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This book provides the essentials to write a successful business plan. The reader gets acquainted with the skills and competencies as well as tools, required for the planning and development of the business plan project.

A 1988 classic, covering Two-dimensional Surfaces; Domains on the Plane and on Surfaces; Brunn-Minkowski Inequality and Classical Isoperimetric Inequality; Isoperimetric Inequalities for Various Definitions of Area; and Inequalities Involving Mean Curvature.

This introduction to computational geometry focuses on algorithms. Modern insights in computational geometry are used to provide solutions that are both efficient and easy to understand and implement.

XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is a key enabling technology for interactive data. This book provides business and policy makers, technologists and information engineers with an essential toolkit to understand the complete implementation of XBRL.

This volume develops the kinetic theory of transport phenomena and relaxation processes in the flows of reacting gas mixtures. The theory is applied to the modeling of non-equilibrium flows behind strong shock waves, in the boundary layer, and in nozzles.

The book provides a self-contained account of the formal theory of general, i.e. also under- and overdetermined, systems of differential equations which in its central notion of involution combines geometric, algebraic, homological and combinatorial ideas.

This established textbook presents the classical topics of conduction heat transfer. Coverage is uniquely extended to include chapters on perturbation methods, heat transfer in living tissue, and microscale conduction. Examples and exercises are also provided.

Pattern calculus is a new foundation for computation. This book introduces static and dynamic pattern calculus, supports a family of type systems for pattern calculi that build on novel typings of lamda-calculus, and details a new programming language, bondi.

The demand for cosmetic procedures by male patients has increased in recent years. This book is the first hands-on guide dedicated exclusively to the aesthetic treatment of the male patient. It is a unique guide written by internationally known experts.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of private equity divestment processes--so-called exits--for European buyouts. Examining the efficiency of exits, it offers recommendations and guidelines for an integrated and exit-oriented private equity portfolio management.

The Economics of Casino Gambling is a comprehensive discussion of the social and economic costs and benefits of legalized gambling. It is the first comprehensive discussion of these issues available on the market.

My studies on the "uncertain consumer" began with a research project c- ducted by the Dr. Rainer Wild-Stiftung - Foundation for healthy nutrition - on the negative image of processed food. Ever since then I have been asked whether or not growing consumer uncertainty is linked to information po- cies of the food sector and if so, how.

the circularity of rate regulation, the sharing of risks between capital owners and rate payers, the length of the regulatory review period, the regulation of the capital structure as well as the conversion of a post-tax to pre-tax weighted average cost of capital.

A comprehensive review of the honeybees of Africa on a subspecies as well as by country basis. Includes an updated multivariate analysis of the subspecies based on the merger of the Ruttner database (Oberursel) and that of Hepburn & Radloff (Grahamstown) for nearly 20,000 bees.

The necessity for this new mind set is being driven by the situation that a completely new business world, a new reality, is being created at the point where the phenomenon commonly referred to as the "new economy" converges with the well-known old economy.

This book examines an integrated innovation environment. The book analyzes innovation dynamics, including commoditization, the constant innovation challenge and the sustainability of innovation along with cases including the iPod, Lego, Barbie, the browser wars and Google.

This book introduces all the relevant information required to understand and put Model Driven Architecture (MDA) into industrial practice. The book combines a sound theoretical approach based on more than 10 years' research.

Describes the central aspects of diffusion in solids, and goes on to provide easy access to important information about diffusion in metals, alloys, semiconductors, ion-conducting materials, glasses and nanomaterials. This book covers diffusion-controlled phenomena including ionic conduction, grain-boundary and dislocation pipe diffusion.

This comprehensive summary of the current state of the art of titanium addresses all aspects of titanium. Richly illustrated with more than 300 figures, this compendium takes a conceptual approach to the physical metallurgy and applications of titanium, making it suitable as a reference and tutorial for materials scientists and engineers.

A thoroughly revised and extended second edition of an important work for earth scientists. This updated version features yet more illustrations and maps as well as almost 100 corrections of scientific problems.

Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) has become the tool to design any type of public security systems, in particular due to the strongly increased security demands for mobile systems.

Despite having been published about two years ago for the first time, the continuous demand for this book encouraged me to prepare this revised and enlarged edition.

The wealth of insights into the brain's functioning gained by neuroscience in recent years led to the development of new possibilities for intervening in the brain such as neurotransplantation, neural prostheses and brain stimulation techniques.

Aimed at students and researchers, this is the very first book to present functional analysis in a unified manner, along with applications to economics, social sciences, and engineering. It is a rigorous study of modern functional analysis.

Written by an intensivist familiar with ultrasound, this book describes a new clinical tool: ultrasound for the intensive care and emergency physician. This volume is not only an exhaustive atlas dealing with the most variable aspects of the critically ill patient, but it is above all a guide, a permanent aid in the therapeutic decision.

How do engineering materials deform when bearing mechanical loads? To answer this crucial question, the book bridges the gap between continuum mechanics and materials science. The different kinds of material deformation are explained in detail.

Physical Acoustics in the Solid State reviews the modern aspects in the field, including many experimental results, especially those involving ultrasonics. After a review of the relevant experimental techniques and an introduction to the theory of elasticity, the book details applications in the various fields of condensed matter physics.

This overview of discrete-time systems and digital images covers approximation and noise cancellation of two-dimensional arrays and of dynamical systems which include linear and nonlinear input/output relationships.

This book describes the theory, methodology and algorithmization of a new approach to problem solving and its realization in intelligent systems. It investigates cognitive reasoning at three levels of abstraction: conceptual, formal, and realizational.