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

Overview: Highlights sustainable innovations in the apparel production sector.Discusses laser based production and smart tailoring in the apparel sector and their implications.Deals with the development of HiggThere have been a lot of innovations in making the garment or apparel production sector sustainable. This book highlights sustainable innovations in the apparel production sector, which is the final destination in the textile production segment. Measuring sustainability in clothing is one of the inevitable areas to deal with when it comes to sustainable apparel production, which is also

Overview: .Stairway to the Mind. explores one of the most exciting and controversial areas of modern science: consciousness and the nature of the mind. The book proposes that consciousness emerges from hierarchical layers of mental reality, in the same way that life emerges from layers of biological reality. The book is aimed at general readers with an interest in the mind and neuroscience, as well as a wide range of scientists whose work is related to the rapidly-growing field of neuroscience and consciousness research.978-1-4612-7566-4978-1-4612-2510-2

Overview: Includes supplementary material: .This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Serious Games, Interaction and Simulation, SGAMES 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2016.. The 19 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote papers and an editorial introduction were carefully reviewed and selected from all the submissions. The papers cover areas like cognition, psychology, technology-enhanced education, evaluation and assessment, multimedia and information technology and feature new scientific approaches a

Overview: The analysis in this book is presented in a unified framework using the non-uniformly weighted Sobolev spaces which lead to simplified analysis and more precise estimates..The book contains, in partic.Along with finite differences and finite elements, spectral methods are one of the three main methodologies for solving partial differential equations on computers. This book provides a detailed presentation of basic spectral algorithms, as well as a systematical presentation of  basic convergence theory and error analysis for spectral methods. Readers of this book will be exposed to a

Overview: For over 200 years, legislators, educators, and public-minded citizens have debated how to govern public schools. This book reviews these debates and discusses racial integration, ethnicity, social class, vouchers, charter, magnet and private schools in the United States, the former German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany.978-1-349-53428-9978-0-312-37622-2

Overview: 978-3-531-22135-9978-3-322-97125-8

Overview: Provides an interdisciplinary model for future cancer supportive care programs.Covers many aspects of supportive care associated with cancer survivorship.Represents an excellent resource for both oncoThis textbook provides a highly coordinated, interdisciplinary model for future clinical cancer supportive care programs in National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Clinical and Comprehensive Cancer Centers and NCI Community Oncology Research Programs (NCORPs). At the same time, it is intended to serve as an up-to-date resource for oncologists and primary care providers that addresses

Overview: Services today account for a major share of employment and national product in the U. S. , with the employment share up from 57 percent immediately post-war to well over 70 percent today (if communications, utilities and transportation are included). This transformation (which is also occurring with varying lags in the othereconomically advanced economies) is driven by a variety of forces : by changes in consumer demand, by the rising demand for health and educational services, by new ways in which businesses are organized and the increasing importance ofcertain functions (e. g. new

Overview: Generate industrial data and manage advanced technologies with Maker sensors and boards.Take advantage of the small size but less expensive, more readily available SBCs in professional settings.Combin.This book Identifies the right sensors and single board computers for any application to achieve the best performance in Industry 4.0 settings and applications. You’ll see what technologies apply the IIoT with elegant efficiency to drastically improve remote monitoring and controlling, decision making, and preventative maintenance. ..Start by learning exactly what Industry 4.0 is and ad

Overview: Includes supplementary material: There has been a resurgence in stereotactic surgery for the treatment of Parkinson‘s disease, tremor, and dystonia, and with it a growing need for up-to-date information about these procedures. In Surgical Treatment of Parkinson‘s Disease and Other Movement Disorders, a panel of highly experienced neurosurgeons, neurophysiologists, neuropsychologists, and neuroanatomists join forces to create an integrated, cutting-edge survey of all the methodologies necessary for successful surgical treatment. On the surgical side they review a variety of techniques

Overview: 978-3-531-12169-7978-3-322-83736-3

Overview: Provides a new paradigm for understanding the past and future of African politics.Helps change thinking by African scholars on how to reconstruct the African state.Is based on actual case studies in eThis book describes the contrast between the strong economic growth and democratization that have occurred in Africa and its stalling political progress. It presents and discusses fragility as the phenomenon that has caused the state to remain weak and faltering and has led to at least one third of the continent’s citizens living in fragile states. Following the examination of the driver

Overview: Ideal basis for lectures, seminars and crash courses on statistical applications in finance.Interactive approach using statistical software.Includes supplementary material: .Statistics of Financial Markets offers a vivid yet concise introduction to the growing field of statistical applications in finance. The reader will learn the basic methods to evaluate option contracts, to analyse financial time series, to select portfolios and manage risks making realistic assumptions of the market behaviour..The focus is both on fundamentals of mathematical finance and financial time series ana

Overview: Contextualizes parks’ design and planning in the discourse on western and eastern traditions.Helps readers grasp the potential social and cultural roles of public parks in dense urban settlements.HighThis book traces the evolution of Singapore’s parks system, from colonial to present times. Further, it contextualizes the design and planning of parks in the general discourse on western and eastern traditions: early twentieth century western conceptions ‘imported’ during colonialism; modernism; postmodernism, and the contemporary ecological debate..Park system planning products respond

Overview: Estimating unknown parameters based on observation data conta- ing information about the parameters is ubiquitous in diverse areas of both theory and application. For example, in system identification the unknown system coefficients are estimated on the basis of input-output data of the control system; in adaptive control systems the adaptive control gain should be defined based on observation data in such a way that the gain asymptotically tends to the optimal one; in blind ch- nel identification the channel coefficients are estimated using the output data obtained at the receiver;

Overview: 978-3-540-07850-0978-3-642-66448-9Series ISSN 0301-5556 Series E-ISSN 2192-7065

Overview: Discusses how heritage is formed, shaped, or constructed by communities by their current requirements, and that community groups are described by their heritage as it represents their identity..Explor.This volume brings together the experiences and research of heritage practitioners, archaeologists, and educators to explore new and unique approaches to heritage studies..The last several decades have witnessed a rapid increase in the field of cultural heritage studies worldwide. This increase in the number of studies and in interest by the public as well as academics has effected subs

Overview: This book presents an overview of various aspects of chromosome research, written by leading experts of the respective fields, combining classic and recent molecular biological results. The variety and comprehensiveness make it a handbook of chromosome research for all scientists, teachers and graduate students interested in this field. Dieses Buch faßt die unterschiedlichen Aspekte der Chromosomenforschung in Beiträgen von führenden Wissenschaftlern zusammen, wobei die klassischen Erkenntnisse mit neuesten Forschungsdaten zu einem umfassenden Überblick über das Gebiet kombiniert wer

Overview: Sustainability Analysis  provides a detailed exploration of current environmental thinking from a variety of perspectives, including institutional and psychological angles. Primarily focusing on macroeconomic policies and green national accounting, this book provides a strong basis for further study in sustainable development.978-1-349-34693-6978-0-230-36243-7

Overview: Offers an original approach and philologically grounded analysis of Montesquieu’s thought.Ties in with debates about European approach to “other” societies and cultures.Examines the roots of Eurocentr.This volume studies a fundamental element of Montesquieu’s argumentative architecture that is most apparent in his .De l’Esprit des Lois.: the problem of giving order to, and establishing a network of consistent explanations of political, social and cultural diversity. Following a thorough and careful analysis of his writings, the volume approaches this subject by observing the use of t