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Overview: Brings together contributions by leading international authors.Broadens our understanding of bat societies.Richly illustrated throughout.Includes supplementary material: .This book provides new insights into the social behavior of bats - one of the most fascinating topics currently being pursued by researchers.  After an introduction reviewing the history of research in bat behavioral ecology, it covers three major themes: bat sociality .per se .(Part I), bat communication (Part II), and ecological aspects (Part III).  Part I offers a concise overview of the social organization and s

Overview: 978-3-476-45145-3978-3-476-04241-5

Overview: This book documents the state-of-the-art evaluation of the embryonic field of multifunctional materials and adaptive structures, more specifically in the area of active vibration suppression, shape control, noise attenuation, structural health monitoring, smart machines and micro-electro-mechanical systems with application in aircraft, aerospace, automobile, civil structures and consumer industry.978-3-211-83681-1978-3-7091-2686-8Series ISSN 0254-1971 Series E-ISSN 2309-3706

Overview: 978-3-519-13081-9978-3-322-91881-9Series ISSN 1615-3766

Overview: Knapper und gut strukturierter Überblick über alle Aspekte und Bereiche der formalen, modell-theoretischen Semantik.Alle grundlegenden Konzepte wie Typentheorie und Lambda-Notation werden detailliert .​Dieser Band bietet eine Einführung in die Semantik mit einem Schwerpunkt auf den formalen Methoden. Er erklärt semantische Modelle sowie die Grundlagen der kompositionellen Interpretation und stellt die wichtigsten Konzepte vor, z.B. Funktionen, Junktoren, Quantoren wie auch Typentheorie, den Lambda-Operator und mögliche Welten. Die einzelnen Kapitel bauen sukzessive aufeinander auf, e

Overview: Provides an in-depth analysis of smart grid security and privacy.Integrates technical and legal elements of smart grid security.Discusses security challenges that the smart grid faces.Overviews the se.This book on smart grid security is meant for a broad audience from managers to technical experts. It highlights security challenges that are faced in the smart grid as we widely deploy it across the landscape. It starts with a brief overview of the smart grid and then discusses some of the reported attacks on the grid. It covers network threats, cyber physical threats, smart metering t

Overview: 978-3-7643-2254-0978-3-0348-7722-0Series ISSN 2504-3625 Series E-ISSN 2504-3633

Overview: Showcases additive manufacturing techniques for digital fabrication in construction.Presents the proceedings of the 2nd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication (Digital Conc.This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 2nd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication (Digital Concrete), held online and hosted by the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands from 6-9 July 2020. Focusing on additive and automated manufacturing technologies for the fabrication of cementitious construction materials, such as 3D

Overview: Kostenbewusstsein stärken - Aktionismus vermeidenÜbereilter Aktionismus bei Kostensenkungsmaßnahmen verleitet .zu eindimensionalem Denken. Dabei wird mitunter das Ziel der langfristigen .Existenzsicherung verfehlt. Dieses Buch zeigt nicht nur .Instrumente und Maßnahmen, die proaktiv auf eine systematische .Steuerung der Kosten zielen, sondern bietet Lösungsvorschläge .für die Umsetzung in der Praxis. Grundlage bilden traditionelle .Systeme und aktuelle Entwicklungen der Kostenrechnung .und des Controllings. ..Eine ganzheitliche Betrachtung des Kostenmanagements unter .Berücksichtigun

Overview: In this volume the authors provide a survey and an examination of the roots of Swiss banking in order to explain the phenomenal success of Switzerland‘s banks. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Swiss banking did not originate with the exiled Hugenot bankers of Geneva. Centuries before Louis XIV, Basle had become a principal banking centre although it was not yet part of the Swiss Confederation. From historical beginnings to contemporary comparative analysis, the book offers an authoritative explanation and analysis of the success of the Swiss banks.978-1-349-26737-8978-1-349-26735

Overview: YOU HAVE TO OWN THIS BOOK! .Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code. takes an unflinching, no bulls$&# look at behavioral problems in the software engineering industry, shedding much-needed light on the social forces that make it difficult for programmers to do their job. Do you have a co-worker who perpetually writes bad code that you are forced to clean up? This is your book. While there are plenty of books on the market that cover debugging and short-term workarounds for bad code, Reverend Bill Blunden takes a revolutionary step beyond them by bringi

Overview: Security-enriched urban computing and smart grids are areas that attracted many a- demic and industry professionals to research and develop. The goal of this conference was to bring together researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of urban computing and the smart grid. This conference includes the following special sessions: Signal Processing, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Communications (SIPC 2010), Networking, Fault-tolerance and Security For Distributed Computing Systems

Overview: Der kompakte Einstieg in die Sozialstruktur DeutschlandsDer Band bietet eine kompakte Einführung in die Sozialstrukturanalyse am Beispiel der deutschen Gesellschaft. Neben der nach Klasse, Geschlecht, Ethnie und Region strukturierten sozialen Ungleichheit von Einkommen, Beruf und Bildung, die zu den traditionellen Kerngebieten dieser speziellen Soziologie gehört, berücksichtigt er auch umfassend die neuere Diskussion über Lebensstile und soziale Milieus. Den Schwerpunkt des Bandes bilden die Präsentation und Diskussion von theoretisch fundierten Begriffen und Mechanismen zur konzeptu

Overview: Is a thorough introduction to energy methods in engineering.Develops from essential basics to modern numerical simulation methods.Provides a huge number of exercises complete with solutions.This book provides a comprehensive yet concise presentation of the analysis methods of lightweight engineering in the context of the statics of beam structures and is divided into four sections. Starting from very general remarks on the fundamentals of elasticity theory, the first section also addresses plane problems as well as strength criteria of isotropic materials. The second section is devot

Overview: Fully updated textbook includes more in depth coverage of signal integrity topics, uniquely appropriate for computer engineering students.Includes two new chapters on Circuit Board Layout Process and This fully updated and expanded textbook covers designing working systems at very high frequencies. The updated book includes new chapters on Circuit Board Layout Process and Circuit-Board Attacks and Security and more in-depth material on all the original chapters. As with the first edition, this book combines an intuitive, physics-based approach to electromagnetics with a focus on solv

Overview: Enables senior stakeholders to plan for the ongoing evolution of higher-education systems.Uses examples and analyses drawn from international systems to examine the relationship between technology andThis book focuses on developing an understanding of the complex interplay of forces acting on individual universities and higher education systems to enable leaders and practitioners to take purposeful and strategic action. It explores the challenging landscape of higher education and the pressures that are reshaping the university as a societal institution, describing the complex interp

Overview: Presents examples of social marketing campaigns and their effects on raising awareness to achieve the SDGs.Demonstrates the application of the social marketing theory in contributing to the SDGs in prThis book presents high-quality cases on different social marketing campaigns that have been developed by NGOs, Public Administration, and businesses. They will be specifically focused on achieving, or contributing to achieving, the different Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by The United Nations, and how these campaigns can raise awareness and contribute to achieving the SDGs. This

Overview: 978-3-531-12565-7978-3-322-94202-9

Overview: Erste exemplarische und bislang einzige sozialwissenschaftliche Studie des Missbrauchsskandals.Buchveröffentlichung der ersten exemplarischen und bislang einzigen sozialwissenschaftlichen Studie des MMit diesem Buch wird eine sozialwissenschaftliche Studie zu Ursachen und Folgen des über Jahrzehnte anhaltenden Missbrauchs im österreichischen Benediktinerstift Kremsmünster vorgelegt..In Deutschland und Österreich haben Kinder und Jugendliche über Jahrzehnte in Eliteinternaten traumatisierende Erfahrungen mit schwarzer Pädagogik und sexualisierter Gewalt gemacht. Ringe des Schweigens u

Overview: Presents latest topics on supply chain risk and disruption management focused on resilience and sustainability.Provides real-life case studies and situations illustrating the management of supply chai.In this book, a risk management approach starts off by discussing important issues related to managing supply chain disruption risks from various perspectives during VUCA times. It explores the essence and principles relating to managing these risks and provides the framework and multi-goal model groups for managing such unknown-unknown risks and subsequent disruptions at a global scale