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Successful companies actively cultivate new ideas, put those ideas to work quickly and efficiently, and harvest the business value benefits of successful innovations. Innovation can be taught, and processes such as user-centered design increase th...

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Die Hauptthese lautet, dass eine überzeugend funktionierende Intentionalitätstheorie spezielle Geist-abhängige Entitäten einführen muss, die in der Geschichte der Philosophie unter dem Namen "intentionale Gegenstä...

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In der Erzähltheorie lag der Blick bislang primär auf unzuverlässigen Erzähltexten mit homodiegetischen Erzählern. Diese Arbeit weitet den Fokus auf narrative Unzuverlässigkeit, welche sowohl verschiedene Formen des u...

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Das Buch führt in den zunehmend komplexer und unübersichtlicher werdenden Themenbereich "Soziologische Theorien" ein. Dabei wird der multiparadigmatischen Vielfalt der Soziologie Rechnung getragen: Anhand der Darstellung jeweils eines or...

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<P>Tagtäglich sind wir mit geopolitischen Konflikten konfrontiert. Vor allem ihre Darstellung in den Medien macht sie in unserem Leben omnipräsent. Oftmals sind die Auseinandersetzungen äußerst komplex, viele Akteure mit...

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Die Literatur von Weltendeutern wie Klaus Bednarz, Dieter Kronzucker, Jürgen Todenhöfer oder Peter Scholl-Latour hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten die deutschsprachige Sachbuch-Bestsellerliste in bemerkenswertem Maße geprägt. In ihr spielen geographi...

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Der Sammelband befasst sich mit der Situation von Wissenschaftlerinnen in der deutschen außerhochschulischen Forschung, speziell in den Naturwissenschaften. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Sammelbands zeigen die deutliche Geschlechterdiff...

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Inklusion und Partizipation - beide erscheinen oft als kaum hinterfragbare positive Qualität von Schule. Jedoch werden damit die zentralen Widersprüche von Bildung in kapitalistischen Gesellschaften nicht aufgehoben: Wer partizipiert, fügt sich au...

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Global optimization aims at solving the most general problems of deterministic mathematical programming: to find the global optimum of a nonlinear, nonconvex, multivariate function of continuous and/or integer variables subject to constraints whic...

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This book aims to provide an up-to-date review of the literature in each of the major areas relating to the management of older colorectal cancers patients, and makes recommendations for best practice and future research. The authors come from a b...

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The relationships between children and their parents are the building blocks for f- ily relationships throughout life. The nature of the parent-child relationship begins with parenting-the practices and strategies that parents engage in as they ra...

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Real-time model predictive controller (MPC) implementation in active vibration control (AVC) is often rendered difficult by fast sampling speeds and extensive actuator-deformation asymmetry. If the control of lightly damped mechanical structures i...

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Traditional policy analysis approaches are characterized by a focus on system modeling and choosing among policy alternatives. While successful in many cases, this approach has been increasingly criticized for being technocratic and ignoring the b...

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Painful diabetic polyneuropathy is the most common and disturbing of painful conditions experienced by people with diabetes. As the diabetes rate continues to grow, the number of people suffering from painful diabetic polyneuropathy will as well -...

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This book introduces an interdisciplinary lens by bringing together vital research on culture, psychosocial development, and key aspects of health and disease to address a wide range of salient concerns. Its scholarship mirrors the diversity of th...

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Painful diabetic polyneuropathy is the most common and disturbing of painful conditions experienced by people with diabetes. As the diabetes rate continues to grow, the number of people suffering from painful diabetic polyneuropathy will as well -...

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In the last decade, several different optical imaging techniques, either based on various voltage or calcium dyes, or more recently on modified fluorescent or bioluminescent proteins (genetically encoded) that are sensitive to calcium, have been d...

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This book investigates whether politics in Britain in the twenty-first century is driven more by issues of culture and identity than by "left versus right" issues of wealth distribution. Drawing from a number of opinion surveys, it explo...

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In the past several years, there have been significant technological advances in the field of crisis response. However, many aspects concerning the efficient collection and integration of geo-information, applied semantics and situation awareness ...

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This study brings together decades of research on the modern natural environment of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, reviews past research on paleoenvironmental change since the Late Pleistocene, and finally presents paleoecological records of chan...

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The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been one of the foremost mathematical methods for decision making with multiple criteria and has been widely studied in the operations research literature as well as applied to solve countless real-world pr...

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This SpringerBrief provides a concise guide to applying wireless energy transfer techniques in traditional battery-powered sensor networks. It examines the benefits and challenges of wireless power including efficiency and reliability. The authors...

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While most stem cell books focus on basic aspects and/or cell therapy, this book emphasizes the relevance of stem cells obtained from patients, the so-called "patients in a petri dish" as tools to investigate human genetic diseases for w...

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This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease epidemiology, clinical presentation and the most recent scientific developments in the field of ...

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Ideal for shoulder surgeons who want to upgrade their skills to the next level, this practical, step-by-step text presents the latest cutting-edge management strategies and science aimed at shoulder preservation surgery. Highlighting four main are...

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This Springer Brief provides theory, practical guidance, and support tools to help designers create complex, valid assessment tasks for hard-to-measure, yet crucial, science education standards. Understanding, exploring, and interacting with the w...

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This volume is the first comprehensive text on human biobanking, authored by scientists and regulatory officers who have led the field over the past 10 years. It covers biobanking issues and its importance in advancing the field of research in can...

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This book explores leisure-related voluntary associations in France during the nineteenth century as practical expressions of the Revolutionary concept of fraternite. Using a mass of unpublished sources in provincial and national archives, it anal...

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This book offers a gentle introduction to key elements of Geometric Algebra, along with their applications in Physics, Robotics and Molecular Geometry. Major applications covered are the physics of space-time, including Maxwell electromagnetism an...

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Ist bereits in der Frühen Neuzeit eine Dichotomie der Geschlechter bezüglich ihrer Gesundheit erkennbar? Lässt sich ein spezifisch männlicher Gesundheitshabitus feststellen? Und wie entwickelte sich dieser zwischen 1500 und 1850? Die Autorinnen un...

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