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

Overview: How can the sociology of science relate to issues of science policy? And how can both attend to new institutional and cultural shifts in the character of science itself? These two questions lie at the heart of this new introduction to the sociology of science and technology. Balancing an analysis of contemporary debates in the field with an exploration of science policy questions the book provides a fresh approach to today‘s key issues.

Overview: Recent advances in our understanding of instabilities ingalactic type systems have led to an unravelling of some of themysteries of what determines the form galaxies take. This book focuseson the mathematical development of the subject, assuming no priorknowledge of it, with a strong emphasis on the underlying physicalinterpretation. This framework is used to discuss the most relevantinstabilities which are believed to be closely involved in the waygalaxies are formed, in a model independent manner. The relevantobserved properties of galaxies that may be used to establish the roleof

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering, SPACE 2017, held in Goa, India, in December 2017...The 13 revised full papers presented together with 1 short paper, 7 invited talks, and 4 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 initial submissions. This annual event is devoted to various aspects of security, privacy, applied cryptography, and cryptographic engineering. This is indeed a very challenging field, requiring the expertise from dive

Overview: Treats basic aspects of the blue-emitting semiconductor laser.Includes supplementary material: Since Fall of 1993, when we completed the manuscript of our book "Semi­ conductor-Laser Physics" [W.W. Chow, S.W. Koch, and M. Sargent III (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1994)] many new and exciting developments have taken place in the world of semiconductor lasers. Novel laser and ampli­ fier structures were developed, and others, for example, the VCSEL (vertical cavity surface emitting laser) and monolithic MOPA (master oscillator power amplifier), made the transition from research and de

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Software Reuse, ICSR 2016, held in Limassol, Cyprus, in June 2016..The 21 revised full papers presented together with 4 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The papers cover different areas of software engineering, where software reuse plays an important role, such as software product lines, domain analysis and modeling, software tools and business aspects of software. ICSR 2016 has provided a complete view on the advanceme

Overview: Charts a multidimensional perspective to understand business operations strategy.Unifies perspectives ranging from market competition theory to organizational behavior.Helps readers understand the imp.Recently, rapid technological advances have been influencing the global business operations strategies at companies of all sizes like never before. At the same time, there has been a shift in business cultures due to the rising prevalence of matrix organizations and innovative thinking. This book investigates the role of these factors in shaping the business operations of tomorrow. To a

Overview: 978-0-306-46506-2978-0-306-47465-1

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .Structural Analysis with Finite Elements, 2.nd. Edition provides a solid introduction to the foundation and the application of the finite element method in structural analysis. It offers new theoretical insight and practical advice on why finite element results are ‘wrong,‘ why support reactions are relatively accurate, why stresses at midpoints are more reliable, why averaging the stresses sometimes may not help or why the equilibrium conditions are violated. This second edition contains additional sections on sensitivity analysis, on retrofitting s

Overview: Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.Presents compelling evidence of unresolved problems in the theory of Casimir forces.An interdisciplinary Despite more than half a century of theoretical work, the Casimir effect is still not as fully understood as some suppose. In this treatise, the author uncovers new puzzles and paradoxes concerning this mysterious phenomenon. In particular, he clearly demonstrates that the most sophisticated theories fail when confronted with dielectrics in which the refractive index is not uniform but g

Overview: The range at which a weapon has been fired is an important measurement for the reconstruction of firearms offenses (murder, suicide, accident). All changes caused by a shot and which vary according to the distance from the weapon are suitable in principle for determining this distance. However, some procedures are very elegant in theory but hardly applicable in practice. The constructions of ammunition and the sequence of events during a shot are dealt with first as this knowledge forms a basis for understanding the various methods. The individual zones (classes) of firing distances

Overview: Self-Study and Social Justice contains narratives of minority teacher educators.Self-Study and Social Justice presents international perspectives on diversity in teacher education.Self-Study and SociaSelf-Study and Diversity II is a book about the self-study of teacher education practices in a diverse world. In this volume, the authors examine the preparation of teachers through a shared orientation to diversity grounded in a commitment to addressing issues of identity, equity, diversity, social justice, inclusion, and access in their professional practice. The first chapters are aut

Overview: 978-3-528-14921-5978-3-322-86507-6

Overview: Aims at developing a set of common benchmasrks, established evaluation procedures, tasks and datasets in the field of semantic web..Contains detailed record of the one of the most important internatio.This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post conference proceedings of the third edition of the Semantic Web Evaluation Challenge, SemWebEval 2016, co-located with the 13th European Semantic Web conference, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in May/June 2016..This book includes the descriptions of all methods and tools that competed at SemWebEval 2016, together with a detailed desc

Overview: The first non-technical yet detailed account of a fascinating area of stellar astrophysics.Invaluable to the rapidly-growing number of amateur astronomical spectroscopists.An ideal companion to existi.While most amateur astronomers know about the red shift, have a general idea of the way that the emission and absorption lines in stellar spectra provide an insight into the atomic processes of the star, it is unusual to find someone who has any kind of detailed knowledge. The reason isn’t lack on interest – far from it – but is because all the books currently available are pitched at p

Overview: Das psychologische Konstrukt der sozialen Gehemmtheit wird aus dem alltagspsychologischen Konzept der Schüchternheit abgeleitet und erstmals aus differential- und entwicklungspsychologischer Sicht systematisch untersucht. Eine Längsschnittstudie mit Kindern und mehrere Untersuchungen an Erwachsenen zeigen, daß soziale Gehemmtheit schon im Kindergartenalter ein relativ stabiles Persönlichkeitsmerkmal ist, das in fremdartigen und sozial-evaluativen Situationen wirksam wird und eine deutliche Kontinuität zwischen dem Kindes- und dem Erwachsenenalter aufweist.978-3-540-51385-8978-3-642-7

Overview: Relevant, up-to-date account of research by major European research consortium..Includes supplementary material: .Several techniques have been developed in the literature for processing different aspects of the geometry of shapes, for representing and manipulating a shape at different levels of detail, and for describing a shape at a structural level as a concise, part-based, or iconic model. Such techniques are used in many different contexts, such as industrial design, biomedical applications, entertainment, environmental monitoring, or cultural heritage. This book covers a variety

Overview: Über Sinnstiftung in einer sich ändernden WeltSeit sich Lohnarbeit als dominante Form der Organisation von Arbeit durchgesetzt hat, stellt sich eine zunehmende Spannung zwischen den Bedürfnissen des arbeitenden Menschen und den Erfordernissen des Marktes heraus. Indem im 20. Jahrhundert eine alle Lebensbereiche erfassende Ökonomisierung stattgefunden hat, wird in einer Phase des Übergangs deutlich, dass der Aspekt der Arbeitsgestaltung an Gewicht verliert. Wenn die von Arbeit (auch) in Aussicht gestellte individuelle Sinnperspektive immer weniger eingelöst werden kann, wirft das die

Overview: Neue soziale Innovationen für die Praxis.Handlungsorientierte Anwendungsmöglichkeiten zur Ausgestaltung von Hilfsangeboten.Aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse und wissenschaftstheoretische ErkenntnisseSoziale Arbeit entwickelt sich als Handlungswissenschaft ständig weiter und benötigt hierfür fortwährend neue soziale Innovationen für die Praxis. Duale Hochschulen erfüllen diesen Auftrag durch Lehre und Forschung und in enger Verzahnung mit Praxispartnern, vermehrt auch durch gesellschaftliches Engagement. Ergebnisse dieses intensiven wechselseitigen Wissenstransfers werden jedoch zu selten

Overview: Offers a practical introduction to solar energy systems without in-depth physics.Covers key application areas.Looks at solar hybrid photovoltaic/thermal systems.​Solar Energy Engineering and Applications. gives a general and concise presentation of solar energy from a practical engineering perspective. The book provides readers with a comprehensive, accessible, and intuitive introduction to proven methods and tools for the design, implementation, and monitoring of solar energy systems and associated auxiliary technologies without covering detailed in-depth physics. Coverage includes

Overview: State-of-the-art knowledge for successfully building software for people.Provides key insights into current trends of software product management, software development and user-centered design of soft.The highly competitive and globalized software market is creating pressure on software companies. Given the current boundary conditions, it is critical to continuously increase time-to-market and reduce development costs. In parallel, driven by private life experiences with mobile computing devices, the World Wide Web and software-based services, peoples’ general expectations with regar