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

Overview: Gerade für ein hochentwickeltes Land wie die Schweiz mit - im internationalen Ver­ gleich - recht hohem Umweltstandard ergeben sich heute die grössten Umweltgefahren aus internationalen bzw. globalen Umweltproblemen: der Abbau der Ozonschicht sowie die möglichen Konsequenzen einer Erwärmung der Erdatmosphäre seien als wichtigste Beispiele genannt. Dagegen scheint sich die Erkenntnis, dass nicht nur der Zustand der natürlichen Umwelt, sondern auch die Möglichkeiten und Chancen der schweizerischen Umweltpolitik nicht unabhängig davon sind, was im Ausland geschieht, im politischen Raum

Overview: Stahl ist der universelle Ingenieurwerkstoff. Die Vielfalt der Stahlsorten (etwa 2000) resultiert daraus, daß unterschiedliche Anwendungsgebiete speziell angepaßte Eigenschaften erfordern. Das Buch vermittelt Kenntnisse über die Zusammenhänge von Gefüge, Wärmebehandlung und Stahleigenschaften. Die Fertigungs- und Gebrauchseigenschaften werden an ausgewählten Stählen erörtert. Der Ingenieur ist somit in der Lage, eine für seine Bedürfnisse optimale Auswahl aus den Stahlsorten zu treffen.978-3-662-10012-7

Overview: Includes a survery of the field of sub-threshold and low-voltage design.An important chapter on optimizing energy dissipation is included.Also included is an invited chapter on analog sub-threshold ciAlthough energy dissipation has improved with each new technology node, because SoCs are integrating tens of million devices on-chip, the energy ex­ pended per operation has become a critical consideration in digital and ana­ log integrated circuits. The focus of this book is sub-threshold circuit design, which involves scaling voltages below the device thresholds. In this region, the en

Overview: This volume is a logical sequel of Volume I, The Search for System: indeed, it concerns the ways theoretical systems are put to work and subjected to test. Yet it can be read independently by anyone familiar with some factual theories, referring back to Volume I when necessary. Special Symbols AS;B the set A is included in the set B AvB the union of the sets A and B AnB the common part of the sets A and B aEB the individual a is in (or belongs to) the set A Card (A) cardinality (numerosity) of the set A AxB Cartesian product of the sets A and B en(A) consequence(s) of the set A of as

Overview: For centuries, artists and designers have been creating communicative graphics. With the advent of new forms of media, the emergence of paradigms such as ubiquitous computing, and the rapid evolution of interaction devices, there is a continuous cycle of renewal of the technologies and methods to support artists, interaction designers and developers. Developingnewapproachesrequiresanunderstandingofthe fundamentals of perception and cognition as they relate to interaction and communication te- nologies, together with arti?cial intelligence and computer graphics techniques to automate

Overview: This book provides an up-to-date coverage of the basic principles of soil mechanics for undergraduate and equivalent students of civil engineering and geotechnics. Structural engineers, foundation, environmental and mining engineers and engineering geologists will also find it an invaluable source of reference.The main aims are to provide the reader with a good understanding of the nature of soil, an appreciation of soil behaviour and insight into how the principles are applied in the practical engineering context.It is the author‘s view that in addition to having a sound knowledge o

Overview: Proceedings of a top-notch meeting in stochastic analysis.Includes notes of a public lecture aimed at a general audience?This volume contains refereed research or review articles presented at the 7th Seminar on Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and Applications which took place at the Centro Stefano Franscini (Monte Verità) in Ascona , Switzerland, in May 2011. The seminar focused mainly on: - stochastic (partial) differential equations, especially with jump processes, construction of solutions and approximations - Malliavin calculus and Stein methods, and other techniques in stocha

Overview: Junge Technologieunternehmen (JTU) tragen mit ihren Produktinnovationen wesentlich zur dynamischen Entwicklung einer Volkswirtschaft bei. Doch nur wenige technologieorientierte Unternehmen sind dauerhaft am Markt erfolgreich. Eine der Hauptursachen für JTU-Mißerfolge liegtin der unzureichenden Formulierung der Markteinführungsstrategien. Ziel der empirischen Untersuchung Harald Rüggebergs ist es, die Vermarktung neu entwickelter Produkte zu unterstützen. Anhand ausgewählter Unternehmensneugründungen analysiert der Autor die zugrundeliegenden Erfolgsfaktoren und stellt die erfolgreich

Overview: Provides a compact, and incipient, introduction to Blockchain Technology and its applications in Supply Chain Finance..Introduces the new concept of reverse securitisation..Provides use-cases for appl.This book investigates how the Blockchain Technology (BCT) for Supply Chain Finance (SCF) programs allows businesses to come together in partnerships and accelerate cash flows throughout the supply chain. BCT promises to change the way individuals and corporations exchange value and information over the Internet, and is perfectly positioned to enable new levels of collaboration among th

Overview: Provides assessment models and case studies in specific countries for smart cities and smart governments.Analyzes emergent technologies and fundamental concepts of smart cities and smart governments.I​This book will provide one of the first comprehensive approaches to the study of smart city governments with theories and concepts for understanding and researching 21st century city governments innovative methodologies for the analysis and evaluation of smart city initiatives. The term “smart city” is now generally used to represent efforts that in different ways describe a comprehensi

Overview: Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope.Scars is a novel about whiteness, racism, and breaking past the normative boundaries of heterosexuality, as experienced through eighteen year old Savannah Penelope Sales. Savannah is a Black girl, born and raised in a white, working class, and rural New England town. She is in denial of her lesbian sexuality, harbors internalized racism about her body, and is ashamed of being poor. She lives with her ailing mother whose Emphysema is a symptom of a mysterious past of suffering and sacrifice that Savannah is not privy

Overview: .This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems, SERENE 2019, held in Naples, Italy, in September 2019...The 5 full papers and 4 short papers presented together with 1 keynote and 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 12 submissions. They cover the following areas: resilience engineering in complex and critical applications; testing and validation methods; security, trust and privacy management..978-3-030-30855-1978-3-030-30856-8Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Quality of results and processes in futures studies.Research perspective directed towards the future.Guidance for scientists and practitionersForesight, futures studies, but also technology assessment and trend research are characterized by a research perspective directed towards the future. These results in fundamental peculiarities have to be taken into account in the conception of studies and in practical research work. The contributions to this anthology offer guidance for scientists and practitioners and describe the criteria and standards by which the quality of results and pro

Overview: Indispensable guide to a subject which draws on many areas of engineering: thermodynamics and combustion, fluid mechanics and heat transfer mechanics, stress analysis, materials science, electronics a.Introduction to Internal Combustion Engines., now in its third edition, remains the most comprehensive text for students beginning thermodynamics courses, as well as those taking specialist subjects.With the addition of new material including fuel chemistry, additive performance and variable geometry turbocharging, the book provides an indispensable introduction to students and professi

Overview: Challenges accepted wisdom on real wage series.Outlines the problems with existing data and proposes improvements.Brings together diverse attacks on real wages.The quality of life experienced by people in the past is one of the most important areas of historical enquiry, and the standard of living of populations is one of the leading measures of the economic performance of nations. Yet how accurate is the information on which these judgments are based? This collection of essays, written by renowned scholars in the fields of labour, wage and welfare history, cogently undermine the val

Overview: This book presents the proceedings of the course "Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Collective Excitations in Solids" held in Erice, Italy from June 17 to July 1, 1995. This meeting was organized by the International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy of the "Ettore Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture. The purpose of this course was to present and discuss physical models, mathematical formalisms, experimental techniques and applications relevant to the subject of collective excitations in solids. By bringing together specialists in the field of solid state spectroscopy, this

Overview: Rigorous theoretical derivation of sampling and population-based algorithms enables the reader to expand on the work presented in the certainty that new results will have a sound foundation.New chapteMarkov decision process (MDP) models are widely used for modeling sequential decision-making problems that arise in engineering, economics, computer science, and the social sciences.  Many real-world problems modeled by MDPs have huge state and/or action spaces, giving an opening to the curse of dimensionality and so making practical solution of the resulting models intractable.  In othe

Overview: Presents the essence of the theory on smooth manifolds.Covers key topics such as submanifolds, tensor fields, Lie groups, integration (including Stokes’ theorem and De Rham cohomology), as well as manThis concise and practical textbook presents the essence of the theory on smooth manifolds. A key concept in mathematics, smooth manifolds are ubiquitous: They appear as Riemannian manifolds in differential geometry; as space-times in general relativity; as phase spaces and energy levels in mechanics; as domains of definition of ODEs in dynamical systems; as Lie groups in algebra and geo

Overview: Follows a clear and easy structure covering core topics in the discipline.States the aims of each chapter for ease of referenceWritten by a star cast of contributors, this introductory undergraduate text provides students with a rich, stimulating and authoritative account of key debates and issues in sociology today. Carefully structured and edited to take account of the undergraduate student reader‘s needs, the essays explore sociological understandings of a range of core topics and critically examines what key issues have emerged for debate from past and current research..

Overview: Die wesentlichen häufig vorkommenden, aber schwierig durchzuführenden Operationstechniken im Bereich "Sprunggelenk und Rückfuß".Ca. 230 brillante Abbildungen.Step-by-step-Anleitungen.Dargestellt von rDie Buchreihe „Meistertechniken in der operativen Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie“ erlaubt es dem operativ tätigen Orthopäden und Unfallchirurgen, den Autoren - alle sind Meister ihres Faches - beim Operieren direkt über die Schulter zu schauen. Beschrieben werden häufige, aber erfahrungsgemäß schwierige Probleme und Techniken so, dass der erfahrene, aber im jeweiligen Gebiet nicht hochsp