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

Overview: Contributes to the understanding of the impact mechanism of land-use change on ecosystem services and human well-being.Illustrates the design of land-use scenarios and the application of land-use simu.This book aims to systematically elaborate how land-use change directly or indirectly exerts impacts on the ability of ecosystems to provide services for human society. The relationship between land use, ecosystem services and human well-being is a hot topic, and there have been some important achievements in this field, but its continuing growth means that it warrants further research.

Overview: Presents recent innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications.Includes the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA 201This book highlights recent research on bio-inspired computing and its various innovative applications in Information and Communication Technologies. It presents 50 high-quality papers from the 9th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA 2018) and 7th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2018), which was held

Overview: Stellt das BMI-Pandemic 2.15-Modell für die Entwicklung innovativer Geschäftsmodelle während Krisen vor.Bietet eine eingehende Diskussion über Innovationsmanagementstrategien, die von Start-ups währen."Innovationsmechanismen in Start-ups - Praxis, Strategien und Auswirkungen" dient als praktische Ressource für Start-ups, die ihre Geschäftsmodelle auf dem heimischen und globalen Markt innovieren möchten. Das Hauptziel dieses Buches ist es, die innovativen Geschäftspraktiken zu beschreiben, die von Start-ups während der Pandemie angenommen wurden, wobei ein besonderer Schwerpunkt auf d

Overview: An essential companion to assist interventional cardiologists in better assessing patients with Coronary Artery Disease?.Encompasses and reviews all interventional imaging modalities.Provides essentiaInterventional cardiology has transitioned from angiographic subjective analysis of stenosis severity into assessment of plaque characteristics and objective assessment of stenosis severity. The evolution of novel interventional imaging modalities is progressively altering our understanding of coronary artery disease diagnosis and prognosis. This book will be an essential companion to as

Overview: Geltender ökonomischer Logik folgend, schreitet die weltweite Übernutzung der nat- lichen Umwelt mit großen Schritten voran. Auch wenn zur Zeit andere Fragen die politische Diskussion dominieren, weist vieles darauf hin, dass die Erhaltung der natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen auf unserem Planeten Erde in diesem Jahrhundert zu einer existentiellen Herausforderung der Menschheit werden wird. Nach wie vor dominiert die Sichtweise, dass der Schutz von Natur und Umwelt nicht Aufgabe der Wirtschaft, sondern Aufgabe der Politik ist. Diese scheint aber insbesondere im Bereich der internationalen

Overview: Approaches for a legal framework.Real-life relevance.Includes supplementary material: The Internet of Things as an emerging global Internet-based information archit- ture facilitating the exchange of goods and services is gradually developing. While the technology of the Internet of Things is still being discussed and created, the legal framework should be established before the Internet of Things is fully operable, in order to allow for an efective introduction of the new information architecture. If a self-regulatory approach is to be adopted to provide a legal framework for the In

Overview: Focuses on the dynamics of indigenous lowland South American Christianities.Brings studies of Christianity in Amazonia and Gran Chaco into dialogue for‘the first time.Provides a South American contribThis book raises the question of what an Indigenous church is and how its members define their ties of affiliation or separation. Establishing a pioneering dialogue between Amazonian and Gran Chaco studies on Indigenous Christianity, the contributions address historical processes, cosmological conceptions, ritual practices, leadership dynamics, and material formations involved in the cre

Overview: .Industrial Price, Quantity, and Productivity Indices: The..Micro-Economic Theory and an Application. gives a comprehensiveaccount of the micro-economic foundations of industrial price,quantity, and productivity indices. The various results available fromthe literature have been brought together into a consistent framework,based upon modern duality theory. This integration also made itpossible to generalize several of these results. Thus, this book willbe an important resource for theoretically as well asempirically-oriented researchers who seek to analyse economic problemswith the h

Overview: Ein wesentliches Kennzeichen der ökonomischen Umwelt ist die Unsicherheit, mit der Ereignisse eintreten. Die Möglichkeit, daß die ökonomische Umwelt mehrere Zustände einnehmen kann, bewirkt bei einem planenden und rational handelnden Agenten ein Informationsdefizit, sofern ihm der aktuelle Zustand nicht bekannt ist. Allerdings ist der Agent dieser Situation nicht hilflos ausgeliefert. In vielen Fällen kann er versuchen, das Informationsdefizit zu vermindern oder es sogar ganz zu beheben. In dieser Arbeit wollen wir uns mit der Problematik auseinandersetzen, unter welchen Bedingungen

Overview: 978-3-409-13241-1978-3-322-89675-9

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Internet of Vehicles, IOV 2016, heldin Nadi, Fiji, in December 2016..The 22 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. IOV 2016 is intended to play an important role for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of IOV architectures, protocols, services, and applications, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future directions o

Overview: This volume contains scientific papers and case studies presented at Interactive Sto- telling ’08: The First Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS), held November 26–29, 2008, in Erfurt, Germany. Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) is a cross-disciplinary topic, which explores new uses of interactive technologies for creating and experiencing narratives. IDS is also a huge step forward in games and learning. This can be seen through its ability to enrich virtual characters with intelligent behavior, to allow collaboration of humans and machines

Overview: Indexveränderungen sind für Anleger und Unternehmen gleichermaßen interessant, denn die Aufnahme einer Aktie in einen führenden Index bzw. ihr Ausscheiden aus demselben ist mit besonderen Umsatz- und Kursbewegungen verbunden. Diskussionen um die Bedeutung der Indexzugehörigkeit werden in der breiten Öffentlichkeit geführt, doch wurden in der Forschung bislang meist nur die kurzfristigen Auswirkungen mit dem Schwerpunkt auf der Rendite untersucht. ..Mittels einer umfangreichen und empirisch unterlegten Ereignisstudie analysiert Patrick R. Bettscheider die langfristigen Auswirkungen vo

Overview: 978-3-322-00752-0978-3-322-89821-0

Overview: This volume contains the papers presented at the Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA 2009, which was held at the Radisson SAS Scandinavian Hotel, Oslo, Norway, June 15–18. SCIA 2009 was the 16th in the biennial series of conferences, which has been organized in turn by the Scandinavian countries Sweden, Finland, D- mark and Norway since 1980. The event itself has always attracted participants and author contributions from outside the Scandinavian countries, making it an international conference. Theconferenceincludedafulldayoftutorialsand?vekeynotetalksprovided by world-r

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .This volume presents the revised and peer reviewed contributions of the ‘ERP Future 2015’ conference held in Munich, Germany on November 16-17, 2015..The ERP Future 2015 Research conference is a scientific platform for research on enterprise information systems in general and specifically on core topics like business process management (BPM), business intelligence (BI) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Besides the scientific community the event also addresses businesses developing, implementing and using enterprise information systems..

Overview: Latest research on the application of advanced intelligent paradigms in Assistive and Preventive Healthcare.Intelligent paradigms play a tremendous role in the field of Assistive and Preventive Healthcare (APH). This book presents some of the latest research in the field of APH by most prestigious researchers. The contributions include:.....Ubiquitous computing in APH..Multimedia medical informatics in APH..Virtual reality in APH..Digital Talking books..Electronic Locomotion Aids for the Blind..Multimedia Communication System for the Blind..Information Technology for Deaf People..Gai

Overview: Unternehmen, die Mitarbeiter mit unzureichenden interkulturellen Kompetenzen ins Ausland entsenden oder für internationale Aufgaben einsetzen, gehen ein beträchtliches Kostenrisiko ein. Eine wesentliche Ursache für die mangelhafte Berücksichtigung interkultureller Fähigkeiten bei der Personalselektion sind konzeptionelle und anwendungsorientierte Forschungsdefizite...Auf der Basis von acht empirischen internationalen Studien untersucht Andrea Graf Validität, Kulturabhängigkeit und betriebliche Relevanz interkultureller Kompetenzen. Grundlage sind fünf kompetenzorientierte Fragebogen,

Overview: Being up to date: Status Quo and Trends of Treatment.Standard textbook in this interdisciplinary field.Extensively revised and updated.Including errors affecting adults.Includes supplementary material.Being up to Date: Status Quo and Trends of Treatment.For those involved in the identification and management of patients with inborn errors of metabolism, this book is now recognised as the standard textbook in this interdisciplinary field. It has proved to be indispensable for professionals in specialities ranging from pediatrics, neonatology, pathological biochemistry and genetics to

Overview: The integration of methods in individual-based forest ecology is an eye-opener for readers who otherwise would need to read through scattered publications using quite different style, terms and notatiModel-driven individual-based forest ecology and individual-based methods in forest management are of increasing importance in many parts of the world. For the first time this book integrates three main fields of forest ecology and management, i.e. tree/plant interactions, biometry of plant growth and human behaviour in forests. Individual-based forest ecology and management is an interd