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

Overview: With the end of the Cold War, the security concerns of the USA, the sole Superpower in the new international order, became fragmented and proliferated throughout the world. Since September 11 2001 and the war in Iraq, the US has had to evaluate new global developments in terms of the threats they pose to regional and global stability. The nature of the potential enemy is difficult to anticipate. United States Post-Cold War Defence Interests gathers together seasoned analysts to examine traditional military concerns and responses to the new environment.978-1-349-41565-6978-0-230-00083

Overview: Offers a more tightly knitted and concrete analysis on the governance issues of China’s urbanization.Examines how China’s urban governance needs to evolve and respond to the challenges of urbanizationThis book explores the process of urbanization and the profound challenges to China’s urban governance. Economic productivity continues to rise, with increasingly uneven distribution of prosperity and accumulation of wealth. The emergence of individual autonomy including demands for more freedom and participation in the governing process has asked for a change of the traditional top-down

Overview: Offers a concrete perspective on the use of mobile devices for ubiquitous learning.Provides an update on social web technologies in formal and informal educational settings.Includes an expanded sectio​This edited volume with selected expanded papers from CELDA (Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age) 2011 (http://www.celda-­‐conf.org/) will focus on Ubiquitous and Mobile Informal and Formal Learning in the Digital Age, with sub-topics: Mobile and Ubiquitous Informal and Formal Learning Environments (Part I), Social Web Technologies for new knowledge representation, ret

Overview: Bietet eine systematische Aufbereitung der Wissens- und Strukturelemente.Illustriert mit farbigen Bildern die zentralen Begriffe, Orte oder Themen der Umweltgeschichte.Erläutert umwelthistorisches Arb.Dieses Buch behandelt die historischen Voraussetzungen, die zum heutigen Zustand der Ökosysteme unter menschlichem Einfluss geführt haben. Es befasst sich mit den Voraussetzungen und Grundannahmen, auf denen die Rezeptions- und Rekonstruktionsforschung der Umweltgeschichte aufbaut. Umweltgeschichte ist damit ein zentrales Element der ökologischen Grundbildung. Ohne Verständnis der syste

Overview: Assesses the economic and emotional experience of unmarried mothers in London from 1700 to 1850.Considers the delivery of poor relief and the system of affiliation which held parents responsible for tIn this book Samantha Williams examines illegitimacy, unmarried parenthood and the old and new poor laws in a period of rising illegitimacy and poor relief expenditure. In doing so, she explores the experience of being an unmarried mother from courtship and conception, through the discovery of pregnancy, and the birth of the child in lodgings or one of the new parish workhouses. Although

Overview: Provides evidence based research and in-depth analyses of contemporary reforms in urban India.Offers methodological propositions contextual to complex geographical coverage.Considers a wide sample covThis book investigates institutional dimensions of urban water supply in India, with a specific focus on institutional capabilities to provide drinking water to urban households in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner. This book has been developed through empirical research within the context of growing urbanisation and increasing water needs of Indian cities, and the wider dev

Overview: In Understanding Psychological Bonds between Individuals and Organizations the author integrates different theoretical perspectives on how individuals form deep, meaningful, and self-defining relationships with their employing organization and proposes a novel and comprehensive take on key triggers and processes associated with such relationships.978-1-349-34893-0978-1-137-03397-0

Overview: This book contains the proceedings of the workshop Uncertainty in Geomet­ ric Computations that was held in Sheffield, England, July 5-6, 2001. A total of 59 delegates from 5 countries in Europe, North America and Asia attended the workshop. The workshop provided a forum for the discussion of com­ putational methods for quantifying, representing and assessing the effects of uncertainty in geometric computations. It was organised around lectures by invited speakers, and presentations in poster form from participants. Computer simulations and modelling are used frequently in science an

Overview: A concise, practical summary of vaccine concerns.Provides a simple, memorable management strategy called CASE that can be used by healthcare providers to address vaccine concerns.Includes practical ex.Smallpox, measles, diphtheria, polio: vaccines have diminished their power, and in some cases, eradicated these dreaded diseases. Yet this century has seen growing numbers of parents refusing vaccinations for their children, not only endangering them but also increasing the risk of outbreaks and epidemics of vaccine-preventable diseases..Understanding and Managing Vaccine Concerns. conc

Overview: 978-3-662-39126-6978-3-662-40109-5

Overview: 978-3-662-31819-5978-3-662-32645-9

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-94-011-8742-8978-94-011-9597-3

Overview: 978-3-531-02798-2978-3-322-87832-8

Overview: Uses participatory methodologies that engage children and young people as co-researchers.Analyses how we can enhance cooperation between the home, schools, and the wider community.Links to SDGs as theThis Open Access book presents an in-depth portrait of the use and impact of digital technologies by learners ages 5-18 years in their everyday lives. The portrait is framed by the ecological-systems theory and situated across four domains: home, leisure time, education, and civic participation. Various methodological approaches are used in innovative ways to analyze data collected in a

Overview: 978-3-663-03312-7978-3-663-04501-4

Overview: The first book to introduce user-centric ultra-dense network (UUDN) for 5G, including the concept, challenges, architecture and key technologies.Proposes the novel principle of “de-cellular” and “user.This is the first book to introduce UUDN for 5G, including the concept, challenges, architecture and key technologies...The new network architecture based on “de-cellular” and “user-centric” is proposed with three kinds of decoupling: user plane and control plane decoupling from radio access, control and transmission decoupling from network, local service and network service decoupling.

Overview: For the last eighteen years, I have been teaching an introductory course in as­ trophysics. The course is intended for nonscience majors satisfying a general education requirement in natural science. It is a physics course with applications in astronomy. The only prerequisite is the high school mathematics required for ad­ mission to the university. For a number of years, I used an astronomy text, which I supplemented with lecture notes on physics. There are many good astronomy texts available, but this was not a satisfactory state of affairs, since the course is a physics course. Th

Overview: 1 Unsere Unternehmen und unsere Gesellschaften befinden sich im Umbruch. Die westlichen Gesellschaften entwickeln sich weg von Industrie- und hin zu Informationsgesellschaften. Die Her­ stellung von Gütern und die Gewinnung von Rohstoffen zu deren Produktion verliert für die Wohlfahrt, die Wertschöpfung, den Reichtum und die Arbeitswelt in unserem sozialen Gefüge immer mehr an Bedeutung. Der Informationssektor hingegen wird immer bedeutender. Dies hat Auswirkungen auf alle Berei­ che unseres Lebens, auch und vor allem auf den Umgang mit Informationen innerhalb der Unternehmen. Der se

Overview: Educates the qualified nurse responsible for monitoring drug safety and or prescribing medications.Provides the reader with concepts of processes linked to medication safety and applied to nursing praThis textbook provides a structured, informed approach to the understanding and appreciation of drug action and effect providing a detailed description and discussion of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics for nurses..The text focuses and emphasizes safe prescribing and administration of medication highlighting the possible harm to patient in terms of adverse reactions..This book also

Overview: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: .Andreas Matzke zeigt auf Basis einerumfassenden Analyse von Upgrade-Auktionen, wie durch ihren Einsatz Erlösegesteigert sowie Bedarfsschwankungen im Produktions- und Zuliefernetzwerk verringertwerden können. So können Unternehmen mit kundenindividueller AuftragsmontageUpgrade-Auktionen einsetzen, um bestehende Kundenaufträge aufzuwerten und Restkapazitätenzu vermarkten. Unter Rückgriff auf Grundlagen der Prospect-Theorieidentifiziert der Autor Bedingungen für einen erfolgreichen Einsatz vonUpgrade-Auktionen und lei