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This book combines systems theory with cybernetics to help managers evaluate and shape organizations. It enables them to diagnose the health of a company and discover is their organization is able to survive and thrive.

This book covers major approaches in high-frequency econometrics. It discusses implementation details, provides insights into properties of high-frequency data as well as institutional settings and presents applications.

This volume provides an authoritative study of German social policy, set in a multidisciplinary and international context. The text presents the German tradition's contribution to the rise of social policy in the Western world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Here is a focused, comprehensive reference on recent research on severe convective storms and tornadoes. It features many illustrations of severe storm phenomena from mobile Doppler radars, operational Doppler radars, photographs and numerical simulations.

This book offers an accessible treatment of mind versus matter. It discusses the ethical consequences of the mind versus matter debate, and describes how quantum mechanics can radically change our understanding of the connection between mind and brain.

Extremal Combinatorics provides a concise, up-to-date introduction to extremal combinatorics for nonspecialists. The text emphasizes theorems with particularly elegant and informative proofs, and presents a wide range of combinatorial tools.

Setting out the principles and methods of force measurement, this volume then assesses the components of strain-gauge force transducers, including digital and intelligent subsystems, the 'elastic element' and the Wheatstone bridge in parametrical transducers.

It can be argued that architecture principles form the cornerstone of any architecture. The focus of this book is on the role of architecture principles. It provides both a balanced perspective on architecture principles, and is the first book on the topic.

Software architects work within a very multi-facetted and dynamic environment. This book aids programmers, software developers, and software architects in understanding, classifying, as well as assessing all of these developments and innovations.

This book details two experiments whose analysis makes an important contribution to understanding 2D complex plasmas: a determination of the coupling parameter and a characterization of the non-equilibrium recrystallization of a two-dimensional system.

With its primary focus on the chemical, rather than the biological aspects of biochemistry, this textbook goes back to basics and offers students with some knowledge of organic chemistry a detailed explanation of metabolism and reaction mechanisms.

This overview conveys the fundamentals of mathematical models, numerical methods and algorithms. Readers will find a tutorial on the most important classes of numerical methods and an introduction to the use of spectral methods as central tools.

This book is a concise account of the essential elements of knowledge and key skills needed to be a software architect. The explanations encompass the full range of architecture thinking, practices, and supporting technologies, including emerging techologies.

In this well structured book, a resource-oriented perception of sustainable management is presented. The author presents his findings as regards the development of environmental and social responsibility and introduces a theory of management ecology.

This volume examines lakes as oscillators. It covers barotropic and baroclinic waves in homogeneous and stratified lakes on the rotating Earth, presents a classification of rotating shallow-water waves and describes Kelvin-type and Poincare-type waves.

Using various examples throughout the text, this volume describes the potential of solid base catalysis. Readers will find an overview of solid base catalysis and the versatility of the reactions to which solid base catalysts can be utilized.

This book deals with the analysis phase of translators for programming languages. It describes lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis, specification mechanisms for these tasks from the theory of formal languages and methods for automatic generation.

This book deals with the analysis phase of translators for programming languages. It describes lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis, specification mechanisms for these tasks from the theory of formal languages and methods for automatic generation.

There has been much interest recently in the subject of patterns in permutations and words, a new branch of combinatorics with its roots in the works of Rotem, Rogers and Knuth. This comprehensive reference volume collects the main results in the field.

Composite Insulators for Electric Power Networks provides an overview of composite insulators for power transmission. The text serves as a guide for readers on topics like material selection, properties and design, applications, and the recycling of these composite materials.

Companies and financial institutions are employing operational information systems in an efficient way. While they have consolidated a strong level of knowledge in management information systems, there is still a lack of knowledge on the right way to apply customer relationship management (CRM) systems under a business perspective.

The global perspective of the findings is underlined by the analysis of 500 species from the Caucasus, the Rocky Mountains and Andes, the subtropical zone on the Canary Islands, the arid zones in the Sahara, in Eurasia, Arabia and Southwest North America, and the boreal and arctic zones in Eurasia and Canada.

This book examines the effect of human activities on atmospheric ozone. It details the role of remote sensing techniques in understanding the effects of human activities on atmospheric ozone as well as in the development of social and political awareness.

This second edition has been entirely restructured and almost doubled in size, in order to improve clarity and account for the great progress achieved in the field over the last 15 years. "This is not a handbook for observers.

Purified natural products are required for complete spectro scopic identification and full characterization of new compo unds, for biological testing and for the supply of pharmaceuti cals, standards, and starting materials for synthetic work.

With contributions by W.van der Aalst, P. Barril, T. Basten, J.-M. Colom, A. Diagne, C. Dutheillet, W. El Kaim, J. Espeleta, B. Farwer, M.P. Gervais, S. Haddad, J.M. Ilie, F. Kordon, R. Mackenthun, D. Moldt, D. Poitrenaud, M. Silva,M.-O. Stehr, E. Teruel, I. Vernier-Mounier, M. Voorhoeve

This book offers a framework for analyzing the increased economic integration of countries which is mainly driven by multinational enterprises.