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Overview: 978-3-642-75692-4978-3-642-75690-0Series ISSN 0945-6066 Series E-ISSN 2196-310X

Overview: Provides a thorough insight into the different investment appraisal methods, their uses, assumptions and limitations.Each approach is thoroughly described, evaluated, and illustrated using examples anThis book provides an introduction to investment appraisal and presents a range of methods and models, some of which are not widely known, or at least not well covered by other textbooks. Each approach is thoroughly described, evaluated and illustrated using examples, with its assumptions and limitations analyzed in terms of their implications for investment decision-making practice. Inv

Overview: Fast track conference proceedings.Unique visibility.State of the art researchThe two-volume set LNAI 7802 and LNAI 7803 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2013, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in March 2013. .The 108 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers included are grouped into topical sections on: innovations in intelligent computation and applications; intelligent database systems; intelligent information systems; tools and application

Overview: .Interdisziplinäre Lehr-/Lernformate finden in den letzten Jahren zunehmend Eingang in die akademische Hochschulbildung. An diese wird mitunter das Ziel geknüpft, Studierende auf eine fachübergreifende Zusammenarbeit im Berufsleben vorzubereiten. Dieses Buch präsentiert erstmals eine empirisch begründete Theorie zur studentischen Interaktion in fachlich gemischten Gruppen. Mit Fokus auf das sozialpsychologische Geschehen analysiert die Autorin verschiedene Hindernisse für die interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit und liefert gleichzeitig Ansatzpunkte zur Förderung positiver Kontaktbeziehu

Overview: .This volume LNCS constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods, IFM 2024, during 13-15 November 2024, held in Manchester, UK.  ..The 19 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The conference focuses on all aspects of the design of integrated techniques, including language design, verification and validation, automated tool support, and the use of such techniques in software engineering practice..978-3-031-76553-7978-3-031-76554-4Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-334

Overview: Sozialwissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: Die Fallstudie gibt einen Einblick in die betriebliche Doppelwirklichkeit eines umfassenden Restrukturierungsprozesses auf Basis eines ganzheitlichen Produktionssystems. Die Autorin rekonstruiert die vorherrschenden Machtverhältnisse zwischen den betrieblichen Figurationen und analysiert die ungeplanten Folgen standardisierter Innovationsprozesse. Angeordnete Gleichheit zwischen den Teilnehmern moderierter KVP-Workshops entladen sich in arbeitspolitischen Verhandlungen auf der Ebene des shop-floor zwischen Beschäftigten

Overview: Internet gambling is one of the fastest growing forms of gambling. Global Internet gambling expenditure is predicted to reach US$33.6 billion in 2011. This is higher than worldwide movie box office revenues and represents 9% of the international gambling market. The rapid increase in expenditure of 354% since 2003 has occurred despite Internet gambling being prohibited in several key markets, including the US and China. It also suggests that current regulation may be somewhat outdated and ineffective as more and more people turn to this mode of gambling. Internet gambling is highly a

Overview: Over the past years, companies have increasingly specialized and contracted activities to external partners in low-wage countries. While these offshoring contracts are considered to be quite successful in corporate reality, managers are primarily offshoring to realize factor cost advantages and thereby neglect growth opportunities. Why are current offshoring activities focused on efficiency? Could offshoring be also employed as a growth instrument? If yes, how should these projects be prepared, structured and executed?..In addition to classifying the current understanding of the offs

Overview: A survey of the London Commodities Markets. Production and consumption figures are given for each commodity traded. It also contains a series of articles on Futures Regulations in the UK, Government attitudes to the industry, discussion of automated trading, introductions to Trading Options.978-1-349-11268-5

Overview: Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science is a supplement to the journal "Colloid and Polymer Science" publishing topic-related volumes.Since 1999 Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science is also availabThis volume of Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science assembles original contributions and invited reviews from the priority research program "Intelligent Hydrogels", funded by the German Science Foundation DFG since 2006, with about 25 contributing research groups. In the center of interest of this program and the present book are responsive hydrogels, i.e. hydrophilic polymer or polye

Overview: Broadens readers’ understanding of the concept of biosis-abiosis intelligent interface.Offers opportunities to promote significant research in dentistry and its related area for the next generation.SuThe Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry first introduced the concept of “Interface Oral Health Science”, designed to establish and maintain healthy oral cavities, which are home to a number of mixed systems. Included in those systems are: (1) host tissues such as teeth, mucosa, muscle and bone, (2) parasites and microorganisms cohabiting the surfaces of the oral cavity and (3)

Overview: Provides a wholistic perspective of science in Africa accross the continent.Includes in-depth analysis of research capacity, funding, and international partnerships.Offers solutions for the developmen.This book offers an examination of Africa’s scientific landscape based on extensive empirical data encompassing fifty-four African countries. It traces the evolution of science on the continent, highlighting research areas, global partnerships, funding sources, research capacity, and the impact of science policies. Acknowledging that Africa relies heavily on external sources, particular

Overview: Written by a diverse group of internationally known scholars.Presents strategies for translating current research into applied solutions.Illuminates various aspects of plant responses in molecular and.Current trends in population growth hint that global food production is unlikely to gratify future demands under predicted climate change scenarios unless the rates of crop improvement are accelerated. Crop production faces numerous challenges, due to changing environmental conditions and evolving needs for new plant-derived materials. These challenges come at a time when the plant scie

Overview: Focuses on new developments of micro- and nano devices.Surface effects in nanomechanics.Interface effects in heterostructures.Multidisciplinary.This volume constitutes the proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Surface Effects in the Mechanics of Nanomaterials and Heterostructures, held in Beijing, 8-12 August, 2010. The symposium brought together the most active scientists working in this area from the fields of solid mechanics, composites, physics, and materials science and summarized the state-of-the-art research results with a view to advancing the frontiers of mechanics and mater

Overview: Analyzes Italy’s international position from the early 1960s until the end of the Cold War.Develops our understanding of Italy’s internal dynamics by considering Italy’s place in the Atlantic allianceThis edited collection offers a new approach to the study of Italy’s foreign policy from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War, highlighting its complex and sometimes ambiguous goals, due to the intricacies of its internal system and delicate position in the fault line of the East-West and North-South divides. According to received opinion, during the Cold War era Italy was more an object

Overview: Includes recent research on intelligent systems design and applications.Presents the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2018), which This book highlights recent research on Intelligent Systems and Nature Inspired Computing. It presents 212 selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2018) and the 10th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC), which was held at VIT University, India. ISDA-NaBIC 2018 was a premier conference in t

Overview: .Of the 8 million individuals living with cancer in the United States, up to 800,000 patients have a form of inherited cancer. Inherited cancer syndromes account for 5-10% of all cancers, as evidenced by recent advances in the understanding of such syndromes as Familial Polyposis Syndromes (FAP), Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colon Cancer (HPNCC), and the BRCA1 and 2 breast cancer susceptibility genes. .Inherited Cancer Syndromes: Current Clinical Management. provides the clinician with a valuable tool for all aspects of patient care in inherited syndromes. Comprehensive, timely chapters p

Overview: Modernes Lehrbuch der Kostenrechnung.Neuauflage überarbeitet und erweitert.Schwerpunkt: Anwendung der gewonnenen Information für das ControllingDieses Lehrbuch befaßt sich mit der konzeptionellen Gestaltung und den Einsatzbedingungen von Rechnungssystemen, insbesondere der Kosten- und Leistungsrechnung im Unternehmen. Es stellt die drei Hauptfunktionen in den Vordergrund: 1. Entscheidungsrechnungen bei Sicherheit und Unsicherheit. Analysiert werden Produktionsprogrammplanung, Preisbestimmung, strategische Entscheidungen und Break-Even-Analysen. 2. Kontrollrechnungen: Im Mittelpunkt s

Overview: Produced as the outcome of a ten-year international research collaboration focused on how countries handle territorial inequalities in their major metropolitan areas.Addresses an important, overlooked.This book undertakes the first systematic, multi-country investigation into how regimes of place equality, consisting of multilevel policies, institutions and governance at multiple scales, influence spatial inequality in metropolitan regions. Extended, diversified metropolitan regions have become the dominant form of human settlement, and disparities among metropolitan places figure in

Overview: Empirisch-vergleichende Untersuchung politischer Innovationsprozesse.Includes supplementary material: Jens Lanfer präsentiert eine grundlagentheoretische Untersuchung gesellschaftlicher Innovationen. Für die Analyse von Innovationsprozessen stellt er ein systemtheoretisches Konzept vor, das sowohl eine angemessene Reichweite aufweist, um Innovationen in der Gesellschaft beschreiben zu können, als auch mit einer ausreichenden Tiefenschärfe einhergeht, um Innovationen und Innovationspotenziale zu bestimmen. Der Autor wendet das Analysekonzept auf das politische System an und untersucht