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View book details for Economics and Social Conflict
Evil Actions and Evil Social Institutions in Virtual Worlds
This book brings to life the classic thought experiment of a natural state. Provides data on the economic aspects of social conflict of 400.000 people living in a virtual anarchy; showing evil actions and rules exist from an economic perspective. …
Intimacy and Friendship on Facebook theorises the impact of Facebook on our social lives through the lens of intimacy. Lambert constructs an original understanding of why people welcome public intimacy on Facebook and how they attempt to control it, asking …
View book details for Ressourceneffizientes Wirtschaften
Management der Materialflusse als Herausforderung fur Politik und Unternehmen
Die sparsame und effiziente Nutzung von Rohstoffen gilt als Schlusselelement fur eine auf Nachhaltigkeit ausgerichtete Wachstums- und Beschaftigungspolitik in Europa. Der vernunftige Umgang mit Ressourcen gilt auch als entscheidender Faktor fur die Steigerung der Produktivitat von Unternehmen und damit der …
The book reports on a new methodology for optimization and evaluation of traffic safety, which simulates the processes involved in traffic conflicts on the basis of detailed dynamical, human, and technical models. The models incorporate the whole spectrum of human …
View book details for The Public Debt Problem
A Comprehensive Guide
The European public debt problem was in the making long before the 2007-2009 recession, as budget deficits had become endemic. A similar crisis is now developing in America, where the same fundamental causes have been at work. The Public Debt …
This book studies the structural, magnetic and electronic properties of, as well as magnetic excitations in, high-temperature BaFe2-xNixAs2 superconductors using neutron diffraction and neutron spectroscopic methods. It describes the precise determination of the phase diagram of BaFe2-xNixAs2, which demonstrates strong …
View book details for Faster than Nyquist Signaling
Algorithms to Silicon
This book addresses the challenges and design trade-offs arising during the hardware design of Faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling transceivers. The authors describe how to design for coexistence between the FTN system described and Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, enabling readers to …
View book details for The Lost Leaders
How Corporate America Loses Women Leaders
The Lost Leaders presents the personal stories of women who achieved success in corporate leadership, but have chosen to abandon their careers, providing a fascinating glimpse of the culture that exists in the contemporary corporation.
This thesis studies the impact of food processing on the stability and antioxidant capacity of anthocyanins in aqueous and real food systems. It investigates the effects of temperature and pH on the stability and antioxidant capacity of anthocyanins in aqueous …
View book details for Transnational Entrepreneurship in South East Asia
Japanese Self-Initiated Expatriate Entrepreneurs
This open access book brings together narratives of inbound and outbound expatriate entrepreneurship in Japan to provide a comprehensive overview of international entrepreneurship in the region. Through in-depth interviews with expatriate entrepreneurs, policymakers, and additional stakeholders it provides the reader …
View book details for Digital Technology and Organizational Change
Reshaping Technology, People, and Organizations Towards a Global Society
This book includes a selection of the best research papers presented at the annual conference of the Italian chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), which took place in Verona, Italy in October 2016. Tracing various aspects of the …
Through an investigation on how Palestinian youth appropriate low-end information and communication technologies (ICTs) and digital media forms, Sanjay Asthana and Nishan Havandjian analyze how certain developments in globalization and media convergence enable young people to create new civic spaces.
The most feared attribute of the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae is its ability to cause outbreaks that spread like wildfire, completely overwhelming public health systems and causing widespread suffering and death. This volume starts with a description of the contrasting …
View book details for Pain Management
Essential Topics for Examinations
Pain management is a vast subject and is changing rapidly. Finding a good resource for learning, however, is difficult. This book covers the entire curriculum relating to pain management and will make it easy to learn all aspects of the …
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A Commodore 64 Retrospective
How did the Commodore 64 conquer the hearts of millions and become a platform people still actively develop for even today? What made it so special?This book will appeal to both those who like tinkering with old technology as a …
View book details for Emerging Issues in Green Criminology
Exploring Power, Justice and Harm
This edited collection brings together internationally renowned scholars to explore green criminology through the interdisciplinary lenses of power, harm and justice. The chapters provide innovative case study analyses from around the world that seek to advance theoretical, policy and practice …
View book details for The Integration Imperative
Cumulative Environmental, Community and Health Effects of Multiple Natural Resource Developments
The purpose of this work is to develop a better understanding and thinking about the cumulative impacts of multiple natural resource development projects. Cumulative impacts are now one of the most pressing, but complex challenges facing governments, industry, communities, and …
This book brings together selected peer-reviewed contributions from various research fields in statistics, and highlights the diverse approaches and analyses related to real-life phenomena. Major topics covered in this volume include, but are not limited to, bayesian inference, likelihood approach, …
This thesis describes a new approach to the construction of solar cells. Following nature's example, this approach has the goal to find a biomimetic self-assembling dye, whose aggregates can mimic the natural light-harvesting system of special photosynthetic active bacteria. The …
This book explores the phenomenon of the story paper, the meanings and values children took from their reading, and the responses of adults to their reading choices. It argues for the revaluing of the story paper in the inter-war years, …
Pro Office 365 Development, Second Edition, is a practical, hands-on guide to building applications for the cloud with Office 365. Combine Office 365 features out of the box with custom code to make the most of what this increasingly powerful …
View book details for Excel 2010 for Biological and Life Sciences Statistics
A Guide to Solving Practical Problems
This is the first book to show the capabilities of Microsoft Excel to teach biological and life sciences statistics effectively. It is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical science problems. …
View book details for The Perception of Quality
Mapping Product and Service Quality to Consumer Perceptions
Exploring the concept of quality management from a new point of view, this book presents a holistic model of how consumers judge the quality of products. It links consumer perceptions of quality to the design and delivery of the final …
Ein Vierteljahrhundert nach der (Wieder-)Grundung von Sachsen-Anhalt bietet der Band eine umfangreiche Analyse der Entwicklung des Landes seit 1990 und, sofern dies beim jeweiligen Thema moglich ist, einen Vergleich mit anderen (ostdeutschen) Bundeslandern. Das interdisziplinar zusammengesetzte Autorenteam beschaftigt sich mit …
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Negritude und Negrismo weitergedacht
Den 100ten Geburtstag von Aime Cesaire, einem der Vordenker der weltumspannenden Bewegung der Negritude, im Jahr 2013 nahmen die Beitrager dieses Bandes zum Anlass, die neuen Ideen eines Vivre ensemble von den Antillen bis zu den Hispanics in den USA, …
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