BOOKS with Alphabet C (Ca, Cb,Cc, Cd, Ce…... )

Overview: Offers a groundbreaking study of the investment and lending activities of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) in contrast to both the American mainstream financial industry and other This is the first scholarly analysis that examines the development and achievements of the American community development movement. Community development is now a multi-billion industry in the US. Hundreds of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), located in all regions of the country, have successfully forged locally-based strategies that provide affordable housing, foste

Overview: Covers a wide range of topics in fluid dynamics.Includes historic facts about the development of the field.Written by an expert in the field.Includes supplementary material: This monograph presents a synopsis of fluid dynamics based on the personal scientific experience of the author who has contributed immensely to the field. The interested reader will also benefit from the general historical context in which the material is presented in the book. The book covers a wide range of relevant topics of the field, and the main tool being rational asymptotic modelling (RAM) approach. The t

Overview: Praktikable Lösungsansätze zur Vermeidung von Interessenkonflikten.Ausführliche Erläuterung zu beachtender Zurechnungs- und Abgrenzungsfragen.Umfassendes Bild der aktuellen Judikatur zum Thema.Vor dem Hintergrund verschärfter Eigenmittelvorschriften der Kreditinstitute und angespannter Finanzmärkte wird Cash Pooling als Form der Konzernfinanzierung immer wichtiger. Neben den zivilrechtlichen Grundlagen werden die mit Cash Pooling verbundenen Fragen der Kapitalaufbringung und -erhaltung sowie des Haftungsverbunds behandelt. Darüber hinaus wird der Gegensatz zwischen up- und downstream

Overview: Provides valuable insights on how to be an effective capital creator – the world’s number one game.Lays out how to build a well-defined and shared understanding of an organization’s capital creation s.This book provides a set of integrated frameworks—capital, systems, and objects—that transcend managerial or technology hype by focusing on the long-term fundamentals that sustain organizational success. Many organizations are currently addressing two important transformational issues: ecological sustainability and digitization. Sustainability is a goal, an end, and digitization is a pr

Overview: This book shows that the rise of the intelligentsia occurred earlier than is normally thought, and that by 1922, rather than 1932, the underlying principles of the new Soviet government‘s policies towards culture had already emerged and "proto-Stalinism" was increasingly important.978-1-349-11003-2

Overview: .The multi-volume set of LNCS books with volume numbers 15059 up to 15147 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2024, held in Milan, Italy, during September 29–October 4, 2024...The 2387 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 8585 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image classification; image processing; object detection; semantic segmentation; human pose estimatio

Overview: Most comprehensive review to date of the literature on cultural intelligence.Only book to include in depth discussions of the two major theories of cultural intelligence.Presents the concept of culturThis book provides a comprehensive review of both the theoretical development and empirical study of the concept of cultural intelligence. A review of previous work on cross-cultural competence provides an historical backdrop against which the two main theories of cultural intelligence are presented. These two approaches, as well as the assessments derived from them, are compared and eva

Overview: The first account of how to use choreography as a means of engaging in critical inquiry.Develops a method for using choreography as a critical inquiry process.Demonstrates how to utilize movement to e.In this book, Shay Welch expands on the contemporary cognitive thinking-in-movement framework, which has its roots in the work of Maxine Sheets-Johnstone but extends and develops within contemporary embodied cognition theory.  Welch believes that dance can be used to ask questions, and this book offers a method of how critical inquiry can be embodied.  First, she presents the theoretica

Overview: Theoretical perspectives and methodological designs of comparative vocational education research.Research results on international comparative vocational education and training.Lessons learnt from com.The volume is devoted to the research of comparative vocational education and training, placing a special emphasis not only on theoretical development, but also on methodological approaches and on achieving excellent research outcomes by strictly concerning comparative studies in vocational education and training. This volume contains scientific contributions by renowned researchers of

Overview: Combines visual, readily absorbed information on current cardiac imaging tests with the latest cardiac intervention techniques.Contributions from leading international experts in the field of Imaging ​​​Multimodality cardiovascular imaging is essential for interventional cardiac procedures and both fields are evolving rapidly. Multimodality Imaging in Cardiac Interventions captures the current state of clinical utility and provides a unique visual aide for teaching, training, and education. The editors have brought together a variety of leading experts from across the United Kingdom

Overview: Dieses Buch bietet den ersten herstellerneutralen Überblick über den deutschen CRM-Softwaremarkt und praxisorientierte Umsetzungshilfen für die Planung und Implementierung eines CRM-Systems.978-3-322-89529-5978-3-322-89528-8

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .This SpringerBrief presents recent advances in the cognitive MAC designs for opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) networks. It covers the basic MAC functionalities and MAC enhancements of IEEE 802.11. Later chapters discuss the existing MAC protocols for OSA and classify them based on characteristic features..The authors provide new research in adaptive carrier sensing-based MAC designs tailored for OSA, which optimize spectrum utilization and ensure a peaceful coexistence of licensed and unlicensed systems. Analytically devised via optimization and g

Overview: Recent Research on Complex Networks.Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Complex Networks CompleNet held March 13-15 2013 in Berlin.Written by leading experts in the field.A network is a mathematical object consisting of a set of points (called vertices or nodes) that are connected to each other in some fashion by lines (called edges). Turns out this simple description corresponds to a bewildering array of systems in the real world, ranging from technological ones such as the Internet and World Wide Web, biological networks such as that of connections of the nervous systems or blood ve

Overview: Bilder sagen mehr als tausend Worte - im Computer generierte und verarbeitete Bilder können alles sagenModerne Computer sind in unserer Zeit weit verbreitet. Sie werden kommerziell und privat zur Bewaltigung vielschichtiger Aufgaben eingesetzt. Als Schnittstelle zur Hardware dienen grafische Betriebssysteme, mit denen der Benutzer bequem mit dem System k- munizieren kann. Die meisten Anwendungen prasentieren sich ebenfalls in grafischer Form und begleiten so den Anwender bei der Erledigung seiner Aufgaben. Viele beniitzen dabei das Computersystem wie ein praktisches Werkzeug und freu

Overview: High-quality articles written by leading experts, including several ICM speakers, the 2014 Fields medalist Martin Hairer and the 2018 Henri Poincaré Prize laureate Percy Deift.Presents developments inThe Abel Symposia volume at hand contains a collection of high-quality articles written by the world’s leading experts, and addressing all mathematicians interested in advances in deterministic and stochastic dynamical systems, numerical analysis, and control theory.. .In recent years we have witnessed a remarkable convergence between individual mathematical disciplines that approach det

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Overview: Greatly enhances the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart disease Features a simple review and concise explanation for each set of anomalies/abnormalities Includes a concise and The aims and scope of this atlas include a complete review of the embryology of the normal heart, the normal cardiac anatomy along with a complete discussion of the terms and definitions used to identify and clarify both normal and abnormal anatomy. In addition, techniques of cardiac CT angiography as it pertains to imaging congenital abnormalities are discussed including radiation conce

Overview: Citizenship is a key issue in current political and social scientific debate and has a wide interdisciplinary market. Author is a recognised authority in this area. This second edition has a more inteThe second edition of this classic text substantially revises and extends the original, so as to take account of theoretical and policy developments and to enhance its international scope.Drawing on a range of disciplines and literatures, the book provides an unusually broad account of citizenship.It recasts traditional thinking about the concept so as to pinpoint important theoretical i

Overview: Offers a non-Western perspective on Chinese stories of interculturality in Education.Explores discourse instruments such as idioms, neologisms, and slogans as a point of analysis.Contains a list of quThis unique book starts from the premise that students, scholars, and educators should be given access to a form of global education that is genuinely .global.. Using the notion of interculturality as change and exchange as a basis, the authors examine fifty discourse instruments (e.g. idioms, neologisms, slogans) related to what they call ‘Chinese stories of interculturality’. China, li

Overview: Up-to-date results.State-of-the-art research.Fast-track conference proceedingsThe two-volume set LNCS 8111 and LNCS 8112 constitute the papers presented at the 14th International Conference on Computer Aided Systems Theory, EUROCAST 2013, held in February 2013 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. The total of 131 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the books. The contributions are organized in topical sections on modelling biological systems; systems theory and applications; intelligent information processing; theory and applications of metaheurist