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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Karin Nickenig befasst sich in diesem essential in aller Kürze mit den wesentlichen Fachbegriffen aus der Buchführung und Kostenrechnung (Rechnungswesen), sowie einschlägigem Fachvokabular aus dem Steuerrecht (insb. Einkommen-, Umsatz- und Gewerbesteuer). Der Leser erhält mit Hilfe dieses praxisorientierten kleinen Nachschlagewerks einen einfachen, dennoch fundierten Einstieg in relevante Begriffsdefinitionen, welche zum beruflichen Alltag z.B. eines kaufmännischen Angestellten oder Unternehmers gehören. Die Anordnung in alphabetischer Reihenfolge erleichtert das Auffinden der Begriffe im Praxisalltag 'auf die Schnelle'. 32 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'Frei sprechen' ist ein Trainingsprogramm für Moderatoren in Radio und Fernsehen, für Pressesprecher und Politiker, Referenten, Professoren, Speaker, Lehrer, Studenten, Manager, Verkäufer oder Vereinsvorsitzende - für jeden, der öffentlich spricht. Frei sprechen im Sinne dieses Buches bedeutet, die Sätze erst im Augenblick der Rede zu formen, damit sie authentischer, glaubhafter und fesselnder werden. Reden als spontane Kommunikation. 'Dies ist', so Michael Rossié, 'kein Buch über das Manipulieren oder Sich-durchschlagen, sondern übers Ehrlich-sein, ohne dabei sein Ziel aus den Augen zu verlieren.'Das Standardwerk, nunmehr in der sechsten Auflage, wurde regelmäßig überarbeitet und aktualisiert und ist den wachsenden Anforderungen für die Arbeit vor Mikrofon und Kamera oder auf der Bühne angepasst. 232 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'Frei sprechen' ist ein Trainingsprogramm für Moderatoren in Radio und Fernsehen, für Pressesprecher und Politiker, Referenten, Professoren, Speaker, Lehrer, Studenten, Manager, Verkäufer oder Vereinsvorsitzende - für jeden, der öffentlich spricht. Frei sprechen im Sinne dieses Buches bedeutet, die Sätze erst im Augenblick der Rede zu formen, damit sie authentischer, glaubhafter und fesselnder werden. Reden als spontane Kommunikation. 'Dies ist', so Michael Rossié, 'kein Buch über das Manipulieren oder Sich-durchschlagen, sondern übers Ehrlich-sein, ohne dabei sein Ziel aus den Augen zu verlieren.'Das Standardwerk, nunmehr in der sechsten Auflage, wurde regelmäßig überarbeitet und aktualisiert und ist den wachsenden Anforderungen für die Arbeit vor Mikrofon und Kamera oder auf der Bühne angepasst. 232 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Aesthetic Medicine: Art and Techniques provides step-by-step instructions in the procedures and techniques commonly employed in aesthetic medicine. The book is divided into four parts, the first two of which offer an introduction to aesthetic medicine and discuss preoperative assessment and treatment. Detailed guidance is then given on a wide range of cutaneous procedures, including the use of botulinum toxins, dermabrasion and microdermabrasion, cryotherapy, chemical peel skin resurfacing, laser treatments, mesotherapy, sclerotherapy, capacitive radiofrequency treatment, and the use of dermarollers. The final part of the book is devoted to techniques employed in shaping the face and body, such as breast and facial augmentation, penile enhancement, liposuction, and management of hair loss or excess hair. All procedures are depicted with the aid of numerous high-quality illustrations and color photographs. This book will serve as an excellent guide for both beginners and experiencedpractitioners.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In diesem essential beschreibt Marco Furtner die Grundlagen zur visionären und charismatischen Einflussnahme in der Führung (Ist Charisma angeboren oder trainierbar ). Der Autor gibt einen verständlichen Überblick zur Effektivität der transformationalen Führung, welche die Führungsforschung revolutioniert hat: In den letzten 30 Jahren wurde kein anderer Führungsansatz so häufig untersucht und diskutiert. Der zentrale Grund liegt darin, dass die transformationale Führung eine idealisierte Form von Führung darstellt und den 'Glanz' der charismatischen Einflussnahme nutzt. Umso überraschender ist es, dass bei einer deutschsprachigen Buchrecherche zum Titel 'Transformationale Führung' bislang lediglich studentische Studienarbeiten aufscheinen.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Karin Nickenig befasst sich in diesem essential in aller Kürze mit den wesentlichen Fachbegriffen aus der Buchführung und Kostenrechnung (Rechnungswesen), sowie einschlägigem Fachvokabular aus dem Steuerrecht (insb. Einkommen-, Umsatz- und Gewerbesteuer). Der Leser erhält mit Hilfe dieses praxisorientierten kleinen Nachschlagewerks einen einfachen, dennoch fundierten Einstieg in relevante Begriffsdefinitionen, welche zum beruflichen Alltag z.B. eines kaufmännischen Angestellten oder Unternehmers gehören. Die Anordnung in alphabetischer Reihenfolge erleichtert das Auffinden der Begriffe im Praxisalltag 'auf die Schnelle'.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Dieses Buch bietet eine sorgfältige und leicht verdauliche Einführung in die Anfangsgründe der Gruppentheorie, welche die grundlegendste Disziplin der abstrakten Algebra ist. Mit seinen ausführlichen Erklärungen ist es bereits für interessierte SchülerInnen ohne Vorkenntnisse gut lesbar, kann aber auch Mathematik-StudentInnen den Einstieg in die Algebra erleichtern. Durch seine über 80 Übungsaufgaben mit detaillierten Lösungen ist dieses Buch ideal zum Selbststudium geeignet.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Das Buch vermittelt Basiswissen über zwei grundlegende Bereiche der Allgemeinen Psychologie: Menschliche Wahrnehmung und Aufmerksamkeit. Welche Theorien sind wichtig Welche Kontroversen und Fragen beschäftigen die Forscher aktuell, und wie haben sich die Gebiete historisch entwickelt In klarer, verständlicher Form führen die Autoren in die wichtigsten Grundfragen ein und verhelfen Leserinnen und Lesern so zu Orientierung und Überblick.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Nur wer weiß, was in der mündlichen Prüfung verlangt wird, kann mit dem Prüfungsfallund den Fragen der Prüfer richtig umgehen. Das Buch zeigt, worauf Sie achten müssenund bietet mit seinen über 30 Übungsfällen eine optimale Vorbereitung auf das gefürchtetemündliche Prüfungsgespräch. Die 8. Auflage wurde in wichtigen Themenfeldernaktualisiert. So hat der Autor etwa die veränderten regulatorischen und gesetzlichenAnforderungen an die Beratungspraxis in die Prüfungsfälle aufgenommen. Fernerwurde auch das allgegenwärtige Thema der Niedrigzinsphase in die Praxisfälle zurGeld- und Vermögensanlage sowie zum Kreditgeschäft eingearbeitet. In der jüngstenVergangenheit ergaben sich mannigfaltige Veränderungen in der Branche durch dieDigitalisierung der Unternehmensprozesse und Geschäftsmodelle. Die hieraus resultierendenneuen und zugleich innovativen Angebote, Services und Produkte fandenebenfalls Berücksichtigung.An der seit über einer Dekade bewährten Struktur des Buches hat sich selbstverständlichnichts geändert, sodass Sie nach wie vor optimal vorbereitet in die Prüfung startenwerden.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Indirect questioning is a crucial topic in surveys of human populations. When the issue is about a stigmatizing characteristic (for example about illegal drug use), standard survey methodologies are destined to fail because, as expected, people are not willing to reveal incriminating information or information violating their privacy. Indirect questioning techniques have been devised so that the privacy of participants in a sample survey is protected and at the same time good estimates of certain parameters (e.g. the percentage of people in a certain community who use illegal drugs) can be delivered. The topic is modern and still under development.Indirect Questioning in Sample Surveys represents a collection of the most important and recent techniques of indirect questioning, including various versions of randomized response, the item count technique, the nominative technique, the three-card method, non-randomized response models and negative surveys, while also exploring the key aspect of protecting privacy.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Arrangements of curves constitute fundamental structures that have been intensively studied in computational geometry. Arrangements have numerous applications in a wide range of areas ¿ examples include geographic information systems, robot motion planning, statistics, computer-assisted surgery and molecular biology. Implementing robust algorithms for arrangements is a notoriously difficult task, and the CGAL arrangements package is the first robust, comprehensive, generic and efficient implementation of data structures and algorithms for arrangements of curves.This book is about how to use CGAL two-dimensional arrangements to solve problems. The authors first demonstrate the features of the arrangement package and related packages using small example programs. They then describe applications, i.e., complete standalone programs written on top of CGAL arrangements used to solve meaningful problems ¿ for example, finding the minimum-area triangle defined by a set of points, planning the motion of a polygon translating among polygons in the plane, computing the offset polygon, finding the largest common point sets under approximate congruence, constructing the farthest-point Voronoi diagram, coordinating the motion of two discs moving among obstacles in the plane, and performing Boolean operations on curved polygons.The book contains comprehensive explanations of the solution programs, many illustrations, and detailed notes on further reading, and it is supported by a website that contains downloadable software and exercises. It will be suitable for graduate students and researchers involved in applied research in computational geometry, and for professionals who require worked-out solutions to real-life geometric problems. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the C++ programming-language and with the basics of the generic-programming paradigm.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 316 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Visualization research aims to provide insight into large, complicated data sets and the phenomena behind them. While there are di erent methods of reaching this goal, topological methods stand out for their solid mathem- ical foundation, which guides the algorithmic analysis and its presentation. Topology-based methods in visualization have been around since the beg- ning of visualization as a scienti c discipline, but they initially played only a minor role. In recent years,interest in topology-basedvisualization has grown andsigni cantinnovationhasledto newconceptsandsuccessfulapplications. The latest trends adapt basic topological concepts to precisely express user interests in topological properties of the data. This book is the outcome of the second workshop on Topological Methods in Visualization, which was held March 4¿6, 2007 in Kloster Nimbschen near Leipzig,Germany.Theworkshopbroughttogethermorethan40international researchers to present and discuss the state of the art and new trends in the eld of topology-based visualization. Two inspiring invited talks by George Haller, MIT, and Nelson Max, LLNL, were accompanied by 14 presentations by participants and two panel discussions on current and future trends in visualization research. This book contains thirteen research papers that have been peer-reviewed in a two-stage review process. In the rst phase, submitted papers where peer-reviewed by the international program committee. After the workshop accepted papers went through a revision and a second review process taking into account comments from the rst round and discussions at the workshop. Abouthalfthepapersconcerntopology-basedanalysisandvisualizationof uid owsimulations;twopapersconcernmoregeneraltopologicalalgorithms, while theremaining papers discuss topology-based visualization methods in application areas like biology, medical imaging and electromagnetism.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Florian Brauner addresses the risk reduction effects of security measures (SecMe) as well as economic and social effects using terrorist threats in public transportation as use case. SecMe increase the level of security but cause interferences and restrictions for customers (e.g. privacy). This study identifies the interferences and analyzes the acceptance with an empirical survey of customers. A composite indicator for the acceptance of different SecMe is developed and integrated into a risk management framework for multi-criteria decision analysis achieving the right balance of risk reduction, costs, and social acceptance.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 236 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This is one of the first books on a newly emerging field of discrete differential geometry and an excellent way to access this exciting area. It surveys the fascinating connections between discrete models in differential geometry and complex analysis, integrable systems and applications in computer graphics.The authors take a closer look at discrete models in differentialgeometry and dynamical systems. Their curves are polygonal, surfacesare made from triangles and quadrilaterals, and time is discrete.Nevertheless, the difference between the corresponding smooth curvessurfaces and classical dynamical systems with continuous time can hardly be seen. This is the paradigm of structure-preserving discretizations. Current advances in this field are stimulated to a large extent by its relevance for computer graphics and mathematical physics. This book is written by specialists working together on a common research project. It is about differential geometry and dynamical systems, smooth and discrete theories, and on pure mathematics and its practical applications. The interaction of these facets is demonstrated by concrete examples, including discrete conformal mappings, discrete complex analysis, discrete curvatures and special surfaces, discrete integrable systems, conformal texture mappings in computer graphics, and free-form architecture.This richly illustrated book will convince readers that this new branch of mathematics is both beautiful and useful. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers in differential geometry, complex analysis, mathematical physics, numerical methods, discrete geometry, as well as computer graphics and geometry processing.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 452 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846¿1927) played a significant role as both a scientist and entrepreneur. Regarded as the father of Swedish mathematics, his influence extended far beyond his chosen field because of his extensive network of international contacts in science, business, and the arts. He was instrumental in seeing to it that Marie Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize twice. One of Mittag-Leffler¿s major accomplishments was the founding of the journal Acta Mathematica , published by Institut Mittag-Leffler and Sweden¿s Royal Academy of Sciences.Arild Stubhaug¿s research for this monumental biography relied on a wealth of primary and secondary resources, including more than 30000 letters that are part of the Mittag-Leffler archives. Written in a lucid and compelling manner, the biography contains many hitherto unknown facts about Mittag-Leffler¿s personal life and professional endeavors. It will be of great interest to both mathematicians and general readers interested in science and culture.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 744 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book provides an introduction to mathematical and computer-oriented modeling and to simulation as a universal methodology. It therefore addresses various model classes and their derivations. And it demonstrates the diversity of approaches that can be taken: be it discrete or continuous, deterministic or stochastic. A common underlying theme throughout the book are the means in which one obtains practical simulation results from these different abstract models.Subsequent to a brief review of the mathematical tools that are required, the concept of the simulation pipeline, 'from model derivation to the simulation', is applied to 14 example scenarios from diverse fields such as 'Game theory - deciding - planning', 'Traffic on highways and data highways', 'Dynamical systems' and 'Physics in the computer'.Whether it is game theory or mathematical finance, traffic or control theory, population dynamics or chaos, or molecular dynamics, continuum mechanics or computer graphics - the reader gains insight into the world of simulation in a descriptive yet systematic way.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 428 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In this book, the author compares the meaning of stability in different subfields of numerical mathematics.Concept of Stability in numerical mathematics opens by examining the stability of finite algorithms. A more precise definition of stability holds for quadrature and interpolation methods, which the following chapters focus on. The discussion then progresses to the numerical treatment of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). While one-step methods for ODEs are always stable, this is not the case for hyperbolic or parabolic differential equations, which are investigated next. The final chapters discuss stability for discretisations of elliptic differential equations and integral equations.In comparison among the subfields we discuss the practical importance of stability and the possible conflict between higher consistency order and stability.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Why a book on fault-tolerant search algorithms Searching is one of the fundamental problems in computer science. Time and again algorithmic and combinatorial issues originally studied in the context of search find application in the most diverse areas of computer science and discrete mathematics. On the other hand, fault-tolerance is a necessary ingredient of computing. Due to their inherent complexity, information systems are naturally prone to errors, which may appear at any level ¿ as imprecisions in the data, bugs in the software, or transient or permanent hardware failures. This book provides a concise, rigorous and up-to-date account of different approaches to fault-tolerance in the context of algorithmic search theory.Thanks to their basic structure, search problems offer insights into how fault-tolerant techniques may be applied in various scenarios. In the first part of the book, a paradigmatic model for fault-tolerant search is presented, the Ulam¿Rényi problem. Following a didactic approach, the author takes the reader on a tour of Ulam¿Rényi problem variants of increasing complexity. In the context of this basic model, fundamental combinatorial and algorithmic issues in the design of fault-tolerant search procedures are discussed. The algorithmic efficiency achievable is analyzed with respect to the statistical nature of the error sources, and the amount of information on which the search algorithm bases its decisions. In the second part of the book, more general models of faults and fault-tolerance are considered. Special attention is given to the application of fault-tolerant search procedures to specific problems in distributed computing, bioinformatics and computational learning.This book will be of special value to researchers from the areas of combinatorial search and fault-tolerant computation, but also to researchers in learning andcoding theory, databases, and artificial intelligence. Only basic training in discrete mathematics is assumed. Parts of the book can be used as the basis for specialized graduate courses on combinatorial search, or as supporting material for a graduate or undergraduate course on error-correcting codes.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The book presents, in a systematic manner, the optimal controls under different mathematical models in fermentation processes. Variant mathematical models ¿ i.e., those for multistage systems; switched autonomous systems; time-dependent and state-dependent switched systems; multistage time-delay systems and switched time-delay systems ¿ for fed-batch fermentation processes are proposed and the theories and algorithms of their optimal control problems are studied and discussed. By putting forward novel methods and innovative tools, the book provides a state-of-the-art and comprehensive systematic treatment of optimal control problems arising in fermentation processes. It not only develops nonlinear dynamical system, optimal control theory and optimization algorithms, but can also help to increase productivity and provide valuable reference material on commercial fermentation processes.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -During the springs of 2011 and 2012, the author was invited by Peking University to give an advanced undergraduate algebra course (once a week over two months each year). This book was written during and for that course. By no way does it claim to be too exhaustive. It was originally intended as a brief introduction to algebra for an extremely pleasant and passionate audience. It certainly reflects some of the author¿s own tastes, and it was influenced by the feelings and the reactions of the students.Nevertheless, the result covers some advanced undergraduate algebra (rings, ideals, basics of fields theory, algebraic integers, modules, hom and tensor functors, projective modules, etc.) illustrated by numerous examples, counterexamples and exercises. Following a worldwide tradition, the author had planned to conclude by lecturing on the structure of finitely generated modules over principal ideal domains. But during the course, after explaining that the notion of projective modules is more natural than the notion of free modules, it became clear that principal ideal domains needed to be replaced by Dedekind rings; this is much less traditional in the literature ¿ but not more difficult.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The existence and qualitative properties of nontrivial solutions for some important nonlinear Schr¿dinger systems have been studied in this thesis. For a well-known system arising from nonlinear optics and Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC), in the subcritical case, qualitative properties of ground state solutions, including an optimal parameter range for the existence, the uniqueness and asymptotic behaviors, have been investigated and the results could firstly partially answer open questions raised by Ambrosetti, Colorado and Sirakov. In the critical case, a systematical research on ground state solutions, including the existence, the nonexistence, the uniqueness and the phase separation phenomena of the limit profile has been presented, which seems to be the first contribution for BEC in the critical case. Furthermore, some quite different phenomena were also studied in a more general critical system. For the classical Brezis-Nirenberg critical exponent problem, the sharp energy estimate of least energy solutions in a ball has been investigated in this study. Finally, for Ambrosetti type linearly coupled Schr¿dinger equations with critical exponent, an optimal result on the existence and nonexistence of ground state solutions for different coupling constants was also obtained in this thesis. These results have many applications in Physics and PDEs.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In this thesis accurate predictions for the spectroscopic parameters of l-C3H+ and C4 are made from state-of-the-art electronic structure calculations. Both molecules are of interest to interstellar cloud chemistry and only scarce experimental information about their rovibrational properties is available. Christopher J. Stein recapitulates the basics of the computational methods applied and gives an in-depth description of the computer program developed for the rovibrational calculations.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Both classical geometry and modern differential geometry have been active subjects of research throughout the 20th century and lie at the heart of many recent advances in mathematics and physics. The underlying motivating concept for the present book is that it offers readers the elements of a modern geometric culture by means of a whole series of visually appealing unsolved (or recently solved) problems that require the creation of concepts and tools of varying abstraction. Starting with such natural, classical objects as lines, planes, circles, spheres, polygons, polyhedra, curves, surfaces, convex sets, etc., crucial ideas and above all abstract concepts needed for attaining the results are elucidated. These are conceptual notions, each built 'above' the preceding and permitting an increase in abstraction, represented metaphorically by Jacob's ladder with its rungs: the 'ladder' in the Old Testament, that angels ascended and descended.In all this, the aim of the book isto demonstrate to readers the unceasingly renewed spirit of geometry and that even so-called 'elementary' geometry is very much alive and at the very heart of the work of numerous contemporary mathematicians. It is also shown that there are innumerable paths yet to be explored and concepts to be created. The book is visually rich and inviting, so that readers may open it at random places and find much pleasure throughout according their own intuitions and inclinations.Marcel Berger is the author of numerous successful books on geometry, this book once again is addressed to all students and teachers of mathematics with an affinity for geometry.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 848 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book is a comprehensive, systematic survey of the synthesis problem, and of region theory which underlies its solution, covering the related theory, algorithms, and applications. The authors focus on safe Petri nets and place/transition nets (P/T-nets), treating synthesis as an automated process which, given behavioural specifications or partial specifications of a system to be realized, decides whether the specifications are feasible, and then produces a Petri net realizing them exactly, or if this is not possible produces a Petri net realizing an optimal approximation of the specifications.In Part I the authors introduce elementary net synthesis. In Part II they explain variations of elementary net synthesis and the unified theory of net synthesis. The first three chapters of Part III address the linear algebraic structure of regions, synthesis of P/T-nets from finite initialized transition systems, and the synthesis of unbounded P/T-nets. Finally, the last chapter inPart III and the chapters in Part IV cover more advanced topics and applications: P/T-net with the step firing rule, extracting concurrency from transition systems, process discovery, supervisory control, and the design of speed-independent circuits.Most chapters conclude with exercises, and the book is a valuable reference for both graduate students of computer science and electrical engineering and researchers and engineers in this domain.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 356 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Based on a novel class scheme and a unique compilation of German and American data, this book reveals that intergenerational class mobility increased over most of the past century. While country differences in intergenerational mobility are surprisingly small, gender, regional, racial and ethnic differences were initially large but declined over time. At the end of the 20th century, however, mobility prospects turned to the worse in both countries. In light of these findings, the book develops a narrative account of historical socio-political developments that are likely to have driven the basic resemblances across countries but also account for the initial decline and the more recent increase in intergenerational inequality.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 404 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -For several decades Rafael Capurro has been at the forefront of defining the relationship between information and modernity through both phenomenological and ethical formulations. In exploring both of these themes Capurro has re-vivified the transcultural and intercultural expressions of how we bring an understanding of information to bear on scientific knowledge production and intermediation. Capurro has long stressed the need to look deeply into how we contextualize the information problems that scientific society creates for us and to re-incorporate a pragmatic dimension into our response that provides a balance to the cognitive turn in information science.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 500 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The present book provides an introduction to using space-filling curves (SFC) as tools in scientific computing. Special focus is laid on the representation of SFC and on resulting algorithms. For example, grammar-based techniques are introduced for traversals of Cartesian and octree-type meshes, and arithmetisation of SFC is explained to compute SFC mappings and indexings.The locality properties of SFC are discussed in detail, together with their importance for algorithms. Templates for parallelisation and cache-efficient algorithms are presented to reflect the most important applications of SFC in scientific computing. Special attention is also given to the interplay of adaptive mesh refinement and SFC, including the structured refinement of triangular and tetrahedral grids. For each topic, a short overview is given on the most important publications and recent research activities.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 300 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Coupled Problems.- Comparison of Model Reduction Methods with Applications to Circuit Simulation.- Transient Field-Circuit Coupled Models with Switching Elements for the Simulation of Electric Energy Transducers.- Technology and Device Modeling in Micro and Nano-electronics: Current and Future Challenges.- New Algorithm for the Retrieval of Aerosol's Optical Parameters by LIDAR Data Inversion.- A Demonstrator Platform for Coupled Multiscale Simulation.- Upon the Interaction between Magnetic Field and Electric Arc in Low Voltage Vacuum Circuit Breakers.- Accurate Modeling of Complete Functional RF Blocks: CHAMELEON RF.- Finite Element Analysis of Generation and Detection of Lamb Waves Using Piezoelectric Transducers.- Optimization of a Switching Strategy for a Synchronous Motor Fed by a Current Inverter Using Finite Element Analysis.- Finite Volume Method Applied to Symmetrical Structures in Coupled Problems.- Scattering Matrix Analysis of Cascaded Periodic Surfaces.- Circuit Simulation and Design.- Overview of Circuit-Simulation Activities at TKK CTL.- Outstanding Issues in Model Order Reduction.- Positive Real Balancing for Nonlinear Systems.- Efficient Initialization of Artificial Neural Network Weights for Electrical Component Models.- Trajectory Piecewise Linear Approach for Nonlinear Differential-Algebraic Equations in circuit simulation.- Model Order Reduction of Large Scale ODE Systems: MOR for ANSYS versus ROM Workbench.- Adjoint Transient Sensitivity Analysis in Circuit Simulation.- Index Reduction by Element-Replacement for Electrical Circuits.- Application of 2D Nonuniform Fast Fourier Transforms Technique to Analysis of Shielded Microstrip Circuits.- A Filter Design Framework with Multicriteria Optimization Based on a Genetic Algorithm.- Thermal Network Method in the Design of Power Equipment.- Hierarchical Mixed Multirating in Circuit Simulation.- Automatic Partitioning for Multirate Methods.- Simulation of Quasiperiodic Signals via Warped MPDAEs Using Houben's Approach.- Computational Electromagnetics.- RF & Microwave Simulation with the Finite Integration Technique - From Component to System Design.- The Energy Viewpoint in Computational Electromagnetics.- Newton and Approximate Newton Methods in Combination with the Orthogonal Finite Integration Technique.- Transient Simulation of a Linear Actuator Discretized by the Finite Integration Technique.- Reduced Order Electromagnetic Models for On-Chip Passives Based on Dual Finite Integrals Technique.- Techniques to Reduce the Equivalent Parallel Capacitance for EMI Filters Integration.- Buffered Block Forward Backward (BBFB) Method Applied to EM Wave Scattering from Homogeneous Dielectric Bodies.- Symmetric Coupling of the Finite-Element and the Boundary-Element Method for Electro-Quasistatic Field simulations.- Computational Errors in Hysteresis Preisach Modelling.- Mathematical and Computational Methods.- Manifold Mapping for Multilevel Optimization.- Software Package for Multi-Objective Optimal Design of Electromagnetic Devices.- Optimal Design of Monolithic ESBT Device carried out by Multiobjective Optimization.- On Fast Optimal Control for Energy-Transport-based Semiconductor Design.- Extended Hydrodynamical Models for Charge Transport in Si.- On the Implementation of a Delaunay-based 3-dimensional Mesh Generator.- Coupled FETI/BETI Solvers for Nonlinear Potential Problems in (Un)Bounded Domains.- A Hierarchical Preconditioner within Edge Based BE-FE Coupling in Electromagnetism.- Solution of Band Linear Systems in Model Reduction for VSLI Circuits.- MOESP Algorithmfor Converting One-dimensional Maxwell Equation into a Linear System.- Adaptive Methods for Transient Noise Analysis.- Efficient Execution of Loosely Coupled Tasks in Grid Platforms.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 488 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The book comprises an assembly of benchmarks and examples for porous media mechanics collected over the last twenty years. Analysis of thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes is essential to many applications in environmental engineering, such as geological waste deposition, geothermal energy utilisation, carbon capture and storage, water resources management, hydrology, even climate chance. In order to assess the feasibility as well as the safety of geotechnical applications, process-based modelling is the only tool to put numbers, i.e. to quantify future scenarios. This charges a huge responsibility concerning the reliability of computational tools. Benchmarking is an appropriate methodology to verify the quality of modelling tools based on best practices. Moreover, benchmarking and code comparison foster community efforts. The benchmark book is part of the OpenGeoSys initiative - an open source project to share knowledge and experience in environmental analysis and scientific computation.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 416 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Autonomous robots may become our closest companions in the near future. While the technology for physically building such machines is already available today, a problem lies in the generation of the behavior for such complex machines. Nature proposes a solution: young children and higher animals learn to master their complex brain-body systems by playing. Can this be an option for robots How can a machine be playful The book provides answers by developing a general principle---homeokinesis, the dynamical symbiosis between brain, body, and environment---that is shown to drive robots to self- determined, individual development in a playful and obviously embodiment- related way: a dog-like robot starts playing with a barrier, eventually jumping or climbing over it; a snakebot develops coiling and jumping modes; humanoids develop climbing behaviors when fallen into a pit, or engage in wrestling-like scenarios when encountering an opponent. The book also develops guided self-organization, a new method that helps to make the playful machines fit for fulfilling tasks in the real world.The book provides two levels of presentation. Students and scientific researchers interested in the field of robotics, self-organization and dynamical systems theory may be satisfied by the in-depth mathematical analysis of the principle, the bootstrapping scenarios, and the emerging behaviors. But the book additionally comes with a robotics simulator inviting also the non- scientific reader to simply enjoy the fabulous world of playful machines by performing the numerous experiments.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 356 pp. Englisch.