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Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2009, held in Toulouse, France in April 2009. The 42 revised full papers and 18 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited lectures and 25 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 188 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on retrieval model, collaborative IR / filtering, learning, multimedia - metadata, expert search - advertising, evaluation, opinion detection, web IR, representation, clustering

Overview: Die Entwicklung effektiver, auf die Ziele privater und institutioneller Kunden zugeschnittener Investmentprodukte und -lösungen hat für Investment- und Wealth-Manager besondere Relevanz. Anleger nutzen zunehmend derivative Finanzinstrumente, um die in ihren Investmentportfolios liegenden Risiken abzusichern. ..Christian Ohlms zeigt auf, wie komplexe Investmentziele, die die integrale Einbeziehung von Derivaten, derivatebasierten Investmentstrategien und zeitlicher Dynamik in die Investmentportfolio-Optimierung erfordern, intertemporal erreicht werden können. Im Vordergrund stehen die

Overview: Written to help fill the gap regarding the dramatic changes that have to be made to the accounting system of a transition economy using Russia as a case study.Includes supplementary material: .Much has been written about the economic and political problems of countries that are in the process of changing from centrally planned systems to market systems. Most studies have focused on the economic, legal, political, and sociological problems these economies have had to face during the transition period. However, not much has been written about the dramatic changes that have to be made t

Overview: Provides the first detailed exploration of how visual and performing artists experience practice in the university research management framework.Updates the 1998 Strand Report into research in the cre.This book focuses on the relationship between the university and a particular cohort of academic staff: those in visual and performing arts disciplines who joined the university sector in the 1990s.  It explores how artistic researchers have been accommodated in the Australian university management framework and the impact that this has had on their careers, identities, approaches to th

Overview: Ermöglicht optimale Vorbereitung auf Prüfungen in der Höheren Mathematik.In der vorliegenden 4. Auflage um weitere interaktive Aufgaben ergänzt.Request lecturer material: .Mehr als 700 typische Klausur- und Übungsaufgaben zur Höheren Mathematik für Ingenieure, Natur- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler mit detaillierten Lösungen ermöglichen eine optimale Vorbereitung auf Prüfungen und erleichtern die Bearbeitung von Übungsblättern. Darüber hinaus illustrieren Programmieraufgaben den Einsatz von MATLAB.®. und Maple™ bei zentralen mathematischen Problemstellungen..Die vierte Auflage enthält

Overview: Die Physik des Universums: Verstehen Sie die Welt der weißen Zwerge und schwarzen Löcher!.Includes supplementary material: Von weißen Zwergen und schwarzen Löchern: Diese Einführung in Grundlagen und Theorie vermittelt anschaulich und kompakt ein Verständnis der Physik des Universums. Dargestellt werden die wichtigen physikalischen Modelle, mit denen die Sterne beschrieben werden können. Viele der faszinierenden Phänomene unseres Universums lassen sich so quantitativ untersuchen.978-3-642-33579-2978-3-322-84805-5Series ISSN 1615-3766

Overview: From 1-4 April 1986 a Symposium on Algebraic Groups was held at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, in celebration of the 350th birthday of the University and the 60th of T.A. Springer. Recognized leaders in the field of algebraic groups and related areas gave lectures which covered wide and central areas of mathematics. Though the fourteen papers in this volume are mostly original research contributions, some survey articles are included. Centering on the Symposium subject, such diverse topics are covered as Discrete Subgroups of Lie Groups, Invariant Theory, D-modules, Lie

Overview: 978-3-540-11173-3978-3-540-38953-8Series ISSN 0075-8434 Series E-ISSN 1617-9692

Overview: Risk assessment has come to assume acute importance in theformer Soviet Union since money is so scarce, yet the needs forcleanup are so huge. Other factors contribute to this situation, too:New leaders are still emerging, and governmental structures are stillevolving. This creates a particular difficulty for environmentalistswho attempt to become involved in the risk assessment process. .New information continues to surface on the fallout from Chernobyl andits consequences for human health. Scientists are still debating theeffects of low doses of radiation delivered over a long perio

Overview: Develops the fundamental skills needed to describe linguistic data.Uses song lyrics as a familiar tool in the description of language features.Demonstrates with examples that English (particularly RP .This textbook introduces the field of linguistics, demonstrating syntactic categories, morphological structures, phonological/metric structures, syllable structures, and varieties of English in an accessible way by using portions of song lyrics from popular music. ..The varieties of English covered include Received Pronunciation (RP) and General American, as well as some features of Aus

Overview: Brings together leading scholars and highly experienced practitioners of workplace mediation from around the world.Provides crucial knowledge of workplace mediation and tools to academics, practitione.This book compares the unique features of workplace mediation to other contexts of mediation, as well as the specific competences each situation requires of the mediator. It covers many important issues related to workplace mediation and discusses interventions by managers, such as conflict coaching and informal mediation. It proposes a new model to assess the effectiveness of mediation

Overview: Covers optoelectronic technology, biological object analysis, and complex object state determination.Includes infrared modeling, thermal imaging resolution, and electro-optical surveillance enhancemen.This book covers vibroacoustic monitoring, inertial attitude systems, and control system for device processing in complex objects. Modern approaches to the synthesis of algorithmic support for a strapdown inertial attitude system are considered. The general characteristics of navigation systems and the composition of their inertial measurement unit are given. The methods of initial alig

Overview: Covers the properties and applications of nanostructured materials..Deals with a broad spectrum of biomaterials, semiconductors, soft-materials.Brings recent advances in nanostructured materials and tThis book presents recent advances in nanostructured materials. It describes the characterization of nanomaterials, their preparation methods and performance testing techniques; the design and development of nano-scale devices; and the applications of nanomaterials, with examples taken from different industries, such as energy, bioengineering and medicine. The book is broadly divided int

Overview: .Historical archaeology has largely focused on the study of early military sites and homes of upper class. Research on lower classes was viewed as a supplement to local histories documenting political, military and financial leaders of the 18th and 19th centuries...An Archaeological Study of Rural Capitalism and Material Life. will be of interest to historical archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, social historians, and historical sociologists, especially researchers studying the influence of globalization and economic development upon rural regions like Appalachia. .978-0-306-47

Overview: Die Bedeutung der Erziehung in der Familie und in verschiedenen Kulturen für die Entstehung von Aggressivität.Ergebnisse umfangreicher Längsschnittuntersuchungen an Jugendlichen, Müttern und ihren KinIn dem Band wird die Bedeutung der Erziehung in der Familie und in verschiedenen Kulturen für die Entstehung von Aggressivität behandelt. Es werden Ergebnisse umfangreicher Längsschnittuntersuchungen an Jugendlichen, Müttern und ihren Kindern berichtet. Deutliche Unterschiede in der Erziehung und in der Aggressivitätsentwicklung von Kindern und Jugendlichen wurden in Deutschland (und z.T

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.978-3-642-50636-9978-3-642-50946-9

Overview: Presents an information-knowledge-driven general theory of entropy applicable to all areas of knowing in science, and non-science.Shows how the fuzzy paradigm of thought can apply to fuzzy information.This book presents an epistemic framework for dealing with information-knowledge and certainty-uncertainty problems within the space of quality-quantity dualities. It bridges between theoretical concepts of entropy and entropy measurements, proposing the concept and measurement of fuzzy-stochastic entropy that is applicable to all areas of knowing under human cognitive limitations over

Overview: Eine Einführung in die verschiedenen Bereiche des Selbstmanagements.Eine Darstellung der entscheidenden Fähigkeiten effektiver und effizienter Führungskräfte.Bewährte Arbeitsmethoden, um Aufgaben effiIn diesem .essential. geben die Autoren Einblicke in die verschiedenen Aspekte des Selbstmanagements und vermitteln viele Tipps und Methoden, um „besser“ zu arbeiten. Im Zeitalter von Mantras wie „Thinking outside the box“ erscheint Selbstmanagement eigentlich nahezu irrelevant. Die Autoren zeigen, das geschieht zu Unrecht! Selbstmanagement umfasst nach ihrer Darstellung vor allem Zeitma

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics., Volume 3 of the .Proceedings of the 2016 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics., the third volume of ten from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.  The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of optical methods ranging from traditional photoelasticity and interferometry to more recent DIC and DVC techniques, and includes papers in the following general technical research

Overview: Describes advances in strategies and tactics regarding prey procurement in Argentina.An overview of research in different locations, environments, species and social groups over a large period of time.This book presents the state of the art for the studies of strategies and tactics for the procurement of preys in Argentina in different regions and chronologies (from the end of the Pleistocene until historic moments). The chapters are related to the performance of these practices in hunter-gatherer, shepherd and farmer societies. From the environmental point of view, they show cases i