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Pivotal to the transformation of higher education in the 21st Century is the nature of pedagogy and its role in advancing the aims of various stakeholders. Systematically explored throughout the book is the avowed linkage between classroom teaching and motivation, learning, and performance outcomes in students.

This is a state-of-the-art treatise on the problems of both nonlinearity and uncertainty in the dynamics and control of engineering systems. The concept of dynamics and control implies the combination of dynamic analysis and control synthesis.

Molecular dynamics simulations have become instrumental in replacing our view of proteins as relatively rigid structures with the realization that they were dynamic systems, whose internal motions play a functional role.

This book provides an introductory understanding of fluvial geomorphic principles and how these principles can be integrated with geochemical data to cost-effectively characterize, assess and remediate contaminated rivers.

This book collects major research contributions in composite materials and sandwich structures supported by the U.S. Office of Naval Research. It contains over thirty chapters written by experts and serves as a reference and guide for future research.

This standard work on contaminated site management covers the whole chain of steps involved in dealing with contaminated sites, from site investigation to remediation.

Thus a synthetic polymer coated with ECM proteins would result in a scaffold that mimics the natural cellular environment with enhanced cell attachment and p- liferation. Simple uorescent measurement after cell lysis allows determining cell attachment and p- liferation on synthetic polymers.

By taking the brilliant career of Danish physicist-philosopher Hans Christian Orsted as their organizing theme, leading international philosophers and historians of science reveal illuminating new perspectives on the intellectual map of Europe in the age of revolution and romanticism.

This book grasps the opportunity to show the strength of AGMEMOD in terms of baseline analysis at detailed regional and market levels, supported by an experienced team of country-based modellers.

Dieses Buch liefert das Wesentliche zur dunklen Triade und informiert in konzentrierter Form über den State of the Art zu dunklen Persönlichkeitseigenschaften insbesondere in Organisationen. Anhand aktueller Theorien, Methoden und Befunde werden produktive und destruktive Facetten von Narzissmus, Machiavellismus und Psychopathie im Berufskontext diskutiert. Ebenso werden evidenzbasierte Praktiken zur Intervention vorgestellt.Der InhaltDie dunkle Triade der Persönlichkeit: Narzissmus, Machiavellismus und subklinische Psychopathie, Zusammenhänge mit anderen Persönlichkeitseigenschaften, Geschlechterunterschiede, Messinstrumente.Aktuelle Theorien und Befunde: Karrierepräferenzen, pro-organisationales und kontraproduktives Verhalten, Mikropolitische Taktiken, Führungsverhalten und Derailment, Kundeninteraktion und Verhandlungserfolg, Stress.Interventionen: Personaldiagnostik, -entwicklung, und -führung, Organisationsgestaltung.Die ZielgruppenStudierende und WissenschaftlerPersonalverantwortliche und BetroffeneDie AutorenProf. Dr. Kai Externbrink lehrt und forscht an der FOM Hochschule im Fachbereich Wirtschaftpsychologie. Er berät Organisationen in Fragen der Managementdiagnostik.Moritz Keil lehrt an der FOM Hochschule im Fachbereich Wirtschaftspsychologie.  Als Berater und Coach begleitet er Fach- und Führungskräfte in Veränderungsphasen.