BOOKS with Alphabet Q (Qa, Qb,Qc, Qd, Qe…)

Overview: An overview of the research front in psychometrics with meaningful applications.Covers a broad array of topics within the psychometrics and statistics area.Chapters are written by leading experts in t.The volume represents presentations given at the 87th annual meeting of the Psychometric Society, held in Bologna, Italy at July 11–15, 2022.  The proceedings cover a diverse set of psychometric topics, including item response theory, Bayesian models, reliability, latent variable models, causal inference, and cognitive diagnostic models..978-3-031-27783-2978-3-031-27781-8Series ISSN 219

Overview: One of the first dedicated resources on how to establish a quality management program for HSCT and cellular therapy.Features over 100 illustrations, photographs, and tables.Written by experts in the fThis open access book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview on how to build a quality management program for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and cellular therapy. The text reviews all the essential steps and elements necessary for establishing a quality management program and achieving accreditation in HSCT and cellular therapy. Specific areas of focus include docu

Overview: praxisorientiert, wissenschaftlich fundiert und denkschulenübergreifend.erlaubt es jedem Leser/jeder Leserin, einen persönlichen, individuellen Zugang zum Thema zu finden.mit zahlreichen Übungsanleitu.Dieses Buch bietet einen kompakten, praxisorientierten und wissenschaftlich fundierten Einblick in die Förderung von subjektivem Wohlbefinden im beruflichen Alltag. Es zeigt dabei basierend auf Erkenntnissen der interdisziplinären Glücksforschung und der Neurowissenschaften auf, wie der Arbeitsalltag nicht nur gesünder, sondern auch produktiver und erfolgreicher gestaltet werden kann...

Overview: Offers an ambitious theoretical assessment of Tarantino’s cinema in relation to key issues in contemporary film theory.Engages with questions about the ongoing relevance of postmodern theory to unders.This book examines a set of theoretical perspectives that critically engage with the notion of postmodernism, investigating whether this concept is still useful to approach contemporary cinema. This question is explored through a discussion of the films written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, largely regarded as the epitome of postmodern cinema and considered here as theoretical cont

Overview: This open access book examines asylum from a socio-legal and human rights perspective.Discusses asylum claims relating to sexual orientation or gender identity.Provides policy recommendations in the n.This two-volume open-access book offers a theoretically and empirically-grounded portrayal of the experiences of people claiming international protection in Europe on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity (SOGI). It shows how European asylum systems might and should treat asylum claims based on people’s SOGI in a fairer, more humane way. Through a combined comparative

Overview: Offenbart überraschend einfache Lösungen für vermeintliche Paradoxa der Quantentheorie.Beleuchtet tiefgründige Fragen über die Natur der Realität.Eignet sich für alles Leser mit Interesse an Physik unMit diesem Buch entwirrt Jean Bricmont die vermeintlichen Rätsel und Mysterien der Quantenmechanik und erklärt Laien die Grundprinzipien der Quantentheorie. Dabei unterstreicht er auf unterhaltsame Art deren paradoxe Natur und entwirrt die unglaubliche Menge an Fehlvorstellungen, Pseudowissenschaft und falscher Philosophie, die viele populäre Diskussionen zur Quantenmechanik begleiten..M

Overview: Provides a comprehensive overview on QA systems over text (TextQA), over knowledge base (KBQA), and hybrid ones.Explains state-of-the-art models used in real applications of QA systems and discusses f.This book provides a coherent and complete overview of various Question Answering (QA) systems. It covers three main categories based on the source of the data that can be unstructured text (TextQA), structured knowledge graphs (KBQA), and the combination of both. Developing a QA system usually requires using a combination of various important techniques, including natural language proc

Overview: Describes the fundamentals of QC-LDPC code-based cryptography.Includes a tutorial description of the first QC-LDPC code-based cryptosystems.Provides the basics required for a better understanding of t.This book describes the fundamentals of cryptographic primitives based on quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) codes, with a special focus on the use of these codes in public-key cryptosystems derived from the McEliece and Niederreiter schemes. In the first part of the book, the main characteristics of QC-LDPC codes are reviewed, and several techniques for their design are pr

Overview: Offers a historical perspective on Quaker businesses for contemporary responsible business debates.Provides a unique account of how spiritual concerns influence leadership and management.Includes case.This book explores how the distinctive "Quaker" approach to responsible business is based on honesty, truth and integrity. It analyzes how networks, family and succession are at its heart, and how much this approach offers to current debates on corporate social responsibility, as well as to managers and practitioners in an increasingly complex business world. The contributions in this v

Overview: Praxisorientierte Vorgehensweisen für Führungskräfte.Zeigt die Wechselbeziehung zwischen personalem Vertrauen, Systemvertrauen und Vertrauensklima.Konkrete Fallbeispiele der aktiven Vertrauensbildung Vertrauen ist der unsichtbare Vertrag der Innovations- und Kooperationsfähigkeit in einem Unternehmen regelt. Die hohe Veränderungsdynamik außer- und innerhalb der Unternehmen verursacht jedoch zunehmenden Vertrauensschwund.Die Autoren demonstrieren anhandvon 9 Fallbeispielen aus großen und mittelständischen Unternehmen wie Vertrauensmangel zu unproduktivem Absicherungsverhalten und Bede

Overview: The theory of Quantum Groups is a rapidly developing areawith numerous applications in mathematics and theoreticalphysics, e.g. in link and knotinvariants in topology,q-special functions, conformal field theory,quantumintegrable models. The aim of the Euler Institute‘sworkshops was to review and compile the progress achieved inthe different subfields. Near 100 participants came from 14countries. More than 20 contributionswritten up for thisbook contain new, unpublished material and half oftheminclude a survey of recent results in the field(deformationtheory, graded differential algeb

Overview: Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Tokyo, Japan.Demonstrates the emergence of qualitatively new quantum many-body phenomena in nonunitary open and out-of-equilibrium systems.This book studies the fundamental aspects of many-body physics in quantum systems open to an external world. Recent remarkable developments in the observation and manipulation of quantum matter at the single-quantum level point to a new research area of open many-body systems, where interactions with an external observer and the environment play a major role...The first part of the book

Overview: Dienstleistungen im Investitionsgüterbereich sind im Gegensatz zu rein konsumtiven Dienstleistungen selten Gegenstand von Forschungsarbeiten. Die bisher erschienenen Publikationen beziehen sich vor allem auf die Programmpolitik sowie die Ermittlung der strategischen Bedeutung. Vernachlässigt wurde bisher das weite Themenfeld der Qualität für diesen Dienstleistungstyp. ..Stephan A. Dauben entwickelt im Rahmen der koordinationsorientierten Controllingkonzeption verschiedene Instrumente zur Steuerung der Qualität unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Qualitätsfehlers für den Technischen

Overview: Das Buch ermöglicht eine umfassende Übersicht über qualitätssichernde Maßnahmen in der Psychiatrie und deren Rahmenbedingungen. Nach einer Einführung über die Geschichte und zentrale Begriffe werden methodische Vorgehensweisen und deren Umsetzungen im ambulanten und stationären Bereich dargestellt. Interessant ist insbesondere, daß nicht nur verschiedene Modellprojekte skizziert werden, sondern auch Angehörige, der Berufsverband Deutscher Nervenärzte und Kassenvertreter Konzepte zur Verbesserung von Qualitätssicherung im psychiatrischen Bereich vorstellen.978-3-540-61294-0978-3-642-6

Overview: As professionals, we can no longer rely upon our own judgement to monitor the standard of patient care. The government and the purchaser demand objective structured measurement of the quality of the care offered to our patients. At the same time, an ever-increasing workload brings its own pressures.The second edition of this successful book addresses these issues. It outlines the theoretical background of quality assurance and provides practical guidelines on the implementation of a variety of monitoring tools. The approach has been designed to give the reader an easy grasp of the ma

Overview: Provides the first fully theorised queer and comparative reading of Yeats’s and D’Annunzio’s drama.Draws on a combination of comparative, queer, postcolonial and dramaturgical approaches.Examines the .Queering W. B. Yeats and Gabriele D’Annunzio: Modernist Playwrights. challenges the general resistance in scholarship and queer studies to approach Yeats and D’Annunzio through a queer lens because of their controversial affiliations with fascism and elitism, their heterosexuality and their venerated canonical status. This book provides the first fully theorised queer and comparative re

Overview: Increasing customer needs, the globalization of markets and the evolution of e-commerce add to the complexity of logistic processes. In today‘s business, it is well understood that an effective management of logistic processes is impossible without the use of computer-based tools and quantitative methods. This book presents in a systematic way quantitative approaches to distribution logistics and supply chain management. The main orientation of the book is towards practical problem solving, and numerous case studies and practical applications are presented. The topics covered include

Overview: Provides a comprehensive guide to qualitative comparative analysis using R.Covers the most recent version of the QCA package, including all relevant applications.Presents the information in a very str.This book is a comprehensive guide to qualitative comparative analysis (QCA)  using R. Using Boolean algebra to implement principles of comparison used by scholars engaged in the qualitative study of macro social phenomena, QCA acts as a bridge between the quantitative and the qualitative traditions. The QCA package for R, created by the author, facilitates QCA within a graphical user i

Overview: Includes supplementary material: . This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Quality of Service in Multiservice IP Networks, QoS-IP 2003, held in Milano, Italy in February 2003. ..The 53 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analytical models, QoS routing, measurements and experimental results, QoS below IP, end-to-end QoS in IP networks, QoS multicast, optical networks, reconfigurable protocols and networks, pro

Overview: The first comprehensive book on statistical analysis of functional diversity.Includes real-world data examples, analyzed step by step with interpreted results.Offers extensive instruction on the use oThis book synthesizes current methods used to quantify functional diversity, providing step-by-step examples for defining functional groups and estimating functional indices. The authors show how to compare communities, and how to analyze changes of diversity along environmental gradients, using real-life examples throughout. One section of the book demonstrates the selection of traits,