BOOKS with Alphabet R (Ra, Rb,Rc, Rd, Re…... )

Overview: With American health care reform being debated in Congress and the media, this book examines Democrat and Republican reform approaches and compares the US reform efforts to those of other nations.Prev.As countries confront new health care challenges in the 21st century, their health care systems reflect the problems and political settlements of an earlier age. Meeting these new challenges requires reform of existing health care system arrangements while reconciling the goals of equitable access to quality care at an affordable price. This book compares health care reforms in industri

Overview: A one of a kind early adopter short book on the new Rails 5 web framework.A practical treatment on using the new Rails 5 as it stands now.A new ActionCable for HTML5 web sockets and faster web linkingThis short early adopter book details both how you‘ll upgrade existing web applications from Rails 4.2 to 5 and how to create new applications in Rails 5. The headline features, Rails API and Action Cable are each looked at in detail, building small example projects to demonstrate how to build a JSON API and add real-time interactions in order to create a single-page application..All the

Overview: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2014, held in Toronto, ON, Canada in September 2014. The 28 revised full papers presented together with 2 tool papers, and 8short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The scope of the conference was on following topics: monitoring and trace slicing, runtime verification of distributed and concurrent systems, runtime Verification of real-time and embedded systems, testing and bug finding, and inference and learning.978-3-319-11163-6978-3-319-11164-

Overview: Ein neuer Band aus der Reihe Springer Essentials.Includes supplementary material: Markus Ramming untersucht, wie Kreditinstitute mit den Risiken aus Unternehmensanleihen umgehen und liefert eine übersicht über die Risiken, die sich aus einer Positionierung in Unternehmensanleihen ergeben. Der Autor zeigt unterschiedliche Methoden auf, wie sich diese Risiken quantifizieren lassen, und liefert darauf aufbauende ?best practice“-Hinweise. Dabei wird auch auf die diesbezüglich für Kreditinstitute relevanten Mindestanforderungen an das Risikomanagement eingegangen.978-3-658-08016-7978-3-65

Overview: This volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series contains the papers accepted for presentation at the Second International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2008). The conference took place in Bremen, Germany, hosted by the Jacobs University Bremen. AIMS 2008 was - ganized and supported by the EC IST-EMANICS Network of Excellence (#26854) in cooperation with ACM SIGAPP and ACM SIGMIS and co-sponsored by IFIP WG 6.6 and Jacobs University Bremen. This year’s AIMS 2008 constituted the second edition of a single-track and standalone confere

Overview: Practical nature of the text takes the reader outside the realm of economic theory and into the real-world of energy regulation.Covers all aspects of the regulation of energy-supply with examples from.Regulation of the Power Sector. is a unified, consistent and comprehensive treatment of the theories and practicalities of regulation in modern power-supply systems. The need for generation to occur at the time of use occasioned by the impracticality of large-scale electricity storage coupled with constant and often unpredictable changes in demand make electricity-supply systems large,

Overview: .Winner of?Honorable Mention for the 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award.Thisbook examines the history of ethnic minorities particularly Chicano/as andLatino/as--in the field of composition and rhetoric; the connections betweencomposition and major US historical movements toward inclusiveness in education;the ways our histories of that inclusiveness have overlooked Chicano/as; and howthis history can inform the teaching of composition and writing to Chicano/a andLatino/a students in the present day. Bridging the gap between Ethnic Studies,C

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.978-3-642-98409-9978-3-642-99222-3

Overview: Zusammenfassende Darstellung der Wirkungen und der Wirkungsweisen verschiedener Rauschdrogen und als Drogen missbrauchter Arzneimittel, die zugleich einen Vergleich der übereinstimmung und Unterschied.Die Neuauflage tr?gt den jüngsten Entwicklungen im Drogenbereich – wie Verschiebungen bei den Konsumgewohnheiten und Auftauchen neuer Drogenarten bzw. Variet?ten – Rechnung und zeigt m?gliche Entwicklungstendenzen auf. Angesichts einer zunehmenden Konsumh?ufigkeit wird so nunmehr auch auf als Rauschdrogen missbrauchte Salbeiarten und Absinth eingegangen und damit neben den Alkaloiden ei

Overview: 978-3-662-35353-0

Overview: Provides an up-to-date and accessible philosophical analysis of the ethics of de-extinction.Expands enquiry from case studies to broader philosophical questions.Challenges conventional attitudes towar.This book is about the philosophy of de-extinction. To make an extinct species ‘de-extinct’ is to resurrect it by creating new organisms of the same, or similar, appearance and genetics. The book describes current attempts to resurrect three species, the aurochs, woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon. It then investigates two major philosophical questions such projects throw up. These are

Overview: Rorty concise, simple and understandable.Introduction and overview.The only current introduction in the German-speaking world.The .essential .offers a systematic guide to a fruitful reading of Rorty. At the same time, it provides a brief introduction to the main features of Richard Rorty‘s neopragmatism. The author proposes to read it as a fragile balance of pragmatism and romanticism by which Rorty seeks to change our self-image. Moreover, he elucidates this transformative ambition through a sketch of "continence, irony, and solidarity" and the utopian figure of the liberal ironist.

Overview: Is devoted to Reverse Clustering, developed by the authors and applied to a series of cases based on real-life data.Belongs to the broadly understood domain of data analysis – more precisely: classifi.This book presents a new perspective on and a new approach to a wide spectrum of situations, related to data analysis, actually, a kind of a new paradigm. Namely, for a given data set and its partition, whose origins may be of any kind, the authors try to reconstruct this partition on the basis of the data set given, using very broadly conceived clustering procedure. The main advantages

Overview: 978-94-009-3475-7

Overview: Demonstrates and discusses research methods and solutions currently used in urban transport networks and systems.Presents recent research methods and solutions used in urban transport networks and sysThis book?presents many valuable research methods useful in conducting research in modern urban transportation systems and networks. The knowledge base in practical examples, as well as the decision support methods described in this?book,?is?of interest to people who face the challenge of searching for solutions to the problems of contemporary transport networks and systems on a daily ba

Overview: Alle Besonderheiten der russischen Rechnungsregelungsvorschriften in einem Werk.Exkurs: Joint Ventures, Lizenzen, Leasing.Mit einem Glossar der wichtigsten russischen Fachbegriffe.Includes supplementa.Russland ist ein wichtiger Handelspartner für Deutschland und ein Investitionsstandort für deutsche Unternehmen. Die Bewertung russischer Zielunternehmen und die Beurteilung der Rechnungslegung russischer T?chter stehen daher im Fokus von Gesch?ftsführern und Verantwortlichen im Rechnungswesen..Zahlreiche Beispiele und Empfehlungen, der Text des Rechnungslegungsgesetzes und ein Glossar

Overview: Thoroughly updated edition focusing on new and recent developments in renal cell carcinoma.Provides updated information on the rapidly evolving field of renal cell carcinoma personalized medicine, wit??.?The third edition of this critically acclaimed book has updated and expanded the survey of clinical, biological and pathological management of localized and advanced renal cell carcinoma. Internationally renowned editors and contributors explore the latest developments in molecular genetics, focusing on the novel targets that have been discovered in epithelial renal tumors..Comprehen

Overview: Chronic viral hepatitis remains one of the major medical problems worldwide. Neither a cure nor eradication of this disease is in sight. The chronic disease caused by hepatitis viruses type B, C and D is a much greater problem than the acute disease caused by the same viruses or by hepatitis viruses type A and E. Chronic viral hepatitis often remains unrecognized until the patient develops decompensated liver cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma. Furthermore, unrecognized chronic virus carriers are a persistent source of infection by sexual and other close contacts as well as during

Overview: Promotes a better understanding of challenges and proposed solutions for regional integration in West Africa.Scientific analysis of latest African economic events and evolutions.Collects contributions?This book presents a number of key studies pertaining to the most pressing challenges of economic regional integration in West Africa. The issues of monetary coordination, foreign exchange volatility, taxation, savings and macroeconomic convergence are investigated from a regional perspective. ?The characteristics of West Africa’s trade policy are reviewed and assessed in comparison to

Overview: 978-3-662-15097-9978-3-7985-1689-2Series ISSN 0340-255X Series E-ISSN 1437-8027