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Overview: Includes a new and unpublished essay by John R. Searle.Examines the Is/Ought question from the standpoints of semantics, pragmatics, the theory of constitutive rules, and legal theory.Provides an in-d.This book reconsiders the supposed impossibility of deriving "Ought" from "Is". John R. Searle’s 1964 article .How to Derive "Ought " from "Is’.’ sent shockwaves through the philosophical community by offering a straightforward counterexample to this claim of impossibility: from your promising something- and this is an "is" - it simply follows that you "ought" to do it. This volume open

Overview: Using original primary sources, this book uncovers and analyzes for the first time the politics of fertility and the battle over birth control in South Africa from 1910 (the year the country was formed) to 1945. It examines the nature and achievements of the South African birth-control movement in pre-apartheid South Africa, including the establishment of voluntary birth-control organizations in urban centres, the national birth-control coalition, and the clinic practices of the country‘s first birth-control clinics. The book spotlights important actors such as the birth controllers

Overview: 978-3-7051-0003-9978-3-662-41492-7

Overview: 978-3-0348-9698-6978-3-0348-8604-8Series ISSN 1421-6329 Series E-ISSN 2296-6080

Overview: Provides latest research in the area of functional materials.Presents select proceedings of AFMD-2023.Discusses applications of carbon nanomaterials, magnetic materials, materials for energy harvestin.The book presents the select proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials and Devices (AFMD-2023). It covers the latest research in the area of functional materials. Various topics covered in this book include 2D materials, biomaterials, materials for environmental studies, DFT and solar simulation of materials, perovskite and double perovskite materials,

Overview: 978-3-540-12321-7978-3-540-40051-6Series ISSN 0075-8434 Series E-ISSN 1617-9692

Overview: 978-3-8100-0949-4978-3-663-07664-3

Overview: Offers step-by-step instruction on how-to use Rasch analysis.Features a combination of Rasch conversations, Rasch data analyses, Rasch theory, and formative assessments.Written for a broad audience as.Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences. helps individuals, both students and researchers, master the key concepts and resources needed to use Rasch techniques for analyzing data from assessments to measure variables such as abilities, attitudes, and personality traits. Upon completion of the text, readers will be able to confidently evaluate the strengths and weakness of existing instrume

Overview: Die Harmonisierung der Rechnungslegung er?ffnet vor allem deutschen Unternehmen Vorteile auf den internationalen Kapitalm?rkten und dient darüber hinaus der Vergleichbarkeit von Jahresabschlüssen. Diese Vorteile waren in der Vergangenheit zumeist den "global players" vorbehalten, gewinnen aber zunehmend auch für gr??ere mittelst?ndische Unternehmen an Attraktivit?t. Wesentliche Bilanzierungs- und Bewertungsunterschiede zwischen deutschen und internationalen Vorschriften bestehen im Bereich der Rückstellungen. Jochen Pilhofer stellt die entscheidenden Unterschiede in der Bilanzierung

Overview: Takes a reflective approach to examining the resilience of the built environment amid pandemic contexts.Shares valuable insights into how pandemic innovations can be applied in public places and build.“Resilience vs Pandemics: Innovations in Public Places and Buildings”. explores innovative solutions for architecture and public places during and after the pandemic. Additionally, the authors contribute to the documentation of architectural and social transformations that have been prompted by previous transmissible diseases, as this knowledge can inform responses to future pandemics.

Overview: Road pricing (tolls, etc.) as a means of generating revenue forinfrastructure investment has become a major policy option in bothEurope and North America. It can also be used as a policy in themanagement of traffic demand and flow, environmental objectives, andoptimal resource allocation as regards the size of investments. Roadpricing is assumed to be able to solve many problems simultaneously --congestion control, pollution reduction, and investment financing..This volume assembles and assesses theoretical knowledge, empiricalresults and experiences of actual road pricing. In additi

Overview: State-of-the-art models in residential location choice.Peer-reviewed contributions.Written by leading experts in the field.Includes supplementary material: The effective planning of residential location choices is one of the great challenges of contemporary societies and requires forecasting capabilities and the consideration of complex interdependencies which can only be handled by complex computer models. This book presents a range of approaches used to model residential locations within the context of developing land-use and transport models. These approaches illustrate the range

Overview: 978-3-540-52560-8978-3-662-09768-7

Overview: Explores a form of creativity that arises from the individual and from a review of the self..Considers the implementation of creativity notably in at schools..Examines how the fields of social psychol.This book proposes a groundbreaking approach to the study of personal creativity, linking this to the analysis of the?.chakras., or centers of energy, of the subtle system suggested by the Eastern philosophy called Sahaja Yoga. It argues?that creativity is to be re-learnt through a process of self-review, a self-examination which is underpinned by the author’s concept of the outsider to

Overview: Designing a successful retail business depends on relationships with four groups of people: customers, shareholders, employees and suppliers. This book takes you inside those strategic relationships and shows you how to redesign your business to get them right. Don‘t let the humour fool you, there are ground-breaking ideas here. Highlights include a new theory of brands which shows how customer loyalty and service can be transformed. Insights into supply chain structure reveal a path to a new level of excellence. Job satisfaction is also given a complete overhaul for the new century.

Overview: 978-3-528-34189-3978-3-322-86182-5

Overview: Darstellung von Szenen des Ringens um die Wahrheit von der Antike bis heute.Aufdeckung von Mechanismen strategischer Kommunikation.Von Sophistik bis Fake News.Es wird heute – in Zeiten von ?Fake News‘ und alternativen Fakten – wieder gerungen um die Wahrheit. Das ist eigentlich eine gute Nachricht für unsere Gesellschaft. Denn wenn es um wahr oder falsch geht, dann bildet sich daraus eine Diskussionskultur, in der unterschiedliche Meinungen nicht nur festgestellt und ausgehalten, sondern in Frage gestellt und geprüft werden. Verschiedene Deutungen von Fakten und Ereignissen gibt es n

Overview: Durch die angespannte Arbeitskostensituation gewinnen flexible Formen der Arbeitsorganisation und der Arbeitszeitgestaltung zunehmend an Bedeutung. Die Telearbeit bietet vielf?ltige Vorteile für Arbeitgeber und Arbeitnehmer, doch l?sst sich eine Win-Win-Situation nicht ohne entsprechende organisatorische Ma?nahmen schaffen und erhalten...Regina C. Krieg analysiert, unter welchen Bedingungen Telearbeit effizient ist. Ausgehend vom situativen Ansatz der Organisationstheorie entwickelt sie einen theoretischen Bezugsrahmen und formuliert Hypothesen, die sie anhand einer empirischen Unter

Overview: Die Entdeckung der Radioaktivit?t vor 100 Jahren markiert den Beginn einer neuen ?ra. Sie leitet die Entwicklung der Kernphysik und ihrer Anwendungen ein. Seither werden radioaktive Nuklide auf vielen Gebieten genutzt. Besonders fruchtbar ist ihr Einsatz in der medizinischen Therapie und in der Diagnostik. - Angesichts nuklearer Waffen, gravierender Unf?lle und der Verbreitung künstlich radioaktiver Stoffe in der Umwelt l?st das Wort "Radioaktivit?t" heute aber auch bei vielen Menschen ?ngste aus. Um sich mit den Erscheinungen der Radioaktivit?t sachkundig auseinandersetzen zu k?nnen

Overview: Reasons that blindness is a creative and artistic force.Argues that non-visual description is more evocative than sight-based description and that blind narrators, characters and readers engage with t.Thisbook argues that the most interesting depictions of blindness in Frenchfiction are those which call into question and ultimately undermine theprevailing myths and stereotypes of blindness which dominate Western thought.Rather than seeing blindness as an affliction, a tragedy or even a fate worsethan death, the authors examined in this study celebrate blindness for its ownsake. For t