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Overview: Mit diesem Buch unternehmen wir den Versuch, dem Studenten eine Einführung in die drei wichtigsten Aspekte der Persönlichkeitsforschung zu geben. Diese drei Aspekte sind: repräsentative Theorien, empirische Daten und Meß­ methoden. Zuerst stellen wir ausgewählte Theorien vor, welche die Gedankengänge vieler Psychologen beeinflußt haben. Wir beschreiben diese Theorien nicht nur, wir versuchen auch, dem Studenten Wege aufzuzeigen, mit denen diese Theorien bewertet und miteinander verglichen werden können, auch dann, wenn sie von ganz verschiede­ nen Standpunkten ausgehen. Mit anderen W

Overview: 978-3-540-17523-0978-3-642-71887-8

Overview: Only book on the market to attack the topic of ActiveRecord, a key component of the Ruby on Rails framework, in such depth.Shows how to adapt ActiveRecord to existing databases, which is key to the co.Pro Active Record. helps you take advantage of the full power of your database engine from within your Ruby programs and Rails applications. ActiveRecord, part of the magic that makes the Rails framework so powerful and easy to use, is the model element of the Rails Model-View-Controller framework. It‘s an object-relational mapping library enabling you to interact with databases from bo

Overview: Practical C++ Financial Programming is a hands-on book for programmers wanting to thrive in the financial industry.Practical C++ Financial Programming. is a hands-on book for programmers wanting to apply C++ to programming problems in the financial industry. The book explains those aspects of the language that are more frequently used in writing financial software, including the STL, templates, and various numerical libraries. The book also describes many of the important problems in financial engineering that are part of the day-to-day work of financial programmers in large investme

Overview: This work is Volume II of a two-volume monograph on the theory of deterministic parsing of context-free grammars. Volume I, "Languages and Parsing" (Chapters 1 to 5), was an introduction to the basic concepts of formal language theory and context-free parsing. Volume II (Chapters 6 to 10) contains a thorough treat­ ment of the theory of the two most important deterministic parsing methods: LR(k) and LL(k) parsing. Volume II is a continuation of Volume I; together these two volumes form an integrated work, with chapters, theorems, lemmas, etc. numbered consecutively. Volume II begins

Overview: Solid state NMR is rapidly emerging as a universally applicablemethod for the characterization of ordered structures that cannot bestudied with solution methods or diffraction techniques. Thisproceedings -; from a recent international workshop -captures an image of the latest developments and future directions forsolid state NMR in biological research, particularly on membraneproteins. Detailed information on how hormones or drugs bind to theirmembrane receptor targets is needed, e.g. for rational drug design.Higher fields are bringing clear improvements, and the power of solidstate

Overview: Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols.Provides step-by-step detail essentials for reproducible results.Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts.This volume provides the plant scientific community with a collection of established and recently developed experimental protocols to study plant gravitropism. The first few chapters in this book discuss topics such as methods to properly orient plant material for gravitropism studies; protocols for data collection and image analysis; and techniques to investigate ion, organelle, and auxin transporter dynamics, part

Overview: Tips in performing diagnostic and operative hysteroscopy.Advanced techniques of combined hysteroscopy with laparoscopy.Written by experts with extensive experience in the fieldThis book aims to provide readers with the latest information on application of hysteroscopy in diagnosis and treatment of gynaecological diseases. The first chapters systematically review current status, equipment and instruments, applied anatomy, preoperative treatment and anesthesia for hysteroscopic surgery. In the following chapters, details in aspect of hysteroscopy from diagnostic to hysteroscopic surger

Overview: Offers an understanding of offensive media content.Closes a research gap by presenting new research with 90 members of the public in the UK and Germany with whom the authors sat and watched a wide ranThis book offers a nuanced understanding of ‘offensive’ television content by drawing on an extensive research project, involving in-depth interviews and focus groups with audiences in Britain and Germany. .Provocative Screens .asks: what makes something really offensive and to whom in what context? Why it offence felt so differently? And how does offensive content matter in public life,

Overview: Praxisnah zeigt dieses Buch die aktuellen Techniken der wichtigen resektiven und wiederherstellenden Brustoperationen auf und führt so in das gesamte Gebiet der Mammachirurgie ein. Die logistischen Voraussetzungen für die Durchführung mammachirurgischer Eingriffe sowie eingriffsspezifische Vorbereitungsmaßnahmen werden erläutert. Die einzelnen Operationen sind Schritt für Schritt beschrieben und mit vielen zweifarbigen Abbildungen illustriert. Knappe Merksätze verweisen auf entscheidende Details. Elf extra beiliegende Schnittbilder ermöglichen ein individuelles Training, vor allem be

Overview: Excellent introduction to, and survey of, an important interdisciplinary field.Includes latest advances reported by leading researchers.Processes with long range correlations occur in a wide variety of fields ranging from physics and biology to economics and finance. This book, suitable for both graduate students and specialists, brings the reader up to date on this rapidly developing field. A distinguished group of experts have been brought together to provide a comprehensive and well-balanced account of basic notions and recent developments. The book is divided into two parts. The

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Overview: Explores the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics.Collects the work of distinguished philosophers and physicists.Reviewed papers from The International Congress of Ontology (IOC).This edited volume explores the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics. It features papers from venues of the International Ontology Congress (IOC) up to 2016. IOC is a worldwide platform for dialogue and reflection on the interactions between science and philosophy..The collection features philosophers as well as physicists, including David Albert, Harvey Brown, Jeffrey Bub, Otávio Bueno

Overview: Covers a broad perspective on life-histories in primates and other mammals.Contains chapters on new and exciting topics in primate feeding ecology including primate adaptations to changing environmentProfessor Linda M. Fedigan, Member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, has made major contributions to our understanding of the behavioural ecology of primates. Furthermore, Linda Fedigan pioneered and continues to advance scholarship on the role of women in science, as well as actively promoting the inclusion of women in the academy. A symposium in honour

Overview: This edited volume provides a fresh analysis for researcher and practitioners regarding United Nations Security Council resolution 1540, the status of its implementation, and its future by providing an original evaluation of progress in implementation and challenges faced during the resolution’s first decade. In doing so, the book will consider the resolution’s utility as a non-proliferation tool with a view to identifying what further actions are required for the objectives and goals embodied by UNSCR 1540 to be achieved and sustained.  The book progresses by exploring the history o

Overview: Ideal für die tägliche Pflegepraxis und Fortbildung.Ein Standardwerk, das in keiner Betreuungs- und Pflegeeinrichtung mit Diabetes-Patienten fehlen sollte.Nach den Leitlinien der Deutschen Diabetes Ge.In ambulanten und stationären Pflegeieinrichtungen ist mehr als jeder 4. Bewohner Diabetiker. Viele von ihnen sind insulinbehandelt. Die Tendenz ist steigend. Das Pflegepersonal übernimmt hier einen wichtigen Part in der Betreuung und Therapiebegleitung geriatrischer Patienten mit Diabetes. Die Schulung der Pflegekräfte während der Ausbildung ist unzureichend und viele Aspekte der moder

Overview: 978-3-662-33484-3978-3-662-33882-7

Overview: Maximizes reader understanding of methods for analyzing and designing acoustic sensors such as microphones;.Describes methods for analyzing and characterizing sound levels;.Introduces methods of analy.This textbook presents the fundamentals of engineering acoustics and examines in depth concepts within the domain that apply to reducing noise, measuring noise, and designing microphones and loudspeakers.  The book particularly emphasizes the physical principles used in designing miniature microphones.  These devices are used in .billions .of electronic products, most visibly, cell phon

Overview: Participants and invited speakers are of high renown.Addresses both physical understanding and modeling by different approaches.Includes supplementary material: This is the proceedings of the ERCOFTAC Workshop on Progress in Wall Turbulence: Understanding and Modelling, that was held in Lille, France from June 18 to 20, 2014. The workshop brought together world specialists of near wall turbulence and stimulated exchanges between them around up-to-date theories, experiments, simulations and numerical models. This book contains a coherent collection of recent results on near wall turbu

Overview: Provides an extensive overview and genealogy of the use of phenomenology in the study of performance.Circumscribes limits and proposes clear definitions of phenomenology, asking what makes phenomenolo.This collection of essays addresses emergent trends in the meeting of the disciplines of phenomenology and performance. It brings together major scholars in the field, dealing with phenomenological approaches to dance, theatre, performance, embodiment, audience, and everyday performance of self. It argues that despite the wide variety of philosophical, ontological, epistemological, hist