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The Quintessence of Strategic Management provides a basic understanding of strategic management. Readers will find the most important strategy tools, how they interact, and a synthesis of the respective original literature on the subject.

This authored volume presents the fundamentals of NeuroIS, which is an emerging subfield within the Information Systems discipline that makes use of neuroscience and neurophysiological tools and knowledge to better understand the development, use, and impact of information and communication technologies.

Fully updated for this new edition, this volume describes in precise detail the anatomy of the human hippocampus. Informed by the latest neurosurgical techniques, it is illustrated with new and original figures, sectional MR imagery, and MRI scans of diseases.

Ausgehend von Kapitalmarkttheorie und Informations konomik arbeiten die Autoren die Funktionen der Banken im Finanzsystem heraus. Neben typischen Bankgesch ften er rtern sie die Methoden des Bankmanagements und die theoretischen Grundlagen der Regulierung.

This book bridges the gap between computer science academics and traders, presenting state-of-the-art techniques in financial engineering using machine learning and evolutionary computation. Includes information on software for implementing solutions.

Bridging theory and practice, this book offers model based control design techniques and methods for verifying design robustness. Emphasizes sound design practices and systematic software development processes according to the generic standard IEC61508.

This extensively revised second edition is a wide-ranging introduction to the concepts and ideas of multisensor data fusion, illustrated with a wealth of real-life examples. It includes 30 new sections along with an extensive list of up-to-date references.

This book presents an innovative and integrated approach to the theory and practice of corporate governance, offering a set of instruments - developed and tested by the author - that boards can use to apply effective strategic direction and control.

With endocrinologists deploying nuclear medicine on a daily basis, and with the rapid development of the latter, this concise and up-to-date guide to the vital information required has been designed to maximize relevance and ease of use in clinical practice.

This book explores fundamental principles for securing IT systems and illustrates them with hands-on experiments that may be carried out by the reader using accompanying software. It details different countermeasures and their implementation.

With the aid of this book, the reader will learn everything about the self-organization of behavior in robots that is known today. Many of the results are presented here for the first time. This work opens a new field of research.

Pro NuGet offers you a solid architectural understanding of how to manage software dependencies using NuGet, an open-source package management tool for the .NET Framework.

This text explores how intellectual developments in logic and mathematics were gradually matched by technical solutions in mechanics and electronics and how the resulting machines found application in engineering, science and business.

This vital book on an underexplored topic offers a systematic analysis of a common issue faced by medical practitioners - disclosing alternative options. It covers orthodox and CAM medicine, and provides comparative material on differing jurisdictions.

Redefining and extending business analysis, this pragmatic book marries the concept of 'Concept Mapping' with a 'Design Thinking' approach to business analysis, and shows how to take 'Business Concept Maps' further as information models for new IT paradigms.

Computer Arithmetic provides a complete procedure for linking the digital design and arithmetic algorithms domain, based on original formalism and hardware description languages. Readers will find gate-level designs for all matrix/combinatorial arithmetic structures.

All practitioners and pharmacists interested in treatment with herbal remedies should have this book at their disposal. Methodically classified by organic systems and fields of application, the text provides a quick insight into dosage, form of application and effects of the most important herbal remedies.

This theoretical approach can actually complement and guide the computational approach by narrow- ing down trial and error procedures, pinpointing singularities and suggesting methods for handling them.

This book deals with explosive instabilities in mechanics, deriving a solution to a system of PDEs that arise in practical situations. Among the topics presented are: classical fluid equations, catastrophic behavior in nonlinear fluid theories, blow-up in Volterra equations, and rapid energy growth in parallel flows.

This practical introduction focuses on how to build integrated solutions to industrial vision problems from individual algorithms. It gives a hands-on guide for setting up automated visual inspection systems using real-world examples and the NeuroCheck software package, included on CD-ROM.

This book collects the 25 most important articles written by Professor Tang since the 1980s, dealing extensively with issues of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity and Chinese culture.

The index evaluates Chinese enterprises annually on their performance in CSR management and the level of information disclosure by assessing four different aspects: responsibility management, economic responsibilities, social responsibilities and environmental responsibilities.

This abundantly illustrated guide, based on work at the renowned Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, describes and depicts operative techniques for the treatment of the devastating wounds caused by pressure ulcers.

This book covers three fundamental problems at the interface of multi-project management and human resource management: the selection of projects, the composition of small project teams, and workload leveling.

This book offers a complete framework for classifying and transcribing sequential data with recurrent neural networks. It uses state-of-the-art results in speech and handwriting recognition to show the framework in action.

This book describes the methods by which tensors can be practically treated and shows how numerical operations can be performed. Applications include problems from quantum chemistry, approximation of multivariate functions, solution of pde and more.

Despite their long tradition spices are subject to international modern scientific research. The book addresses this need by informing the reader about the complex worldwide use of spice plants. The many spice and aromatic plants are arranged in alphabetical order of their botanical relevance.

Presents a comprehensive work dealing with plant ecology in any form. This book also presents complex issues as the self-thinning rule and represents a useful selection of the most important key words. It is suitable for advanced students, university and high school teachers and other researchers in plant ecology.