inhibitors.International authorship.Many breast tumours are dependent upon oestrogen for their development and continued growth. Over the last 25 years hormone therapy has progressed from the irreversible destruction of endocrine glands to the use of drugs that reversibly suppress oestrogen synthesis or action. The inhibition of oestrogen synthesis is most readily achieved by inhibiting the final step in the pathway of oestrogen biosyn

Overview: Skill Formation in England and GermanyThis book deals with education systems and the change observed within them alongside changes in the wider political economy. The research is conducted by way of a comparative case study of England and Germany. Extending the VoC approach, not only vocational education and training but also school education and higher education are analysed. The point of departure is the puzzling fact that the current reforms of the education systems of both countries are departing from the paths predicted by the VoC approach. The thesis thus argues against institu

Overview: Untersucht erstmals die Hintergründe und Folgen im Detail.Ergänzt durch relevante Dokumente und historisches Bildmaterial.Wirf ein neues Licht auf die Bedeutung des Briefes im historischen Kontext.Inc.Der Brief, den Alexander von Humboldt am 23. April 1836 an Augustus Frederick, den Herzog von Sussex – damals Präsident der Royal Society of London – richtete, ist wahrscheinlich der wichtigste und der folgenreichste Brief, den der berühmte deutsche Forschungsreisende in seinem Leben verfasst hat. Dieser These gehen die Autoren der vorliegenden Studie nach, zumal die Quellen, Hintergrün

Overview: Demonstrates how new petroleum producers can avoid the proverbial "resource curse".Highlights measures to prevent mismanagement of resources.Uses Ghana as a case study while also examining challenges This book explores how African countries can convert their natural resources, particularly oil and gas, into sustainable development assets. Using Ghana, one of the continent’s newest oil-producing countries, as a lens, it examines the "resource curse" faced by other producers - such as Nigeria, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea - and demonstrates how mismanagement in those countries can pro

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Overview: Emphasizes agricultural crops or plant species with economic values.Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results.Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts.Includ.Rapid changes and significant progress have been made in the .Agrobacterium. field, such as genetically transforming plants for both basic research purposes and agricultural development. In .Agrobacterium Protocols, Third Edition, Volumes 1 .and. 2., a team of leading experts and veteran researchers describe in detail techniques for delivering DNA to plant cells and permanently altering

Overview: The emergence of a new scientific book series requires some explanation regarding how it hopes to compensate the reader for the discomforts it undoubtedly produces both in the realms of informational input-overload and in the financial strain on personal and institutional budgets. This series recognizes that investigators who have entered neurochemistry from the biochemical tradition have a rather specialized view of the brain. Too often, interdisciplinary offerings are initially attractive but turn out to recite basic biochemical considerations. We have come to believe that there ar

Overview: Zeigt unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf Data Science durch Experten aus verschiedenen Fachbereichen.Kombiniert Theorie und Anwendung.Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen und Links zu ZusatzmaterialDie Anwendungen der Disziplin Data Science erweitern und wandeln sich stetig. In diesem Buch geben Insider aus Praxis, Wissenschaft und Lehre detailliert die Ergebnisse ihrer Data-Science-Projekte, Methodenwissen sowie Knowhow zu Vorgehensweisen und Prozessmodellen an den Leser weiter. Dabei wird ein weit gespannter Querschnitt an konkreten Anwendungen beschrieben, erklärt und illustriert: von der N

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Overview: Contains a unique collection of over 2000 illustrations.Increases diagnostic potential through the use of supplementary microscopic photos.Serves as a valuable companion to standard textbooks in speci.Atlas of Anatomic Pathology with Imaging - A Correlative Diagnostic Companion. is a valuable teaching tool for medical students and residents in several specialities such as pathology, radiology, internal medicine, surgery and neurologic sciences. Its need is all the more urgent given the severe shortcuts in the teaching of anatomic pathology following the decrease in the number of auto

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-642-89819-8978-3-642-91676-2Series ISSN 0083-5846

Overview: This is the first book covering comprehensive researches to evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of acupuncture as an evidence-based therapy for cancer.This is a timely book for those who require.Cancer is one of the leading killers in the world and the incidence is increasing, but most cancer patients and cancer survivors suffer much from the disease and its conventional treatments’ side effects. In the past, clinical data showed that some complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) possessed anticancer abilities, but some clinicians and scientists have queried about the scien

Overview: Presents research in the field of distributed computing and machine learning.Includes the outcomes of ICADCML 2020, held at the School of Information Technology and Engineering, VIT, Vellore, India.Se.This book presents recent advances in the field of distributed computing and machine learning, along with cutting-edge research in the field of Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain in distributed environments. It features selected high-quality research papers from the First International Conference on Advances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning (ICADCML 2020), organized by

Overview: Presents a complete overview of traditional herbal medicine used for the prevention and treatment of obesity and diabetes.Covers the side effects and safety issues involved with treating obesity and d.This work presents a systematic review of traditional herbal medicine and their active compounds, as well as their mechanism of action in the prevention and treatment of diabetes and obesity. The side effects and safety of herbal-derived anti-diabetic and anti-obesity phytochemicals are detailed in depth, and the text has a strong focus on current and future trends in anti-diabetic medi

Overview: Describes an important new method of alveolar distraction osteogenesis.Covers all aspects of treatment and treatment planning.Includes illustrative case presentations in different scenariosThis book describes a new method of alveolar distraction osteogenesis that offers important advantages and can be used for the treatment of various orthopedic abnormalities and congenital malformations. Detailed guidance is provided on selection of patients suitable for alveolar distraction, including those with cleft lip and palate, skeletal class II malocclusions and cystic lesions involving the

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th InternationalSymposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT 2016, held in Liverpool, UK, in September 2016.The 26 full papers presented together with  2 one-page abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions..The accepted submissions cover various important aspects.of algorithmic game theory such as computational aspects of games, congestion games and networks, matching and voting, auctions and markets, and mechanism design..978-3-662-53353-6978-3-662-53354-3Series ISSN 0302-97

Overview: Describes several approaches to adaptability that are applied to embedded systems, such as reconfigurable architectures, dynamic optimization and fault tolerant techniques, multiprocessing systems, SOAs embedded systems become more complex, designers face a number of challenges at different levels: they need to boost performance, while keeping energy consumption as low as possible, they need to reuse existent software code, and at the same time they need to take advantage of the extra logic available in the chip, represented by multiple processors working together.  This book describ