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A comprehensive textbook on tuberculosis that covers all aspects of the disease: epidemiology, microbiology, diagnosis, treatment, control and prevention.

When you create an app, a website, or a game, how do you attract users, and perhaps more importantly, how do you keep them? Not only will you learn about these patterns, you'll also learn why they work using psychological theories of intrinsic motivation, behavioral psychology, and behavioral economics.

What do The Beatles, Apollo 13, the Roman military, a pack of wolves, and the very best companies in the world all have in common? Answer: Plasticity. They can change, adapt, and excel as the situation requires.In most organizations, strategy and functional excellence get the most attention. But even the best of either provides only limited long-term advantage. Highly effective organizations add Plasticity as a third dimension and rack up stellar breakthroughs-again and again. It is the key ingredient that allows strategy and functional excellence to deliver value. As the authors show in Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and Excel, Plasticity also enables great organizations to break down barriers and collaborate in the pursuit of a common objective, and to reconfigure or rewire themselves to face down challenges or reach ever-stronger competitive positions. Through entertaining stories and astute analysis, this book demonstrates that Plasticity spurs sports teams to become champions, companies to book record earnings, and artists to attain worldwide fame. You can use its principles-adaptability, flexibility, fluid networks and roles, lofty goals, and innovation, among others-to achieve operational excellence, tear down silos, and create more vibrant, creative enterprises. Your organization can become not just highly profitable and fun to work for, but an organization that can change the world. Plasticity allows an organization to choose its own destiny, become versatile, and dare more than others. Its success lies in a set of abilities called the Magic 7:Purpose: Your company must discover, select, and express what it is meant for.Focus: Your company must have the courage to ignore everything that is not in line with its purpose, and then see that purpose through.Culture: Your companymust create the conditions that allow people to work across boundaries and outside of predefined roles.Spirit: Your company must inspire people to feel part of a cause that is bigger than they are.Networking: Your company must provide the means, freedom, and encouragement for people to nurture and grow their internal and external networks continuously.Knowledge: Your company must encourage experts to provide their knowledge and make it readily available to everyone who needs it.Leadership: Your company's leaders must model and personify the characteristics they want others to adopt.Silo thinking? Poor collaboration? Weak earnings? Strategies that gain no traction? Corporate Plasticity: How to Change, Adapt, and Excel is the answer. It shows you how to cultivate each of the seven disciplines to infuse Plasticity in an organization. That-along with razor-sharp strategy and crisp execution-will unleash the power you need to reach both personal and corporate goals. You might even change the world.

Power Query for Power BI and Excel is a book for people who are tired of copying and pasting data into Excel worksheets.

Advances in Metallic Biomaterials

Physical and spectroscopic techniques used to determine, examine and model structures fall within the purview of Structure and Bonding to the extent that the focus is on the scientific results obtained and not on specialist information concerning the techniques themselves.

To date, the relation between multilingualism and the Semantic Web has not yet received enough attention in the research community. One major challenge for the Semantic Web community is to develop architectures, frameworks and systems that can help in overcoming national and language barriers, facilitating equal access to information produced in different cultures and languages. As such, this volume aims at documenting the state-of-the-art with regard to the vision of a Multilingual Semantic Web, in which semantic information will be accessible in and across multiple languages.The Multilingual Semantic Web as envisioned in this volume will support the following functionalities: (1) responding to information needs in any language with regard to semantically structured data available on the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud, (2) verbalizing and accessing semantically structured data, ontologies or other conceptualizations in multiple languages, (3) harmonizing, integrating, aggregating, comparing and repurposing semantically structured data across languages and (4) aligning and reconciling ontologies or other conceptualizations across languages.The volume is divided into three main sections: Principles, Methods and Applications. The section on ¿Principles¿ discusses models, architectures and methodologies that enrich the current Semantic Web architecture with features necessary to handle multiple languages. The section on ¿Methods¿ describes algorithms and approaches for solving key issues related to the construction of the Multilingual Semantic Web. The section on ¿Applications¿ describes the use of Multilingual Semantic Web based approaches in the context of several application domains.This volume is essential reading for all academic and industrial researchers who want to embark on this new research field at the intersection of various research topics, including the Semantic Web, Linked Data, natural language processing, computational linguistics, terminology and information retrieval. It will also be of great interest to practitioners who are interested in re-examining their existing infrastructure and methodologies for handling multiple languages in Web applications or information retrieval systems.

Phylogenetic comparative approaches are powerful analytical tools for making evolutionary inferences from interspecific data and phylogenies.

This book is an ideal accompaniment for researchers taking courses in olefin polymerization and also serves as a valuable resource for teachers and lecturers of chemistry when planning and researching material for advanced lecture courses.

Beyond Human is an informative and accessible guide for all those interested in the developing sciences of genetic engineering, bio printing and human cloning.

This text introduces SKIN (Simulation Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks), an agent-based simulation model that primarily focuses on joint knowledge creation and exchange of knowledge in innovation co-operations and networks.

This book is a major work that focuses exclusively on ship finance and includes contributions on the increasingly complex field of ship finance, which has over the last two decades become a key aspect in the world of shipping and ship owning.

The series Topics in Current Chemistry presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in modern chemical research.

This book describes various ways of approaching and interpreting the data produced by clinical trial studies, with a special emphasis on the essential role that biostatistics plays in clinical trials. Over the past few decades the role of statistics in the evaluation and interpretation of clinical data has become of paramount importance.

A highly coveted objective of modern materials science is to optimize multiple coupled functionalities in the same single phase material and control the cross-response via multiple external fields.

This volume examines the interrelated fields of food security, energy security and sustainable agriculture as the key to a stable global agricultural platform and is arranged in six parts.

It includes descriptions of various in vitro and in vivo (animal) experimental approaches, definition of the pulp stem cells with special focus on the stem cell niches, discussion of the regeneration of a living pulp and information on new strategies that induce pulp mineralization.

Mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) was invented in the mid-1990s at Loma Linda University, USA, with the aim of introducing a material for use as a root-end filler that would set and develop its properties in the presence of moisture.

These chapters address anatomy, assessment of pain, diagnosis of pain, pharmacology, non-pharmacological pain management, acute and chronic pain management, pain management in special groups, and special techniques.

Presenting recent developments and applications, the book focuses on four main topics in current model theory: 1) the model theory of valued fields; Young researchers in model theory will particularly benefit from the book, as will more senior researchers in other branches of mathematics.

This volume, which addresses various basic sensor principles, covers micro gravimetric sensors, semiconducting and nano tube sensors, calorimetric sensors and optical sensors.

Volume C forms one volume of a Handbook about Polymer Nanocomposites. Volume C deals with Polymer nano-composites of cellulose nano-particles. The preparation, architecture, characterisation, properties and application of polymer nanocomposites are discussed within some 27 chapters.

Volume B forms one volume of a Handbook about Polymer Nanocomposites. Volume B deals with Carbon nanotube based polymer composites. The preparation, architecture, characterisation, properties and application of polymer nanocomposites are discussed within some 25 chapters. Each chapter has been authored by experts in the respective field.

Dieses Numerik-Lehrbuch hat sich seit seinem Erscheinen zu einem Standardwerk der Numerischen Mathematik entwickelt und wird in zahlreichen Lehrveranstaltungen zur Einführung in die Numerik als Begleittext verwendet. Der Erfolg dieses Lehrbuchs liegt in der Verbindung analytischer Strenge in der Präsentation der grundlegenden Prinzipien der Numerischen Mathematik und praktischer Anwendung durch Bereitstellung und Diskussion fundamentaler algorithmischer Werkzeuge.Die in den vergangenen Jahren in den Bereichen der Numerik und des Wissenschaftlichen Rechnens erfolgte Entwicklung neuer Methodologien und daraus resultierender numerischer Verfahren erfordert eine adäquate Anpassung der Darstellung der Grundlagen, die Aufnahme neuer algorithmischer Techniken sowie eine kritische Beurteilung existenter Methoden. Dies ist durch die vorliegende Neubearbeitung dieses Lehrbuchs geschehen.