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

Overview: Gives an insight into a novel printing technique for Polymer Optical Waveguides.Suited for teaching in Applied Engineering.Presents current developments in the field of optical short-range interconnecLight signals in optical waveguides can be used to transmit very large amounts of data quickly and largely without interference. In the industrial and infrastructural sectors, e.g. in the automotive and aerospace industries, the demand to further exploit this potential is therefore increasing. Which technologies can be used to effectively integrate systems that transmit data by means of

Overview: Eine wirtschaftswissenschaftliche StudieChristoph John analysiert die Standortfrage von Flughäfen unter regionalökonomischen, raumbezogenen und institutionellen Aspekten. Er geht insbesondere dem Spannungsverhältnis agglomerationsnaher Flughafenstandorte mit allen positiven wie negativen Folgen auf den Grund. Der Autor zeigt, dass bedeutende Flughäfen vor langer Zeit an Standorten errichtet wurden, die über ungünstige Rahmenbedingungen verfügen. Mit jedem Wachstumsschub verschärfen sich die Konflikte im Umfeld. Ein Flughafenstandort in dünn besiedelten Räumen kann unter bestimmten Vo

Overview: Erster soziologischer Überblick über das Kinderschutzsystem in Deutschland.Analyse aktueller Transformationstendenzen.Detailliert und präzise.Includes supplementary material: .Kinderschutz ist seit Längerem ein „heißes“ Thema in Politik und Gesellschaft. Die zahlreichen Medienberichte über kritische Ereignisse in Familien und das (angebliche) Versagen zuständiger Instanzen erregen regelmäßig die Gemüter derer, die sich urteilsfähig fühlen – und dies ist im Zweifel jeder Zeitbeobachter. Eine politische Initiative reiht sich an die andere, und auch in der Fachöffentlichkeit ist Kindesw

Overview: Der perfekte Einstieg in die Theorie anhand vieler BeispieleDie mathematische Optimierung von Vorgängen, die durch partielle Differentialgleichun­ gen modelliert werden, hat in den letzten Jahren einen beachtlichen Aufschwung ge­ nommen. Die Verfügbarkeit immer besserer Computer ermöglichte neue interessante An­ wendungen dieses Gebietes in der Praxis, etwa in Strömungsmechanik, Mikroelektronik, Kristallzüchtung, Gefäßchirurgie oder Herzmedizin, um nur einige Beispiele zu nennen. Im Zusammenhang damit ist das Interesse von Numerikern und Optimierern an der Ver­ wendung ihrer Methoden

Overview: This book outlines an idea of world politics as an activity of thinking and speaking about the conditions of world order. World order is understood not as an arrangement of entities but a complex of variously situated activities conducted by individuals as members of diverse associations of their own. Within contemporary International Relations it entails a theoretical position, neotraditionalism, as a reformulation of the initial ‘traditionalist‘ approach in the wake of rationalism and subsequent reflectivist critique.978-1-349-52371-9978-0-230-50803-3

Overview: Offers unique international perspectives from authors experienced in both research and industrial cooperation.Applies an international textbook approach with "three-level structure" per chapter: basicThis book provides an overview of important trends and developments in logistics and supply chain research, making them available to practitioners, while also serving as a point of reference for academicians. Operations and logistics are cornerstones of modern supply chains that in turn are essential for global business and economics. The composition, character and importance of supply c

Overview: Presents optimization models which deal with decision-making processes in different development sectors of a growing economy.Provides a wide range of optimal operational techniques for decision makers.This book analyzes the underlying theoretical principles of multi-objective linear programming problems with multi-choice parameters. It studies transportation problems on the same domain with extension to fuzzy stochastic criteria, and offers insights into sensitivity analysis through symmetric duality and complementarity using non-convex programming. These analytical presentations pro

Overview: The history of science has shown the majority of hypotheses to be wrong. Sharp scientific criticism and strictly controlled experimental studies reject most of the hypotheses, leaving behind only a small number of assumptions and ideas. Nevertheless, each logical assumption should have its rightful place on the scientific “battlefield” supposed to assess its validity and determine its final fate. Even when a hypothesis is wrong, it still finds its place in the entire efforts of the humankind towards attaining the scientific truth. Namely, the wrong hypotheses serve largely to illumin

Overview: Examines the ombudsman as a global institution that has spread all over the world and whose institutional development is increasingly being governed transnationally.Argues that the ombudsman is a pecuThis book explores the ombudsman as a global institution. It has spread all over the world and its institutional development is increasingly being governed transnationally. Initially an institution of administrative law, the ombudsman has become a human rights institution and institution of good governance. These ideational shifts have influenced the global diffusion of the ombudsman but

Overview: In 1975, a symposium was held in Midland, Michigan, co-sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company and the then Midland Macromolecular Institute in honor of Raymond F. Boyer on the occasion of his 65th birthday and retirement from Dow. The topic of that first Boyer symposium dealt with an area of interest to Boyer, namely, polymer transitions and relaxations. One decade later, after ten years of additional fruitful scientific endeavor at MMI, Ray Boyer was again honored with a symposium, this time celebrating his 75th birthday and 10th anniversary at the Michigan Molecular Institute. The t

Overview: Appeals to students and scholars in the fields of women’s history, social history, and civil rights history in America.Places the history of race relations in the United States within a new lens of geThis monograph asserts that the troubled history of segregation within American women’s associations created a legacy of racial exclusivity and privilege. While acknowledging the progressive potential of women’s associations and the extent to which they created a legitimate outlet for American women’s public activism, it explores how and why such organizations failed to aid in issues of

Overview: Ein zuverlässiger Gesundheitslotse für Patienten mit Knieproblemen..Alle Informationen rund um eine Kniegelenkoperation..Dialog auf Augenhöhe zwischen Patient und Arzt.Das Kniegelenk ist das größte und komplexeste Gelenk des Menschen, und Knieschmerzen sind ein  häufiger Grund für einen Arztbesuch. In diesem Buch gibt der erfahrene Orthopäde und Operateur Dr. med. Robert Kipping einen Überblick über Knieerkrankungen bei Kindern und Erwachsenen und beantwortet Fragen aus der Praxis: Wie sieht die Behandlung aus, wann ist eine Operation nötig, und wie läuft sie ab? Wann brauche ich ein

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book discusses the role of oxidative stress in the reproductive system. The book reviews endogenous sources, methods of determining its levels in body fluid/tissues, the physiological roles of ROS, as well as its negative effects on the human reproductive processes. Also discussed are multiple extrinsic factors that could induce oxidative stress in the reproductive system. This volume covers various clinical pathologies related to the reproductive system that arise from or produce oxidative stress, both in the male and female. The use of antioxid

Overview: Drawing on new historical principles, this book examines literary and historical narratives, legal statutes and records, sermons, lyric poetry, and biblical exegesis circulating in medieval England in order to theorize the figure of the outlaw and uncover the legal, ethical, and social assumptions that underlie the practice of outlawry.978-1-349-53683-2978-0-230-11468-5Series ISSN 2945-5936 Series E-ISSN 2945-5944

Overview: Discusses the mechanisms of obesity and possibilities for the development of new treatment strategies.Includes new chapters on obesity-related epigenetic modifications and nanotechnology-based clinica.This book is a comprehensive review of the recent research on the lipotoxicity-related mechanisms in obesity and the development of new treatment strategies. In this second edition, the possible molecular treatment methods and their recent clinical approaches are discussed in addition to the basic mechanisms that are available and thoroughly reviewed previously. Moreover, all chapters h

Overview: Introduction to key background information on India, its culture and its history as well as its industry.Step by step guide through the whole outsourcing process.Guidance from leading managers and ind.A day does not pass without a newspaper report about yet another company that has started outsourcing technology or other business processes to India. Managers across the world are beating a path to India because it is the global leader for offshore IT-enabled services. Many corporate leaders seek to reduce their costs. Many seek to improve service quality, but not many understand India

Overview: This coherent anthology presents the state of the art in the booming area of online algorithms and competitive analysis of such algorithms. The 17 papers are carefully revised and thoroughly improved versions of presentations given first during a Dagstuhl seminar in 1996..An overview by the volume editors introduces the area to the reader. The technical chapters are devoted to foundational and methodological issues for the design and analysis of various classes of online algorithms as well as to the detailed evaluation of algorithms for various activities in online processing, rangin

Overview: Highlights existential, social, ethical, and legal concerns and dilemmas introduced by the genomic era.Examines Sophocles‘ Oedipus Rex through the prism of contemporary knowledge on genetics.Gives an .This book explores the answers to fundamental questions about the human mind and human behaviour with the help of two ancient texts. The first is .Oedipus Rex. (.Oedipus Tyrannus.) by Sophocles, written in the 5th century BCE. The second is human DNA, with its origins around 4 billion years ago, and continuously revised by chance and evolution. With Sophocles as a guide, the authors tak