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Overview: Introduces a new paradigm – the ‘wise’ home, which shall supersede the ‘smart’ home.Provides options for following more human-centric design processes.Explores the challenges that techno-centrism pose.This book introduces the concept of the wise home. Whilst smart homes focus on automation technologies, forcing users to deal with complex and incomprehensible control and programming procedures, the wise home is different. By going beyond intelligence (or smartness) the wise home puts technology in the background and supports explicit (enhanced user-experience) as well as implicit (art

Overview: 978-3-642-88347-7978-3-642-88346-0Series ISSN 0083-5846

Overview: Informs on the life and legacy of Fernando González Rey.Includes empirical case studies with theory to introduce and illustrate concepts.Offers interdisciplinary discussions in the fields of education.This book examines key ideas related to the Theory of Subjectivity within a cultural-historical approach. It brings together the intellectual contributions made by Professor Fernando González Rey (1949–2019) towards understanding human subjectivity, and emphasizing their unfolding in different fields and contexts. ..The book addresses the genesis and development of González Rey’s work,

Overview: Presents a general theory and application of translocality.Studies a corpus of contemporary novels rather than examining a particular city.Contributes to a greater understanding of narrative strategie.Translocality in Contemporary City Novels. responds to the fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly characterised by translocality—the layering and blending of two or more distant settings. Considering translocal and transcultural writing as a global phenomenon, this book draws on multidisciplinary research, from globalisation theory to the study of narratives t

Overview: The last thirty years have seen an unprecedented increase in the discovery of new drugs, and moreover, these drugs, unlike many of the nostra of former times, have varied and powerful pharmacological actions. The occurrence of one or two "drug disasters", together with a change in public attitudes, has made it necessary for governments to introduce legislation to control the intro­ duction and release of new therapeutic agents, and most countries in the Western World have some form of drug licensing agency. Whole series of regulations have appeared which aim at discovering and defini

Overview: Discusses uncertainty management while including the issues of complexity and path dependence.Complements the growing body of work on disruptive innovations by concentrating on the processes leading t.Product and service innovations are the result of mutually interacting creative and coordination tasks within a system that has to balance technical decisions, marketplace taste, personnel management, and stakeholder commitment. The constituent elements of such systems are often scattered across multiple firms and across the globe and constitute a complex system consisting of many inter

Overview: Die Erwartungen des Kapitalmarktes gewinnen für die Innovationsentwicklung an Bedeutung.Namhafte Verantwortungsträger aus den Bereichen Telekommunikation und Kapitalmarkt setzen sich erstmalig mit der Frage des Einflusses des Kapitalmarktes auf Investitionen in der Telekommunikationsbranche auseinander:..- In welcher Weise beeinflusst der Kapitalmarkt (z. B. Analysten, Fonds, Finanzpresse, Anlegerpublikum, allgemeine Börsentendenzen und -klimata, aber auch die Merger und Acquisition-Komponenten des Kapitalmarktes) die Prioritäten und Handlungsweisen der Unternehmen des Telekommunikat

Overview: This volume is a collection of papers which were presented at the Conference "The EU and Emerging Markets" organized by the Research Institute for European Affairs and ECSA Austria at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration on 5/6 June 2007. The intention of this conference was to discuss the manifold aspects which evolve in the relation of the EU with emerging markets in Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America both with trade and investment. These markets have become more and more important for the EU which is reflected in the EU´s important initiatives for trade a

Overview: Presents a novel approach to understanding and supporting capacities for transformative climate governance in governance research and practice.Includes two in-depth case studies on how these capacitie.How to progress climate science to be policy-relevant and actionable? This book presents a novel framework to give a positive vision and structuring approach to guide research and practice on transformative climate governance, to shift the narrative from apathy and stalemate to action and transformation. Our vision contrasts existing climate governance and associated lock-ins that signi

Overview: Includes supplementary material: 978-3-540-47122-6Series ISSN 1615-1844 Series E-ISSN 1616-9522

Overview: This wide-ranging book sets discussion of the various approaches to local government decentralisation in the context of the changing nature of public service management and the possibilities for new kinds of public involvement in government decision-making. It draws on a wide range of experiences throughout the UK as well as the findings of an in-depth study of the impact of radical decentralisation strategies in two inner London boroughs to provide an authoritative assessment of the politics of decentralisation.

Overview: Includes rigorous econometrics encompassing state-of-the-art techniques such as gravity models, panel cointegration, generalized hyperbolic distributions, SEM, FMOLS and Probit models.Focuses on empirThe book contributes to the growing literature pertaining to empirical and policy issues in international trade, foreign capital flows and issues in finance, implications for India and emerging economies related to trade and development interface, and analysis of sector level growth and development in India. Further, the focus is on the policy aspects of these themes and their role in fo

Overview: The Definitive Guide to Mongo..DB, Third Edition, shows you how to install, model, and work with data in Mongo..DB, and write applications for Mongo..The Definitive Guide to MongoDB, Third Edition., is updated for MongoDB 3 and includes all of the latest MongoDB features, including the aggregation framework introduced in version 2.2 and hashed indexes in version 2.4. The Third Edition also now includes Python. .MongoDB is the most popular of the "Big Data" NoSQL database technologies, and it‘s still growing. David Hows from 10gen, along with experienced MongoDB authors Peter Membrey

Overview: This series is dedicated to serving the growing community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the principles and applications of environmental management. Each volume is a thorough treatment of a specific topic of importance for proper management practices. A fundamental objective of these books is to help the reader discern and implement man‘s stewardship of our environment and the world‘s renewable resources. For we must strive to understand the relationship between man and nature, act to bring harmony to it, and nurture an environment that is both stable and productive. T

Overview: Winner of the 2019 Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences Best Monograph Award.Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain.  .The Germ of an Idea. considers British contagionism in its religious, social, political and professional context from the Great Plague of London to the adoption of smallpox inoculation.It shows how ideas about contagion changed medicine and the understanding of acute diseases. .978-1-349-57558-9978-1-137-57529-6

Overview: This book examines the polarization of positions surrounding the transnational boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement aimed at ending the Israeli occupation. The author compares four US-based case studies in which activists for and against BDS struggle over issues of identity, morality, legitimacy, and conceptions of "peace."978-1-349-46814-0978-1-137-34986-6

Overview: Up-to-date coverage of the techniques presently in use.Focuses on visualisation modules of GI software and systems.Meant as a guide to researchers and practitioners to assess the current state of True.As corroborated by the never-sagging and even increasing interest within the last decade, the intuitive attraction of "True 3D" in geodata presentation is well worth covering its current status and recent developments in a compendium like the present one. It covers most aspects of (auto-) stereoscopic representation techniques of both topographic and thematic geodata, be they haptic or

Overview: In international law the authority of the writers has been great and the Statute of the International Court of Justice still takes cognizance of them as subsidiary sources. Yet it has been widely recognized that on many points writers, even of the most respecta­ ble authority, have merely repeated the statements of their predecessors, sometimes with the result that error or some indivi­ dual dogma or predilection has been perpetuated. The three-mile limit of territorial waters, for example, was long identified with the range of cannon and with the famous dictum of Galiani until moder

Overview: Topical study in the field of psychology.Includes supplementary material: Franziska Eller investigated the effectiveness of individualized Neurofeedback training in addition to a comprehensive basic neurodevelopmental therapy for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The results clearly speak for the benefits of a supplemental Neurofeedback training, since QEEG recordings revealed positive changes in the children’s brain wave activity after only a few weeks of training. Furthermore behavioral aspects and imitation abilities were assessed using two autism questionnaires and a

Overview: Graphs can be used to convey information about relationshipsin manyapplications. State transition diagrams, PERT/CPMcharts, and entity-relationship diagrams are a few examplesof many applicationsinvolving graphs. Typically, nodes inthe graph represent items in theapplication and the edgesrepresent the relationships among these items. Agrapheditor is an interactive tool that presents a graph to theuser pictorially and allows the user to edit the graph.This monograph presentsthe design of an extendible grapheditor, which is a graph editor that canbe adapted easilyto many different appl