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

Overview: An international collection of papers focused on media, culture and society in postcommunist Russia. Contributors deploy a wealth of primary data in examining the kinds of issues that are central to our understanding of the kind of system that has been established in the world‘s largest country after a period of far-reaching change.978-1-349-35730-7978-0-230-58307-8Series ISSN 2947-5007 Series E-ISSN 2947-5015

Overview: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post-workshop proceedings of two co-located events: the Second International Workshop on Classification of Events, Activities and Relationships, CLEAR 2007, and the 5th Rich Transcription 2007 Meeting Recognition evaluation, RT 2007, held in succession in Baltimore, MD, USA, in May 2007. The workshops had complementary evaluation efforts; CLEAR for the evaluation of human activities, events, and relationships in multiple multimodal data domains; and RT for the evaluation of speech transcription-related technologies from meeting room

Overview: Offers a comprehensive review on the current state of AI and its social impact.Discusses findings on how and which moral values should be taught to machines.Offers alternative reading pathways address.This book offers the first systematic guide to machine ethics, bridging between computer science, social sciences and philosophy. Based on a dialogue between an AI scientist and a novelist philosopher, the book discusses important findings on which moral values machines can be taught and how. In turn, it investigates what kind of artificial intelligence (AI) people do actually want. ..W

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This volume contains the post-proceedings of the 9th Doctoral Workshop on Mathematical and Engineering Methods in Computer Science, MEMICS 2014, held in Telč, Czech Republic, in October 2014..The 13 thoroughly revised papers were carefully selected out of 28 submissions and are presented together with 4 invited papers. The topics covered by the papers include: algorithms, logic, and games; high performance computing; computer aided analysis, verification, and testing; hardware design and diagnostics; computer graphics and image processing; and artific

Overview: A concise guide to the basics of algorithms, building models, and performance evaluation.Offers highly illustrated, step-by-step guidelines with Python programming examples.Provides examples and exerc.​Machine Learning Crash Course for Engineers .is a reader-friendly introductory guide to machine learning algorithms and techniques for students, engineers, and other busy technical professionals. The book focuses on the application aspects of machine learning, progressing from the basics to advanced topics systematically from theory to applications and worked-out Python programming exa

Overview: Provides for the first time and in a unified fashion the elements of mechanics in material space.This approach is much more general than usual continuum theories (fracture and defect mechanics).WritteThe aim of the book is to present, in a novel and unified fashion, the elements of Mechanics in Material Space or Configurational Mechanics, with applications to fracture and defect mechanics. This mechanics, in contrast to Newtonian mechanics in physical space, is concerned with defects such as cracks and dislocations, which are embedded in the material and might move in it. The level i

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Third IAPR TC3 Workshop on Pattern Recognition of Social Signals in Human-Computer-Interaction, MPRSS 2014, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2014, as a satellite event of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2014. The 14 revised papers presented focus on pattern recognition, machine learning and information fusion methods with applications in social signal processing, including multimodal emotion recognition, user identification, and recognition of

Overview: 978-3-662-08455-7Series ISSN 0073-1684

Overview: Presents crucial methodological reflections of empirical research.Is practice-oriented and provides orientation for future research.Provides an overview of the broad range and diversity of empirical aThis volume presents a comprehensive overview of methodological issues and empirical methods of practice-oriented research. It examines questions regarding the scope and boundaries of practice-oriented approaches and practice theory. It discusses the potential advantages and disadvantages of the diversity resulting from the use of these approaches, as well as method and methodology-relat

Overview: Die bedeutendsten Entdeckungen der Mikrobiologie.Fundgrube von Details und Zusammenhängen.Verzicht auf unnötige Fachbegriffe.Includes supplementary material: 978-3-642-10757-3

Overview: Up-to-date results.Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art researchThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, MCS 2011, held in Naples, Italy, in June 2011. The 36 revised papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 50 submissions. The contributions are organized into sessions dealing with classifier ensembles; trees and forests; one-class classifiers; multiple kernels; classifier selection; sequential combination; ECOC; diversity; clustering; bi

Overview: Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols.Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results.Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts.This volume will detail methods and research protocols on how to prepare and characterize lipids from various dietary sources. Chapters will guide readers through extraction and fractionation of dietary lipids, analysis of dietary lipid composition, evaluation of dietary lipid oxidation, preparation and characterization of dietary emulsions, and characterization of physical properties of dietary lipids and lipid stru

Overview: Discussione non eccessivamente tecnica di aspetti concettuali della Meccanica Statistica.Analisi delle verifiche sperimentali delle previsioni della Meccanica Statistica.Connessione tra MS e teoria deLa meccanica statistica (MS) nell‘insegnamente universitario e‘ spesso confinata inuna posizione itermedia tra le tre grandi aree della fisica teorica, la fisica della materia e la fisica matematica. In genere vengono discussi gli aspetti "pratici", di supporto alla fisica della materia, che pur importanti non esauriscono la rilevanza concettule della meccanica statistica. Esistono molti

Overview: Investigates strategic actions to increase customer loyalty.Proposes The Extra Step approach as a way to move from customer provisioning to customer loyalty.Provides examples deriving from observationThis book analyzes the evolution of marketing and the ways in which marketing actions can be rendered more effective, before setting out a new approach to marketing, termed The Extra Step (TES) in recognition of the importance that it attributes to the final .extra step. in enhancing the effectiveness of marketing efforts. Readers will find clear description of the pathway from purchase

Overview: Strategien für teamorientierte Arbeitsformen in indirekt-produktiven Unternehmensbereichen.Mit vielen Beispielen aus dem betrieblichen Alltag.Für den Praktiker unmittelbar umsetzbarGruppenarbeit ist in den Fertigungsbereichen vieler Unternehmen seit Jahren eine Selbstverständlichkeit. Die indirekt-produktiven Bereiche wie Arbeitsvorbereitung, Verwaltung etc. sind jedoch bei den Überlegungen zur Einführung dieser Organisationsform bisher nicht berücksichtigt worden. Dieses Buch beschreibt, wie teamorientierte Arbeitsformen auch in den indirekt-produktiven Bereichen eingeführt werden k

Overview: Includes supplementary material: Advances in genetics, such as the Human Genome Project‘s successful mapping of the human genome and the discovery of ever more sites of disease-related mutations, invite re-examination of basic concepts underlying our fundamental social practices and institutions. Having children, assigning responsibility, identifying causes, using social and scientific resources to improve human well-being, among other concepts, will never be the same. Our concepts of moral and legal responsibility, cause and effect, disease prevention, health, disability, enhancemen

Overview: Ideal für die Vertiefung des Grundlagenwissens und Prüfungvorbereitung - mit ausführlichen Musterlösungen!In Ergänzung zum Lehrbuchlegt Manfred Bruhn sein Übungsbuch zum Marketingvor. "Marketingübungen" beinhaltet Aufgaben und Lösungen zu den Teilbereichen.- Marketingplanung,.- Strategisches Marketing,.- Marketingforschung,.- Produkt- und Preispolitik,.- Kommunikations- und Vertriebspolitik sowie.- Marketingorganisation und -controlling...Manfred Bruhn nimmt in den Übungen Bezug auf die Themen des Lehrbuches. Er greift repräsentative und konkrete Fragestellungen der Marketingpraxis a

Overview: Step by step protocol to help the researchers perform the experiments.Comprehensive explanation of the fundamentals behind each procedure and the role of each chemical used will aid the researchers toMicroorganisms play an important role in the maintenance of the ecosystem structure and function. Bacteria constitute the major part of the microorganisms and possess tremendous potential in many important applications from environmental clean up to the drug discovery. Much advancement has been taken place in the field of research on bacterial systems. This book summarizes the experiment

Overview: One book provides a detailed description of molecular mechanisms of mechanosensing and mechanotransduction in different cells..One book brings together a comprehensive outline of modern vision of struThe volume dwells on the major issues of mechanical stress influencing the ion channels and intracellular signaling pathways. This book is a unique collection of reviews outlining current knowledge and future developments in this rapidly growing field. In our opinion the book presents not only the latest achievements in the field but also brings the problem closer to the experts in relat

Overview: Mediation ist Chefsache: So stellt das Management die Weichen für eine zeitgemäße Konfliktlösung.Schwerpunkt Unternehmenskultur.Renommerierte Unternehmen geben Einblick in ihre Erfahrungen (u.a. Deuts.Dieses Buch untersucht interdisziplinär die Erfolgsfaktoren für Wirtschaftsmediation. Rechtsanwalt und Mediator Dr. iur. Detlev Berning hat renommierte Vertreter aus Wirtschaft, Politik und Wissenschaft eingeladen, Einblick zu geben in die jeweilige Konfliktkultur ihrer Bereiche und in ihre Erfahrungen mit Mediation. Im Fokus steht dabei die Frage, unter welchen Voraussetzungen Mediatio