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This book addresses the nexus of issues exploring governance structures and mechanisms in public service organizations, thus contributing to the development of disciplines that focus on public management.

Covering all major asset classes from equities to foreign exhange, this comprehensive introduction to the modeling of financial derivatives takes readers from Black and Scholes' lognormal modeling to today's research on 'skew' and 'smile' models.

This interdisciplinary approach to analyzing manufactured tool steels in the gigacycle range provides invaluable detail on fatigue behavior. The book deploys techniques from materials science, metallurgy, chemistry, physics and mechanical engineering.

Tailored to advanced undergraduates, this textbook provides a thorough explanation of general and statistical thermodynamics. It begins with an introduction to statistical mechanics, deriving all the important formulae meticulously and explicitly, without mathematical short cuts.

This practical guide to reliability engineering reviews the fundamentals of the practice, describes current laboratory tests and explores such practical concepts as FMECA (Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis) and FTA (Fault Tree Analysis).

This book closely examines the strategic and tactical aspects of customer relationship management as it stands today. Benefiting advanced students and working executives, the book stresses economic customer value as the guiding concept for marketing decisions.

This book details the technology of pellet production on the basis of renewable sources as well as the utilization of pellets. It explains what kinds of biomass are usable in addition to wood, how to produce pellets and how to use pellets to produce energy.

This volume covers recent developments in self-normalized processes, including self-normalized large and moderate deviations, and laws of the iterated logarithms for self-normalized martingales.

This textbook guides students through algebraic specification and verification of distributed systems, and some of the most prominent formal verification techniques.

This book gives an introduction to modern geometry. This second edition contains two additional, more advanced geometric techniques: the modern language and modern view of Algebraic Geometry and Mirror Symmetry.

This book shows that a special bank bankruptcy regime is desirable for the efficient restructuring and/or liquidation of distressed banks. It explores in detail both the principal features of corporate bankruptcy law and the specific characteristics of banks.

Essentials of Chemical Education provides a practice-oriented overview with numerous examples from current chemical education, including experiments, models and exercises as well as relevant results from research on learning and teaching.

The Greek Economy After the Crisis explores the intrinsic forces at work in Greek society in order to understand its social and economic problems. Readers will find a comprehensive, multidisciplinary analysis employing economics, politics, social psychology and organizational psychology.

This textbook provides a step-by-step introduction to numerical solutions of non-linear and differential equations. The text includes a set of programs to calculate any reaction scheme on any personal computer, as well as typical examples from various related fields.

This work examines what was responsible for a tsunami that destroyed settlements in the Mediterranean in 365 AD. It details how western Crete was lifted out of the sea by up to 10 meters in a massive earthquake, which occurred on a previously unknown fault.

This comprehensive overview presents the fundamentals, process parameters, instrumental components and applications of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS).

Presenting theoretical foundations and empirical research, this text introduces the reader to the core issues and analytical tools of insurance economics, examining in detail a host of key factors including supply and demand, regulation and social insurance.

Through a detailed discussion of the empirical fundamentals of unified theories of strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions, this book emphasizes the phenomenology and the physics of fundamental interactions.

Here is the first book-length assessment of who gets what, when, and how in the Council of the European Union. The book analyzes a fresh, ten-year data set on decision making in the council that yields challenging new insights into the processes involved.

Taking off from Euclid's famous assertion to the contrary, this book leads the reader on a clear path - a royal road - through the elements of modern algebraic geometry from algebraic curves to the present shape of the field to Grothendieck's theory of schemes.

Along with finite differences and finite elements, spectral methods are one of the three main methodologies for solving partial differential equations on computers. This book provides a detailed presentation of basic spectral algorithms, as well as a systematical presentation of basic convergence theory and error analysis for spectral methods.

Standing out from the field due to its comprehensive coverage of German corporate law and governance, this updated and expanded second edition features a new chapter on compliance as well as exploring wider international perspectives on these vital issues.

Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon, but variations from culture to culture pose fascinating questions. This book investigates whether sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors play a role as important for seasonal mortality as they do for mortality in general.

Reflecting his major contributions to the field, Jean Lemaitre's "Engineering Damage Mechanics" presents simplified and advanced methods organized within a unified framework for designers of any mechanical component.

Amperometric sensors, biosensors included, particularly rely on suitable electrode materials. This includes intrinsically conducting, redox and ion-exchange polymers, metal and carbon nanostructures, silica based materials.

Compared to other books, this work provides a much more compact view of the language, while also placing the language-elements in a more applied setting, by providing examples related to numerical computing and more advanced Input/Output facilities for Earth system sciences.

This is the first comprehensive exposition of basic lower-bounds arguments, reviewing gems discovered in the past two decades right up to results from the last year. Covers a wide spectrum of models: circuits, formulas, communication protocols, branching programs.

This book highlights the important role of Jewish mathematicians in all areas of mathematical culture during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, explores their working lives and activities, and recalls their emigration, flight and death after 1933.