BOOKS with Alphabet   M (Ma,Mb,Mc, Md,Me…)

Overview: Concise introduction to measuring, modeling and simulation of systems.Includes an overview about various sensors and their application in measurementThe development and use of models of various objects is becoming a more common practice in recent days. This is due to the ease with which models can be developed and examined through the use of computers and appropriate software. Of those two, the former - high-speed computers - are easily accessible nowadays, and the latter - existing programs - are being updated almost continuously, and at the same time new powerful software is being

Overview: Features fundamental research and applications in the field of the design and application of engineering materials.Offers engineering applications for automobile, railway, marine, aerospace, biomedica.This volume features fundamental research and applications in the field of the design and application of engineering materials, predominantly within the context of mechanical engineering applications. This includes a wide range of materials engineering and technology, including metals, e.g., polymers, composites, and ceramics. Advanced applications would include manufacturing in the new

Overview: This book compares the educational experiences of adolescents from a variety of‘visible‘ ethnic minority groups across Europe. Focusing on underprivileged urban contexts, it reveals the structural inequalities, as well as the often conflicting inter-ethnic relations which develop in classrooms, playgrounds and larger communities.978-1-349-45610-9978-1-137-30863-4

Overview: Up-to-date results.Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art researchThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2011, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in May 2011. The 10 revised selected and extended papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The topics covered are MABS in scientometrics; MABS in politics, transit and policy; pedestrian, crowds and large scale MABS; and MABS modeling.978-3-642-28399-4978-3-642-28400-7Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Provides updated information on hematopoietic cell development.Although much is known with respect to blood cell formation and function, many new concepts in the areas of the regulation of hematopoietic stem cell commitment and the subsequent survival, proliferation, and differentiation of progenitors have been elucidated in the last five years. Our understanding of the microenvironment where stem cells reside and commit to distinct blood types (the niche) has grown significantly in recent years. Furthermore, blood cells have been used as the key model system to study microRNA functi

Overview: An international Summer School on: "Modular functions of one variable and arithmetical applications" took place at RUCA, Antwerp University, from July 17 to - gust 3, 1972. This book is the first volume (in a series of four) of the Proceedings of the Summer School. It includes the basic course given by A. Ogg, and several other papers with a strong analyt~c flavour. Volume 2 contains the courses of R. P. Langlands (l-adic rep­ resentations) and P. Deligne (modular schemes - representations of GL ) and papers on related topics. 2 Volume 3 is devoted to p-adic properties of modular for

Overview: Provides the first edited collection to exclusively examine the role of monarchy in war.Challenges the notion that loss in the Great War meant loss of throne.Offers essays by international scholars usThis volume challenges the traditional view that the First World War represents a pivotal turning point in the long history of monarchy, suggesting the picture is significantly more complex. Using a comparative approach, it explores the diverse roles played by monarchs during the Great War, and how these met the expectations of the monarchic institution in different states at a time of s

Overview: Provides a study of dramaturgical practices in contemporary multilingual theatre in Europe.Provides insight into diverse approaches toward multilingual theatre and its dramaturgy.Sheds light on an exc.Multilingual Dramaturgies. provides a study of dramaturgical practices in contemporary multilingual theatre in Europe. Featuring interviews with international theatremakers, the book gives an insight into diverse approaches towards multilingual theatre and its dramaturgy that reflect cultural, political, and economic landscapes of contemporary Europe, its inhabitants, and its theatres.

Overview: Provides detailed up-to-date information on the full range of treatment strategies for multiple myeloma, with due attention to individualized therapy and supportive options.Also discusses history, epiMultiple myeloma is currently still an incurable disease, but during the past decade knowledge of its molecular pathogenesis has increased rapidly. This has led to remarkable progress in both diagnosis and therapy, including in particular the approval of novel and first-in-class drugs such as thalidomide, bortezomib, and lenalidomide. This book, written by internationally acknowledged ex

Overview: Microbiology of Foods 6: Microbial Ecology of Food Commodities was written by the ICMSF, compris­ ing 19 scientists from II countries, plus 12 consultants and 12 chapter contributors. This book brings up to date Microbial Ecology of Foods, Volume 2: Food Commodities (1980, Academic Press), taking account of developments in food processing and packaging, new ranges of products, and foodborne pathogens that have emerged since 1980. The overall structure of each of the chapters has been retained, viz. they cover: (i) the important properties of the food commodity that affect its microbi

Overview: Die optimale Prüfungsvorbereitung - aktuellste Klausuren und ausführliche Musterlösungen.Praxisorientierte Vertiefung des Marketingwissens.Mit aktuellen Fallstudien.Includes supplementary material: Das Arbeitsbuch gibt Studenten die Möglichkeit, sich aktiv mit Marketing-Fragestellungen auseinanderzusetzen. Zu jeder Aufgabe bzw. Fallstudie wird eine ausführliche Musterlösung geliefert. Das Arbeitsbuch ist damit ein ideales Lernbuch zur Prüfungsvorbereitung: Studenten können das eigene Marketingwissen praxisorientiert vertiefen und kontrollieren. Für die 11. Auflage wurde das Buch an d

Overview: Undertakes a rigorous evaluation of Indian monetary policy using modern macroeconomic research.Offers insights into monetary economics in a major emerging market economy and shows how financial market.This book presents research that applies contemporary monetary theory and state-of-the-art econometric methods to the analysis of the monetary and financial aspects of the Indian economy and the impact of monetary policy on economic performance. Indian monetary policy has attracted significant attention from Indian and international macroeconomists over the last several years. Interest

Overview: Umfassendes Werk zur rheumatischen Erkrankung Morbus Bechterew.Praxisnahe Aufbereitung der therapeutischen Möglichkeiten und Betreuungskonzepte.Auch für BetroffeneSelten hatte eine Krankheit soviel Mutlosigkeit hervorgerufen wie die Spondylarthritis - kylosans: bei den Betroffenen, weil viele einem unausweichlich scheinenden Schicksal e- gegengingen, das zwar unterschiedliche Facetten aufwies, aber zumeist unangenehme und in ihrem Ausmaß nicht vorhersagbare; und bei den Ärzten durch das bisherige Bewusstsein einer therapeutischen Ohnmacht (zugleich dadurch verknüpft mit diagnostische

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IMA International Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces held in York, UK in September 2009. The papers in the present volume include seven invited papers, as well as 16 submitted papers. The topics covered include subdivision schemes and their continuity, polar patchworks, compressive algorithms for PDEs, surface invariant functions, swept volume parameterization, Willmore flow, computational conformal geometry, heat kernel embeddings, and self-organizing maps on manifolds, mesh and manifold construction, editing, flatten

Overview: Kompaktes Wissen für Studium, Lehre und Praxis.Beratungstechnologien für die letzten beiden Phasen eines Beratungsprozesses.Ein Überblick über die Methoden, Konzepte und Produkte, die einem Berater zuDieses essential befasst sich mit den Beratungstechnologien, die in den letzten beiden Phasen eines Beratungsprozesses zum Einsatz kommen: der Problemlösungsphase und der Implementierungsphase. Dirk Lippold beschreibt diese Technologien am Beispiel eines idealtypischen Beratungsprojekts. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei die Hilfsmittel und Werkzeuge (Tools) für die Soll-Konzeption und Realisi

Overview: Motivationale Prozesse im Unterricht.Unterrichtsbezogene Motivation: Theorie, Methoden und Fallbeispiele.Dokumentation und Reflexion aktueller Studien und Projekte zur Unterrichtsforschung.Der Band führt empirische Forschung aus Erziehungswissenschaft, Pädagogischer Psychologie und Fachdidaktiken systematisch zusammen, die sich mit schulischen und unterrichtlichen Bedingungen der Motivation Lernender befasst. .978-3-658-31063-9978-3-658-31064-6Series ISSN 2512-0778 Series E-ISSN 2512-0786

Overview: Multidisciplinary analysis of how skin pressure, proprioception, tactile vibration, vision and audition lead to the impression of material compliance.Provides an overview of experiments, techniques an.Offers a unique multidisciplinary overview of how humans interact with soft objects and how multiple sensory signals are used to perceive material properties, with an emphasis on object deformability. The authors describe a range of setups that have been employed to study and exploit sensory signals involved in interactions with compliant objects as well as techniques to simulate and mo

Overview: Presents the latest discoveries in terms of machine intelligence and Big data analytics techniques and methods for cybersecurity and privacy.Proposes many case studies and applications of machine inte.This book presents the latest advances in machine intelligence and big data analytics to improve early warning of cyber-attacks, for cybersecurity intrusion detection and monitoring, and malware analysis. Cyber-attacks have posed real and wide-ranging threats for the information society. Detecting cyber-attacks becomes a challenge, not only because of the sophistication of attacks but a

Overview: Multinational enterprises have become one of the distinctive institutions of our times. Controversy over their economic and political effects, and over appropriate public policy responses, has become common in home and host countries and in international agencies. Much of this debate is reminiscent of the role of large corporations generally, particularly in their interregional and intergroup effects. The multinational setting, however, would have raised distinctive issues even apart from the strong surges of nationalism and anti-imperialism which have marked recent history. Canada h

Overview: Each chapter written by a team of experts in their field.Classic histopathology is integrated with underlying oncogenic signaling pathways and disease mechanisms.A comprehensive guide to the rapidly e.This book serves as a comprehensive guide to the rapidly evolving field of molecular neuropathology of nervous system tumors, as well as the underlying biology and emerging molecular targeted therapies. Special emphasis is given to already established and emerging molecular diagnostic tests in neuropathology, as well as molecular targeted therapies. The book is organized by clinico-path