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Overview: Recent research on Multiphysical Testing of Soils and Shales.Compilation of the International Workshop Advances in Multiphysical Testing of Soils and Shales” held in Lausanne (Switzerland), September .Significant advancements in the experimental analysis of soils and shales have been achieved during the last few decades. Outstanding progress in the field has led to the theoretical development of geomechanical theories and important engineering applications. .This book provides the reader with an overview of recent advances in a variety of advanced experimental techniques and results

Overview: Practical and concise title offering targeted introduction to the field of movement disorders.Includes wealth of supporting video content to enhance educational value.Authored by experts in the field..Movement Disorders: A Video Atlas is a practical and concise title offering an introduction to the field of movement disorders, which is expanding rapidly with the involvement of various disciplines and specialties. The unique feature of the book is the accompanying video content, comprising common cases in each category of movement disorders. The video clips come from Dr. Tarsy’s perso

Overview: First book to cover all the key enabling technologies of E-Business.Peter Gloor is the author of "Elements of Hypermedia Design", published by Birkhäuser Boston.e-Commerce, e-Business and Knowledge MaRead this book and you‘ll not only understand WHY e-Business is vital to the continuing success of your organization but also HOW you can incorporate it into your business..Four key questions are asked within .Making the e-Business . .Transformation.: .- How do you transform your existing business into an e-business?.How do you go about introducing e-business into your Company?.- What ar

Overview: Updates previous, exhaustive compilation of paramagnetic susceptibility data.Provides critically evaluated data.Written by competent experts in the fieldWith the objective to collate the enormous amount of information on magnetic susceptibility parameters of a very large number of a variety of skeletons and present it in a form that can readily be retrieved and used, a new pattern is being introduced with the present volume keeping in view that now a majority of research groups look at the scientific data electronically..In this volume, magnetic properties of complexes of ???(La, Ti,

Overview: Food security, one of the basic human rights, seems to be ever eluding the people of sub-Saharan Africa. With each occurrence of crop failure, agriculturalists around the world reawaken to the challenge of ensuring sta­ ble, adequate food production in the tropical African environments. The International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), with its mandate of alleviating food shortages through judicial use of fertilizers, formulated a program to study fertilizer use strategies for sub-Saharan Africa. With gener­ ous financial assistance from the International Fund for Agricultural

Overview: Papers collected here, first given at an international conference in Paris, examine the monetary aspects of the keynesian theory. They examine recent developments and controversies on such topics as savings, investment, financial capital, interest rates, indebtedness and the theory of prices.978-1-349-20117-4

Overview: Gives a broader overview than any other book of the diverse research fields involving marine protists, including phylogeny, genomics, cytology, biology, ecology, and fisheries science.Comprises an intThis comprehensive book provides a unique overview of advances in the biology and ecology of marine protists. Nowadays marine protistology is a hot spot in science to disclose life phenomena using the latest techniques. Although many protistological textbooks deal with the cytology, genetics, ecology, and pathology of specific organisms, none keeps up with the quick pace of new discoveri

Overview: Approaches the issue of ontogenesis from a multidisciplinary point of view.Involves the concept of individuation proposed by Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze.Written by leading experts in the fieldThis contributed volume aims to reconsider the concept of individuation, clarifying its articulation with respect to contemporary problems in perceptual, neural, developmental, semiotic and social morphogenesis. The authors approach the ontogenetical issue by taking into account the morphogenetic process, involving the concept of individuation proposed by Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Dele

Overview: Offers an interpretation of Levinas’ philosophy of religion from the perspective of kenosis.Relates Levinas’ anthropology to his philosophy of religion.Compares Levinas’ hermeneutics of the self with .Man as a Place of God. is an examination of Levinas’ philosophy of religion in the light of his ethics and anthropology. It provides a lively introduction to the main themes of Levinas’ thought and offers critical perspectives on Levinas by relating his work to that of Heidegger, Ricoeur, Rorty, Derrida and Vattimo. ..The focus of interpretation is the hermeneutics of ‘kenosis’: the sub

Overview: Presents the lectures of the Symposium on Mechanics of Natural Solids, September 2009 in Horto, Greece.Delivers a paradigm for the interconnection of the mechanics of soil, rock, ice and snow.Presente.This book presents the lectures of the Symposium on Mechanics of Natural Solids, hold from 7th to 9th September 2009 in Horto, Greece. It delivers a paradigm for the interconnection of the mechanics of soil, rock, ice and snow and also for the interdisciplinary character of the related research. Therefore, the presented lectures are of fundamental character and address the possible inte

Overview: Explains the mechanical behavior of one-dimensional sandwich structures.Covers the basic mechanical load cases tension, bending, and shear.Includes and introduction to classic optimization problems.This book treats the mechanical behavior of one-dimensional sandwich structures, a typicaloncept in the context of lightweight design. Such structures are composed of different constituent (e.g., layers) in order to achieve overall properties, which are better than for a single component alone. This book covers the basic mechanical load cases, i.e., tension/compression, bending, and shear.

Overview: Provides important information about minerals and lipid profiles in cardiovascular disorders (CVD) in South Asian countries like Pakistan.Fills the data gap on the relation between minerals and lipid This book correlates different minerals and lipids serum profiles with the prevalence of cardiovascular disorders in South Asian countries with special emphasis on Pakistan. Cardiovascular disorders (CVD, e.g. coronary heart diseases, hypertension, rheumatic heart disease, angina, heart failure and deep vein thrombosis) show significantly increasing rates in South Asian countries like Pa

Overview: Analyses and explains the ontological commitments of the leading contemporary conceptions of morality.Develops a detailed theory of a non-naturalistic moral realism.Defends a subtle but broadly common.This is a book on metaethics—in particular, an inquiry into the metaphysical foundations of morality.  After carefully exploring the metaphysical commitments, or lack thereof, of the leading versions of moral anti-realism, Kulp develops a new and in-depth theory of moral realism.  Starting with the firm recognition of the importance of our common sense belief that we possess a great dea

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.978-3-642-47147-6978-3-642-47436-1

Overview: Provides valuable impulses for new research fields in electric mobility.Contains theoretical approaches as well as hand-on knowledge for the business world.Written by experts in the fields.Includes suThis edited monograph collects theoretical, empirical and political contributions from different fields, focusing on the commercial launch of electric mobility, and intending to shed more light on the complexity of supply and demand. It is an ongoing discussion, both in the public as well as in academia, whether or not electric mobility is capable of gaining a considerable market share i

Overview: Details the current state-of-the-art in modeling epidemics on networks.Offers direct comparison of the main network epidemic models and works out their hierarchy.Identifies opportunities for further rThis textbook provides an exciting new addition to the area of network science featuring a stronger and more methodical link of models to their mathematical origin and explains how these relate to each other with special focus on epidemic spread on networks. The content of the book is at the interface of graph theory, stochastic processes and dynamical systems. The authors set out to mak

Overview: This book is an analysis of all possible interest rates. Dual expressions are used to solve long-standing puzzles, eliminate anomalies and draw conclusions about best practice and sound policy advice in areas of economics and finance. Topics include retail and corporate finance, capital budgeting and investment appraisal, bond risk management..An on-line model demonstratingideas from the book is available in the Wolfram Demonstrations Project (WDP) bysearching "multiple interest rate analysis" in the WDP search engine.A ‘computable document‘ containing the model and the model‘s code

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Overview: Provides a comprehensive treatment of both theoretical and practical aspects of implementing distributed resource management mechanisms using the Nobel-prize winning framework of matching theory withi.This book provides the fundamental knowledge of the classical matching theory problems. It builds up the bridge between the matching theory and the 5G wireless communication resource allocation problems. The potentials and challenges of implementing the semi-distributive matching theory framework into the wireless resource allocations are analyzed both theoretically and through implemen

Overview: Presents instruments and methods to evaluate human movement, locomotion and the physical status.Helps planning and executing research endavours, in particular in clinical context.Offers essentials of .This book addresses instruments, methodologies and diagnostic methods used to evaluate and diagnose human movement, locomotion and physical status in general..Starting from historical perspective, the idea of understanding human locomotion by applying technical measurement devices and incorporating measurement data into physical representation of gross body movement is presented and exp