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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Buch richtet sich an Orthopäden, die in vertrauter Sprache und Form Antworten auf spezifische juristische Fragen und Probleme suchen. Die gemeinsame Erarbeitung durch einen Juristen und Orthopäden erlauben eine hohe Praxisrelevanz bei gleichzeitiger juristischer Genauigkeit. Typische Situationen und Probleme des orthopädischen Alltags in Klinik und Praxis werden juristisch durchleuchtet. Sofort umsetzbare Antworten werden ergänzt durch Checklisten und Praxistipps. Zukünftige Entwicklungen wie der Einfluss des europäischen Rechts auf die tägliche Arbeit oder auch Netzstrukturen werden berücksichtigt. Ein detailliertes Stichwortverzeichnis erleichtert das Auffinden der entsprechenden Themen. Das Buch richtet sich an Orthopäden aber auch an Ärzte in der orthopädischen Weiterbildung in Klinik, Praxis und Verwaltung, um insbesondere Unsicherheiten in Bezug auf juristische Fragen dieses Fachgebietes zu nehmen.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 280 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Buch richtet sich an Chirurgen, die in vertrauter Sprache und Form Antworten auf spezifische juristische Fragen und Probleme suchen. Die gemeinsame Erarbeitung durch einen Juristen und Chirurgen erlauben eine hohe Praxisrelevanz bei gleichzeitiger juristischer Genauigkeit. Typische Situationen und Probleme des chirurgischen Alltags in Klinik und Praxis werden juristisch durchleuchtet. Sofort umsetzbare Antworten werden ergänzt durch Checklisten und Praxistipps. Zukünftige Entwicklungen wie der Einfluss des europäischen Rechts auf die tägliche Arbeit oder auch Netzstrukturen werden berücksichtigt. Ein detailliertes Stichwortverzeichnis erleichtert das Auffinden der entsprechenden Themen. Das Buch richtet sich an Chirurgen aber auch an Ärzte in der chirurgischen Weiterbildung in Klinik, Praxis und Verwaltung, um insbesondere Unsicherheiten in Bezug auf juristische Fragen dieses Fachgebietes zu nehmen.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 280 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Ellenbogengelenk endlich effizient behandeln!\* Suchen auch Sie Rundum-Informationen zu diesem in Fachbüchern oft 'vernachlässigten' Gelenk \* Wollen auch Sie in der Therapie bessere Ergebnisse erreichen durch mehr Wissen über mögliche Pathologien, klinische Bilder, spezifische Tests und klare Indikationen für Behandlungsmaßnahmen Alle therapierelevanten Kentnisse, Behandlungsempfehlungen und praktische Anregungen finden Sie hier systematisch zusammengestellt.Die Grundlagen:\* Anatomie, Biomechanik und ausführliche Informationen zu den in der Praxis häufigsten Krankheitsbildern.Die Praxis:\* Einfache, effektive Untersuchungstechniken, die schnell zur genauen Diagnose führen\* befundspezifische lokale Therapiekonzepte\* Richtlinien für die globale Rehabilitation und\* alternative Behandlungsstrategien aus der Orthopädie.Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch mit übersichtlicher Gestaltung und vielen Abbildungen - so wird der Schritt 'von der Theorie in die Praxis' leicht gemacht.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 188 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The present study has been accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Depart ment of Economics of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main. It grew out from my five year long participation in two research projects, 'Econometric analysis of transaction intensity and volatility on fi nancial markets', and 'Microstructure on financial markets', that were both conducted by the chair of Statistics and Econometrics (Empirical Economic Research) at the Department of Economics and Business Administration, Jo hann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main and financed by the state of Hessen. During this time I have benefitted from many people. First and foremost I would like to thank my thesis supervisor, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Hujer, for initiating and supporting my studies with great encouragement. I am also very grateful to Prof. Dr. Christian Schlag for acting as the second thesis supervisor. Furthermore, I wish to thank Prof. Dr. Joachim Grammig who introduced me to the topics covered in this study in the first place and helped me to sharpen my views on econometrics and financial market microstructure theory through many discussions and also through his willingness to work with me on several related studies.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 212 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The lectures that comprise this volume constitute a comprehensive survey of the many and various aspects of integrable dynamical systems. The present edition is a streamlined, revised and updated version of a 1997 set of notes that was published as Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 495. This volume will be complemented by a companion book - Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 644 - dedicated to discrete integrable systems. Both volumes address primarily graduate students and nonspecialist researchers but will also benefit lecturers looking for suitable material for advanced courses and researchers interested in specific topics.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume contains the Proceedings of ICFCA 2004, the 2nd International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis. The ICFCA conference series aims to be the premier forum for the publication of advances in applied lattice and order theory and in particular scienti c advances related to formal concept analysis. Formal concept analysis emerged in the 1980s from e orts to restructure lattice theory to promote better communication between lattice theorists and potentialusersoflatticetheory.Sincethen,the eldhasdevelopedintoagrowing research area in its own right with a thriving theoretical community and an increasing number of applications in data and knowledge processing including data visualization, information retrieval, machine learning, data analysis and knowledge management. In terms of theory, formal concept analysis has been extended into attribute exploration, Boolean judgment, contextual logic and so on to create a powerful general framework for knowledge representation and reasoning. This conference aims to unify theoretical and applied practitioners who use formal concept an- ysis, drawing on the elds of mathematics, computer and library sciences and software engineering. The theme of the 2004 conference was ¿Concept Lattices¿ to acknowledge the colloquial term used for the line diagrams that appear in almost every paper in this volume. ICFCA 2004 included tutorial sessions, demonstrating the practical bene ts of formal concept analysis, and highlighted developments in the foundational theory and standards. The conference showcased the increasing variety of formal concept analysis software and included eight invited lectures from distinguished speakersinthe eld.Sevenoftheeightinvitedspeakerssubmittedaccompanying papers and these were reviewed andappear in this volume. 428 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Physicists who wish to understand the modeling of confinement of quantum chromodynamics, as exhibited by dual superconductors, will find this book an excellent introduction. The author focuses on the models themselves, especially the Landau--Ginzburg model of a dual superconductor, also called the Dual Abelian Higgs model. The book addresses graduate students and researchers, and is noteworthy for the remarkable clarity of its exposition.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -as RedeGrid.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 348 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the refereed proceeding of the 6th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2004, held in Pisa, Italy in February 2004.The 20 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. Among the topics addressed are context-aware coordination, the Linda coordination model, component adaptation, aspect-oriented programming, coordination middleware, peer-to-peer systems, coordination languages, network coordination, logic based coordination, agent coordination, as well as several coordination tools. 340 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2003, held in College Station, Texas, USA, in October 2003.The 35 revised full papers presented were selected from 48 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement upon presentation at the workshop. The papers are organized in topical sections on adaptive optimization, data locality, parallel languages, high-level transformations, embedded systems, distributed systems software, low-level transformations, compiling for novel architectures, and optimization infrastructure. 580 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA 2003) focused on the design and analysis of algorithms for online and computationally hard problems. Both kinds of problems have a large number of applications ar- ing from a variety of elds. The workshop also covered experimental research on approximation and online algorithms. WAOA 2003 took place in Budapest, Hungary, from September 16 to September 18. The workshop was part of the ALGO 2003 event, which also hosted ESA 2003, WABI 2003, and ATMOS 2003. TopicsofinterestforWAOA2003were:competitiveanalysis,inapproximab- ityresults,randomizationtechniques,approximationclasses,scheduling,c oloring and partitioning, cuts and connectivity, packing and covering, geometric pr- lems, network design, and applications to game theory and nancial problems. In response to our call for papers we received 41 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by at least 3 referees, who judged the papers on originality, quality, and consistency with the topics of the conference. Based on these reviews the program committee selected 19 papers for presentation at the workshop and for publication in this proceedings. This volume contains the 19 selected papers and 5 invited abstracts from an ARACNE minisymposium which took place as part of WAOA. 284 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume contains the proceedings of two recent conferences in the eld of electronic publishing and digital documents: ¿ DDEP 2000, the 8th International Conference on Digital Documents and Electronic Publishing, the successor conference to the EP conference series; and ¿ PODDP 2000, the 5th International Workshop on the Principles of Digital Document Processing. Both conferences were held at the Technische Universit¿ at Munc ¿ hen, Munich, Germany in September 2000. DDEP 2000 was the eighth in a biennial series of international conferences organized to promote the exchange of novel ideas concerning the computer p- duction, manipulation and dissemination of documents. This conference series has attempted to re ect the evolving nature and usage of documents by treating digital documents and electronic publishing as a broad topic covering many - pects. These aspects have included document models, document representation and document dissemination, dynamic and hyper-documents, document ana- sis and management, and wide-ranging applications. The papers presented at DDEP 2000 and in this volume re ect this broad view, and cover such diverse topicsashypermediastructureanddesign,multimediaauthoringtechniquesand systems, document structure inference, typography, document management and adaptation, document collections and Petri nets. All papers were refereed by an international program committee.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Mathematical theorem proving has undergone an impressive development during the last two decades, resulting in a variety of powerful systems for applications in mathematical deduction and knowledge processing. Natural language processing has become a topic of outstanding relevance in information technology, mainly due to the explosive growth of the Web, where by far the largest part of information is encoded in natural language documents.This monograph focuses on the development of inference tools tailored to applications in natural language processing by demonstrating how the model generation paradigm can be used as a framework for the support of specific tasks in natural language interpretation and natural language based inference in a natural way.The book appears at a pivotal moment, when much attention is being paid to the task of adding a semantic layer to the Web, and representation and processing of natural language based semantic information pops up as a primary requirement for further technological progress.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -PKC2004wasthe7thInternationalWorkshoponPracticeandTheoryinPublic Key Cryptography and was sponsored by IACR, the International Association for Cryptologic Research ( iacr. org). This year the workshop was organized 2 in cooperation with the Institute for Infocomm Research (I R), Singapore. There were 106 paper submissions from 19 countries to PKC 2004. That is the highest submission number in PKC history. Due to the large number of submissionsandthehighqualityofthe submittedpapers,notallthepapersthat contained new ideas were accepted. Of the 106 submissions, 32 were selected for the proceedings. Each paper was sent to at least 3 members of the Program Committee for comments. The revised versions of the accepted papers were not checked for correctness of their scienti c aspects and the authors bear the full responsibility for the contents of their papers. Some authors will write nal versions of their papers for publication in refereed journals. I am very grateful to the members of the Program Committee for their hard work in the di cult task of selecting fewer than 1 in 3 of the submitted papers, as well as the following external referees who helped the Program Committee: Nuttapong Attrapadung,RobertoMariaAvanzi,GildasAvoine,JoonsangBaek, Qingjun Cai, Jae Choon Cha, Chien-Ning Chen, Liqun Chen, Xiaofeng Chen, Koji Chida, Nicolas T. Courtois, Yang Cui, Jean-Franco ¿ is Dhem, Louis Goubin, Louis Granboulan, Rob Granger, Jens Groth, Yumiko Hanaoka, Darrel Hank- son,Chao-ChihHsu,TetsutaroKobayashi,YuichiKomano,HidenoriKuwakado, TanjaLange,PeterLeadbitter,ByoungcheonLee,Chun-KoLee,HenryC. J. Lee, JohnMaloneLee,YongLi,Benö tLibert,Hsi-ChungLin,YiLu,JeanMonnerat, Anderson C. A. Nascimento, C.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 472 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -re ects some aspects of the lively discussions held during the workshop. The selection presented is divided into two major topics.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 316 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Constraint satisfaction and constraint programming have shown to be very simple but powerful ideas, with applications in various areas. Still, in the last ten years, the simple notion of constraints has shown some deficiencies concerning both theory and practice, typically in the way over-constrained problems and preferences are treated. For this reason, the notion of soft constraints has been introduced with semiring-based soft constraints and valued constraints being the two main general frameworks. This book includes formal definitions and properties of semiring-based soft constraints, as well as their use within constraint logic programming and concurrent constraint programming. Moreover, the author shows how to adapt existing notions and techniques such as abstraction and interchangeability to the soft constraint framework and it is demonstrated how soft constraints can be used in some application areas, such as security. Overall, this book is a great starting point for anyone interested in understanding the basics of semiring-based soft constraints.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The ongoing migration of computing and information access from the desktop and te- phone to mobile computing devices such as PDAs, tablet PCs, and next-generation (3G) phones poses critical challenges for research on information access. Desktop computer users are now used to accessing vast quantities of complex data either directly on their PC or via the Internet ¿ with many services now blurring that distinction. The current state-of-practice of mobile computing devices, be they mobile phones, hand-held computers, or personal digital assistants (PDAs), is very variable. Most mobile phones have no or very limited information storage and very poor Internet access. Furthermore, very few end-users make any, never mind extensive, use of the services that are provided. Hand-held computers, on the other hand, tend to have no wireless network capabilities and tend to be used very much as electronic diaries, with users tending not to go beyond basic diary applications.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 316 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The topic of this book, graded algebra, has developed in the past decade to a vast subject with new applications in noncommutative geometry and physics. Classical aspects relating to group actions and gradings have been complemented by new insights stemming from Hopf algebra theory. Old and new methods are presented in full detail and in a self-contained way. Graduate students as well as researchers in algebra, geometry, will find in this book a useful toolbox. Exercises, with hints for solution, provide a direct link to recent research publications. The book is suitable for courses on Master level or textbook for seminars.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 320 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This thesis deals with the problems of characterizing the semantics of and assuringe cient executionfor databasequery languages,wherethedatabase contains semistructured and time-varying information. This area of techn- ogy is of much interest and signi cance for databases and knowledge bases; it also presents many challenging research problems deserving an in-depth investigation.Thus, the topic of Elisa Quintarelli¿s dissertation is well chosen and totally appropriate to the current research trends. In her thesis, Elisa addresses a number of related problems. However, her work and contributions concentrate on two main problems. The rst is the de nition of an e ective graph-based approach to the formalization of query languages for semistructured and temporal information. In her approach, query execution is viewed as the process of matching the query graph with the database instance graph; therefore, query execution reduces to sear- ing the database for subgraphs that are similar to the given query graph. The search for such matches can be supported through the computational process of bisimulation. This approach is used to de ne the semantics of s- eral languages, including graphical languages, such as G-Log and GraphLog, semistructuredinformationlanguages,suchasLorel,andtemporallanguages, such as TSS-QL. Both graph-based approaches and bisimulation had been used by previous authors for de ning query languages and their semantics; however, this work goes well beyond previous approaches by integrating and re ning these techniques into a exible and powerful paradigm that Elisa demonstrates to be e ective on a spectrum of languages and a suite of alt- native semantics.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 156 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Cryptographers¿ Track (CT-RSA) is a research conference within the RSA conference, the largest, regularly staged computer security event. CT-RSA 2004 was the fourth year of the Cryptographers¿ Track, and it is now an established venue for presenting practical research results related to cryptography and data security. The conference received 77 submissions, and the program committee sel- ted 28 of these for presentation. The program committee worked very hard to evaluate the papers with respect to quality, originality, and relevance to cryp- graphy. Each paper was reviewed by at least three program committee members. Extended abstracts of the revised versions of these papers are in these proc- dings. The program also included two invited lectures by Dan Boneh and Silvio Micali. I am extremely grateful to the program committee members for their en- mous investment of time and e ort in the di cult and delicate process of review and selection. Many of them attended the program committee meeting during the Crypto 2003 conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 404 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume contains the papers presented at the 3rd International Symposium onFoundationsofInformationandKnowledgeSystems(FoIKS2004),whichwas held in Castle Wilhelminenberg, Vienna, Austria, from February 17th to 20th, 2004. FoIKS is a biennial event focussing on theoretical foundations of information and knowledge systems. It aims at bringing together researchers working on the theoretical foundations of information and knowledge systems and attracting researchers working in mathematical elds such as discrete mathematics, c- binatorics, logics, and nite model theory who are interested in applying their theories to research on database and knowledge base theory. FoIKS took up the tradition of the conference series Mathematical Fun- mentals of Database Systems (MFDBS) which enabled East¿West collaboration in the eld of database theory. The rst FoIKS symposium was held in Burg, Spreewald (Germany) in 2000, and the second FoIKS symposium was held in SalzauCastle(Germany)in2002.FormerMFDBSconferenceswereheldinDr- den (Germany) in 1987, Visegr¿ ad (Hungary) in 1989, and in Rostock (Germany) in 1991. Proceedings of these previous events were published by Springer-Verlag as volumes 305, 364, 495, 1762, and 2284 of the LNCS series, respectively. In addition the FoIKS symposium was intended to be a forum for intensive discussions. For this reason the time slots for long and short contributions were 50 and 30 minutes, respectively, followed by 20 and 10 minutes for discussions, respectively. Furthermore, participants were asked in advance to prepare to act as correspondents for the contributions of other authors. There were also special sessions for the presentation and discussion of open research problems.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 336 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This laboratory handbook offers clear guidelines and tips for the practical everyday application of viscosimetry, as well as supplying a comprehensive companion for the interpretation of viscosimetric data from simple to complex polymer solutions.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -FIDJI 2003 was an international forum for researchers and practitioners in- rested in the advances in, and applications of, software engineering for distri- ted applicationdevelopment. Concerningthe technologies,the workshopfocused on ¿Java-related¿ technologies. It was an opportunity to present and observe the latest research, results, and ideas in these areas. Allpaperssubmittedtothisworkshopwerereviewedbyatleasttwomembers of the International Program Committee. Acceptance was based primarily on originality and contribution. We selected, for these post-workshop proceedings, 14 papers, amongst 29 submitted, two tutorials, and one keynote talk. FIDJI2003aimedatpromotingascienti capproachtosoftwareengineering. The scope of the workshop included the following topics: ¿ design of distributed Java applications ¿ Java-related technologies ¿ software and system architecture engineering and development methodo- gies ¿ development methodologies for UML ¿ development methodologies for reliable distributed systems ¿ component-based development methodologies ¿ managementofevolutions/iterationsintheanalysis,design,implementat ion, and test phases ¿ dependability support during system life-cycles ¿ managing inconsistencies during application development ¿ atomicity and exception handling in system development ¿ software architectures, frameworks, and design patterns for developing d- tributed systems ¿ integration of formal techniques in the development process ¿ formal analysis and grounding of modeling notation and techniques (e. g. , UML, metamodeling) ¿ supporting the security requirements of distributed applications in the - velopment process ¿ refactoring methods ¿ industrial and academic case studies ¿ development and analysis tools Theorganization of such a workshop represents an important amount of work. 172 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -highestimpactonthedevelopmentofthediscipline.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Thepapersinthis volumewerepresentedatthe4thInternationalConferenceon Large-Scale Scienti c Computations ICLSSC 2003. It was held in Sozopol, B- garia, June 4¿8, 2003. The conference was organized and sponsored by the C- tral Laboratory for Parallel Processing at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Support was also provided from the Center of Excellence ¿BIS 21¿ (funded by the European Commission), SIAM and GAMM. A co-organizer of this tra- tional scienti c meeting was the Division of Numerical Analysis and Statistics of the University of Rousse. The success of the conference and the present volume in particular are the outcome of the joint e orts of many colleagues from various institutions and organizations. First thanks to all the members of the Scienti c Committee for their valuable contribution to forming the scienti c face of the conference, as well as for their help in reviewing contributed papers. We would like to specially thank the organizers of the special sessions: R. Blaheta, N. Dimitrova, A. Ebel, K. Georgiev, O. Iliev, A. Karaivanova, H. Kosina, M. Krastanov, U. Langer, P. Minev, M. Neytcheva, M. Sch¿ afer, V. Veliov, and Z. Zlatev. We are also grateful to the sta involved in the local organization. Special Events: ¿ The conference was devoted to the 60th anniversary of Raytcho Lazarov. ¿ During the conference, the nomination for the World Level of the Hall of Fame for Engineering, Science and Technology, HOFEST, was o cially awarded to Owe Axelsson.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 496 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Experten beleuchten die Bedingungen für erfolgreiches webbasiertes Lernen aus verschiedenen Perspektiven: Lerner/Mitarbeiter, Trainer/Dozenten, Manager/Entscheider verfolgen unterschiedliche Ziele beim Einsatz von E-Learning in der Weiterbildung. Wissenschaftlich fundierte Lerntheorien und Instruktionsdesign-Ansätze bilden die Basis, auf die sich die Qualitätsbeurteilung von E-Learning stützt. Für die Praxis sind Lernerbefragungen, zielgruppenspezifische Qualitätsprofile, kooperative Online-Lernszenarien, Kriterienkataloge, Softwareergonomie und webgestützte Evaluationsinstrumente relevant. Standardisierungsbestrebungen wie LOM, SCORM, IMS Learning Design sowie Initiativen der DIN werden thematisiert; Ansätze zur Entwicklung von Assessment- und Zertifizierungstools sowie zur vergleichenden Testung werden detailliert dargestellt. Eine strukturierte Linksammlung leitet zur Vertiefung an.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 204 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Nach einer kompakten Darstellung der Grundlagen der Pressearbeit arbeiten die Autoren die besonderen Aspekte der IT-Pressearbeit heraus. Schwerpunkte des Buches sind der Aufbau der Pressearbeit, die Darstellung möglicher Aktivitäten und der Instrumente und Strategien, die zur Realisierung zur Verfügung stehen. Ebenso kommt der Einsatz von Presseagenturen und Aufbau und Pflege von Presseportalen zur Sprache. Zahlreiche Beispiele erfolgreicher Presseaktivitäten runden dieses Werk ab.Der Leser erhält mit diesem Buch einen konkreten Leitfaden zum Aufbau der Pressearbeit und ein grundlegendes Verständnis für die besonderen Bedingungen, Wege und Aktivitäten der Pressearbeit im IT-Umfeld.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 300 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Das Unternehmen des Informationszeitalters muss vom Kundenprozess ausgehen, die Stärken verschiedener Online- und Offline-Absatzkanäle kombinieren und Echzeit-Prozesse mit seinen Supply-Chain-Partnern organisieren. Um zum Netzwerk- oder Echtzeit-Unternehmen zu werden, ist ein Vorgehen in kleinen, wohlüberlegten Schritten erfolgversprechender als 'der große Wurf'. Jeder Schritt benötigt eine Geschäftslösung, einen Kooperationsprozess zwischen Unternehmen und eine offene Infrastruktur. Dazu hat die Universität St. Gallen gemeinsam mit neun namhaften Unternehmen eine Architektur erarbeitet, die eine Ausgestaltung der Schritte auf den Ebenen Strategie, Prozess und System unterstützt. Anhand dieser Architektur werden verschiedene marktgängige Produkte und Technologien eingeordnet. Eine aus der Praxis abgeleitete Projektmethode fasst abschließend die Erfahrungen zusammen und schlägt ein allgemeines Vorgehen vor. Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 380 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -To solve a crystal structure means to determine the precise spatial arrangements of all of the atoms in a chemical compound in the crystalline state. This knowledge gives a chemist access to a large range of information, including connectivity, conformation, and accurate bond lengths and angles. In addition, it implies the stoichiometry, the density, the symmetry and the three dimensional packing of the atoms in the solid. Since interatomic distances are in the region of100-300 pm or 1-3 A, 1 microscopy using visible light (wavelength Ä ca. 300-700 nm) is not applicable (Fig. l. l). In 1912, Max von Laue showed that crystals are based on a three dimensionallattice which scatters radiation with a wavelength in the vicinity of interatomic distances, i. e. X -rays with Ä = 50-300 pm. The process bywhich this radiation, without changing its wave length, is converted through interference by the lattice to a vast number of observable 'reflections' with characteristic directions in space is called X-ray diffraction. The method by which the directions and the intensities of these reflections are measured, and the ordering of the atoms in the crystal deduced from them, is called X-ray struc ture analysis. The following chapter deals with the lattice properties of crystals, the starting point for the explanation of these interference phenomena. Interatomic distances Crystals . . . . . . . . . .Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 228 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -European monetary unification seems to be one of the most important events in international monetary affairs since the breakdown of Bretton Woods. It pos es a major challenge to central banks, governments, and labour unions. It opens up new fields of economic research that are both intriguing and fascinating. European Monetary Union amounts to a switch of regime. Surely the Mundell Fleming model of the open economy does no longer apply to Germany or France. The effects of shocks and policies on output and prices should have changed dramatically in size. Some of them should even work in the opposite direction now. The present book is part of a larger research project on monetary union, see Carlberg (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003). Some parts of this project were presented at the World Congress of the International Economic Association in Lisbon. Other parts were presented at the Macro Study Group of the German Economic Association, at the Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association in Klagenfurt, at the Pass au Workshop on International Economics, at the Halle Workshop on Monetary Economics, and at the Research Seminar on Macroeconomics in Freiburg. Moreover, book reviews were published in the Economic Journal, Kyklos, the Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Economics and Statistics.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 308 pp. Englisch.