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Overview: Illustrates how to measure the impact of successful patient engagement at various levels of the healthcare system.Demonstrates how it is possible to create social innovation using a co-design method w.Patient-oriented approaches to healthcare management have been brought to the fore in recent years, yet this book underlines how even further change is needed in order to fully mobilise the experiential knowledge of patients, and ultimately improve our healthcare systems. With contributions from scholars and patients across the globe, this collection brings together a comprehensive over

Overview: This book is the first to provide a comprehensive theoretical basis for explaining the plasma processes observed in the atmosphere.Includes supplementary material: Investigation of the kinetic processes occurring in the atmospheric gases and low temperature plasmas of such gases is of great interest for numerous areas of modern physics and chemistry. These include discharge and laser physics, physics of the ionosphere, chemistry and optics of the atmosphere, laser and plasma chemistry, and nonequilibrium gas dynamics. Further, nonequilibrium gaseous media and low temperature plasmas

Overview: The only book to address the topic of Oracle Spatial. Any designer or developer making use of Oracle Spatial will want this book.Authors can speak definitively. They are key players on the team that d.Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11.g. .shows how to take advantage of Oracle Databases built–in feature set for working with location–based data. A great deal of the information used in business today is associated with location in some way, and analysis of that data is becoming ever more important in today‘s mobile and highly connected world. In .Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Da

Overview: Polymeric materials have special advantages over other materials used for the recording, storage and retrieval of information, telecommunication transmission and visualization of images. The authors describe the synthesis, the physico-chemical behavior and the applications of these highly sensitive macromolecular systems. They discuss the most essential developments in this field..For scientists and professionals working in the field of electrooptical and photooptical polymeric materials.978-3-642-79863-4978-3-642-79861-0

Overview: Bridges the science-practitioner gap by presenting specific intervention protocols and frameworks of positive psychological attributes such as humor, gratitude, and flourishing within multicultural coThis volume presents innovative and contemporary methodologies and intervention protocols for the enhancement of positive psychological attributes in multicultural professional and organizational contexts. Most methods, models and approaches that underpin positive psychological interventions are confined to clinical samples, closed systems or monocultural contexts, which restrict their a

Overview: Provides latest understanding about the blood-brain barrier and its role within the neurovascular unit.Covers many different methods to study pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of the blood-brain b.This book presents a comprehensive collection of current knowledge and leading research about the blood-brain barrier. The chapters are organized in four main parts providing basic information and novel insights about the physiology of the blood-brain barrier, the challenges related to finding and developing drugs crossing the blood-brain barrier, experimental methods to study the blood

Overview: Das Handbuch bietet erstmalig einen umfassenden Überblick über die Psychodramatische Supervision.Führende Vertreter geben Einblick in ihre Praxis und begründen ihr konkretes Vorgehen.Mit Serviceteil uDas Handbuch bietet erstmalig einen umfassenden Überblick über die Psychodramatische Supervision. Führende Vertreter dieses Ansatzes geben Einblick in ihre Praxis und begründen ihr konkretes Vorgehen. Nutzer der Supervision können prüfen, ob ihnen diese Arbeitsform zusagt. Anbieter der Supervision erhalten Anregungen für ihre eigene Praxis. Forscher bekommen konkretes Material über Super

Overview: 978-3-662-23177-7978-3-662-25167-6

Overview: Investigates the complexity of parental involvement and clarifies the meaning of parental involvement through ethnographic case studies.Analyses the variations in the forms of parental involvement tha.This book is based on the empirical work of a large-scale project to investigate the possible impacts of diversified forms of parental involvement on children and school by first exploring through a series of ethnographic case studies how principals, teachers and parents perceive and act on parental involvement in the primary schools of Hong Kong and, then, examining how the different f

Overview: First book on process mining, bridging the gap between business process modeling and business intelligence and positioning process mining within the rapidly growing data science discipline.This second.This is the second edition of Wil van der Aalst’s seminal book on process mining, which now discusses the field also in the broader context of data science and big data approaches. It includes several additions and updates, e.g. on inductive mining techniques, the notion of alignments, a considerably expanded section on software tools and a completely new chapter of process mining in th

Overview: Reviews recent advances in plant developmental biology and their applications.A key reference for plant breeders, researchers and advanced students.Includes supplementary material: Many exciting discoveries in recent decades have contributed new knowledge to our understanding of the mechanisms that regulate various stages of plant growth and development. Such information, coupled with advances in cell and molecular biology, is fundamental to crop improvement using biotechnological approaches. Two volumes constitute the present work. The ?rst, comprising 22 chapters, commences with in

Overview: Provides overview of various, existing homogeneous/heterogeneous architectures, cache and memory structures, on-chip interconnects, etc. and explains why current programming models won’t scale when th.This book presents new concepts, techniques and promising programming models for designing software for chips with "many" (hundreds to thousands) processor cores. Given the scale of parallelism inherent to these chips, software designers face new challenges in terms of operating systems, middleware and applications. This will serve as an invaluable, single-source reference to the state-

Overview: A review of the latest results in the major areas of the plant sciences in the past 1-2 yearsWith one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences..The present volume includes reviews on .genetics, .cell biology, .physiology, .comparative morphology, .systematics, .ecology and .vegetation science978-3-642-52371-7978-3-642-57203-6Series ISSN 0340-4773 Series E-ISSN 2197-8492

Overview: This series of books, which is published at the rate of about one per year, addresses fundamental problems in materials science. The contents cover a broad range of topics from small clusters of atoms to engineering materials and involves chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering, with length scales ranging from Ångstroms up to millimeters. The emphasis is on basic science rather than on applications. Each book focuses on a single area of current interest and brings together leading experts to give an up to date discussion of their work and the work of others. Each articl

Overview: Clear, straightforward and intuitive introduction to undergraduate physics.74 specially prepared video-films showing experimental setup and progress.More than 80 detailed problems with solutions deepeThis classic textbook on experimental physics, written by Robert W. Pohl to accompany his famous lecture courses, served generations of physics and other science majors, not only in his native Germany, and was for many years a standard textbook. Pohl‘s lucid and memorable style and his consistent use of vivid demonstration experiments made his textbooks unique in their time..This complet

Overview: This collection of articles provides a unique overview of thestate of the science in the prediction of and response to naturaldisaster events. The uniqueness of this volume is that it comprisesmore than just the physical science perspective..For each natural hazard included in this text, social scientists haveprovided research summaries of how public perceptions are related tothe actions that are likely to be undertaken when people areconfronted with information about the existence of a natural hazardthreat..In this book the reader can find a truly internationalcharacterization of bo

Overview: Provides a sound scientific basis for the sustainable management of Nordic mountain birch forests.Includes supplementary material: 978-3-540-26595-5Series ISSN 0070-8356 Series E-ISSN 2196-971X

Overview: Describes state of the art numerical modelling for particle-laden turbulent flow.Describes novel experimental techniques for monitoring and quantifying particle dispersion.Describes Lagrangian statist978-94-017-7660-8978-1-4020-6218-6Series ISSN 1382-4309 Series E-ISSN 2215-1826

Overview: Offers a step-by-step explanation and guide to the use of 23G vitrectomy, the most modern retinal surgery technique.Describes the various surgical procedures with the aid of informative diagrams and hSince the development of 23G vitrectomy in 2004, the technique has revolutionized retinal surgery by overcoming a number of the problems associated with 20G and 25G systems and offering significant improvements in surgical capability and fluidics. This important book first discusses the instruments and equipment employed in 23G vitrectomy and then explains, step by step, the various surg

Overview: ist die erste Studie, die systematisch linksextremistische Einstellungen misst und untersucht.Systematische Untersuchung und Vergleich von LWE und RWE in einem gemeinsamen Rahmen.Analysiert die UrsprüDas Buch gibt einen systematischen Überblick über die Verbreitung, die Ursachen und die Stabilität von links- und rechtsextremen Einstellungen in Deutschland zwischen 1994 und 2017. Es zeigt, dass es viele Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen Links- und Rechtsextremisten gibt, sowohl in Bezug auf ihre Ideologien als auch auf ihre individuellen Erfahrungen. Insgesamt lassen sich diese Ursachen auf dr