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

Overview: Includes more than 40 papers written by a former NASA Chief Historian.Analyzes topics in cosmology and astronomy from an interdisciplinary lens.Covers all ongoing, major themes in the new field of phi.In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume, former NASA Chief Historian Steven Dick reflects on the exploration of space, astrobiology and its implications, cosmic evolution, astronomical institutions, discovering and classifying the cosmos, and the philosophy of astronomy. The unifying theme of the book is the connection between cosmos and culture, or what Carl Sagan many years

Overview: This book explores the experiences of pregnant teenagers, their partners, and midwives, from pregnancy realisation through the early years of motherhood. It examines changing attitudes to female sexuality and moral discourses on adolescent subjectivity especially as these pertain to teenage motherhood.978-1-349-36784-9978-0-230-28964-2Series ISSN 2731-6467 Series E-ISSN 2731-6475

Overview: Wenn Lieferanten und Kunden zu Partnern werdenDas Supply Chain Management gilt in Theorie und Praxis als ein Bereich mit großen Potentialen zur Rationalisierung. Selten wird jedoch deutlich, wie die Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten konkret auszuschöpfen sind. Das vorliegende und neue Buch nimmt sich dieser Herausforderung an. Dazu findet zunächst eine Beschreibung des Supply Chain Managements in seinen Grundlagen statt. Anschließend werden unterschiedliche Strategien im Supply Chain Management charakterisiert. Darauf aufbauend sind Instrumente zu kennzeichnen, welche einer Umsetzung der zu

Overview: This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.Uniquely combines classical statistical modeling with modern machine learning methods.Discusses the state-of-the-art in prThis open access book discusses the statistical modeling of insurance problems, a process which comprises data collection, data analysis and statistical model building to forecast insured events that may happen in the future. It presents the mathematical foundations behind these fundamental statistical concepts and how they can be applied in daily actuarial practice.. .Statistical modeli

Overview: .The study explores the underlying motives and processes why and how corporate sponsors and professional football clubs in Germany enter into an additional share deal given the contradictory nature of corporations (monetary driven) and football clubs (maximising sporting success while operating in economic equilibrium). This work aims to generate theory within the specific field of professional football and to provide recommendations for action..978-3-658-31300-5978-3-658-31301-2Series ISSN 2662-9224 Series E-ISSN 2662-9232

Overview: Aktuelle wissenschaftliche Beiträge.Brückenschlag zwischen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen.Erster Band der Reihe "Sozioökonomische Bildung und Wissenschaft"Der vorliegende Band stellt den ersten in der Reihe .Sozioökonomische Bildung und Wissenschaft. dar und greift die Debatte um die theoretische, method(olog)ische, paradigmatische und curriculare Einseitigkeit der Volkswirtschaftslehre sowie der traditionellen ökonomischen Bildung auf, um Entwicklungslinien und Perspektiven sozioökonomischer Bildung und Wissenschaft zu konturieren. Die auf Pluralität, Interdisziplinarität, Multipara

Overview: Provides a detailed account of the systems biology of tuberculosis.This book describes how systems biology can be applied to the control of tuberculosis, including the development of new treatments.Re.The book starts with a general introduction into the relevance of systems biology for understanding tuberculosis. This will be followed by several chapters which describe the application of systems biology to various aspects of the study of the pathogen, .Mycobacterium tuberculosis., and its interaction with the host. The book provides the reader with an account of how the new science o

Overview: Second edition of the text originally published in 1996.New material has been added and the original six chapters have been modified.This greatly expanded third edition of Survival Analysis- A Self-learning Text provides a highly readable description of state-of-the-art methods of analysis of survival/event-history data. This text is suitable for researchers and statisticians working in the medical and other life sciences as well as statisticians in academia who teach introductory and second-level courses on survival analysis. .The third edition continues to use the unique "lecture-b

Overview: 978-3-8255-0152-5978-3-86226-477-3Series ISSN 0947-4056

Overview: This is not just a theoretical treatise for discussing issues of transformation in HE; the book is deeply embedded in well conducted research..The theme of sustainability as a central dimension of traThe book is a must read for policy makers, academics, university administrators and post graduate research students in the broad field of education and in higher education studies in particular. The book brings together a wealth of information regarding the imperatives of transformation in Africa’s higher education systems. Not only do some of the chapters provide critical discussion abo

Overview: Provides detailed information on the principles of sport specific rehabilitation.Features information on the appropriate application of the latest diagnostic and therapeutic techniques.Contains guidan.This book provides a concise guide to the diagnosis, investigations,  surgical principles and post-operative rehabilitation to sports injuries of the elbow. It features guidance on best practice and information on the appropriate use of the latest diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. Injuries seen in athletes who participate in overhead and contact sports are discussed along with a ra

Overview: Highlights the latest advances and outlines future trends in aqueous solvation dynamics.Reinforces the principles of charge injection for modulating the hydrogen-bond network and solution properties.PThis book highlights the latest advances and outlines future trends in aqueous solvation studies from the perspective of hydrogen bond transition by charge injection, which reconciles the solvation dynamics, molecular nonbond interactions, and the extraordinary functionalities of various solutes on the solution bond network and properties. Focus  is given on ionic and dipolar electrostat

Overview: Focuses on the important role of apyrene sperm in sperm competition.Serves as the first book dedicated to sperm competition in butterflies, covering topics such as sperm dimorphism, migration, and manThis book describes about 30 years of theoretical, empirical, and experimental work on butterfly sperm competition. It considers the reproductive morphology and sperm utilisation interests of males and females, which shape the mating tactics of each sex. Females of most butterfly species mate multiple times throughout their lives. The reasons are explored, as well as the numerous adaptat

Overview: 978-3-211-81219-8978-3-7091-2854-1Series ISSN 0254-1971 Series E-ISSN 2309-3706

Overview: A clear and concise presentation of essential topics in small-molecule spectroscopy.Author‘s long teaching experience and skilful use of analogy greatly aid understanding.Lectures given as part of theThese seven lectures are intended to serve as an introduction for beginning graduate students to the spectra of small molecules. The author succeeds in illustrating the concepts by using language and metaphors that capture and elegantly convey simple insights into dynamics that lie beyond archival molecular constants. The lectures can simultaneously be viewed as a collection of interlock

Overview: Diese Arbeit ist die leicht überarbeitete Fassung meiner Heidelberger Habilita­ tionsschrift. In ihr geht es um die Regeln, die die Beziehungen zwischen staatli­ chen Stellen, Arbeitgebern und Gewerkschaften normieren und um die Be­ dingungen, unter denen eine Veränderung dieser Regeln stattfindet. Das empiri­ sche Material der Untersuchung stammt aus 21 Ländern und einem Zeitraum, der mit der erstmaligen Regelung kollektiver industrieller Arbeitsbeziehungen beginnt und 1990 endet. Die Studie hat ein doppeltes Ziel. In analytischer Hinsicht sollen für den Be­ reich der Arbeitsbeziehu

Overview: 978-3-540-06858-7978-3-540-37816-7Series ISSN 0075-8434 Series E-ISSN 1617-9692

Overview: Zur Sozialpolitik im allgemeinen Im 19. Jahrhundert entwickelte sich die Sozialpolitik als eigenständige Dis­ ziplin. Sie war eine Antwort auf die Arbeiterfrage. Sie zielte auf die Korrek­ tur und Sicherung des Arbeitslebens. Es war die Zeit, da die merkantilen Formen des wirtschaftlichen Lebens den Erfordernissen einer freiheitlich-individualistischen Lebensweise weichen mußten. Von England gingen die Impulse aus und überstrahlten die ganze westliche Welt. Die mittelalterliche Ordnung mit ihrer handwerklichen Pro­ duktion, mit ihrem Zunftwesen, staatlicher Reglementierung und Privil

Overview: Presents a comprehensive overview of the security and privacy challenges, opportunities, and future directions for computational health informatics in the big data age.Discusses the incorporation of r.This book focuses on signal processing techniques used in computational health informatics. As computational health informatics is the interdisciplinary study of the design, development, adoption and application of information and technology-based innovations, specifically, computational techniques that are relevant in health care, the book covers a comprehensive and representative rang

Overview: This volume combines articles on shallow lakes from leadingEuropean scientists in limnology. It covers aspects of the dynamics ofmacrophytes, phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthos, nutrient loading,littoral-pelagic interactions, and sediment-waterinteractions, as well as lake management. The object was not toseparate theory (e.g. modelling) and management in order to generatenew theories for the understanding of shallow lake ecosystems. .The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the ecology of shallowlakes, a lake type which differs in prominent ways from deeper lakes.The broa