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

Overview: Systematische Einführung und Übersicht zu Soft Computing und verwandten formalen Methoden.Einführung in die Techniken des Soft Computing mit vielen Anwendungsbeispielen.Zahlreiche Anwendungsbeispiele Dieses Buch ist eine Einführung in naturanaloge Techniken und verwandte formale Methoden. Zu jeder Technik werden Anwendungsbeispiele gegeben. Dargestellt werden Zellularautomaten und Boolesche Netze, Evolutionäre Algorithmen sowie Simulated Annealing, Fuzzy-Methoden, Neuronale Netze und schließlich Hybride Systeme, d.h. Koppelungen verschiedener dieser Techniken. Auf der Basis der Theor

Overview: Provides analysis on expatriation in China from both an indigenous Chinese and Western perspective, using the authors‘ multilingual and multicultural backgrounds.Focuses on language and identity and t.Providing fresh perspectives on managing expatriates in the changing host country of China, this book investigates expatriate management from a language and identity angle. The authors’ multilingual and multicultural backgrounds allow them to offer a solid view on the best practices towards managing diverse groups of expatriates, including Western, Indian, and ethnic Chinese employees.

Overview: 978-3-540-09107-3978-3-540-35538-0Series ISSN 0075-8434 Series E-ISSN 1617-9692

Overview: Muskeldehnung: eines der wichtigsten physiotherapeutischen Behandlungsverfahren.Endlich: Einführung in anschaulichen Bildern und knappen Handlungsanleitungen.Tests und Techniken Schritt für Schritt in.Die Muskeldehnung spielt im physiotherapeutischen Behandlungsangebot eine wichtige Rolle und nimmt daher auch in der Ausbildung breiten Raum ein. Hier sind alle praktisch relevanten Aspekte zum ersten Mal schülerverständlich und übersichtlich für Lernende aufbereitet. Das Buch geht zunächst auf die zum Verständnis der Verfahren wichtigen Grundlagen ein, u.a. Umgang mit Schmerz, Wirksamk

Overview: Human and machine discovery are gradual problem-solvingprocesses of searching large problem spaces for incompletely definedgoal objects. Research on problem solving has usually focused onsearching an `instance space‘ (empirical exploration) and a`hypothesis space‘ (generation of theories). In scientific discovery,searching must often extend to other spaces as well: spaces ofpossible problems, of new or improved scientific instruments, of newproblem representations, of new concepts, and others. This bookfocuses especially on the processes for finding new problemrepresentations and new

Overview: Insects as a group occupy a middle ground in the biosphere between bacteria and viruses at one extreme, amphibians and mammals at the other. The size and general nature of insects present special problems to the student of entomology. For example, many commercially available instruments are geared to measure in grams, while the forces commonly encountered in stUdying insects are in the milligram range. Therefore, techniques developed in the study of insects or in those fields concerned with the control of insect pests are often unique. Methods for measuring things are common to all s

Overview: Deals with the logical, epistemological, and cognitive aspects of modeling practices employed in science and engineering.Includes supplementary material: .The volume is based on the papers that were presented at the international conference Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Medicine (MBR’06 China), held at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P.R. China in July 2006. The presentations given at the conference explored how scientific thinking uses models and explanatory reasoning to produce creative changes in theories and concepts. Some addressed the problem of model-based reasoning

Overview: 978-3-7091-5108-2978-3-7091-5107-5

Overview: This volume looks at Marxist thought in criminology, the work of Willem Bonger, Georg Rusche and Otto Kircheimer, and assesses the role of Marxist analysis in areas such as Critical Criminology and Left Realism. Arguing that Marxism is relevant in the post-Soviet era, it offers a ‘toolkit‘ of Marxist theories and how to use them.978-1-349-52336-8978-0-230-23471-0

Overview: Examines interwar minority language writing by authors from four northwest European emergent nations.Analyses seminal texts by Frisian author Douwe Kalma, Welsh playwright Saunders Lewis, Scots poet HThis book presents a comparative literary study of the works of four writers working in European minority languages - Frisian, Welsh, Scots and Breton.  The author examines the different strategies employed by the four writers to create distinctive literary fields for their languages in the interwar era when self-determination had been promised to national minorities, finding that each h

Overview: Die Markt- und Preistheorie gehört zum Standardlehrstoff für Studierende der Wirtschaftswissenschaften im Hauptstudium. Abgestellt auf diesen Leserkreis wird die Markt- und Preistheorie im vorliegenden Lehrbuch eingehend behandelt, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf denjenigen Marktstrukturen liegt, die üblicherweise im Grundstudium allenfalls gestreift werden. Demgemäß wird auf eine Darstellung der vollständigen Konkurrenz verzichtet. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Modelle der Preisbildung bei Monopol, Monopson, bilateralem Monopol, monopolistischer Konkurrenz und Oligopol. In Anhängen zu den einzeln

Overview: The first comparative study of the spread of mass education around the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this unique new book uses a bottom-up focus and demonstrates, to an extent not appreciated hitherto, the gulf between the intentions of the government and the reality on the ground.978-1-349-32399-9978-0-230-37021-0

Overview: difficult, to represent it as the surgeon sees it, and to understand the anat­ omy, which is not always visible. In part, this was accomplished by paint­ ing on both surfaces of transparent paper to create the illusion of looking through superficial layers to the deeper structures. A combination of color media, including colored pencil, graphite, carbon, pastels, and transparent and opaque watercolors, enabled me to convey the field with minimal loss of reality or dimension. Of equal importance was the availability, for every illustration, of direct surgical observation, surgical pho

Overview: Demut als Führungskompetenz: Erläutert, welche Eigenschaften/Verhaltensmuster einen neuen Führungsstil ermöglichen.Wissenschaftlich fundiert und praxisrelevant: Forschungsergebnisse, Praxisbeispiele u.Dieses Buch ist sowohl ein Plädoyer für Demut als wichtige Führungskompetenz für das 21. Jahrhundert als auch ein Augenöffner dafür, was Demut erreichen kann: für die Mitarbeiter, das Unternehmen und die Führungskraft selbst. Bislang ist Demut eine Rarität im Management. Um den Erfolg des Unternehmens im kommenden Zeitalter sicherzustellen, um Mitarbeiter zu halten und zu motivieren und

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the joint conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: ECML PKDD 2008, held in Antwerp, Belgium, in September 2008. The 100 papers presented in two volumes, together with 5 invited talks, were carefully reviewed and selected from 521 submissions. In addition to the regular papers the volume contains 14 abstracts of papers appearing in full version in the Machine Learning Journal and the Knowledge Discovery and Databases Journal of Springer. The conference intends to provide an international forum for the discus

Overview: 978-0-333-31973-4978-1-349-16510-0

Overview: An important volume for anyone interested in Milton Friedman, a both celebrated and reviled figure within economics.Explains why Friedman‘s work is considered to be so controversial.Closely considers .This book examines the work of Milton Friedman, which is amongst the most significant in modern economics and, equally, amongst the most contentious. Although Friedman became most famous for his views on money and monetary policy as well as his public writings, a large and important part of his work concerned other aspects of economics..All parts of Friedman’s work are considered here,

Overview: Special emphasis is given to the continuum vibrations in the text.Treats the corresponding eigenvalue problems in a unified manner.Shows how to transform eigenvalue problems governed by ordinary diffeThis book presents a unified introduction to the theory of mechanical vibrations. The general theory of the vibrating particle is the point of departure for the field of multidegree of freedom systems. Emphasis is placed in the text on the issue of continuum vibrations. The presented examples are aimed at helping the readers with understanding the theory..This book is of interest among o

Overview: In this book, entitled "Military Conscription: an economic analysis of the labour component in the armed forces", military conscription is regarded as an eco­ nomic policy to minimize the cost of labour in the armed forces. The economic cost of conscription becomes clear when we analyse the opportunity costs of conscription. If conscripts were free to choose whether to join the armed forces, many would not under the present day conditions, since for them the costs of conscription far outweighs the benefits. The principle of opportunity costs is always central in the economics of warf

Overview: Inclusive coverage of all aspects of wastewater treatment and biodegradation.Brings forth recent advances in the field of wastewater treatment.Explores the use of microbial and biotechnological tools Rampant industrialization has caused high levels of contamination by various toxic chemicals in our water bodies, which is a matter of concern in terms of ecosystems, as well as human and animal health. Polluted wastewater can contaminate drinking water and is also is a causal factor for bio-magnification of heavy metals into our food cycle. In the last decade, several methodologies have