BOOKS with Alphabet F (Fa, Fb,Fc, Fd, Fe…... )

Overview: Celebrates biodiversity in the "International Year of Biodiversity".Opens the way to new paradigms in the investigation of biodiversity.Deals with aquatic biodiversity, the most threatened compartmentThis book celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of publication of one of the landmarks of the modern ecological thought: the “Homage to Santa Rosalia or why are there so many kinds of animals” by George Evelyn Hutchinson. Published in 1959 in the journal “The American Naturalist”, this article has been the engine which have moved most of the ecological research on biodiversity in the last

Overview: 978-3-642-86774-3978-3-642-86773-6

Overview: This monograph contains manuscripts, poster abstracts and summary statements representing the contributions of a group of scientists who participated in the sixth annual Texas A&M Industry-University Cooperative Chemistry Program (IUCCP) at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, March 22-24, 1988. This symposium on "Functional Polymers" was organized by a university-industrial steering committee consisting of Dr. D. Keene, Hoechst Celanese; Dr. D. E. McLemore, Dow Chemical Company; Dr. B. Frushour, Monsanto Company; Dr. S. Corley, Shell Development; Dr. F. Hoffstadt, BPAmeri

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Overview: Jungen Innovationsunternehmen f?llt heute eine Schlüsselrolle für Wirtschaftswachstum und Schaffung neuer Arbeitspl?tze zu. Den Eigentümer-Unternehmern steht jedoch zu wenig Venture-Capital zur Verfügung, das die Ausreifung und Umsetzung der Gesch?ftsidee finanziell absichert. Ein wesentlicher Grund hierfür ist das Informationsgef?lle zwischen dem Unternehmer-Eigentümer und dem Kapitalgeber zu Beginn und w?hrend der Laufzeit der Finanzierungsbeziehung. Pierre Weimerskirch zeigt, wie die Informationsprobleme durch die Gestaltung effizienter Finanzierungsvertr?ge reduziert werden k?nne

Overview: Who owns your sex organs? Different cultures today and in different epochs have given a variety of answers to this question. It may seem self- evident that every individual owns and has sovereignty over his or her own body parts, such as the head, legs, nose, stomach, pancreas, and other body parts. The sex organs, however, seem to be an exception. Even though they are as much an integral part of the individual as a leg or a liver, the sex organs are unique in that many cultures have established laws and taboos over the use and even the mere display of the sex organs. Thus, certain c

Overview: Praxisorientiere Orientierungshilfe mit hilfreichen Alternativen zu Fixierungsma?nahmen.Fundiertes Grundwissen bietet Rechtssicherheit für Pflegende.Aktuelle Expertenstandards und DokumentationsanleitFreiheitsentziehende Ma?nahmen sind mit einer eklatanten Einschr?nkung der Lebensqualit?t verbunden, in erster Linie natürlich für jene Personen, denen die Freiheit entzogen wird aber auch für das Fachpersonal, das die entsprechenden Entscheidungen trifft bzw. durchführen muss. Das Buch beschreibt praxisnah, wie Fixierungen im Pflegealltag vermieden werden k?nnen und zeigt zahlreiche Imp

Overview: Men‘s biological clocks may not be ticking loudly, but what about the social clock? Are there benefits to being in-step with social norms for the timing of parenthood? In a clear and accessible style, this book examines the advantages and disadvantages of early, on-time, and delayed first fatherhood. The book includes a foreword by Ross D. Parke.978-1-349-47623-7978-1-137-37272-7

Overview: 978-3-662-35886-3978-3-662-36716-2

Overview: Gives a detailed introduction and comprehensive description of ecological controlling non-point source pollution.Discusses various practical measures including hedgerows, shelter belts building, hydro.This book mainly focuses on ecological approaches for preventing and controlling non-point source (NPS) pollution on the basis of forestry measures. In addition to the effects of ecological control, it introduces readers to the characteristics of NPS pollution in Taihu Lake watershed, water eutrophication evaluation methods, and potential countermeasures. .Given the crucial role of surf

Overview: Represents the only book to focus solely on food in the novels of Joseph Conrad.Contributes to the emergent and increasingly important critical field of Food Studies.Provides a new perspective on the This book is about the role of food in the works of Joseph Conrad, analysing the social, political and anthropological context of references to meals, eating, food production and cannibalism. It offers a new perspective on the works of Joseph Conrad and provides an accessible medium through which readers can engage with the complex theories and philosophical dilemmas that Conrad presents

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Overview: The theory of probability in one single volumeFrom the reviews of the first edition: "...Kallenberg‘s present book would have to qualify as the assimilation of probability par excellence. It is a great edifice of material, clearly and ingeniously presented, without any non-mathematical distractions. Readers wishing to venture into it may do so with confidence that they are in very capable hands." .F.B. Knight, Mathematical Reviews.This new edition contains four new chapters as well as numerous improvements throughout the text.978-1-4757-4015-8Series ISSN 1431-7028

Overview: Darstellung der diagnostischen und therapeutischen M?glichkeiten sowie pr?ventiver Ma?nahmen im Falle einer Fehl-, Früh- und Totgeburt.Psychologische Aspekte und Herangehensweisen bei stark belasteten.Dieses Buch hilft niedergelassenen Gyn?kologen sowie klinisch t?tigen ?rzten im Umgang mit den kritischen Ereignissen in der Geburtshilfe. Ausgehend von der Darstellung m?glicher anatomischer, genetischer, endokrinologischer und/oder immunologischer Grundlagen und Ursachen gehen die Autoren praxisnah auf die diagnostischen und therapeutischen M?glichkeiten ein. Auch erf?hrt der Leser we

Overview: Addresses how management can affect the supply of energy biomass using short-rotation forestry and the conventional forestry applying long rotations.Summarizes recent experiences on how to manage fore.For thousands of years, forest biomass or wood has been among the main energy sources of humans around the world. Since the industrial revolution, fossil fuels have replaced wood and become the dominant source of energy. The use of fossil fuels has the disadvantage of increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs), especially carbon dioxide (CO.2.), with the consequent

Overview: Comprehensive and timely report on fuzzy logic and its applications.Analyzes the paradigm shift in uncertainty management upon the introduction of fuzzy logic.Edited and written by top scientists in b.This book presents a comprehensive report on the evolution of Fuzzy Logic since its formulation in Lotfi Zadeh’s seminal paper on “fuzzy sets,” published in 1965. In addition, it features a stimulating sampling from the broad field of research and development inspired by Zadeh’s paper. The chapters, written by pioneers and prominent scholars in the field, show how fuzzy sets have been s

Overview: Frauen in Armut und DeprivationAnhand fallvergleichender Biographieforschung wird den Mustern generativer Erbschaft und der Bildung weiblicher Identit?t nachgegangen. Die Frage nach der Tradierung von Handlungskompetenzen und Bew?ltigungsleistungen von Frauen, die über Generationen hinweg in Armut und Deprivation leben oder lebten, ist Gegenstand dieser Forschungsarbeit.978-3-531-14392-7978-3-322-80630-7

Overview: 978-3-0348-6391-9978-3-0348-6389-6Series ISSN 2504-3625 Series E-ISSN 2504-3633

Overview: The Glasgow functional programming group has held a workshop each summer since 1988. The entire group, accompanied by a selection of colleagues from other institutions, retreats to a pleasant Scottish location for a few days. Everyone speaks briefly, enhancing coherence, cross- fertilisation, and camaraderie in our work. The proceedings of the first workshop were published as a technical report. Demand for this was large enough to encourage wider publication, and subsequent proceedings have been published in the Springer-Verlag Workshops in Computing series. These are the proceedings

Overview: Bew?hrtes Standardwerk zur Kostenrechnung für Studierende und Anwender.Neue Rechnungslegungsvorschriften bereits eingearbeitet.Bezug auf aktuelle Entwicklungen wie Liquidit?tsmangement, NachhaltigkeitMit der 13. Auflage der "Flexiblen Plankostenrechnung und Deckungsbeitragsrechnung" wird der zukunftsweisende Weg Wolfgang Kilgers für praxisgerechtes Kosten- und Erl?smanagement konsequent weiter geführt. Vollst?ndig aktualisiert bietet dieses Standardwerk den State-of-the-Art einer modernen Plankosten- und Deckungsbeitragsrechnung. Ohne die bew?hrte Grundstruktur zu ver?ndern, gehen Ku