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This book explains aspects of social networks, varying from development and application of new artificial intelligence and computational intelligence techniques for social networks to understanding the impact of social networks. Chapters 1 and 2 deal with the basic strategies towards …
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From Guild Welfare and Friendly Societies to Contemporary Micro-Insurers
In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers. We have privileged this system over mutual or micro-insurance, whose long and rich history we tend to forget. Yet, mutual and micro-insurance is becoming …
View book details for Sports Injuries of the Foot
Evolving Diagnosis and Treatment
Sports Injuries of the Foot is the go-to text for the management and treatment of foot injuries in athletes, demonstrating the current state-of-the-art techniques in assessment, testing and treatment. Organized anatomically beginning with the toes and working down the foot, …
This book outlines the consensus findings of the ISAKOS Upper Extremity Committee regarding the treatment options for patients suffering from shoulder instability. The aim is to furnish readers with a precise knowledge of the presenting features of conditions typical of …
This book covers the latest approaches and results from reconfigurable computing architectures employed in the finance domain. So-called field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have already shown to outperform standard CPU- and GPU-based computing architectures by far, saving up to 99% of …
View book details for Capitalism without Capital
Accounting for the crash
Financial crisis, recession and worsening inequality have long been blamed on a surplus of capital. But the actions that led the latest boom and bust by banks and businesses, households and governments - can better be explained capital's increasing scarcity. …
View book details for Epidural Labor Analgesia
Childbirth Without Pain
This book offers an in-depth examination of labor pain and analgesia with the aim of promoting natural childbirth without pain. All aspects of the subject are covered, including the latest techniques of delivering labor analgesia. Importantly, emphasis is placed on …
View book details for Theorizing International Trade
An Indian Perspective
This book discusses the developments in trade theories, including new-new trade models that account for firm level trade flows, trade growth accounting using inverse gravity models (including distortions in gravity models), the impact of trade liberalization under the aegis of …
This book offers clear, detailed guidance on all aspects of prognostic evaluation in patients who have been involved in a serious accident with neurological consequences or have been diagnosed with a severe neurological illness. It covers the full range of …
View book details for Digitizing Government
Understanding and Implementing New Digital Business Models
For businesses large and small, investment in digital technologies is now a priority essential for success. Digitizing Government provides practical advice for understanding and implementing digital transformation to increase business value and improve client engagement, and features case studies from …
While assessment and feedback tend to be treated separately in the L2 writing literature, this book brings together these two essential topics and examines how effective classroom assessment and feedback can provide a solid foundation for the successful teaching and …
Die optische Ortsfiltertechnik wird vorrangig zur einkomponentigen (1C) Geschwindigkeits- und Langenbestimmung bei der beruhrungslosen Uberwachung industrieller Prozesse angewendet. Martin Schaeper beschaftigt sich mit der fortfuhrenden Nutzung von flachenhaften, strukturierten Sensoren fur zeitaufgeloste 2D/2C-Messungen, aber auch mit der Implementierung geeigneter Informationsvorverarbeitungen, …
View book details for Pains and Gains of Ethnic Multilingual Learners in China
An Ethnographic Case Study
This book introduces an ethnographic case study of two English majors of ethnic minority at YUN, a local university of nationalities in southwest China. Drawing on the theories of post-structuralism and critical multiculturalism, this book mainly studies two female multilingual …
View book details for Exploring Regional Responses to a Nuclear Iran
Nuclear Dominoes?
This book challenges the widely held assumption that a nuclear-armed Iran would provoke a proliferation cascade in the Middle East. Arguing that a domino effect is by no means inevitable, the authors set out a number of policy measures that …
This book offers analyses of the roles of race, gender, and sexuality in the post-apocalyptic visions of early twenty-first century film and television shows. Contributors examine the production, reproduction, and re-imagination of some of our most deeply held human ideals …
This book is the ultimate reference on patent foramen ovale (PFO), a defect in the septum of the heart estimated to be present in more than twenty percent of the adult population and a proven cause of systemic embolism. All …
View book details for Achieving Quality Education for All
Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region and Beyond
Due to the development of the international Education for All and Education for Sustainable Development movements, for which UNESCO is the lead agency, there has been an increasing emphasis on the power of education and schooling to help build more …
View book details for Family Businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa
Behavioral and Strategic Perspectives
This book is the first of its kind to highlight the importance of family businesses to economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. It examines the managerial, behavioral, and strategic issues facing these companies and offers conclusive statements about their performance and …
View book details for Marketing in Context
Setting the Scene
The best marketing doesn't just focus on the individual psychology of the consumer, it operates at a cultural level. It frames choices so that the consumer isn't aware their buying decisions are being influenced. Hackley shows how marketing must set …
View book details for Bitcoins und andere dezentrale Transaktionssysteme
Blockchains als Basis einer Kryptookonomie
Dieses Buch beschreibt zum ersten Mal in deutscher Sprache umfassend die verschiedenen digitalen Wahrungen, das faszinierende Potenzial elektronischen Geldes sowie einer moglichen neuen Wirtschaftsordnung: Geld ist im Bitcoin-System ein programmierbarer Wert, geschutzt durch Kryptotechnologien. Experten aus der Finanzbranche arbeiten heute …
This book provides a comprehensive overview of how fractal analytics can lead to the extraction of interesting features from the complex electroencephalograph (EEG) signals generated by Hindustani classical music. It particularly focuses on how the brain responses to the emotional …
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How to Deal with Complexity and Politics During Strategy Development
There is a much better chance to politically establish a strategy in your company if strategy development is already tactically thought-out and all involved persons are included in an intelligent manner. This book demonstrates how to shape this process to …
View book details for Das Machiavelli-Syndrom
Krankheitssymptome des Unternehmens Diagnose, Therapie, Pravention
Der Fortschritt in der Kommunikationstechnik erlaubt es, auch sehr komplexe Informationsstrukturen ohne regionale und zeitliche Limitierung zu verbreiten, was eine schnelle, optimale globalstrategische Nutzung aller verfugbaren Ressourcen moglich macht. Die hierdurch hervorgerufenen strukturellen Veranderungen in der Weltwirtschaft sind weder aufzuhalten …
This Springer Brief represents a comprehensive review of information theoretic methods for robust recognition. A variety of information theoretic methods have been proffered in the past decade, in a large variety of computer vision applications; this work brings them together, …
View book details for Tourist Destination Images and Local Culture
Using the Example of the United Arab Emirates
An authentic, unique and memorable destination image is of crucial importance to be competitive in the long-term. Verena Schwaighofer analyses the currently transferred image of the United Arab Emirates as a tourist destination and to what extent the traditional Arabian …
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