BOOKS with Alphabet ? M (Ma,Mb,Mc, Md,Me…)

Overview: Medical Selection of Life Riskshas long been recognised asthereference book on insurance medicine.The fourth edition provides a comprehensive guide to life expectancy for underwriters and clinicians involved in the life insurance industry. Extensively revised and expanded the 4th edition of Medical Selection of Life Risksreflects developments in life and healthcare insurance as well as medicine.There are completely new chapters: on the underwriting of genetic diseases, disability underwriting, impaired lives annuities, musculoskeletal and soft tissue disorders.Several major chapters

Overview: .This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Medical Data Analysis, ISMDA 2003, held in Berlin, Germany in October 2003...The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on medical models and learning, integration of intelligent analysis methods into medical databases, medical signal processing and image analysis, and applications of medical diagnostic support systems..978-3-540-20282-0978-3-540-39619-2Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: In the decade since AIDS was first recognised the enormous and worldwide social and medical implications of this disease have been increasingly recognised. The exponential increase in the number of people infected with HIV has been paralleled by the written literature on the subject. When this book was initially conceived the question was why another book? It seemed to me at that time and since, that as HIV presented ever more complex problems, they were best solved when considered within a wider context, using basic principles of individual medical specialties and applying them. For

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anf?ngen 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.978-3-662-01691-6978-3-662-01986-3

Overview: Man has a great tendency to get lost or to hide, as the case may be, in a jungle of details and in unnecessary complications. Why do anything simply if you can do it complicated? And still, life itself presents a sufficient number of problems to keep us busy. There would seem to be no need to create additional difficulties, just for the fun of it, especially if these self-made difficulties become practically insuperable and if in the end they cause much unhappiness. The morphological mode of thought and of action was conceived to break the vicious hold which the parasitic wild growth

Overview: 35 Jahre Berufserfahrung didaktisch hervorragend aufbereitet.Auch für Praktiker sehr gut geeignet.Mit vielen Zeichnungen und Abbildungen.Wenn Bauaufgaben komplexer und menschliche Arbeitskraft teurer werden, spielen Maschinen im Baubetrieb eine immer wichtigere Rolle. Die richtige Auswahl und Anwendung für die L?sung technischer Probleme und den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg einer Baustelle sind deshalb von entscheidender Bedeutung.."Baumaschinen" bietet dazu eine hervorragende Hilfestellung und gibt einen überblick zu den wichtigsten Baumaschinen und deren Einsatzm?glichkeiten..Neu in der

Overview: Die Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Zusammenhang von verschiedenen negativen Beziehungsaspekten bzw. spannungsgeladenen Interaktionsketten und subjektiver Gesundheit. Mit Daten aus der Mixed Methods Studie ‘Gesichter der Armut‘ werden auf Basis fallimmanenter Dyadenportraits zun?chst Idealtypen negativer Beziehungsaspekte herausgearbeitet. Die sprichw?rtlich ‘b?se Schwiegermutter‘ entspricht dabei dem Typ ‘Manipulativ‘. Darauf aufbauend werden die Idealtypen in ein Messinstrument überführt. Auf Grundlage einer Random-Route-Stichprobe wurden in einer eigenen Studie egozentrierte Netzwerke

Overview: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche StudieGeleitwort Die Sicherstellung einer freien und umfassenden Auswahl des Nachfragers bei s- nen Kaufentscheidungen gilt im Marketing eigentlich als hohes Gut. Einerseits ist sie Ausdruck der Souver?nit?t und Macht der Nachfrager als wichtigem Regulativ in - ner Marktwirtschaft. Andererseits schafft sie Zufriedenheit beim Nachfrager durch die mit wachsender Angebotsfülle wachsende Wahrscheinlichkeit einer perfekten Erf- lung seiner Bedürfnisse. Bezüglich beider Argumente kommen in jüngerer Vergangenheit allerdings vermehrt Zweifel auf. Die Souver?nit?t

Overview: This volume contains the proceedings of the International Middleware Con- rence, held in Leuven, Belgium during December 1–4, 2008. This year marked the ninth rendition of this annual conference in its current format initially - opted in 1998, aspiring to serve as the premier venue focusing exclusively on important middleware results. A lot has happened over the intervening 10-year span. Middleware has become pervasive in an increasinglyinterconnected world, with its concepts now securely embedded in the notional architectures driving forward the information age. The conference conti

Overview: Equips readers to manage failures of surgical treatment of pathological conditions around the shoulder.Offers a special focus on response to failure of shoulder arthroplasty.Uses case examples to presIn this book, leading European shoulder experts review the current status in the management of failures of surgical treatment of different pathological conditions around the shoulder, such as instability of the glenohumeral joint and the acromioclavicular joint, rotator cuff disease and pathology of the long head of the biceps tendon, and glenohumeral osteoarthritis. The aim is to equip

Overview: 978-1-349-06374-1978-1-349-06372-7Series ISSN 0265-4377 Series E-ISSN 2947-0307

Overview: Provides a new, trans-national sociological perspective on international migration in the Asia-Pacific region.Shares revealing insights on contemporary Japanese women’s cross-border marriages.Raises c.This book investigates the experience of Japanese women who have immigrated to Australia through marriage to a local partner. Based on long-term participant observations gathered with a Japanese ethnic association in Sydney, and on in-depth interviews with the association’s members, it examines the ways in which the women remould themselves in Australia by constructing gendered selves t

Overview: This textbook attempts to cover the LEAG biology (17+) syllabus, and emphasises "real-life" biology in its coverage of such topics as the production of yoghurt, wine and antibiotics. There are instructions for teachers on preparing practicals and lists of equipment and materials.

Overview: Includes supplementary material: The monograph is concerned with the modulus of families of curves on Riemann surfaces and its applications to extremal problems for conformal, quasiconformal mappings, and the extension of the modulus onto Teichmüller spaces. The main part of the monograph deals with extremal problems for compact classes of univalent conformal and quasiconformal mappings. Many of them are grouped around two-point distortion theorems. Montel‘s functions and functions with fixed angular derivatives are also considered. The last portion of problems is directed to the ext

Overview: This book includes articles relating to presentations given in a variety of forms (lectures, posters, contributions to round tables, software presentations) at the 5th International Biothermokinetics Meeting held in Bordeaux-Bombannes, September 23-26, 1992. The fact that not just lectures were considered for these proceedings reflects the aims of BTK meetings to instigate discussion, promote scientific cooperation and confront as many different ideas as possible with each other (at best heretical ones). BTK conferences have expanded more and more; 130 participants came to the 1992 m

Overview: Aufgrund seiner Emotionalit?t und Spannung stellt der Sport für viele Unternehmen ein attraktives und authentisches Umfeld für die positive und glaubwürdige Kommunikation ihrer Marken dar. Die instrumentelle Umsetzung dieser Markenkommunikation erfolgt immer h?ufiger über Sponsoring und Markenevents. ..Stephanie C. Kiendl führt die Entscheidungsparameter bei den zahlreichen Kombinationsm?glichkeiten zwischen Sponsoring und Markenevents sowie deren Vernetzung mit der integrierten Markenkommunikation auf. Sie entwickelt ein anwendungsorientiertes Planungsmodell für die Markenkommunikat

Overview: The anthology ‘Meaning and Analysis‘ addresses the key topics of H. Paul Grice‘s philosophy of language, such as rationality, non-natural meaning, communicative actions, conversational implicatures, the semantics-pragmatics distinction and recent debates concerning minimalist versus contextualist semantics.978-1-349-36773-3978-0-230-28211-7Series ISSN 2946-2576 Series E-ISSN 2946-2584

Overview: Contains technical reports written by practicing scientists and macro-engineers Gathers together a number of macro-projects involving seawater management, arid lowlands and water bodies rehabilitationThe subjects refer to histories of ancient and modern use of seacoasts; possible macro-projects capable of massive changes in the coastlines of the Dead Sea, Red Sea and Persian Gulf caused by canal and massively scaled hydropower dam installations; relevant macro-projects for the Black Sea and Baltic Sea; possibilities of refreshment of the Aral Sea and Iran’s Lake Uremia with seawater

Overview: 978-3-528-19244-0978-3-322-85920-4

Overview: Das vorliegende Buch ist der letzte Band eines dreiteiligen Werkes, das die Grundlagen des Marketing umfassend darstellt. Inhalte dieses Bandes sind die verschiedenen Teilbereiche des Marketing-Management: Marketing-Planung, Marketing-Kontrolle, Marketing-Organisation und Führung im Marketing..Das didaktische Konzept dieses Buches l??t sich wie folgt charakterisieren: Die wesentlichen Inhalte werden zum einen aus theoretischer Sicht dargestellt, zum anderen wird die praktische Anwendbarkeit im Marketing-Bereich er?rtert. Das methodische Instrumentarium wird durchweg anhand von Beispi