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Overview: This book is open access under CC-BY license.Moral dilemmas are a pervasive feature of working life. Moral Reasoning at Work offers a fresh perspective on how to live with them using ethics and moral psychology research. It argues that decision-makers must go beyond compliance and traditional approaches to ethics to prepare for moral dilemmas.

Overview: Supplements the abstract theory with a great amount of motivation, explanations and concrete examples.Includes background on metric spaces and mathematical analysis.Over 300 exercises with hintsThis textbook provides a thorough introduction to measure and integration theory, fundamental topics of advanced mathematical analysis..Proceeding at a leisurely, student-friendly pace, the authors begin by recalling elementary notions of real analysis before proceeding to measure theory and Lebesgue integration. Further chapters cover Fourier series, differentiation, modes of convergence, and

Overview: 978-3-540-15644-4978-3-540-39520-1Series ISSN 0075-8450 Series E-ISSN 1616-6361

Overview: 978-3-540-78154-7978-3-540-78155-4Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: 978-94-011-1462-2

Overview: This volume is based on the Proceedings of the International Conference on "Microbial Infections: Role of Biological Response Modifiers" held in Tampa, FL, May 29-31, 1991. The major purpose of this conference was to bring together in one forum prominent investigators from around the world studying a variety of microbial pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi, and the effects of biological response modifiers (BRM) on the immune response to these microorganisms. BRM have been widely utilized in the area of antitumor resistance and include not only experimental tumor cell va

Overview: Modernist Melancholia explores modernism‘s melancholic roots through the detailed discussion of writings by Freud, Conrad and Ford. Melancholia ties modernism to the 19th-century obsession with loss and continuity and, at the same time, constitutes a formative moment in the history of 20th-century literature, modern subjectivity and critical theory978-1-137-44432-5

Overview: .Decomposition of organic matter is a major ecosystem process involving an array of different organisms, including bacteria, fungi and invertebrates. The main objective of this book is to provide students and laboratory instructors at universities and professional ecologists with a broad range of established methods to study plant litter decomposition. Detailed protocols for direct use in the field or laboratory are presented in an easy to follow step-by-step format. A short introduction to each protocol reviews the ecological significance and principles of the technique and points t

Overview: Provides complete solutions to waste management and bioenergy that does not exist to date.Provides an insight into a comprehensive microbial biodiversity for producing bioenergy and biopolymers.Descri.This book highlights the efforts made by distinguished scientific researchers world-wide to meet two key challenges: i) the limited reserves of polluting fossil fuels, and ii) the ever-increasing amounts of waste being generated. These case studies have brought to the foreground certain innovative biological solutions to real-life problems we now face on a global scale: environmental po

Overview: Explores the existing gap in the research on growth mindset and the digital age.Identifies the foundations of mindset and how mindset influences organisational mindset in the current digital age.HighlThis book explores mind over matter in a digital age and presents the importance of continued transformation of the mind to promote humane Artificial Intelligence for greater good. In doing so, it focuses on the organizational and managerial practices that are critical in creating an environment that supports mindset and organizational growth. .The digital age is significantly impacting

Overview: Mitarbeiterbefragungen gehören heute viel stärker zum Repertoire in Unternehmen als in der Vergangenheit. Dennoch spielen Ängste rund um Anonymität sowie Furcht vor Konsequenzen eine wichtige Rolle bei der Durchführung jedweder Form von Mitarbeiterbefragungen, weshalb Vorsicht und Fingerspitzengefühl bei der Planung gefragt sind. Das Buch stellt den Facettenreichtum rund um das Thema Mitarbeiterbefragungen kompakt, mit vielen Beispielen, praxisnah und umsetzungsorientiert dar. Die Autoren betrachten zentrale und wiederkehrende Aspekte bei der Konzeption, Durchführung und Bearbeitung

Overview: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an increasingly important health problem world-wide. Whereas most other leading diseases have shown a decline in the past decades, COPD morbidity and mortality is on a steady increase. Exacerbations are usually defined as an increase in cough, a change in the colour or quantity of sputum, and a worsening dyspnea. The role of bacterial infections and the efficacy of antimicrobial therapy in acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis (AECD) is still controversial. Exacerbations of chronic bronchitis are a common occurrence in clinical prac

Overview: A timely and critical investigation into the way media operates in a so-called global age, presenting new empirical data on key sites of news production and crucially tying these findings to ongoing debates on globalization and democracy.978-1-349-33699-9978-0-230-35538-5

Overview: kompakt mit Übungsaufgaben und Kontrollfragen = ideal für‘s SelbststudiumAutomatisierung in der Industrie, wissenschaftliche Experimente, Erfassung von physikalischen Größen aus der Umwelt sind nur einige Beispiele, bei denen die Messtechnik eine wichtige Rolle spielt. Dabei stellt sich die moderne Messtechnik vorrangig als elektronische digitale Messtechnik dar. Im vorliegenden Lehr- und Übungsbuch werden ausgehend von den Grundbegriffen Prinzipien und Verfahren zur Ermittlung von Messwerten anschaulich erläutert. Dabei wird vor allem auf die Verlässlichkeit von gewonnenen Messwerte

Overview: Sozialwissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: .Christine E. Meltzer testet in der vorliegenden Studie zum ersten Mal isoliert, ob Medien auch dann noch wirken können, wenn bereits persönliche Erfahrung vorliegt. Dazu konfrontierte die Autorin in einem experimentellen Design Besucher eines Ereignisses mit einem medialen Beitrag, der in Diskrepanz zu ihrer eigenen Wahrnehmung des Ereignisses stand. Es zeigte sich eine durchgängige Anpassung der auf persönlicher Erfahrung basierenden Bewertungen des Ereignisses an die mediale Darstellung. Medien wirken also nicht nur i

Overview: Das Buch beschreibt Gesetzmäßigkeiten hinter der Fusionswelle - und Konsequenzen für einzelne Unternehmen..Das Buch beschreibt die Naturgeschichte der Akquisitionen und Übernahmen; es basiert auf eine978-3-322-82418-9978-3-322-82417-2

Overview: Schnelle Informationsquelle.Fundiertes Wissen statt kurzfristig recherchierter Zeitungsartikel.Umfangreiche Literaturliste zur eigenständigen VertiefungMikroplastik ist derzeit ein allgegenwärtiges Thema in den Medien und wird daher auch in der Bevölkerung als umweltrelevante Problematik wahrgenommen. Da jedoch viel Halbwissen zur Meinungsbildung beiträgt, bereitet dieses .essential. den aktuellen Forschungstand auf und stellt ihn allgemein verständlich dar. Angefangen bei den Grundlagen der Mikroplastikdefinition und den derzeit bekannten Quellen über bisher nachgewiesene Konzentrat

Overview: The most complete geological description of mud volcanism.Their physics and chemistry revealed.A broad interdisciplinary scientific effort devoted to scientists, engineers and students1. PURPOSE OF PRESENT BOOK During the period May 19-26, 2003 the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) “Mud volcanism, Geodynamics and Seismicity” was held in Baku. Participants coming from USA, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Romania, Georgia, UK, Israel, Azerbaijan, Tunisia have discussed about different geodynamic features of mud volcanism and participated to field trip

Overview: This book studies some important myths of masculinity in various popular genres, including the western, the horror film, rock music and pornography. The author argues that popular culture gives us highly complex and ambivalent images of men. The hero turns into the anti-hero; feminine and homoerotic material leak in; the male is often shown as the victim. Attention is also paid to important theoretical issues in gender studies and cultural studies, such as identification and the relation between subject and text.978-0-312-12623-0978-0-230-38939-7

Overview: Special emphasis on the impact of medieval pilgrimage on the visual culture of Europe and the culture of the written word. Gives a fresh overview of a field which tends to be dominated by studies of pMedieval pilgrimage was, above all, an expression of religious faith, but this was not its only aspect.Men and women of all classes went on pilgrimage for a variety of reasons, sometimes by choice, sometimes involuntarily.They made both long and short journeys: to Rome, Jerusalem and Santiago on the one hand; to innumerable local shrines on the other.The routes that they followed by land