BOOKS with Alphabet V (Va, Vb,Vc, Vd, Ve…... )

Overview: Examines the methodological problems of accounting for the dead in armed conflicts.Discusses how the body count plays an important part in the narrative of war and its use towards political, humanitar.This book examines the methodological problems of accounting for the dead in armed conflicts as well as how the process itself is open to manipulation and controversy. Inspired by the work of the International Practitioner Network of casualty recording organizations, the book features thematic analysis, case studies and historical discussion on the use of the body count towards politica

Overview: Indispensable for continuous education and advanced training.All editors with international reputation and contributing authors with great expertise in their topic.Well-structured text and design, qui.Unlike the cornea or lens, the retina is part of the central nervous system and cannot be replaced. Therefore degeneration of the outer retina is blinding, but trials using devices such as retinal implants which combine biology with technology are showing promise at restoring vision. Macular diseases are the most common cause of blindness in the developed countries. Oedema of the macula

Overview: Investigates the impact of vote buying in Indonesia.Explores the nature, extent, determinants, targeting and effectiveness of vote buying.Argues that in total numbers —given the relatively small numbeThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license..This book investigates the impact of vote buying on the accountability of democratic institutions and policy representation in newly democratic countries, with a focus on Indonesia. In doing so, the book presents a wide-ranging study of the dynamics of vote buying in Indonesia’s young democracy, exploring the nature, extent, determinant

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.978-3-642-48498-8978-3-642-48565-7

Overview: This volume contains the proceedings of the second working conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments, VSTTE 2008, held in Toronto, Canada, in October 2008. The 16 papers presented together with 4 invited talks were carefully revised and selected for inclusion in the book. This second conference formally inaugurates the Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a fifteen-year, co-operative, international project directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification. The scope of the cooperative effort includes the sharing and interoperability of

Overview: Die Varikose zählt zu einem wichtigen Krankheitsbild, um das sich der Gefäßchirurg bemühen muß und welches in seinen Zuständigkeitsbereich gehört. Die dazu notwendigen fachspezifischen Standards operativer Therapie stellt dieses Buch eingehend dar. Unklarheit herrscht bei der Frage, ob Popliteaaneurysmen elektiv operiert oder unter konservativen Gesichtspunkten nur beobachtet werden müssen. Moderne Therapieverfahren, wie sie in diesem Fall die Stentprothesen darstellen, werden in die Überlegungen einbezogen. Grund genug, diesen Problemkreis zu diskutieren.978-3-7985-1018-0978-3-642-4

Overview: New edition of a standard monograph.Contains two new sections on the contribution of Edgeworth and Pareto.Updated bibliography.Includes supplementary material: . Fundamentals and important results of vector optimization in a general setting are presented in this book. The theory developed includes scalarization, existence theorems, a generalized Lagrange multiplier rule and duality results. Applications to vector approximation, cooperative game theory and multiobjective optimization are described. The theory is extended to set optimization with particular emphasis on contingent epide

Overview: The first book available on vibro-acoustic research of lightweight sandwich structures.Includes detailed theoretical modeling and experimental measurements in this field.Offers in-depth explanation on.Vibro-Acoustics of Lightweight Sandwich Structures. introduces the study of the coupled vibration and acoustic behavior of lightweight sandwich structures in response to harmonic force and sound pressure. This book focuses on the theoretical modeling and experimental investigation of lightweight sandwich structures in order to provide a predictive framework for vibro-acoustic characteri

Overview: Includes supplementary material: Volume III/27 covers the magnetic properties of inorganic compounds based on transition elements. It can therefore be considered as a supplement to volumes III/4 and III/12 .Magnetic and other properties of magnetic oxides and related. .compounds. which appeared in 1970 and in the period 1978 - 1982 respectively. In a way this volume also forms a counterpart to volume III/19, in which the magnetic properties of metals, alloys and metallic compounds are compiled. The first subvolume, III/27a, which appeared in late 1988, deals with the magnetic propert

Overview: Twelve self-contained papers written by distinguished mathematicians in variational analysis, optimization, and control.First comprehensive treatment of the subject in book form.Presents several imporVariational analysis is a rapidly growing field within pure and applied mathematics, with numerous applications to optimization, control theory, economics, engineering, and other disciplines. This volume brings together state-of-the-art results in variational analysis and its applications, with an emphasis on optimization and control. The included chapters, written by international exper

Overview: 978-3-540-50433-7978-3-642-48161-1Series ISSN 1432-9336

Overview: This book is written primarily for Earth scientists faced with problems in thermo­ mechanics such as the flow and evolution of ice-sheets, convection currents in the mantle, isostatic rebound, folding of strata or collapse of cavities in salt domes. Failure, faults, seismic waves and all processes involving inertial terms will not be dealt with. In general such scientists (graduate students beginning a Ph. D. for instance) have too small a background‘in continuum mechanics and in numerical computation to model conveniently these problems, which are not elementary at all. Most of them

Overview: This edited text serves as careful examination of calcium channels..Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels is suitable for academic researchers at all levels in neuroscience, biophyisics, cell biology and druoltage-gated calcium channels are essential mediators of a range of physiological functions, including the communication between nerve Vcells, the regulation of heart beat, muscle contraction, and secretion of hormones such as insulin. Consequently, these channels are critical phar­ macological targets in the treatment of a variety of disorders, such as epi­ lepsy, hypertension, and pain

Overview: 978-3-642-85446-0Series ISSN 0070-4067

Overview: The first book to cover visualization and the Semantic WebVladimir Geroimenko and Chaomei Chen The Semantic Web is avision that has sparked a wide-ranging enthusiasm for a new generation of the Web. The Semantic Web is happening. The central idea of this vision is to make the Web more understandable to computer programs so that people can make more use of this gigantic asset. The use of metadata (data about data) can clearly indicate the meaning of data on the Web so as to provide computers with enough information to handle such data. On the future Web, many additionallayers will be

Overview: Offers theoretical background and real-world best practices.Written from a Euro-system perspective.Includes supplementary material: Josh Lerner Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking Harvard Business School and National Bureau of Economic Research During much of the 1970s and 1980s, venture capital and private equity remained largely a United States phenomena. Over the past decade, how­ ever, private equity has spread around the globe, taking particularly firm root in Western Europe-indeed, growing 4,700% since 1984 through 200 I. Today, Europe is the dominant private equity

Overview: Provides vehicular networking technologies from the MAC layer to the link and network layer to support road-safety applications.Systematically addresses vehicular mobility, intermittent wireless link,The topics addressed in this book are crucial for both the academic community and industry, since the vehicular network has become an essential building block for intelligent transportation systems. The systematic principle of this book provides valuable guidance on the deployment and implementation of V2X-enabled road-safety applications. In addition, this book carries out structured te

Overview: Unternehmer und Spitzenführungskräfte der deutschen Wirtschaft zeigen, warum Vertrauen so wichtig ist.Vertrauensklima eines Unternehmens ist zwar ein „weicher“ Faktor, hat aber harte Auswirkungen.EinhIn diesem Band kommen Unternehmer und Spitzenführungskräfte der deutschen Wirtschaft zu Wort (AbbVie, Alnatura, B. Braun Melsungen, Daimler, Deutsche Bahn, Eckelmann, Heraeus, Nestlé, Porsche, Sanofi, Schott, Schweizer Electronic), die darlegen, warum das Vertrauen in ihren Unternehmen so wichtig ist, was es unternehmenskulturell und operativ bewirkt und wie sie sicher stellen, dass es e

Overview: 978-3-322-83240-5978-3-322-83239-9

Overview: Die demographische Alterung der Gesellschaft spiegelt sich auch in der wachsenden Zahl älter werdender Menschen mit geistigen Behinderungen. Diese historisch neue Situation stellt neue Anforderungen an Betroffene, Familien und Soziale Dienste..Damit rückt die Frage nach der Versorgung und Förderung dieser Gruppe stärker ins Interesse der Politik und der Alten- und Behindertenhilfe..In diesem Band werden zum einen die Antworten der Behindertenpolitik auf diese Entwicklung untersucht. Zum anderen wird die Bedeutung der Kompetenzförderung für Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung im Alter