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

Overview: One of the controversial philosophical issues of recent years has been the question of the nature of logical and mathematical entities. Platonist or linguistic modes of explanation have become fashionable, whilst abstrac­ tionist and constructionist theories have ceased to be so. Beth and Piaget approach this problem in their book from two somewhat different points of view. Beth‘s approach is largely historico-critical, although he discusses the nature of heuristic thinking in mathematics, whilst that of Piaget is psycho-genetic. The major purpose of this introduction is to summarise

Overview: Ein Wirtschaftsredakteur der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung zeigt das Funktionieren der Medien und insbesondere die Gesetze der Ökonomie, nach denen die Medien funktionieren.Includes supplementary maWer wissen will, wie Medien funktionieren, muß ihre Ökonomie verstehen. Was ist das Besondere an Medien? Welchen ökonomischen Zwängen unterliegen sie? Was wird sich in der Werbebranche durch das Aufkommen des Internet und von Multimedia-Techniken ändern? Dies und noch mehr wird in diesem Buch diskutiert. Das Buch wendet sich an Studenten der Publizistik, die sich mit Medienökonomie besch

Overview: 978-3-540-10344-8978-3-642-45521-6Series ISSN 0172-5203

Overview: Rigorously road tested content from leading experts in front of practising managers.Illustrated with stories and interviews from leading industry players.Covers all major aspects of managing media bus.This book is a practical guide to every aspect of managing media businesses. Written by a team of experts and illustrated with interviews from leading industry players, it addresses the unprecedented change and uncertainty facing the industry..Do newspapers, magazines or books have a future? Will terrestrial television or cable services exist as meaningful players in five years’ time? I

Overview: The papers making up this volume offer a wide-ranging coverage of current safety topics, and a blend of academic research and industrial experience..Includes both recent developments in the field and .Making Systems Safer contains the papers presented at the eighteenth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Bristol, UK, in February 2010...The Symposium is for engineers, managers and academics in the field of system safety, across all industry sectors, so the papers making up this volume offer a wide-ranging coverage of current safety topics, and a blend of academic researc

Overview: 978-90-481-6411-0978-94-017-0113-6Series ISSN 0066-6610 Series E-ISSN 2215-0307

Overview: Presents achievements in the study of variatropic structures, insufficiently known to readers outside Russia.​Explains methods for manufacturing/investigation of vibrated, centrifuged.Describes new teThe book presents Russian experience in researching and developing theoretical and experimental problems of heavy concrete elements and constructions with functionally gradient structure, manufactured by using mechanical and electromagnetic vibrations, and broadly utilized in different areas of industry. Original theoretical, experimental and numerical methods are developed for the analy

Overview: Includes supplementary material: 978-3-540-40671-6978-3-540-45138-9Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Men and Citizens in the Theory of International Relations deals with the tension between the obligations of citizenship and the obligations of humanity in modern theories of the state and international relations.978-1-349-16692-3

Overview: Is a comprehensive, high-level clinical reference on the pathogenesis and therapy of hematological malignancies.Provides the clinical experience of TKIs such as imatinib, nilotinib, dasatinib, and pon.Molecular Pathogenesis and Treatment of Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia provides a comprehensive understanding of the recent molecular genetics of Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) and a characterization of the molecular targets for drug development. Included are therapeutic implications, diagnosis, and prognosis for understanding and facilitating daily practice in the management of patie

Overview: This book offers the first conceptually rigorous analysis of the political and institutional underpinnings of Brazil‘s recent rise. Using Brazil as a case study in multiparty presidentialism, the authors argue that Brazil‘s success stems from the combination of a constitutionally strong president and a robust system of checks and balances.978-1-349-45674-1978-1-137-31084-2

Overview: Features the unique combination of detailed literature evaluation and presentation of new data.Focuses on research experiences since the 1960s within the field.Includes tables and diagrams that presenThis book is the combination of the literature on maternal drug use and birth defects with a set of new data on most types of drugs. .In this book, for each group of drugs the relevant scientific literature on drug teratogenicity is presented, with consideration of possible sources of error and also what the findings may mean from a practical point of view. The book also adds data from t

Overview: C. Amting Directorate General Information Society, European Commission, Brussels th Under the 4 Framework of European Research, the European Systems and Soft­ ware Initiative (ESSI) was part of the ESPRIT Programme. This initiative funded more than 470 projects in the area of software and system process improvements. The majority of these projects were process improvement experiments carrying out and taking up new development processes, methods and technology within the software development process of a company. In addition, nodes (centres of exper­ tise), European networks (organisa

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .The three-volume set LNCS 9349, 9350, and 9351 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2015, held in Munich, Germany, in October 2015. Based on rigorous peer reviews, the program committee carefully selected 263 revised papers from 810 submissions for presentation in three volumes. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: quantitative image analysis I: segmentation and measurement; computer-aided diagnosis: machine learning

Overview: Includes extensive material from original, anonymised, interviews conducted with retired Cabinet-level Ministers and retired Secretaries General of government departments.Sets the politico-administratThis book presents a study of the relationship between Cabinet-level Ministers and top civil servants in Ireland. The nature of this relationship can potentially have far-reaching effects on people’s lives as it can influence the type of public policy agreed at top levels of government. A total of sixteen interviews were carried out for the research, eight with retired Cabinet-level Mini

Overview: Die Theorie des NEWToNschen Potentials von Massenverteilungen im Raum ist eines der ältesten Beispiele einer Verbindung von physikalischer Anschauung und mathematischer Interpretation. Bedeutende Mathematiker vieler Generationen, wie C. F. GAUSS, H. POINCARE, D. lIILEERT, N. WIENER haben daran mitgearbeitet. Die Entwicklung der modernen Potentialtheorie ist auch wesentlich durch die Arbeiten von G. C. EVANS, M. RIEsz, O. FBOSTMAN, M. V. KELDYs, M. BRELoT, H. CARTAN, J. DENY, G. CHOQUET, J. L. DooE, H. BAUER, C. CONSTANTINESCU, V. G. MAz ‘JA, B. FUGLEDE und anderen bestimmt worden. Hi

Overview: Examines the motivation of crowdworkers.Explains how to attract more people and reach a higher quality of outcomes.Offers a taxonomy for crowdworking motivation.This book studies the motivation of crowdworkers to find out how to attract more people and reach a higher quality of outcomes. The book first proposes a taxonomy for studying the motivation of crowdworkers including the potential influencing factors, different types of motivation, and possible consequences and outcomes related to the motivation. Next, the CWMS questionnaire, an instrument for measuring the underlying motivat

Overview: Covers bioactive compounds from industrially important microorganisms.Explores the role of microbial products in agriculture, the environment and health.Discusses bioprocesses and biochemistry of bioa.This book delves into microbial production and its implications for various industries and presents the latest advancements in the field of bioactive compound production by microorganisms...Divided into 16 chapters, the book covers a wide range of topics, starting with the emerging trends in microbial production techniques, followed by the potential of fungi and algae in producing bioac

Overview: Is the only book dealing with the quantification of fretting fatigue, the primary source of failure of mechanical artifacts.Builds rigorously the subject up from the basics and dovetails.Developed by This book, which has only one very distant forerunner authored by David A. Hills with David Nowell, represents a very big step that is the quantification of these problems and represents the twenty-five years’ worth of work which have gone on at Oxford since the first book on the subject. Fatigue (popularly ‘metal fatigue’) is the primary failure mode of all machines, engines, transmissi

Overview: Bewusste Konzentration auf "Kernmodell" der Mikroökonomik.Anwendungsbezüge des Stoffes werden aufgezeigt.Benötigte Mathematik wird im Buch eingehend erklärt; es sind keine speziellen Vorkenntnisse erfDiese moderne, mit besonderer didaktischer Sorgfalt verfasste, systematische und anschauliche Einführung in die Mikroökonomik befasst sich mit dem ökonomischen Verhalten von Haushalten und Unternehmen sowie der durch Preise und Konkurrenz bewirkten Koordination ihrer Aktivitäten auf Märkten..Großer Wert wird darauf gelegt, die Anwendungsbezüge des Stoffes aufzuzeigen. Dazu dienen zahlrei