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Overview: The first edition was popular in all of its editions - English, German, French and Japanese - for its comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the Sun and its interaction with the earth.Written in a .This Second Edition of Sun, Earth and Sky updates the popular text by providing comprehensive accounts of the most recent discoveries made by five modern solar spacecraft during the past decade. Their instruments have used sound waves to peer deep into the Sun’s inner regions and measure the temperature of its central nuclear reactor, and extended our gaze far from the visible Sun to re

Overview: Provides an in-dept knowledge about Portugal and Iceland foreign policy’s decisions.The first to compare both case-studies.Explains the reasons that lead small states to seek for shelter from internat.Foreign policy is one of the most complex policies of every state, and Portugal and Iceland are no exception. The “Small States and Big Powers: Portugal and Iceland’s Foreign Relations” book analyses the importance of relations with big powers or regional and international organisations from a shelter theory perspective, detailing the degree of political, economic and societal shelter t

Overview: Presents natural fiber polymer composites.Proposes jute waste as a cheap source to extract cellulose.Explores novel environmentally friendly methods for surface modification of natural fibers.IncludesThis book shows how jute waste is collected from industry and used as a cheaper source to extract and use cellulose. Novel environment-friendly methods are explored for surface modification of natural fibers. The advantages of using biocomposites are listed and the author shows how they can be used effectively as secondary structural parts..978-3-319-65456-0978-3-319-65457-7Series ISSN 2

Overview: Fills a glaring gap in the philosophy of science literature.Includes articles on a variety of facets of scientific structuralism, including structural realism, structural empiricism, structural approaRecently there has been a revival of interest in structuralist approaches to science.Taking their lead from scientific structuralists such as Henri Poincaré, Ernst Cassirer, and Bertrand Russell, some contemporary philosophers and scientists have argued that the most fruitful approach to solving many problems in the philosophy of science lies in focusing on the structural features of our

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Overview: Authored by leading researchers in the field.Self-contained introduction to the subject matter.Treats both theory and applications.Includes supplementary material: .Synergetics is the quantitative study of multicomponent systems that exhibit nonlinear dynamics and cooperativity. This book specifically considers basic models of the nonlinear dynamics of molecular systems and discusses relevant applications in biological physics and the polymer sciences..Emphasis is placed on specific solutions to the dynamical equations that correspond to the coherent formation of spatial-temporal str

Overview: Provides basic knowledge ("basics") for the professionalization of sports sponsoring.Outlines the special features, strategies and use of marketing instruments in sports sponsorship.Numerous examples .This book provides basic knowledge and understanding for successful sports sponsorship. The structure of the book is based on the individual phases of analysis, planning, implementation and monitoring of sponsorship concepts. The planning process with its individual phases is presented as an introduction to the classification of sponsorship as an element of sports marketing and the vari

Overview: Provides comprehensive overview of economic growth in African countries.Focuses on specific determinants of economic development in Ethiopia and Rwanda.Serves as a resource for academicians and practiThis book is a collection of studies on economic development and growth in selected African countries. It consists of an introduction/summary and 15 inter-related empirical studies grouped into 5 research areas: women’s empowerment and demand for healthcare; the impact of institutions, aid, inflation and FDI on economic growth; capital structure and bank-loan growth effects; trade, miner

Overview: This is the first book dedicated to the subject.Most of the material has never appeared in book form before (and all references to external results have been restricted to material which can be found .This monograph contains a detailed exposition of the up-to-date theory of separably injective spaces: new and old results are put into perspective with concrete examples (such as .l∞/c0. and .C(K). spaces, where .K. is a finite height compact space or an F-space, ultrapowers of .L∞. spaces and spaces of universal disposition). .It is no exaggeration to say that the theory of separably i

Overview: SAGE, a free open-source mathematics software system, is used with concrete examples in order to emphasize the computational aspects of coding theory.Introduces and explores unsolved open problems in .This original monograph investigates several unsolved problems that currently exist in coding theory. A highly relevant branch of mathematical computer science, the theory of error-correcting codes is concerned with reliably transmitting data over a ‘noisy’ channel. Despite its fairly long history and consistent prominence, the field still contains interesting problems that have resiste

Overview: Durch die permanente Zunahme von Komplexität, Dynamik und Unsicherheit in den Rahmenbedingungen vollziehen sich im Bankbereich tiefgreifende Veränderungen. Diese Entwicklung stellt hohe Anforderungen an die Reaktions- und Anpassungsfähigkeit von Banken...Marius Dannenberg analysiert, welche strategischen Managementansätze geeignet sind, die tiefgreifenden Veränderungen im Kreditgewerbe zu bewältigen. Er zeigt den aktuellen Stand des Wissens zum Strategischen Bankmanagement auf und untersucht, welche Faktoren den Wandel im Wettbewerbsumfeld von Kreditinstituten verursachen. Besonderer

Overview: Presents a comprehensive survey of the Sharkovsky ordering.Includes a chapter by O.M. Sharkovsky on the history of Sharkovsky’s theorem.Will appeal to students, researchers and anyone who is intereste.This book provides a comprehensive survey of the Sharkovsky ordering, its different aspects and its role in dynamical systems theory and applications. It addresses the coexistence of cycles for continuous interval maps and one-dimensional spaces, combinatorial dynamics on the interval and multidimensional dynamical systems. Also featured is a short chapter of personal remarks by O.M. Sh

Overview: Cutting edge information, new approaches and methods for companies and networks.Theory-driven yet practice-oriented with case studies.An integrative management view on innovations.Includes supplementaThe innovation economy sets new standards for global business and requires efficient innovation management to plan, execute and evaluate innovation activities, establish innovation capability and coordinate resources and capacities for innovation on an intra- and inter-organizational level. Communication has become a critical factor underpinning successful innovation. As a new communicat

Overview: Provides a theoretical introduction and overview.Systematically presents the latest research.Includes hands-on simulation examples.​.​Series-Parallel Converter-Based Microgrids: System-Level Control and Stability. is the first book to provide a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to the rapid development of series-parallel converter applications in the microgrid system. It provides an advanced and in-depth introduction into all major system modeling, coordinated control, and stability analysis issues, and provides useful methodologies and philosophies for developing new topologie

Overview: Von den verschiedenen Wegen, die zur Bestimmung des Sauerstoffs, Stick­ stoffs und Wasserstoffs im Stahl beschritten wurden, hat sich der von P. OBERHOFFER und seinen Schülern (1) schon vor mehr als 25 Jahren be­ schriebene als der günstigste erwiesen. Die Grundlage des Verfahrens ist die Reduktion der Oxyde mit Kohlenstoff unter Bildung von Kohlenmonoxyd in der überhitzten Stahlschmelze. Das gebildete Kohlenmonoxyd wird be­ stimmt. Andere Verfahren, wie die Reduktion der Oxyde mit Wasserstof·f und die Bestimmung des gebildeten Wassers bzw. Reduktion der Oxyde mit Aluminium und Besti

Overview: Analyzes the cases strictly sifted by the trial departments of the Supreme People’s Court from their concluded cases, which include the guiding cases of the Supreme People’s Court, the cases deliberatThis book includes guiding cases of the Supreme People’s Court, cases deliberated on by the Judicial Committee of the Supreme People’s Court and cases discussed at the Joint Meeting of Presiding Judges from various tribunals. This book is divided into three sections, including “Cases by Justices”, “Cases at Judicial Committee” and “Typical Cases”， which will introduce readers to Chinese

Overview: Dieses seit nunmehr zwanzig Jahren bekannte Standardlehrbuch der Signalübertragung ist auch in der sechsten, neubearbeiteten und erweiterten Auflage die grundlegende Einführung in die Theorie der Nachrichtenübertragung. Studenten der Elektrotechnik und der Physik sowie Praktikern aus Industrie und Forschung vermittelt dieses didaktisch hervorragend konzipierte und bewährte Lehrbuch das benötigte Wissen. Übungen mit ausführlichen Lösungswegen sowie ein auf den aktuellen Stand gebrachtes Verzeichnis weiterführender Literatur runden das Buch ab.978-3-662-09893-6Series ISSN 0937-7433 Ser

Overview: Discusses how particular cases of South American archaeology have contributed to the understanding of a global and basic issue: human relations with their environments and landscapes during the past.T.This book focuses on South American archaeology and its contributions to the broader global archaeological discussion in theory, methods and new interpretations of the archaeological record. These include discussions on human peopling and colonization of the continent, domestication of plants and emergence of complex societies. This volume covers a wide variety of sub-disciplines in arc

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes revised selected papers from the Third International Workshop on Structured Object-Oriented Formal Language and Method, SOFL+MSVL 2013, held in Queenstown, New Zealand, in October 2013. The 13 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on testing and verification, simulation and model checking, SOFL tools, and formal specification and application.978-3-319-04914-4978-3-319-04915-1Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Concentrates on the societal discussion about synthetic biology.Scrutinizes traditional concepts such as "life" or "artificial".Leads to a refined view for societal, particularly ethical, evaluation.ISynthetic biology is a dynamic, young, ambitious, attractive, and heterogeneous scientific discipline. It is constantly developing and changing, which makes societal evaluation of this emerging new science a challenging task, prone to misunderstandings. Synthetic biology is difficult to capture, and confusion arises not only regarding which part of synthetic biology the discussion is abo