BOOKS with Alphabet F (Fa, Fb,Fc, Fd, Fe…... )

Overview: Examines state-supported dance companies and the way in which they represent the nation-state.Looks at an array of choreographers and artistic directors across a wide spectrum of dance genres.Explores.This book is about the folk: the folk in folk dance, the folk in folklore, the folk in folk wisdom. When we see folk dance on the stage or in a tourist setting, which is the way in which many of us experience folk dance, the question arises are these the “real folk” performing their authentic dances? Or are they urban, well trained, carefully-rehearsed professional dancers who make thei

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Overview: Highlights the uniqueness of family firms in the Latin American context.Offers an understanding of the emergence and growth of family businesses in Latin America chronologically.Presents success case This book explores the emergence and evolution of family firms throughout Latin America, from the colonial period to the modern day. In the course of Latin American history, institutions evolved to create order and reduce the uncertainty of the market. Using institutional change theory, social capital theory in organizational settings and resource-based view as organizing frameworks, the

Overview: Addresses the question of the effect of ICT on human information processing from a broad angle and integrates perspectives from multiple disciplines, while also presenting innovative approaches to the.Research on students’ media use outside of education is just slowly taking off. Influences of information and communication technologies (ICT) on human information processing are widely assumed and particularly effects of dis- and misinformation are a current threat to democracies. Today, higher education competes with a very diverse (online) media landscape and domain-specific content

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Overview: Flucht und Asyl im Fokus von Sozial- und Humanwissenschaften.Problemstellungen, Sachverhalte und Klärungsversuche.Forschungsbasiertes Wissen und neue Reflexionen des hochaktuellen Themenkomplexes.Incl.Der Band erschließt den Themenkomplex ‚Flucht und Asyl‘ durch eine Zusammenschau unterschiedlicher disziplinärer Perspektiven, die die Breite verschiedener wissenschaftlicher Zugänge aufnimmt. In ihren Beiträgen rekonstruieren die Autorinnen und Autoren zentrale Elemente zum aktuellen Wissenstand und zeigen Forschungsperspektiven und Handlungsoptionen auf, die aktuell in den Humanwissen

Overview: Includes empirical studies of Central and Eastern European countries.Illustrates what elements impact the sustainability of a pension system.Highlights the need for a holistic approach in order to refThe sustainability of public pension systems has become an important aspect for governments and institutions worldwide. This book addresses the multiple elements that influence the sustainability of pension systems with a special focus on central and eastern European countries. .Supported by the results of econometric empirical studies, the authors discuss and analyse areas like social e

Overview: Fast-conference-tracks of FHIES 2013 Up-to-date results Focus on healthcare ICT applications in the developing worldThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Foundations of Health Information Engineering and Systems, FHIES 2013, held in Macau, China, in August 2013. The 19 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited talk in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in following subjects: panel position statements, pathways, generation and certificatio

Overview: Standardlehr- und Nachschlagewerk in Ausbildung und Beruf.Zahlreiche Abbildungen unterstützen das Verständnis.Um aktuelle Entwicklungen in der additiven Fertigung deutlich erweitert.Die Wirtschaftlichkeit der industriellen Produktion hängt vorwiegend von der richtigen Auswahl der Fertigungsverfahren ab. Dabei müssen die an Produktionsplanung, Fertigungstechnik und Konstruktion beteiligten Akteur*innen ausreichende Kenntnisse über die aktuellen technischen Entwicklungen haben. Dieses Lehrbuch soll bei der Vermittlung dieser Kenntnisse die Brücke schlagen zwischen theoretischen Erläute

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.978-3-662-42757-6978-3-662-43034-7

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Overview: Explores poverty themes in India through financial schemes introduced by the Government of India.Examines financial inclusion uniquely and explicitly.Suitable for professional, policy makers, economisThe exclusion of the destitute population from the formal financial system is a long-standing problem in India. This book examines the performance of financial inclusion policies in India to understand their impact on two urban vulnerable groups, Slum Dwellers and Beggars. This study includes analysis at the national level, the variables of the financial inclusion index like Penetration,

Overview: 978-3-540-04033-0978-3-540-35770-4Series ISSN 0065-3195 Series E-ISSN 1436-5030

Overview: Spannendes Buch über den Umgang mit Fehlern.Fallbeispiele aus der Luftfahrt illustrieren anschaulich, welche dramatischen Konsequenzen es haben kann, wenn über Fehler geschwiegen wird.Crew Resource MaIn diesem Buch über Fehlermanagement demonstriert der Autor auf faszinierende Weise, wie wichtig es ist, aus Fehlern zu lernen und beschreibt praxisnah, wie dieses Konzept im Unternehmensumfeld eingesetzt werden kann. Anhand konkreter Beispiele aus der zivilen und militärischen Luftfahrt schildert er eindrucksvoll, wie dort nach und nach ein einschlägiges Fehlermanagement, nämlich das Cr

Overview: Finite mixture distributions arise in a variety of applications ranging from the length distribution of fish to the content of DNA in the nuclei of liver cells. The literature surrounding them is large and goes back to the end of the last century when Karl Pearson published his well-known paper on estimating the five parameters in a mixture of two normal distributions. In this text we attempt to review this literature and in addition indicate the practical details of fitting such distributions to sample data. Our hope is that the monograph will be useful to statisticians interested i

Overview: Over the last decade, the commercial world has more and more embraced open source software such as the Linux operating system. What started out as an ideological movement for “Free Software” and as a hobbyists’ thing has largely turned into a ma- stream part of the IT industry. By 2008, even the long-time open source critic Microsoft has created two open source licenses, and it comes as little surprise when Google - leases the complete mobile operating system stack of its Android phone as open source. Yet, how exactly open source software and in particular the open source style of so

Overview: The richest multidisciplinary work in eastern North America, combining Paleoindian archaeology, event stratigraphy, vertebrate paleontology, rich pollen records, and extraordinary macrobotanical data,Over the last 20 years the Aucilla River Prehistory Project has been one of the most f- cinating stories unfolding in Florida. This project, uncovering the remains of plants and animals from the end of the last Ice Age and the beginning of Florida’s human oc- pation, is answering questions important to the entire western hemisphere. Questions such as when did people first arrive in the A

Overview: Introduces readers to hitherto neglected areas in Waismann’s oeuvre.Explores the notion of open texture and its applicability in varied fields from law and linguistics to logic.Offers a much needed st.This edited collection covers Friedrich Waismann‘s most influential contributions to twentieth-century philosophy of language: his concepts of open texture and language strata, his early criticism of verificationism and the analytic-synthetic distinction, as well as their significance for experimental and legal philosophy. .In addition, Waismann‘s original papers in ethics, metaphysics,

Overview: Forschendes Lernen auf dem Prüfstand.Partizipative Lernorientierung und Öffnung des Lernprozesses für die pädagogische Praxis.Zeitgemäße und theoretisch fundierte Weiterentwicklung des Ansatzes.Includ.Im Zentrum diesesBuches steht die Fragestellung, wie forschendes Lernen angesichts eines sichbeschleunigenden medialen Wandels und dem Phänomen der Globalisierungangemessen verstanden und eingesetzt werden kann. Es  werden erkenntnistheoretische Thesenentfaltet, bildungs- sowie medientheoretische Positionenin Bezug auf das forschende Lernen diskutiert, methodische Fragestellungenanwendu

Overview: This book contains a selection of the papers presented at the 24th Meeting of the Euro Working Group on Financial Modelling held in Valencia, Spain, on April 8-10, 1.999. The Meeting took place in the Bancaja Cultural Center, a nice palace of the XIX century, located in the center of the city. Traditionally, members of the Euro Working Group on Financial Mod­ elling meet twice a year, hosted by different active groups in successions. The year 1999 was very special for us because the University of Valencia celebrates its fifth century. The Meeting was very well attended and of high qu