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

Overview: Explores the intertwined relationship between science, gender and settler colonialism in the nineteenth century.Reconstructs the neglected history of Mary Elizabeth Barber’s scientific work in South A.This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of the life and works o

Overview: Includes systematic review of nonconventional cellulose fibers properties.A detailed fibre structure–property analysis is presented.Includes images of the morphological structure of various fibresThe authors describe how sustainable textile fibers from crops such as quinoa, grass, hops, corn and wheat stems, etc. have recently begun to generate great interest. The structure-property relationships of such non-conventional cellulose fibers are studied in this brief, as are their sorption and surface properties which are of primary importance. A systematic review of each fiber‘s propert

Overview: Provides concise guidance to evolutionary game theory and mathematical epidemiology.Gives a comprehensive description of the “vaccination game” by analytical and multi-agent simulation approaches.Pres.This book presents the fundamentals of evolutionary game theory and applies them to the analysis of epidemics, which is of paramount importance in the aftermath of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. The primary objective of this monograph is to deliver a powerful tool to model and analyze the spread of an infectious disease during a pandemic as well as the human decision dynamics. The boo

Overview: Integrates the experiences of international experts in the spectrum of involved disciplines.Offers a practical approach to the diagnosis and treatment of Sjögren’s Syndrome.Provides the latest informa.The key knowledge assembled in this book comprises today’s most comprehensive resource on Sjögren’s syndrome.  Sjögren’s patients require the care of a wide variety of clinical and surgical specialists to treat their disease and improve their quality of life.  This volume presents a broad multi-disciplinary approach, enlisting the expertise of well-respected authors from around the worl

Overview: 978-1-349-81455-8

Overview: Includes supplementary material: Shock Vibration, Aircraft /Aerospace, Energy Harvesting, Acoustics Optics, Volume 9. Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Dynamics of Multiphysical Systems: From Active Materials to Vibroacoustics, 2016, the ninth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early fi ndings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including papers on:.• Energy Harvesting.• Adaptive Support.• Shock Calibration.• Opera

Overview: Up-to-date results,.Fast track conference proceedings State-of-the- art research.Thoroughly refereed post-conference978-3-642-12106-7978-3-642-12107-4Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Only book to cover infrastructure aspects of sensor networks in a comprehensive fashion.Other books on sensor networks do not cover this topic or do so only superficially as part of a less-focussed muAdvances in the miniaturization of microelectromechanical systems have led to battery-powered sensor nodes that have sensing, communication and p- cessingcapabilities. Thesesensornodescanbenetworkedinanadhocmanner to perform distributed sensing and information processing. Such ad hoc s- sor networks provide greater fault tolerance and sensing accuracy and are typically less expensive com

Overview: Was macht den Erfolg für Spitzenkandidaten?.Aktuelle Analysen im Wahljahr 2002!Statt eines Vorwortes . . . Die Brille Korf liest gerne schnell und viel; darum widert ihn das Spiel all des zwölfinal unerbetnen Ausgwalzten, Breitgetretenen. Meistes ist in sechs bis acht Wörtern völlig abgemacht, und in ebensoviel Sätzen läßt sich Bandwurmweisheit schwätzen. Es erfindet drum sein Geist etwas, was ihn dem entreißt: Brillen, deren Energieen ihm den Text - zusammenziehen! Beispielsweise dies Gedicht läse, so bebrillt, man - nicht! Dreiunddreißig seinesgleichen Gäben erst - Ein - Fragezeich

Overview: 978-3-662-39352-9978-3-662-40399-0

Overview: Zeigt, wie gesellschaftliche Themen - wie z.B. Antirassismus, Klimawandel, Pandemiebekämpfung.Social Marketing stößt Verhaltensänderungen zum Wohle der Menschen und ihrer Umwelt an und treibt diese voran. Dieses Buch richtet sich an Menschen, die sich in kompakter Form über Social Marketing informieren, es anwenden oder dazu forschen wollen...Öffentliche Einrichtungen, Nichtregierungs- und gemeinnützige Organisationen, aber auch privatwirtschaftliche Unternehmen, die sich für eine gute Sache einsetzen, übertragen beim Social Marketing strategische Überlegungen und operative Herangehe

Overview: Highlights advances in technological domains such as collaborative SWE, library reuse, sentiment analysis, and ML.Covers topics related to SW ecosystem mining, analysis, modeling, evolution, and automThis book highlights recent research advances in various domains related to software ecosystems such as library reuse, collaborative development, cloud computing, open science, sentiment analysis and machine learning. A key aspect of software ecosystems is that software products belong to ever more interdependent networks of co-evolving software components. The ever-increasing importance

Overview: Provides state-of-the-art insights on sustainable value creation.Includes the design of sustainable business processes and architectures.Explores the development of sustainable business models from thThis book provides a rich overview and takes a closer look at the current state of theory and practice in the field of sustainable business models. The chapters in this book examine and analyze existing and new approaches towards sustainable business models and showcase the implementation of sustainable business through both quantitative and qualitative studies, including several case st

Overview: Focus is on actionable knowledge: it presents conceptual frameworks, illustrative examples, and practical suggestions for harnessing change and uncertainty.With a focus on the specific challenges faci.Living with uncertainty is an everyday reality for most business entities today. This is especially the case for knowledge-intensive enterprises, such as those in technology, financial services, biotechnology and telecommunications, where new innovations and shifting customer preferences can radically change competitive dynamics. The focus of the book is on how knowledge enterprises can

Overview: 978-3-642-80899-9978-3-642-80898-2

Overview: Gericht op jongeren (12-19 jaar) met slaapproblemen.Gebaseerd op CGT en motiverende gespreksvoering.Hoort bij een werkboek met materiaal voor slaaptraining bij jongerenIn dit boek wordt het protocol Slaaptraining voor jongeren uitgelegd. Het protocol is gebaseerd op cognitieve gedragstherapie (CGT) en motiverende gespreksvoering. Het boek is bedoeld voor hulpverleners die jongeren (12-19 jaar) behandelen met slaapproblemen, ook als er daarnaast sprake is van andere psychische problematiek. .Slaapproblemen hebben invloed op het dagelijkse functioneren en kunnen psychische problemen ve

Overview: Deals with principles and practices of sustainability applied to manufacturing.Written by international experts.Comprehsive in scope.Includes supplementary material: The annual series Global Conferences on Sustainable Manufacturing (GCSM) sponsored by the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) is committed to excellence in the creation of sustainable products and processes that conserve energy and natural resources, have minimal negative impacts upon the natural environment and society, and.adhere to the core principle of sustainability by considering the needs of th

Overview: The book presents theoretical aspects of.Peirce’s semiotics and their application to the teaching and the learning of.It offers innovative perspectives onvisualization mediated by the construction andSemiotics as a Tool for Learning Mathematics is a collection of ten theoretical and empirical chapters, from researchers all over the world, who are interested in semiotic notions and their practical uses in mathematics classrooms. Collectively, they present a semiotic contribution to enhance pedagogical aspects both for the teaching of school mathematics and for the preparation of pre-s

Overview: Aus dem Blickwinkel der Psychologie wird Systemkompetenz in Partnerschaften in einem erweiterten Referenzrahmen verständlich dargestellt.Bietet eine interdisziplinäre Darstellung über wesentliche Baus..Dieses Buch informiert ausführlich und verständlich auf psychologischer Grundlage über Fähigkeiten, wie eine Paarbeziehung gestaltet und aufrechterhalten werden kann. Es geht um das Verständnis von komplexen Prozessabläufen, von  Wechselwirkungen und von wertvollen Perspektivänderungen in der Paarbeziehung: Wie sich positive Erlebnisse mit dem Partner wiederholen lassen, Lebenssinn in

Overview: Comprehensively covers the fundamentals, instrumentation and applications of modern microscopy techniques.Provides an essential stepping stone to the specialist literature for each instrument and tech.This book features reviews by leading experts on the methods and applications of modern forms of microscopy. The recent awards of Nobel Prizes awarded for super-resolution optical microscopy and cryo-electron microscopy have demonstrated the rich scientific opportunities for research in novel microscopies. Earlier Nobel Prizes for electron microscopy (the instrument itself and applicati