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

Overview: Presents new evidence for institutional tension behavioral contradiction and actor-induced institutional change.Develops a conceptual framework that considers systemic heterogeneity and socially embed.This book advances the debate on socio-economic development and multinational corporations (MNCs). It provides an actor-centered perspective and develops the framework called ‘Conflating Capitalisms’ that allows for a better understanding of both MNC-induced institutional change in the host country and the subsequent impact on local development...The book uses the empirical case of West

Overview: Covers the issues at the heart of the electric utility industry, highlighting women leaders.Explains the immense challenges faced by modern power systems planners, engineers and operators.Places envirThis enlightening volume examines core areas of development in electric power systems, emphasizing the pivotal contributions of women engineers to the industry’s evolution. The authors cover a broad spectrum of key topics, including generation technologies, transmission and distribution progress, environmental challenges, worldwide electrification, and workforce issues. Advances in conve

Overview: Reiche Themenvielfalt.Aktuelle Probleme grundlegend aufgearbeitet.Den 70. Geburtstag von em. o. Univ.-Prof. Heinz Peter Rill nahmen seine Schüler und Kollegen zum Anlass, ihn durch eine Festschrift zu ehren. ..Die Festschrift enthält Beiträge von: Dr. Josef Azizi, Prof. Dr. Bernd-Christian Funk, Prof. Dr. Stefan Griller, Prof. Dr. Michael Holoubek, Prof. Dr. Benjamin Kneihs, SL Prof. Dr. Georg Lienbacher, Ass.-Prof. Dr. Verena Madner, Prof. Dr. Theo Öhlinger, Prof. DDr. Michael Potacs, Prof. Dr. Heinz Schäffer und Prof. Dr. Ewald Wiederin...Die Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis bie

Overview: Serves as a reference book on water resources of Turkey.Includes over 70 color photos.Presents a complete and up-to-date list of references.With contributions from world-known authors.This book provides an in-depth description of water resources of Turkey, a country with a unique geographical location, extending from the Mediterranean in Europe to the Middle East. Its varying geography, topography, hydrology, geology and climate are reflected in the diverse characteristics of its water basins. Furthermore, due to its geographical location, Turkey has a significant number of transboun

Overview: Unique current overview of the relationship between humans and insects.Well-researched numbers and correlations.Highlighting the value AND threats of insects, while showing their growing endangerment..This book discusses the beneficial and harmful effects of insects and explains their development and significance for biodiversity..Threatening pests or threatened beneficials? Biting midges are wonderful insects. The animals are so tiny and uniquely shaped that they are particularly good at pollinating the small and tight flowers of the cocoa tree. Without them, there would be much les

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.978-3-662-29480-2

Overview: The most general goal of this book is to propose and illustrate a program of research in word semantics that combines some of the methodology and results in linguistic semantics, primarily that of the generative semantics school, with the rigorously formalized syntactic and semantic framework for the analysis of natural languages developed by Richard Montague and his associates, a framework in which truth and denotation with respect to a model are taken as the fundamental semantic notions. I hope to show, both from the linguist‘s and the philosopher‘s point of view, not only why this

Overview: Explores the challenges and obstacles facing women activists in the digital age.Includes rich case studies of women using the internet to facilitate social change around the world.Puts forward women’sThis book showcases the online activism of women’s groups around the world in the post-#MeToo era, and presents an overview of the diversity of its current expressions. The focus of this book extends beyond campaigns against rape culture to include women’s struggles on other political and environmental issues, such as the campaign against the radical right-wing in Austria.  Moreover, the

Overview: Modeling is an essential tool in power systems engineering, and wind turbines are particularly difficult owing to their non-stationary nature.The first book to model wind turbines from the point of viThe total capacity of wind turbine generator systems (WTGSs) operating in the world reached 27 600 MW in Autumn 2002. In the European Union (EU) coun­ tries, wind generators capacity of 20 500 MW were operational. Most of them were located in Germany (10 650 MW), Spain (4100 MW) and Denmark (2500 MW). The Danish electric power system has the largest ratio of the capacity of WTGSs to the

Overview: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2022, held in Honolulu, USA, as part of SCF 2022, during December 10-14, 2022..The 9 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. The papers cover aspects of services computing and applications. Centered around services computing, it covers various systems and networking research pertaining to cloud, edge and Internet-of-Things (IoT), as well as technologies for intelligent computing, learning, big data and blockchain applications..978-3-0

Overview: Presents insightful opinions on current water scenario in India and provides a road map for management of the resource.Effective guide for researchers, policy makers and stakeholders for the breadth oThis book, the second volume in the series, continues to raise contextual issues and presents perspectives regarding multifaceted challenges in management and governance of water in India. This volume attempts to broad base and expand the dialogue started in the first volume and would touch upon issues that need immediate discussion but have been left unattended like politics and managem

Overview: A balanced description of the pro‘s and cons of Big Data.An accessible description of a complex topic.Combining visions from business and technology in a comprehensive way.Includes supplementary materThis book demonstrates the inevitability of a continuously growing role of data in our society and it stresses that this role does not need to be threatening: to the contrary, collection and analysis of data can help us prevent traffic jams, suppress epidemics, or produce tailor made medicine. The authors sketch the contours of a new information society, in which everything will be measu

Overview: 978-3-663-03903-7978-3-663-05092-6

Overview: Netzprodukte sind Güter bzw. Leistungen, deren Nachfrage von der sogenannten "installierten Basis", d. h. von der Anzahl der in der Vergangenheit verkauften Stücke sowie vom Absatz anderer kompatibler Produkte abhängt. Insbesondere seit der Öffnung des Festnetzes im deutschen Telekommunikationsmarkt stellt sich die Frage, ob Wettbewerb auch in Netzproduktmärkten möglich ist und ob er, wie in anderen Märkten auch, zur Erhöhung der Gesamtwohlfahrt beitragen kann. Auf der Basis vorhandener theoretischer Modelle entwickelt Dieter Köster ein Simulationsmodell, mit dessen Hilfe der Wettbew

Overview: Contributions of elected young researchers and professionals.Presentation of innovative ideas.Unique collection of highly actual results and projects.Includes supplementary material: .These conference proceedings contain contributions to one of Europe’s largest annual conferences on energy efficiency and renewable energy. From two main fields - biomass and energy efficiency in buildings - contributions offer an insight into the research work and the scientific findings and developments of young researchers from all over the world. The papers were selected by a high-level scientific c

Overview: Combines theory and practice with research findings and international case studies.Updates and enriches knowledge and practice on wine tourism by including chapters and case studies related to new tec.The book provides a holistic approach to wine destination management and marketing by bringing together wine tourism research with research in wine and destination management. Chapters are contributed by numerous international authors offering an international and multidisciplinary perspective. The book combines fresh research approaches with international industry examples and case stu

Overview: 978-3-8244-6200-1978-3-322-99825-5

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2009, held in Boston, MA, USA, in August 2009. The 36 revised full papers presented together with 15 invited papers and 7 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Providing a forum for researchers and practitioners worldwide, the papers address current research and development efforts of various issues in the area of algorithms, systems and applications for current and next generation infrastructure an

Overview: Presents recent research in Web, artificial intelligence and information networking.Gathers the proceedings of the workshops of the 34th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking andThis proceedings book presents the latest research findings, and theoretical and practical perspectives on innovative methods anddevelopment techniques related to the emerging areas of Web computing, intelligent systems and Internet computing. The Web has become an important source of information, and techniques and methodologies that extract quality information are of paramount importan

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.978-3-642-53026-5