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

Overview: Tackles the controversial and popular topic of insomnia.Reviews historical and cutting edge academic research to critique the norm and put forward a new theory linking REM sleep with appetite.Aims to .This book critically evaluates the popular notion that today’s society is suffering from ‘sleep debt’, or what Horne calls ‘societal insomnia’ - an apparent chronic loss of sleep, which can lead to obesity and related physical and mental disorders including heart disease. ..It presents evidence which suggests that sleep debt has not in fact worsened to any marked extent over the last hu

Overview: Das Stochastik Buch für Studierende und Lehrer: didaktisch besonders gut aufgebautEine Einführung in die Fragestellungen und Methoden der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und Statistik (kurz Stochastik) sowohl für Studierende, die solche Techniken in ihrem Fach benötigen, als auch für Lehrer, die sich für den Unterricht mit den nötigen fachlichen Grundlagen vertraut machen wollen..Der Text hat einen besonderen Aufbau - als Trilogie ist er in Beispiele, Fakten und Erläuterungen aufgeteilt..Was überall in der Mathematik gilt, ist noch ausgeprägter in der Stochastik: Es geht nichts über mark

Overview: .Surgical Diseases of the Spleen. written and edited by internationally renowned scientists will be a masterpiece for any institution. It provides an updated multidisciplinary review of diseases of the spleen. Experts in the field have customed their chapters to further ease the readers understanding offering all the information needed to progress in this area. Different sections on basic concepts, specific splenic diseases and operative techniques cover new aspects in immunology, infectious, traumatic and neoplastic conditions.978-3-642-64461-0978-3-642-60574-1

Overview: Kein klassisches Stadtökologiebuch, sondern ein Buch über das "System Stadt und seine Ökologie".Info-Boxen zu besonders wichtigen, speziellen und aktuellen Fragen, Methoden, Praxisfällen.Übungsaufgabe.Dieses Lehrbuch zu Stadtökosystemen beantwortet wichtige Fragen, die sich zum ökologischen Aufbau, zu den Funktionen und zur sozial-ökologischen Entwicklung von Städten weltweit stellen. Ausgehend davon, wie sich Städte heute in einer immer stärker urban werdenden Welt entwickeln, werden ökologische Herausforderungen für Städte des 21. Jahrhunderts wie Ressourceneffizienz, Klimawandel,

Overview: Offers broad coverage of three types of stochastic control problems at an elementary level.Includes numerous illustrative examples and exercises.Can be used in a classroom setting or for self-studyThis book contains an introduction to three topics in stochastic control: discrete time stochastic control, i. e. , stochastic dynamic programming (Chapter 1), piecewise - terministic control problems (Chapter 3), and control of Ito diffusions (Chapter 4). The chapters include treatments of optimal stopping problems. An Appendix - calls material from elementary probability theory and gives

Overview: Fast-track conference proceedings.State-of-the-art research.Up-to-date resultsThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2011, held in Pisa, Italy, in October 2011. The 30 long and 10 short papers together with 1 keynote presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. The papers are structured in topical sections on introduction to web retrieval, sequence learning, computational geography, space-efficient data structures, algorithmic analysis of biological data, compression, text

Overview: Presents a comprehensive study of contemporary issues in the field of interdisciplinary research, i.e. econophysics and complex systems.Written in an exhaustive and accessible way to to inspire both p.This book presents the Proceedings of the .54th Winter School of Theoretical Physics on Simplicity of Complexity in Economic and Social Systems., held in Lądek Zdrój, Poland, from 18 to 24 February 2018...The purpose of the book is to introduce the new interdisciplinary research that links statistical physics, and particular attention is given to link physics of complex systems, with fi

Overview: Diese Arbeit wurde im Sommer 1992 als Dissertation unter dem Titel "Sprachfähigkeit des Staatsbürgers und Öffentlichkeit. Zu den Anforderun­ gen der artikulierten Öffentlichkeit, insbesondere der Bildungspolitik und der Medien, an die Sprachfähigkeit des Staatsbürgers" von der Neuphilologischen Fakultät der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidel­ berg angenommen. Sie wurde durch ein Stipendium der Friedrich-Nawnann-Stiftung aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Wissenschaft gefördert. Besonders danken möchte ich für seine immerwährende Unterstützung Prof Rainer Wimmer, der mi

Overview: Das Grundwissen für den Übergang von der Schule zur UniversitätDie Starthilfen erleichtern den Übergang vom Abitur ins Studium. Für die Informatik stellt sich dabei die Frage: Wie hilft man beim Einstieg in dieses Fach, über das - etwa im Gegensatz zu Mathematik und Physik - vor allem bei Schülern und Schülerinnen oftmals falsche Vorstellungen herrschen? Die Autoren der "Starthilfe Informatik" wählen den Weg, dem Leser zunächst die zentralen Begriffe "Algorithmus" und "Datenstrukturen" bzgl. Darstellungsformen, Effizienz und Programmiermethodik näherzubringen. Eine Einführung in die

Overview: State of the art in regional/spatial science from the theoretical, methodological and empirical viewpoint.Presents the recent new methods, like dynamic models, artificial intelligence approaches, metaWith the dawn of the twenty-first century comes the awareness that current rapid political-economic-social and technological transformations will affect our of living, by producing new forms of information, communications, common way market, work-style and leisure. In this context, human behaviour will certainly change its ‘fixed‘ parameters. It is likely that the relationships between i

Overview: Presents a comprehensive overview of shape memory polymers, including their blends and composites.Covers properties, characterization, modelling, and applications.Provides a cohesive coverage of all a..This book explores the recent advances in the field of shape memory polymers, whose ease of manufacturing and wide range of potential applications have spurred interest in the field. The book presents details about the synthesis, processing, characterization, and applications of shape memory polymers, their blends and composites. It provides a correlation of physical properties of shap

Overview: Promotes compliance with regulatory requirements such as GDPR.Teaches counter-measures against common forms of attack.Demonstrates how to implement SQL Server’s rich security modelProtect your data from attack by using SQL Server technologies to implement a defense-in-depth strategy for your database enterprise. This new edition covers threat analysis, common attacks and countermeasures, and provides an introduction to compliance that is useful for meeting regulatory requirements such as the GDPR. The multi-layered approach in this book helps ensure that a single breach does not lead

Overview: One of a new series of first year undergraduate engineering texts, this book covers all of the structural mechanics required by most Civil and Mechanical Engineering courses at first year level. Its programmed structure makes it suitable for use as a self-paced learning text. For series details see Foundations of Engineering section. ‘This is an excellent textbook which achieves its teaching objectives superbly well....It is so attractive in layout and helpful with its questions and commentaries that even a hardened lecturer in the subject might be tempted to work it through! Strongl

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second Joint International Conference on Serious Games, JCSG 2016, held in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in September 2016. This conference bundles the activities of the International Conference on Serious Games Development and Applications, SGDA, and the Conference on Serious Games, GameDays..The total of 36 full papers and 5 short papers was carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: health, well-being and accessibility; education, learning

Overview: In the first comprehensive treatment of these technologicallyimportant materials, the authors provide theories linking theproperties of semiconductor alloys to their constituent compounds.Topics include crystal structures, bonding, elastic properties, phasediagrams, band structures, transport, .ab-initio. theories, andsemi-empirical theories. Each chapter includes extensive tables andfigures as well as problem sets.978-1-4613-7994-2978-1-4613-0317-6

Overview: Albert Salomon - Schriften 1948 - 1954.Neu aufgelegte Werkausgabe der Schriften von Albert Salomon.Wichtige Beiträge zur SoziologiegeschichteAlbert Salomon (1891-1966), deutsch-jüdischer Soziologie und Herausgeber der Zeitschrift "Die Gesellschaft", war nach seiner Emigration 1935 Professor an der New School for Social Research in New York, wo er in alteuropäischer Tradition eine humanistische Soziologie begründete..Diese fünfbändige textkritische Edition ist die erste Ausgabe seiner gesammelten Werke.978-3-658-37736-6Series ISSN 3005-0367 Series E-ISSN 3005-0375

Overview: Examines the application of drones as powerful tools in low-altitude and proximity land-observation.Provides an overview of the limitations of the use of this fast growing technology.Maximizes your un.This book focuses on small flying drones and their applications in conducting geographic surveys. Scholars and professionals will discover the potential of this tool, and hopefully develop a conceptual and methodological framework for doing the following things: a) Translate their data acquisition needs into specifications. (b) Use the developed specifications to choose the best accessi

Overview: Includes an afterword written by Professor Vian Bakir, Bangor University.Offers a unique insight into the ways in which identity has been shaped and defined by changing technology and its resultant efIn a world of ubiquitous surveillance, watching and being watched are the salient features of the lives depicted in many of our cultural productions. This collection examines surveillance as it is portrayed in art, literature, film and popular culture, and makes the connection between our sense of ‘self’ and what is ‘seen’. In our post-panoptical world which purports to proffer freedom o

Overview: This is the start of a long process to ultimately operate new advanced capabilities at Paranal that can keep up with the evergrowing need for larger and more complex astrophysical data sets. A modern instrument represents a very significant investment in cash, human resources and time. Such a meeting gives us a precious yardstick to evaluate the competitiveness of 1st-generation instruments and associated current and forthcoming proposals for 1st-generation upgrades. This is also crucial to orient the large research and development effort that will provide the very foundation on whic

Overview: Werkers in de hulpverlening, dienstverlening en verpleging hebben op veel manieren te maken met seksualiteit en intimiteit. Veel cliënten kampen vaak met problemen op het seksuele vlak, die vaak niet onderkend worden. Over de grenzen in de intieme omgang tussen hulpverlener en cliënt wordt in tal van instellingen discussie gevoerd.Professioneel optreden stoel ook hier op twee zaken: kennis van zaken en de vaardigheid om te praten over seksualiteit. In de vakliteratuur is hier al veel over gepubliceerd. Seksualiteit, intimiteit en hulpverlening bundelt als eerste de informatie op dit