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Overview: Includes supplementary material: 978-3-540-67704-8978-3-540-45014-6Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Perspektiven der Entwicklung.Includes supplementary material: .Inwieweit kann und muss eine auch weltweit zu denkende und zu konzipierende Soziale Arbeit sich im Referenzrahmen von Menschenrechten und Demokratie bewegen? Wie wird sie unter Einbindung neuer sozialer und ökologischer Bewegungen Antworten auf gesellschaftliche Problemlagen, soziale Notlagen und Missachtungen finden? Entscheidend für eine Annäherung zu Antworten auf diese Fragen wird sein, auf welche Theorien und Verständnisse von Menschenrechten und Demokratie sich Soziale Arbeit bezieht und welche wissenschaftlich fund

Overview: Explains the Metaeconomics Framework and Dual Interest Theory, which give an alternative way to address economic questions.Brings the moral and ethical dimension back into focus in economics, as Adam This book presents the Metaeconomics Framework and Dual Interest Theory, which weave the empathy-based moral and ethical dimension back into key economic questions. Metaeconomics addresses the problem of placing too much emphasis on the market or the government, and thus argues that seeing the link between ego and empathy, self- and other-interest, and market and government will lead to

Overview: Bridges the fields of human geography and peacebuilding through a spatially based analysis of conflict transformation.Presents a case study of participatory research and identifies the importance of pThis book presents narratives of the social use of space in the divided city of Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Through the narratives of movement in the city, the work demonstrates how residents engage informally with conflict transformation through new movement and use of spaces. This book will appeal across the social sciences, and in particular to students, academics, and researchers in

Overview: Seed systems and the socio-cultural structures of smallholder livelihoods.Influence of seed trade on social structures in Tanzania.With group discussion with two women and two men farmers in Namtumbo.Seeds are at the heart of a transformation process that affects more than two billion people worldwide. This study on smallholder farmers in Tanzania examines how local seed systems are anchored in the socio-cultural structures of smallholder life worlds. Using the example of seeds, the close interweaving of agricultural and social practice is traced and it is worked out how individual p

Overview: First book on rhizobiome multifunctionalities‘in millets.Features the microorganisms that can increase the growth and productivity of millets.Explains the evolving role of rhizospheric microbes in milThis edited volume is the first book that explicitly explains the link between the extraordinarily small-scale microbial processes and the growth and yield attributes of millet crops. This book includes chapters emphasizing on the effects of rhizosphere biology on long-term millet crop management. Millets are a collection of small-grained cereal grasses that are grown for human carbohydr

Overview: Highly-readable Open Access introduction to marine mammal biology and medicine.Presents career pathways of marine scientists illustrated by exciting case studies.Discusses human-derived threats to oce.This highly-readable Open Access textbook provides basic background information about marine mammals and anthropogenic impacts on them. The book includes inspiring exercises for education school programs in natural sciences. The book also provides advice on career paths using case studies of marine scientists and veterinarians describing their journeys from student to profession. By sha

Overview: 978-3-642-68631-3978-3-642-68630-6

Overview: Every year around the world 13.3 million boys and 2 milliongirls have part or all of their external sex organs cut off. Doctors,parents, and politicians have been misled into thinking that thesemutilations are beneficial, necessary and harmless. Internationalrespected experts in the fields of medicine, science, politics, law,ethics, sociology, anthropology, history and religion present thelatest research, documentation and analysis of this world-wideproblem, focusing on the ethical, political and legal aspects ofsexual mutilation; the cost and burden to healthcare systems; thelatest

Overview: 978-3-540-07098-6978-3-662-01071-6Series ISSN 0301-5556 Series E-ISSN 2192-7065

Overview: Helps you delight users through improved execution speeds.Includes the use of Visual Explain—a graphical approach to query analysis.Teaches the full cycle from finding candidate queries to improving tIdentify, analyze, and improve poorly performing queries that damage user experience and lead to lost revenue for your business. This book will help you make query tuning an integral part of your daily routine through a multi-step process that includes monitoring of execution times, identifying candidate queries for optimization, analyzing their current performance, and improving them to

Overview: A key determinant of overall system performance and power dissipation is the cache hierarchy since access to off-chip memory consumes many more cycles and energy than on-chip accesses. In addition, multi-core processors are expected to place ever higher bandwidth demands on the memory system. All these issues make it important to avoid off-chip memory access by improving the efficiency of the on-chip cache. Future multi-core processors will have many large cache banks connected by a network and shared by many cores. Hence, many important problems must be solved: cache resources must

Overview: Bone Tumors - A Challenge for Cooperation E. GRUNDMANN Among the wide variety of human tumors, those of the skeletal system have an exceptional position in several respects. Above all, they are comparatively rare, and that is why reliable diagnostic criteria were compiled only recently, that is during the last three decades. It is only five years since the outlines of an international code of classi­ fication were traced. The code was applied and discussed critically and with varying results by several international working groups. Cer­ tain drawbacks are due to the broad and manifol

Overview: This volume contains the revised versions of the papers presented at the Eighth International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS ‘94), held in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA in October 1994..Besides four invited contributions by renowned researchers on key topics, there are 56 full papers carefully selected from more than 120 submissions. The book presents the state of the art for methodologies for intelligent systems; the papers are organized in sections on approximate reasoning, evolutionary computation, intelligent information systems, knowledge representati

Overview: The two-volume set LNCS 5761 and LNCS 5762 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2009, held in London, UK, in September 2009. Based on rigorous peer reviews, the program committee carefully selected 259 revised papers from 804 submissions for presentation in two volumes. The first volume includes 125 papers divided in topical sections on cardiovascular image guided intervention and robotics; surgical navigation and tissue interaction; intra-operative imaging and endoscopic navigat

Overview: Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art research.Unique selling points978-3-642-13922-2978-3-642-13923-9Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: First to address interactive systems development and evaluation for usability from a thoroughly multimodal perspective.First to argue that the field of human-computer interaction needs complete re-oriThis preface tells the story of how Multimodal Usability responds to a special challenge. Chapter 1 describes the goals and structure of this book. The idea of describing how to make multimodal computer systems usable arose in the European Network of Excellence SIMILAR – “Taskforce for cre- ing human-machine interfaces SIMILAR to human-human communication”, 2003– 2007, www. similar. cc.

Overview: Membrane Physiology (Second Edition) is a soft-cover book containing portions of Physiology of Membrane Disorders (Second Edition). The parent volume contains six major sections. This text encompasses the first three sections: The Nature of Biological Membranes, Methods for Studying Membranes, and General Problems in Membrane Biology. We hope that this smaller volume will be helpful to individuals interested in general physiology and the methods for studying general physiology. THOMAS E. ANDREOLI JOSEPH F. HOFFMAN DARRELL D. FANESTIL STANLEY G. SCHULTZ vii Preface to the Second Editi

Overview: The latest research in the areas of Innovation and InternationalizationAlan M. Rugman‘s and Cecilia Brain‘s paper examines the R&D and strate­ gies of the world‘ s largest finns in the phannaceuticals sector and finds a high degree of intra-regional sales. R&D and sales are more concentrated within North America and Europe than in Asia. In addition, the relative size of the US market, compared to other parts of the triad, creates imbalances with respect to R&D, sales and international strategy. The paper written by Bruce Kogut and Anca Metiu addresses the question of what limits the

Overview: Human activities are causing species extinctions at a rate and magnitude rivaling those of past geologic extinction events. .Exploring mediterranean-type ecosystems - the Mediterranean Basin, California, Chile, Australia, and South Africa - this volume addresses the question whether biological diversity plays a significant role in the functioning of natural ecosystems, and to what extent that diversity can be reduced without causing system malfunction. Comparative studies in ecosystems that are similar in certain respects, but differ in others, offer considerable scope for gaining ne