BOOKS with Alphabet P (Pa, Pb,Pc, Pd, Pe…... )

Overview: Explores how the framing of issues on the EU agenda affects policy-making. In a study that traces the highly contested developments in biotechnology policy over twenty years, the book introduces the conceptual and theoretical tenets of policy framing and shows how this analytical lens offers a unique perspective on issues in EU policy-making.978-1-349-32571-9978-0-230-34352-8Series ISSN 2662-5873 Series E-ISSN 2662-5881

Overview: Intended for professionals to serve as a "fighting kit" or "external memory".Easy to take along to engineering sites.A simple and comprehensive book designed for frequent use.This handy reference manual puts a wealth of ready-to-use information, data, and practical procedures within immediate reach of geo-engineers and technicians, whether they be in the field or office. It assembles and organizes the most-needed set of equations, tables, graphs and check-lists on six major subfields of geo-engineering: investigations, testing, properties, hazards, structures and works..This practica

Overview: Anna Stenpaß verbindet in dieser Studie quantitative und qualitative Daten, um ein umfassendes Bild von einem bisher wenig erforschten Untersuchungsfeld zu erhalten. Anhand eines Mixed-Methods Ansatzes untersucht sie den Einfluss beruflicher Pendelmobilität auf die innerpartnerschaftliche Verteilung der Hausarbeit und Kinderbetreuung. Sie verdeutlicht, dass eine ungleiche Verteilung dieser Arbeiten auch im Zusammenhang mit der Pendelmobilität besteht. Insbesondere weibliche Pendler tragen oftmals weiterhin die Hauptverantwortung für die Hausarbeit und Kinderbetreuung, auch wenn sie n

Overview: Nominated by Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC) as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis.Winner of the 2012 GWIC Thesis Prize.Presents a seminal work allowing to build gravitational wave detectorWith his Ph.D. thesis, presented here in the format of a "Springer Theses", Paul Fulda won the 2012 GWIC thesis prize awarded by the Gravitational Wave International Committee. The impact of thermal noise on future gravitational wave detectors depends on the size and shape of the interrogating laser beam. It had been known since 2006 that, in theory, higher-order Laguerre-Gauss modes cou

Overview: 978-1-349-00722-6978-1-349-00720-2

Overview: Presents the theory in a straightforward readable manner.This is the first compact reference to address difficulties that inhibit broad use of gradient-based methods.Shows how to apply optimization thIt is intended that this book be used in senior- to graduate-level semester courses in optimization, as offered in mathematics, engineering, com­ puter science and operations research departments. Hopefully this book will also be useful to practising professionals in the workplace. The contents of the book represent the fundamental optimization mate­ rial collected and used by the author

Overview: Presents the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Numerical Modelling in Civil Engineering (NME 2021).Written by experts from the field present contemporary advancements in theory.Provid.This book gathers outstanding papers on numerical modeling in Civil Engineering (Volume 1) as part of the 2-volume proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Numerical Modeling in Engineering (NME 2021), which was held in Ghent, Belgium, on 24-25 August 2021. The overall objective of the conference was to bring together international scientists and engineers in academia and indu

Overview: .„Die Erlebnisgesellschaft“ Gerhard Schulzes - eine furiose Zeitdiagnose der Neunzigerjahre über eine von Einschränkungen durch Knappheit befreite Bevölkerung, die in der Suche nach Sinn ihr Handeln verstärkt an einem Erlebnisanspruch ausrichtet - ist heute weitestgehend in Vergessenheit geraten. Ihre Thematik, die Ästhetisierung alltäglicher Handlungen, ist jedoch noch immer aktuell; hat im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung womöglich sogar an Relevanz gewonnen. Als neuer grenzenloser Spielraum für Erlebnisanbieter und -Nachfrager zwingt uns die digitale Sphäre nicht nur die zeitgenössis

Overview: Perspektivenvielfalt: Organisationskontexte Sozialer Arbeit.Empirie und Theorieverzahnung im Diskurs‚ Profession und Organisation.Aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse der Professions- und Professionalisierun.Im Professionalitätsdiskurs der Sozialen Arbeit sind mit dem Gegenstand „Organisation“ bzw. dem Verhältnis von Professionalität und Organisation nach wie vor offene Fragen verbunden. Die  Möglichkeiten professionellen Handelns in modernen Dienstleistungsorganisationen werden kritisch hinterfragt. Die Bewertung der Passung von Organisationsstruktur und professionellem Handeln hängt dabei

Overview: The first book about patient involvement in relation to HTA.Engages a wide range of international experts to write chapters to give academic, policy, HTA practice and patient organisation perspectives.This is the first book to offer a comprehensive guide to involving patients in health technology assessment (HTA). Defining patient involvement as patient participation in the HTA process and research into patient aspects, this book includes detailed explanations of approaches to participation and research, as well as case studies. .Patient Involvement in HTA. enables researchers, postg

Overview: 978-3-409-13885-7978-3-322-89177-8Series ISSN 0175-8802 Series E-ISSN 2945-8129

Overview: Very suitable for self-study.Provides many worked examples and exercises.Suitable for beginners; no prior knowledge of probability is needed.Includes supplementary material: .The purpose of this book is to provide a sound introduction to the study of real-world phenomena that possess random variation. It describes how to set up and analyse models of real-life phenomena that involve elements of chance. Motivation comes from everyday experiences of probability, such as that of a dice or cards, the idea of fairness in games of chance, and the random ways in which, say, birthdays are sha

Overview: fast-track conference proceedingsThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2011, held in Saarbrücken, Germany, March 30—April 1, 2011, as part of ETAPS 2011, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software. The 24 revised full papers presented together with one full length invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 full paper submissions. Papers were invited on all aspects of programming language research including: programming paradigms and styles, methods and tools to write and specify program

Overview: 978-3-409-18736-7978-3-322-82661-9

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .This bookconstitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Passive andActive Measurement, PAM 2016, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in March/April2016..The 30 full papers presented in this volume werecarefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. They are organized intopical sections named: security and privacy; mobile and cellular; the lastmile; testbeds and frameworks; web; DNS and routing; IXPs and MPLS; andscheduling and timing..978-3-319-30504-2978-3-319-30505-9Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

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Overview: Brings together a group of top scholars on the debated concept of “personalized medicine”.Addresses the the topics from a multidisciplinary point of view.Shows how a broad interpretation of "personali.This book offers a multidisciplinary look at the much-debated concept of “personalized medicine”. By combining a humanistic and a scientific approach, the book builds up a multidimensional way to understand the limits and potentialities of a personalized approach in medicine and healthcare. The book reflects on personalized medicine and complex diseases, the relationship between persona

Overview: Highlights strategies for systematizing the design approach.Covers developments in design practice with an impact on people‘s quality of life.Discusses applications in education, product development, .This book reports on interdisciplinary research and practices in communication, interior, fashion and product design, highlighting strategies for systematizing the design approach in a global, digital world. It gathers a selection of chapters written by the authors of the best articles presented at the 7th EIMAD conference, held online on May 14–15, 2020, from Portugal.  The works were

Overview: Practical criticism underlies everything students of English literature do. It is a way of reading the text closely, but with a grasp of the larger issues involved. This book is a practical, step-by-step guide which shows the student how to gain a sense of what a poem or passage of prose or drama is about, how to analyse it and how to build a successful essay. Easy to read and uncluttered by technical vocabulary, it will prove an invaluable resource for any student.

Overview: Presents the latest achievements and developments within the scientific community of fur animal research.The most diverse and recent advancements in fur animal production are brought togetherThese proceedings present the latest achievements and developments within the scientific community of fur animal research organised by the International Fur Animal Scientific Association (IFASA). The book contains papers on the following topics: nutrition, feeding and management, health and disease, breeding, genetics and reproduction, behaviour and welfare and a theme on ‘WelFur for mink and fox