BOOKS with Alphabet W (Wa, Wb,Wc, We…)

Overview: Presents the essential conditions required for the formation and evolution of life and on which planets these may be met.Provides an understanding of how rare the solar system, planet Earth and all liThis is a book on planets: Solar system planets and dwarf planets. And planets outside our solar system – exoplanets. How did they form? What types of planets are there and what do they have in common? How do they differ? What do we know about their atmospheres – if they have one? What are the conditions for life and on which planets may they be met? And what’s the origin of life on Eart

Overview: .The 4-volume set LNCS 14331, 14332, 14333, and 14334 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2023, which took place in Wuhan, China, in October 2023...The total of 138 papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 434 submissions. They focus on innovative ideas, original research findings, case study results, and experienced insights in the areas of the World Wide Web and big data, covering Web technologies, database systems, information management, software engineering, knowledge graph, recommend syst

Overview: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: .Silko Pfeil reflektiert den Diskurs um die Generation Y als derzeit jüngste Arbeitnehmergeneration. Anhand der kritischen Reflexion der theoretischen Grundlagen des Generationenkonzepts sowie der empirischen Analyse der Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) soll die Existenz der Generation Y anhand von statistisch signifikanten Unterschieden im Werte- und Persönlichkeitsprofil überprüft werden. Der Autor zeigt auf, dass eine in sich homogene Generation Y nicht existiert und analysiert darauf aufbauend die Rel

Overview: Excellent and simple guide for non-specialists, Masters and graduate students as well as Researchers.NbS for water treatment in urban environments: constructed and floating wetlands and green roofs.Re.The value of implementing nature-based solutions (NbS) for water treatment in urban environments is increasingly recognized due to the multiple ecosystem services and societal benefits they provide. The successful implementation of NbS for urban water treatment, however, depends on a range of diverse technical and societal factors that need to be taken into account. Those vary by the ty

Overview: Who Speaks for the Oceans? The question has been asked a lot in recent years - just who is looking out for our oceans? Covering over seventy percent of the earth‘s surface it is the world‘s largest common property resource,jojntly owned by over six billion humans. It is the foundation for life on earth as we know it. Over the years, many people have spoken about various aspects of our ocean environments and they have spoken to different audiences in many different ways. For many in the public realm, Jacques Cousteau spoke for the ocean. Since his passing, no single voice with the sal

Overview: Presents topical problems concerning technology and design in construction of modern metamaterials.Provides solutions, based on fundamental methods and models using the theory of wave propagation, non.This volume deals with topical problems concerning technology and design in construction of modern metamaterials. The authors construct the models of mechanical, electromechanical and acoustical behavior of the metamaterials, which are founded upon mechanisms existing on micro-level in interaction of elementary structures of the material. The empiric observations on the phenomenological

Overview: Gerrit Karalus widmet sich in der vorliegenden Arbeit den Herausforderungen, denen sich die Printmedienindustrie in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren aus- setzt sieht: Das Kerngeschäft von Zeitungen und Zeitschriften erodiert und die vormals hohen Reichweitewerte gehen soweit zurück, dass insbesondere jüngere Zielgruppen deutlich weniger als zu früheren Zeiten von den Zeitungen und Zeitschriften erreicht werden. Dies bringt eine Branche in ökonomische - drängnis, deren gesellschaftspolitische Bedeutung bereits im Grundgesetz betont wird. Umso erfreulicher ist es, dass die vorliegende

Overview: Provides the fundamental principles of multimedia computational communications.Presents contemporary designs and applications on multimedia content delivery over wireless links.Covers brain-inspired m.This book discusses the evolving designs and applications of multimedia content delivery and focuses on computing-based methods.  It offers readers an in-depth understanding of how computational resources at both the source and the destination of the networking continuum can be exploited. This enhances the overall performance of multimedia data networking...This book also presents novel

Overview: Argues that the criminal justice system is failing women and girls.Presents original and accessible research on how to prioritise the necessary changes to the treatment of women within the criminal ju.Bringing together academics and professionals, this edited collection considers key issues in current criminal justice policy and practice related specifically to women to answer the important question: are women being failed by the criminal justice system? In a landscape where women’s involvement in the criminal justice system still tends to be ignored or lost in discussions about men,

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This brief covers the emerging area of wireless sensor network (WSN)-based structural health monitoring (SHM) systems, and introduces the authors’ WSN-based platform called SenetSHM.  It helps the reader differentiate specific requirements of SHM applications from other traditional WSN applications, and demonstrates how these requirements are addressed by using a series of systematic approaches. The brief serves as a practical guide, explaining both the state-of-the-art technologies in domain-specific applications of WSNs,  as well as the methodologie

Overview: Wirtschaftlichkeitsanalysen gehören in Unternehmungen zum täglichen Brot. Das für ihre Durchführung zur Verfügung stehende Instrumentarium ist umfangreich. Ganz anders ist dagegen die Situation im öffentlichen Bereich zu beurteilen. Obwohl die öffentliche Hand einen immensen Anteil an der Gesamtinvestitionstätigkeit in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland hat, fällt die Durchführung von Vorteilhaftigkeitsuntersuchungen nach wie vor schwer. Dies liegt zweifellos zum einen in der Tatsache begründet, daß die mit Hilfe öffentlicher Investitionen zu erbringenden Leistungen besonderer Natur sind

Overview: Sustainable utilization of wastewater as resources.Resource recovery from wastewater.Utilizations of Sludge as‘a Resource.The book is unique in highlighting the issue of wastewater as one of the important environmental issues. The uniqueness also lies in exploring the concepts of converting waste into resources in the form of bioenergy, biofertilizers through various biological methods. Given the international scenario, the chapters of this book are designed to include both anaerobic and aerobic methods of resource recovery from the industrial wastewater. The book is a step toward de

Overview: Writing the Lives of Writers ponders that strange ventriloquized dialogue between biographers and their subjects, a dialogue all the stranger when the subject is a writer. It contains 22 essays by internationally distinguished scholars and biographers including Martin C. Battestin, Isobel Grundy, John Haffenden, Hermione Lee, Lawrence Lipking, Ray Monk, Hazel Rowley, Max Saunders, Martin Stannard and John Worthen. They tackle the lives of Chaucer, Tyndale, More, Fielding and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Wordsworth, Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, Yeats, Lawrence, Dorothy Richardson, Virg

Overview: Be useful to improve the quality of life of such patients around the world.Contributed by a multidisciplinary team of researchers.Focuses on the latest scientific discoveries and precise management st.This book aims to collect research findings and provide insightful recommendations on various aspects of female epilepsy patients of childbearing age. This book discusses multidisciplinary effort of brain science, reproductive medicine, endocrinology, drug metabolism, genetics, maternal and infant medicine, etc...This book is written by a multidisciplinary team of researchers who had a

Overview: Fast conference proceedings.State-of-the-art report.Up to date resultsThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, MobiHealth 2012, and of the two workshops: Workshop on Advances in Personalized Healthcare Services, Wearable Mobile Monitoring, and Social Media Pervasive Technologies (APHS 2012), and Workshop on Advances in Wireless Physical Layer Communications for Emerging Healthcare Applications (IWAWPLC 2012), all held in Paris, France, in November 2012. The 39 revised full papers presented we

Overview: Statistik verstehen und erfolgreich anwenden!.Für Lehrveranstaltungen, zum selbstständigen Nacharbeiten sowie zum gezielten Nachschlagen bestimmter Fragestellungen geeignet.Neu mit Übungsaufgaben und .Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt anwendungsorientiert die Verfahren der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und Induktiven Statistik, wie sie in den Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften an Universitäten, Fachhochschulen und Berufsakademien gelehrt werden. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele werden die statistischen Methoden nicht nur anschaulich dargestellt, sondern ihre Ergebnisse auch ausführlich interpr

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2021, which was held online during December 14-17, 2021. The conference was originally planned to take place in Potsdam, Germany, but changed to a virtual event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. .The 41 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 146 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: mechanism design and pricing; matching, markets and equilibria; learning, fairness, privacy and behavioral models; social c

Overview: This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Worldwide Computing and Its Applications, WWCA‘97, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in March 1997..The volume presents 15 revised full papers selected from 50 submissions as well as 15 revised invited papers by leading researchers in this emerging area and two keynotes. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed programming languages and systems, distributed object environments, cooperative computation, collaboration support Systems, collaborative media, novel distribute

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Overview: Presents a case study of how financial systems - specifically the mortgage market - perceive and deal with risk associated with climate change.Illustrates the linkages and interactions between financi.This SpringerBrief uses a complexity perspective to integrate risk, finance, and ecological issues in Miami, USA. It focuses on how the modern financial system, particularly the mortgage market, perceives and manages the risk of climate change. Authors Kathleen Sealey, Ray King Burch and P.-M. Binder offer the case study of South Florida to illustrate how landscapes can be either re-pur