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

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Overview: Explores open data sets from government institutions to achieve the sustainable goals at local level.Discusses issues in the areas of environment, agriculture, and health care through the lens of dataThis book is an attempt to bring value to the enterprise pursuits in the areas of research and innovation around the specific issues in terms of topic selection, open data resources and researcher orientation. Over the last 300 years, industrial revolutions have had game-changing impact on societies. Presently, by and large, we are at the crossroads of the fourth industrial revolution, w

Overview: No other book on object-oriented programming has the range in terms of languages and concepts covered.Includes a full set of exercises at the end of each chapter.Request lecturer material: 1.1 Introduction Object-oriented programming has opened a great many perspectives on the concept of software and has been hailed as part of the solution to the so-called “software crisis”. It has given the possibility that software components can be constructedandreusedwithconsiderablymorecredibility.Therearenowmany case studies in which the reuse of object-oriented components has been made and ana

Overview: Develops a new, very self-consistent theory on on-line trajectory generation for robotic systems.For the first time(!), it becomes possible to let a robot motion controller (abruptly) switch between dBy the dawn of the new millennium, robotics has undergone a major tra- formation in scope and dimensions. This expansion has been brought about bythematurityofthe?eldandtheadvancesinitsrelatedtechnologies.From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics has been rapidly expanding into the challenges of the human world. The new generation of robots is expected to safely and dependably c

Overview: Covers fundamental principles to expose students to the basic dynamics of space flight.Illustrates all key concepts with examples.Includes new homework exercises and numerical answers to selected prob.Now in an updated second edition, this classroom-tested textbook covers fundamental and advanced topics in orbital mechanics and astrodynamics designed to introduce readers to the basic dynamics of space flight. The book explains concepts and engineering tools a student or practicing engineer can apply to mission design and navigation of space missions. Through highlighting basic, analy

Overview: 978-3-0348-9703-7978-3-0348-8623-9Series ISSN 0255-0156 Series E-ISSN 2296-4878

Overview: Selected contributions originating at confernece held at the ‘Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach’.Contributions by leading experts in the area.Includes supplementary material: 978-3-7643-8923-9Series ISSN 0373-3149 Series E-ISSN 2296-6072

Overview: Steroids regulate differentiation, growth and functioning of many tissues via a nuclear receptor gene activation mechanism. Molecular biology has opened the way for more detailed investigation of the complex set of intracellular interactions contributing to organ-selective actions of steroids and steroid-like compounds such as vitamin D. In this volume leading experts address basic molecular mechanisms of tissue specificity and related issue, with the goal of attaining a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms of organ selective actions of steroids. Discussed is the extent

Overview: Presents optimal controls with management science applications that models realistic situations.Contains end of chapter exercises and numerous worked-out examples with answers to selected exercises.An.This new 4.th. edition offers an introduction to optimal control theory and its diverse applications in management science and economics. It introduces students to the concept of the maximum principle in continuous (as well as discrete) time by combining dynamic programming and Kuhn-Tucker theory. While some mathematical background is needed, the emphasis of the book is not on mathemati

Overview: Addresses essential issues for new device applications, from novel lasers to spintronics.Focuses on promising new advances.Pays special attention to the optical control of spin coherence.Includes suppThe fundamental concept of quantum coherence plays a central role in quantum physics, cutting across disciplines of quantum optics, atomic and condensed matter physics. Quantum coherence represents a universal property of the quantum s- tems that applies both to light and matter thereby tying together materials and p- nomena. Moreover, the optical coherence can be transferred to the medi

Overview: Repräsentative Untersuchungen in Ostdeutschland und zehn osteuropäischen TransformationsstaatenMit den ersten systematischen Untersuchungen der Politischen-Kultur-Forschung in den späten fünfziger Jahren hat sich die Frage nach der Stabilität von politischen Systemen und ihre Abhängigkeit von den Einstellungen der Bevölkerungen fest als Forschungsthema in den Sozialwissenschaften etabliert. Die leitende Frage dieser Forschungsrichtung lautet, ob und inwieweit politische Systeme der kulturellen Unterstützung bedürfen, um dauerhaft zu funktionieren.Wie stabil sind die Neuen Demokratien

Overview: Combines mechanistic and evolutionary approaches.Provides insights into how and why biological diversity has evolved.Richly illustrated.This book discusses oxidative stress and hormesis from the perspective of an evolutionary ecologist or physiologist. In the first of ten chapters, general historical information, definitions, and background of research on oxidative stress physiology, hormesis, and life history are provided. Chapters 2-10 highlight the different solutions that organisms have evolved to cope with the oxidative threats posed by their environments and lifestyles. The aut

Overview: Presents an in depth engagement with post structural thought – particularly that of Jacques Derrida.Systematically unpacks the rich interplay between complexity theory and deconstruction.Shows why a cCorporations, and the environments in which they operate, are complex, with changing multiple dimensions, and an inherent capacity to evolve qualitatively. A central premise of this study is that a postmodern reading of ethics represents an expression of, and an engagement with, the ethical complexities that define the business landscape. In particular, the deconstructive philosophy of J

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .Innovation in the private and public sectors has been the subject of a great deal of study, since it is central to the economic growth and effective governance of most organizations. Determining the changes needed in an organization is less difficult than determining how to make the changes work. This volume is the result of a three-year study that investigated the factors associated with the implementation of program changes in a nonprofit community welfare agency. ..The results of the research showed that a greater understanding of the implementati

Overview: .The book has the objective to demystify the hyper-complex world of organization design and digital innovation. It shows how organization design as a management discipline can help organizations to better master digital innovation challenges. At the same time, it discusses how organization design frameworks need to be further developed to successfully act as a driver for innovation in a digital world. While the digital age brings tremendous new opportunities, it also brings the specific challenge that companies‘ organization designs must be adjusted. This book shows how companies org

Overview: The first complete genome sequence of a multicellular organism, Caenorhabditis elegans, has been determined recently. Several more will follow soon, among them the genome sequences of Drosophila melanogaster and the human. With these achievements, the stage is set for the next phase of "large-scale" biology, the study of the function of genes and the interactions between their protein products. The aim of the Ernst Schering Research Foundation Workshop 29 was to discuss the contribution of research on model organisms which are particularly suited for genetic and biological research,

Overview: This study of feminism, equity and change in the academy is based on interviews with 40 feminist academics and students in Britain, Sweden and Greece. The research attempts to decode and disentangle gendered message systems and the matrix of power relations in the academy. It consists of feminist readings of the micro-processes of everyday practices. Change is interrogated in relation to feminist pedagogy, equity, organizational culture, policies and discourses of New Right reform, mass expansion and new managerialism.978-0-333-73935-8978-0-333-98423-9Series ISSN 2947-0501 Series E-I

Overview: A Personal Note I decided to initiate Orchid Biology: Reviews and Perspectives in about 1972 and (alone or with co-authors) started to write some of the chapters and the appendix for the volume in 1974 during a visit to the Bogor Botanical Gardens in Indonesia. Professor H. C. D. de Wit of Holland was also in Bogor at that time and when we discovered a joint interest in Rumphius he agreed to write a chapter about him. I visited Bangkok on my way home from Bogor and while there spent time with Professor Thavorn Vajrabhaya. He readily agreed to write a chapter. The rest of the chapters

Overview: This book is intended for those wishing to acquire a working knowledge of orthogonal transforms in the area of digital signal processing. The authors hope that their introduction will enhance the opportunities for interdiscipli­ nary work in this field. The book consists of ten chapters. The first seven chapters are devoted to the study of the background, motivation and development of orthogonal transforms, the prerequisites for which are a basic knowledge of Fourier series transform (e.g., via a course in differential equations) and matrix al­ gebra. The last three chapters are rela

Overview: The Orchestra (Organizational Change, Evolution, Structuring and Awareness) project, as the name suggests, was the result of the contributions of a number of people and organizations, whose collaborative efforts made the project and its results possible. This report provides readers with a global perspective on the project, its conceptual roots, the developed technologies, the partners, and the users. The following subsection is a long but necessary acknowledgement to a large number of people, from the several organizations that participated in the project: INESC (P), SMD (P), Softwa