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

Overview: Addresses man-machine-environment system engineering (MMESE), a vital human-centered system design principle.Introduces readers to the top research topics and the latest development trends.Presents in.This book presents selected papers introducing readers to the key research topics and latest development trends in the theory and application of MMESE. The advanced integrated research topic man-machine-environment system engineering (MMESE) was first established in China by Professor Shengzhao Long in 1981, with direct support from one of the greatest modern Chinese scientists, Xuesen

Overview: Molecular similarity searching is fast becoming a key tool inorganic chemistry. In this book, the editor has brought together aninternational team of authors, each working at the forefront of thistechnology, providing a timely and concise overview of currentresearch. The chapters focus principally on those methods which havereached sufficient maturity to be of immediate practical use inmolecular design.978-94-010-4589-6978-94-011-1350-2

Overview: Concise and user-friendly.Covers both the standard topics on hyperequational theory and advanced topics.Includes supplementary material: .M.-Solid Varieties of Algebras provides a complete and systematic introduction to the fundamentals of the hyperequational theory of universal algebra, offering the newest results on .M.-solid varieties of semirings and semigroups. The book aims to develop the theory of .M.-solid varieties as a system of mathematical discourse that is applicable in several concrete situations. It applies the general theory to two classes of algebraic structures, sem

Overview: Provides essential new insights into medical tourism.Presents a case study on inbound medical tourism in Germany.Develops a sound modeling framework for quantifying the drivers and effects of internatThis book examines the drivers of inbound medical tourism in Germany. In light of growing international trade of medical services, it provides a quantitative analysis of the determinants of international patients’ choice of destination. It develops coherent definitions of medical tourism and medical travel, and presents multiple unique data sets to identify inbound medical travelers in G

Overview: Takes a granular methodology to 3D echo, defining the role of the modality in a practical, didactic approach.Covers the practice of 3D echo for those without prior experience.Shows readers the importaThis book is a practical guiding manual to explain critical clinical practice in three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography. The use of this technology has been limited to certain pioneer imaging units, but with the advent of lower cost hardware it is spreading and reaching more users that will start to use it often without previous experience or formal academic training. This title provide

Overview: Introduces early childhood educators to ways in which multidisciplinary conceptions of play can inform theory and practice.Showcases multidisciplinary research collaborations between Australian academWhile firmly acknowledging the importance of play in early childhood, this book interrogates the assumption that play is a birthright. It pushes beyond traditional understandings of play to ask questions such as: what is the relationship between play and the arts – theatre, music and philosophy – and between play and wellbeing? How is play relevant to educational practice in the rapidly

Overview: 978-3-528-07332-9978-3-663-06835-8

Overview: Ideal aid to multidisciplinary management of rectal cancer.Question and answer format that will enable the reader quickly to find answers on the issues that arise in daily practice.Includes guidelinesThis book seeks to promote an integrated approach among the various specialists involved in the management of rectal cancer with a view to ensuring that treatment is tailored appropriately to the individual patient. For ease of use, a question and answer format is employed. The focus is on those issues typically confronted during daily clinical practice in relation to risk factors, imagi

Overview: First textbook on Mössbauer Spectroscopy covering the complete field.Offers a concise introduction to all aspects of Mössbauer spectroscopy by the leading experts in the field.Includes supplementary mTutorials on Mössbauer Spectroscopy .Since the discovery of the Mössbauer Effect many excellent books have been published for researchers and for doctoral and master level students.  However, there appears to be no textbook available for final year bachelor students, nor for people working in industry who have received only basic courses in classical mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum

Overview: Aktuelles Wissen in konzentrierter Form.Ein Überblick über die Methoden, Konzepte und Produkte, die einem Berater zur Verfügung stehen.Beratungstechnologien für die wichtigen ersten Phasen eines BeratDieses essential befasst sich mit den Beratungstechnologien, die in den ersten beiden Phasen eines Beratungsprozesses zum Einsatz kommen: der Informationsphase (auch: Akquisitionsphase) und der Analysephase. Dirk Lippold beschreibt die Technologien für diesen wichtigen Kernbereich der Beratung am Beispiel eines idealtypischen Beratungsprojekts. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei die Hilfsmittel

Overview: Although aspects of mineral deposit evaluation advantages and disadvantages of each technique are covered in such texts as McKinstry (1948), so that a judgement can be made as to their Peters (1978), Reedman (1979) and Barnes applicability to a particular deposit and the min­ (1980), no widely available in-depth treatment of ing method proposed or used. Too often, a lack the subject has been presented. It is thus the of this expertise results in the ore-reserve calcula­ intention of the present book to produce a text tion being undertaken at head-office or, indeed, by the survey depa

Overview: Features established scholars and new voices in the field.Explores intersections of theory and practice to engage queer theory and education.Includes transnationally/postcolonially focused chaptersThis book explores intersections of theory and practice to engage queer theory and education as it happens both in and beyond the university. Furthering work on queer pedagogy, this volume brings together educators and activists who explore how we see, write, read, experience, and, especially, teach through the fluid space of queerness. The editors and contributors are interested in how que

Overview: auch Freude bereitet. Daß das gewählte Konzept eines lesbaren Fachbuchs beim Leser ankommt, zeigt sich daran, daß die bei den ersten Auflagen rasch vergriffen waren. Studierende und Fachleute der Fahrzeugtechnik und verwandter Fachrichtungen, die sich an manchen Stellen vielleicht eine strenger wissenschaftliche Darstellung wünschen, seien auf die zahlreichen Literaturstellen verwiesen. Eine tiefere Einarbeitung in die Problemstellungen wird damit leicht möglich. Für die vorliegende 3. Auflage wurde das Buch gründlich überarbeitet, erweitert und aktualisiert. Neueste Trends der Motor

Overview: Explains the hypoplastic model structure.Introduces readers to specific hypoplastic models for soils, with a focus on two particular models: models for sand and models for clay.An essential resource, .This book explains the hypoplastic modelling framework. It is divided into two parts, the first of which is devoted to principles of hypoplasticity. First, the basic features of soil’s mechanical behaviour are introduced, namely non-linearity and asymptotic properties. These features are then incorporated into simple one-dimensional hypoplastic equations for compression and shear. Subse

Overview: Difficult Pasts provides a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary Germany‘s rich memorial landscape. It discusses the many memorials to German losses during the Second World War, to the victims of National Socialism and to those of GDR socialism. With up-to-date coverage of many less well-known memorials as well as the most publicised ones.978-1-349-30254-3978-0-230-24850-2

Overview: Plädoyer für eine empathische gefühlsbetonte Altenpflege.Kurzweilige Geschichten mit besonderen Schlüsselerlebnissen im Umgang mit alten Menschen.Ausblick wie sich die Altenpflege weiterentwickeln kan.Altenpflege ist Beziehungs- und Gefühlsarbeit. Sie erfordert Mut und Kompetenz, mit der Vergangenheit alter Menschen umzugehen, mit erlebtem Lebensglück ebenso wie mit Trauer und Verzweiflung. Bei vielen Pflegenden gibt es eine Sehnsucht nach Begegnungen mit alten Menschen. Trotzdem bleiben viele Kontakte, aus Unsicherheit oder Angst, an der Oberfläche.  Eine wesentliche empathische Erf

Overview: .Ausgehend von dem Befund, dass migrationsbedingte Mehrsprachigkeit zwar ein zentrales Thema der Erziehungswissenschaft darstellt, aber gleichzeitig wenig über die konkrete sprachliche Praxis mehrsprachiger Kinder in der Schule bekannt ist, widmet sich diese Fallstudie den sprachlichen Praktiken und Aushandlungen von Kindern an einer Grundschule. Dabei wird auf Basis einer ethnographischen Herangehensweise und unter Hinzunahme eines praxistheoretischen Agency-Konzeptes gezeigt, unter welchen Bedingungen es zur sprachlichen Handlungsfähigkeit von Kindern kommt und wie differenziert si

Overview: From bandage to the bioreactor, this book looks at five different device technologies from inception to healthcare practice, drawing on medical sociology, science and technology studies and political science. It examines ‘evidence‘, regulation and governance processes, and diverse stakeholders in innovating the technologies that shape health care.978-1-349-28008-7978-0-230-22836-8Series ISSN 2946-3386 Series E-ISSN 2946-3378

Overview: Includes supplementary material: 978-3-540-44145-8978-3-540-45722-0Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-642-47250-3978-3-642-47642-6