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Overview: Provides state-of-the-art understanding of the state of the environment.Structural approach consisting of drivers, state, and responses to the coastal environmental changes.Describes both local and gl.The Asia-Pacific region is home to the world’s largest region of coral reefs and mangroves. It accommodates two-thirds of the world’s human population and its economic activities have the highest growth rate in the world. Ongoing degradation of the environment, resulting from coastal development, deforestation, desertification and over-harvesting, are becoming a matter of great concern,

Overview: Proceedings for the third conference on microsystems in the automotive sector, a regular event now with an increasing number of participants on a modern and promising field taking place in Berlin in sMicrosystems are an important success factor in the automobile industry. In order to fulfil the customers requests for safety convenience and vehicle economy, and to satisfy environmental requirements, microsystems are becoming indispensable. Thus a large number of microsystem applications came into the discussion. With the international conference AMAA 2002, VDI/VDE-IT provides a platfo

Overview: With ever increasing demands on the constrained resources available for health care services, no one involved in decision making in health care can continue to ignore the economic costs of the services provided or the relative value for money offered by the available treatments. Economic evaluation has therefore become an important and indispensable tool for medical deci- sion making, alongside the well-known methods for clinical eval- uation. This is also true for cancer, despite the aura of sanctity often of surrounding this dreaded disease and the apparent willingness the general

Overview: Looks past partisan politics to explain voter frustration and anger at the American system.Explains why we are in this situation, why the government is unable to respond to key challenges, and what we.Public disenchantment with and distrust of American government is at an all-time high and who can blame them? In the face of widespread challenges—everything from record levels of personal and national debt and the sky high cost of education, to gun violence, racial discrimination, an immigration crisis, overpriced pharmaceuticals, and much more—the government seems paralyzed and unable

Overview: Sch?den aus Naturkatastrophen stellen mit ihrem enormen Schadenpotenzial eine ernst zu nehmende Bedrohung der Versicherungsindustrie dar. Zur Bew?ltigung der Risiken hat der Kapitalmarkt neben der traditionellen Rückversicherung verschiedene Instrumente entwickelt, mit deren Hilfe Versicherungsrisiken direkt an den Kapitalmarkt transferiert werden...Michaela Strube beurteilt Katastrophenanleihen und b?rsengehandelte Optionen als Mittel des alternativen Risikotransfers von Katastrophenrisiken und vergleicht diese Instrumente mit der traditionellen Rückversicherung. In diesem Zusammenh

Overview: Algorithmische Probleme selbstst?ndig l?sen - ein kompakter, praxisnaher überblickAmeisen organisieren St?dtereisen und ein Computer spielt Schach - wie es geht, das zeigt dieses Buch..Für Programmierer, die bereits erste Erfahrungen gesammelt haben, wird ein breites Spektrum an Probleml?sungsstrategien anhand konkreter und verst?ndlicher Beispiele vorgestellt..Sie k?nnen künftig selbstst?ndig neue Aufgabenstellungen bew?ltigen, Optimierungspotential in bestehenden Programmen entdecken und damit bessere Software schreiben.978-3-8348-9273-7

Overview: Die .Acta Demographica. ist eine offizielle Publikation der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Bev?lkerungswissenschaft. Jeder Band umfa?t herausragende empirische und theoretische Beitr?ge, die innerhalb von Arbeitskreisen im deutschen und europ?ischen Raum entstanden sind.978-3-7908-0920-6978-3-642-48799-6Series ISSN 0937-907X

Overview: Einhergehend mit der zunehmenden Bedeutung frühkindlicher Bildung rückte in der mathematikdidaktischen Forschung auch die frühe mathematische Bildung in den Fokus. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Erforschung spielbasierter mathematischer F?rderung und dabei entstehender Lerngelegenheiten. Ein Schlüssel zur Wissenskonstruktion beim mathematischen Lernen sind verbale und nonverbale Interaktionen und damit einhergehend auch Argumentationen, die als spezifische Form der Interaktion gelten. An diesem Punkt setzt die Studie an, die als Teilprojekt des von der Internationalen Bodenseehochschu

Overview: 978-3-662-39397-0978-3-662-40453-9

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book was accepted in 1999 as doctoral thesis (Dr. oec. publ. ) by the faculty of economics of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat in Munich. It won the dissertation price of the Alumni-Club of the economics faculty in the academic year 2000. Financial assistance by the German Research Asso- ciation (DFG) for printing costs is gratefully acknowledged. I have to thank the people behind the B‘IF,X-project, in particular Donald Knuth and Leslie Lamport, for their wonderful typesetting program. The supervisors of my thesis were Prof. Dr. G. Flaig and P

Overview: A method to generate energy-efficient planning solutions.Includes supplementary material: Manuela Krones develops a method that supports factory planners in generating energy-efficient planning solutions. The method provides qualitative description concepts for factory planning tasks and energy efficiency knowledge as well as an algorithm-based linkage between these measures and the respective planning tasks. Its application is guided by a procedure model which allows a general applicability in the manufacturing sector. The results contain energy efficiency measures that are suitable

Overview: This is the first and only comprehensive compendium on the physical properties of the alkali halide crystals, and it will serve as a handy reference for researchers working on all aspects of alkali haThe alkali halide crystals have always been at the centre stage of solid-state physics. They have been "model crystals" for testing many solid-state theories. In recent decades, they have also proved useful in several applications ranging from X-ray monochromators to tunable lasers. Because of this dual importance - both purely scientific and technological - a vast amount of information

Overview: This book sets out to explore contemporary life in Australia, looking also at the future of the continent, and covering topics ranging from its history, culture, religion, values and ecological perspectives to its economy and politics.978-1-349-10785-8

Overview: .Advances in Rice Blast Research. provides a completeoverview of the research undertaken on the rice-blast pathosystem.This book gathers in one volume the most recent works on rice blastfungus genetics and molecular biology of pathogenicity, rice blastfungus population studies, and genetics and molecular biology of riceresistance to blast, including resistance gene cloning. It alsopresents the latest results on resistance breeding and resistancemanagement strategies, epidemiology and disease management. .This book is a must for plant pathologists and breeders working onrice blast and

Overview: This book includes selected papers from the first International Conferences on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP), jointly held in Setubal, Portugal, on February 25–28, 2006. We received 314 paper submissions for both conferences, quite a high number for a first venue. We had contributions from 44 different countries covering all five continents, which confirms the success and global reach of the two conferences. After a rigorous double-blind review, a total of 116 submissions were accepted as full papers. From thos

Overview: Examines nature as a foundational concept for political and constitutional theory.Draws on readings of Plato and Hegel to counter the view that optimal political arrangements are determined by nature..“Hegel and Plato are towering figures in the history of philosophy, but often readers puzzle over what they are saying. There are very few books that deal with them clearly and intelligently. Hardly any that do so jointly.? This book is exceptional in offering a clear, scholarly and intelligent guide to their work. It focuses upon how Plato and Hegel deal with nature. While recognising

Overview: Provides a comprehensive, dynamic and multilevel explanation of how workplace wellbeing is created and sustained.Brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective to understanding organizational practice..In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, the authors focus on organizational analysis to understand workplace wellbeing, deviating from previous research that mostly looks at the individual worker or intervention. In addressing the question of why workplace health and wellbeing practices initiatives fall short of delivering sustained improvements in worker wellbeing, this book mov

Overview: Xena, Buffy, Lara Croft. WWF, The Sopranos, Witchblade, La Femme Nikita. The women of pop culture are center stage and as tough as ever. Action Chicks is a groundbreaking collection highlighting the heroines we‘ve grown to worship. What can they tell us about women in the Twent-first-century? What can they tell us about how popular culture depicts women? Do the characters escape traditional gender role expectations? Or do they adhere to sexual, racial, ethnic, and class stereotypes? The essays in Action Chicks provide fans with a new look at their favourite icons and their relationsh

Overview: 978-3-642-70488-8978-3-642-70486-4

Overview: Einfach zum Mitnehmen: Das Pocket-Buch zur Kundenorientierung.Einfach clever: Wissen auf den Punkt gebracht.Einfach praktisch: Tipps zum schnellen Nachschlagen und Anwenden.Includes supplementary mateKompakt, praxisnah, lesbar und damit hilfreich, so sollte diese neue Reihe für Berufst?tige an der Basis sein. Diese Bücher ?Top im Gesundheitsjob? sind untereinander vernetzt. Gerne habe ich dafür auch diesen Titel zum Themenbereich ?Kundenorientierung? - schrieben. Schon viele Jahre begleitet mich die Thematik und ich betrachtete die Umsetzungsm?glichkeiten anderer personengebundener D