BOOKS with Alphabet S (Sa, Sb,Sc, Sd, Se…... )

Overview: The Geneva Association and Risk Economics The Geneva Association The Geneva Association (International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics) commenced its activities in June 1973, on the initiative of twenty-two members in eight European countries. It now has fifty-four members in sixteen countries in Europe and in the United States. The members of the association are insurance companies which provide financial support for its activities. The aims and strategy of the Geneva Association were clearly defined in 1971 by the founding committee. They were set forth in the firs

Overview: Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols.Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results.Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts.This volume covers current and emerging techniques for studying single-domain antibodies (sdAbs). Chapters guide readers through the biology and immunology of sdAbs in camelids and sharks, isolation of sdAbs, protein engineering approaches to optimize the solubility, stability, valency and antigen binding affinity of sdAbs, and specialized applications of sdAbs. Written in the format of the highly successful .Methods

Overview: Publication in the field of economic sciences.Includes supplementary material: Benjamin Krischan Schulte develops a process-model of consumer lock-in in service relationships by connecting three areas of research: path dependence, consumer behavior and service relationship marketing. He defines consumer lock-in as a situation of a potentially unaware inability to switch from or exit a consumption process due to entrenchment with increasing barriers on the individual and/or social level. Switching barriers are elaborated as consumer lock-in mechanisms. The resulting process model is o

Overview: .Scientific Computing in Chemical Engineering. gives the state of the art from the point of view of the numerical mathematicians as well as from the engineers. The application of modern methods in numerical mathematics on problems in chemical engineering, especially reactor modeling, process simulation, process optimization and the use of parallel computing is detailed.978-3-642-80151-8978-3-642-80149-5

Overview: Making use of information drawn from a variety of sources this book addresses the problems created by all the principal forms of surface water pollution. The chemical, physical and biochemical parameters of water quality, without an appreciation of which no true understanding of river pollution control is possible, are discussed in some detail as are the roles of the variety of micro and other organisms present in natural waters. Self-purification of surface waters is considered in some detail. An up-to-date review of the legislation relating to surface water pollution control both i

Overview: Provides tutorial accounts of topical areas.Supercritical fluids are neither gas nor liquid, but can be compressed gradually from low to high density and they are therefore interesting and important as tunable solvents and reaction media in the chemical process industry. By adjusting the density the properties of these fluids can be customised and manipulated for a given process - physical or chemical transformation. Separation and processing using supercritical solvents such as CO.2. are currently on-line commercially in the food, essential oils and polymer industries. Many agencies

Overview: Provides a comprehensive review of neurogenic pelvic dysfunctions following a suprapontine lesion.Provides practical simple and complicated clinical scenarios.Is clear and concise.This book provides a detailed review of neurogenic pelvic dysfunctions following a suprapontine lesion, since a clear understanding of the pathogenesis of vesical and bowel dysfunctions has become increasingly important in medical education..It covers both urinary incontinence and retention, constipation and faecal incontinence resulting from ischemic, haemorrhagic and traumatic brain injury and Parkinson’s

Overview: Provides an authoritative overview of the current status and future trends of nanoelectronics and semiconductors.Presents broad-ranging tutorials on both theoretical and experimental aspects of key toThis book presents research dedicated to solving scientific and technological problems in many areas of electronics, photonics and renewable energy. Energy and information are interconnected and are essential elements for the development of human society. Transmission, processing and storage of information requires energy consumption, while the efficient use and access to new energy sour

Overview: This text on the statistical theory of nonequilibrium phenomena grew out of lecture notes for courses on advanced statistical mechanics that were held more or less regularly at the Physics Department of the Technical University in Munich. My aim in these lectures was to incorporate various developments of many-body theory made during the last 20-30 years, in particular the correlation function approach, not just as an "extra" alongside the more "classical" results; I tried to use this approach as a unifying concept for the presentation of older as well as more recent results. I think

Overview: The leading reference text in the field for many years and continuously updated and expanded..Features new sections and chapters on quantitative finance, adiabatic elimination and simulation methods...This fourth edition of Stochastic Methods is thoroughly revised and augmented, and has been completely reset. While keeping to the spirit of the book I wrote originally, I have reorganised the chapters of Fokker-Planck equations and those on approximation methods, and introduced new material on the white noise limit of driven stochastic systems, and on applications and validity of simul

Overview: Konturierung des Konzepts sozialer Innovationen.Beiträge zur Vielseitigkeit und Vielschichtigkeit sozialer Innovationen.Zeigt, was soziale Innovationen im Kern ausmachtDer vorliegende Sammelband leistet einen Beitrag zur Konturierung des Konzepts sozialer Innovationen. Das große Interesse, das sozialen Innovationen schon seit einigen Jahren entgegengebracht wird, hat bislang nicht zu einem einheitlichen Begriffsverständnis geführt. Die Beiträge reflektieren die Vielseitigkeit und Vielschichtigkeit sozialer Innovationen und zeigen deren Facettenreichtum und Relevanz für verschiedene H

Overview: Gathers papers from research conducted at LISA 2020, a global network of statistical laboratories.Showcases the practical outcomes of using statistics and data science to address real-world problems.H.This volume gathers papers presented at the LISA 2020 Sustainability Symposium in Kumasi, Ghana, May 2–6, 2022. They focus on sustainable methods and practices of using statistics and data science to address real-world problems. From utilizing social media for statistical collaboration to predicting obesity among rural women, and from analyzing inflation in Nigeria using machine learnin

Overview: Covers the aspects of social behaviour of animals in comprehensive form.Provides a clear overview to up-to-date empirical and theoretical research on social animal behaviour.Discusses collective animaThe last decade has seen a surge of interest among biologists in a range of social animal phenomena, including collective behaviour and social networks. In ‘Animal Social Behaviour’, authors Ashley Ward and Michael Webster integrate the most up-to-date empirical and theoretical research to provide a new synthesis of the field, which is aimed at fellow researchers and postgraduate student

Overview: Aktuelle sozialwissenschaftliche Beiträge.Includes supplementary material: Der sprachliche Umgang mit Migration ist nicht selten Gegenstand von Auseinandersetzungen: Was wird gesagt? Was wird nicht gesagt? Wie wird es gesagt? Was darf und was darf nicht gesagt werden? Anliegen der Autorinnen und Autoren ist es aufzudecken, auf welche Weise „Sprache“ und „Sprechen“ im Kontext von Migration – als Gegenstand und als Medium – wirken. Aus der Perspektive der interkulturellen Bildungsforschung und der sozialwissenschaftlichen Migrationsforschung wird analysiert, wie sich sprachliche Hegemo

Overview: In this book the authors seek synergy between science education and communication.Science education and communication, akin domains, akin challenges, mutual learning.This book shows how multidisciplinScience & technology education on the one hand, and communication on the other, are, to a large extent, still separate worlds and many opportunities for synergy and cross-fertilisation are yet unused. This divide is unfortunate, since educators need communication skills and communicators often use aspects of education in their strategies. Moreover, innovation processes in both domains as

Overview: Covers the sustainable use and management of sewage sludge.Examines the main chemical properties of sewage sludge.Discusses sewage sludge use in agriculture.This book is devoted to sewage sludge, its sustainable management, and its use and implications on soil fertility and crop production. The book traces the main chemical and biological properties of sewage sludge, and covers topics such as sewage sludge biostabilization and detoxification, biological and thermochemical treatment technologies, emerging nutrient recovery technologies, the role of microorganisms in sewage sludge mana

Overview: 978-3-531-12022-5978-3-322-83617-5Series ISSN 0454-1340

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications, CARDIS 2008, held in London, UK, in September 2008. The 21 revised full papers presented, together with the abstract of one invited talk, were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers deal with the various issues related to the use of small electronic tokens in the process of human-machine interactions. The conference scopes include numerous subfields such as networking, efficient implementations, physical security, biometrics, et

Overview: 978-3-663-04127-6978-3-663-05573-0

Overview: .Im Fokus dieser Arbeit steht der Zusammenhang zwischen der Ausprägung der Self-Compassion (SC), der Zufriedenheit mit der eigenen körperlichen Gesundheit und dem subjektiven Wohlbefinden bei chronischen Erkrankungen. SC wird als Sensibilität für das eigene erlebte Leiden mit dem angeborenen Strebenaufgefasst, es zu lindern. Das subjektive Wohlbefinden hängt von der Ausprägung des SC ab und begünstigt die Bewältigung von Stress – als Anpassungsnotwendigkeit für die Regulation von Emotionen. In diesem Zusammenhang kann SC als Resilienzfaktor gesehen werden. Psychotherapeutisch relevan