BOOKS with Alphabet O (Oa, Ob,Oc, Od, Oe…)

Overview: Written by researchers actively involved in the respective fields from various countries.Presents both basic and applied aspects.Will be of interest to scientists in the fields of soil biology, applie.This book provides a timely review of concepts in plant disease management involving microbial soil suppressiveness and organic amendments..Topics discussed include the impact of suppressive soils on plant pathogens and agricultural productivity, the enhancement of soil suppressiveness through the application of compost and the development of disease suppressive soils through agronomic

Overview: In Zeiten rapide anwachsenden Wissens auf vielen Gebieten der Augenheilkunde ist es schwierig, ein Buch zu schreiben, das nicht sehr schnell seinen Wert dadurch ein­ büßt, daß es schon vor oder kurz nach seinem Erscheinen von der Entwicklung des Fa­ ches überholt wird. VAUGHAN und ASHBURY haben hier seit der ersten Auflage ihrer "General Ophthalmology" im Jahre 1958 eine Meisterleistung vollbracht. Es ist ihnen gelungen, ihr Buch durch Neuauflagen, die im Abstand von jeweils 2-3 Jahren erfolg­ ten, auf dem neuesten Stand zu halten. Mit ungeheurem Fleiß und großem Geschick wurde dabei

Overview: First ontological inquiry of its kind to be conducted.Breaks new ground in providing an ontologically articulated foundation for business ethics.Provides a new starting point for management developmenThe book develops a philosophical foundation to the field of management education using the work of Martin Heidegger as a guiding philosophy. It asks the questions ‘what is a corporation?’ and ‘what is corporate management?’ These two questions are foundational for management thought in general and management ethics in particular. Most other academic fields are in some way defined and gu

Overview: Although research in architectural synthesis has been conducted for over ten years it has had very little impact on industry. This in our view is due to the inability of current architectural synthesizers to provide area-delay competitive (or "optimal") architectures, that will support interfaces to analog, asynchronous, and other complex processes. They also fail to incorporate testability. The OASIC (optimal architectural synthesis with interface constraints) architectural synthesizer and the CATREE (computer aided trees) synthesizer demonstrate how these problems can be solved. Tr

Overview: .Optical Properties of Metal Clusters. deals with the electronic structure of metal clusters determined optically. Clusters - as state intermediate between molecules and the extended solid - are important in many areas, e.g. in air pollution, interstellar matter, clay minerals, photography, heterogeneous catalysis, quantum dots, and virus crystals. This book extends the approaches of optical molecular and solid-state methods to clusters, revealing how their optical properties evolve as a function of size. Cluster matter, i.e. extended systems of many clusters - the most frequently oc

Overview: Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Command-Line Interface returns the administrator to the golden age, where the entire environment, from database to application to infrastructure, can often be managed fro.Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Command-Line Interface. shows how to use Enterprise Manager’s powerful scripting language to automate your database administration work and save time by scripting routine tasks, and then executing those scripts across collections of databases and instances in your environment. This book is chock full of ready-made scripting examples contributed by the autho

Overview: This volume contains the papers presented at the Intemational Conference on Object Oriented Information Systems 00lS‘94, held at South Bank University, London, December 19 - 21, 1994. In response to our call for papers, a total 85 papers from 24 different countries were submitted. Each paper was evaluated by at least two Program Committee members and an additional reviewer. Together, we selected 41 papers for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the Proceedings. Also included are the keynote addresses by Peter Gray and Michael Jackson. The other submissions were recommende

Overview: 1. 1. Oil price fluctuations and their impact on economic performance Drastic oil price fluctuations have been a major characteristic of the world petroleum market since the beginning of the seventies. The oil crises of 1973n4 and 1979/80 were followed by a dramatic drop of the oil price during the first two quarters of 1986. Starting from a level less than 2 $ per barrel in 1972, the spot market price of Arabian Light crude oil increased to some 35 $ in 1980, then slowly decreased, and finally fell to 13 $ in 1986 (annual averages). If monthly data are considered, the peaks of the o

Overview: The motivation for this book was the recognition by two of us (RL and TL) that, despite our training as cardiologists, we had a limited understand­ ing of many aspects of the surgical management of our patients. Conversa­ tions with other cardiologists at our own institution and at other medical centers around the country convinced us that many of our colleagues shared our uncertainty about the details of surgical procedures and the factors that determine decisions in the perioperative period. As surgical techniques continue to evolve, this knowledge gap can become only more severe.

Overview: Presents expert reviews addressing how the outskirts of galaxies hold the keys to understanding how these regions formed and their evolution.Offers a compendium of the open questions in the field, and.This book consists of invited reviews written by world-renowned experts on the subject of the outskirts of galaxies, an upcoming field which has been understudied so far. These regions are faint and hard to observe, yet hide a tremendous amount of information on the origin and early evolution of galaxies. They thus allow astronomers to address some of the most topical problems, such as

Overview: Kundenbindung zählt zu den wichtigsten Strategieoptionen des Marketings. Dies zeigt u. a. die Vielzahl wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen zu diesem Themengebiet. Doch sind die Befunde sehr unterschiedlich und nicht leicht in die unternehmerische Praxis umzusetzen...Harald Kindermann identifiziert und analysiert Determinanten, die für die nachhaltige Bindung von Kunden von Relevanz sind. Er integriert Theorien und Erkenntnisse der Psychologie und der Sozialpsychologie und zeigt völlig neue Aspekte der Kundenbindung auf. So bestätigt eine umfangreiche empirische Studie im österreichisch

Overview: Origins of Plastids looks at symbiosis and symbiogenesis as amechanism of evolution. This theory of endosymbiotic evolutionpostulates that photosynthetic prokaryotes living as endosymbiontswithin eukaryotic cells gradually evolved into the organellestructures called chloroplasts. The theory is controversial but hasbeen strongly advocated by Lynn Margulis. Based on a colloquium heldat the Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory of the University of Californiaat Davis, Origins of Plastids reviews recent data on this most basicproblem in plant evolution. In it, leading researchers in the fieldappl

Overview: Represents a self-contained introduction to the theory of open quantum systems.Gives guidance to novices in the field by tutorial-like presentation of mathematical results.Gives a unique detailed micrIn this volume the fundamental theory of open quantum systems is revised in the light of modern developments in the field. A unified approach to the quantum evolution of open systems is presented by merging concepts and methods traditionally employed by different communities, such as quantum optics, condensed matter, chemical physics and mathematical physics. .The mathematical structure

Overview: Proceedings of the 8th Intenrational Conference con Cooperative Control and Optimization held in Gainesville, Florida, January 30- February 1, 2008..Recent results in the growing field of cooperative .Cooperative, collaborating autonomous systems are at the forefront of research efforts in numerous disciplines across the applied sciences. There is constant progress in solution techniques for these systems. However, despite this progress, cooperating systems have continued to be extremely difficult to model, analyze, and solve. Theoretical results are very difficult to come by. Each y

Overview: The field of "microelectromechanical systems," or "MEMS," has gradually evolved from a "discipline" populated by a small group of researchers to an "enabling technology" supporting a variety of products in such diverse areas as mechanical and inertial sensors, optical projection displays, telecommunications equipment, and biology and medicine. Critical to the success of these products is the ability to design them, and this invariably involves detailed modeling of proposed designs. Over the past twenty years, such modeling has become increasingly sophisticated, with full suites of ME

Overview: Nominated by the University of Utah, USA, as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis.Lays the groundwork for further use of Electron Spin Echo Envelop Modulation (ESEEM) and opens the possibility of highly precis.Colloidal nanocrystals show much promise as an optoelectronics architecture due to facile control over electronic properties afforded by chemical control of size, shape, and heterostructure. Unfortunately, realizing practical devices has been forestalled by the ubiquitous presence of charge "trap" states which compete with band-edge excitons and result in limited device efficiencies. Li

Overview: Provides a self-contained, rigorous and analytical treatment of initial-value problems for ordinary differential equations.Includes an introduction to mathematical control theory which sets this text .The book comprises a rigorous and self-contained treatment of initial-value problems for ordinary differential equations. It additionally develops the basics of control theory, which is a unique feature in current textbook literature..The following topics are particularly emphasised:.• existence, uniqueness and continuation of solutions,.• continuous dependence on initial data,.• flows,

Overview: Nach wie vor hilfreich zur Bearbeitung von Altfällen nach dem Rundfunkstaatsvertrag.Zusammenfassung der praxisrelevanten Ordnungswidrigkeiten aus verschiedenen Gesetzen für Rundfunkveranstalter und TeDas Rechtshandbuch stellt die Ahndung und Verfolgung  von Ordnungswidrigkeiten in Online-Medien (Rundfunk und Telemedien) mit ihren Besonderheiten dar. Es konzentriert sich auf die Gesichtspunkte, die in der Praxis eine Rolle spielen. Damit versetzt es den Leser in die Lage, einen durchschnittlichen Alltagsfall im rundfunkrechtlichen Bußgeldverfahren ohne Hinzuziehung weiterer Speziallit

Overview: Up-to-date survey of the latest treatment options for joint preservation in osteoarthritis.Presented by an international faculty of experts.Includes supplementary material: Joint-preserving techniques for conservative and operative treatment in gonarthritis are developing rapidly. This book outlines the latest treatment options for joint preservation in osteoarthritis. These include drug treatment, viscosupplementation, arthroscopy, cartilage transplantation and osteotomy. Experts have reviewed and updated each area including their own personal experience..978-3-642-87754-4978-3-642-

Overview: Provides wide coverage of developments in the field of IT sourcing.Offers a guide for readers which covers the entire history of sourcing research from 1992 to present.Critiques sourcing theories, pra.Bringing together theoretical and empirical studies from the Journal of Information Technology, this book provides a definitive guide to research discovered on the growing global sourcing phenomenon. Paying particular attention to Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), theoretical chapters explore insightful ways of thinking about the different