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

Overview: Recent developments in generative grammar have been very stimulating. The current theory defines a small set of principles that apply to all human languages. Efforts have been made to demonstrate the adequacy of this theory for a wide range of languages. We thus see an interesting interface of theory and empirical data: the study of natural languages contributes to defining the properties of Universal Grammar and the predictions of the theory help in uncovering generalizations regarding natural languages. This book aims to add to this exciting development by showing how the analysis

Overview: Online Worlds" is a landmark publication about virtual worlds, exploring the cutting edge of social computing, and based on solid scientific research.It is based on solid methodological approaches incWilliam Sims Bainbridge Virtual worlds are persistent online computer-generated environments where people can interact, whether for work or play, in a manner comparable to the real world. The most prominent current example is World of Warcraft (Corneliussen and Rettberg 2008), a massively multiplayer online game with 11 million s- scribers. Some other virtual worlds, notably Second Life

Overview: This monograph is the second volume of a graduate text book on the modern theory of linear one-dimensional singular integral equations. Both volumes may be regarded as unique graduate text books. Singular integral equations attract more and more attention since this class of equations appears in numerous applications, and also because they form one of the few classes of equations which can be solved explicitly. The present book is to a great extent based upon material contained in the second part of the authors‘ monograph [6] which appeared in 1973 in Russian, and in 1979 in German t

Overview: Presents a comprehensive overview of moored measurements of internal tides worldwide.Describes the properties of internal waves in numerous regions of the ocean.Combines measurements in the deep ocean.This book presents a detailed study of the structure and variability of internal tides and their geographical distribution in the ocean. Based on experimental analysis of oceanic measurements combined with numerical modeling, it offers a comprehensive overview of the internal wave processes around the globe. In particular, it is based on moored buoys observations in many regions in all

Overview: Provides a unique, in-depth analysis, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of how space and popular culture intersect.Includes the latest insights into the embedding of space in modern populThis book provides detailed insights into how space and popular culture intersect across a broad spectrum of examples, including cinema, music, art, arcade games, cartoons, comics, and advertisements. This is a pertinent topic since the use of space themes differs in different cultural contexts, and these themes can be used to explore various aspects of the human condition and provide a

Overview: Der Opernbetrieb mit seinen Veränderungen in 400 Jahren - völlig neue Einblicke.Protagonisten - Verhältnisse - Spielregeln einer ‘unmöglichen‘ Kunstform.Oper backstage - faszinierende Geschichten und .Die Oper gehört seit vierhundert Jahren zu den stabilsten Kulturinstitutionen Europas. Weder Revolutionen noch Wirtschaftskrisen haben daran etwas geändert. Im 19. Jahrhundert wird die Oper schließlich zu einem internationalen Phänomen. Zur Institution Oper gehören nicht nur die Bühnenvorstellung und alles, was zu ihrer Organisation notwendig ist, sondern auch die Sänger und nicht zulet

Overview: Offers new ways of thinking about colonial outlaws, disruption, deviance and disorder as distinctly material experiences.Contributes to a growing body of research on anxiety in the colonial imaginatio.This book explores how objects, landscapes, and architecture were at the heart of how people imagined outlaws and disorder in colonial southern Africa. Drawing on evidence from several disciplines, it chronicles how cattle raiders were created, pursued, and controlled, and how modern scholarship strives to reconstruct pasts of disruption and deviance. Through a series of vignettes, Rach

Overview: 1 Dieses Buch wendet sich an DV-Manager , Leiter von Entwicklungsprojekten und Praktiker, die über die Einführung von objektorientierter Systementwicklung in ihren Unternehmen nachdenken, um ihnen Möglichkeiten für eine betriebliche Umsetzung aufzuzeigen. Das Buch soll insbesondere dazu dienen, innovativen Entscheidungsträgern aufzuzeigen, daß die Einführung objektorientierter Techni­ ken "hier und jetzt" möglich ist, um damit qualitativ hochwertige Software­ systeme herzustellen. Das vorliegende Buch basiert auf dem Text einer Studie, die im zweiten Halbjahr 1992 im Auftrag der ARAG

Overview: OR, Defence and Security presents eleven papers, originally published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society and the Journal of Simulation, which exemplify important themes and topics in Operational Research (OR), as applied to modern-day defense and security issues. Topics range from frontline OR in a peace-support operation to new developments in combat modelling, and from the logistics of overseas intervention to defence planning at the top level. Also included are examples of applications addressing insurgency and terrorism. Edited by Dr Roger A. Forder, who had a dis

Overview: 978-3-7908-0608-3978-3-642-48417-9

Overview: Places OSS software in the context of telecommunications as a business.Gives a concrete understanding of what OSS is, what it does and how it does it, avoiding deep technical details.Frequently relate.Modern telecom networks are automated, and are run by OSS software or "operational support systems”. These manage modern telecom networks and provide the data that is needed in the day-to-day running of a telecom network. OSS software is also responsible for issuing commands to the network infrastructure to activate new service offerings, commence services for new customers, and detect

Overview: Bankenregulierung - Globalisierung - InnovationDie staatliche Regulierung international tätiger Banken befindet sich derzeit im Umbruch. Waren früher die Bilanzen sowie eine ausreichende Eigenkapitalunterlegung die alleinigen Gradmesser für die Risikoeinschätzung von Banken, so treten nun ‘Menschen, Prozesse und Systeme‘ in den Fokus der Aufsicht. Worauf reagieren diese neuen Regulierungsformen? Wodurch zeichnen sie sich aus und was sind die Folgen von ihnen? Diesen Fragen geht die Studie nach. These der Arbeit ist, dass es sich dabei um eine grundsätzlich neue Form politischer Regul

Overview: Presents a travelogue, relating all that happened in the preparation, during and after the running of three Mars simulation campaigns in the Arctic and in the Desert.Introduces the readers to problems.This book introduces the Martian simulations of The Mars Society, the first one installed on Devon Island, an uninhabited island in the Canadian Arctic, well within the polar circle, and the second in the desert of Utah, several hundreds of kilometers South of Salt Lake City. The book is based on the diaries held during the simulations, by Vladimir Pletser, a physicist-engineer, who was

Overview: 978-1-349-01329-6978-1-349-01327-2

Overview: Treats the basic principles of the Big Bang and quantum mechanics in untraditional ways, such as framing concepts from small to big, old to new or simple to complex.Written in a style that is both accKeeping in mind that we can only see the universe from the comfort of our home galaxy, Bascom begins his text by meticulously laying the necessary groundwork to understand the Big Bang’s mathematics without using any equations. He then paints a freeze-frame picture of our universe as if we had taken a three-dimensional picture with a giant camera. Within this picture, he traces forces be

Overview: The intensive study of molecular events leading to cellular transformation in tissue culture or in intact organisms culminated in the identification of 100 or more genes that can be defined as oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes. Functionally, these genes can be divided into several classes, each involved in a different step in transmission of signals from the exterior of the cell to the nucleus. The first oncogenes to be biochemically character­ ized included membrane receptors for growth factors, growth factors themselves, protein kinases or small GTP binding proteins involved in s

Overview: Synthesises two emerging topics: smart cities and open data.Presents an unconventional and innovative perspective on collaborative urban economies.Links open data with social aspirations such as urbanToday the world’s largest economies and corporations trade in data and its products to generate value in new disruptive markets. Within these markets vast streams of data are often inaccessible or untapped and controlled by powerful monopolies. Counter to this exclusive use of data is a promising world-wide “open-data” movement, promoting freely accessible information to share, reuse and

Overview: Up-to-date and comprehensive information on the pathophysiology, etiology, diagnosis, classification, and treatment of osteonecrosis.Based on presentations at leading international meetings during theOsteonecrosis is a disease caused by reduced blood flow to bones in the joints, including the hip, knee, shoulder, and ankle. The disease, which is usually progressive and leads to joint failure, occurs in young adults aged from their twenties to their fifties. The pathogenesis of osteonecrosis is still unclear, and treatment remains controversial. This textbook provides up-to-date and c

Overview: The International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (lSOTT) held its 26th annual meeting from August 23-26, 1998, and met for the second time in Budapest. As captured in the design of the ISOTT‘98 logo, the venue of the conference was the Budapest Hilton in the heart of the historic Castle District in Buda, across from Hungary‘s coronation church-the Matthias Church-and the fairy-tale-like Fisherman‘s Bastion; a special place with a historical touch situated atop the Castle Hill, from where participants enjoyed the spectacular panoramic views of Budapest exquisitely laid out on b

Overview: 978-3-642-52693-0978-3-642-52692-3