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Overview: Features state-of-the-art applied quantitative methods to analyze and model social science systems.Applies such methods to a wide range of case studies in social science showing what can be learned fr.This edited volume presents examples of social science research projects that employ new methods of quantitative analysis and mathematical modeling of social processes. This book presents the fascinating areas of empirical and theoretical investigations that use formal mathematics in a way that is accessible for individuals lacking extensive expertise but still desiring to expand their

Overview: Reinhardt owned The Bodley Head from 1957 to 1987, and smaller publishers like The Nonesuch Press and Reinhardt Books. This account of his life contains stories about his authors, among them Graham Greene, G.B. Shaw, Charlie Chaplin and his actor friends, illuminating the trajectory of British publishing in the second half of the twentieth century.978-0-230-23662-2

Overview: Stellt die gesamte Breite der Theorie der Bewegungsvorgänge dar.Erklärt die einzelnen Methoden an Beispielen einfacher Konstellationen.Hebt die Vorgehensweise bei der Lösungsfindung in der Vordergrund.Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt Themengebiete der Dynamik - von der Kinematik bis hin zur Maschinendynamik. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf analytischen Lösungsmethoden. Um den Komplex der Dynamik zu erfassen, werden einfache Beispiele mit verschiedenen Ansätzen vorgestellt und verglichen. Jene Aufgaben sind derart strukturiert, dass man die Vorgehensweise bei der Lösungsfindung anhand eingängiger

Overview: Nominated for a Springer Theses Prize by University of Bristol, UK.Using data from the Weyburn-Midale project, this thesis presents an impressive summary of the potential to use passive seismic methodThis thesis presents an impressive summary of the potential to use passive seismic methods to monitor the sequestration of anthropogenic CO2 in geologic reservoirs. It brings together innovative research in two distinct areas – seismology and geomechanics – and involves both data analysis and numerical modelling. The data come from the Weyburn-Midale project, which is currently the large

Overview: Haikai is an art that parodies and often subverts its linguistic, generic, and personal predecessors, and its intersections include imaginative links to the rest of Japanese literature and culture. This collection of essays explores certain neglected aspects of this haikaimaster‘s literary and philosophical contributions.978-1-349-53388-6978-0-230-60187-1

Overview: Summarizes the recent advances in Macromolecular Systems..Includes supplementary material: Structural organization or disorganization in macromolecular systems has been an important subject of polymer physical chemistry during the last one or two decades. This volume summarizes the main lectures presented at the Osaka University Macromolecular Symposium OUMS ‘98 on Molecular Interactions and Time-Space Organization in Macromolecular Systems, where the following topics were discussed:crystallization kinetics, liquid crystals, phase separation, gelation, adhesion, complex formation, an

Overview: This volume is based on material prepared by the contributors to the symposium on "Progress in Gas Dynamic Research by Optical Methods", held on May 25-26, 1970 in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Syracuse University. The contents focus on experimental and analytical aspects of contemporary op­ tical methods as applied in modern research on high speed and/or high temperature gaseous flows. State of the art, recent research results and possible research applications of spectroscopy, spectral interferometry, pulse laser holographic interferometry, laser as a di

Overview: Das vorliegende Werk entstand seinerzeit aus dem Bedürfnis nach einem moder­ nen Lehrbuch, das Studierenden und Wirtschaftspraktikern eine geschlossene, alle wesentliche Aspekte der Marktforschung umfassende Darstellung bietet. Es sollte in die Lage versetzen, konkrete Aufgabenstellungen zu erarbeiten und erfolgreich zu lösen. Deshalb wurde auf Systematik und Verständlichkeit besonderer Wert ge­ legt und auch versucht, unter Verzicht auf Nebensächliches gleichsam das zentrale, gesicherte Wissen darzulegen. Aufgrund der vielfach attestierten besonderen Eignung zu Lehr-und Lernzwecken

Overview: Contains 200 pages of new material on markov chains, ray processes, and time symmetry.From the reviews of the First Edition:. ."This excellent book is based on several sets of lecture notes written over a decade and has its origin in a one-semester course given by the author at the ETH, Zürich, in the spring of 1970. The author‘s aim was to present some of the best features of Markov processes and, in particular, of Brownian motion with a minimum of prerequisites and technicalities. The reader who becomes acquainted with the volume cannot but agree with the reviewer that the author w

Overview: Presents a general meta-learning approach which is applicable to a variety of machine learning algorithms.Focuses on different variants of decision tree induction.Details the long and complex road fro.The book focuses on different variants of decision tree induction but also describes  the meta-learning approach in general which is applicable to other types of machine learning algorithms. The book discusses different variants of decision tree induction and represents a useful source of information to readers wishing to review some of the techniques used in decision tree learning, as

Overview: On behalf of the organizing committee of this symposium, I would like to wel­ come you to Cologne and thank you very much for coming. We appreciate that some of the leading scientists in the field of hypertension have accepted our invi­ tation to participate actively at this conference. Our first symposium on renin-angiotensin, aldosterone, and hypertension took place at Titisee in the Black Forest in 1967. The second one, on the renin-angio­ tensin-aldosterone system under the influence of therapeutic procedures, was held at the same place in 1970. Five years later in 1975 at a thir

Overview: Was ist Islamophobie, Islamfeindlichkeit, Muslimfeindlichkeit?.Konsensfähige Definitionen.Auswertung europäischer Meinungsumfragen.Includes supplementary material: Michail Logvinov geht in diesem essential der Frage nach, ob die in dendeutschen Meinungsumfragen gemessene Islamfeindlichkeit bzw.Islamophobie eine spezifische Ausprägung hat. Er schlägt konsensfähigeBegriffsbestimmungen vor, erarbeitet die Kriterien, an denen die Islam-und Muslimfeindlichkeit in Deutschland festgemacht werden können, undgeht auf deren historische und soziale Ursachen ein. Die Frage, was beiIslamfeindlich

Overview: Anregungen für digitale Markenstrategien.Aktuelle Wandlungsprozesse von Marken.Mit vielen Praxistipps.Die Autoren dieses Buches diskutieren klassische und neuere Konzepte sowie theoretische und operative Ansätze zur Führung von Marken und geben einen Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der Debatten rund um das Konzept der Marke. Renommierte Wissenschaftler unterschiedlicher Disziplinen stellen ihre Forschungserkenntnisse zur Markentheorie dar, und namhafte Praktiker geben Empfehlungen, wie man den aus der Digitalisierung resultierenden Herausforderungen begegnen kann. Denn mit den dig

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Management of Information, Process and Cooperation, MiPAC 2016, held in Hangzhou, China, in September 2016. The 8 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on process modeling, process enactment, and data driven service computing..978-981-10-3995-9978-981-10-3996-6Series ISSN 1865-0929 Series E-ISSN 1865-0937

Overview: Includes supplementary material: The 7th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2004, was held in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France at the “Palais du Grand Large” conference center, September 26–29, 2004. The p- posaltohostMICCAI2004wasstronglyencouragedandsupportedbyIRISA, Rennes. IRISA is a publicly funded national research laboratory with a sta? of 370,including150full-timeresearchscientistsorteachingresearchscientistsand 115 postgraduate students. INRIA, the CNRS, and the University of Rennes 1 are all partners in this mixed research uni

Overview: Provides theories, frameworks and models of grit for individualistic, collective and multi-cultural contexts.Presents evidence-based and empirically validated interventions through which to develop or.This volume provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on grit, its measurement, manifestation and development. Specifically, it provides a comprehensive and balanced response to critiques associated with the construct within the contemporary positive psychological literature. These critiques revolve around the lack of consensus in the conceptualisation, measurement, and management of gr

Overview: Includes supplementary material: 978-3-540-65866-5978-3-540-48912-2Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Due to new technological progress in the development of ionsources and accelerators interesting kinds of beams are nowavailable. They open newfields for materials research withion beams. The present status and future possibilities ofthese research activities are described by experts onthisfield in the form of review articles. The papers presentedin thebook focus on very different aspects ranging from thefield of truly appliedresearch to the field of fundamentalatomic research investigatinginteraction mechanisms ofslow, highly charged particles with surfaces.The book is intended to pr

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book is a slightly revised version of my doctoral thesis which I wrote during my time as an assistant at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Magdeburg. I am grateful that I had the opportunity to write my the­ sis in the stimulating atmosphere of this young and lively faculty. lowe a great amount of gratitude to my supervisor Prof. G. Schwodiauer who con­ stantly encouraged my work and helped to improve it in many discussions. I also would like to thank Prof. K-H. Paque and Prof. P. Flaschel who, as members of my doctoral committee, com

Overview: First book dedicated to that topic.Contributions of the best international experts in the field.Dedicated to a large audience of practitioners dealing with patients suffering from pain.This book proposes a didactic approach to the different aspects of pain in mental health. The various chapters cover the myths, neurophysiology, perception, measurement and management of pain in mental health. The most common problems, including mood disorders, schizophrenia, anxiety, somatoform disorders and pervasive developmental disorders, are covered. Each chapter addresses the problem of pain by