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

Overview: Provides a heterodox understanding of the concept of human development.Examines the barriers and opportunities for public service delivery in fostering development.Explores the scope of private financThis book presents a multidimensional perspective on the interlinkage between human development, community characteristics and public service delivery with special reference to India. The chapters in the book analyze the influence of public service delivery on human development from neo-classical as well as Marxian point of view. Thus, the expositions in the book provides a balanced mix

Overview: Presents emerging technology management approaches and applied cases from leading infrastructure sectors.Provides decision making frameworks that can be utilized by executives and government leaders.E.This book presents emerging technology management approaches and applied cases from leading infrastructure sectors such as energy, healthcare, transportation and education. Featuring timely topics such as fracking technology, electric cars, Google’s eco-friendly mobile technology and Amazon Prime Air, the volume’s contributions explore the current management challenges that have resulte

Overview: The industrialization of service industries is a phenomenon which industries such as banking and finance adopted several years ago. Although IT can be considered an enabler in these efforts, the IT industry itself has not yet taken much advantage of industrialization. As this is slowly changing, ideas like global sourcing and global value chains have entered the mindset of top and middle IT management. Although sourcing IT services from near or far away countries in order to profit from labor cost differentials is a topic frequently generating a lot of controversy, it can no longer b

Overview: This book is a result of many years‘ interest in the economic theory of pro­ duction, first aroused by the reading of Professor ERICH SCHNEIDER‘S classic Theorie der Produktion. A grant from the Danish-Norwegian Foundation made it possible for me to spend six months at the Institute of Economics, University of Oslo, where I became acquainted with Professor RAGNAR FRISCH‘S penetrating pioneer works in this field and where the plan of writing the present book was conceived. Further studies as a Rockefeller fellow at several American univer­ sities, especially an eight months‘ stay at t

Overview: Discusses how to advocate, cultivate, and implement the new idea of innovation at Chinese universities.Illustrates the implicit connection between constructing a classroom culture and promoting world-.This book examines how to create world-class, technology-oriented innovation in higher education in China. It also proposes a model in response to the demand for promoting scientific and technological advances and technological innovation in the Chinese higher education system. Moreover, the book explores key concepts, pathways, models, policies, practices, trends and implications, and

Overview: 978-3-528-24248-0978-3-322-90494-2

Overview: The first book dedicated to the demography of sexuality.Expands the field of demography to include sexuality.Considers population sexuality from an international perspective.Provides population analys.The .International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality. is the first book to specifically address the study of sexuality from a demographic perspective. Demographic research has largely paid little attention to sexuality as a whole, or sexual orientation in particular, other than in studies examining the “consequences” of sex – sexually transmitted infections or fertility. Instead,

Overview: Brings all IS theory together for first time in book form.A practical reference for practitioners and researchers.Covers all models and research approaches.The overall mission of this book is to provide a comprehensive understanding and coverage of the various theories and models used in IS research. Specifically, it aims to focus on the following key objectives: .To describe the various theories and models applicable to studying IS/IT management issues. .To outline and describe, for each of the various theories and models, independent and dependent constructs, reference discipline/o

Overview: First book to focus on modern Greece and Irish poetry, in contrast to existing monographs on ancient Greece in Irish poetry.Focuses on the countries’ political, as well as literary, histories.ContribuThis book explores the perception of modern Greek landscape and poetry in the writings of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon. Delving into travel writing, ecocriticism, translation and allusion, it offers a fresh comparative link between Greek modernity and Irish poetry that counterbalances the preeminence of Greek antiquity in existing criticism. The first section, devoted to travel and land

Overview: Das Lehrbuch führt theorieorientiert und zugleich gut verständlich in die Bedeutung internationaler Organisationen (z.B. UNO, EU, WTO, IWF) für die Weltpolitik von heute ein. Internationale Organisationen (z.B. UNO, EU, WTO, IWF, Weltbank) spielen eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle in der internationalen Politik. Das allgemeinverständliche Lehrbuch untersucht diese Rollen orientiert an politikwissenschaftlicher Theorie ebenso wie an praktisch-politischen Fragen. Dieses Lehrbuch ist darauf angelegt, theoretische Einsichten mit empirischen Beobachtungen der Politik in und durch internationa

Overview: Study in the field of economic sciences.Includes supplementary material: ​Customer accounts that neither have a fixed maturity nor a fixed interest rate represent a substantial part of a consumer bank’s funding. The modelling for their risk management and pricing is a challenging yet crucial task in today’s asset/liability management, with increasing computational power allowing for new approaches. Jeffry Straßer outlines an implementation of a state-of-the-art dynamic replication model in detail. A case study with recent data supports the expected superiority of the model. Additiona

Overview: Provides comprehensive coverage of the most common autoimmune cytopenias.Formatted for easy readability and ease of use.Written by experts in the fieldThis text provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of the most common autoimmune cytopenias affecting adults and children. The book is divided into four sections, each of which focuses on a major autoimmune cytopenia. The first section features background, pathophysiology, presentation, evaluation, and treatment strategies for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), the most common cause of antibody-mediated platelet destruction. The secon

Overview: 978-3-528-03070-4978-3-322-84015-8

Overview: The two-volume set LNAI 11431 and 11432 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2019, held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in April 2019..The total of 124 full papers accepted for publication in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 309 submissions. The papers of the first volume are organized in the following topical sections: knowledge engineering and semantic web; text processing and information retrieval; machine learning and data mining; decision support and control systems; compute

Overview: Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Central Lancashire, UK.Presents the first comprehensive review of A stars in three decades.Demonstrates novel techniques for asteroseismolSimon Murphy‘s thesis has significant impact on the wide use of the revolutionary Kepler Mission data, leading to a new understanding in stellar astrophysics. It first provides a deep characterisation and comparison of the Kepler long cadence and short cadence data, with particular insight into the Kepler reduction pipeline. It then brings together modern reviews of rotation and peculiar

Overview: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: Aufbauend auf einer Literaturrecherche zur Interaktion, zur Kompetenz und zu Konzepten des persönlichen Verkaufens sowie auf Basis von Experteninterviews konzeptionalisiert und operationalisiert Vera Schulte das Konstrukt Interaktionskompetenz, welches die notwendigen Voraussetzungen einer effektiven Steuerung der Interaktion unter gleichzeitiger Berücksichtigung des kompletten Interaktionsprozesses erfasst. Im Rahmen einer branchenübergreifenden Untersuchung im Investitionsgüterbereich validiert die Autorin die neu

Overview: An examination of the ideas and politics of modern Britain. It looks at the role and relations of the state and the community it both governs and serves. Topics covered range from the collapse of corporate state Keynesianism, to government investment in universities and science.978-0-333-51551-8978-1-349-20686-5

Overview: Examines advanced impedance source inverters, both theoretically and experimentally.Describes methods for suppressing DC-link voltage spikes and duty cycle loss, as well as methods for optimizing impeThis book focuses on impedance source inverters, discussing their classification, advantages, topologies, analysis methods, working mechanisms, improvements, reliability, and applications. It summarizes methods for suppressing DC-link voltage spikes and duty loss, which can pose a problem for researchers; and presents novel, efficient, steady state and transient analysis methods that are

Overview: Rechtswissenschaftlich-technische Studie.Datenschutzrechtliche Bewertung des Cloud Computing.Includes supplementary material: .Steffen Kroschwald bewertet den Einsatz von Cloud-Diensten im Mittelstand vor dem Hintergrund des Rechts auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung. Mit dem Cloud Computing lassen sich IT-Ressourcen wie Speicherplatz, Rechenleistung und Software effektiv bereitstellen. Dennoch halten sich viele Unternehmen angesichts daten- und geheimnisschutzrechtlicher Bedenken mit dem Gang in die Cloud zurück. Der Autor untersucht den grund- und datenschutzrechtlichen Rahmen, in

Overview: Presents research works in the field of intelligent computing and networking.Results of IC-ICN 2022 held in Mumbai India during February 2022.Serves as a reference for researchers and practitioners inThis book gathers high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Networking (IC-ICN 2022), organized by the Computer Department, Thakur College of Engineering and Technology, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, on February 25–26, 2022. The book includes innovative and novel papers in the areas of intelligent computing, artific