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

Overview: Global university rankings are now more than a decade old and this book uses the data they have produced to examine how the international landscape of universities has changed over the years. It offers new insights into the power and limits of league tables, a key element of globalized higher education that can be deplored but hardly ignored. Case studies from Asia, Europe and North America are explored to highlight the issues raised by a quantitative exercise that decontextualizes what is linked so strongly to local factors. .978-1-137-46999-1

Overview: Jedes Jahr verursacht unsere bisherige Produktions- und Verbrauchsweise große Mengen an Hausmüll. An Industrieabfall, Bauschutt und Bodenaushub kommt noch die zehnfache Abfallmenge hinzu. Weit über die Hälfte dieser Mengen werden bisher deponiert. Sowohl aus geologischen als auch aus politischen Gründen ist das noch verfügbare Volumen der bundesdeutschen Deponien begrenzt und reicht nur noch wenige Jahre aus. Ein Umdenken in der Abfallwirtschaft ist daher erforderlich: Abfälle müssen in großen Mengen vermieden oder wieder verwertet werden. Dazu ist es notwendig, daß Produktions- und

Overview: Provides a new theoretical framework for understanding fertility variation and change.Integrates family demography with social theory.Synthesizes knowledge from social and cognitive sciences.Provides .Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time. Over the last three decades, social demographers have made remarkable progress in documenting these axes of variation, but theoretical models to explain family change and variation have lagged behind. At the same time, our sister disciplines—from cultural anthropology to social psychology to cognitive science

Overview: Provides a rigorous yet intuitive and accessible introduction to abstract algebra.Treats conceptually similar themes from different areas of algebra in a unified manner.Includes numerous examples and .This textbook offers an innovative approach to abstract algebra, based on a unified treatment of similar concepts across different algebraic structures. This makes it possible to express the main ideas of algebra more clearly and to avoid unnecessary repetition..The book consists of two parts: .The Language of Algebra. and .Algebra in Action.. The unified approach to different algebraic

Overview: Demonstrates how the contemporary city can be seen – and used – as a resource for corporate innovation.Combines management thinking with urban theory and the sociology of networks.Presents case studie.This book offers fresh insights into how companies can engage with, and make use of, the modern metropolis. Based on actor-network theory and the resource-based view of the firm, it demonstrates how the contemporary city can be seen – and used – as a resource for corporate innovation. The main argument is that companies have to build what the author calls “urban innovation networks.” Af

Overview: This introduction to the SQL database manipulation language, based around the 1986 ANSI standard, uses DB2, dBASE IV SQL, Informix and Oracle as representatives of the range of over 50 SQL implementations.978-0-333-52433-6978-1-349-11552-5Series ISSN 2946-8973 Series E-ISSN 2946-8981

Overview: This book develops a policy framework and potential institutional responses to unlock the relevant markets for smallholders.Documents the key findings of a study designed to investigate the institutioThis book assesses the institutional, technical and market constraints as well as opportunities for smallholders, notably, emerging farmers in disadvantaged areas such as the former homelands of South Africa. Emerging farmers are previously disadvantaged black people who started or will start their business with the support of special government programs. Public support programs have bee

Overview: No other book on unitals, this book will fill that void.Text is clear and easy to follow.Book is well-structured and comprehensive with excellent diagramsThis book is a monograph on unitals embedded in ?nite projective planes. Unitals are an interesting structure found in square order projective planes, and numerous research articles constructing and discussing these structures have appeared in print. More importantly, there still are many open pr- lems, and this remains a fruitful area for Ph.D. dissertations. Unitals play an important role in ?nite geometry as well as in related ar

Overview: Die bei Unternehmensakquisitionen erhofften Synergieeffekte bleiben häufig aus. Deshalb ist eine sorgfältige, rational unterstützte Akquisitionsplanung ein ausschlaggebender Erfolgsfaktor...Dem entscheidungstheoretischen Dekompositionsprinzip folgend präsentiert Christoph A. Butz anstelle der vielfach üblichen kasuistischen Verfahren ein quantitatives, in sich geschlossenes Wirkungsmodell. Er gliedert seine Arbeit nach der Formulierung von Alternativen, Zielen und Wirkungsmodell; der Akzent liegt dabei auf den Synergiepotenzialen im Finanzbereich, die vor allem aus Gewinnsteuern, Ins

Overview: The book presents recent advances in signal processing techniques for modeling, analysis, and understanding of the heart‘s electrical activity during atrial fibrillation. This arrhythmia is the most commonly encountered in clinical practice and its complex and metamorphic nature represents a challenging problem for clinicians, engineers, and scientists. Research on atrial fibrillation has stimulated the development of a wide range of signal processing tools to better understand the mechanisms ruling its initiation, maintenance, and termination. This book provides undergraduate and gr

Overview: Implementation of an ensemble of machine learning classifiers that forecasts which stocks will beat the market.Implementing a Risk-off filter that indicates high market risks.Study the precision of th.This book develops a quantitative stock market investment methodology using financial indicators that beats the benchmark of S&P500 index. To achieve this goal, an ensemble of machine learning models is meticulously constructed, incorporating four distinct algorithms: support vector machine, k-nearest neighbors, random forest, and logistic regression. These models all make use of financ

Overview: This book focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of São Paulo and made lasting contributions to the development of modern Brazil.978-1-349-28755-0978-0-230-11403-6

Overview: Internet-Chancen für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen978-3-322-82699-2978-3-322-82698-5

Overview: Discusses an issue that is frequently ignored in mainstream literature. Uses casestudies throughout to highlight points made. Written in a clear, accessible and user-friendly style.Understanding People. provides an overview and critique of current psychological assumptions about people and what differentiates them, and replaces them with a set of ideas taken from social constructionism.It begins with an examination of contemporary theories, then explores the critique of the social constructionists, before laying out the basis of an understanding of human action and behaviour, drawing

Overview: 978-3-663-03300-4978-3-663-04489-5

Overview: Consists of case studies in Blockchain applications.Covers aspects of AI, augumented reality and Blockchain in the cloud.Contains practical examples to explain various aspects of Blockchain transactioDesign, architect, and build Blockchain applications with Azure in industrial scenarios to revolutionize conventional processes and data security. This book will empower you to build better decentralized applications that have stronger encryption, better architectures, and effective deployment structures over the cloud. .You’ll start with an overview of Blockchain, distributed networks,

Overview: The world’s first global assessment of the effects of urbanization on biodiversity and ecosystem services.Presents the latest state-of-the-art of urbanization, and identifies crucial knowledge gaps th.Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social-technological process. It is also a social-ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have impacts on, the biosphere at different scales from local to global. The book is a global assessment and delivers four main conclusions:.Urban areas are

Overview: 978-3-540-09881-2978-3-642-52207-9Series ISSN 0585-7880

Overview: This book presents selected papers from an internationalworkshop devoted tothe theory, techniques and tools ofdecision analysis and support. Majortrends in thedevelopment of this field are stressed, such as the tendencyto place the final user of a decision support system inthecenter of attention, or an emerging connection between toolsandsoftware environments for modeling and for decisionsupport. The volume is acontinuation of the reports onearlier meetings which were published in the same series.978-3-540-56382-2978-3-662-22587-5Series ISSN 0075-8442 Series E-ISSN 2196-9957

Overview: eine medienwissenschaftliche StudieSabine Pabst untersucht deskriptiv Praxis und Diskurse zu anonymer Autorschaft anhand von einschlägigen Lexika und Fallbeispielen aus dem 18. Jahrhundert. Diese kontrastiert sie mit historischen und theoretischen Erörterungen etwa in der Literatur- und Rechtswissenschaft. Zudem ergänzt die Autorin ihre Analyse zu den Periodika der Aufklärung durch die Betrachtung unterschiedlicher Medien vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart. Da Anonymität Kommunikation ermöglicht, die sich jedweder Kontrolle entzieht, betrifft anonymes Kommunizieren auch immer Frage