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Overview: 978-3-7091-3390-3

Overview: Discusses many neglected aspects of suicide prevention.Provide international perspectives.Written by opinion leaders dedicated to raising awareness of the topic.This book explores suicide prevention perspectives from around the world, considering both professionals’ points of view as well as first-person accounts from suicidal individuals...Scholars around the globe have puzzled over what makes a person suicidal and what is in the minds of those individuals who die by suicide. Most often the focus is not on the motives for suicide, nor on the phenomenology of this act, but on what is

Overview: This book presents a multidisciplinary view of urban logistics involving several experts from different disciplines and aims to show the complementarity between them in order to address the complexitySince the 1990’s, researchers, practitioners and public administrations have given more thought to urban logistics. However, their interests and goals are not the same, and several approaches do not produce efficient logistics systems as a result. This book aims to provide both a conceptual framework for urban logistics planning and management and to create a basis for deploying solution

Overview: First book to approach socially responsible investment as a multicriteria decision making problem.Presents a normative, rather than a descriptive approach.Emphasizes the use of goal programming and coThis book integrates socially responsible investment into modern portfolio theory from a multi-criteria perspective. Socially responsible investment is a “new deal” championed by the institutional investment and bank sectors, agents that influence mutual funds and other collective investment schemes and which fear that financial strategies without ethical constraints can harm sustainable

Overview: Eine erziehungswissenschaftliche Studie?Arnd Kierchhoff analysiert die kommunale Steuerung des Übergangsbereiches zwischen allgemeinbildender Schule und Berufsausbildung. Hierfür verbindet er die analytische Perspektive der Educational Governance und eine postmodern-sozialkonstruktivistisch ausgelegte Grounded Theory in einem neuartigen Forschungskonzept. Der methodologische Mehrwert der Studie liegt insbesondere in der entworfenen Trias aus einer theoriegeleiteten Forschung zur Bildungssteuerung, einer methodischen Konkretisierung der Clarke’schen Situationsanalyse sowie einem Forsc

Overview: Das vorliegende Buch behandelt die Synchronisation als eine der zentralen Funktionen zur Aufrechterhaltung der Integrität in Datenbanksystemen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf einer umfassenden Analyse des Einflusses von Synchronisationsmaßnahmen auf das Leistungsverhalten von Datenbanksystemen. Nach einer kurzen Einführung in die wesentlichen konzeptionellen Aspekte der Synchronisation werden ausführlich die Implementierungsaspekte der Synchronisationskomponente in Datenbanksystemen diskutiert. Da durch Synchronisationsmaßnahmen in praktischen Umständen möglicherweise erheblich in d

Overview: Provides the mathematical and physical groundwork of particle physics.Introduces the standard model in an insightful and elementary way.Contains clear, intuitive explanations and plenty of examples.In.While theoretical particle physics is an extraordinarily fascinating field, the incredibly fast pace at which it moves along, combined with the huge amount of background information necessary to perform cutting edge research, poses a formidable challenge for graduate students. .This book represents the first in a series designed to assist students in the process of transitioning from co

Overview: Brings together a collection of papers on statistics and human rights.No other book on the market addresses this subject matter.Human rights issues are shaping the modern world. They define the expectations by which nations are judged and affect the policy of governments, corporations, and foundations. They have set the agenda in prosecutions at the International Criminal Court at the Hague, funding decisions by the International Monetary Fund, and corporate expansion programs by multinationals...Statistics is central to the modern perspective on human rights. It allows researchers t

Overview: Highlights new findings in the field, in conjunction with the 2017 International Conference on Space Science and Communication (IconSpace2017), held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 3-5 May 2017.Presents .This book addresses space science and communication – one of the main pillars of space science sustainability, an area that has recently become of great importance. In this regard, research and development play a crucial role in sustainability development. However, obtaining essential data in the physical world to interpret the universe and to predict what could happen in the future is

Overview: Presents surface engineering methods for a wide variety of materials.Discusses the effects of surface engineering on the tribology and microgeometry of engineering materials.Introduces developments in. .This book focuses on surface engineering of a wide range of modern materials such as smart alloys, light metals, polymers, and composites etc. for their improved manufacturability. It discusses the effect of surface engineering processes namely friction stir processing, forming, spark erosion, welding, laser heating, and coating etc. on various properties of modern materials. The book

Overview: Studies the articulation/interactions between the appropriation of public space and (various forms of) collaborative governance.Satisfies the need to understand the proliferation of public space invasThis book explores street art’s contributions to democracy in Latin America through a comparative study of five cities: Bogota (Colombia), São Paulo (Brazil), Valparaiso (Chile), Oaxaca (Mexico) and Havana (Cuba). The author argues that when artists invade public space for the sake of disseminating rage, claims or statements, they behave as urban citizens who try to raise public awarenes

Overview: 978-3-662-15113-6978-3-540-47924-6Series ISSN 0340-1022 Series E-ISSN 1436-5049

Overview: Aims to understand the effect of circular economy business solutions on project management.Discusses project management contributions to sustainable business change.Assesses the development needs of p.This volume aims to explore project management contributions to sustainable business change based on renewability, reuse, and repair as well as the effect of circular economy business solutions on project management in terms of the management approach, governance, and leadership. The main aim of integrating project management with a circular business paradigm is not only to learn how pr

Overview: Präzise Darstellung des „How to do“.Zahlreiche brillante Abbildungen visualisieren das Procedere.Praktisch leicht umsetzbar.Includes supplementary material: .Schmerztherapeutische Injektionstechniken im Rahmen der Manuellen Therapie können entweder durch ausschließende Injektionen die Diagnostik ergänzen oder aufgrund der Schmerzlinderung überhaupt erst die Therapie ermöglichen. Anschaulich und leicht erfassbar vermittelt das renommierte Autorenteam Klimpel, Noack, Streeck und Focke die gelenk- und weichteilbezogenen Injektionstechniken für alle Körperabschnitte..978-3-662-44539-6978

Overview: The aim of this book is to reflect the substantial re- search done in Artificial Intelligence on sorts and types. The main contributions come from knowledge representation and theorem proving and important impulses come from the "application areas", i.e. natural language (understanding) systems, computational linguistics, and logic programming. The workshop brought together researchers from logic, theoretical computer science, theorem proving, knowledge representation, linguistics, logic programming and qualitative reasoning.978-3-540-52337-6978-3-540-46965-0Series ISSN 0302-9743 Ser

Overview: Work Out Structural Mechanics covers a major area in first year civil, mechanical and building courses. Designed as a revision aid, this text is the ideal course companion to the main student text for the subject, such as Structural Mechanics by Cain and Hulse (Macmillan 1990), and the student‘s own lecture notes.

Overview: Selbstcoaching für Führungskräfte, die Selbstführung und Intuition stärken und entwickeln wollen.Mithilfe authentisch-indigenen Wissens sich selbst und andere besser wahrnehmen, verstehen und führen.K.In diesem Selbstcoaching-Buch lernen Manager, sich selbst gelassen zu führen und auf ihre intuitiven Fähigkeiten zu vertrauen. Sie erfahren, wie ihnen die indigene Vorstellung eines „Wesens der Kommunikation“ hilft, Gespräche und Meetings im Unternehmen leicht und sicher zu steuern. Mithilfe von Selbstcoaching-Übungen reflektieren sie intensiv ihre Identität, Zugehörigkeit und persönlic

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th European Workshop on Software Process Technology, EWSPT 2000, held in Kaprun, Austria in February 2000 in conjunction with a meeting of the European ESPRIT IV Project for Process Instance Evolution (PIE)..The 21 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The book is organized in sections on methods, applications, process instance evolution, distributed processes and process modeling languages, and industrial experience.978-3-540-67140-4978-3-540-46543-0Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN

Overview: Provides the first, advanced-level resource on ARTIK for experienced developers.Includes detailed explanations of publicly listed ARTIK API calls.Written by an award-winning BBC technical engineerProvides a professional-level reference to the Samsung ARTIK API, as well as to other aspects of interest to developers such as the file systems, the operating system internals, various available interfaces, input/output, and the hardware itself. This is the perfect book for experienced programmers and developers who want to jump in and work with Samsung‘s new ARTIK product line to create In

Overview: 978-3-531-11842-0978-3-322-88874-7Series ISSN 0932-5263