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Overview: Focuses on public policy implications from sport.Builds a bridge between sport entrepreneurship literature and public policy literature.Helps readers understand why sport policy is entrepreneurial in .This book revisits the traditional general approach to sport policy by adopting an entrepreneurial perspective. The respective chapters, all written by recognized experts, link a fragmented collection of treatises on entrepreneurship, public policy and sport entrepreneurship to develop a coherent, unified perspective on policy-making. The book’s central argument is that, while in the pa

Overview: Starke Marken faszinieren. Dabei hat jede Marke ihre eigenen, spezifischen und damit einzigartigen Erfolgsursachen. Da der immaterielle Markenwert bis 50 Prozent und mehr des Unternehmenswertes ausmachen kann, ist das strategische Management von Marken zu einem zentralen Thema in den Führungsetagen vieler Unternehmen geworden. Doch so wie die Marke kein statisches Konstrukt darstellt, sondern sich im Kontext von Unternehmensimage, Kundenbindung und Umweltvariablen entwickelt und ver?ndert, l?sst sich auch in der Sichtweise auf die Elemente erfolgreichen Brand-Managements ein Wandel b

Overview: Illustrations of various applications including manufacturing, medical, banking, insurance and others.Includes various real-world case studies with detailed results.Edited by the highly-regarded edito.Data mining is the science and technology of exploring large and complex bodies of data in order to discover useful patterns. It is extremely important because it enables modeling and knowledge extraction from abundant data availability...Soft Computing for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. introduces soft computing methods extending the envelope of problems that data mining can solv

Overview: Investigates personal and numerical aspects of death among children across three centuries.Draws attention to the reaction of parents to the death of a child.Draws upon data that demonstrates that QuaThis work examines mortality among young children in the period from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It does so using several types and sources of information?from the census unit England and Wales, and from Ireland. The sources of information used in this study include memoirs, diaries, poems, church records and numerical accounts. They offer descriptions of the quality of li

Overview: Der vorliegende Band A 3 der System-Nr. 61 ,.Silber" setzt die Behandlung des Elements mit den Kapiteln 1 Chemisches Verhalten des Metalls 2 Chemisches Verhalten des Ions 3 Nachweis und Bestimmung 4 Toxicit?t 5 Kolloides Silber A2 die Kapitel Geschichtliches, Kosmochemie, Geochemie, Mineralien, fort, nachdem in Silber A 1 und Lagerst?tten, Technologie und Darstellung des Silbers, Silberisotope, Atom und Molekeln sowie Physikalische Eigenschaften des Metalls behandelt worden waren. Das beim Silber recht umfang- reiche Kapitel ,.Elektrochemie" soll den abschlie?enden Band Silber A 4 bi

Overview: 978-3-322-86820-6978-3-322-86819-0

Overview: Discusses the challenges and advantages of STEM education.Provides a conceptual framework of how scientific inquiry can be induced in mathematics practice to develop students’ STEM reasoning.Presents .This valuable resource provides an overview of recent research and strategies in developing and applying modelling to promote practice-based research in STEM education. In doing so, it bridges barriers across academic disciplines by suggesting activities that promote integration of qualitative science concepts with the tools of mathematics and engineering. The volume’s three parts offer

Overview: 978-3-540-17049-5978-3-642-93335-6

Overview: Up-to-date, clinically applicable, validated protocols for single-cell diagnostics.Whole genome amplification to create starting material from single cells.Microarrays for analyzing multiple gene sequThe aim of Single Cell Diagnostics: Methods and Protocols is for all readers to extend their knowledge and expertise in analysis of single cells. The book starts with laser assisted cell collection, non-invasive assessment of single cells and moves through the techniques of standard fluorescence in situ hybridization and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) As the reader moves through the boo

Overview: Sheds new light on the genitive/accusative opposition phenomenon in Russian, an object case alternation that has long puzzled linguists.Provides a new semantic analysis of genitive objects.Reveals a sThe genitive/accusative opposition in Slavic languages is a decades-old linguistic conundrum. Shedding new light on this perplexing object-case alternation in Russian, this volume analyzes two variants of genitive objects that alternate with accusative complements—the genitive of negation and the intensional genitive. The author contends that these variants are manifestations of the same

Overview: Presents a comprehensive, systematic, and empirically-based analysis of subsequent agreements and subsequent practice in domestic jurisprudence.Explains the historic origins, doctrinal underpinning, aThe book analyses how subsequent agreements and subsequent practice as defined in articles 31 and 32 of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties have been applied in interpretative reality. Based on the jurisprudence of domestic courts, it elucidates the distribution of power between the parties to a treaty and other actors. To start with, the book traces the origins of subseque

Overview: Written by leading experts.Up-to-date overview and references.This third volume of Spin Dynamics in Confined Magnetic Structures addresses central aspects of spin-dynamic phenomena on a tutorial level. Researchers will find a comprehensive compilation of the current work in the field. Introductory chapters help newcomers to understand the basic concepts. The more advanced chapters give the current state-of-the-art of spin dynamic issues ranging from the femtosecond to the microsecond regime. This volume concentrates on new experimental techniques such as ferromagnetic-resonance-force

Overview: Fast track conference proceedings.Unique visibility.State of the art researchThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems, SERENE 2013, held in Kiev, Ukraine, in October 2013. The 13 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on resilient software and design, rigorous reasoning, applications, concepts, and analysis.978-3-642-40893-9978-3-642-40894-6Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: First comprehensive and systematic exposition of the properties of semiconcave functions and their various applications, particularly to optimal control problems, by leading experts in the field.A cen.Semiconcavity is a natural generalization of concavity that retains most of the good properties known in convex analysis, but arises in a wider range of applications. This text is the first comprehensive exposition of the theory of semiconcave functions, and of the role they play in optimal control and Hamilton-Jacobi equations...The first part covers the?general theory, encompassing al

Overview: A survey of the world’s largest chemical companies is at the core of this book. It is an empirical examination of sustainability practice.Practice is outlined in detail in a series of table that show,.It’s the new rock and roll. It’s the new black. Sustainability is trendy, and not just among hipsters and pop stars. The uncool chemical sector helped pioneer it, and today, companies inside and outside the sector have embraced it. But what have they embraced? Surely not the Brundtland definition of meeting “the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations

Overview: Presents a comprehensive survey of the Vesta system for software configuration managementThe core technologies underlying software configuration managementhave changed little in more than two decades. Developmentorganizations struggle to manage ever- larger software systems with tools that were never designed to handle them. Their development processes are warped by the inadequacies of their building and version management tools. Developers must take time from writing and debugging code to cope with the operational problems thrust upon them by their build system‘s inade- quate suppor

Overview: Focuses on the interaction of preadolescents with ASD based on naturally occurring data from multiparty conversations.Discusses the role of prosody, disfluencies, and eye contact avoidance in the inteThe book focuses on the interaction of persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). ASD is a neurobiological developmental disorder, characterized by problems with social interaction, over-sensitivity to sensory stimuli and restricted interest (APA 2013). Problems with social interaction being a core feature of ASD, there is a scientific and a societal need for a book focusing on this to

Overview: Spinal Cord Injury or disease can happen to anyone at any time and the effects can be devastating. I found this out personally when I was thrown from the back of a pick up truck at age 15 was left paralyzed from the waist down. It was during my recuperation as a young teenager that I first gained insight into the importance of rehabilitation. My family, doctors, nurses, fellow patients and researchers who were dedicated to helping me over- come my personal tragedy helped me pull through. Today, rehabilita- tion medicine is taking great strides and empowering the person with the injur

Overview: In Memoriam of Berthold Hansmann a beloved and deeply caring colleague whose vision and steadfastness helped to create this book.State of the art perspectives on monitoring and evaluating actual susta.Value chains are a vital part of how our world operates, yet we are only beginning to understand how to make them sustainable. This volume addresses the crux of that challenge by presenting a broad array of options for understanding and managing the complexity of sustainability initiatives that affect, and are also influenced by value chains. Its chapters present diverse perspectives on

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book contains the thoroughly refereed technical papers presented in six workshops collocated with the International Conference on Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations, STAF 2016, held in Vienna, Austria, in July 2016.?The six workshops whose papers are included in this volume are: DataMod, GCM, HOFM, MELO, SEMS, and VeryComp. The 33 full and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. They focus on practical and foundational advances in software technology covering a wide range of aspects incl