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

Overview: Includes problems that are prime for standard assignments and more advanced problems for eager students.Provides a model for institutions who may wish to establish math competitions.Prepares students This text records the problems given for the first 15 annual undergraduate mathematics competitions, held in March each year since 2001 at the University of Toronto. Problems cover areas of single-variable differential and integral calculus, linear algebra, advanced algebra, analytic geometry, combinatorics, basic group theory, and number theory. The problems of the competitions are give

Overview: Promotes a people-centric approach to technology in parliamentary decision-making.Provides a comprehensive framework for designing risk-reducing technologies in politics.Introduces the PI App, a purpo.This book presents a framework for designing and implementing technologies to reduce risks in parliamentary decision-making, leading to the emergence of e-politics. It emphasizes adaptable virtual systems and problem-solving over predefined solutions, fostering multi-helix engagement among cross-functional teams. These teams collaborate to develop strategic, tactical, and operational so

Overview: Presents high quality research advancements in disaster resilience with an international approach.Offers a unique fusion of technical, organizational, social and economic aspects of resilience.Covers This book introduces the concepts of Resilience-Based Design (RBD) as an extension of Performance-Based Design. It provides readers with a range of cutting-edge methodologies for evaluating resilience and clarifies the difference between resilience, vulnerability and sustainability. Initially, the book focuses on describing the different types of uncertainty that arise in the context of

Overview: Provides formulas and simple procedures for a wide class of welded joints with cracks.Shows practicing engineers calculations the limit load for flaw assessment.Includes supplementary material: The present short monograph concerns analytic and semi-analytic techniques for finding an approximate value of the limit load. The limit load is an essential input parameter of flaw assessment procedures. In most cases, finding the limit load involves some numerical calculations of different levels of complexity, including numerical minimization of functions of one or several arguments, the sl

Overview: Presents numerous strategies for avoiding traffic congestion in urban land redevelopment.Includes step-by-step cases and figures to aid understanding.Proposes a series of new ideas and methods relatinThis book focuses on the relationship between urban land redevelopment and traffic systems and discusses the related research. Consisting of three main parts, the first analyzes the interaction between land redevelopment and traffic congestion as well as the mechanisms and causes of traffic congestion. The second part presents strategies for the prevention and control of traffic congesti

Overview: Presents a unique and original multidimensional model of public space analysis.Includes a foreword by Prof. Roger Caves and contributions from leading experts: Ana Fany A. Carlos, Cristóvão Duarte, Eu.This book is about understanding, contextualizing and carrying out critical analyzes of the policies intended and/or implemented by the various public and private actors in urban public spaces, as well as the daily, or eventual, politics exercised by the organized civil society and by citizens. It presents a collection of contributions about the public space in different theoretical, co

Overview: Instructs readers on the basics of the IBM SPSS and IBM SPSS Amos software and its applications.Presents the topic accessibly to readers without backgrounds in advanced statistics, mathematics, or proThis book presents a comprehensive overview of Structural Equation Modeling and how it can be applied to address research issues in different disciplines. The authors employ a ‘simple to complex’ approach. The book reviews topics such as variance, covariance, correlation, multiple regression, mediation, moderation, path analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis. The authors then discuss

Overview: Good project management sets standards and ensures that all project participants speak the same language. In this book you will also learn the reasons behind the specific steps taken in the project and how to contribute to making projects a success. It takes you on a journey through all areas of classical, traditional project management and provides insights into agile and hybrid PM. Graphics and comprehensible examples from everyday project work help develop a basic understanding. This book includes interviews with experienced project managers such as Arie van Bennekum, Peter B. Tay

Overview: Is the first book to cover the current concept of “urban mining".Provides key information on resources and their recycling.Offers ideas on how to reuse rare materials for a future sustainable society..This book focuses on the fundamental concept of and current endeavors in “urban mining” among those who are interested in both metal resources and ecology. Systems for recycling and reusing precious metals and rare-earth minerals contained in used and discarded electronics are introduced in this book. The target audience is not academic researchers in the resource management and ecology

Overview: This book analyses the waves of protests, from spontaneous uprisings to well-organized forms of collective action, which have shaken European cities over the last decade. It shows how analysing these protests in connection with the structural context of neoliberal urbanism and its crises is more productive than standard explanations. Processes of neoliberalisation have caused deeply segregated urban landscapes defined by deepening social inequality, rising unemployment, racism, securitization of urban spaces and welfare state withdrawal, particularly from poor peripheral areas, where

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book addresses the topic of urban models with reference to large western cities and particularly to global cities. In the current transitional phase, the use of language and the systematization of phenomena has become important. The book’s matrix examines two important and strongly connected themes: urban models and public-private partnerships (PPP) determined by urban functions which are transformed in an increasingly rapid and complex manner as a result of globalization. PPPs represent the new border of the modern global state. The book focuses

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking, UNet 2019, held in Limoges, France, in November 2019..The 17 revised full papers presented together with 1 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: ubiquitous communication technologies and networking; ubiquitous Internet of things; pervasive services and applications..978-3-030-58007-0978-3-030-58008-7Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: A bold manifesto for the regeneration of UK cities.Introduces ten basic strategies to be implemented in a step-by-step urban regeneration process.A visual urban design guide for sustainable urban deve.Urban Regeneration — A Manifesto for transforming UK Cities in the Age of Climate Change. explores and offers guidance on the complex process of how to transform cities, continuing the unfinished project of the seminal 1999 text .Towards an Urban Renaissance.. It is a 21st-century manifesto of urban principles compiled by a prominent urbanist, for the regeneration of UK cities, focusing

Overview: Comprehensively revised edition of the author‘s highlysuccessful . Provides an innovative introduction to urban and environmental planning in the UK. Extensive use of case studies, summary charts and .Urban and Environmental Planning in the UK. is a comprehensively revised edition of the author‘s highly-successful .The British Planning System..Like its predecessor it provides an innovative introduction to urban and environmental planning combining comprehensive coverage of institutions and procedures with detailed analysis of the economic and political context of planning, its histor

Overview: 978-94-011-8748-0978-94-011-9605-5

Overview: Text developed in EU’s Erasmus+ program for education and training.Uses game-based scenarios to understand sustainable urban development.Includes online componentsThis textbook provides an innovative pedagogy to students who will be the policy makers of tomorrow. It provides thoughts on sustainability and the complexity among its different dimensions. It guides students through experience, processes of complex decision making, and sharpen their clarity of thought, to enhance their communication abilities and help them develop critical thinking. It provides key competencies to address

Overview: Discusses urban governance in formal and informal systems in the city, key elements of informal and traditional governance, as well as processes and procedures of governance arrangements.Introduces a The objective of this book is to better understand the nature of urban governance regarding the provision of basic urban services in rapidly growing mid-sized towns and cities in developing countries. Set within the context of understanding urban planning and management within the wider city setting, the study focuses on the provision of the basic urban services of housing, water and san

Overview: Examines the policy and regulatory frameworks behind the development of urban public transport systems.Focuses on the state of play of transportation innovation on populations of seven metropolitan ar.This book explores the physical and electronic integration of innovative urban public transport systems in seven metropolitan cities in South Africa and Zimbabwe in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0)...The book also highlights how collaborative engagement can improve new transport projects in cities of the Global South. It demonstrates how integration concerns re

Overview: 978-3-663-06489-3978-3-663-07402-1

Overview: Aufgrund der steigenden Bedeutung der Generierung, der Vermittlung und des Erwerbs von Wissen ist das Management von Universitäten aufgefordert, Rechenschaft über die Leistungsfähigkeit der Hochschulen abzulegen und erkannte Defizite, insbesondere in der Qualifizierung, abzubauen...Vor dem Hintergrund veränderter Rahmenbedingungen erarbeitet Eckhard Wagner eine konzeptionelle Basis für die wettbewerbsorientierte Ausgestaltung universitärer Qualifizierungsdienstleistungen. Besonderer Wert wird dabei auf die Vermittlung von Handlungskompetenz auf Basis von Schlüsselqualifikationen gele