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Overview: An empirically grounded method for aligning goals and strategies across an organization.Practitioner-oriented presentation, combining a method description with case studies, checklists, and questionna.Aligning an organization’s goals and strategies requires specifying their rationales and connections so that the links are explicit and allow for analytic reasoning about what is successful and where improvement is necessary. .This book provides guidance on how to achieve this alignment, how to monitor the success of goals and strategies and use measurement to recognize potential failur

Overview: Uncovers generally accepted auditing standards, audit planning and engagement quality review.Describes the various professional standards in the auditing world, including the use of Blockchain in audi.This book provides a comprehensive presentation of auditing theory and practice. It simplifies audit concepts often considered abstract or vague to many. Written in a clear, concise, and understandable manner, the book covers the often uncovered and daring area of forensic auditing and analyses the approach thereof. Additionally, it covers the use of blockchain in audit through several

Overview: Highlights robust and novel biometrics techniques.Provides implementation strategies and future research directions in the field of biometrics.Includes case studies and emerging applications.This book provides a framework for robust and novel biometric techniques, along with implementation and design strategies. The theory, principles, pragmatic and modern methods, and future directions of biometrics are presented, along with in-depth coverage of biometric applications in driverless cars, automated and AI-based systems, IoT, and wearable devices. Additional coverage includes computer

Overview: Compares carbon sequestration by aquaculture with that by forests.Reviews human use of shellfish as food from emergence of early humans to intensive oyster dredging.Offers plan for activities from sim.This book presents a solutions based approach to reducing and removing CO2 from the atmosphere transforming it into solid (crystalline) CaCO3 through the ability of marine organisms such as molluscs, crustacea, corals, and coccolithophore algae. The overwhelming advantage of this approach is that it promises enhanced climate mitigation in comparison to planting forests, industrial/engin

Overview: Includes recent research on Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing.Presents the selected papers from the 2021 International Conference on Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, IASC-2021, held .This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing (IASC2021).  Various topics covered in this book include AI algorithm, neural networks, pattern recognition, machine learning, blockchain technology, system engineering, computer vision and image processing, adaptive control and robotics, big data and data processing, netwo

Overview: 978-3-540-10284-7978-3-540-38417-5Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of educational technology research articles.Presents a clustered analysis showing the trends over the last 20 years.Discusses the leading authors and jouThis book presents a challenging and multi-faceted research project that required state-of-the-art methodological approaches. The project involved analyzing data collected from 10,000 research articles published in ten leading journals in the area of educational technology over 20 years, from January 1994 to December 2014; advanced analytic approaches such as latent semantic analysis; an

Overview: It is for me, as President of the Merseyside Lancashire & Cheshire Council on Alcoholism, a signal privilege to write a brief foreword to these Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. During the week experts, from the world over, in all those disciplines which have a contribution to make to the solution of the problems of alcoholism and drug dependence, surveyed recent advances in our knowledge of the aetiology, epidemiology, early recognition, management, and the social and industrial implications of these twin scourges of the contemporar

Overview: Presents the latest research results from top researchers in the field.Provides a perfect balance between applied and theoretical results.Covers worldwide developments?.This book is intended as reference material for students and professors interested in air pollution modeling at the graduate level as well as researchers and professionals involved in developing and utilizing air pollution models. Current developments in air pollution modeling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field. This newest contribution on air pollution modeling

Overview: Von der Konzeption bis zur Umsetzung und Inbetriebnahme.Für Studierende und Softwareingenieur*innen.Der Weg zur Cross-Plattform Entwicklung.Viele der wichtigsten Technologiekonzerne der Welt bieten Lösungen für mobile Applikationen an, die inzwischen auch zum Entwickeln für andere Zielplattformen als iOS und Android nutzbar sind. Sowohl der Begriff App als auch damit verbundene Technologien wachsen über die Welt der mobilen Endgeräte hinaus. Vor diesem Hintergrund präsentiert dieses Buch das nötige Wissen über den gesamten Entwicklungsprozess einer App von der Konzeption bis zur Umse

Overview: Examines the historical context of the development of skeletal studies across a range of countries.Discusses the challenges of accommodating indigenous perspectives with those of Western science.Expan.This book expands on .Archaeological Human Remains: Global Perspectives. that was published in the Springer Briefs series in 2014 and which had a strong focus on post-colonial countries.  In the current volume, the editors include papers that deal with non-Anglophone European traditions such as Portugal, Germany and France.  In addition, authors continue the exploration of osteological

Overview: Uses authentic scenarios to present the best practices.Discusses the future trends in authentic learning in a global context.Presents the advanced technologies used in authentic learning.Provides an aThis book introduces the advanced technologies used for authentic learning, an educational term that refers to a variety of techniques focusing on how students apply the skills and knowledge acquired in school in real-world situations. In the meanwhile, it presents the latest trends and future developments in learning design, learning environment and assessment for authentic learning usi

Overview: This volume is a revised and augmented edition of part of the book Ob"ekty Biologii Razvitiya (Animal Species for Developmental Studies) published in Rus­ sian in 1975 in the series of monographs Problemy Biologii Razvitiya (Problems of Developmental Biology) by Nauka Publishers, Moscow. That book described the development of organisms most frequently used in developmental biology studies. Data were provided for 22 animal species, belonging to different taxa, from protists to mammals. For the English edition we decided to divide the original book into two parts dealing with vertebrat

Overview: up-to-date results.fast track conference proceedings.state-of-the-art reportThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conferenceproceedings of the 18th International Conference on Applications ofDeclarative Programming and Knowledge Management, INAP 2009, held inÉvora, Portugal, in November 2009.The 12 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks werecarefully reviewed and selected during two rounds of reviewing andimprovement. The conference comprehensively covers the impactof programmable logic solvers in the internet society, its underlyingtechnologies, and

Overview: Focuses on the practicability of the industrialization of unmanned vehicles.Summarizes the core technology of unmanned vehicle and the vehicle network.Introduces the key technologies with profound theThe subject of this book is artificial intelligence (AI), introducing the fast road sensing algorithm and system based on image pattern recognition for unmanned vehicle, especially for traffic sign recognition and complex road recognition. With rich figures and credible data, this book systematically and comprehensively describes the core technology and industrialization focus of today‘s

Overview: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: ​Thomas Sonderegger und Simon Hartmann gehen der Frage nach, welche Rolle Telematik (z. B. Fahrtenschreiber, Crashrecorder) für die Zukunft der Motorfahrzeugversicherung spielt und wie diese Entwicklung durch Kundinnen und Kunden bewertet wird. Vor dem Hintergrund, dass manche Tarifierungen – beispielsweise nach Geschlecht – in der EU nicht mehr zulässig sind, könnte gerade Telematik die nächste Generation von Versicherungsprodukten tiefgreifend formen. Die vorliegende Studie zeigt, welche Hürden es zu bewältigen gi

Overview: Introduces the concept of topological derivative in a simple and pedagogical manner using a direct approach based on calculus of variations combined with compound asymptotic analysis.Offers numerical This book presents the topological derivative method through selected examples, using a direct approach based on calculus of variations combined with compound asymptotic analysis. This new concept in shape optimization has applications in many different fields such as topology optimization, inverse problems, imaging processing, multi-scale material design and mechanical modeling includin

Overview: Die Ablaufplanung bei Werkstattfertigung stellt ein äußerst komplexes Problem dar, das seit Jahrzehnten Gegenstand intensiver Forschungsarbeiten ist. Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches stehen Werkstattsteuerungsprobleme mit und ohne Berücksichtigung von Störungen im Produktionsablauf und deren Lösung auf der Grundlage dezentraler Steuerungs- und Koordinationsregeln. Oliver Holthaus gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die relevanten Steuerungsregeln und entwickelt Koordinationsmechanismen, mit denen die dezentral ermittelten Auftragsreihenfolgen aufeinander abgestimmt werden. Die Vorteilh

Overview: Focuses on anisotropic and shape-selective nanomaterials.Discusses various methods of synthesis in terms of composition, size, shape, scalability, and cost.Presents applications in photonics, catalysi.This book reviews recent advances in the synthesis, characterization, and physico-chemical properties of anisotropic nanomaterials. It highlights various emerging applications of nanomaterials, including sensing and imaging, (bio)medical applications, environmental protection, plasmonics, catalysis, and energy. It provides an excellent and comprehensive overview of the effect that morph

Overview: Draws on highly original personal diaries to reflect on police culture.Brings together emergent elements of psychology, ethics and management.Reflects on corruption and how it was perceived both insid.This book offers an autoethnographic examination of the author‘s last three years as a serving police officer and as Head of the Professional Standards Department, recorded in personal journals. It  analyses  the emotional and philosophical impact arising from day-to-day interactions with police officers and reflects on corruption and how it is perceived both inside and outside the serv