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

Overview: Brings together critical perspectives and developments in online education in Asia.Serves as a handy resource for researchers/practitioners in addressing challenges and opportunities in online teachinThis collection focuses on the challenges, lessons learned, and best teaching practices shared by educators in the higher education system in both the developed and developing areas of Asia. Organized into three sections, the book covers key factors that affect the successes of online education in Asia, including innovations in curriculum design; innovations in communicating with student

Overview: Reviews primary optical metrology and speckle metrology techniques for technical diagnostics of materials.Includes but is not limited to development, modeling and technical realization of new phase sh.This book includes the description, modeling and realization of new optical metrology techniques for technical diagnostics of materials. Special attention is paid to multi-step phase shifting interferometry with arbitrary phase shifts between interferograms, phase shifting and correlation digital speckle pattern interferometry, optical-digital speckle correlation, and digital image corr

Overview: 978-3-663-06632-3978-3-663-07545-5

Overview: Completely revised and updated third edition, utilizing the most current evidence and practice guidelines for the treatment of osteoporosis.Discusses the basic aspects of bone metabolism, the pathophy.Completely revised and updated, and utilizing the most current evidence and practice guidelines for the treatment of osteoporosis, this comprehensive third edition discusses the basic aspects of bone metabolism, the pathophysiology of osteoporosis, current diagnostic techniques and medical treatment strategies. Osteoporosis is a common disorder that is prevalent in over 20 million Ameri

Overview: .Optik,Laser, Wellenleiter. stellt eine Einführung in die angewandte Optik dar. Dabei werden nicht nur Strahlenoptik mit optischen Instrumenten, Lichtquellen und Detektoren einerseits sowie Wellenoptik mit Interferometrie andererseits behandelt; es wird auch ausführlich auf Holographie, Laser, Kohärenz, Faseroptik, Wellenleiter und integrierte Optik eingegangen. Die physikalischen Grundlagen, Anwendungen und die Instrumentierung stehen dabei stets im Vordergrund. Mehr als 100 Übungen dienen der Vertiefung des Stoffes. Das Buch ist sowohl als vorlesungsbegleitende Lektüre für Studente

Overview: Challenges dominant paradigms in public engagement through both a comprehensive competing theory of engagement and specific case studies of public engagement with science.Presents a foundational theorThis book advances organic public engagement methods based on ecological thinking. The authors draw on rich multi-disciplinary literature in ecological thinking as well as research from public engagement with science events held over the past several years across the United States. Through this combination of ecology theory and case studies, this book provides both the conceptual foundat

Overview: Provides a thorough update on the field of geriatric pharmacotherapy.Presents the latest research findings on the topic.Integrates geriatric and pharmacological expertise.This book summarizes the broad and rapidly evolving field of geriatric pharmacotherapy, which is becoming increasingly relevant for practicing physicians who care and prescribe medications for older patients. Around the globe, ageing populations are associated with an increased prevalence of chronic diseases. Older adults are often affected by multimorbidity, i.e., suffer from more than one chronic disease. The main

Overview: An animated and engaging book for all scientists and laypersons interested in the fall of the Soviet Union.Tells the unique story of an engineer‘s convoluted journey from the Soviet Union to the West..Vladimir Babitsky was born before the Second World War and migrated West after Perestroika. The theory of vibro-impact systems that he developed helped create the world’s safest jackhammer and other record-breaking machines. The author has lived through a series of fascinating epochs: experiencing life under totalitarianism, witnessing the Soviet Union’s collapse, and then migrating to

Overview: Das vorliegende Buch liefert eine Einführung in das Gebiet des Operations Research und ist primär für Studenten nicht-mathematischer Fachrichtungen, insbesondere für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler gedacht. Es werden jedoch auch Mathematiker angesprochen, die sich einen einführenden Überblick über das Gesamtgebiet verschaffen wollen. Dem Praktiker werden die Ausführungen helfen, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des praktischen Einsatzes der OR-Verfahren zu beurteilen. Durch die anschauliche und leicht verständliche Darstellung soll der mathematisch weniger geübte Leser angesprochen werden. Dabei

Overview: Makes accessible to non-specialists important results about real and complex singularities.Emphasis on the relations to other branches, such as group actions, or quotiens of 3-dimensional Lie groups b.The aim of this book is to give an overview of selected topics on the topology of real and complex isolated singularities, with emphasis on its relations to other branches of geometry and topology. .The first chapters are mostly devoted to complex singularities and a myriad of results spread in a vast literature, which are presented here in a unified way, accessible to non-specialists.

Overview: Praxis-Guide für Online-Fundraiser.Liefert Best-Practice-Beispiele von erfolgreichen Spendenaktionen.Kick-off für die Reihe "Edition Fundraising".Dieses Buch versteht sich als praxisnaher Guide für (Online-)Fundraiser, die Online-Spendenaktionen in ihrer Organisation implementieren möchten oder bereits damit arbeiten und ihr Wissen erweitern möchten. Zahlreiche Best-Practice-Beispiele und empirische Befunde einer zugrundegelegten Studie erläutern die verschiedenen Management- und Marketingaspekte des Spendenproduktes. Welche Vertriebs- und Kommunikationskanäle sind geeignet? Wie werd

Overview: Proposes solutions including (but not limited to) blockchain and smart contract technologies to create a new financing and production model for digital media.Based on case studies and collected evidenThis book explores the use of Blockchain and smart contract technologies to develop new ways to finance independent films and digital media worldwide. Using case studies of Alibaba and in-depth, on-set observation of a Sino-US coproduction, as well as research collected from urban China, Hong Kong, Europe, and the USA, .Online Film Production in China Using Blockchain and Smart Contracts

Overview: This is the first book that relates how out-of-field teachers’ real-life experiences impact, transform and inform leadership styles, the teaching workforce and quality of education..The book confrontsSociety perceives the role of school leaders as ‘fixers’. Yet the author poses some confronting questions: can they fix or manage the out-of-field phenomenon without having in-depth knowledge and understanding? Can educators teach the next generation of teachers and school leaders without appreciating the realities of the workplace? Can policymakers develop effective policies without a d

Overview: Presents a revealing case study on the challenges for CSR in a developing country.Addresses economic, political and governance issues in natural resource management.Hightlights potential solutions by This book addresses key aspects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and explores them from a variety of perspectives in a case study on the Marange diamond mines in Zimbabwe. The business case of the Marange mines is presented to demonstrate the challenge of practicing social responsibility while considering and balancing the needs of a developing nation, environmental protection, c

Overview: Das Konzept des Organisationalen Lernens wurde sowohl von der Organisationsforschung als auch von Organisationen und Unternehmensberatern interessiert aufgenommen, denn angesichts der sich immer schneller verändernden Märkte ist lebenslanges Lernen nicht nur für die Mitarbeiter, sondern für die ganze Organisation unverzichtbar. Bislang ist jedoch weithin unklar geblieben, wodurch sich eine Lernende Organisation auszeichnet und wie sie zu verwirklichen ist...Sandra Scherf-Braune nimmt mit Hilfe von Luhmanns Theorie sozialer Systeme eine grundlegende Rekonzeptualisierung des Phänomens

Overview: This book is a social history of the ritual and custom of churching, a liturgical rite of purification after childbirth performed on a woman‘s first visit to church after giving birth. The book describes the development of the rite from its original meaning as a response to blood pollution to its redefinition as a rite that honoured marriage.978-1-137-05014-4Series ISSN 2945-5936 Series E-ISSN 2945-5944

Overview: Provides a self-contained introduction to wiring diagrams, operads, and operad algebras.Includes over 100 illustrations and a chapter of practice problems.Presents generators and relations for both th.Wiring diagrams form a kind of graphical language that describes operations or processes with multiple inputs and outputs, and shows how such operations are wired together to form a larger and more complex operation. This monograph presents a comprehensive study of the combinatorial structure of the various operads of wiring diagrams, their algebras, and the relationships between these

Overview: Heutzutage sind Unternehmen von sehr volatilen Umweltbedingungen umgeben. Um auf diese adäquat reagieren zu können, arbeiten einige Pioniere radikal selbst organisiert mit Organisationsformen wie Holakratie und Soziokratie Bei radikaler Selbstorganisation wird Autorität formal und organisationsweit an die Mitarbeitenden übertragen. Elsa Breit untersucht in diesem Buch, welche organisationalen Spannungen und Paradoxien bei der Transformation hin zu radikaler Selbstorganisation auftreten, wie Unternehmen mit diesen umgehen und zu welchen Auswirkungen separierende und integrierende Ansä

Overview: Comprehensive book on galactic dynamics and the application of the concepts of dynamical systems theory to astrophysics since more than a decade.Includes supplementary material: There have been many books on Dynamical Astronomy up to now. Many are devoted to Celestial Mechanics, but there are also several books on Stellar and Galactic Dynamics. The first books on stellar dynamics dealt mainly with the statistics of stellar motions (e. g. Smart‘s "Stellar Dynamics" (1938), or Trumpler and Weaver‘s "Statistical Astronomy" (1953)). A classical book in this field is Chandrasekhar‘s "Prin

Overview: 978-3-409-13024-0978-3-322-86024-8