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

Overview: Discusses the concepts of female agency and subjectivities in film and television through cases in the last decade, investigating emerging notions in the field and introducing original research.Focuse.This volume provides an overview of the landscape of mediated female agencies and subjectivities in the last decade. In three sections, the book covers the films of women directors, television shows featuring women in lead roles, and the representational struggles of women in cultural context, with a special focus on changes in the transformative power of narratives and images across ge

Overview: French comedy films occupy a specific cultural space and are influenced by national traditions and shared cultural references, but at the same time they have always been difficult to classify. This book investigates the different methods in which these comedies textually inscribed and exemplified a variety of cultural and historical landmarks.978-1-349-34143-6978-1-137-10019-1

Overview: Sozialwissenschaftliche StudieIna E. Bieber untersucht die Unterrepräsentation von Frauen in der Politik. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, ob sich Frauen in der Politik nicht beteiligen können, wollen oder sollen. Auf theoretischer und empirischer Grundlage leitet sie ein umfassendes Analyseschema her, anhand dessen die Wahlchancen der Frauen bei Bundestagswahlen im Längs- und Querschnitt und experimentell betrachtet werden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass v. a. makrostrukturelle Faktoren (z. B. Wahlsystem, Parteien) einen zentralen Beitrag zur Erklärung der weiblichen Repräsentation leis

Overview: Frontiers of Industrial Mycology describes the present effortsunderway to create a broad range of large-scale applications usingfilamentous fungi. Important and environmentally sound applicationscurrently being developed include the use of fungi for novel*B-lactams in antibiotic production, biobleaching and thebioconversion of wood pulp, agricultural biotechnology for creatingbiological insecticides and herbicides, food fermentations, and thecommercial raising of shiitake mushrooms, a growing and largelyuntapped market in North America. The topics discussed in this volumeare on the c

Overview: The objective of this monograph is to present some methodological foundations of theoretical mechanics that are recommendable to graduate students prior to, or jointly with, the study of more advanced topics such as statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and elementary particle physics. A program of this nature is inevitably centered on the methodological foundations for Newtonian systems, with particular reference to the central equations of our theories, that is, Lagrange‘s and Hamilton‘s equations. This program, realized through a study of the analytic representations in terms of

Overview: Sozialwissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: Für das Schweizer Fernsehen (SRG SSR idée suisse) stellt sich die Frage nach der Qualität im Zusammenhang mit seinem Programmauftrag (Art. 24 RTVG) und seiner Rolle als Service public-Unternehmen. Die Konzession der SRG, die den Programmauftrag konkretisiert, stellt demgemäß besondere Anforderungen an die Qualität der SRG-Programme. Vor diesem Hintergrund prüft Suzanne Lischer, welche Merkmale das SRG-Programm aufweisen muss, damit es den Qualitätsvorgaben entspricht und somit seinem Service-public-Anspruch gerecht wird.

Overview: Recent research results in Fuzzy Information and Engineering.This book is the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Fuzzy Information and Engineering (ICFIE 2009) held in the famous mountain city Chongqing in Southwestern China, from September 26-29, 2009. Only high-quality papers are included. The ICFIE 2009, built on the success of previous conferences, the ICFIE 2007 (Guangzhou, China), is a major symposium for scientists, engineers and practitioners in the world to present their updated results, ideas, developments and applications in all areas of fuzzy information

Overview: Latest research on Fuzzy Systems and Engineering.Scientific outcome of the 2011 International Conference on Fuzzy Information & Engineering.Written by leading experts in the field.“Fuzzy Engineering and Operations Research” is the edited outcome of the 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Information and Engineering (ICFIE2011) held during Oct. 15-17, 2011 in Chengdu, China and by the 1st academic conference in establishment of Guangdong Province Operations Research Society (GDORSC) held on Oct. 20, 2011 in Guangzhou, China.  The 5th ICFIE2011, built on the success of previous confe

Overview: One of the key issues relating to the perfonnance of national economies is the efficiency of the financial system which stands at the heart of the capital-allocation process. There are two aspects which define efficiency. Static efficiency involves the ali-in difference between rates of return provided to ultimate savers and the cost of funds to users. This ‘gap‘, or spread, reflects the direct costs of production (operating and administrative costs, cost of capital, etc.). It also reflects losses incurred in the financial process, as well as any monopoly profits earned and liquidity

Overview: The volumes of this classic series, now referred to simply as "Zechmeister" after its founder, L. Zechmeister, have appeared under the Springer imprint ever since the series was founded in 1938. The volumes contain contributions on various topics related to the origin, distribution, chemistry, synthesis, biochemistry, function or use of various classes of naturally occurring substances ranging from small molecules to biopolymers. Each contribution is written by a recognized authority in his field and provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the topic in question. Addressed t

Overview: Reports on innovative manufacturing processes, systems, and technologies.Highlights applications of machine learning and automation strategies in manufacturing.First volume of a 2-volume set.This book reports on cutting-edge research and developments in manufacturing, giving a special emphasis to solutions fostering automation and sustainability. Topics cover manufacturing process optimization, remanufacturing, machines and mechanical design, CAD/CAM/CAE, materials characterization and processing, measurement and predictive maintenance techniques. Further topics include artificial in

Overview: Fully updated second edition with the latest research findings and techniques, including more than 15 new chapters.Translates benchmark research on functional neuroimaging modalities into clinical app.This new edition fully updates and expands Faro and Mohamed’s .Functional Neuroradiology., a gold standard, comprehensive introduction to the state-of-the-art functional imaging in neuroradiology, including the physical principles and clinical applications of Diffusion, Perfusion, Permeability, MR spectroscopy, Positron Emission Tomography, BOLD fMRI and Diffusion Tensor Imaging.. .With

Overview: a unique book on a topic of increasing importanceThe fracture and failure of natural building stones has been for many years the concern of the engineering community and particularly the c- munity of scientists working for the restoration and conservation of stone monuments. The need to protect the authentic stone and the requirement for reversibility of the interventions rendered the in-depth knowledge of the mechanical behaviour of both the authentic material and its substitutes - dispensable. This book contains 36 papers presented at the Symposium on “Fracture and Failure of Natur

Overview: Survey of effective methods used today in fuzzy modeling and control by means of geometric bodies and surfaces, enabling the reader to use them in construction of own algorithms.Problem vizualization In the last ten years, a true explosion of investigations into fuzzy modeling and its applications in control, diagnostics, decision making, optimization, pattern recognition, robotics, etc. has been observed. The attraction of fuzzy modeling results from its intelligibility and the high effectiveness of the models obtained. Owing to this the modeling can be applied for the solution of p

Overview: Serves as a comprehensive companion textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in Forest Entomology.Provides comprehensive case studies to accompany chapters on specific feeding guilds and pest m.This open access book will provide an introduction to forest entomology, the principles and techniques of forest insect pest management, the different forest insect guilds/feeding groups, and relevant forest insect pest management case studies. In addition to covering 30% of the earth, forest ecosystems provide numerous timber and non-timber products that affect our daily lives and recr

Overview: The 11th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2007, http://fc07. ifca. ai), organized by the International Financial Crypt- raphy Association (IFCA, http://www. ifca. ai/), was held in Tobago, February 12–15, 2007. The conference is a well-established and premier international - rum for research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate - garding security in the context of ?nance and commerce. We continue to cover all aspects of securing transactions and systems, which this year included a range of technical areas such as cryptograp

Overview: This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited accessThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems, FroCoS 2023, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2023. The symposium was co-located with the 32nd International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, TABLEAUX 2023..The 14 papers presented were thorouhgly reviewed and selected from the 22 high-quality paper submissions. They are grouped in the volume according to the following topic classificat

Overview: This volume covers research in a rapidly growing and important area of formal methods -Each approach is applied to the same case study, allowing the reader to make clear and easy comparisons -Focuses Formal methods have already been shown to improve the development process and quality assurance in system design and implementation. This volume examines whether these benefits also apply to the field of human-computer interface design and implementation, and whether formal methods can offer useful support in usability evaluation and obtaining more reliable implementations of user requir

Overview: Present day heterogeneous catalysis is rapidly being transformed from a technical art into a science-based technology. A major contribution to this important change is the advance of surface spectroscopic techniques able to characterize the complex surfaces of the heterogeneous catalytic system. The Advanced Study Institute (on which the current proceedings is based) has as its primary aim the bringing together of a variety of lecturers, outstanding in those fields of experience, to enable a broad coverage of different relevant approaches. Not only catalyst characterization but also

Overview: .This book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2024, held in Poitiers, France, in June 2024...The 18 full papers, 6 short papers and 5 industrial papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions.. .The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Classification and Clustering; Neural Network and Natural Language Processing; AI tools and Models; Neural Network and Data Mining; Explainability in AI; Industry Session; Learning with Complex Data; Recommendation S