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Overview: Includes a synthesis from many world experts on the protection status from 3 poles never done before.Exposes flaws and presents latest information re. Polar Protection.Includes tundra, high altitude, The Arctic, the Antarctic, and the Hindu Kush-Himalayas form a trio of terrains sometimes called “the three poles”. Mainly composed of rock, snow, and ice, these precious regions, which are home to many unique species such as the polar bear, the emperor penguin, and the snow leopard, contain the primary water resource of this planet and directly shape our climate. This book presents a fi

Overview: Provides a problem-solving approach to prosodic difficulties in ELT.Includes links between current theories of prosody and acoustics and daily classroom practice.Contains illustrations of examples usiThis volume explores the elusive subject of English prosody—the stress, rhythm and intonation of the language—, and its relevance for English language teaching. Its sharp focus will be especially welcomed by teachers of English to non-native speakers, but also by scholars and researchers interested in Applied Linguistics. The book examines key issues in the development of prosody and del

Overview: Recent research in Computer Recognition Systems.Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems CORES 2015.Presents both methodological issues and different application.The computer recognition systems are nowadays one of the most promising directions in artificial intelligence. This book is the most comprehensive study of this field. It contains a collection of 79 carefully selected articles contributed by experts of pattern recognition. It reports on current research with respect to both methodology and applications. In particular, it includes the fo

Overview: In the following essays discussing clinical ethicsconsultation, three sorts of reflective writing are presented. Thefirst is a description of a clinical ethics consultation, moregenerously detailed than most that have been published, yet obviouslylimited as a documentation of the experiences at its source. It isfollowed by three examples of a second kind in the probingcommentaries by highly regarded figures in biomedical and clinicalethics - François Baylis, Tom Tomlinson, and BarryHoffmaster. Finally, these are followed by a third variety ofreflection in the form of responses to tho

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Overview: 978-3-540-52176-1978-3-642-84097-5Series ISSN 0585-7880

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-663-15398-6978-3-663-15969-8

Overview: Provides a concise go-to resource for all PPP stakeholders in the health sector.Analyses the design and implementation of successful PPPs in the healthcare sector across the world.Appeals to policymak.This book considers the use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the delivery of physical assets, infrastructure and technologies and related clinical services, in the health sector. The PPP model represents the most complex form of contracting transaction yet to have emerged in the health sector, owing to its long-term character, financial complexity, and risk-allocation mechanisms

Overview: This book is the Proceedings of the Second ISAAC Congress. ISAAC is the acronym of the International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation. The president of ISAAC is Professor Robert P. Gilbert, the second named editor of this book, e-mail: gilbert@math.udel.edu. The Congress is world-wide valued so highly that an application for a grant has been selected and this project has been executed with Grant No. 11-56 from *the Commemorative Association for the Japan World Exposition (1970). The finance of the publication of this book is exclusively the said Grant No. 11-56

Overview: Positionen der BildungsforschungIn diesem Sammelband finden sich die aktuellen Perspektiven und Positionen der führenden FachwissenschaftlerInnen der deutschsprachigen erziehungswissenschaftlichen Biographieforschung. Neben Untersuchungen zum gesellschaftlichen Wandel von Selbstpräsentationen befassen sich die Beiträge mit methodischen Problemen der Analyse von biographischen Materialien und fokussieren insbesondere Reflexionsformate, Eingangssequenzen und Lern- und Bildungsprozesse. Weitere Perspektiven richten sich auf Erträge der Biographieforschung für die Professionsforschung od

Overview: The book explores the critical importance of Pan-Asianism in Japanese imperialism. Pan-Asianism was a cultural as well as political ideology that promoted Asian unity and recognition. The focus is on Pan-Asianism as a propeller behind Japan‘s expansionist policies from the Manchurian Incident until the end of the Pacific War.978-1-137-27035-1978-0-230-60992-1Series ISSN 2634-6273 Series E-ISSN 2634-6281

Overview: Cancer cachexia is a complex syndrome characterized by diminished nutrient intake and progressive tissue depletion manifest clinically as anorexia and weight loss. This review examines the basic research that has addressed the fundamental derangements in host intermediary protein metabolism and evaluates current therapeutic approaches to the management of cancer cachexia. This volume provides a new approach as well as a comprehensive review of current basic and clinical research.978-3-662-22348-2978-3-662-22346-8Series ISSN 1080-3645

Overview: Die Handelspraxis hat die Potenziale von Premiummarken zur Betriebsstättenprofilierung und Differenzierung vom Wettbewerb bereits erkannt und führt verstärkt sogenannte Bio-Handelsmarken im Sortiment. Die Positionierung derartiger Eigenmarken setzt jedoch nicht nur die Kenntnis von Lücken im herstellerseitigen Angebot sowie eine hinreichende Sortiments- und Marktstruktur voraus, sondern auch ein entsprechendes Wissen über die Einflussgrößen des Kaufverhaltens. Annett Wolf entwickelt ein verhaltenswissenschaftliches Erklärungsmodell, überprüft dieses kausalanalytisch und leitet Implik

Overview: 978-3-8100-1349-1978-3-663-01231-3

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2020, held in Nagoya, Japan, in November 2020. The 19 full papers presented and 13 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions..Due to COVID-19, the conference was held online. ..The conference covers a wide range of ranging from foundations of agent theory and engineering aspects of agent systems, to emerging interdisciplinary areas of agent-based research..978-3-030-69321-3978-3-030-69322-0Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series

Overview: The last decade witnessed an unprecedented annual growth of the literature dealing with the philosophy of economics,as well as the first signs of an institutionalization (conferences, an international journal) of the philosophy of economics as a scientific subject in itself - in particular in the U.S. In 1981 a meeting took place with participants mainly of European "continental" origin. In July 1987, we organized a second conference "Philosophy of Economics II" at Tilburg Uni­ versity, The Netherlands, mainly aiming at the establishment of first contacts between the middle-European

Overview: Photosynthesis is a process on which virtually all life onEarth depends. To answer the basic questions at all levels ofcomplexity, from molecules to ecosystems, and to establishcorrelations and interactions between these levels, photosynthesisresearch - perhaps more than any other discipline in biology- requires a multidisciplinary approach. Congresses probablyprovide the only forums where progress throughout the whole field canbe overviewed. The Congress proceedings give faithful pictures ofrecent advances in photosynthesis research and outline trends andperspectives in all areas, r

Overview: Umfassende systematische Darstellung empirischer Untersuchungsergebnisse zu den aktuellen Hygiene- und Präventionsrisiken.Aufzeigen von Defiziten und irrationalen Barrieren des Hygieneverhaltens.Entwi.Der Erfolgsgeschichte der wissenschaftlichen Hygiene stehen aktuell zunehmende Defizite des Hygieneverhaltens, auch im klinischen Bereich, gegenüber. Vielfältige Risikofaktoren bedrohen Lebensqualität und Lebenserwartungen, u. a.:.....Zunahme der Infektionskrankheiten....Anstieg der Antibiotikaresistenzen....Defizite der Durchimpfungsrate....demographischer Wandel....Vernachlässigung de

Overview: Includes supplementary material: Declarative languages have traditionally been regarded by the mainstream c- puting community as too impractical to be put to practical use. At the same time, traditionalconferencesdevotedto declarativelanguagesdo not haveissues related to practice as their central focus. Thus, there are few forums devoted to discussion of practical aspects and implications of newly discovered results and techniques related to declarative languages. The goal of the First International Workshop on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL) is to bring together re

Overview: Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa focuses on a body of performance work, the work of Magnet Theatre in particular but also work by other artists in Cape Town and other parts of the continent or the world, that engages with the Cape as a real or imagined node in a complex system of migration and mobility. Located at the foot of the African continent, lodged between two oceans at the intersection of many of the earth‘s major shipping lanes, Cape Town is a stage for a powerful mixing of cultures and peoples and has been an important node in a network of flows, circuits of movem