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This book unifies much research scattered in the literature, and introduces new results first proved by the author. Also presents practical applications, in such highly interesting areas as approximation theory, cosmology and earthquake engineering.

This newly translated addition to the literature provides a comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals of geophysical hydrodynamics -as expressed in Dolzhansky's four decades of ground-breaking work at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

This book examines the effective electron mass in nanodevices, explaining changes in band structure of optoelectronic semiconductors, and offering insight into electronic behavior in doped semiconductors and nanostructures. Includes 200 problems and questions.

This book presents the basics of Auger- and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy in Materials Science in logical order from sample preparation and instrument setup through data acquisition to data evaluation. Offers guidance on problem-solving and worked examples.

This book shows how SAP's business suite supports logistic end-to-end processes, exploring relevant functionality, system and application integration to outline closed-loop supply chain processes in procurement, production, distribution logistics and compliance.

This illustrated book is unique among current literature in that it systematically documents the prenatal structural development of the human brain. It is based on lifelong study using essentially a single staining procedure, the classic rapid Golgi procedure.

The Culture Factory presents a model for producing culture by exploring the role creativity plays in the production of culture in a technologically advanced society. From fashion to gastronomy and beyond, the text examines a variety of strategic areas and industries to support its argument.

Understanding the mind of the consumer is daunting for marketers. As science probes the interplay of reason and emotion in decision-making, this book offers analytical perspective on the brain, using biometric studies to blaze new frontiers in market research.

Rapid localization of the required data is facilitated by an alphabetical index of substances and a two-dimensional survey of substances and properties dealt with in both subvolumes III/28b and III/16b.

Lifetime spectroscopy is one of the most sensitive diagnostic tools for the identification and analysis of impurities in semiconductors. This book introduces a transparent modeling procedure that allows a detailed theoretical evaluation of the spectroscopic potential of the different lifetime spectroscopic techniques.

This book discusses the architecture, functioning, and biomechanics of the human body, its bones, joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments. The text is up-to-date, solid and avoids jargon. This is an established book, already in its 4th edition.

Recognising the possibilities and grasping the emerging potential is an important challenge for todays management, if the organisations and systems are to develop over the next twenty years. Business in the Information Age offers models and techniques for transforming company structures to help face this challenge.

This book discusses the electromagnetic field theory and its mathematical methods. Maxwell's equations are presented and explained. It also provides a discussion of electrostatics, flux, magnetostatics, quasi stationary fields and electromagnetic fields.

This management book documents the remarkable transformation of DSM, first from a coal mining company to a commodity chemicals producer and then in the last two decades to the life sciences & materials sciences company it is today, with its strong focus on biotechnology.

Mit provozierenden Thesen und ironischer Distanz seziert der Autor die menschliche Seele und bohrt in den Wunden, die wir ihr zuf gen. Unterdr ckung der Lebhaften, Dressur der Braven, Scheuen und Friedfertigen - kann das der Sinn des Lebens sein?

Povh and Rosina's Scattering and Structures presents the properties of quantum systems (elementary particles, nucleons, atoms, molecules, quantum gases, quantum liquids, stars, and early universe) with the help of elementary concepts and analogies between these seemingly different systems.

Learn Java for Android Development, Second Edition teaches programmers of any skill level the essential Java language and foundational Java API skills that must be learned to improve the programmer's chances of succeeding as an Android app developer.

This work analyzes the problem of delegated decision-making within firms when investment projects are characterized by the possibility to make subsequent decisions after the initial investment decision has been made.

This book focuses on theoretical and practical applications of Knowledge Management and Customer Relationship Management, including a case study that investigates knowledge management in both the administrative and the operational area of a concrete company.

This book focuses on critical success factors for professional service firms, offering a compendium of core management principles. Covers the management of service quality, knowledge and marketing as well as the management of people, organization and strategy.

This, the second edition of the hugely practical reference and handbook describes kinematic, static and dynamic Global Positioning System theory and applications. This is the first book to report the unified GPS data processing method and algorithm that uses equations for selectively eliminated equivalent observations.

Written by the original members of an industry standardization group, this book shows you how to use UML to test complex software systems. The authors introduce UTP step-by-step, using a case study that illustrates how UTP can be used for test modeling and test specification.

It provides a wide range of underlying concepts and frameworks that help the reader understand the major forces driving organizational and marketplace change, rather than presenting these changes as simple outcomes of technological or management fads.

This is the first textbook in this field of increasing importance for the food and cosmetics industries. It describes the principles of food physics starting with the very basics - and focuses on the needs of practitioners without omitting important basic principles.

The Welfare of Performing Animals

Shape Reconstruction from Apparent Contours

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This exploration of the causes of- and solutions to - rising income inequality in the US and Europe presents interviews with top business executives, politicians and labor leaders from trades unionist John Monks to former World Bank president James Wolfensohn.