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Overview: Comprises detailed description of all facets of a National Forest Inventory, ranging from organizational and methodological aspects to technical details of sampling designs and statistical results ana.The Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a forest survey on national level which started in 1982 and has already reached its 5th survey cycle (NFI5). It can be characterized as a multisource and multipurpose inventory where information is mainly collected from terrestrial field surveys using permanent sample plots. In addition, data from aerial photography, GIS and forest service qu

Overview: A practice oriented book. It "teaches" the reader to pick up knowledge and skills necessary to obtain good and reliable results within the shortest possible time.Didactically clear and easily understaScope of the Book Synthetic and natural polymers exhibit a complex structural and morphological hierarchy on multiple length scales [1], which determines their performance. Thus, research aiming at visualizing structure and morphology using a multitude of microscopy techniques has received considerable attention since the early days of polymer science and technology. Various well-develop

Overview: Presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics.Collects articles devoted to “ FOCUS OF SYMPOSIUM, e.g. Modal Analysis” from the 2015 IMAC Conference.Special Topics in Structural Dynamics., Volume 6: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015, .the sixth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.  The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, includin

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems, SERENE 2014, held in Budapest, Hungary, in October 2014. The 11 revised technical papers presented together with one project paper and one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on design of resilient systems; analysis of resilience; verification and validation; and monitoring.978-3-319-12240-3978-3-319-12241-0Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Mise au point sur la prise en charge des syndromes douloureux chroniques en médecine physique et de réadaptation.L‘ouvrage fait un point sur les connaissances physiopathologiques et l‘apport des nouveLes patients présentant des syndromes douloureux chroniques sont de plus en plus nombreux et adressés par nos collègues d’autres spécialités médicales aux consultations de médecine physique et de réadaptation.Cet ouvrage fait le point sur les progrès scientifiques réalisés sur la compréhension de la douleur chronique cette dernière décennie et met à jour nos connaissances en matière de n

Overview: Explores systematically - for the first time - the users and use of smart home technologies as a critical complement to technology-led design and development.Synthesis across both conceptual framing a.Smart home technologies promise to transform domestic comfort, convenience, security and leisure while also reducing energy use. But delivering on these potentially conflicting promises depends on how they are adopted and used in homes. .This book starts by developing a new analytical framework for understanding smart homes and their users. Drawing on a range of new empirical research c

Overview: .In the Information Society, the smart card, or smart device with its processing power and link to its owner, will be the potential human representation or delegate in Ambient Intelligence (Pervasive Computing), where every appliance or computer will be connected, and where control and trust of the personal environment will be the next decade challenge. ..Smart card research is of increasing importance as the need for information security grows rapidly. Smart cards will play a very large role in ID management in secure systems. In many computer science areas, smart cards introduce ne

Overview: Now revised and updated in a brand new 4th edition here https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030632656An authoriative analysis of Swiss democracy, the institutions of federalism, and consensus democracy through political power sharing. Linder analyses the scope and limits of citizen‘s participation in direct democracy, which distinguishes Switzerland most from parliamentary systems. Central and Eastern Europe and all countries with minority problems could learn much of value from this study.978-0-333-71562-8978-1-349-26045-4

Overview: Selected References in Trauma and Orthopaedics is a compilation of both classical and up-to-date references which gives the examination candidate a well rounded awareness of the orthopedic literature Selected References in Trauma and Orthopaedics is an essential study tool for all those preparing for the orthopedic FRCS (Tr & Orth). This work provides a selection of references from the Trauma and Orthopedic literature, which will be of interest to the surgeon preparing for the Intercollegiate Specialty Board examination, and similar end-of training examinations in other countries. It

Overview: Offers approaches to organizational structure from a specific IT perspective.Looks at IT organizations within a parent business organization or enterprise rather than just organizing technology.Aligns.More and more, the shape of the IT organization is critical to business systems delivery, yet all too often this definition is approached in a haphazard fashion - often based on old theory and out-dated experiences rather than being moulded to the realities of the world in which we work. .Shaping the IT Organization. considers how one should go about the moulding of an IT function in or

Overview: Provides clear guidance on technique and materials.Tissue transfer techniques are described in detail.Written by practicing experts in their respective areas.Complex abdominal wall hernias and complex abdominal wall defects, including stomas or the complications associated with any of the above, are common and challenging for surgeons. The lack of high quality evidence leaves surgeons without clear guidance regarding the selection of technique or material to be used when treating these serious problem. .Surgery of Complex Abdominal Wall Defects. has been written to provide this guida

Overview: Illuminates the contours of late modernity by reviving and revitalizing the social ethics of Plato and Aristotle as a means of understanding our commitments and vulnerabilities enacted through the ritA social tragedy is a collective representation of injustice. Baker demonstrates how social tragedies facilitate moral action and discusses a series of contemporary case studies – the death of Princess Diana, Zinédine Zidane‘s 2006 World Cup scandal, KONY 2012 – to examine their social and political effects.978-1-349-48150-7978-1-137-37913-9Series ISSN 2946-3572 Series E-ISSN 2946-3580

Overview: Der soziologische Gehalt platonischer Philosophie.Beitrag zu den geistesgeschichtlichen Hintergründen soziologischen Denkens.Präzise und gut lesbare EinführungWer nach den Grundlagen der Soziologie sucht, denkt üblicherweise nicht an Platon. Und wer sich grundlegend mit Platon beschäftigt, sucht üblicherweise nicht nach dessen Soziologie. Doch in beiden Fällen wird das Erkenntnispotenzial der Schriften des athenischen Akademielehrers nicht vollständig ausgeschöpft: Das Buch demonstriert, dass Platons Behandlung des Verhältnisses von Philosophie und Politik von einer soziologischen Ko

Overview: Aktuelle sozialwissenschaftliche Beiträge.Includes supplementary material: Zukunftsforschung, Foresight, Futures Studies, aber auch Technikfolgenabschätzung und Trendforschung zeichnen sich durch eine auf die Zukunft gerichtete Forschungsperspektive aus. Daraus ergeben sich grundsätzliche Besonderheiten, die es bei der Konzeption von Studien und der praktischen Forschungsarbeit zu berücksichtigen gilt. Die Beitragsautorinnen und -autoren bieten eine Orientierungshilfe und beschreiben die Gütekriterien und Standards, an denen die Qualität von Ergebnissen und Prozessen der Zukunftsfors

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Overview: 978-3-662-15109-9978-3-540-47935-2Series ISSN 0340-1022 Series E-ISSN 1436-5049

Overview: Displays the life and work of 10 Nobel laureates.Presents interesting background information on how great science is achieved.Presents the history of superconductivity through 100 years of progress.10This book is about the work of 10 great scientists; who they were and are, their personal background and how they achieved their outstanding results and took their prominent place in science history. We follow one of physics and science history‘s most enigmatic phenomena, superconductivity, through 100 years, from its discovery in 1911 to the present, not as a history book in the usual s

Overview: Schlangenlinie als Form und Darstellungsmittel bei Max von Moos, André Thomkins, Aldo Walker und Max Ernst sowie das damit verbundene Interesse am Manierismus sind das Thema des BandesDie Schlange als zweiwertiges Symbol und die Schlangenlinie als Form und Medium gehören zur surrealistischen Kultur. Sie verbindet Jackson Pollock mit Max Ernst. Bei Max von Moos steht die bedrohte menschliche Existenz im Zentrum, und immer wieder begegnet man in seiner Malerei dem Motiv der Schlange. In der nachfolgenden Generation arbeiten André Thomkins und Aldo Walker in Kenntnis seines Werks mit de

Overview: Wissenschaftlich gesichert nach den Kriterien der Evidence-Based-Medicine.Praxis-Plus: Schmerz-Fragebogen, Dosierungsskalen und Überwachungsbogen, wichtige Adressen von Websites und Selbsthilfegruppen.Gerade Kinder haben Anspruch auf eine angemessene Schmerztherapie! ..Lesen Sie aus erster Hand von anerkannten Experten auf dem Gebiet der pädiatrischen Schmerztherapie:..- Aktuelle Erkenntnisse zum Schmerzgeschehen bei Kindern, deren Schmerzwahrnehmung und -verarbeitung,.- Möglichkeiten zur Schmerzanamnese, medikamentösen Therapie und psychologischen Intervention, alternative Verfahren

Overview: Die gut verständliche Einführung zur soziologischen Theorie in Neuauflage.Darstellung der wichtigsten handlungstheoretischen Ansätze.Erklärung moderner Klassiker und neuer Ansätze.Includes supplementa.In diesem Lehrbuch werden die wichtigsten soziologischen Theorien dargestellt und auf Beispiele angewendet. Neben den soziologischen Klassikern Mead, Schütz, Goffman, Garfinkel, Parsons und Homans werden auch die neueren Ansätze von Habermas, Berger und Luckmann, Luhmann, Coleman, Esser, Giddens, Bourdieu, Latour und Foucault dargestellt. Damit gibt das Lehrbuch einen Überblick über Sys