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The recent trend in user-customized product design requires the shape of products to be automatically adjusted according to the human bodys shape, so that people will feel more comfortable when wearing these products. Geometric approaches can be used to design …
View book details for Privacy in a Digital, Networked World
Technologies, Implications and Solutions
This comprehensive textbook/reference presents a focused review of the state of the art in privacy research, encompassing a range of diverse topics. The first book of its kind designed specifically to cater to courses on privacy, this authoritative volume provides …
View book details for The Manipulation of Choice
Ethics and Libertarian Paternalism
This timely book makes a forceful argument that the analyses from behavioral economists are incomplete, the policies advocated by libertarian paternalists are misguided and unethical, and both actually reinforce the cognitive biases and dysfunctions that motivate 'nudges' in the first …
View book details for Starting to Read ECGs
The Basics
This book is book aims to provide the beginner with a concise, practical and systematic guide to interpreting ECGs. It will serve not only as a starter text but also as an immediate bedside reference manual. Starting to Read ECGs: …
View book details for Radioguided Surgery
Current Applications and Innovative Directions in Clinical Practice
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the practice of radioguided surgery. The opening section is devoted to the basic physics principles for detection and imaging, radiation detection device technology, principles of surgical navigation, …
This book investigates the impact of production input factors on the market, consumer and producer energy demand characteristics in 30 industrial sectors for South Korea over the period 19802009, and for Japan over the period 1973-2006, with special emphasis placed …
View book details for On the Device-Independent Approach to Quantum Physics
Advances in Quantum Nonlocality and Multipartite Entanglement Detection
Quantum physics started in the 1920's with wave mechanics and the wave-particle duality. However, the last 20 years have seen a second quantum revolution, centered around non-locality and quantum correlations between measurement outcomes. The associated key property, entanglement, is recognized …
Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring brings together some of the most celebrated and respected names in Arab media research to reflect on the communication conditions that preceded and made the Arab uprisings possible.
View book details for Emotions in Second Language Teaching
Theory, Research and Teacher Education
This edited volume explores the multifaceted nature of teacher emotions, presenting current research from different approaches and perspectives, focused towards the second language classroom. Twenty three chapters by well-known scholars from the applied linguistics, TESOL and educational psychology fields provide …
View book details for Modellierung, Analyse und Simulation elektrischer und mechanischer Systeme mit MapleTM und MapleSimTM
Anwendung in Elektrotechnik, Mechanik und Antriebstechnik
Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt Grundwissen zur Losung von Problemen der Elektrotechnik, der Antriebstechnik und der Mechatronik mit Hilfe des mathematischen Expertensystems MapleTM und des objektorientierten Simulationssystems MapleSimTM. Der Autor stellt zunachst MapleTM in konzentrierter Form vor. Danach geht er ausfuhrlich auf …
View book details for Error Correction in the Foreign Language Classroom
Reconsidering the Issues
The book aims to dispel some of the myths surrounding the place of oral and written error correction in language education by providing an exhaustive and up-to-date account of issues involved in this area, taking the stance that the provision …
This richly illustrated book, in an extensively revised new edition, provides a comprehensive survey of the role of medical imaging studies in the detection, staging, grading, tissue characterization, and post-treatment follow-up of soft tissue tumors. The indications for and relative …
This book provides state-of-the-art, in-depth knowledge of spinal cord tumor surgery. After an introduction to the history and etiology of spinal cord tumor treatment, the molecular biology, cytogenetics and pathology of this group of tumors is discussed. The pathological anatomy …
View book details for International Volunteer Tourism
Critical Reflections on Good Works in Central America
Designed to promote reflection and 'better practices' among the prospective volunteers and organizers of travel-for-service experiences, International Volunteer Tourism provides narratives on short-term international volunteering in Central America written by North American organizers, student participants and Central American partners.
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Constructing a European Union Framework
This book provides a critical analysis of The European Unions regulatory framework for mobile payments and bitcoin. Chapters discuss the creation of the EU single market for e-payments and combine legal analysis with comparative case studies in their exploration of …
Higher education exchange between America and the Middle East is a comparatively recent development, but the colorful history of circumstances and events that preceded the relationship is ancient and deep. Here, Bevis explores the multifarious and intriguing story from antiquity …
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner have been partners in life and work for more than 40 years. Over those years they have been comedic pioneers in television, sound recording, film, theater, and animation. This book explores the ways they have …
View book details for Scaling up Business Solutions to Social Problems
A Practical Guide for Social and Corporate Entrepreneurs
A silent revolution is underway, as entrepreneurs challenge prevalent notions of business motives and methods to invent market-based solutions to eradicate social injustice. Yet many fail to succeed. Based on original research, the authors uncover why impressive solutions fail to …
The first book-length collection of studies on the assessment of pragmatic competencies in a second or foreign language. Grounded in theoretical perspectives on communicative and interactional competencies, it examines the reception and production of speech acts through a variety of …
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Datenanalyse ist (k)eine Kunst Excel Edition
Informationen aus Daten zu gewinnen und einen Datensatz systematisch zu analysieren ist (k)eine Kunst. Fur die aktuelle Version von Statistik angewandt wurden zahlreiche Features erganzt, um es dem Leser noch einfacher zu machen, Datensatze systematisch zu analysieren.Hilfreiche Elemente sind die …
This thesis outlines the investigation of various electrode materials for Li-ion battery (LIB) applications. Li-ion batteries are widely used in various portable electronic devices owing to their compactness, light weight, longer life, design flexibility and environment friendliness. This work describes …
This book provides in depths information on different microscopy approaches and supplies the reader with methods how to untangle highly complex processes involved in physiological and pathophysiological cardiac signaling. Microscopy approaches have established themselves as the quasi gold standard that …
The tropical UK Territories have extensive coral reefs. Huge parts of these areas are exceptionally rich, productive and diverse. Their marine biodiversity exceeds that of the UK itself, and several are already, or are planned to be, strictly protected. Some …
View book details for Why Leaders Fail Ethically
A Paradigmatic Evaluation of Leadership
Contrary to popular conceptions that ethical failures in leadership are correlated with economic downturns and other stressful market conditions, this book argues that such transgressions are an intrinsic element of leadership, as it is defined under the current prevailing paradigm.In …
View book details for Enterprise Governance
Driving Enterprise Performance Through Strategic Alignment
This book is written for business leaders and those that govern organisations. All high performing organisations excel in achieving 7 organisational outcomes: Accountability, Awareness, Adaptability, Agility, Alignment, Action and Achievement. The enterprise governance framework must deliver on these 7 As …
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