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"A Systems Approach to Leadership" (SAL) is a methodology for creating sustained high performance in conditions of high complexity and uncertainty. Presenting actionable methods for use by everyday leaders, this book puts sound systems approach methods for managing complexity into the hands of professionals.

The safety of vehicle traffic depends on how well automotive lighting supports the visual perception of the driver. physiology of eye and brain, as well as those of automotive lighting technology, like e.g.

This book describes and analyzes the formation, operation, and impacts of modern global cartels. Complete with intensive case studies, it provides a broad picture of the economics, competition law and history of international price fixing.

This book surveys the use of botulinum toxin A in aesthetic medicine, including patient selection and evaluation, as well as rules and requirements. A section with tips and tricks makes this an invaluable resource for practicing dermatologists and plastic surgeons.

This book reviews recent progress in the theory of oligopoly and market leadership and provides new results on the theory of Stackelberg competition and Nash competition with strategic investment under endogenous entry. The results are used to propose a new approach to competition policy and issues of the abuse of dominance.

Adaptive business intelligence systems combine prediction and optimization techniques to assist decision makers in complex, rapidly changing environments. This book explains the science and application of numerous prediction and optimization techniques, and shows how they can be used to develop adaptive systems.

Wholeheartedly recommended to every student and user of mathematics, this is an extremely original and highly informative essay on algebra and its place in modern mathematics and science.

The Local Langlands Conjecture for GL(2) contributes an unprecedented text to the so-called Langlands theory. It presupposes no special knowledge beyond the beginnings of the representation theory of finite groups and the structure theory of local fields.

The seminal ideas of this book played a key role in the development of group theory since the 70s. Several generations of mathematicians learned geometric ideas in group theory from this book. In it, the author proves the fundamental theorem for the special cases of free groups and tree products before dealing with the proof of the general case.

This text explores the new economics of monetary union. Amongst other things, it discusses the effects of shocks and policies on output and prices. A feature of the book is the numerical estimation of shock and policy multipliers.

Here is a practical guide for anyone faced with organising a business. It will help readers adapt tools and concepts for successfully analyzing and transforming the organisation. The book explains how to apply best practices and avoid common pitfalls.

Believed to be a publishing first when originally brought out, this book covers all aspects of centrifugal gas cleaning devices. The optimization of cyclone performance for any given task is a sought-after goal - but it is one that is seldom achieved in practice.

The state-of-the-art of quantum transport and quantum kinetics in semiconductors, plus the latest applications, are covered in this monograph.

This book examines the history of German immigration policy. It analyzes the country's future demand for immigration. Coverage develops an economic model for the effective selection and integration of labor migrants that could provide the foundation for a joint European immigration strategy.

From the reviews: "The account is quite detailed and is written in a manner that will appeal to analysts and numerical practitioners alike...they contain everything from rigorous proofs to tables of numerical calculations....

Includes a section that covers key concepts of cryptography, from encryption and digital signatures to cryptographic protocols. This book demonstrates essential techniques in protocols for key exchange, user identification, electronic elections and digital cash.

A detailed and comprehensive account of the engineering of the world's first nonimaging Fresnel lens solar concentrator. The book shows the reader how to find his or her own optical solution using the rules and methodologies covering the design and the assessment of the nonimaging lens.

The LES-method is rapidly developing in many practical applications in engineeringThe mathematical background is presented here for the first time in book form by one of the leaders in the field

"The second volume of the authors' 'Computational commutative algebra'...covers on its 586 pages a wealth of interesting material with several unexpected applications. The text is recommended for all those who want to learn and enjoy an algebraic tool that becomes more and more relevant to different fields of applications."

Thus, m the space of states (phase space) is a subset M of an Euclidean space M . For continuous time systems, the evolution rule may be a differential eq- tion: to each state x G M one associates the speed and direction in which the system is going to evolve from that state.

Process Management, with its key concepts of internal customer and process ownership, is becoming one of the most important competitive weapons for firms and can determine a strategic change in the way business is carried out (Business Process Reengineering - B.P.R.).

Aims to support modularisation of systemic properties and their subsequent composition with other parts of the system. This book shows how the use of AOP can transform the way we develop, use and maintain database systems. It also discusses how database systems can support AOP by providing means for storage and retrieval of aspects.

What does "excellent manufacturing management" mean? And secondly, pay attention to the dimension of management quality, direction setting, integration and delegation, communication, participation, measurement, and employee development.

Gary Wobeser's successful book from 1994 has been completely updated and enlarged in a new second edition. The subjects are illustrated with examples drawn from around the world, with emphasis on the special requirements involved in working with wild animals. The book draws on the author's training as a wildlife biologist.

A book providing an overview of the various wood and tree fungi that damage trees, lumber, and timber. Special focus is given to identification, prevention, and remediation techniques, and the book bridges the gap between research and application.

The book provides an up-to-date survey of statistical and econometric techniques for the analysis of count data, with a focus on conditional distribution models. Alternative models address unobserved heterogeneity, state dependence, selectivity, endogeneity, underreporting, and clustered sampling.

Measures of Active Labor Market Policy - such as training, wage subsidies, public employment measures, and job search assistance - are widely used in European countries to combat unemployment.

This volume completes the second edition series of Surgical Neuroangiography. It offers a complete and richly illustrated overview of all treatment modalities. The authors' 30 years of experience have helped establish the natural history of these rare diseases.

This exhaustive new edition offers the fundamentals of sidescan sonar imagery and bathymetry and explains the tricky science of interpreting them. It also covers all recent advances in the field regarding both technology and knowledge of marine structures.