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

Overview: Examines the industrial contexts that drive and underpin 2010 - 2020 cycle of US TV horror.Identifies key shifts in attitudes to horror from the TV industry, the advertising industry and in critical dThis book explores the cycle of horror on US television in the decade following the launch of?.The Walking Dead., considering the horror genre from an industrial perspective. Examining TV horror through rich industrial and textual analysis, this book reveals the strategies and ambitions of cable and network channels, as well as Netflix and Shudder, with regards to horror serialization. S

Overview: Includes a preface by Gen. Carter Ham, Former Commander, U.S. Africa Command.Addresses the skepticism of those who think that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is just an empty rhetoric.Shows the roThis book argues that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) the Libyan people played an important role in the U.S.’s decision to act, both in terms of how the language of deliberation was framed and the implementation of the actual intervention once all preventive means had been exhausted. While the initial ethos of the intervention followed international norms, the author argues that as t

Overview: Radikalisierung und ihre Narrative in Online-Medien.Systematische Untersuchung der Strategien extremistischer Akteure.Erkenntnisse aus Wissenschaft und Pr?ventionRadikalisierung hin zu extremistischen Milieus findet seit etlichen Jahren auch gezielt online statt. W?hrend der Kontakt zu extremistischen Akteuren weiterhin auch offline geschieht, spielen die sozialen Medien in Radikalisierungsverl?ufen zunehmend eine wichtige Rolle. So werden Jugendliche in YouTube-Videos und auf anderen Plattformen der sozialen Medien aktiv von extremistischen Akteuren angesprochen und zu extremistisch

Overview: Die Regulierung von Markt und Technik ist heute eine zentrale Staatsaufgabe. Die Deregulierung und Globalisierung von M?rkten, aber auch technische Gefahren erfordern neue Regeln und überwachungsinstitutionen. Der Lehrtext behandelt Theorie, Praxis und Ver?nderungen regulativer Staatlichkeit.?Die neoliberale Wende der 80er Jahre, die globale Entfesselung der Marktkr?fte und Gefahren der Technik in der Risikogesellschaft erfordern neue Regeln, überwachungsinstitutionen und Sanktionsinstrumente. Der auf Forschungsergebnissen zur Regulierung der Kernenergie, des Finanz- und Telekommunik

Overview: A comprehensive and uniform treatment of a lesser-known region i.e. the Carpatho-Balkan-Dinaric Region.Presentation of many findings previously not available in English.Abundant case studies and illus.The Carpatho-Balkan Geomorphological Commission and the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG) Carpatho-Balkan-Dinaric Regional Working Group, promote networking between researchers and the exchange of research experience.?Following a brief introduction into the geology, climate, hydrology and land cover of the Carpatho-Balkan-Dinaric region, the book provides detailed info

Overview: Ein innovativer Ansatz für die topographische Analyse von (Jugend-) Romanen.Spatial Turn im Adoleszenzroman.Narratologie in der Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung.Die Adoleszenz ist eine Lebensphase des übergangs, der Ver?nderung und des Umbruchs. Diese Prozesse werden in literarischen Darstellungen h?ufig in Bewegungen durch den Raum übersetzt. Der erz?hlte Raum ist dabei in seiner Konstruktion und Semantik als komplexer Zeichentr?ger zu lesen, der unterschiedliche Dimensionen miteinander zu verbinden vermag. Die Studie entwickelt, im Rückbezug auf kulturwissenschaftliche Raumtheo

Overview: Presents the theoretical foundations and scope of collaborative e-Work and e-Service.Describes the challenges and emerging e-Work and e-Service solutions in the context of the recently developed Colla.Collaboration in highly distributed organizations of people, robots, and autonomous systems is and must be revolutionized by engineering augmentation. The aim is to augment humans’ abilities at work and, through this augmentation, improve organizations’ abilities to accomplish their missions. This book establishes the theoretical foundations and design principles of collaborative e-Work

Overview: Highlights an emerging paradigm: proteins can function during their biosynthesis.Is the first book to focus on hitherto unpredicted functions of nascent chains.Explains how dynamic translation process.This book highlights a new paradigm of translation control by regulatory nascent polypeptides, which is integrated into cellular regulatory systems. Translation lies in the hub of the central dogma of biology, in which the genetic information in the forms of 4-letter sentences is translated into 20-letter sentences: sequences of amino acids that constitute proteins, the functional molec

Overview: Using romantic theories, Caton analyzes America‘s contemporary novel. Organized through the two sections of "Theory" and "Practice," Reading American Novels and Multicultural Aesthetics begins with a study of aesthetic form only to have it reveal the content of politics and history. This presentation immediately offers a unified platform for an interchange between multiple cultural and aesthetic positions. Romantic theory provides for an integrated examination of diversity, one that metaphorically fosters a solid, inclusive, and democratic legitimacy for intercultural communication.

Overview: Offers a new approach to refugee law.Focuses on the economic analysis of refugee law and on the protection of refugee rights.Explores essential variables that impact "choices".This book focuses on the economic analysis of refugee law and the protection of refugee rights. It offers a law and economics model applied to migration and states. The book focuses on the most critical ‘push’ factors that impact lawmakers in enacting and modifying asylum law. Furthermore, the book examines the economic advantages and disadvantages of a centralized supernational asylum law (.acquis communautair

Overview: The radiation therapist‘s primary concern is the treatment of patients with malignant dis- ease. However, there are definite indications for radiation treatment for benign diseases that do not respond to conventional methods of treatment. It may be the treatment of choice in the unusual instance of a life-threatening benign disease that cannot be surgi- cally or medically managed. The present volume by Order and Donaldson represents a major statement on the uti- lization of radiation techniques in the management of benign disease. The initial report of the Committee on Radiation Trea

Overview: Applies precepts of classical liberalism to current debates around reparations.Argues for the importance of property rights and self-ownership to sustainable economic progress.Discusses limitations of.This book offers an alternative to perspectives of distributive justice which fail to resolve economic inequality and exacerbate social problems by ignoring the real causes of inequality. The main impact of the book is to highlight the importance of self-ownership and private property, showing how market participation advances liberty and prosperity...The idea that we should pay reparat

Overview: Sozialwissenschaftliche Studie?Ausgangspunkt dieser Arbeit ist ein ?konomischer Ansatz, bei dem unterstellt wird, dass es sich bei Zigaretten um ein nutzenstiftendes Konsumgut handelt. Um Erkl?rungen für Variationen im Rauchverhalten zu finden, arbeitet Thomas Wimmer entsprechende Restriktionen wie z. B. Zigarettenpreise und Nichtrauchernormen heraus, die zum Ausbleiben bzw. zur Einschr?nkung des Konsums führen sollten. Untersucht werden diese Vermutungen im Rahmen zahlreicher empirischer Analysen auf der Individual- und Aggregatebene.978-3-658-00337-1978-3-658-00338-8Series ISSN 262

Overview: In 1986, the Committee of Experts on Blood Transfusion and Immunohae- tology of the Council of Europe chose for their Programme of Co-ordinated Research "An investigation of the procurement and sharing of transplantable organs for potential recipients who are highly sensitized to HLA-antigens". This topic was of common concern to all centres practising renal transplan- tion. The terms of reference of the study were: To estimate the number of patients who are virtually "untransplantable" because of high sensitization in each European country. To study the nature of immunization in ter

Overview: Die Krankenhausplanung in Deutschland entwickelt sich immer mehr zu einer Rahmenplanung, die es den Krankenh?usern vor Ort überl?sst, diesen Rahmen zu füllen. Den Krankenh?usern fehlen jedoch meist geeignete Methoden, um gesicherte Grundlagen für die eigene Planung zu erstellen und in regionalen Verteilungsverhandlungen begründet mitsprechen zu k?nnen...Basierend auf den Methoden der internationalen Krankenhausplanung erarbeitet Axel Focke ein Modell, das mit Hilfe eines Ameisenalgorithmus die Simulation von verschiedenen ?Was-w?re-wenn-Situationen“ erm?glicht. Es erlaubt, den wenig

Overview: Offers an investigative, behind-the-scenes look at New York City‘s participatory budgeting (PB) process, which takes readers through an entire annual cycle.Provides a clear account of issues related pNew York City has the largest council-sponsored Participatory Budgeting (PB) processes in North America. From its inception in Brazil, PB was a process that empowered the least-advantaged members of the community by providing a way to propose budget allocations through voting. This book reports on a multi-methodological study of New York City’s participatory budgeting (PB) process from t

Overview: Contains rigorously reviewed scholarly works on the history and philosophy of mathematics from a variety of time periods and cultures.Contributions are written by the leading scholars in the field.WilThis volume contains seventeen papers that were presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques, held in Washington, D.C. In addition to showcasing rigorously reviewed modern scholarship on an interesting variety of general topics in the history and philosophy of ma

Overview: Presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021).Emphasizes on the role of civil engineering for a disaster-resilient society.Includes earthquake hazarThis book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021). It emphasizes on the role of civil engineering for a disaster-resilient society. It presents latest research in geohazards and their mitigation. Various topics covered in this book are earthquake hazard, seismic response of structures and earthquake risk. This book is a comprehens

Overview: Interdisziplin?rer Ansatz, Behandlung von Schnittstellenproblemen zwischen Medizin, Ethik und Recht.Verst?ndliche Aufarbeitung der medizinischen Grundlagen sowie gut strukturierter überblick über RechDas Buch thematisiert die vielf?ltigen Rechtsfragen, welche die individualisierte Medizin in der Gesundheitsversorgung sowie in der medizinischen Praxis aufwirft. Die individualisierte Medizin gilt als medizinische Revolution, bisweilen als ?Synonym für die Medizin der Zukunft“, von der man sich erhebliche Fortschritte bei der Bek?mpfung von Krankheiten, insbesondere Krebserkrankungen, e

Overview: Rather than the conventional view that the study of robotics is a balance between mechanics, electronics, and software, in this book the author stresses that the most important topics in robotics are .In this book the author stresses software as the most important topic in modern robotics. In particular the book concentrates on software for mobile robots, and the author demonstrates how inexpensive solutions can be constructed by mounting Raspberry Pi controllers and cameras onto model cars or other simple mechanical drive systems. He introduces EyeSim-VR, a freely available system t