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

Overview: Most up-to-date book to highlight the significance and role that microorganisms play in the human life cycle.Considers microbiology of the host in different regions of the body during the aging proces.The microbiological burden on an aging host is enormous, and clinically significant. As humans are living longer there is a greater propensity to infection. This risk is substantially heightened in elderly individuals who are predisposed to infection. Do the microbiological changes that occur within and upon the host influence the process of ageing or is it the biological changes of the

Overview: 978-3-7643-1079-0978-3-0348-6287-5

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .We make complex decisions every day, requiring trust in many different entities for different reasons. These decisions are not made by combining many isolated trust evaluations. Many interlocking factors play a role, each dynamically impacting the others.  In this brief, "trust context" is defined as the system level description of how the trust evaluation process unfolds..Networks today are part of almost all human activity, supporting and shaping it. Applications increasingly incorporate new interdependencies and new trust contexts. Social networks

Overview: Comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of rare lung diseases.Thoroughly sheds light on the molecular mechanisms that evoke the clinical presentation and engender treatment strategies for each rare lun.The study of rare lung disorders enhances our understanding of common pulmonary diseases such as fibrosis and emphysema. Molecular Basis of Pulmonary Disease: Insights from Rare Lung Disorders brings together a panel of distinguished clinicians and molecular scientists who are experts in a range of rare lung diseases and their underlying molecular defects. Each chapter focuses on the pa

Overview: Includes supplementary material: 978-3-540-42496-3978-3-540-44683-5Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Differenzierung zwischen Muße und Müßiggang mit Blick auf deren Verhältnis zur Arbeit.Einblick in eine aktuelle Problemkonstellation und ihre historische Genese.Neuer Blick auf Flaneur, Dandy, SammlerDie Geschichte der Moderne wurde oft als eine Geschichte der modernen Arbeitswelt – im Sinne der Ausdifferenzierung, Ökonomisierung, Professionalisierung und Beschleunigung – erzählt. Sie ist aber auch eine Geschichte neuer Formen der ‚Muße‘ und des ‚Müßiggangs‘, die ebenso einen Teil dessen bilden, was wir heute ‚modern‘ nennen. Mit dem spannungsreichen Verhältnis von Arbeit, Muße und M

Overview: Addresses how new communication technologies and human societies interact to change or stabilize power relations in society.Covers the history of each era of communication, from the development of spe.Mutative Media. is a sweeping examination of how communication technologies have contributed to changes in people’s thoughts and actions, and thus in the power structures of societies, in the past, at present, and in four alternative futures..We start by surveying what is generally known about the emergence of human language and speech that has enabled humans to extend their organizing

Overview: The Editors are sorry that the production of this volume was delayed by the ill­ health of one of them and we hope that this does not detract from the value of the con­ tents. For once this delay is not the fault of any of the authors only the editors are to blame. Many of the workers in the field of fibre toxicology became convinced by the middle 1980‘s that the worst of the furore over asbestos was over although we were left with an intriguing problem - how does asbestos cause disease? It was expected that the future impact of fibres on human health would be very small since asbest

Overview: Provides detailed procedures dealing with the synthesis of numerous new materials.Contains a special chapter as a tutorial review on next generation of energetic materials with 48 images.Includes vari.This highly informative and carefully presented book discusses the synthesis, processing, characterization and applications of different types of materials. It provides an overview of recent advances in the areas of materials research and engineering and highlights a wide range of significant recent results in energetic materials, bio-based materials, ceramics, nanomaterials, among othe

Overview: Comprehensive coverage ranging from basic technical information to the most advanced clinical applications of microperimetry amd multimodal retinal imaging..Designed for use by both clinicians and tec.Microperimetry allows precise functional examination of the retina and optic nerve and is especially valuable for evaluation of the macular area. This fully up-to-date textbook on microperimetry, written by leading experts in the field, will also serve as an atlas and diagnostic reference. It is designed for use by both ophthalmologists and optometrists in daily clinical practice and cl

Overview: Verständliche, locker geschriebene Einführung.Autor – renommierter Experte auf dem Gebiet der Metallphysik.Wissenschaftlich profund, umfassend und didaktisch klar.Anschaulich durch viele Abbildungen u.Die modernen Konzepte der physikalischen Metallkunde sind gleichermaßen grundlegend für das Verständnis auch aller nichtmetallischen Werkstoffe. Deswegen liegt es nahe, die klassisch nach den Werkstoffen Metall, Keramik, Glas und Kunststoff differenzierten Wissensgebiete unter der verbindenden Bezeichnung Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik gemeinsam abzuhandeln. Von dieser Festst

Overview: method enables readers to: *efficiently design higher-quality,lower cost objects with less metal requirements, vibration and noise,andwith lower dynamic loads and energy consumption *determineoptimalsolutions, regardless of the number of criteria involved, andtoidentify relationships among different criteria and betweencriteriaand design variables *accurately account for discrepanciesbetweentheoretical and actual characteristics, using a special setofadequacy criteria *determine optimal design variables for complexfinite element models In addition, the book helps readers: *enhancethe

Overview: Kompakte, anspruchsvolle Einführung in die für Ökonomen wichtigsten Werkzeuge der Analysis, Optimierung und linearen Algebra.Ökonomisch relevante Beispiele.Besonderheit: formale Argumentation und Bewe.Der moderne Wirtschaftswissenschaftler hat profunde Kenntnisse der Mathematik. Mit Hilfe mathematischer Methoden werden heute etwa Optionsscheine an der Börse bewertet oder Auktionen entworfen. Zudem bildet die Mathematik die Basis für empirisches Arbeiten mit Hilfe statistischer Methoden. In allen Arbeitsfeldern des Ökonomen ist somit eine gute ökonomische Intuition gepaart mit mathema

Overview: First book on this topic.Written by the inventor and principal exponents of the technique.Modulated Temperature DSC can do things that conventional DSC is unable to do.Combines a full discussion of th.MTDSC provides a step-change increase in the power of calorimetry to characterize virtually all polymer systems including curing systems, blends and semicrystalline polymers. It enables hidden transitions to be revealed, miscibility to be accurately assessed, and phases and interfaces in complex blends to be quantified. It also enables crystallinity in complex systems to be measured and

Overview: 978-3-7908-0218-4978-3-662-41557-3

Overview: This is the second volume of a 2-volume textbook* which evolved from a course (Mathematics 160) offered at the California Institute of Technology during the last 25 years. The second volume presupposes a background in number theory com­ parable to that provided in the first volume, together with a knowledge of the basic concepts of complex analysis. Most of the present volume is devoted to elliptic functions and modular functions with some of their number-theoretic applications. Among the major topics treated are Rademacher‘s convergent series for the partition function, Lehner‘s con

Overview: Integrates mobility data handling processes to meet real-world application requirements.Supports practical applications with supplementary software (Hermes MOD engine).Presents real case studies to vaThis text integrates different mobility data handling processes, from database management to multi-dimensional analysis and mining, into a unified presentation driven by the spectrum of requirements raised by real-world applications. It presents a step-by-step methodology to understand and exploit mobility data: collecting and cleansing data, storage in Moving Object Database (MOD) engin

Overview: An investigation of the historical evolution of figurative language within the framework of cognitive linguistics. It examines how and why metaphors evolve through the ages; discusses the role of culture; patterns of metaphor evolution; how many people use particular expressions.978-1-349-33870-2978-0-230-33705-3

Overview: Presents the topic in a highly market-orientated using a combination of a business and research approaches.Offers a unique blend of classic business management and technical topics like ERP and BI.Foc.This volume presents the revised and peer reviewed contributions of the ‘EPR Future 2014‘ conference held in Dornbirn/Austria on November 17-18th, 2014. .The book assembles latest research and recent practice on enterprise information systems in general and specifically on core topicslike business process management (BPM), business intelligence (BI) andenterprise resource planning (ERP)

Overview: The purpose of this textbook is to present an array of topics in Calculus, andconceptually follow our previous effort Mathematical Analysis I.The present material is partly found, in fact, in the syllabus of the typical second lecture course in Calculus as offered in most Italian universities.While the subject matter known as `Calculus 1‘ is more or less standard, andconcerns real functions of real variables, the topics of a course on `Calculus 2‘can vary a lot, resulting in a bigger flexibility. For these reasons the Authors tried to cover a wide range of subjects, not forgetting th