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

Overview: Focus on pesticides in food products.Provides timely information on pesticide residues in soil and food.Advanced methods for the analysis of chicken, fish, birds, strawberry, pollen, dairy products, uThis book presents recent reviews on the occurrence, analysis, toxicity and remediation of pesticides in biological systems such as fish, chickens, water, soil and food.978-3-030-54714-1978-3-030-54712-7Series ISSN 2210-4410 Series E-ISSN 2210-4429

Overview: Consolidates many important concepts from a variety of sources.Covers classical topics and more advanced research topics.Includes an extensive and up-to-date list of references on advanced nonlinear eStochastic elasticity is a fast developing field that combines nonlinear elasticity and stochastic theories in order to significantly improve model predictions by accounting for uncertainties in the mechanical responses of materials. However, in contrast to the tremendous development of computational methods for large-scale problems, which have been proposed and implemented extensively i

Overview: 978-3-409-13800-0978-3-322-86281-5

Overview: Blends a deeply practical approach with rigorous research.Aimed at a new generation of leaders taking on family businesses.Shows how focusing on change, rather than continuity, can provide competitive.Korine reframes the question of succession in family and founder-lead businesses as an issue of entrepreneurial choice, concentrating on the challenge of succession for change as opposed to the traditional focus on succession for continuity...It is inevitable that when the leaders of family and founder-lead businesses look to pass on the mantle they naturally want to preserve and mainta

Overview: Offers a comprehensive account of the development of science communication in China, India, Korea, South Africa, and Spain.Features special chapters on the teaching of science communication in universThis volume is aimed at all those who wonder about the mechanisms and effects of the disclosure of knowledge. Whether they have a professional interest in understanding these processes generally, or they wish to conduct targeted investigations in the PCST field, it will be useful to anyone involved in science communication, including researchers, academics, students, journalists, science

Overview: First book analyzing social media addiction among adolescents in China.Valuable first-hand empirical data from adolescents in five major cities in China.Analyzes in detail the social media addiction s.Social media such as instant messaging (IM), social networking sites (SNS), blogs and microblogs are an integral part of adolescents’ lives in China. Anecdotal evidence reported in the news has suggested that the increasing popularity of social media could make adolescents more vulnerable to being addicted. This exploratory study proposes the concept of “social media addiction” and exam

Overview: Represents a practical guide to managing supplier performance.Provides a thorough insight into strategic sourcing.Outlines the mental shift necessary to build robust relationships with suppliers.IncluThis book takes a process approach of identifying, evaluating, selecting, managing and developing suppliers to create more value for customers. It begins by outlining the mental shift necessary to build robust relationships with suppliers. Next, the book details strategic sourcing methodology: a step-by-step approach for creating productive relationships with key suppliers, providing ill

Overview: Offering an overview of the Master‘s in Literacy program at Hunter College, the authors share its special features including parental and familial involvement, and presents six profiles of struggling readers and successful intervention strategies. The program allows one-to-one tutoring time as well as a community time for small group instruction.978-1-137-02864-8978-1-137-02865-5

Overview: Gives readers valuable insights into the future of mobile computing and communication.Touches on wireless technologies such as 5G, mobile edge computing (MEC), mobile cloud services, and cognition-bas.This book presents solutions to the problems arising in two trends in mobile computing and their intersection: increased mobile traffic driven mainly by sophisticated smart phone applications; and the issue of user demand for lighter phones, which cause more battery power constrained handhelds to offload computations to resource intensive clouds (the second trend exacerbating the bandwi

Overview: Detailed discussion on sources and types of a wide range of stem cells, as well as their therapeutic applications.Contributors are all recognized leaders in the field.Unique among the literature, this.Since different types of stem cells for therapeutic applications have recently been proposed, this timely volume explores various sources of stem cells for tissue and organ regeneration and discusses their advantages and limitations. Also discussed are pros and cons for using embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells, and adult stem cells isolated from postnatal tissues. Diff

Overview: Through his writings, the leading East India Company servant, Sir John Malcolm helped to shape the historical thought of British empire-building in India. This book uses his works to examine the intellectual history of British expansion in South Asia, and shed light on the history of orientalism and indirect rule and the formation of British power.978-0-230-11750-1Series ISSN 2945-6630 Series E-ISSN 2945-6649

Overview: 978-3-0348-5803-8978-3-0348-5802-1

Overview: Mixes well-known material and applications with new insights especially from viability and robust analysisNowadays, environmental issues including air and water pollution, climate change, overexploitation of marine ecosystems, exhaustion of fossil resources, conservation of biodiversity are receiving major attention from the public, stakeholders and scholars from the local to the planetary scales. It is now clearly recognized that human activities yield major ecological and envir- mental stresses with irreversible loss of species, destruction of habitat or c- matecatastrophesasthemos

Overview: Neueste Daten und Erkenntnisse.Praxisbezogene Darstellung.Inklusive Fragebögen.Includes supplementary material: .Mag es auf den ersten Blick widersprüchlich erscheinen, dass Suizidalität und nichtsuizidales selbstverletzendes Verhalten in einem Band abgehandelt werden, so zeigt die Erfahrung, dass die Trennlinie nicht so scharf ist, wie diagnostische Klassifikationssysteme suggerieren..In diesem Band der Reihe „Manuale der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie“ wird übersichtlich der aktuelle Stand der Forschung dargestellt. Zudem werden alle praxisrelevanten Aspekte – von der ausführlichen

Overview: This book covers recent developments and applications in the area of complex-valued neural networks.This book especially addresses researchers and engineers working in the areas of neural networks, co.Recent advancements in the field of telecommunications, medical imaging and signal processing deal with signals that are inherently time varying, nonlinear and complex-valued. The time varying, nonlinear characteristics of these signals can be effectively analyzed using artificial neural networks.  Furthermore, to efficiently preserve the physical characteristics of these complex-valued

Overview: Presents advanced soft computing methods for solving decision and optimization problems.Guides readers through the use of soft computing in real-world applications.Offers a review of soft-computing ap.This book offers a timely snapshot of current soft-computing research and solutions to decision-making and optimization problems, which are ubiquitous in the current social and technological context, addressing fields including logistics, transportation and data analysis.  Written by leading international experts from the United States, Brazil and Cuba, as well as the United Kingdom, Fr

Overview: 978-3-662-10127-8

Overview: Includes new advances in clustering and classification using semi-supervised and unsupervised learning.Address new challenges arising in feature extraction and selection using semi-supervised and unsu.This book covers the state of the art in learning algorithms with an inclusion of semi-supervised methods to provide a broad scope of clustering and classification solutions for big data applications. Case studies and best practices are included along with theoretical models of learning for a comprehensive reference to the field. The book is organized into eight chapters that cover the

Overview: What sight is more beautiful than a high-energy beach facing lines of rolling white breakers? What battleground is more ferocious than where waves and sand meet? What environment could be more exciting to study than this sandy interface between sea and land? And yet how much do we know about sandy beaches? Open sandy beaches are amongst the most neglected fields of scientific study in the coastal environment. This situation exists despite their great extent along most temperate and tropical coastlines and their value as recreational areas and buffer zones against the sea. The traditi

Overview: Self-Presentation Skills helps readers to prepare for situations where they want to make a good impression. The first two chapters cover body language and getting off to a good start, and form the basis for every situation described in the book. The situations range from oral assessment or attending a job interview through attending or chairing meetings to appearing in front of the TV cameras. There are plenty of practice exercises throughout.