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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Methode 'Quality Function Deployment' (QFD) ist eine Methode, die kompromisslos am Nutzen der Kunden orientiert ist. Sie zeigt zum einen die Stärken und Schwächen im Wettbewerbsumfeld und zum anderen den Stand der Technik bzw. den Zustand der Realisierung der Kundenanforderungen. Die Ergebnisse werden grafisch und damit übersichtlich in einem 'Qualitätshaus' zusammengefasst. Auf diese Weise können gezielt Wettbewerbsvorteile im Markt und in der Technik erzielt werden. Diese Methode ist universell einsetzbar. Dies zeigen exemplarisch Beispiele aus der Technik, der Dienstleistungsbranche (z. B. Krankenhäuser) oder Bildungseinrichtungen (z. B. Schulen und Hochschulen). 41 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Diesesessentialerläutert, wie Zentralbanken, Banken und Regierungen Geld schöpfen. Bei modernem Geld handelt es sich letztlich um eine Steuergutschrift, die der Staat über seine Zentralbank als Monopolist ausgibt. Daher gibt es kein 'Steuerzahler-Geld' (Thatcher 1983) und 'Staatsschulden' sind lediglich Geld im Besitz der Bürger\*innen, welches für spätere Steuerzahlungen verwendet werden kann. Preisstabilität, Vollbeschäftigung und nachhaltige Ressourcennutzung ergeben sich nicht von allein. Der Einsatz von Wirtschaftspolitik zur Erreichung dieser Ziele wird beschrieben. 68 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Diese Einführung aus der Reihe 'Was ist eigentlich . ' gibt einen kurzen Überblick über das Fach 'Rechtspsychologie'. Sie will Psychologiestudierenden am Beginn des Studiums zu einer Orientierung in dieser Teildisziplin verhelfen. Sie bietet aber auch für Fachfremde, die an psychologischen Themen interessiert sind, einen ersten Einblick in die Denkweisen, Modelle und methodischen Herangehensweisen der Rechtspsychologie. 72 pp. Deutsch.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Der vorliegende Band führt am Beispiel von Forschungsgesprächen mitHundehaltern detailliert in die objektiv-hermeneutische Analyse vonInterviews ein. Dabei werden auch Konstitutionstheorie und Methodologieso dargestellt, dass die Arbeit mit der Forschungsmethode Objektive Hermeneutikund ihr Erlernen fundiert und fasslich möglich ist. Dem für dieMethode zentralen Prinzip der Sachangemessenheit folgt der Band, indembei der Auswertung der Forschungsgespräche eine materiale Fragestellungbearbeitet wird: die Rekonstruktion von Habitusformation und Deutungsmustervon Hundehaltern und, im Zuge einer Strukturgeneralisierung, diebegriffliche Bestimmung der Mensch/Hund-Beziehung. Die Darlegung setztbei der Planung der Forschung an, behandelt die Fragen der Fallauswahl,der Selektion des Datentypus und der Erhebung, die spezifischen Fragen derAnalyse von Interviews und die besondere Form der Ergebnisdarstellung.Eine Liste publizierter objektiv-hermeneutischer Interviewanalysen und einGlossar zu Begriffen der Objektiven Hermeneutik ergänzen die Darstellung.Mit Exkursen.zu Begriff und Terminus der Interpretation.zur Relevanzregel.zur Nicht-Muttersprachlichkeit.zur Länge der Analyseeinheit.zum Terminus der Kommunikation.zur strukturellen Wahrscheinlichkeit.zur Unterscheidung von objektiver Bedeutung und objektivem Sinn.zum Duzen.zur Rezensregel.zum Principle of Charity.zum Adverb resp. zur Partikel 'also'.zum Begriff der HabitusformationDer AutorDr. Thomas Loer,habilitierter Soziologe, ist Lehrbeauftragter an der InternationalPsychoanalytic University Berlin sowie freiberuflich tätig. 214 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - My dog understands me! At least, many dog owners think so. New scientific studies actually show that dogs understand a lot about us humans. For example, they can figure out what humans can and cannot see. Some dogs can even distinguish large numbers of toys by name, like Rico, the internationally famous Border collie.But do dogs also understand our emotions Can they grasp cause and effect relationships What fascinates us humans about dogs Is it only the proverbial 'puppy dog eyes' that make dogs look sympathetic Or is it the fact that these animals have grown very well-attuned to humans and are willing to cooperate with them In a total of ten chapters, Juliane Bräuer and Juliane Kaminski present the results of the most important scientific studies of the last twenty years on dog cognition.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Menschen brauchen Regeln und Menschen rebellieren gegen Regeln. Regeln geben uns Sicherheit und zugleich schränken sie uns ein. Gegen manche Regeln leisten Menschen aktiv Widerstand oder unterlaufen sie heimlich - mit Negativfolgen für alle. Das Sachbuch zeigt, wie man klug mit Regeln und mit Regelbrechern umgeht. Sie erkennen, warum viele Menschen Regeln einhalten und manche Menschen Regeln brechen. Und warum Vertrauen tatsächlich besser ist als Kontrolle.Aus dem Inhalt:Warum man Regeln braucht, warum sich manche Menschen an Regeln halten und andere nicht, welche Regeln wirksam sind, warum Vorbilder unersetzbar sind, wie man Gutwillige bei der Stange hält, wie man mit Regelbrüchen umgeht, wie man böse Fallen vermeidet.Über die Autor:innen:Sven Seibold ist Psychologe und Professor für Wirtschaftspsychologie. Er berät Unternehmen in Fällen von Mobbing, Burn-out, Wirtschaftskriminalität und Wirtschaftsspionage. Ruth Linssen ist Professorin für Soziologie und Recht an der Fachhochschule Münster. Sie berät und schult Behörden und Unternehmen zu den Themen Compliance und Korruptionsprävention. 204 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Having always been fascinated by these singular landscapes, Sergio Rossi reconstructs some of the episodes that have marked the exploration of these territories, such as the dramatic race between Amundsen and Scott to conquer the South Pole, and Captain Shackleton¿s odyssey to save his crew from certain death. But also modern trips including his own to these remote areas, explaining many aspects of the current science and political competition that is underway.The book leads us on an entertaining overview of all the problems and opportunities that the planet¿s most forgotten continent offers to humans. A remote mass of ice upon which our future as a species depends and which we cannot continue to ignore any longer.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This open access book bridges common tools in medical imaging and neuroscience with the numerical solution of brain modelling PDEs. The connection between these areas is established through the use of two existing tools, FreeSurfer and FEniCS, and one novel tool, the SVM-Tk, developed for this book. The reader will learn the basics of magnetic resonance imaging and quickly proceed to generating their first FEniCS brain meshes from T1-weighted images. The book's presentation concludes with the reader solving a simplified PDE model of gadobutrol diffusion in the brain that incorporates diffusion tensor images, of various resolution, and complex, multi-domain, variable-resolution FEniCS meshes with detailed markings of anatomical brain regions. After completing this book, the reader will have a solid foundation for performing patient-specific finite element simulations of biomechanical models of the human brain.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This open access book provides a detailed and up-to-date account of the relevant literature on the legibility of different kinds of typefaces, which goes back over 140 years in the case of reading from paper and more than 50 years in the case of reading from screens. It describes the origins of serif and sans serif styles in ancient inscriptions, their adoption in modern printing techniques, and their legibility in different situations and in different populations of readers. It also examines recent research on the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces when used with internet browsers, smartphones and other hand-held devices. The book investigates the difference in the legibility of serif typefaces and sans serif typefaces when they are used to produce printed material or when they are used to present material on computer monitors or other screens and it explores the differences in readers¿ preferences among typefaces.The book¿s main focus is on the psychology of reading, but there are clear implications for education and publishing. Indeed, the book can be read with benefit by anyone concerned with communicating with others through written text, whether it is printed on paper or displayed on computer screens.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 176 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This open access book presents 8 novel approaches to measure and improve diagnostic competences with simulation. The book compares the effects of interventions on these diagnostic competences in both teacher and medical education. It includes analyses showing that important aspects of diagnostic competences and effects of instructional interventions aiming to facilitate them are comparable for teachers and doctors.Through closely analyzing projects from medical education, mathematics education, biology education, and psychology, the reader is presented with multiple options for interventions that may be used in each of the subject areas and the improvements in diagnostic skills that could be expected from each simulation.The book concludes with an outline of promising future research on the use of simulations to facilitate professional competences in higher education in general, and for the advancement of diagnostic competencies in particular.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The textbook provides an in-depth overview of African history and politics from the Atlantic slave trade, through the phases of colonialism and decolonization, to the development problems of the present. Various development theories are used to explain successful and failed development paths of individual countries after 1960. Thematic foci include Europe's colonial legacy, state formation and state failure, democratization, the curse of raw materials, population growth, hunger and poverty, ethnic conflicts, and the roles of the World Bank, EU, and China as external actors in Africa.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 372 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The ¿Blue Economy¿ is used to describe all of the economic activities related to the sea, with a special emphasis on sustainability. Traditional activities such as fisheries, but also undersea mining, tourism, and scientific research are included, as well as the phenomenal growth of aquaculture during the past decade. All of these activities, and the irresistible prospect of another new frontier, has led to enthusiastic and, most likely, overenthusiastic assessments of the possibilities to exploit the sea to feed the world, provide low-cost energy, become a new source of minerals, and other future miracles. This book makes sense of these trends and of the future of the blue economy by following our remote ancestors who gradually discovered the sea and its resources, describing the so-called fisherman¿s curse ¿ or why fishermen have always been poor, explaining why humans tend to destroy the resources on which we depend, and assessing the realistic expectations for extracting resources from the sea. Although the sea is not so badly overexploited as the land, our demands on ecosystem services are already above the oceans¿ sustainability limits. Some new ideas, including ¿fishing down¿ for untapped resources such as plankton, could lead to the collapse of the entire marine ecosystem.How Neanderthals crossed the sea in canoes, how it was possible for five men on a small boat to kill a giant whale, what kind of oil the virgins of the Gospel put into their lamps, how a professor of mathematics, Vito Volterra, discovered the ¿equations of fishing,¿ why it has become so easy to be stung by a jellyfish while swimming in the sea, and how to play ¿Moby Dick,¿ a simple board game that simulates the overexploitation of natural resources are just some of the questions that you will be able to answer after reading this engaging and insightful book about the rapidly expanding relationship between humanity and the sea.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 228 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Der ideale Einstieg in die faszinierende Welt der TiefbohrtechnikRohstoffe sind die Basis unseres Wohlstandes. Aber hätten Sie gewusst, dass Sie in Ihrem Leben statistisch gesehen zum Beispiel 460 Tonnen Sand verbrauchen oder dass in Ihrem Handy dutzende Elemente des Periodensystems verbaut sind, die alle mit großem Aufwand aus der Erdkruste gewonnen werden mussten Das vorliegende Buch zeigt Ihnen, wie die fließfähigen Rohstoffe aufgesucht und erschlossen werden. Dazu zählen immer noch Erdöl und Erdgas, aber auch in zunehmendem Maße heißes Wasser, das als umweltfreundlicher geothermischer Energieträger eingesetzt wird. Die Suche nach flüssigen Rohstoffen ist ein Abenteuer der Superlative. Einige tausend Meter tief in der Erde herrschen extreme Bedingungen. Hier ist die moderne Tiefbohrtechnik zu Hause.Das Buch erklärt Ihnen in leicht verständlicher und anschaulicher Weise, wie moderne Tiefbohrungen 'abgeteuft' werden und welche enormen Anstrengungendabei unternommen werden, um die Umwelt so wenig wie möglich zu belasten.>>Professor Dr. Reich ist es gelungen, ein Buch zu schreiben, das die Vielfältigkeit der 'Oil and Gas Industry' einem breiten Publikum zugänglich macht. Das Werküberzeugt durch seine verständlichen Begriffserklärungen und die Leichtigkeit der Darstellung komplexer Inhalte. Der Titel ist gerechtfertigt, es liest sich wie ein'Technik-Krimi' - und lässt den Leser bis zum Ende nicht mehr los. Die begleitenden, vom Autor gezeichneten Karikaturen, helfen dem Leser auf unterhaltsame Weise,diese Technik intuitiv zu verstehen. Für alle, die einen Einstieg in die Welt der Tiefbohrtechnologie suchten und bisher ein Buch in deutscher Sprache vermissten!Prof. Dr. Dr. Ing. habil. Catalin Teodoriu, Institute of Subsurface Energy Systems der TU Clausthal und Drilling Simulation Center der University of Oklahoma>>Wie wunderbar! Endlich ein Buch, das die komplexeTiefbohrtechnik dem Laien verständlich und spannend zugleich erklärt! Nicht jeder, der aufklärt, verfügt über diesebesondere Begabung wie Prof. Dr. Reich, denn er kann komplexe Themen wirklich einfach vermitteln. Ich denke, dass dieses Buch behilflich sein kann, besorgtenMenschen die Angst vor Bohrtürmen zu nehmen, denn es zeigt auch, wie groß Sicherheit und damit Umweltschutz geschrieben werden.Jürgen Lorenz, Tiefbohrtechniker 224 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Dieses Buch erzählt die Entwicklung des Universums aus physikalischer Sicht: es nimmt Leserinnen und Leser mit auf eine Reise vom Beginn des Universums über seine Expansion, zur ersten Strukturbildung und schließlich zur Zukunft des Kosmos. Dabei wird verständlich, klar und prägnant unter anderem erklärt, was ein Friedmann-Lemaître-Universum auszeichnet, welche Rätsel Dunkle Materie und Dunkle Energie aufgeben und welche Einflüsse Strahlung und Materie auf das Universum haben.DieExpansionsgeschichte des Universumspräsentiert mit vielen Abbildungen aktuelle kosmologische Forschung im Stil der Astrophysik-Aktuell-Reihe: knapp und kompakt richtet es sich an Hobbyastronominnen und -Astronomen, Lehrkräfte mit Schwerpunkt Physik und Astrophysik, Studierende in den Einstiegssemestern und allgemein Allen am Universum Interessierten. 184 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Heldin in uns ist wie ein zweiter Vorname. Häufig existiert einer, er wird jedoch nicht genutzt. In Ihnen steckt eine Heldin, eine Göttin, eine Kriegerin und so viel mehr. Diese schlafenden Ur-Kräfte können Sie jederzeit aktivieren und für Ihren privaten sowie beruflichen Erfolg nutzen.Dieser Ratgeber setzt inhaltlich und methodisch vor allen anderen Werken seines Genres an: Am Beispiel weiblicher Archetypen und zahlreicher Alltagssituationen werden die in uns unbewusst angelegten Schemata dargelegt, umgepolt sowie im Verlauf aufgelöst und hierdurch auch die Gründe, welche uns immer wieder aufs Neue scheitern lassen. Grundsätzlich ist in allen Frauen bereits ein individueller Erfolgsfaktor angelegt, welcher mithilfe dieses Buches von hinderlichen Denk- und Verhaltensweisen befreit wird, sodass die positiven Persönlichkeitsanteile und Erfolgsarchetypen in Erscheinung treten können.Werden Sie zur Heldin IhresLebens, indem Sie sich Ihren Schwächen stellen und diese nach dem Vorbild weiblicher Archetypen in Stärken transformieren, um Ihre inneren und äußeren Antagonisten auf Ihrer Heldinnenreise durch bewusste Integration zu besiegen.Lassen Sie endlich los, was Sie unglücklich macht. Laden Sie stattdessen Ihren individuellen Erfolg ein, der zu Ihnen passt und heißen Sie ihn willkommen! 282 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book documents the return of the surviving sled dogs of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition of 1910¿1912 from Antarctica, where they had helped Roald Amundsen become the first human to reach the South Pole. This book is the sequel to the highly acclaimed Roald Amundsen¿s Sled Dogs: The Sledge Dogs Who Helped Discover the South Pole. It chronicles how the sled dogs were used internationally to further promote the expedition¿s great achievement and follows some of the dogs as they undertake subsequent expeditions ¿ with Douglas Mawson¿s Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911¿1914, which made scientific discoveries, and with Arve Staxrud¿s Norwegian Arctic Rescue Mission of 1913, which saved members of the Herbert Schröder-Stranz German Arctic Expedition. The book tracks the remaining 39 sled dogs to their next challenging adventures and their final destinations in Argentina, Norway, Antarctica, and Australia.Like its predecessor, the book portrays how Amundsen continued to utilize the Polar dogs ¿ both in their lives and in their deaths ¿ to propel his career and solidify his expedition's image.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 496 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -COVID-19 forced a dramatic change to customer behavior that resulted in an economic crisis not witnessed by anyone alive. Businesses can no longer operate as before because their customers are no longer operating as before. This book provides customer-centric based guidance for how businesses should adapt to this new reality, deriving insights from academic research, case studies, interviews, and best practice examples from around the world. As validated by hundreds of top-level executives, its readers will gain a better understanding of why customer behavior has changed so they can use the book¿s solutions to navigate through and succeed in the post COVID-19 future.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 244 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This Palgrave Pivot provides an overview of rural labour relations in different regions of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil. Based on rich ethnographic research, through interviews with a long list of rural workers and union members, among others, the study highlights the toughness faced by salaried workers, who deal with difficulties in union representation and, above all, suffer different types of exploitation. Using a systemic approach, this book connects rural workers, union representation, and labour regulation to examine where society has failed and what can be done to protect rural workers.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This open access book provides an updated and fully revised 4th edition of this authoritative analysis of Swiss democracy. It particularly explains the institutions of federalism and consensus government through political power sharing. In this new edition, the authors also address several important changes and challenges that have affected Swiss democracy, including the country's relationship with the EU, fiscal equalisation, direct democracy and the legitimacy of national referendums, territorial conflict, as well as the polarisation of party politics.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 320 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This open access book examines the challenges and issues caused by a move to a marketized education system in Sweden. Observing the introduction of the school voucher system and a postmodern social constructivist view of knowledge, the move away from objective knowledge is identified as the core reason for Sweden¿s current education crisis. The impact of declining education standards on the labor market is also discussed.This book highlights the issues seen in Sweden and suggests policies that can improve education in the rest of the Western world as well. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in education and labor economics.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This Open Access publication focuses on Chinäs goal of achieving peak carbon emissions in 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. The book is the first to systematically build a framework combining a top-down and bottom-up analysis of this acute topic.What does carbon neutrality mean for economics in China Might it imply stagflation or is it an opportunity to maximize the potential of green manufacturing The book offers a comprehensive analysis of how the pursuit of carbon neutrality may influence the development of China's economy, and the country's biggest industries, while foreseeing the likely changes in people's lifestyles.In total, the book constructs a comprehensive path for China's carbon neutrality drive from the perspective of the green premium. This effort lays the foundation for a discussion of the country's emissions reduction plan.The book goes further, calculating the investment required for different sectors to achieve carbon neutrality, andillustrating the roles of carbon pricing and green finance in this undertaking.The book¿s information comes from a network of primary sources, including experts in the field and noted academics, to depict potential low-carbon roadmaps and green transitions in major industries.Emphasized is green development in sectors that will be critical to civilization, including in technology, energy, manufacturing, transportation, and urban planning, which are backed by in-depth discussions and analyses.Accessible and academically rigorous, the work is anchored in the economics of carbon neutrality, extends to potential policy implications and identifies investment opportunities.This valuable reference will attract readers interested in public policy, economics, finance, and investors who seek to better understand China's prospects in the low-carbon economy of the near future.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 380 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This open access book investigates the complexity and the modalities of securitization of migration and border control at the EU level. It discusses and compares how different EU institutions and agencies have been deploying different logics of security, e.g. humanitarianism or management of risk, while framing increased migratory flows and so called migration crisis as a security problem. The book argues that the (re)development of EU migration and border control policies in response to increased migratory flows of 2015 have revealed an increasingly tangled nature of securitization of migration in the EU. This is reflected in the intertwining of security logics where migrants and human mobility tend to be securitized through different, sometimes multiple, interpretative lenses at different stages of policy framing. From a theoretical point of view, the book develops a fresh analytical perspective that further contributes to burgeoning discussion on securitization theory. By bridging the literature on policy framing and securitization it makes a significant contribution to the debates on both securitization and migration. As such this book is of great interest to students, academics, policy makers and all those working in the fields of EU politics, migration, security, and international relations.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This open access book provides an analysis of the functioning, consequences and inherent limitations of internalised immigration control. By adopting the perspective of irregular residents as well as local service providers, the book sheds new light on the intricate mechanisms that either help or hinder the diffusion of immigration control into concrete institutional settings, like schools or hospitals. A simple and innovative analytical framework enables the systematic comparison of three different spheres of service provision across two distinct local as well as also national contexts. This is necessary to understand the complex interplay between formal law and policy, the intrinsic rules and logics operating within institutions, and the ethical or practical obligations and constraints attached to particular roles and professions. Based on empirical findings and rigorous analysis, the book argues that internalised control is part of the problem that irregular migration poses for society, rather than constituting a potential solution to it.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 220 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Pragmatism attends to the practical outcomes of what we think and do, the social community in which we practice, and the bases of experience to inform our ideas and practices. Practice theories help explain what we do as complex systems of activity. Together, pragmatism and practice theories help broaden our understanding of the nature of engineering work as a social practice having important consequences for individuals and society. The practical nature of engineering embedded in our complex social and community systems is emphasized. Of all the pragmatists John Dewey's influence on education has been the most profound.He promoted social democracy in education. Although he founded experimental schools with this as their goal of major interest, to engineering educators his promotion of problem solving through a form of inquiry is his major attraction. Its modern embodiment is problem-based learning. It requires teachers to become facilitators of learning rather than transmitters of knowledge. How, within the framework of a traditionally oriented curriculum Dewey's epistemology of inquiry-based learning might be introduced is discussed. Lonergan's basic method of the human mind underlying specialized methods offers a basis for a unified theory and pedagogy of engineering. It also provides for a conception of engineering that gives due recognition to its ethical character and to the need for engineering virtues. This knowing-based view of engineering, focused on 'engineering insight,' provides the basis for a core, discipline-neutral approach to engineering.It proposes an engineering education centered on norms inherent to the knowing process, specifically attentiveness and intentionality. These norms in turn provide a source for defining and developing engineering virtues and character.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This open access book is only an introduction to show that radiation and radioisotopes (RI) are premier tools to study living plant physiology which leads to new findings. Who had ever imagined that we could see water in a plant Who had ever imagined that we could see ions moving toward roots in solution Who had ever imagined that we could see invisible gas (CO2) fixation and movement in a plant These studies demonstrated for the first time that water, ions and gas can be visualized in living plants, which could be hardly seen by anyone before. This publication summarizes the results obtained by Nakanishi¿s lab in The Univ. of Tokyo, based on her original concept and her original tools or systems. It is useful for professional scientists, plant physiologist, and those studying plant imaging.The chapters demonstrates the innovative imaging work of the author, using radioactive tracers and neutron beam to follow the absorption and transport manner of wateras well as major, minor, and trace elements in plants. Through these studies the author developed a real-time macroscopic and microscopic imaging system able to apply commercially available gamma- and beta-ray emitters. The real-time movement of the elements is now possible by using 14C, 18F, 22Na, 28Mg, 32P, 33P, 35S, 42K, 45Ca, 48V, 54Mn, 55Fe, 59Fe, 65Zn, 86Rb, 109Cd, and 137Cs. The imaging methods was applied to study the effect of 137Cs following 3/11 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant accident, which has revealed the movements of radiocesium in the contaminated sites.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book describes in concise yet detailed step-by-step instructions on how to perform common procedures, including complex airway management, vascular access, neuraxial blocks, and nuanced anesthetic techniques; it not only covers this breadth of procedures, but presents them in an accessible manner.Chapters follow the format of the indications for a particular procedure, a list of equipment required, step-by-step instructions for performing the procedure, common complications, and troubleshooting techniques. The book is designed intentionally for the busy physician to be able to easily read the essential information, including lists of equipment necessary, numbered steps to perform the procedure, tables of common errors and methods to troubleshoot, indications and contraindications for procedures, detailed photos of equipment setup, and handmade diagrams and images.Anesthesiology Resident Manual of Procedures is comprehensive and written with the physician-in-training in mind, as well as those who are completing their residency or fellowship in the fields of anesthesiology, critical care medicine, and emergency medicine.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Patients with kidney disease often find it difficult to understand and undertake the lifestyle changes that will help them stay as healthy as possible. This book offers patients information and guidance on how to stay healthy with kidney disease in a clear, comprehensive, and encouraging way. The first section explains the basics of the disease and how it interacts with other common health issues, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and aging. The second section breaks down the changes a patient can make to their exercise, treatment, and diet to maximize their kidney function, including helpful tips and healthy recipes.Written by top nephrologists with experience writing for non-specialists, this easy-to-read guide will help kidney disease patients and caregivers manage the illness and keep patients healthy.¿Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 156 pp. Englisch.