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Overview: Critical advice: on extremely high value decision making (up to $500,000 licence fees for major ad campaign).Quality content: definitive, top quality information.Engaging and easy styleHas a commercial ever brought you to tears? Has a movie ever inspired you so much you change your way of life? Has the series finale of a television show ever broken your heart? Has a video game ever altered your perception of reality? .If you‘re like most consumers, you answered ‘yes‘ to at least one of those questions. Whether you remember it or not, the music of that ad, film, show or game probably

Overview: 978-3-662-09731-1978-3-662-09730-4Series ISSN 0172-6412

Overview: Provides reliability perspective of smart grid technology and applications.Stresses on management of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles to improve power system operation.Focuses on different aspects of The volume presents the research work in understanding, modeling and quantifying the risks associated with different ways of implementing smart grid technology in power systems in order to plan and operate a modern power system with an acceptable level of reliability. Power systems throughout the world are undergoing significant changes creating new challenges to system planning and oper

Overview: Presents highlights of Robot Soccer World Cup 2014.Contains papers from the new special track on open source hardware and software components.Contributions are written by international experts in the .This book includes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th Annual RoboCup International Symposium, held in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, in July 2014.The 36 revised papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions and include 11 champion-team papers, three special-track papers on open-source hardware and software, nine papers on the advancement of the RoboCup leagues track

Overview: Moving away from territorially-bound narratives toward a more kinetic conceptualization of identity, this book represents the first analysis of the politics of American identity within the fiction and memoirs of Isabel Allende. Craig offers a radical transformation of societal frameworks through revised notions of place, temporality, and space.978-1-349-46462-3978-1-137-33758-0

Overview: Rechtssichere Gestaltung der Publizit?tspflicht978-3-409-11406-6978-3-322-91276-3Series ISSN 0175-7105

Overview: This, the ninth volume in the series, appears some 13 years after the first. Like most of its predecessors, Volume 9 is deliberately eclectic, covering a range of topics that the editors think worthy of inclusion. Some of the chapters, such as the review of the literature on benzodiazepines, represent areas that have received relatively little attention in previous volumes-largely because the literature has not previously been "ripe" for review. Others represent literatures that have been reviewed in the past but which continue to advance in sufficient measure that their ripening nev

Overview: Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by Budapest University of Technology and Economics.Reports on models for analysing disaster-based network failures.Opens up new possibilities for resilient telec.This book presents a comprehensive study covering the design and application of models and algorithms for assessing the joint device failures of telecommunication backbone networks caused by large-scale regional disasters. At first, failure models are developed to make use of the best data available; in turn, a set of fast algorithms for determining the resulting failure lists are descr

Overview: 978-3-89085-979-8978-3-86226-453-7Series ISSN 0936-028X

Overview: This book project traces the thought of several Roman Catholic Modernists (and one especially virulent anti-Modernist) as they confronted the intellectual challenges posed by the Great war from war from 1895 to 1907.978-1-137-52736-3

Overview: Das Buch enth?lt Hilfen, um Entscheidungen rational zu treffen.Besonderes Gewicht wird auf die Annahmen gesetzt, konkrete Anwendungsbeispiele belegen den Wert der Verfahren.Die Neuauflage wurde aktualDieses Lehrbuch vermittelt die Methoden, die geeignet sind, Entscheidungen in verschiedenen Lebensbereichen, wie Wirtschaft, Politik, Medizin oder Privatsph?re, mit einem h?heren Grad an Rationalit?t zu treffen. Schwerpunkte sind Entscheidungen bei Zielkonflikten, Entscheidungen unter Risiko, Entscheidungen bei unvollst?ndigen Informationen über die eigenen Pr?ferenzen oder Wahrscheinlic

Overview: Neue Regel-Konzepte durch Umstellung von Kreisen auf Netzwerke.Darstellung eines Regelsystems durch ein Netzwerk.Mit Bus-Approach, Antisystem-Approach und Schattenstrecke.Ein Lehrbuch zu neuen Konzepten der Regelungstechnik?.Bus-Approach.?und?.Antisystem-Approach.?(ASA), die bereits bei mehreren Projekten implementiert wurden..Die seit Jahrzehnten etablierten Wirkungspl?ne von Regelkreisen sind im Buch durch bus-?hnliche Netzwerke ersetzt. Prinzipiell neue regelungstechnische Bausteine, wie ASA-Regler und so genannte?.Data Stream Manager?.(DSM), werden entwickelt. Es sind verschieden

Overview: New perspectives on the responsible governance of science and technology.A Multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of responsibility.An analytical framework based on social theory.Includes supple.The present volume elucidates the scope of responsibility in science and technology governance by way of assimilating insights gleaned from sociological theory and STS and by investigating the ways in which responsibility unfolds in social processes. Drawing on these theoretical perspectives, the volume goes on to review a ‘heuristic model’ of responsibility. Such a model provides a sim

Overview: Touches on a range of timely issues and problems in Discourse and Text Studies.Provides an excellent entry point into complex and differentiated text and discourse analysis.Reviews the state of the ar.This book revisits discourse analytic practice, analyzing the idea that the field has access to, provides, or even constitutes a ‘toolbox’ of methods. The precise characteristics of this toolbox have remained largely un-theorized, and the author discusses the different sets of tools and their combinations, particularly those that cut across traditional divides, such as those between dis

Overview: Presents an overview of the social, macro- and micro-economic framework conditions of the world of work.Demonstrates how to generate success factors from socio-political phenomena.Includes praxis-orie.In times of globalization, digitalization and demographic change, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the fragility and complexity of the world of work. It represents the peak of a process of change in the world of work in economic, social, socio-political and individual psychological terms...This book outlines how effective and future-oriented human resource management can look like in

Overview: Explores second-order effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on social and economic development in India.Provides theoretical insights on addressing pressing issues of justice and sustainability.Reflects th.This book explores the second-order effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on social and economic development in India. The chapters in this volume provide theoretical perspectives and empirical insights from a range of disciplines including history, economics, water management, food and nutrition security, agriculture, rural management, public health, urbanization, gender studies and develop

Overview: Comprehensive in scope.Provides perspectives on the most promising approaches.Written by experts in the fieldEditors hope that .Regenerative Biology of the Spine and Spinal Cord. appeals to the nostalgic sentiments of investigators and intellectuals in that it can be held in hand and provide a broad survey of leading edge science. At the same time its chapters can be digitally acquired for those established in the field to refine particular knowledge interests or gaps. Most importantly, we ask the reader, whomever that may be, to peruse without prejudice as countless more chapters wi

Overview: ‘There are no substantive rights for subjects in Hobbes‘s political theory, only bare freedoms without correlated duties to protect them‘. Curran challenges this orthodoxy of Hobbes scholarship, and argues that Hobbes‘s theory is not a theory of natural rights but rather, a modern, secular theory of rights, with relevance to modern rights theory.978-1-349-27989-0978-0-230-59274-2

Overview: This book emerged from teaching a graduate level course in propagation and smart antennas at the Naval Postgraduate School. In its present form, it is suitable not only as a graduate level text, but also as a reference book for industry and research use. The area of radiowave propagation and smart antennas is highly interdisciplinary, extracting material from electromagn- ics, communications, and signal processing. This book is useful to workers in electromagnetics who would like to supplement their background with relevant communicational aspects and to workers in communications who

Overview: Provides the reader with insights into solving ethical problems in business.Presents business leaders with an understanding of how different ethical problems may occur in practice.Supports academics wThis book presents a variety of discussions from different countries about regulations and applications of ethics in business practice. It demonstrates how Ethics, both in the world of business and in academic life, is consistently a central and unavoidable issue that institutions must devise new regulations on a regular basis to address. Given that applying such regulations becomes comp