BOOKS with Alphabet S (Sa, Sb,Sc, Sd, Se…... )

Overview: This year marks the third edition of EuroSSC. It builds on the success of the past editions, held in Enschede, The Netherlands in 2006, and in Kendal, UK in 2007. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like to welcome you to EuroSSC 2008, in Zurich, Switerland. This volume contains the invited papers and technical peer-reviewed papers selected for presentation at the conference. At EuroSSC we aim to explore technologies, algorithms, architectures, p- tocols, and user aspects underlying context-aware smart surroundings, coop- ating intelligent objects, and their applications.

Overview: Will be of interest to researchers examining the implications that neuroscience has for legal questions.Presents a novel exploration of the constitutionality of neuroimaging of certain mental activityThis book examines the ethical and legal challenges presented by modern techniques of memory retrieval, especially within the context of potential use by the US government in courts of law. Specifically, Marc Blitz discusses the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and the?Fifth Amendment‘s self-incrimination clause. He also argues that we should pay close attenti

Overview: In this volume, the shock compression technology of materials is described in parallel with the latest research results and their background. In the past, this type of technology was developed in connection with military techniques by certain particular research organizations. For this reason, researchers of materials in general have had less opportunity to make use of the technology. The conventional technology of shock compression has now been established, and is recognized as being remarkably useful as a means of materials science study. The feasibility of shock compression techno

Overview: Provides insight into the influence of the built environment on the available solar energy in the implementation location.Presents the specific requirements on solar energy conversion systems (photovo.This book focuses on solar energy conversion systems that can be implemented in the built environment, at building or at community level.?The quest for developing a sustainable built environment asks for specific solutions to provide clean energy based on renewable sources, and solar energy is considered one of the cleanest available energy on Earth.?The specific issues raised by the im

Overview: Over the past decade the study of the formation and properties of interstellar grains has assumed a growing importance, going much beyond what might have been guessed only a few years ago. It has come to be understood that grains playa role in processes other than the simple absorption and scattering of starlight, which was all that the astronomers of a generation aga considered to be their relevance. Grains indeed playa critical role in controlling the temperature, composition, and states of aggregation of the whole interstellar medium. Among the still mysterious problems is the ori

Overview: Statistics is the activity of inferring results about a population given a sample. Historically, statistics books assume an underlying distribution to the data (typically, the normal distribution) and derive results under that assumption. Unfortunately, in real life, one cannot normally be sure of the underlying distribution. For that reason, this book presents a distribution-independent approach to statistics based on a simple computational counting idea called resampling. This book explains the basic concepts of resampling, then systematically presents the standard statistical meas

Overview: This volume seeks to trace certain tendencies and developments in social policy in Western Europe and the United States. In the first, which is general, Professor Girod recalls the objectives of social policy as well as offering a number of scenarios or strategies for the future of social policy. The social policy philosophy of Schumpeter, Hayek and R?pke, and their current vitality, are traced by Professor de Luabier. Professor Delcourt, in his chapter on Social Policy - crisis or mutation?, presents a critical analysis of various trends in social policy and in particular the elitis

Overview: 978-3-531-11067-7978-3-322-84242-8

Overview: Provides an introduction to uncertainty visualization, multi field visualization, biomedical visualization and scalable visualization.Provides in-depth examples of each of these topics and the mathema.Based on the seminar that took place in Dagstuhl, Germany in June 2011, this contributed volume studies the four important topics within the scientific visualization field: uncertainty visualization, multifield visualization, biomedical visualization and scalable visualization. .? Uncertainty visualization deals with uncertain data from simulations or sampled data, uncertainty due to th

Overview: 978-3-409-97032-7978-3-322-86205-1

Overview: Focuses on socioeconomic environmental policies and evaluations in regional science.Covers a wide range of regional science approaches, theory, policy, evaluation, modeling, simulation, and practice.I.This book is a volume of essays celebrating the life and work of Yoshiro Higano, professor of Environmental Policy, Doctoral Program in Sustainable Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan. Prof. Higano’s research strongly focuses on the comprehensive evaluation of resources and research content for decision science and engi

Overview: Combines the new formulae for mobility connectivity, redundancy and over constraints, and the evolutionary morphology in a unified approach of structural synthesis giving interesting innovative soluti.This book represents the fifth part of a larger work dedicated to the structural synthesis of parallel robots. The originality of this work resides in the fact that it combines new formulae for mobility, connectivity, redundancy and overconstraints with evolutionary morphology in a unified structural synthesis approach that yields interesting and innovative solutions for parallel roboti

Overview: Provides a holistic and practical approach to managing supply chains risks.Features case studies from various industries including automotive, aviation, airport, and healthcare.Presents a new framewor.This book provides a holistic and practical approach to managing supply chains risks and presents a new framework model for sustainable optimization of risk management. This framework includes supportive tools for risk mapping and strategic decision-making. Managers can apply tailored versions of this framework for the management process of their respective sector.?.The authors provide

Overview: Das derzeitige Steuersystem erm?glicht Anlagestrategien, durch die Steuerzahlungen minimiert werden k?nnen. Banken k?nnen durch innovative Produkte diese Strategien erm?glichen oder erleichtern und dabei selbst einen Teil des Steuervorteils absch?pfen. Derartige Steuerarbitragestrategien werden in dem vorliegenden Buch systematisch untersucht. Im Rahmen eines State-preference-Ansatzes wird gezeigt, da? es bei dem derzeitigen Einkommensteuersystem wegen der unsystematischen Behandlung von Zins-, Dividendenzahlungen und Wertsteigerungen Arbitragem?glichkeiten geben mu?. Der Gesetzgeber

Overview: Includes interdisciplinary epistemologies and their convergences that highlight the complex nature of consciousness.Explores the self in the context of culture and philosophical traditions.Provides na.This volume brings together the primary challenges for 21.st. century cognitive sciences and cultural neuroscience in responding to the nature of human identity, self, and evolution of life itself. Through chapters devoted to intricate but focused models, empirical findings, theories, and experiential data, the contributors reflect upon the most exciting possibilities, and debate upon t

Overview: Von allen relevanten Gesellschaften empfohlene Leitlinie.Klare Handlungsanweisung.Evidenzbasiert und verl?sslich.Includes supplementary material: Die .S3-Leitlinie Diagnostik und Behandlung der Essst?rungen. wurde in Kooperation mit allen relevanten Fachgesellschaften unter der Federführung der DGPM (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychosomatische Medizin und ?rztliche Psychotherapie e.V.) und DKPM (Deutsches Kollegium für Psychosomatische Medizin) ausgearbeitet. Sie gibt allen angesprochenen ?rzten und Therapeuten klare Handlungsanweisungen.978-3-642-21442-4

Overview: Die Untersuchung rekonstruiert systematisch die unterschiedlichen Str?nge der aktuellen steuerungstheoretischen Diskussion. Resultat ist ein integratives und modular strukturiertes Theorie- und Erkl?rungsmodell, das als begrifflicher Rahmen für die Erarbeitung einer empirischen Theorie soziopolitischer Steuerung verwendet werden kann. Gleichzeitig wird es m?glich, problemspezifische steuerungstheoretische Teilkonzepte auf der Grundlage einer einheitlichen theoretischen Plattform zu verwenden.978-3-8100-2568-5978-3-663-11509-0

Overview: A new field of research in family sociology is being opened up.Renowned family and organizational/corporate sociologists reflect on the entrepreneur‘s family.Stimulating basics on a high socio-scienti.The entrepreneurial family has hardly been a topic of family sociology so far. Precisely because more than two-thirds of all companies are family-run, it is surprising that sociology has not yet discovered the entrepreneurial family as a field of research. With this book, it is made the content of systematic family sociological reflections..A central point of departure for theorizing an

Overview: 978-3-540-38244-7Series ISSN 0081-3869 Series E-ISSN 1615-0430

Overview: Kampf um den richtigen Weg:.Sozialdemokratie zwischen Reformpolitik und W?hlergunstIn der politikwissenschaftlichen Forschung ist die machtstiftende Rolle, die ?ffentliche Diskurse im Durchsetzungsprozess politischer Agenden spielen, in den letzten Jahren zunehmend aufgewertet worden. Die überzeugungskraft ?ffentlicher Reformdiskurse wird nunmehr als zentrale politische Ressource betrachtet, Reformen zu legitimieren, institutionelle Hürden zu überwinden und organisierte Interessen einzubinden. In diesem Buch werden Reformdiskurse dreier sozialdemokratisch geführter Regierungen – Gro?