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

Overview: This is an excerpt from the 4-volume dictionary of economics, a reference book which aims to define the subject of economics today. 1300 subject entries in the complete work cover the broad themes of economic theory. This extract concentrates on social economics.978-0-333-49529-2978-1-349-19806-1Series ISSN 2946-9805 Series E-ISSN 2946-9813

Overview: A detailed introduction to selective maintenance.Focusses on mathematical formulation and optimization techniques.A key text for undergraduate and graduate students in reliability and maintenanceThis book is a detailed introduction to selective maintenance and updates readers on recent advances in this field, emphasizing mathematical formulation and optimization techniques. The book is useful for reliability engineers and managers engaged in the practice of reliability engineering and maintenance management. It also provides references that will lead to further studies at the end of

Overview: Considers the methodology and techniques of sequent calculus to illustrate its use in proving a wide range of metatheoretical results.Includes many results and their proofs that are often not well knoThis textbook offers a detailed introduction to the methodology and applications of sequent calculi in propositional logic. Unlike other texts concerned with proof theory, emphasis is placed on illustrating how to use sequent calculi to prove a wide range of metatheoretical results.  The presentation is elementary and self-contained, with all technical details both formally stated and al

Overview: Presents novel applications of soft computing to telecommunicationsSoft computing, as opposed to conventional "hard" computing, tolerates imprecision and uncertainty, in a way very much similar to the human mind. Soft computing techniques include neural networks, evolutionary computation, fuzzy logic, and chaos. The recent years have witnessed tremendous success of these powerful methods in virtually all areas of science and technology, as evidenced by the large numbers of research results published in a variety of journals, conferences, as weil as many excellent books in this book s

Overview: Covers school violence prevention for public health professionals.Includes chapters on sexual boundaries and body image.Extremely timely topic.Includes supplementary material: .Despite the public alarm following several high-profile school shootings that occurred in the United States over the past decade, little is known about the actual incidence and characteristics of school-associated violence. School Violence and Primary Prevention grew out of a recent special issue of the Journal of Primary Prevention, which Thomas W. Miller guest edited. Understanding violence and reducing inju

Overview: Der gute Draht zum R/3: RFC-Echtzeitkommunikation mit Visual Basic in Beispielen einfach erklärtLiebe Leser, das vorliegende Buch ist ein sorgfältig erstelltes Destillat der in­ tensiven Erfahrungen der Real-Time-Kommunikation zwischen SAP R/3 und externen Subsystemen, die ich in den letzten Jahren sammeln durfte. Ich habe versucht, die Materie in eine klare und verständliche Form zu packen und so die Möglichkeit zu schaf­ fen, ein wenig des Mythos der großen Blackbox R/3 zu entzau­ bern. Die wahrscheinlich teuerste Standardsoftware, die der Markt der­ zeit zu bieten hat, ist keine B

Overview: During the past 50 years, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has been the main subject in the field of immunopathology. Each individual discovery was followed by the discovery of a multitude of related immune phenomena. This book reflects the present status of our understanding of this protean disease. Various animal models clearly show that different gene combinations can lead to the final clinical expression of SLE, with HLA class II genes probably responsible for the targeting of the autoimmune response. Similarly, research on cytokines in SLE patients has shown that SLE is a synd

Overview: Although humans slumber for approximately one third of our lives, sleep itself is vastly understudied. This volume provides a comparative frame through which we can understand the myriad ways in which sleep reflects and embodies culture as contributors examine aspects of sleep in various countries and contexts.978-1-349-45796-0978-1-137-31573-1Series ISSN 2637-6806 Series E-ISSN 2634-517X

Overview: Offers perspective and insight into the dynamics and challenges that exist between parents of medically complex children and the medical experts.Tells true and poignant stories by patient‘s parents an.This book tells true and poignant stories from both sides of the physician-patient/parent relationship and provides a unique glimpse into how parents and physicians think, feel, and interact. The stories are grouped under four sections: Hope, Compassion, Communication, and Trust. Each section includes stories contributed by parents from all across the United States and by pediatricians

Overview: 978-1-349-04224-1978-1-349-04222-7

Overview: Provides an in-depth study of ethnic villages in the frontier area of the huge empire of Qing.Presents an empirical and theoretical interpretation of the law and practice of contract in pre-modern ChiThis book is the first Western-language monograph on the study of the Qingshui River manuscripts. By examining over 3,000 contracts and other manuscripts, this book offers constructive insights into the long-standing question of how and why a society in late imperial China could maintain a well-functioning social system with few laws but many contracts, i.e., Hobbesian “words without swo

Overview: Presents a comprehensive story of the Sundarbans with a focus on Indigenous local knowledge.Brings institutional vulnerability aspects and power-sharing arrangements into analyses of resource managemeThis edited volume focuses on the largest single tract contiguous mangrove forest in the world— the Sundarbans— exploring traditional knowledge, customary sustainable use and community-based innovation. The book analyses the current state of the Sundarbans, its multiple values and ecosystem services, to demonstrate that Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is essential for the conservati

Overview: Is the first one on innovations in skin graft technology.Presents how latest skin grafting technology can increase the overall expansion ratio.Discusses different innovative skin graft patterns and it.This book discusses the different skin grafting methods, latest trends in graft designing, and its relationship with the burn injuries. An introduction to several conventional and modern skin grafting methods and how crucial the innovation is for recovery of large burns will be presented. The technologies involved in the development of skin grafts incisions, and study of their effect on

Overview: .This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2005, held in Mont Saint-Michel, France in May 2005....The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers address issues such as topics in distributed and parallel computing, information dissemination, communication complexity, interconnection networks, high speed networks, wireless networking, mobile computing, optical computing, and related areas..978-3-540-26052-3978-3-540-32073-9

Overview: Provides comparative perspective on small scale sport tourism events.Discusses the socioeconomic impacts of sport tourism.Proposes policy solutions for encouraging events that stimulate sustainable lo.This book outlines the impacts of small scale sport tourism events on local sustainable development in different countries. Using half marathons organized in small and medium sized cities as an example, the chapters are robust case studies, applying a unified methodology in order to provide a clear overview of the sport tourism system in each country. .The book begins with a description

Overview: Offers a synthesis of recent research into taste and smell.Explores how this research relates to eating behaviour.Examines theories that attempt to explain disordered eating, appetite control and chanThis edited collection synthesises recent research into smell and taste and relates it to eating behaviour. Olfaction - the sense of smell - together with taste are known as the ‘chemical senses’ and are the oldest sensory system. It is paradoxical then that our knowledge (especially psychological) about these two systems remains far behind that of vision and audition. Nevertheless, the

Overview: 978-3-540-03210-6978-3-642-88143-5

Overview: Vergleichende Übersicht.Includes supplementary material: Nahezu alle europäischen Staaten haben für die Konsolidierung ihrer Alterssicherungssysteme Reformen durchgeführt. Die betriebliche Altersversorgung ist ein Schwerpunkt betrieblicher Sozialpolitik geworden und reformbedingte Leistungsminderungen der gesetzlichen Alterssicherung, wie sie manche Sicherungssysteme erfuhren, können durch eine Verbesserung der betrieblichen Altersversorgung abgefangen werden. Die zusätzliche betriebliche Alterssicherung kann auch Defizite der gesetzlichen Alterssicherung ausgleichen. Bei der Erricht

Overview: Addresses the finite-time stabilization and H8 control of switched systems.Offers state-of-the-art analysis and synthesis methods.Written by respected experts in the fieldThis book presents several novel constructive methodologies for global stabilization and H-infinity control in switched dynamic systems by using the systems’ structure information. The main features of these new approaches are twofold: i) Novel Lyapunov functions are constructed and new switching strategies are designed to guarantee global finite-time stabilization of the closed-loop switched dynamic systems,while i

Overview: Fördert Verständnis von Pflegekräften für desorientierte PatientenDie "Spezielle validierende Pflege" ist ein von Brigitte Scharb entwickeltes geriatrisches Pflegemodell, welches die Befriedigung psychosozialer Grundbedürfnisse desorientierter, hochbetagter Personen im Rahmen des Pflegeprozesses zum Ziel hat. In diesem individuellen Pflegekonzept wird die Bewahrung und Förderung vorhandener Kompetenzen der Klienten dauerhaft unterstützt und ein Absinken in ein Stadium stärkerer Desorientiertheit nach Möglichkeit verhindert. Dies basiert auf einer präzisen Dokumentation und Biographie