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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -MS, Schlaganfall, Parkinson - wenn krankheitsbedingt Rollstuhl und Pflege drohen, verschütten Angst und Unverständnis oft die Wege zum Gesundwerden, nicht nur für die Betroffenen selbst, sondern auch für ihre indirekt mitbetroffenen Verwandten, Freunde und Kollegen. Jaron Bendkower hat als Psychotherapeut seine eigene Erkrankung unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Wege zur Heilung untersucht, die die psychische Gesundheit in den Mittelpunkt stellt - ergänzend und als positiver Einfluss zur medizinischen Prävention. MS ist eine extremes Beispiel für Unwägbarkeiten und Unberechenbarkeiten bei drohender Schwerbehinderung, die aber trotz der landläufigen Vorurteile keineswegs immer eintreten. Jaron Bendkower führt sogar Beispiele dafür an, dass in einigen seltenen Fällen die MS ausheilen konnte. Anhand dieser Fälle vollständiger Resilienz verdeutlicht Bendhower, wie Unverständnis und Vorurteile die Wege zur Heilung verbauen und was individuell und sozial hilft, auch mit MS ein gutes Leben zu führen. 274 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -MS, Schlaganfall, Parkinson - wenn krankheitsbedingt Rollstuhl und Pflege drohen, verschütten Angst und Unverständnis oft die Wege zum Gesundwerden, nicht nur für die Betroffenen selbst, sondern auch für ihre indirekt mitbetroffenen Verwandten, Freunde und Kollegen. Jaron Bendkower hat als Psychotherapeut seine eigene Erkrankung unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Wege zur Heilung untersucht, die die psychische Gesundheit in den Mittelpunkt stellt - ergänzend und als positiver Einfluss zur medizinischen Prävention. MS ist eine extremes Beispiel für Unwägbarkeiten und Unberechenbarkeiten bei drohender Schwerbehinderung, die aber trotz der landläufigen Vorurteile keineswegs immer eintreten. Jaron Bendkower führt sogar Beispiele dafür an, dass in einigen seltenen Fällen die MS ausheilen konnte. Anhand dieser Fälle vollständiger Resilienz verdeutlicht Bendhower, wie Unverständnis und Vorurteile die Wege zur Heilung verbauen und was individuell und sozial hilft, auch mit MS ein gutes Leben zu führen. 274 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Frozen sections are diagnosed by the pathologist while a patient is undergoing surgery, often under general anesthesia, for the purpose of rapid diagnosis which may be used to make immediate treatment decisions or to confirm that diagnostic tissues have been sampled for further study. As a result, frozen section diagnosis is often a highly demanding situation for the pathologist who must render a diagnosis quickly and is a basis for critical decisions to the surgeon. In addition to the need for rapid recall of differential diagnoses, there are many pitfalls and artifacts that add to the risk of frozen section diagnosis that are not present with permanent sections of fully processed tissues that can be examined in a more leisurely fashion. Most standard pathology textbooks, both general and subspecialty, largely ignore the topic of frozen section. Few textbooks have ever focused exclusively on frozen section diagnosis and those textbooks that have done so are now out-of-date and have limited numbers of black and white figures.Frozen Section Library: Pleura provides a convenient, user-friendly handbook to expedite use when performing intraoperative consultations on pleural specimens. This book is divided into chapters that emphasize the common questions that a pathologist must answer on frozen section examination and the pitfalls associated with those specific diagnoses. The diagnostic issues impacting immediate surgical decision-making are color illustrated and discussed succinctly, including a complex array of primary and secondary neoplasms of the pleura that have overlapping histologic features and the well-known problems of reactive atypia versus cancer in pleural tissue.As a handbook for practicing pathologists, this book is an indispensable aid to diagnosis and avoiding dangers in one of the most challenging situations that pathologists encounter. Rapid consideration of differential diagnoses and how to avoid traps caused by frozen sectionartifacts will be readily accessible to the users of this handbook. Tables provide guidance for various categories of differential diagnoses. Currently, there is no other up-to-date single-source reference specifically focused on frozen sections of the pleura.This book will be highly valuable to practicing surgical pathologists, both community and academic, and to pathology residents and fellows. The perspectives provided will also be valuable to thoracic surgeons and especially to surgery residents and thoracic surgery fellows who must answer questions about pathology and frozen section on their board examinations.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Coloproctology is a surgical specialty which dynamically changes every few years. There is a profusion of colorectal textbooks but specialty series on particularly complex topics as well as on the specialized management approach for trainees and training colorectal surgeons are actually few. The aim of this text is a superior quality colorectal book written by world experts targeted at senior surgical and colorectal trainees and young consultant coloproctologists in current areas of subspecialty expertise. The structure of the chapters is current and is based on what does not appear and is not addressed in current colorectal textbooks. This series has proven useful in areas already represented, including Neurosurgery, Vascular Surgery, Transplantation Surgery, etc. The text is aimed at being relatively didactic with an algorithm approach to specialized areas within coloproctology which could potentially be updated every 3 years or so with new topics to create a set for didactic training in colorectal surgery. It is anticipated that these texts will become valuable teaching textbooks and part of every coloproctologist¿s armamentarium as well as appealing to all general surgeons and surgical trainees engaged in complex elective and emergency colorectal surgery.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 236 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - As patients and physicians have become familiar with facial rejuvenation procedures, there is growing interest in adapting techniques for use off the face. The same lasers, fillers, and other techniques that can improve the appearance of the forehead or lips, are useful for the chest or hands. Body Rejuvenation is the first practical manual that describes off-the-face minimally invasive rejuvenation. Sections are organized by body area, and within each section, individual chapters contain step-by-step treatment algorithms. Chapters are brief and concise by design, so interested readers can readily obtain the information necessary to treat patients successfully. Expert authors share their experience with body rejuvenation, so that you don't have to learn by trial and error.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Kostenrechnung stellt ein bedeutendes Instrument der Unternehmensführung und daher ein unverzichtbares Element eines wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Studiums dar. In diesem Buch werden die Grundlagen der Kostenrechnung sowie deren unterschiedliche Bereiche und die dort einsetzbaren Verfahren behandelt. Zudem wird auf Systeme der Deckungsbeitragsrechnung, Plankostenrechnung sowie Prozeßkostenrechnung eingegangen. Ein weiterer wesentlicher Gegenstand des Buches sind die eng mit der Kostenrechnung verbundenen und zum Teil aus dieser hervorgegangenen Ansätze des Kostenmanagement, von denen das Target Costing, das Life Cycle Costing sowie das Benchmarking intensiv erörtert werden. Die einzelnen Verfahren und Systeme werden jeweils in allgemeiner Form dargestellt, anhand eines Beispiels veranschaulicht sowie hinsichtlich ihrer Anwendbarkeit und Realitätsnähe beurteilt. Zahlreiche Übungsaufgaben und Lösungen bieten dem Leser die Möglichkeit, seinen Wissensstand zu überprüfen und zu vertiefen. 480 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -MS, Schlaganfall, Parkinson - wenn krankheitsbedingt Rollstuhl und Pflege drohen, verschütten Angst und Unverständnis oft die Wege zum Gesundwerden, nicht nur für die Betroffenen selbst, sondern auch für ihre indirekt mitbetroffenen Verwandten, Freunde und Kollegen. Jaron Bendkower hat als Psychotherapeut seine eigene Erkrankung unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Wege zur Heilung untersucht, die die psychische Gesundheit in den Mittelpunkt stellt - ergänzend und als positiver Einfluss zur medizinischen Prävention. MS ist eine extremes Beispiel für Unwägbarkeiten und Unberechenbarkeiten bei drohender Schwerbehinderung, die aber trotz der landläufigen Vorurteile keineswegs immer eintreten. Jaron Bendkower führt sogar Beispiele dafür an, dass in einigen seltenen Fällen die MS ausheilen konnte. Anhand dieser Fälle vollständiger Resilienz verdeutlicht Bendhower, wie Unverständnis und Vorurteile die Wege zur Heilung verbauen und was individuell und sozial hilft, auch mit MS ein gutes Leben zu führen.Springer Spektrum in Springer Science + Business Media, Tiergartenstr. 15-17, 69121 Heidelberg Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Die Geschichte des Bergbaus, das Leben der Bergleute, der Wandel der Harzer Industrielandschaft und die Entwicklung der Bergbautechnik werden in einem allgemeinen Teil ausführlich beschrieben. Ein regionaler Teil stellt die wichtigsten Harzer Bergbaureviere sowie deren Geschichte vor und unterbreitet zahlreiche Vorschläge für eigene Exkursionen. Informationen über alte Grubenreviere, Besucherbergwerke, Museen und sonstige Sehenswürdigkeiten, ein kleines bergmännisches ABC sowie eine Zusammenstellung der Eigenschaften und Erkennungsmerkmale der wichtigsten Erze und Gangartmineralien vervollständigen das mit zahlreichen historischen Fotografien, Zeichnungen und Stichen illustrierte Buch.Die Neuauflage enthält neben Aktualisierungen und Ergänzungen zu den verschiedenen Kapiteln, ein Schlagwortverzeichnis, zahlreiche neue Abbildungen sowie ein komplett überarbeitetes Layout. 492 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - MS, Schlaganfall, Parkinson - wenn krankheitsbedingt Rollstuhl und Pflege drohen, verschütten Angst und Unverständnis oft die Wege zum Gesundwerden, nicht nur für die Betroffenen selbst, sondern auch für ihre indirekt mitbetroffenen Verwandten, Freunde und Kollegen. Jaron Bendkower hat als Psychotherapeut seine eigene Erkrankung unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Wege zur Heilung untersucht, die die psychische Gesundheit in den Mittelpunkt stellt - ergänzend und als positiver Einfluss zur medizinischen Prävention. MS ist eine extremes Beispiel für Unwägbarkeiten und Unberechenbarkeiten bei drohender Schwerbehinderung, die aber trotz der landläufigen Vorurteile keineswegs immer eintreten. Jaron Bendkower führt sogar Beispiele dafür an, dass in einigen seltenen Fällen die MS ausheilen konnte. Anhand dieser Fälle vollständiger Resilienz verdeutlicht Bendhower, wie Unverständnis und Vorurteile die Wege zur Heilung verbauen und was individuell und sozial hilft, auch mit MS ein gutes Leben zu führen.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Die Kostenrechnung stellt ein bedeutendes Instrument der Unternehmensführung und daher ein unverzichtbares Element eines wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Studiums dar. In diesem Buch werden die Grundlagen der Kostenrechnung sowie deren unterschiedliche Bereiche und die dort einsetzbaren Verfahren behandelt. Zudem wird auf Systeme der Deckungsbeitragsrechnung, Plankostenrechnung sowie Prozeßkostenrechnung eingegangen. Ein weiterer wesentlicher Gegenstand des Buches sind die eng mit der Kostenrechnung verbundenen und zum Teil aus dieser hervorgegangenen Ansätze des Kostenmanagement, von denen das Target Costing, das Life Cycle Costing sowie das Benchmarking intensiv erörtert werden. Die einzelnen Verfahren und Systeme werden jeweils in allgemeiner Form dargestellt, anhand eines Beispiels veranschaulicht sowie hinsichtlich ihrer Anwendbarkeit und Realitätsnähe beurteilt. Zahlreiche Übungsaufgaben und Lösungen bieten dem Leser die Möglichkeit, seinen Wissensstand zu überprüfen und zu vertiefen.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Il fuoco di Sant Antonio è una malattia, certo! Ma quale Per noi Italiani è sicuramente l Herpes zoster; ma è sempre stato così Ebbene, no! Sant Antonio Abate aveva la fama di taumaturgo e guaritore già in vita, nonostante si fosse ritirato in un remoto deserto. Così, quando le sue spoglie arrivarono in Europa dopo l anno Mille, tutti coloro che soffrivano di malattie dolorose e urenti, imploravano Sant Antonio che li guarisse da quel 'fuoco' che li tormentava.Ma quali erano queste malattie così dolorose Le antiche cronache sono spesso troppo succinte o troppo romanzate per orientarci nella diagnosi ma erisipela, sifilide, ergotismo hanno fatto certamente buona compagnia allo zoster. L'ergotismo, soprattutto, era una malattia terrorizzante perché compariva ad ondate imprevedibili e, come la peste, colpiva i virtuosi come i viziosi, scardinando l interpretazione allora dominante, del dolore come conseguenza del peccato. Come se non bastasse, l ergotismo non solo provocava terribili sofferenze ma spesso anche stati di confusione mentale e di delirio che erano (questi sì!) sicuramente attribuiti al demonio.Bisogna aspettare il XVIII secolo e l età dei Lumi per mandare in soffitta le superstizioni che infestavano la medicina ed allora l ergotismo si rivela essere non più una maledizione ma una solo una malattia, un effetto del consumo di pane nero alloiatoLo studio degli allucinogeni e la scoperta dell LSD nel XX secolo, mettono la parola fine all interpretazione mistico-religiosa di alcune patologie e gettano inaspettatamente nuova luce su quello che fu il segreto meglio custodito dell Antichità: il culto dei Misteri Eleusini.In questo libro, la storia del fuoco di Sant Antonio di dipana dai racconti medioevali sino all odierna virologia e suggerisce che la curiosità e la scienza sono l unico antidoto contro la superstizione e il mistero. Un filo rosso unisce i Misteri Eleusini al Fuoco di Sant Antonio: questo filo è l LSD. La molecola è la stessa ma il contorno è molto diverso e, di sicuro, molto appassionante.; Il fuoco di Sant'Antonio è una malattia, certo! Ma quale Per noi Italiani è sicuramente l'Herpes zoster; ma è sempre stato così Ebbene, no!Sant'Antonio Abate aveva la fama di taumaturgo e guaritore già in vita, nonostante si fosse ritirato in un remoto deserto. Così, quando le sue spoglie arrivarono in Europa dopo l'anno Mille, tutti coloro che soffrivano di malattie dolorose e urenti, imploravano Sant'Antonio che li guarisse da quel 'fuoco' che li tormentava.Ma quali erano queste malattie così dolorose Le antiche cronache sono spesso troppo succinte o troppo romanzate per orientarci nella diagnosi ma erisipela, sifilide, ergotismo hanno fatto certamente buona compagnia allo zoster.L'ergotismo, soprattutto, era una malattia terrorizzante perché compariva ad ondate imprevedibili e, come la peste, colpiva i virtuosi come i viziosi, scardinando l'interpretazione allora dominante, del dolore come conseguenza del peccato. Come se non bastasse, l'ergotismo non solo provocava terribili sofferenze ma spesso anche stati di confusione mentale e di delirio che erano (questi sì!) sicuramente attribuiti al demonio.Bisogna aspettare il XVIII secolo e l'età dei Lumi per mandare in soffitta le superstizioni che infestavano la medicina ed allora l'ergotismo si rivela essere non più una maledizione ma una solo una malattia, un effetto del consumo di pane nero alloiatoLo studio degli allucinogeni e la scoperta dell'LSD nel XX secolo, mettono la parola fine all'interpretazione mistico-religiosa di alcune patologie e gettano inaspettatamente nuova luce su quello che fu il segreto meglio custodito dell'Antichità: il culto dei Misteri Eleusini.In questo libro, la storia del fuoco di Sant'Antonio di dipana dai racconti medioevali sino all'odierna virologia e suggerisce che la curiosità e la scienza sono l'unico antidoto contro la superstizione e il mistero.Un filo rosso unisce i Misteri Eleusini al Fuoco di Sant'Antonio: questo filo è l'LSD. La molecola è la stessa ma il contorno è molto diverso e, di sicuro, molto appassionante.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Die Geschichte des Bergbaus, das Leben der Bergleute, der Wandel der Harzer Industrielandschaft und die Entwicklung der Bergbautechnik werden in einem allgemeinen Teil ausführlich beschrieben. Ein regionaler Teil stellt die wichtigsten Harzer Bergbaureviere sowie deren Geschichte vor und unterbreitet zahlreiche Vorschläge für eigene Exkursionen. Informationen über alte Grubenreviere, Besucherbergwerke, Museen und sonstige Sehenswürdigkeiten, ein kleines bergmännisches ABC sowie eine Zusammenstellung der Eigenschaften und Erkennungsmerkmale der wichtigsten Erze und Gangartmineralien vervollständigen das mit zahlreichen historischen Fotografien, Zeichnungen und Stichen illustrierte Buch.Die Neuauflage enthält neben Aktualisierungen und Ergänzungen zu den verschiedenen Kapiteln, ein Schlagwortverzeichnis, zahlreiche neue Abbildungen sowie ein komplett überarbeitetes Layout.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 488 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems are widely used in the standards for digital audio/video broadcasting, WiFi and WiMax. Being a frequency-domain approach to communications, OFDM has important advantages in dealing with the frequency-selective nature of high data rate wireless communication channels. As the needs for operating with higher data rates become more pressing, OFDM systems have emerged as an effective physical-layer solution. This short monograph is intended as a tutorial which highlights the deleterious aspects of the wireless channel and presents why OFDM is a good choice as a modulation that can transmit at high data rates. The system-level approach we shall pursue will also point out the disadvantages of OFDM systems especially in the context of peak to average ratio, and carrier frequency synchronization. Finally, simulation of OFDM systems will be given due prominence. Simple MATLAB programs are provided for bit error rate simulation using a discrete-time OFDM representation. Software is also provided to simulate the effects of inter-block-interference, inter-carrier-interference and signal clipping on the error rate performance. Different components of the OFDM system are described, and detailed implementation notes are provided for the programs. The program can be downloaded here. Table of Contents: Introduction / Modeling Wireless Channels / Baseband OFDM System / Carrier Frequency Offset / Peak to Average Power Ratio / Simulation of the Performance of OFDM Systems / ConclusionsSpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Non-life insurance pricing is the art of setting the price of an insurance policy, taking into consideration varoius properties of the insured object and the policy holder. Introduced by British actuaries generalized linear models (GLMs) have become today a the standard aproach for tariff analysis.The book focuses on methods based on GLMs that have been found useful in actuarial practice and provides a set of tools for a tariff analysis. Basic theory of GLMs in a tariff analysis setting is presented with useful extensions of standarde GLM theory that are not in common use.The book meets the European Core Syllabus for actuarial education and is written for actuarial students as well as practicing actuaries. To support reader real data of some complexity are provided at math.su.se/GLMbook. 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Experience-centered design, experience-based design, experience design, designing for experience, user experience design. All of these terms have emerged and gained acceptance in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design relatively recently. In this book, we set out our understanding of experience-centered design as a humanistic approach to designing digital technologies and media that enhance lived experience. The book is divided into three sections. In Section 1, we outline the historical origins and basic concepts that led into and flow out from our understanding of experience as the heart of people's interactions with digital technology. In Section 2, we describe three examples of experience-centered projects and use them to illustrate and explain our dialogical approach. In Section 3, we recapitulate some of the main ideas and themes of the book and discuss the potential of experience-centered design to continue the humanist agenda by giving a voice to those whomight otherwise be excluded from design and by creating opportunities for people to enrich their lived experience with and through technology. Table of Contents: How Did We Get Here / Some Key Ideas Behind Experience-Centered Design / Making Sense of Experience in Experience-Centered Design / Experience-Centered Design as Dialogue / What do We Mean by Dialogue / Valuing Experience-Centered Design / Where Do We Go from Here Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 124 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -With the ever increasing volume of data, data quality problems abound. Multiple, yet different representations of the same real-world objects in data, duplicates, are one of the most intriguing data quality problems. The effects of such duplicates are detrimental; for instance, bank customers can obtain duplicate identities, inventory levels are monitored incorrectly, catalogs are mailed multiple times to the same household, etc. Automatically detecting duplicates is difficult: First, duplicate representations are usually not identical but slightly differ in their values. Second, in principle all pairs of records should be compared, which is infeasible for large volumes of data. This lecture examines closely the two main components to overcome these difficulties: (i) Similarity measures are used to automatically identify duplicates when comparing two records. Well-chosen similarity measures improve the effectiveness of duplicate detection. (ii) Algorithms are developed to perform on very large volumes of data in search for duplicates. Well-designed algorithms improve the efficiency of duplicate detection. Finally, we discuss methods to evaluate the success of duplicate detection. Table of Contents: Data Cleansing: Introduction and Motivation / Problem Definition / Similarity Functions / Duplicate Detection Algorithms / Evaluating Detection Success / Conclusion and Outlook / BibliographySpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Evaluating biomedical technology poses a significant challenge in light of the complexity and rate of introduction in today's healthcare delivery system. Successful evaluation requires an integration of clinical medicine, science, finance, and market analysis. Little guidance, however, exists for those who must conduct comprehensive technology evaluations. The 3Q Method meets these present day needs. The 3Q Method is organized around 3 key questions dealing with 1) clinical and scientific basis, 2) financial fit and 3) strategic and expertise fit. Both healthcare providers (e.g., hospitals) and medical industry providers can use the Method to evaluate medical devices, information systems and work processes from their own perspectives. The book describes the 3Q Method in detail and provides additional suggestions for optimal presentation and report preparation. Table of Contents: Introduction / Question #1: Is It Real / Question #2: Can We Win / Question #3: Is It Worth It / 3Q CaseStudy Example -- Pershing Medical Company / Appendix A: Health Care Technology Assessment Sample Class Syllabus / Appendix B: How do Hospitals and Clinicians Get Paid / Appendix C: Technology Assessment PowerPoint Report Guidelines / Appendix D: Class Report Scenario Example / Appendix E: Four-Blocker Slide Templates for 3Q ReportsSpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 104 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In his In the blink of an eye, Walter Murch, the Oscar-awarded editor of The English Patient, Apocalypse Now, and many other outstanding movies, devises the Rule of Six -- six criteria for what makes a good cut. On top of his list is 'to be true to the emotion of the moment,' a quality more important than advancing the story or being rhythmically interesting. The cut has to deliver a meaningful, compelling, and emotion-rich 'experience' to the audience. Because, 'what they finally remember is not the editing, not the camerawork, not the performances, not even the story---it's how they felt.' Technology for all the right reasons applies this insight to the design of interactive products and technologies -- the domain of Human-Computer Interaction, Usability Engineering, and Interaction Design. It takes an experiential approach, putting experience before functionality and leaving behind oversimplified calls for ease, efficiency, and automation or shallow beautification. Instead, it explores what really matters to humans and what it needs to make technology more meaningful. The book clarifies what experience is, and highlights five crucial aspects and their implications for the design of interactive products. It provides reasons why we should bother with an experiential approach, and presents a detailed working model of experience useful for practitioners and academics alike. It closes with the particular challenges of an experiential approach for design. The book presents its view as a comprehensive, yet entertaining blend of scientific findings, design examples, and personal anecdotes. Table of Contents: Follow me! / Crucial Properties of Experience / Three Good Reasons to Consider Experience / A Model of Experience / Reflections on Experience DesignSpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) is a new type of transmission line. It implements a waveguide on a piece of printed circuit board by emulating the side walls of the waveguide using two rows of metal posts. It inherits the merits both from the microstrip for compact size and easy integration, and from the waveguide for low radiation loss, and thus opens another door to design efficient microwave circuits and antennas at a low cost. This book presents a two-dimensional fullwave analysis method to investigate an SIW circuit composed of metal and dielectric posts. It combines the cylindrical eigenfunction expansion and the method of moments to avoid geometrical descritization of the posts. The method is presented step-by-step, with all the necessary formulations provided for a practitioner who wants to implement this method by himself. This book covers the SIW circuit printed on either homogeneous or inhomogeneous substrate, the microstrip-to-SIW transition and the speed-up techniquefor the simulation of symmetrical SIW circuits. Different types of SIW circuits are shown and simulated using the proposed method. In addition, several slot antennas and horn antennas fabricated using the SIW technology are also given. Table of Contents: Introduction / SIW Circuits Composed of Metallic Posts / SIW Circuits with Dielectric Posts / Even-Odd Mode Analysis of a Symmetrical Circuit / Microstrip to SIW Transition and Half Mode SIW / SIW AntennasSpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 96 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book describes several modules of the Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) algorithm. The authors use the Federal Standard-1016 CELP MATLAB® software to describe in detail several functions and parameter computations associated with analysis-by-synthesis linear prediction. The book begins with a description of the basics of linear prediction followed by an overview of the FS-1016 CELP algorithm. Subsequent chapters describe the various modules of the CELP algorithm in detail. In each chapter, an overall functional description of CELP modules is provided along with detailed illustrations of their MATLAB® implementation. Several code examples and plots are provided to highlight some of the key CELP concepts. Link to MATLAB® code found within the book Table of Contents: Introduction to Linear Predictive Coding / Autocorrelation Analysis and Linear Prediction / Line Spectral Frequency Computation / Spectral Distortion / The Codebook Search / The FS-1016 DecoderSpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware 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 -Of all the many things we can look at in the night sky, the Moon is one of the richest in its ever-changing detail, as changes in light and shadow daily transform what you can see of every feature. Whether you use binoculars, a small telescope or a large one,you will find the Moon offers new horizons rich in exploration opportunities.Moonwalk with Your Eyes guides the reader quickly through lunar basics: how to determine the lunar day and what lunar terminology you might encounter here and in other books. From there yoüll be taken on a guided visual journey that encompasses what can be seen at any given time for all levels of observers.Moonwalk with Your Eyes features high-quality annotated photographs and solid background information to help the reader understand many lunar phenomena. Here is a guide that allows those who simply gaze at the Moon to find a deeper appreciation of it; for those who use binoculars and small telescopes, this is a comprehensive guide to identifying what can be seen; and advanced observers will be challenged with a rare quality look at areas of the Moon that are not covered by other lunar guide books.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 372 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Part of Tsinghua University Texts, Financial Strategies for the Manager includes a range of financial management issues such as financial statement analysis, a systematic approach to financial performance appraisal, liquidity management and sales growth, working capital management, budgeting, foreign exchange and interest rate risk management, and a most useful tool not normally understood ¿ EVA. The book is written in a concise and accessible style, minimizing the use of the technical jargon and complicated mathematical formulae. Included exercises enhance student learning and examples bolster ability to understand and use concepts in day-to-day situations. The material was originally developed for a large corporate client in the telecommunications business to assist non-financial managers in understanding financial theories in a practical way. It was expanded and revised into a text for a post-graduate course of the Asia/Pacific Management Co-operative Program, Capilano University, BC, Canada. Charles Priester is a professor at Capilano University of Canada; Jincheng Wang is a professor at the International Business School of Tianjin Foreign Studies University of China.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -There are five different types of eye movements: saccades, smooth pursuit, vestibular ocular eye movements, optokinetic eye movements, and vergence eye movements. The purpose of this book is focused primarily on mathematical models of the horizontal saccadic eye movement system and the smooth pursuit system, rather than on how visual information is processed. A saccade is a fast eye movement used to acquire a target by placing the image of the target on the fovea. Smooth pursuit is a slow eye movement used to track a target as it moves by keeping the target on the fovea. The vestibular ocular movement is used to keep the eyes on a target during brief head movements. The optokinetic eye movement is a combination of saccadic and slow eye movements that keeps a full-field image stable on the retina during sustained head rotation. Each of these movements is a conjugate eye movement, that is, movements of both eyes together driven by a common neural source. A vergence movement is a non-conjugate eye movement allowing the eyes to track targets as they come closer or farther away. In this book, early models of saccades and smooth pursuit are presented. The smooth pursuit system allows tracking of a slow moving target to maintain its position on the fovea. Models of the smooth pursuit have been developed using systems control theory, all involving a negative feedback control system that includes a time delay, controller and plant in the forward loop, with unity feedback. The oculomotor plant and saccade generator are the basic elements of the saccadic system. The oculomotor plant consists of three muscle pairs and the eyeball. A number of oculomotor plant models are described here beginning with the Westheimer model published in 1954, and up through our 1995 model involving a 4$^{th}$ order oculomotor plant model. The work presented here is not an exhaustive coverage of the field, but focused on the interests of the author. In Part II, a state-of-art model of the saccade system is presented, including a neural network that controls the system. Table of Contents: Introduction / Smooth Pursuit Models / Early Models of the Horizontal Saccadic Eye Movement System / Velocity and Acceleration Estimation / 1995 Linear Homeomorphic Saccadic Eye Movement ModelSpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -There are five different types of eye movements: saccades, smooth pursuit, vestibular ocular eye movements, optokinetic eye movements, and vergence eye movements. The purpose of this book is focused primarily on mathematical models of the horizontal saccadic eye movement system and the smooth pursuit system, rather than on how visual information is processed. A saccade is a fast eye movement used to acquire a target by placing the image of the target on the fovea. Smooth pursuit is a slow eye movement used to track a target as it moves by keeping the target on the fovea. The vestibular ocular movement is used to keep the eyes on a target during brief head movements. The optokinetic eye movement is a combination of saccadic and slow eye movements that keeps a full-field image stable on the retina during sustained head rotation. Each of these movements is a conjugate eye movement, that is, movements of both eyes together driven by a common neural source. A vergence movement is a non-conjugate eye movement allowing the eyes to track targets as they come closer or farther away. In this book, a 2009 version of a state-of-the-art model is presented for horizontal saccades that is 3rd-order and linear, and controlled by a physiologically based time-optimal neural network. The oculomotor plant and saccade generator are the basic elements of the saccadic system. The control of saccades is initiated by the superior colliculus and terminated by the cerebellar fastigial nucleus, and involves a complex neural circuit in the mid brain. This book is the second part of a book series on models of horizontal eye movements. Table of Contents: 2009 Linear Homeomorphic Saccadic Eye Movement Model and Post-Saccade Behavior: Dynamic and Glissadic Overshoot / Neural Network for the Saccade ControllerSpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Invited Talks.- A Structure for Dependability Arguments.- Formal Probabilistic Analysis: A Higher-Order Logic Based Approach.- ASM Papers.- Synchronous Message Passing and Semaphores: An Equivalence Proof.- AsmL-Based Concurrency Semantic Variations for Timed Use Case Maps.- Bârun: A Scripting Language for CoreASM.- AsmetaSMV: A Way to Link High-Level ASM Models to Low-Level NuSMV Specifications.- An Executable Semantics of the SystemC UML Profile.- Alloy Papers.- Specifying Self-configurable Component-Based Systems with FracToy.- Trace Specifications in Alloy.- An Imperative Extension to Alloy.- Towards Formalizing Network Architectural Descriptions.- Lightweight Modeling of Java Virtual Machine Security Constraints.- Alloy+HotCore: A Fast Approximation to Unsat Core.- B Papers.- Supporting Reuse in Event B Development: Modularisation Approach.- Reasoned Modelling Critics: Turning Failed Proofs into Modelling Guidance.- Applying the B Method for the Rigorous Development of Smart Card Applications.- Automatic Verification for a Class of Proof Obligations with SMT-Solvers.- A Refinement-Based Correctness Proof of Symmetry Reduced Model Checking.- Development of a Synchronous Subset of AADL.- Matelas: A Predicate Calculus Common Formal Definition for Social Networking.- Structured Event-B Models and Proofs.- Refinement-Animation for Event-B - Towards a Method of Validation.- Reactivising Classical B.- Event-B Decomposition for Parallel Programs.- Z Papers.- Communication Systems in ClawZ.- Formalising and Validating RBAC-to-XACML Translation Using Lightweight Formal Methods.- Towards Formally Templated Relational Database Representations in Z.- Translating Z to Alloy.- ABZ Short Papers (Abstracts).- B-ASM: Specification of ASM à la B.- A Case for Using Data-FlowAnalysis to Optimize Incremental Scope-Bounded Checking.- On the Modelling and Analysis of Amazon Web Services Access Policies.- Architecture as an Independent Variable for Aspect-Oriented Application Descriptions.- ParAlloy: Towards a Framework for Efficient Parallel Analysis of Alloy Models.- Introducing Specification-Based Data Structure Repair Using Alloy.- Secrecy UML Method for Model Transformations.- Improving Traceability between KAOS Requirements Models and B Specifications.- Code Synthesis for Timed Automata: A Comparison Using Case Study.- Towards Validation of Requirements Models.- A Proof Based Approach for Formal Verification of Transactional BPEL Web Services.- On an Extensible Rule-Based Prover for Event-B.- B Model Abstraction Combining Syntactic and Semantic Methods.- A Basis for Feature-Oriented Modelling in Event-B.- Using Event-B to Verify the Kmelia Components and Their Assemblies.- Starting B Specifications from Use Cases.- Integrating SMT-Solvers in Z and B Tools.- Formal Analysis in Model Management: Exploiting the Power of CZT.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 432 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -ThisbookpresentsselectedandrevisedpapersoftheSecondWorkshoponAd- tive and Learning Agents 2009 (ALA-09), held at the AAMAS 2009 conference in Budapest, Hungary, May 12. The goalof ALA is to provide an interdisciplinaryforum for scientists from a variety of elds such as computer science, biology, game theory and economics. This year¿s edition of ALA was the second after the merger of the former wo- shops ALAMAS and ALAg. In 2008 this joint workshop was organized for the rst time under the ag of both events. ALAMAS was a yearly returning Eu- pean workshop on adaptive and learning agents and multi-agent systems (held eight times). ALAg was the international workshop on adaptive and learning agents, which was usually held at AAMAS. To increase the strength, visibility and quality of the workshop it was decided to merge both workshops under the ag of ALA and to set up a Steering Committee as an organizational backbone. This book contains six papers presented during the workshop, which were carefully selected after an additional review round in the summer of 2009. We therefore wish to explicitly thank the members of the Program Committee for the quality and sincerity of their e orts and service. Furthermore we would like to thank all the members of the senior Steering Committee for making this workshop possible and supporting it with sound advice. We also thank the AAMAS conference for providing us a platform for holding this event. Finally we also wish to thank all authors who responded to our call-for-papers with interesting contributions.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 152 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The study of permutation complexity can be envisioned as a new kind of symbolic dynamics whose basic blocks are ordinal patterns, that is, permutations defined by the order relations among points in the orbits of dynamical systems.Since its inception in 2002 the concept of permutation entropy has sparked a new branch of research in particular regarding the time series analysis of dynamical systems that capitalizes on the order structure of the state space. Indeed, on one hand ordinal patterns and periodic points are closely related, yet ordinal patterns are amenable to numerical methods, while periodicity is not.Another interesting feature is that since it can be shown that random (unconstrained) dynamics has no forbidden patterns with probability one, their existence can be used as a fingerprint to identify any deterministic origin of orbit generation.This book is primarily addressed to researchers working in the field of nonlinear dynamics and complex systems, yet will also be suitable for graduate students interested in these subjects. The presentation is a compromise between mathematical rigor and pedagogical approach. Accordingly, some of the more mathematical background needed for more in depth understanding has been shifted into the appendices.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 268 pp. Englisch.