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Overview: Norway, Sweden, and Denmark are home to more than 90,000 transnational adoptees of Scandinavian parents raised in a predominantly white environment. This ethnography provides a unique perspective on how these transracial adoptees conceptualize and construct their sense of identity along the intersection of ethnicity, family, and national lines.978-1-349-50273-8978-1-137-47282-3

Overview: This book intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses.978-1-137-50099-1Series ISSN 2634-6397 Series E-ISSN 2634-6400

Overview: Erfolgreich Geschäfte machen - sicher verhandeln in ChinaVorwort Mag es auch viele Regalmeter Literatur über China geben eine grundlegende Einführung in das Interkulturelle Management ist nach wie vor vonnöten. Dass nun eine 2. Auflage dringend erforderlich ist, unterstreicht den Bedarf fundierter Chinainformation. Führungskräfte, die häufig in China sind oder sein werden, haben keine Zeit, dicke Bücher über die chinesische Geschichte zu lesen oder sich in die Lehren des Konfuzius einzuarbeiten. Trotzdem be- tigen sie kurz und übersichtlich einige Informationen über die chi- sische K

Overview: Comprehensively prepares readers for the cardiac MRI exam.Includes review questions and detailed answers.Uses unique, original images to teach key points.This book serves as a board review book for cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR). CMR is now an essential part of cardiology training and there is yet to be a dedicated review book for the topic. This book seeks to fill that gap. With 150 questions and answers, this review provides a comprehensive and easily readable educational tool for trainees and cardiologists. The book is divided into 10 chapters, each about 15 quest

Overview: Provides a thorough analysis of the reasons and performance of China’s economic growth.Illustrates how trade contributed to China’s rapid development in the past four decades.Suggests several possibleThis book mainly focuses on the miracle of China’s foreign trade in the past 40 years from five perspectives: first, it briefly reviews the import substitution strategy China adopted before its opening-up; second, it analyzes the export-oriented strategy that contributes a lot to China’s economic growth since 1980s; third, it discusses the impacts of trade liberalization and China’s part

Overview: Discusses hate crime in terms of academia, activism and policy.Focusses on both Ireland, as well as a broad range of hate crime issues.Offers a highly multidisciplinary and inclusive approach to the cThis book provides a unique insight into the lived realities of hate crime in Ireland and its treatment within the criminal justice system. The significance of the Irish case is contextualised within the European and global policy contexts and an overview of hate crime in Ireland, both north and south, and its differential treatment in each jurisdiction’s criminal justice system is offer

Overview: Provides an entertaining read that encourages comparisons across space and time.Documents conversations with personalities from contemporary history.Presents a personal and contemporary historically r.The diary notes that Ludger Kühnhardt took while visiting or staying in 235 countries and territories around the world create a fascinating panorama, reflected in the personal impressions, encounters and experiences of a political scientist and journalist working all over the world. The book reconstructs the connections between Europe‘s transformations and the emerging global era over s

Overview: Deutsche Krankenhäuser sehen sich einem immer größer werdenden wirtschaftlichen Druck und als Folge auch einem verstärkten Wettbewerb um die Patienten ausgesetzt. Dem Beziehungsmanagement zu den niedergelassenen Ärzten, die maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die Krankenhauswahl der Patienten nehmen, kommt damit eine besonders hohe Bedeutung zu. Dirk Heinrich entwickelt ein Kundenwertmodell für niedergelassene Ärzte, das zur Steuerung solch eines Beziehungsmanagements herangezogen werden kann, und operationalisiert es für ein spezifisches Krankenhaus, bevor er auf Basis der Ergebnisse einer um

Overview: Includes supplementary material: Stakeholder Management - From Management Philosophy to a Tool for Everyday Working Life Use of Stakeholder Management Today In times of growing globalisation and increasingly tough c- petition the use of stakeholder management tools is becoming much more widespread. Nowadays, the concept of stakeholder mana- ment is no longer limited to the specific focusing of all corporate activity on interest groups, such as customers, employees, sha- holders or suppliers, but has become an integral part of a company’s daily action. Measuring the quality of relatio

Overview: First fully comprehensive computer vision textbook.Structured to support active curricula and project-oriented courses.Presents exercises and additional reading at the end of each chapter.Supplies sup.Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications. explores the variety of techniques commonly used to analyze and interpret images. It also describes challenging real-world applications where vision is being successfully used, both for specialized applications such as medical imaging, and for fun, consumer-level tasks such as image editing and stitching, which students can apply to their ow

Overview: Presents a working, fully calibrated model of citation dynamics that is ready to use.Offers a quantitative example of how concepts developed in the field of complex networks help to solve the real-lif.This book deals with the science of science by applying network science methods to citation networks and uniquely presents a physics-inspired model of citation dynamics. This stochastic model of citation dynamics is based on a well-known copying or recursive search mechanism. The measurements covered in this text yield parameters of the model and reveal that citation dynamics of scienti

Overview: A comprehensive compilation of multiple facets of cannabis from a medical perspective.Includes several non-medical sections which indirectly impact medicine from a public health and safety perspectiveLegalization of marijuana is becoming increasingly prominent in the United States and around the world. While there is some discussion of the relationship between marijuana and overall health, a comprehensive resource that outlines the medical literature for several organ systems, as well as non-medical societal effects, has yet to be seen. While all physicians strive to practice evidenc

Overview: ICCAL ‘89 is the second in a series of International Conferences on .Computer Assisted Learning.. The first one was organized by the Institute for Computer Assisted Learning (ICAL) of the University of Calgary, May ‘87. The success of this first ICCAL demonstrated the need for a regular international, high-caliber conference on post-secondary education which brings together an expanded list of issues concerning computer learning. The coherency of the ICCAL conference series is assured by an international steering committee, and a group of experts in the field acting as the advisory b

Overview: Describes the empirical contradictory actions China has been displaying in its grand strategy manifestations in recent years.Adds nuance to the theory of grand strategy concerning future applications This book describes the main contradictions in China’s actions on the world stage—peaceful vs. assertive—through a culturally informed framework that takes into account China’s historical memory and political culture. The author analyzes nine cases, including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), as examples that show both China’s commitment to peace and development in the reg

Overview: Describes different kinds of mobility of cooperative objects.Includes supplementary material: .Includes supplementary material: .Localization and tracking are key functionalities in ubiquitous computing systems and techniques. In recent years a very high variety of approaches, sensors and techniques for indoor and GPS-denied environments have been developed. This book briefly summarizes the current state of the art in localization and tracking in ubiquitous computing systems focusing on cluster-based schemes. Additionally, existing techniques for measurement integration, node inclusi

Overview: Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols.Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results.Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts.Includes supplementary materia.The aim this volume is to present the methods, challenges, software, and applications of this widespread and yet still evolving and maturing field. Computational Protein Design, the first book with this title, guides readers through computational protein design approaches, software and tailored solutions to specific case-study targets. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecul

Overview: Reviewed by international experts.Surveys recent results in a systematic way.Enables derivation of many qualitative economic conclusions.Includes supplementary material: .In recent years there has been a significant increase of interest in continuous-time Principal-Agent models, or contract theory, and their applications. Continuous-time models provide a powerful and elegant framework for solving stochastic optimization problems of finding the optimal contracts between two parties, under various assumptions on the information they have access to, and the effect they have on the under

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Science and Education in Computer Science, CSECS 2023, held in June 2023 in Boston, MA, USA..The 23 full papers and 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The papers cover many systems technologies, applications, and services as well as solutions. Multiple topics have been addressed including the theory of computation, models of computation, computational complexity and cryptography, logic, design, and analysis of algorithms, network archit

Overview: erste Aufarbeitung der Anfänge der Computerkunst in den 60er Jahren und ihrer ästhetischen Theorie.umfassende Analyse der philosophischen, gesellschaftlichen und künstlerischen Konzeptionen.Interviewsvon Frieder Nake Seit dem Herbst 2004 und bis ins Jahr 2007 hinein, für eine ersta- lich lange Zeit also, zeigt das Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechno- gie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe eine groß angelegte Ausstellung unter dem Titel Die algorithmische Revolution. Am Eingang begegnet man einer verit- len Zuse Z 22, es gibt Computergra? k aus der frühesten Zeit, Duchamp, Op-Art, Konstruktives und Ko

Overview: Provides a structured overview of the current situation of conscious business, including its core characteristics, drivers and related contexts.Offers insights ranging across various industries and buThis book presents conscious business as a constantly expanding and powerful approach to reinvent and shape organizations in a human and beneficial manner. In particular it examines the core characteristics, main drivers and challenges of conscious businesses in Germany. The book offers a structured overview of the current situation of the concept and outlines important issues that need