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Overview: Most catalysts used in the chemical and petrochemical indus- tries are strongly affected by one or another form of deactivation, leading to poor performances and reduced life. The increasing num- ber of scientific communications devoted to the subject in recent years, and culminating with an International Symposium held in Antwerp in October 1980, is a measure of the interest it arouses in both the industrial and academic communities. A stage has been reached whereby it was thought that a NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Catalyst Deactivation" might be fruit ful in establishing the

Overview: Argues that a new ‘commercial democracy’ is emerging, politicising promotional culture in new ways.Explores today’s media landscape in the context of a changing democracy within neoliberal capitalism.This book argues that we are witnessing the emergence of ‘commercial democracy’ in which public relations, promotional culture and the media play a new, central role. As the conventional democratic promise of political representation loses traction with the public in many countries, commercial culture steps into this vacuum by offering mirror forms of democracy. Commercial democracy prom

Overview: The only one providing a state-of-the art account of current knowledge of plant respiration.Produced by leaders in the field of plant respiration research.Covering the most recent information on respi.Respiration in plants, as in all living organisms, is essential to provide metabolic energy and carbon skeletons for growth and maintenance. As such, respiration is an essential component of a plant’s carbon budget. Depending on species and environmental conditions, it consumes 25-75% of all the carbohydrates produced in photosynthesis – even more at extremely slow growth rates. Respira

Overview: .This book aims to teach you everything you need to know to build, install, and configure every aspect of Apache, the world‘s most popular Web server...Two versions of Apache are available as of this book‘s publication. Apache 1.3 is still widely used and is continuously updated. Apache 2 offers new and powerful features, such as multi-processsing modules and filters, as well as a revised and expanded build system for compiling Apache from source. This book comprehensively covers both server versions, presenting up-to-date information and examples, and highlighting variations bettwee

Overview: Celebrates the intellectual contributions of Gordon Tullock and Nobel Prize-winning James M. Buchanan to the fields of economics and political science.Features contributions from today’s most distinguIn 1962, economists James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock published The Calculus of Consent, in which they developed the principles of public choice theory.? In the fifty years since its publication, the book has defined the field and set the standard for research and analysis.? To celebrate a half-century of scholarship in public choice, Dwight Lee has assembled distinguished academics f

Overview: Fully revised and updated 2nd edition.Covers all major tropical ecosystems from tropical forests to savannas, salinas, inselbergs and páramos.Includes supplementary material: .In spite of international agreements at the political level not much has changed since the late 1980s in terms of reducing the speed of destruction of original tropical environments...However, since the publication of the first edition ten years ago, international research efforts in physiological ecology of plants in the tropics has increased enormously in quantity and quality. In some fields advances were mor

Overview: A valuable learning tool, to facilitate identifying patterns and stars in the sky.In most cases, the minimum equipment needed for observing these is just binoculars, or at most a low-power telescope.L.Since the very beginning of astronomy, people have looked up sky and constructed patterns – the constellations – out of the almost random scattering of stars in the night sky. The fact that the constellations are still used to day reflects not their historical origins, but their usefulness in identifying bright stars in the rotating dome of the sky. Most people (and all astronomers) are

Overview: Educates clinicians in the field of pediatric cochlear implantation as to the current and emerging best practices.Expands upon the current literature regarding the role of cognition and executive func.This book will move the field of pediatric cochlear implantation forward by educating clinicians in the field as to current and emerging best practices and inspiring research in new areas of importance, including the relationship between cognitive processing and pediatric cochlear implant outcomes. The book discusses communication practices, including sign language for deaf children wit

Overview: Eine wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Studie.Includes supplementary material: Am Beispiel der Absicherung des Wildschadens untersucht Thomas Zwack, inwieweit eine Abkehr von der klassischen Beziehung zwischen Versichertem und Versicherer auf Basis eines bilateralen Vertrags zwischen Privatpersonen neue M?rkte er?ffnen kann und mit neuartigen P2P-Gesch?ftsmodellen bislang nicht-versicherbare Risiken abgesichert werden k?nnen. Die Community of Practice ist dabei zentrales Element des Gesch?ftsmodells und erm?glicht die Schadenpr?vention und Absicherung. Durch Variationen in Struktur, Bezie

Overview: Is self-contained and easily accessible including introductory chapters on the preferential voting.Presents a comprehensive and up-to-date treatise of the area of preferential voting.Elaborates on the.This book presents the theory and application of the models presented in this regard and establishes a meaningful relationship between data envelopment analysis and multi-attribute decision making. The issue of "choice" using the aggregation of voters‘ votes is one of the most important group decision-making issues that are always considered by decision makers in electoral systems. Voti

Overview: The only monograph on this important class of detectors.Treats not only the working principles but all current applications in science and technology in great detailPixel detectors are a particularly important class of particle and radiation detection devices. They have an extremely broad spectrum of applications, ranging from high-energy physics to the photo cameras of everyday life. This book is a general purpose introduction into the fundamental principles of pixel detector technology and semiconductor-based hybrid pixel devices. Although these devices were developed for high-ener

Overview: Pragmatic Power is focused on just three aspects of the AC electrical power system that supplies and moves the vast majority of electrical energy nearly everywhere in the world: three-phase power systems, transformers, and induction motors. The reader needs to have had an introduction to electrical circuits and AC power, although the text begins with a review of the basics of AC power. Balanced three-phase systems are studied by developing their single-phase equivalents. The study includes a look at how the cost of ""power"" is affected by reactive power and power factor. Transformer

Overview: Provides a survey of IoT assessment and evaluation approaches.Covers new and innovative operational ideas that apply to the IoT industry and the industries it affects.Includes chapters from researcher.This book discusses the challenges in the convergence of technologies as the Internet of Things (IoT) evolves. These include sensing, computing, information processing, networking, and controlling intelligent technologies. The contributors first provide a survey of various assessment ?and evaluation approaches available for successful convergence. They then go on to cover several operat

Overview: Adds the Nordic perspective on school violence to the international debate.Illustrates changes in policies and attitudes of how to handle youths showing “unruly behaviour”.Includes cases studies about.This book examines the global phenomenon of school violence and its wide range of behaviours, from school shootings to minor theft, bullying and sexual harassment. Studying the Nordic countries and taking Sweden as an example and case study, the book discusses key features of sexuality, bullying and cyberbullying, radicalization, and violent extremism. It examines different approaches t

Overview: Includes refereed original research results.Features a combination of analysis and probability.Covers hot topics from probability-based statistical mechanics.This Festschrift on the occasion of the 75th birthday of S.R.S. Varadhan, one of the most influential researchers in probability of the last fifty years, grew out of a workshop held at the Technical University of Berlin, 15–19 August, 2016. This volume contains ten research articles authored by several of Varadhan‘s former PhD students or close collaborators. The topics of the contributions are more or less closely linked with s

Overview: 978-3-531-03080-7978-3-322-87695-9

Overview: Contributes to an understanding of the economy and society in the global south due to increasing informality and precarious forms of work.Provide a rich ethnography of social institutions of trust, fa.An empirical account of one of India’s largest indigenous populations, this book tells the story of the Gonds—who currently face displacement and governmental control of the region’s forests, which has crippled their economy. Rather than protesting and calling for state intervention, the Gonds have turned toward an informal economy: they not only engage with flexible forms of work, but

Overview: Presents some attractive results on the cutting-edge modeling on uncertain decision-making in the field of intelligent transportation and logistics with big data.Illustrates some valuable practical caThese proceedings focus on selected aspects of the current and upcoming trends in transportation, logistics, supply chain management, and decision sciences. In detail the included scientific papers analyze the problem of Decision Making under Uncertainty, Stochastic Optimization, Transportation, Logistics and Intelligent Business. The variety of the papers delivers added value for both s

Overview: 978-3-7985-0661-9978-3-642-85348-7

Overview: 978-1-4684-7558-6978-1-4684-7556-2