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

Overview: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: ​Die Wirtschaft zeichnet sich durch einen hohen und wachsenden Anteil wissensbasierter Wertschöpfung aus. Getragen wird diese Entwicklung durch wissensintensive Dienstleister, deren wichtigste Ressource das intellektuelle Kapital ist. Ulrich G. Schnabel zeigt, welche strategischen Erfolgspotenziale des intellektuellen Kapitals für diese Firmen eine hohe Relevanz für die Wettbewerbsstrategie besitzen und mit welchen Strategieoptionen Wettbewerbsvorteile aufgebaut werden können.978-3-658-03368-2978-3-658-03369-9

Overview: Current evidence suggests that the ischemic preconditioning response is a multi-factorial process consisting of an initial early trigger, an intermediate mediator, and an end effector. Each of these steps in is now its own intense area of investigation. The need to render the heart ischemic for a brief period to invoke the preconditioning response is currently the major factor limiting clinical application of this powerful cardioprotective strategy. Recent research efforts have utilized brief exposures to pharmacological agents, in lieu of a brief preconditioning ischemia, to trigger

Overview: Fundierte Darstellung der Grundlagen und Erfolgsfaktoren des Managements plötzlich auftretender KrisenAd-hoc-Krisen treten urplötzlich auf. Sie sind durch herkömmliche Frühwarnsysteme nicht zu orten und bergen existenzgefährdendes Potenzial. Ihre Häufigkeit nimmt in dynamischen Wettbewerbsverhältnissen und in einer vernetzten Welt sprunghaft zu. Nur durch spezifische Managementansätze zur erfolgreichen Bewältigung solcher Krisen können Unternehmen ihre Existenz sichern und langfristig ihre Position im Markt behaupten...Das vorliegende Buch durchdringt in wissenschaftlich fundierter,

Overview: illuminates the globalized educational scene.clarifies the possibilities available to PhDs.explores the ethical ramifications of engaging with the other.This book investigates a different way to gain academic job experience and start an academic career. With universities training more PhD candidates than there are academic jobs, the academic job market, particularly in the social sciences and humanities, is somewhat broken. A possibility for young PhD graduates and early career researchers to gain job experience in an ever more competitive job market is leaving their home countries a

Overview: Advances in technology are making the business and manufacturing environment increasingly complex. Standards can help us cope with this complexity. Given the strategic importance of computers in the economies of the industrial world, it is fitting that one of the most significant commercial stories of our time is the standardization of computer communications. Quite frankly, when we joined with other computer users to launch this effort we didn‘t predict its scope and we should have done. public visibility. In restrospect, I guess The computer assisted technologies looming on the hor

Overview: Gives a detailed introduction into the theoretical concepts of celestial mechanics as used in planetary sciences and satellite navigation.Addresses numerical techniques and gps navigation.G. Beutler i.G. Beutler‘s .Methods of Celestial Mechanics. is a coherent textbook for students as well as an excellent reference for practitioners. The first volume gives a thorough treatment of celestial mechanics and presents all the necessary mathematical details that a professional would need. The reader will appreciate the well-written chapters on numerical solution techniques for ordinary diff

Overview: Debatten über das ‘Hausmüllproblem‘ in Deutschland und Frankreich978-3-322-99391-5

Overview: Zwischenbetriebliche Kooperationen beinhalten neben zahlreichen Vorteilen auch Nachteile für beide Unternehmen. Besonders problematisch ist, daß gerade durch die Zusammenarbeit jeder Partner die Möglichkeit hat, sich opportunistisch zu verhalten und damit das ihm entgegengebrachte Vertrauen zu mißbrauchen. Boris Blumberg erklärt Managementmechanismen, die das Entstehen von Problemen bei Kooperationen verhindern und somit zum Aufbau von gegenseitigem Vertrauen beitragen. Mit Hilfe der Transaktionskostentheorie wird die vertragliche Ausgestaltung einer Kooperation mit ihrem Problempote

Overview: Provides a case-based look at human trafficking from a medical perspective.Is the first publication of human trafficking specific to Adolescent Medicine.Written by physicians and lawyers.Human trafficking is an increasingly large issue in medicine, particularly for the adolescent population. The pubertal and neurologic development of early- and mid-adolescence may serves as a foothold for trauma bonds and human trafficking. To date, there are few case studies of human trafficking in the medical literature.  More often, these cases are missed, and human trafficking patients are unlike

Overview: Presents a step by step approach to develop a mining business case that will raise capital.Offers numerous types of mining capital applicable to different project stages and commodities.Includes vario.Mining is a capital-intensive industry, and involves long lead times to develop projects that demand a structured approach, from mine exploration to exit. This book provides mine developers, investors, owners, shareholders, and mineral policymakers a comprehensive game plan to raise capital for the development of new mining projects or to bolster operational mines.   ..The author, an ex

Overview: Despite pioneering studies, the term ‘romance novel‘ itself has not been subjected to scrutiny. This book examines mass-market romance fiction in the U.K., Canada, and the U.S. through four categories: capitalism, war, heterosexuality, and white Protestantism and casts a fresh light on the genre.978-1-349-48413-3978-1-137-39505-4

Overview: Möglichkeiten arbeitnehmerorientierter MedienpolitikMitglieder gesellschaftlich relevanter Gruppen repräsentieren in dem weltweit einmaligen deutschen Aufsichtsmodell der Rundfunkräte die Allgemeinheit. Auch die Gewerkschaften können Vertreter in diese Gremien entsenden. Gewerkschaftliche Medienpolitik und die Arbeit der Aufsichtsgremien in öffentlich-rechtlichen Sendern und Landesmedienanstalten wurden bisher von der Forschung kaum untersucht. Wie gehen die Organisationen mit dieser Aufgabe um, welche Voraussetzungen und Rahmenbedingungen gibt es und wie steht es um Information, Tra

Overview: Includes supplementary material: In addition to movement per se, movement disorders affect multiple mental processes and complex behavioral functions, and so must be taken into careful account when clinically managing a wide variety of behavioral problems. In Mental and Behavioral Dysfunction in Movement Disorders, internationally renowned researchers and clinicians review the many recent developments in the field, both to shed light on and to establish new standards for the study and treatment of the multiple cognitive, affective, and behavioral dysfunctions associated with movement

Overview: An exciting overview of the advances in the genetics and biology of liver cancer, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.Chapters range from genetics and environmental risk factors, genetics of liver dev.Primary liver cancer is the third most deadly and fifth most common cancer worldwide (~500,000 deaths annually), with a sharp increase of incidence in the United States in recent years. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and cholangiocarcinoma (CC) are the major types of primary liver cancer. Risk factors include gender, hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), cirrhosis, metabolis

Overview: First book on management of permanent change.Presents findings of distinguished researchers on recent projects on change management.Outlines future challenges of managers coping with permanent change.In the current times of more frequent crises and ever shortening innovation cycles, the management of change has become a crucial task of survival. While it is not a new topic in business research, the developments of the last decade have posed many new challenges for the change management of firms and organizations and have thus also raised many new questions for academic research in bu

Overview: Presents a unified framework for measuring well-being, deprivation and inequality, where individual well-being is the central concept.Takes a ‘column-first’ approach to the measurement of social well-.This volume explores several aspects of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum’s framework for thinking about individual well-being. Called the functioning and capability approach (FCA), this framework radically departs from the conventional approach to the concept of individual well-being in welfare economics insofar as it identifies an individual’s well-being as the value attached to the ind

Overview: Gives a complete classification of Moufang polygons, starting from first principles.Includes a totally new classification of the spherical buildings of rank 3 at least.J. Tits is one of the best and mSpherical buildings are certain combinatorial simplicial complexes intro­ duced, at first in the language of "incidence geometries," to provide a sys­ tematic geometric interpretation of the exceptional complex Lie groups. (The definition of a building in terms of chamber systems and definitions of the various related notions used in this introduction such as "thick," "residue," "rank,"

Overview: Includes cutting-edge techniques.Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results.Contains key implementation advice from the expertsThis detailed volume explores molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs), which have attracted great interest both in fundamental research and for practical applications due to their selective molecular recognition capabilities, extraordinary stability, and ease of preparation. Beginning with key laboratory protocols describing the different steps towards the synthesis of MIPs by different polymerization strategies, the volume continues by exa

Overview: This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.The first book to cover pure effects of ethnic diversity on social cohesion in the Netherlands.Provides analyses based on .This open access book shows policymakers which initiatives work when responding to the increasing diversity in cities, towns and neighborhood‘s. In recent times, policymakers have grappled with ways of responding to this increase, which has resulted in a plethora of policy initiatives, some more effective than others. Bringing together a large amount of research and evidence-based polic

Overview: Offers a comparative approach between Ghana and Nigeria, providing a case set beyond the frequent focus on South Africa, Cameroon, Kenya and Somalia.Uses a de-westernization approach in contextualizin.This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria’s emerging democracies. It evaluates and critiques these reform processes, arguing that because of dependency approaches resulting from the transplanting of policy framework from the West into these emerging democracies, the policy goals and objectives of the reforms have not been achieved