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

Overview: Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in ScopeThis book is about language in STEM research and about how it is thought about: as something that somehow refers to something else not directly accessible, often «meaning», «mental representation», or «conception». Using the analyses of real data and analyses of the way certain concepts are used in the scientifi c literature, such as “meaning,” this book reframes the discussion about «meaning», «mental representation», and «conceptions» consistent with the pragmatic approaches that we have become familiar with through

Overview: Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, this thoughtful collection of essays reflects on the relationship between the disaster and a range of media forms. The assessments here reveal how mainstream and independent media have responded (sometimes innovatively, sometimes conservatively) to the political and social ruptures "Katrina" has come to represent. The contributors explore how Hurricane Katrina is positioned at the intersection of numerous early twenty-first century crisis narratives centralizing uncertainties about race, class, region, government, and public safety. Looking closely

Overview: Das Thema Unternehmensnachfolge ist von großer praktischer Relevanz, da in den kommenden Jahren eine Vielzahl von Unternehmen auf Nachfolger übertragen und dadurch Steuerzahlungen ausgelöst werden. Dabei bestehen für die Übertragung des Vermögens zahlreiche Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten, die sich unterschiedlichauf die ertrag- und erbschaftsteuerliche Steuerbelastung auswirken. ..Gabriele Rautenstrauch zeigt auf, wie der Erblasser und seine Erben bei der Planung und Durchführung einer steueroptimalen Übertragung von Betriebsvermögen in Form von gewerblichen Einzelunternehmen oder Mitunter

Overview: Provides current knowledge and understanding of the challenges associated with drug resistance in breast cancer.Discusses the latest advancements in therapeutic approaches for conquering drug resistan.This book addresses the pressing problem of drug resistance in the treatment of breast cancer. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the complex mechanisms underlying drug resistance and presents the latest advances in therapeutic approaches to overcome this enormous challenge...The book begins with an introduction to the biology of breast cancer, treatment modalities and the mec

Overview: The papers in this volume were peer-reviewed and carefully selected.Much information in this series is published in advance of journal publication.The contributors in this volume are world-renowned exWe are very pleased to introduce Open Source Development, Communities and Quality. The International Conference on Open Source Systems has come to its fourth edition – OSS 2008. Now, Free, Libre, and Open Source software is by all means now one of the most relevant subjects of study in several disciplines, ranging from information technology to social sciences and including also law, bus

Overview: Lavishly illustrated up-to-date guide for all those treating pregnant patients.With helpful case-reports and treatment evaluations.User-friendly and homogenously structured.Supports physicians to confThere are many changes in the skin, hair, and nails during and after pregnancy. Patients are certainly aware that those changes are occurring, but few physicians and even fewer patients know how to predict the course of those changes. Pigmentary changes occur, but are they permanent? Can they be prevented or reversed? Hair may become thicker during pregnancy, only to fall out in the post

Overview: Presents a range of original approaches to approximation.All chapters are self-contained and can be read independently.Provides a deeper formal analysis of several issues that are relevant to decision.Ordinary and fractional approximations by non-additive integrals, especially by integral approximators of Choquet, Silkret and Sugeno types, are a new trend in approximation theory. These integrals are only subadditive and only the first two are positive linear, and they produce very fast and flexible approximations based on limited data. The author presents both the univariate and mult

Overview: Describes biochemical and signal transduction mechanisms on role of oxidants in microbial diseases.Different chapters offer information on recent progress on therapeutic intervention of some microbial.This book discusses recent advances in our understanding of the role of oxidants in microbial pathophysiology, providing valuable insights into the complex role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in host-microbial interactions. The various chapters take readers through the function of ROS in infections ranging from viral to bacterial, and describe how microorganisms have developed complex

Overview: Self learning approach for various models of ordered random variables.Several examples for various models of ordered random variables are added.Models for descendingly ordered variables are discussed..Ordered Random Variables have attracted several authors. The basic building block of Ordered Random Variables is Order Statistics which has several applications in extreme value theory and ordered estimation. The general model for ordered random variables, known as Generalized Order Statistics has been introduced relatively recently by Kamps (1995). 978-94-6239-225-0Series ISSN 1879-689

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .Includes supplementary material: .The ancient Chinese scholars are fond of applying the .Yin .and .Yang. diagram to correlate almost everything.  This book continues that tradition and uses the model to study other non-“dialectical” theories and models.  The major finding .qua. contribution in this publication is to point out that the four diagrams are equivalent to the .BaGua. or .BaGuaTu .(BG)., .a set of eight ancient China symbolic notations/gossip.  Another finding is that dialectical/crab and frog motion remark is just the opposite of a non-dia

Overview: Provides a clear and effective method for continuous performance improvement for today’s organizations.Demonstrates how to determine and quantify performance-limiting bottlenecks in a data-to-learning.Apply a powerful new approach and method that ensures continuous performance improvement for your business. You will learn how to determine and value the people, process, and technology-based solutions that will optimize your organization’s data-to-learning-to-action processes.. .This book describes in detail how to holistically optimize the chain of activities that span from data to le

Overview: Zahlreiche Praxisbeispiele, unter anderem aus Projekten der Autoren.Einführung, die Leser gleichzeitig in die Nutzung von Standard-Software zur Lösung der dargestellten Probleme einführt.Includes supp.Das Buch bietet eine Einführung in angewandte Optimierungssysteme für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, insbesondere auch für Wirtschaftsinformatiker, -ingenieure und -mathematiker. Es konzentriert sich methodisch auf den praxisrelevanten Bereich der linearen und gemischt-ganzzahligen Optimierung sowie auf weitere bewährte Methodiken, wie heuristische Verfahren und Simulation. Neben der Auffü

Overview: One of the first books on Web Services that primarily focus on techniques to optimize the SOAP engine.Covers QoS requirements.Includes case studies and examples throughout the book.Includes supplementPerformance of Web Services provides innovative techniques to improve the performance ofWeb Services, as well as QoS (Quality of Service) requirements. This includes Qos performance, reliability and security. The author presents two levels ofWeb Services: the “kernel” (ithe SOAP engine which delivers messages from one point to another through various networks), and the “server side” (whi

Overview: Includes contributions on state-of-the-art active and passive 3D sensing and imaging systems as well as Surveillance and Image Recognition Algorithms.Leading experts in the field apply these new techn.Optical and photonic systems and devices have significant potential for homeland security. "Optical Imaging Sensors and Systems for Homeland Security Applications" presents original and significant technical contributions from leaders of industry, government, and academia in the field of optical and photonic sensors, systems and devices for detection, identification, prevention, sensing

Overview: Die brisante These des Journalisten und Sachbuchautors Thomas Grüter: Wenn das Internet zusammenbricht, kommt auch die Informationsgesellschaft an ihr Ende - und das wird in den nächsten 50 Jahren pas.Noch in diesem Jahrhundert wird die Informationsgesellschaft an ihr Ende kommen, weil die globalen Informationsnetze reißen. Das ist die provozierende These des Wissenschaftlers und Sachbuchautors Thomas Grüter.    .Den meisten Menschen erscheint das Internet wie eine eigene Welt, in der Entfernungen keine Rolle spielen, Daten wie von selbst um den Globus fliegen und alles Wissen dauerh

Overview: Highest Impact Factor of all publications ranked by ISI within Polymer Science.Short and concise reports on physics and chemistry of polymers, each written by the world renowned experts.Still valid anDear Readers, Since the ground-breaking, Nobel-prize crowned work of Heeger, MacDiarmid, and Shirakawa on molecularly doped polymers and polymers with an alternating bonding structure at the end of the 1970s, the academic and industrial research on hydrocarbon-based semiconducting materials and devices has made encouraging progress. The strengths of semiconducting polymers are currently

Overview: Describes the innovative approach of including occupational therapy in an interdisciplinary team in the management of older adults.Clarifies how occupational therapy improves the day-to-day care of olThis book focuses on evidence-based occupational therapy in the care of older adults in different clinical settings, from home to acute hospital, from intensive care unit to rehabilitation centers and nursing homes. Occupational therapy has progressively developed as a new discipline aiming to improve the daily life of individuals of different ages, from children to older adults. . .The

Overview: Treats both classical and recent results in ergodic theory from a modern analytic perspective.Assumes no background in ergodic theory, while providing a review of basic results in functional analysis.Stunning recent results by Host–Kra, Green–Tao, and others, highlight the timeliness of this systematic introduction to classical ergodic theory using the tools of operator theory. Assuming no prior exposure to ergodic theory, this book provides a modern foundation for introductory courses on ergodic theory, especially for students or researchers with an interest in functional analysis.

Overview: Proposes a general framework in the time domain for the single and multiple microphone cases.All known algorithms can be deduced from this new approach.Includes supplementary material: Additive noise is ubiquitous in acoustics environments and can affect the intelligibility and quality of speech signals. Therefore, a so-called noise reduction algorithm is required to mitigate the effect of the noise that is picked up by the microphones. This work proposes a general framework in the time domain for the single and multiple microphone cases, from which it is very convenient to derive, s

Overview: In its brevity, this book is unique for bringing together different original scholarly publications (from Mladen Dolar’s internationally acclaimed psychoanalytic approach to Ray Land’s educationally g"The ‘academy’ is not restricted to the architectural limits of the university, but a broader conception of education that, through its social dissemination, ought to be continually shaped in relation to academic practice, thinking and living. Educational institutions are not solely modern providers of a pertinent workforce but foremost communities of thought with cultural, political and