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Overview: First standardized knowledge transfer on how to analyze PIAAC data.Makes the data from PIAAC and the numerous additional studies transparant to potential users.Provides numerous examples how the rich .This open access methodological book summarises existing analysing techniques using data from PIAAC, a study initiated by the OECD that assesses key cognitive and occupational skills of the adult population in more than 40 countries. The approximately 65 PIAAC datasets that has been published worldwide to date has been widely received and used by an interdisciplinary research community.

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .What is truth? This fascinating spectrum of studies into the various rationalities of our human dealings with life - psychological, aesthetic, economic, spiritual - reveals their joints and calls for a new approach to truth. Putting both classical and contemporary conceptions aside, we find the primogenital ground of truth in the networks of correspondences, adequations, relevancies, and rationales at work in life‘s becoming. ..Does this plurivocal differentiation mean that the status of truth is relative? On the contrary, submits Anna-Teresa Tymieni

Overview: Is to collect all the current developments in TEL as well as to provide some suggestions for future directions.Brings the current and future development ideas into the reach of the research and academEducation has always been one of the cornerstones for societal evolution and economic growth. We are currently witnessing a significant transformation in the development of education and especially post-secondary education..The use of technology impacts the way educational content is presented and acquired in many areas. The designs of immersive educational worlds and the combination of

Overview: Sozialwissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: Alexandra Seibt untersucht Wirtschaftsverbände im Längsschnitt anhand eines Mehrmethodendesigns, bestehend aus Dokumentenanalysen, Inhaltsanalysen und teilstandardisierten Leitfadeninterviews. Die Autorin kann bei den Verbänden einen zunehmenden kombinierten Einsatz von öffentlichen und nicht öffentlichen Kommunikationsstrategien im Sinne des PA-Managements nachweisen. Verbände nutzen hierbei – wie Protestgruppen und NGOs – die Öffentlichkeit, um über die externe Kommunikation Aufmerksamkeit und Zustimmung für ihre Inter

Overview: Analyses all aspects of laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.No recent publication entirely devoted to this topicThis book, written by expert surgeons, offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of all aspects of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Coverage includes the indications for surgery, anesthesia, surgical technique, and the prevention and management of complications, with extensive reference to the latest clinical evidence and assessment of the benefits of the laparoscopic approach, for example in terms of outcomes and day surgery. New technologies, including SILS, NOTES, robotic sur

Overview: Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols.Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results.Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts.This volume covers the latest advancements in the study of lipid signaling. The chapters in this book cover topics such as neuronal cells such as retinal ganglion cells, microglial cells to muscle, and epithelial cells; extraction for signaling studies, including clinical studies in humans; and discussions on different cells, tissues, and diseases like Alzheimer’s disease, musculoskeletal diseases, eye diseases, and

Overview: It is the first book to systematically discuss income distribution in China.Addresses the hot issues closely related to the book titled “21st Century Capitalist”.Presents a new approach to analyzing iThis book analyzes the decrease in labor share in China, which is a ratio of national income distribution to capital at three different levels (macro, meso, and micro) and from three different perspectives (growth, transition and opening up). The worsening income distribution has been a key issue for both Chinese and global economies in recent decades. The book shows that the decrease in

Overview: This book contains selected contributions from the SixthMeeting of the International Geographical Union‘s Commission on LandDegradation and Desertification, held in Perth, Australia, inSeptember 1999. Collectively, these contributions explicitly seek tounderstand not only the mechanisms responsible for the problem of landdegradation but their social and economic implications, the means ofovercoming the problems, and the policy instruments whereby remedialmeasures may be implemented. This breadth of approach is bothdistinctive and essential if the problems are to be tackledeffectively

Overview: 978-3-540-43043-8978-3-540-45346-8Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Contains in-depth information on the Linux sound system.Shows you how to build a Karaoke-like application in Linux.Will teach you how to handle sampled and streaming audio in LinuxProgram audio and sound for Linux using this practical, how-to guide. You will learn how to use DSPs, sampled audio, MIDI, karaoke, streaming audio, and more. .Linux Sound Programming. takes you through the layers of complexity involved in programming the Linux sound system. You’ll see the large variety of tools and approaches that apply to almost every aspect of sound. This ranges from audio codecs, to aud

Overview: Presents an original, research-based model of studying African leadership based on a distinct research project.Offers diverse perspectives and leadership examples from a wide range of African countrieThis book considers the new business environment of modern-day Africa, addressing how management styles must adapt to societal changes across the continent. As investment in the continent grows and African businesses begin to look beyond their own borders, there comes a real need to understand leadership from an Afro-centric perspective. This book explores the similarities and difference

Overview: Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the University of Central Florida, USA.Demonstrates two new photon detection techniques with high performance at room temperature.Details the entire process f.This thesis showcases innovative new approaches aimed at advancing the next generation of long wave infrared (LWIR) light detectors and cameras. Detecting LWIR light at room temperature has posed a persistent challenge due to the low energy of photons. The pursuit of an affordable, high-performance LWIR camera capable of room temperature detection has spanned several decades. The two ap

Overview: Provides practical approaches to addressing common information management issues by the application of leading edge research.Researchers, advanced-level students and practitioners working in Semantic Linking Government Data provides a practical approach to addressing common information management issues. The approaches taken are based on international standards of the World Wide Web Consortium. Linking Government Data gives both the costs and benefits of using linked data techniques with government data; describes how agencies can fulfill their missions with less cost; and recommends

Overview: 978-3-531-11418-7978-3-663-14371-0

Overview: Studentengerechte Darstellung der logischen Zusammenhänge.Anschaulich illustriert anhand ausgewählter Beispiele aus den Rechtsgebieten.In diesem Lehr- und Studienbuch wird gezeigt, in welchem Maße logische Strukturen das Rechtsdenken mitbestimmen. Dies geschieht anhand einer Darlegung der wesentlichen logischen Grundlagen und ihrer anschließenden Anwendung auf ausgewählte Beispiele auf dem Gebiet des Rechts. Das führt zu einem besseren Verständnis der juristischen Dogmatik und einer systematischen Durchdringung des jeweils relevanten Rechtsstoffes. Indem sich die Überlegungen zwische

Overview: Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch, was bedeutet, dass Sie freien und uneingeschränkten Zugang haben.In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden Prozesse und Dynamiken der Zusammenarbeit zwischen verschiedenen Akteur*innen in Projekten des zivilen Friedensdienstes in Kenia, Sierra Leone und Liberia betrachtet. Das durch lokale und internationale Akteur*innen gemeinsame Bearbeiten von Konflikten und Herausforderungen der Friedenskonsolidierung hat in der deutschen Friedensarbeit eine lange Tradition und wird in einer globalisierten Welt immer wichtiger. Deswegen geht das Buch der sowohl für die Wiss

Overview: The first-ever book fully devoted to the Nordic countries’ leadership in nursing expertise.Based on representative leadership projects in EBN practice, education and research.Authored by prestigious N.This book explores the leading role played by nursing science in the European Nordic countries. Recognized leaders in nursing research from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, reflect on the leadership of nurses, the societal developments and the state of nursing science in their country, and the successes and remaining challenges nurses are facing. The book highlights represe

Overview: Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art research.Up-to-date resultsThis volume contains a selection of revised papers that were presented at the Software Aspects of Robotic Systems, SARS 2011 Workshop and the Machine Learning for System Construction, MLSC 2011 Workshop, held during October 17-18 in Vienna, Austria, under the auspices of the International Symposium Series on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification, and Validation, ISoLA. The topics covered by the papers of the SARS and the MLSC workshop demonstrate the breadth and the richness of the respect

Overview: Through the eyes of a young American female radical socialist, living and working in Barcelona during the Catalan Revolution and the Spanish Civil War, the dreams, the nightmares and the realities of European politics in the age of dictatorship are fully brought to life. An autobiographical commentary written on the eve of World War Two.978-1-349-35812-0978-0-230-23449-9

Overview: Models to easily determine the life time of welded joints.Practical knowledge how to prevent cracking weldsIn the paper the author attempts to assess the fatigue life of chosen welded joints. It focuses especially on chosen problems that accompany deter- nation of the fatigue life of welded joints, taking into consideration the strain energy density parameter. Chapter 2 describes the welded joint as a stress concentrator. The state of stress and strain in the notch are described and theoretical and fatigue coefficients are indicated. The fatigue coef- cient of the notch effect is est