BOOKS with Alphabet U (Ua, Ub,Uc, Ud, Ue…... )

Overview: This book uncovers the crucial role of the connective tissues in chronic rheumatic diseases, leading to major advances in understanding and treatment. It contains new clinical research and describes the authors own treatment method, developed over many years, using the ‘rheumatic patch‘. An up-to-date review of lectinology is also included. This thought-provoking book will be of particular interest to rheumatologists and GPs, but also to interested medical researchers.

Overview: Every year between three and four hundred papers are published on the topic of insulin action. This extraordinary publication rate prevents any author from includ­ ing an exhaustive bibliography in any review or book. Perhaps due to this there is no single text that attempts to cover the effects and the mechanism of action of insulin. This book is such an attempt. I intend to present a review of the physiological effects of insulin, the pathology of defects in the action of insulin, and the current views on the mechanism of action of this hormone. I make no apology for the fact that

Overview: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: Bei Preisänderungsentscheidungen in Unternehmen ist die Antizipation von Kundenreaktionen auf Preisänderungen zentraler Bestandteil der Überlegungen des Managements. Thomas R.W. Schmidt untersucht, welche Informationen Preisentscheider zur Antizipation von Kundenreaktionen auf Preisänderungen nutzen und welche Kontextfaktoren auf die Informationsnutzung wirken. Er berücksichtigt dabei neben klassischen Antizipationsmöglichkeiten, wie Preisabsatzfunktion und Preiselastizitäten, Erkenntnisse der verhaltenswissenschaft

Overview: Provides detailed insight into the challenges faced by universities.Offers specific options for change in Arab universities.Highlights the importance of governance, funding business engagement and gen.This book provides an overview of the current state of universities in the Arab world, and how they have the potential to transform society to raise the quality of life and stimulate wealth. The main themes progress from general to the specific.  Each chapter providing an overview followed by factual analysis and options for the way forward...All of the major challenges facing universit

Overview: 978-3-531-12808-5978-3-322-83265-8

Overview: Die zunehmenden Probleme bei der Finanzierung gesetzlicher Rentenversicherungen erfordern den Umstieg auf zusätzliche Altersversorgungssysteme. Stefan Bogner untersucht aus finanzwirtschaftlicher Perspektive, ob unmittelbare betriebliche Rentenzusagen sowohl für das Unternehmen als auch für den einzelnen Mitarbeiter eine sinnvolle Alternative darstellen. Im Mittelpunkt der Analyse steht der Einfluß von Steuern und asymmetrisch verteilten Informationen auf die Vorteilhaftigkeit direkter betrieblicher Rentenzusagen. Darüber hinaus werden die grundsätzlichen Effekte der deutschen und ös

Overview: .Understanding Third World Politics. is a critical introduction to theories of political development and the comparative politics of the Third World. Following a review of the nature of the Third World, its commonalities and increasing diversity, and debates about its definition, Part Two provides an account of theories of its origins and subsequent evolution. Part Three assesses attempts to theorise political institutions in Third World States while Part Four considers the reasons for their frequent instability.

Overview: 978-3-409-13472-9978-3-322-99483-7

Overview: Is the first non-European and non-North American study explaining failures of merger attempts.Employs two complementary theoretical constructs to explain the maintenance of professional boundaries.Off.This book presents the first non-European and non-North American comprehensive study explaining failures of key merger attempts by Australia’s two leading accounting bodies..It employs two complementary theoretical constructs namely, boundary work and exclusiveness versus market control, to explain the maintenance of professional boundaries in the Australian accounting profession..In do

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Overview: 978-3-540-06659-0978-3-540-37933-1Series ISSN 0075-8434 Series E-ISSN 1617-9692

Overview: Provides a comprehensive introduction to universal algebraic logic.Illustrates applications of algebraic logic with proofs of theorems and cases of study.Can be used in the classroom for three courses.This book gives a comprehensive introduction to Universal Algebraic Logic. The three main themes are (i) universal logic and the question of what logic is, (ii) duality theories between the world of logics and the world of algebra, and (iii) Tarskian algebraic logic proper including algebras of relations of various ranks, cylindric algebras, relation algebras, polyadic algebras and othe

Overview: A number of contemporary issues in China.Rich statistical analysis and case studies in multidisciplinary frameworks.Studies at both micro and macro levels.Strong policy implications and recommendationThis book aims to provide a scholarly account of recent understandings and reflections on some of the prevalent and emerging issues in urban and regional China, such as urbanization, inequality, hukou (household registration) reforms, labor relations, not-in-my-backyard protests and environmental governance. Presenting rich data analysis and case studies, these book chapters together uti

Overview: Unfälle durch Blitzschlag erkennen und adäquat versorgen.Akutversorgung und Nachsorge häufiger Folgeerkrankungen.Besonderheiten der ärztlichen Leichenschau bei Tod durch Blitzschlag.Das Buch stellt die relevanten medizinischen Aspekte bei einem Unfall durch Blitzschlag praxisnah und mit Fallbeispielen belegt dar: Arten der Energieübertragung, meteorologische und elektrotechnische Grundlagen, notfallmedizinische Erstversorgung sowie Überblick über die häufigsten, in der internationalen Literatur beschriebenen Folgeerkrankungen und deren Behandlung. Weitere Themen sind die Besonderheit

Overview: Das Lehr- und Praxisbuch zur Umsetzung von Methoden der Unterstützten Kommunikation in der Sprachtherapie.Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele und konkrete Therapieideen.Plus: Arbeitsmaterialien als Download zum .Immer mehr Logopädinnen nutzen Methoden der Unterstützten Kommunikation als Bestandteil ihres Behandlungsrepertoires, um Menschen mit kommunikativen Beeinträchtigungen optimal zu unterstützen. ..Dieses Buch bietet angehenden und praktisch tätigen Logopädinnen alles Wichtige zu den Methoden der Unterstützten Kommunikation bei Kindern und Erwachsenen, ihren Anwendungsbereichen, ihrer Effe

Overview: Explores scholarly questions of diaspora mobilization and transnationalism from an Australia and Pacific perspective.Brings together inter-disciplinary scholarship that highlights the diversity and co.This book brings together new research that engages with the concept of diaspora from a uniquely Australian perspective and provides a timely contribution to the development of research-informed policy, both in the Australian context and more broadly. It builds on the understanding of the complex drivers and domains of diaspora transnationalism and its implications for countries and peo

Overview: Enriches your understanding of information, technology, the information society and the relationship between them.Explores how information is understood in a variety of domains.Presents the life-cycle.The motivation of this edited book is to generate an understanding about information, related concepts and the roles they play in the modern, technology permeated world. In order to achieve our goal, we observe how information is understood in domains, such as cosmology, physics, biology, neuroscience, computer science, artificial intelligence, the Internet, big data, information societ

Overview: 978-3-322-98322-0978-3-322-99043-3

Overview: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: Basierend auf einem kompetenztheoretischen Ansatz und qualitativer Empirie untersucht Matthis Schneegaß grundlegende Ursache-Wirkungs-Zusammenhänge der De-Internationalisierung in mittelständischen deutschen Familienunternehmen. Mittels der Competence-based Theory of the Firm werden vorläufige Ursachenbereiche innerhalb des Familienunternehmenssystems identifiziert und diese zu mehr oder minder effektiven Formen der De-Internationalisierung in Bezug gesetzt. Durch explorative Fallstudienarbeit werden diese Kausalann

Overview: Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols.Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results.Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts.Includes supplementary materia.This volume details standard techniques for the characterization of urothelial carcinoma as well as methods to investigate mechanisms of carcinogenesis.  Chapters guide readers on cellular and animal models for urothelial carcinoma and related diseases, molecular analyses from body fluids, and new approaches to therapy. Written in the highly successful .Methods in Molecular Biology .ser