BOOKS with Alphabet I (Ia, Ib,Ic, Id, Ie…... )

Overview: Revised and extended second edition.Brings together insurance topics not available elsewhere in a single volume.Shows where private insurance has a competitive edge over social insurance – and where i.Insurance Economics brings together the economic analysis of decision making under risk, risk management and demand for insurance among individuals and corporations, objectives pursued and management tools used by insurance companies, the regulation of insurance, and the division of labor between private and social insurance..Appropriate both for advanced undergraduate and graduate stud

Overview: Wirtschafstwissenschaftliche StudieMatthias Eder zeigt verschiedene Einflussgrößen auf das Controlling von institutionellen Immobilieninvestoren auf und entwickelt mithilfe von Experteninterviews einen Rahmen zur Untersuchung seiner Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten. Des Weiteren analysiert der Autor Verbesserungs- und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten im Controlling und ermittelt, welche Gestaltungsformen erfolgversprechend sein können. Er greift damit das Phänomen auf, dass ein Immobiliencontrolling in den letzten Jahren bei vielen Immobilienunternehmen in Deutschland eingeführt wurde, und untersuch

Overview: .The 9-volume set LNAI 14267-14275 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2023, which took place in Hangzhou, China, during July 5–7, 2023..The 413 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 630 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:.Part I: Human-Centric Technologies for Seamless Human-Robot Collaboration; Multimodal Collaborative Perception and Fusion; Intelligent Robot Perception in Unknown Environments; Vision-Based Human Robot Interaction and Ap

Overview: Eine empirische UntersuchungDie Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema ‘Identität und Engagement im Alter‘ hat hohe – sowohl individuelle als auch soziale – Relevanz, da sich gesellschaftliche Bedingungen zur Gestaltung der nachberuflichen Lebenszeit massiv verändern. Ältere stehen vor der Aufgabe, diese oftmals viele Jahre umfassende Lebensphase für sich selbst als ‘stimmig und passend‘ zu füllen. Das Dritte Alter birgt dabei sowohl Chancen als auch Aufgaben für die persönliche Weiterentwicklung. Die vorliegende Untersuchung zeigt, wie vielseitig Identitätsentwicklungen im Freiwilligen En

Overview: Untersucht die Auswirkungen des Internets auf die Funktionsweise der traditionellen ökonomischen Regeln.Übergreifender systematischer Ansatz.Fallbeispiele mit Übungsaufgaben.Extras im Web (Lösungshinw.Innovative Informations- und Kommunikationstechniken bzw. -technologien, das Internet und der Mobilfunk sind inzwischen fester und unverrückbarer Bestandteil unseres Alltags. Der noch vor Jahrzehnten beschriebene .Strukturwandel zur Wissensgesellschaft ist Wirklichkeit. Das Web 2.0 verändert die Grundformen der ökonomischen Leistungserstellung und macht neue Arten der Interaktion zwisch

Overview: First volume in the European Astroculture trilogy.Imagining Outer Space. makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and communicated? What promises of interplanetary expansion and cosmic colonization propelled the project of human spaceflight to the forefront of twentieth-century modernity? In what way has West-European astroculture been affected by the continuous exploration of outer space? Tracing the thriving interest in spatiality to early attempts at exploring imaginary

Overview: 978-3-528-03899-1978-3-322-92877-1

Overview: Industrial Problem Solving Simplified provides an 8-step system that simplifies the problem-solving process in manufacturing settings..Industrial Problem Solving Simplified. provides a roadmap for solving manufacturing problems. Containing numerous examples of actual problems and their solutions in various industrial environments, it is for novice as well as experienced manufacturing owners, managers, quality representatives, consultants, trainers, and procurement professionals. .Author Ralph Pawlak’s roadmap is a proven system that has been used to eliminate major manufacturing prob

Overview: 978-3-409-20001-1978-3-663-13291-2Series ISSN 0175-7105

Overview: Considers LGBT identities and activisms in Muslim Indonesia.Traces the impact of local and global forces on the history and globalization of gay, lesbian, and/or LGBT identities.Draws on both historic.Written in the aftermath of Indonesia‘s anti-queer panic in 2016, .this book .tells the story of local queer movements in challenging the heteronormative society and resisting the homophobic hostility from religious conservative groups and the state. The year 2016 was a touchstone moment for queer issues in Indonesia, marked by the ubiquity of anti-queer campaigns, along with the pervas

Overview: The book is intended for a wide audience of both mathematicians and biologists .Provides a review of the rapidly expanding field.No similar item on the publishing market.Individual-based models (IBM) describe a population as a collection of different organisms whose local interactions determine the behaviour of the entire population. The individual description is convenient for computer simulations and the determination of various model parameters, and appropriate limit passages lead to the transport equations used in classical population dynamics models. The aim of this book is to p

Overview: physical realist heavily bverlaid with the interpretation afforded by linguistic analysis, so he changed, too. But at the time, which was approximately during the second decade of the twentieth century, they were no doubt very close in their views. Russell acknowledged the influence of Wittgenstein in several places in the 1918 lectures on logical atomism. Wittgenstein might not have written the Tractatus had Russell not given the lectures on logical atomism, or at least had he not maintained the views there expressed. Certainly it is true in a very large sense that the Tractatus may

Overview: Features basic knowledge of both theory and experiment.Includes supplementary material: Klaus von Klitzing Max-Planck-Institut fur ¨ Festk¨ orperforschung, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany Already many Cassandras have prematurely announced the end of the silicon roadmap and yet, conventional semiconductor-based transistors have been continuously shrinking at a pace which has brought us to nowadays cheap and powerful microelectronics. However it is clear that the traditional scaling laws cannot be applied if unwanted tunnel phenomena or ballistic transport dominate the dev

Overview: ICPT91, the International Conference on Potential Theory, washeld in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, from August 18--24, 1991. .The volume consists of two parts, the first of which contains paperswhich also appear in the special issue of.POTENTIAL ANALYSIS..The second part includes a collection of contributions edited andpartly produced in Utrecht. Professor Monna wrote a prefacereminiscing about his experiences with potential theory, mathematicsand mathematicians during the last sixty years. The final pagescontain a list of participants and a compact index. .978-94-010-4488-2978-94-011

Overview: This book focuses on the adoption of new technologies led by information and communication technologies by SMEs in developing countries. It identifies several factors that augment competitiveness of firms in the era of globalization. Contrary to the general belief these factors are not uniform across developing world. Based on the empirical evidence from firms located in Malaysia, India, Nigeria, Jamaica, and Costa Rica, the study concludes that firms cannot remain competitive without institutional support. Since firms operate in different institutional and economic environment, form

Overview: .This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Information Management and Big Data, SIMBig 2023, held in Mexico City, Mexico, during December 13–15, 2023...The 19 full papers and 6 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. SIMBig 2023 introduced innovative approaches for analyzing and handling datasets as well as new methods based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, Data-driven Software Engineering, Health Informati

Overview: Die Einwanderungsländer Deutschland und Großbritannien im VergleichFrederike Wolf analysiert die Frage nach der Rolle von Leitmedien im interkulturellen Integrationsprozess. Damit greift sie ein hochaktuelles, anwendungsbezogenes und theoretisch relevantes Thema auf: Angesichts der zunehmenden kulturellen Vielfalt innerhalb der einzelnen europäischen Mitgliedstaaten geht es um das Integrationspotenzial des öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehens und darum, wie dieses in zwei ausgewählten EU-Einwanderungsländern – Deutschland und Großbritannien – genutzt wird. Auf der Grundlage einer interd

Overview: In many fields of science and practice large amounts of dataand informationare collected for analyzing and visualizinglatent structures as orderingsor classifications forexample. This volume presents refereed and revised versionsof 52 papers selected from the contributions of the 16thAnnualConference of the "German Classification Society".The papers are organized in three major sections on DataAnalysis and Classification (1), InformationRetrieval,Knowledge Processing and Software (2), ApplicationsandSpecial Topics (3). Moreover, the papers were grouped andordered within the major sec

Overview: Because stroke is essentially a disease of the vessels and blood flow, the most fundamental aspects of ischemic blood flow in the brain are under investigation by researchers. Their work was the focus of the sixth in the series of Keio University International Symposia for Life Sciences and Medicine, held in Tokyo in 1999. Selected here are 55 papers from the symposium, covering the buffy coat (glycocalyx) of endothelial cells, the blood-brain barrier and permeability, gene expression, vascular reactivity, dysregulation, inflammatory deterioration, cortical spreading depression, edem

Overview: .A substantial portion of this book is a revised version of .Discrete. .Event Systems: Modeling and Performance Analysis. (1993), which was written by the first author and received the 1999 .Harold Chestnut Prize., awarded by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for best control engineering textbook. This new expanded book is a comprehensive introduction to the field of discrete event systems, emphasizing breadth of coverage and accessibility of the material to readers with different backgrounds. Its key feature is the emphasis placed on a unified modeling framewo