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

Overview: Comprehensive and complex in its treatment of Chinese as a Foreign/Second Language.Offers a historical overview before launching into the latest information on current policy and practice of learning .This book offers historical, philosophical, and sociocultural perspectives on Chinese language education for speakers of other languages with a special focus on Chinese language education in the United States. It provides a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary look at changes in CFL/CSL education over time in China and the U.S. and the philosophical, political and sociocultural influences

Overview: Addresses the existing corporate sustainability gaps in the selected cases (country/industry/region).Showcases the value of corporate sustainability to achieve the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.Provides inThis book aims to answer the question: how can the industry action international approaches to corporate sustainability, ultimately achieving sustainable development and overall sustainability? With this question in mind, this manuscript examines how the industry, through existing approaches to corporate sustainability, contribute to addressing conflicting demands emerging from the achie

Overview: .Conditional Monte Carlo: Gradient Estimation andOptimization. .Applications. deals with various gradientestimation techniques of perturbation analysis based on the use ofconditional expectation. The primary setting is discrete-eventstochastic simulation. This book presents applications to queueing andinventory, and to other diverse areas such as financial derivatives,pricing and statistical quality control. To researchers already in thearea, this book offers a unified perspective and adequately summarizesthe state of the art. To researchers new to the area, this book offersa more sy

Overview: Presents an in-depth study of corporate social action and the factors influencing a decision to engage in it.Stresses the link between CSA and a firm‘s core managerial policies and practices.Draws on The decision to engage in corporate social action (CSA), and the debates regarding its costs, benefits and implications to corporate performance represent a demanding issue for scholars and managers. Research is inconclusive regarding the causal relations between CSA, corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP), despite numerous empirical and theoretical

Overview: Maximizes reader insights into how designers create new concepts, to be developed into products, leading to new business, and to satisfying human needs.Explores the power and limitations of formal des.Maximising reader insights into the theory, models, methods and fundamental reasoning of design, this book addresses design activities in industrial settings, as well as the actors involved. This approach offers readers a new understanding of design activities and related functions, properties and dispositions. Presenting a ‘design mindset’ that seeks to empower students, researchers, a

Overview: 2 e This book describes principles, methods and tools that are common to computer applications for design tasks. CAD is considered in this book as a discipline that provides the required know-how in computer hardware and software, in systems analysis and in engineering methodology for specifying, designing, implementing, introducing, and using computer based systems for design purposes. The first chapter gives an impression of the book as a whole, and following chapters deal with the history and the components of CAD, the process aspect of CAD, CAD architecture, graphical devices and

Overview: Attempts to reconstruct various parts of the heart started even before the beginning of open cardiac surgery. By the late 1950s and early 1960 s several closed and open procedures had already been described. In that era, several surgeons in Europe and the Americas were particularly prompted to develop various techniques of valve re­ construction because of the lack of acceptable valve prostheses and conduits which have become available subsequently. At that time, several congenital lesions still defied definitive correction, and clinical attempts at left ventricular wall replacement

Overview: This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS ‘96, held in Sydney, Australia, in August 1996..The book presents five full papers by the invited speakers together with 15 revised full papers selected for presentation at the conference from a respectable number of submissions. The issues addressed are natural language processing, information retrieval, graph operations, conceptual graph and Peirce theory, knowledge acquisition, theorem proving and CG programming, and order-based organisation and encoding.978-3-540

Overview: In-depth resource about community conservation in Mexico.Includes detailed case studies concerning community conservation in Mexico.Fills a very real need for more information about Mexican experience.This book provides an in-depth analysis on community conservation in Mexico. The volume explores vivid examples and case studies that illustrate some of the critical issues at stake, including the participation of local communities in national and global conservation, indigenous and local perceptions of conservation initiatives in Southern Mexico, and challenges in ICCA governance and e

Overview: Pensato e scritto per docenti, studenti e professionisti che vogliono arricchire le proprie conoscenze, il volume presenta le innovazioni nel settore della Chemoinformatica.Panoramica sull‘ampia gammaChemoinformatica”, o informatica chimica, si riferisce all’uso di “metodi informatici per risolvere problemi chimici”: ha come oggetto ”strutture molecolari” e descrizioni, proprietà e dati ad esse collegate.Grazie a questo volume, pensato e scritto per docenti, studenti e professionisti che desiderino arricchire le proprie conoscenze in una o più aree di applicazione della “Chemoinforma

Overview: Cesarean section rates Percentage Indication Low High Failure to progress 2. 0 4. 0 Repeat cesarean section 2. 0 6. 0 Breech and abnormal lie 1. 3 3. 5 Fetal distress 1. 5 3. 0 Third-trimester bleeding 1. 0 1. 0 Totals 7. 8 17. 5 l From Quilligan, by permission of Contemporary Obstetrics and Gynecology. vaginal delivery, I have yet to meet a physician who would do something they believed would harm their patient even if they were paid ten times as much for a section. On the other hand, there are fears and misconceptions. I have heard many doctors say "I have never been sued for a sec

Overview: Investigators, teachers, and practitioners in the biomedical sciences are keenly aware of the current crisis in scientific communications. With well over a thousand biomedical journals producing new issues each month, and with approximately five hundred new technical books in biomedicine being 1 published each year, not to mention the proliferation of information-ex­ change meetings, it is all too clear that we are in danger of being inundated by a flood of tables, figures, and hypotheses. The problem is particularly acute in immunology, as the rate of information production is incre

Overview: The only book to explore concepts adjacent or related to creativity in an accessible yet comprehensive way.Fully revised 2nd edition with 6 new chapters on the concepts of ‘body, digital & impossible‘.Creativity — A New Vocabulary. proposes a novel approach to the way in which we talk and think about creativity. It covers a variety of topics not commonly associated with creativity that offer us valuable insights and open up new and exciting possibilities for creative action. This second edition includes six new essays which continue to challenge the traditional vocabulary of creativi

Overview: Explores ways to achieve new forms of governance for sustainable development.Discusses the conflict between scientific objectivity and socioeconomic subjectivity.Provides case studies of socioeconomic.Addressing the links between science and the real world with a sound scientific baseline, .Coastal Water Bodies. targets researchers of various disciplines whose interest lies in the integrated sustainable management of coastal water bodies. The main topic of this book is not the ecology according to its accepted meaning, but rather the ‘places and people’ concerned – the coastal zones

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .Leading experts provide timely and comprehensive information on methods for conditional mutagenesis in the mouse (part 1) and their application to model human physiology and pathophysiology (part 2). It illustrates how sophisticated genetic manipulations of the mouse genome are employed to model human diseases and to identify underlying molecular mechanisms. Finally the book considers the development of new drugs to treat them. .978-3-642-07121-8978-3-540-35109-2Series ISSN 0171-2004 Series E-ISSN 1865-0325

Overview: Basiswerk für Corporate Cultural Resonsibility.Möglichkeiten, Potentiale und Einsatzbereiche des CCR werden dem Leser vorgestellt.Enthält 6 anschauliche Business Cases.Spricht sowohl Unternehmer als aCorporate Cultural Responsibility (CCR) meint die Verantwortung von Unternehmen gegenüber Kultur. Dieses Buch zeigt in einer Sammlung von hochkarätigen Beiträgen wie beide Seiten gewinnbringend Potentiale der CCR nutzen können. Wissenschaftliche Artikel liefern einen theoretischen Rahmen für die CCR und erläutern deren Grundlagen. Beispielgebende Business Cases zeigen wie CCR erfolgreich

Overview: .This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2020, held in Dallas, TX, USA, in December 2020.. The 55 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. The papers are grouped into the following topics: Approximation Algorithms; Scheduling; Network Optimization; Complexity and Logic; Search, Facility and Graphs; Geometric Problem; Sensors, Vehicles and Graphs; and Graph Problems. ..Due to the Corona pandemic this event was held virtually..978-3-030-64842

Overview: The leading textbook in the field now comprehensively revised and updated. First text to cover the impact of the Labour government on community care. Sets community care in a historical and contemporaThe second edition of this leading textbook on care in the community assesses the impact of community care on users and carers and the changing roles of social services, health care and other professionals. Strong emphasis is placed on the historical and international context - especially the importance of the EU - and on providing a balanced assessment of achievements and failures to da

Overview: Kompakte Einführung in den Bereich Crossmedia Publishing.Praxisorientierte Aufgaben mit ausführlichen Lösungen.Erschienen in der Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung.Was ist Crossmedia Marketing? Dieses Buch verrät es Ihnen.Durch die Digitalisierung und die dadurch begünstigte Entstehung von sozialen Netzwerken werden Inhalte schon längst nicht mehr nur über einen Kanal verbreitet. Das Zauberwort lautet stattdessen: Crossmedia Publishing. Das gleichnamige Buch von Peter Bühler, Patrick Schlaich und Dominik Sinner verrät Ihnen, was genau sich hinter diesem Begriff verbirgt – nämlich die Pr

Overview: Covers the history of China‘s low carbon development and direction of future decarbonization efforts.Deals with achieving carbon neutrality while ensuring normal development, by urban innovation and tThis book considers the impact of global climate change, advocating to promote sustainable development from the perspective of low carbon and climate resilience, by reducing carbon emissions in different aspects of urban and regional development. As the world‘s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, China is continuously exploring a sustainable path to achieve the momentous goal of 2060 carb