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

Overview: Suggests that citizenship and innovation are the most important elements for the cities to lead the civilisation of sustainability.Advocates for the creation of a strategic global UrbanPedia and sheds​ ​This book can be seen as the third part of an unofficial trilogy on Sustainable Cities of the Future with the author‘s previous books ‘Sustainable Development, Energy and the City‘ and ‘Sustainable Cities for the third millennium: The Odyssey of urban excellence‘, both prefaced by Prof. Sir Peter Hall. All three books follow the evolving forefront of innovations towards Sustainable Ci

Overview: A quadratic differential on aRiemann surface is locally represented by a ho­ lomorphic function element wh ich transforms like the square of a derivative under a conformal change of the parameter. More generally, one also allows for meromorphic function elements; however, in many considerations it is con­ venient to puncture the surface at the poles of the differential. One is then back at the holomorphic case. A quadratic differential defines, in a natural way, a field of line elements on the surface, with singularities at the critical points, i.e. the zeros and poles of the differe

Overview: Industrial development is essential to improvement of the standard of living in all coun­ tries. In a given region, old and new plants, processes, and technologies have to coexist Technological penetration and substitution processes are generally taking place; they are entirely dynamic and this trend is going to stay like this. People‘s health and the environment can be affected, directly or indirectly, by rou­ tine waste discharges or by accidents. A series of recent major industrial accidents and the effect of poUution highlighted, once again, the need for better management of rou­

Overview: Includes supplementary material: The process of realizing the ground state of some typical (frustrated) quantum many-body systems, starting from the ‘disordered’ or excited states, can be formally mapped to the search of solutions for computationally hard problems. The dynamics through the critical point, in between, are therefore extremely crucial. In the context of such computational optimization problems, the dynamics (of rapid quenching or slow annealing), while tuning the appropriate elds or uctuations, in particular while crossing the quantum critical point, are extremely intri

Overview: Presents a unique, fast introduction to quantum physics using projection operators rather than wave functions from the start.Introduces statistical physics and the fundamental theorems of thermodynami.This textbook presents a concise yet detailed introduction to quantum physics. Concise, because it condenses the essentials to a few principles. Detailed, because these few principles –  necessarily rather abstract – are illustrated by several telling examples. A fairly complete overview of the conventional quantum mechanics curriculum is the primary focus, but the huge field of statist

Overview: .Quality-Oriented Design of Business Processes. introduces a modeling method, `Integrated Enterprise Modelling‘ (IEM), which is related to ISO standards and provides manufacturing organizations with the means of analyzing, improving, and redesigning their business processes. The purpose of the book is to improve the quality of products and organizational performance through optimizing complex business processes and organizational design. .Clearly, changing markets and innovative competitors force each company to study and improve its organization, its business processes, and the tech

Overview: Based on the interactive program Interquanta, .Quantum . .Mechanics on the Macintosh., uses extensive 3-D graph- ics to guide the student through computer experiments in the quantum mechanics of free particle motion, bound states and scattering, tunneling, two-particle interactions, and more. It also includes a section on special functions of mathematical physics. With more than 200 problems, the text and programs provide students with practical experiences in using such hard-to-visualize concepts as complex amplitudes, eigenvalues, and scattering cross sections. The diskettes includ

Overview: Some 350 years ago, in his Discorsi e Dimostrationi Matematici [Galilei], Galileo Galilei discussed whether or not light propagated with a finite though very high velocity, or with infinite speed, instantaneously. The ques­ tion was an open one then, with prominent proponents for either position. For example, Rene Descartes argued on philosophical grounds that light dispersed itself into all of space instantaneously, whereas Galileo was more inclined toward the idea of a finite velocity. In fact, he even reported about an early experiment, which, however, would have to be refined and

Overview: Author has years of practical experience in designing and implementing financial models in practice.This book provides proven, market-focused solutions to all the main modeling problems for quants.OneThe series of recent financial crises have thrown open the world of quantitative finance and financial modeling. This book brings together proven and new methodologies from finance, physics and engineering, along with years of industry and academic experience to provide a cookbook of models for dealing with the challenges of today‘s markets.978-1-349-49028-8978-1-137-41450-2Series ISSN 2

Overview: This book contains selected articles presented at the International Symposium QSAC‘2023 held on 24-25 September 2023.These articles deal with quantum computing and especially with quantum artificial i.This book is intended for academics, researchers, Ph.D. students, and industrials to learn about quantum computing and prepare them to understand the future with its cutting-edge tools. Quantum computing holds great promise in terms of human life quality especially when combined with artificial intelligence. ..In addition to quantum computing, the book focuses on quantum artificial inte

Overview: Ever since Rachel Carson‘s Silent Spring, we have generally become aware of environmental contaminants and their effects on the ecosystem. The findin~ of PCB‘s in fish by Soren Jensen in Sweden, the recognition of mirex as contaminant in fish from Lake Ontario, and the discoveries of contaminant laden leachates from dumpsites such as the Love Canal have become milestones in the search for and charac­ terization of contaminants in our environment. At this time, the problem no longer is so much the identifi­ cation of contaminants and their sources. Rather, we are now faced with solvin

Overview: First book which gives a systematic overview of assessment, evaluation, and prediction methods for the quality of these services.Provides a tool for classifying assessment and evaluation methods, for .Quality of Telephone-Based Spoken Dialogue Systems. is a systematic overview of assessment, evaluation, and prediction methods for the quality of services such as travel and touristic information, phone-directory and messaging, or telephone-banking services. A new taxonomy of quality-of-service is presented which serves as a tool for classifying assessment and evaluation methods, for pl

Overview: DEA models are presented in spreadsheets.New DEA software (DEAFrontier) which is an Add-In for Microsoft Excel and solves more than 150 different DEA models.New DEA models and approachesManagers are often under great pressure to improve the performance of their organizations. To improve performance, one needs to constantly evaluate operations or processes related to producing products, providing services, and marketing and selling products. Performance evaluation and benchmarking are a widely used method to identify and adopt best practices as a means to improve performance and incre

Overview: Erläutert Kryptowährungen und Monetarisierungen aus der Perspektive der Games-Branche.Zeigt die aktuellen Entwicklungen im Hinblick auf Game Hacking, Virtual Goods und Kryptowährungen in Computerspiel.Künstliche Intelligenz, Digitalisierung und Algorithmen .Diese Themen verändern unsere Gesellschaft. Game Hacking, die Blockchain und Monetarisierung durch KI Systeme sind integraler Bestandteil der Computerspiele Branche, die mit ihrem Ökosystem seit Jahrzehnten Wachstum generiert und von hoher gesellschaftlicher und wirtschaftlicher Bedeutung ist..Dieser .Quick Guide. zeigt auf, wie G

Overview: This book weighs up the consequences of introducing Quality Enhancement and Risk Management as new dimensions in Higher Education quality control on a global scale. The authors include Chief Executive Officers of Quality Agencies, policy analysts and leading scholars in Quality Evaluation and Comparative Higher Education policy analysis.978-1-349-47702-9978-1-137-37463-9Series ISSN 2946-319X Series E-ISSN 2946-3203

Overview: Provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in Mixed-Criticality research, related to Quality-of-Service improvement.Describes a novel theoretical approach to obtaining Worst-Case Execution Times (WC.This book addresses the challenges associated with efficient Mixed-Criticality (MC) system design. We focus on application analysis through execution time analysis and task scheduling analysis in order to execute more low-criticality tasks in the system, i.e., improving the Quality-of-Service (QoS), while guaranteeing the correct execution of high-criticality tasks. Further, this book a

Overview: In recent years, the classical theory of stochastic integration and stochastic differential equations has been extended to a non-commutative set-up to develop models for quantum noises. The author, a specialist of classical stochastic calculus and martingale theory, tries to provide an introduction to this rapidly expanding field in a way which should be accessible to probabilists familiar with the Ito integral. It can also, on the other hand, provide a means of access to the methods of stochastic calculus for physicists familiar with Fock space analysis. For this second edition, the

Overview: This book was written as a text, although many may consider it a mono­ graph. As a text it has been used several times in both the one-year graduate quantum-mechanics course and (in its shortened version) in a senior quantum mechanics course that I taught at the University of Texas at Austin. It is self-contained and does not require any prior knowledge of quantum mechanics. It also introduces the mathematical language of quantum mechanics, starting with the definitions, and attempts to teach this language by using it. Therefore, it can, in principle, be read without prior knowledge

Overview: Clearly demonstrates that the greatest minds throughout history arrived at their famous scientific theories in very unorganized ways. They often did not fully grasp the significance and implications o.These historical narratives of scientific behavior reveal the often irrational way scientists arrive at and assess their theories. There are stories of Einstein’s stubbornness leading him to reject a correct interpretation of an experiment and miss an important deduction from his own theory, and Newton missing the important deduction from one of his most celebrated discoveries. Copernic

Overview: A broad overview of quantitative approaches in marketingQuantitative marketing has been gaining importance during the last decade. This is indicated by the growing number of model- and method-oriented studies published in leading journals as well as by the many successful applications of quantitative approaches in pricing, advertising, new product planning, and market segmentation decisions. In addition, market research has clearly benefitted from applying advanced quantitative models and methods in practice. Some 60 researchers – among them worldwide leading scholars – offer a broad