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

Overview: Presents an authoritative view on official statistics.Sheds new light on the connections between official statistics and society that will shape future developments in this area.Explores methods for f.This book explores official statistics and their social function in modern societies. Digitisation and globalisation are creating completely new opportunities and risks, a context in which facts (can) play an enormously important part if they are produced with a quality that makes them credible and purpose-specific. In order for this to actually happen, official statistics must continue

Overview: Oxygenases have been the subject of much study and are of greatinterest and application. Biomimetic chemistry of oxygenases hasyielded clarification of enzyme structures and reaction mechanisms andhas also led to the development of synthetic oxygenation processes.This volume contains 8 chapters written by leading researchers whichtogether present an overview of di- and mono-oxygenases and theirmodel systems from the point of view of functions, structures andmechanisms. An up-to-date clarification of structures around activecentres of heme- and nonheme-oxygenases is given with referen

Overview: Includes supplementary material: Stefano Casertano explores the connections between the presence of energy natural resources and the development of "local nationalism" in the producing regions. In particular, he applies a specific focus on those cases where such nationalism leads to secession attempts. The research is based on eight case studies in Bolivia, Sudan, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Iran, Angola, and Nigeria.978-3-531-19442-4978-3-531-19443-1

Overview: missions in fact also treat an envisaged mutual impact among them. As for the 2002 edition in Irvine, the organizers wanted to stimulate this cross-pollination with a program of shared famous keynote speakers (this year we got Sycara, - ble, Soley and Mylopoulos!), and encouraged multiple attendance by providing authors with free access to another conference or workshop of their choice. We received an even larger number of submissions than last year for the three conferences (360 in total) and the workshops (170 in total). Not only can we therefore again claim a measurable success in

Overview: Short introduction for basic commands in Matlab/Octave.Basic commands for statistics graphics and data.Many real world engineering applicationsFor many engineering tasks extensive computations or visualizations are required. The well established Matlab and Octave (a very similar open source software) are excellent tools for modeling, computing and visualization. This book will help the reader to acquire basic knowledge and elementary programming skills with Octave/Matlab. Basic data and programming structures are presented and for the most often used commands illustrative code sample

Overview: This volume is based on the Field Museum of Natural History Spring System­ atics Symposium held in Chicago on May 11, 1991. The financial support of Ray and Jean Auel and of the Field Museum is gratefully acknowledged. When we teach or write, we present only those elements that support our arguments. We avoid all weak points of our debate and all the uncer­ tainties of our models. Thus, we offer hypotheses as facts. Multiauthored books like ours, which simultaneously advocate and question diverse views, avoid the pitfalls and lessen the impact of indoctrination. In this volume we ana

Overview: Includes supplementary material: International experts from world-renowned medical schools comprehensively review for practicing clinicians and scientists alike the latest understanding of the epidemiology, causation, and consequences of diabetes and obesity. The authors discuss in detail their diagnosis, clinical manifestations, complications, and best practices for diagnosis and treatment. They also review the history and epidemiology of these conditions, explain their genetics and pathophysiology, and illuminate their known mechanisms and interactions. State-of-the-art survey-chap

Overview: Kathrin Thiel untersucht in einer längsschnittlichen Studienreihe das Erleben von Konflikten in Non-Profit-Organisationen: Welche Auswirkungen hat das Konflikterleben etwa auf Zufriedenheit oder Bereitschaften zu weiterem Engagement? Und wie bedeutsam ist Konflikterleben dabei im Vergleich zu Motiven und ausgewählten Variablen der Organisationspsychologie, etwa Gerechtigkeitswahrnehmungen? In einer multimethodalen Studienreihe werden dazu über 1.700 freiwillig engagierte Personen verschiedener Non-Profit-Organisationen befragt. Die Befunde bestätigen die negativen Auswirkungen von Ko

Overview: Explores the characteristics of Seon temple architecture from Korea’s late Silla to the early Goryeo eras through the evolution of the upper monastic area.One of the rare sources of information on Kor.When Seon (Zen) Buddhism was first introduced to Korea around Korea’s late Silla and early Goryeo eras, the function of the “beopdang” (Dharma hall) was transfused to the lecture hall found in ancient Buddhist temples, establishing a pivotal area within the temple compound called the “upper monastic area.” By exploring the structural formation and dissolution of the upper monastic area,

Overview: Covers optical burst switching and is highly used in the area of network quality of service.Includes supplementary material: .Next-generation high-speed Internet backbone networks will be required to support a broad range of emerging applications which may not only require significant bandwidth, but may also have strict quality of service (QoS) requirements. Furthermore, the traffic from such applications are expected to be highly bursty in nature. For such traffic, the allocation of static fixed-bandwidth circuits may lead to the over-provisioning of bandwidth resources in order to

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Overview: This book contains a number of chapters on transactional database concurrency control. This volume‘s entire sequence of chapters can summarized as follows: A two-sentence summary of the volume‘s entire sequence of chapters is this: traditional locking techniques can be improved in multiple dimensions, notably in lock scopes (sizes), lock modes (increment, decrement, and more), lock durations (late acquisition, early release), and lock acquisition sequence (to avoid deadlocks). Even if some of these improvements can be transferred to optimistic concurrency control, notably a fine gran

Overview: Progress in optical fiber sensors The field of optical fiber sensor technology is one that continues to expand and develop at a rate that could barely have been predicted a few years ago. The wealth of publications appearing in the technical literature and the burgeoning number of papers presented at the now well-established series of national and international conferences, which are attended by a wide selection of technically qualified optoelectronics professionals, gives a clear indication of both the range and scale of the devices and applications now seen in the subject. Such a r

Overview: Grundlagenwerk zu modernen OrganisationenDer Band bietet eine Einführung in die Genese und Entfaltung moderner Organisation von der frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Organisation wird dabei als ein historisch spezifisches Verhältnis und als ein strategisches Element für die Konstitution, Etablierung und Reproduktion asymmetrischer gesellschaftlicher Strukturen begriffen. Die Autoren tragen damit dazu bei, die erheblichen historischen Lücken in der organisationswissenschaftlichen Literatur zu schließen; sie streben darüber hinaus eine organisationssoziologische Erweiterung der Gesells

Overview: A unified theoretical framework: real options theory.Answers to key research challenges in the field of strategic management.Two illustrative, in-depth case studies.Includes supplementary material: The real options-based conceptual framework for alliance-making presented here responds to the challenge of developing a new metrics for managing strategic partnerships in the face of uncertainty. Such a framework involves: mapping (and selecting one of) the various staged paths envisioned for the start-up and development of the alliance in terms of strategic options exercisable over the l

Overview: The topic itself—renewed interest in observational approaches in ecology—is the main selling point.2009 conference presentations on this topic at ESA and SCB/Flagstaff had enthusiastic, standing-room-.The need to understand and address large-scale environmental problems that are difficult to study in controlled environments—issues ranging from climate change to overfishing to invasive species—is driving the field of ecology in new and important directions. .Observation and Ecology. documents that transformation, exploring how scientists and researchers are expanding their methodologi

Overview: Organisationen gestalten – wie eine systemtheoretisch informierte Vorgehensweise aussehen kann.Blinde Flecken der Organisation als Ausgangspunkt eines Wandels von Strukturen.Veränderung von Organisati.In diesem Buch werden Kommunikationswege, Programme und Personal als zentrale Organisationsstrukturtypen vorgestellt. Denn um Organisationen gestalten zu können, muss man sich klarmachen, was die Strukturen einer Organisation sind und wie man die Strukturen verändern kann. Es wird gezeigt, welche unterschiedlichen Aspekte ins Blickfeld kommen, wenn man die formale Seite, die informale S

Overview: Presents latest technological results in the field of offshore robotics.Focuses on the findings at the intersection between two related fields, namely coastal hydrography and marine robotics.Shares maThis journal-like book series includes edited volumes to rapidly report and spread the latest technological results, new scientific discovery and valuable applied researches in the fields concerning offshore robotics as well as promote international academic exchange. We aim to make it one of the premier comprehensive academic publications of world offshore vehicle and robotics community

Overview: Provides a comprehensive treatment of optical switching in next generation data centers.Presents, discusses, and reviews all advances in the field, including the current status of each.Discusses chall.This book introduces the reader to the optical switching technology for its application to data centers. In addition, it takes a picture of the status of the technology and system architecture evolution and of the research in the area of optical switching in data center. The book is organized in four parts: the first part is focused on the system aspects of optical switching in intra-da

Overview: This book presents a collection of studies that have applied analytical methods to improve preparedness, planning, and a faster response to A&E and public health emergencies like epidemic and disease outbreak. It explores the application of quantitative Operational Research techniques such as Mathematical Modelling and Optimization, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis, Discrete-event Simulation, Data Mining, and Bayesian Decision Models. These techniques have been used for better management of emergency care, including first responders, ambulance servic