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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Schlagen Sie Ihrem 'kalendarischen Alter' ein Schnippchen und bleiben Sie länger jung! Wie das geht Mit Aktivität, mit Bewegung. Denn damit lassen sich Gesundheit, Vitalität und Lebensfreude erhalten - und auch wieder gewinnen. Es ist nie zu spät, mit Bewegung und Sport anzufangen. Auf Basis wissenschaftlich gesicherter Erkenntnis haben erfahrene Mediziner und Sportwissenschafter einen lebensnahen, praktisch nachvollziehbaren und leicht verständlichen Ratgeber verfasst, mit dessen Hilfe das Älter werden leichter wird - und biologisch gesehen verzögert. Sie finden zahlreiche Tipps, wie Sie mehr Bewegung in Ihren Alltag einbauen können und umfassende Anleitungen für Sportarten mit einem hohen 'Active Aging-Faktor'. Gesunde Ernährung gehört ebenso dazu. Warum das gar nicht kompliziert ist und außerdem gut schmeckt, lesen Sie hier. Und, wie Sie die Seele auf die schönen Seiten des Lebens einstimmen.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is an essential introduction to the values, knowledge and skills required for working with different groups in different social work and social care settings. Accessible and comprehensive, this classic text will continue to be invaluable for students and practitioners in social work and the caring professions wanting to learn more about this key practice technique.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Diese dritte Auflage wurde zusammen mit dem zweitgenannten Autor kritisch durchgesehen, ergänzt und verbessert. Ein weiteres Kapitel über geometrische Funktionentheorie und schlichte Funktionen enthält einen Beweis der Bieberbachschen Vermutung.'Der . vorliegende zweite Band der Funktionentheorie erfüllt voll die Erwartungen, die der erste Band geweckt hat. Wieder beeindrucken vor allem die hochinteressanten historischen Bemerkungen zu den einzelnen Themenkreisen, als besonderer Leckerbissen wird das Gutachten von Gauß über Riemanns Dissertation vorgestellt. Jedes einzelne Kapitel enthält ausführliche Literaturangaben. Ferner werden oft sehr aufschlussreiche Hinweise auf die Funktionentheorie mehrerer Veränderlicher gegeben. Die vielen Beispiele und Übungsaufgaben bilden eine wertvolle Ergänzung der brillant dargelegten Theorie. Der Rezensent bedauert, dass ihm nicht schon als Student ein derartig umfassendes, qualitativ hochstehendes Lehrbuch zur Verfügung stand.'Monatshefte für Mathematik.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dr. Nina Persak's work addresses the criteria for criminalisation - that is, the criteria that should be employed in determinations whether to prohibit conduct through the criminal law. It is explicitly normative in approach, examining what should be the proper basis for criminalisation, rather than what factors legislatures actually tend to consider in adopting criminal prohibitions. Its focus is on the Harm Principle, that has been developed in Anglo-American philosophy of criminal law and on how this principal might illuminate the Continental debate on criminalisation. As such, this is a work on normative criminal law theory. Hitherto, there has existed no extended English-language treatment, comparing Anglo-American and Continental theories of criminalisation. An important strength of Dr. Persak's analysis lies in success in integrating themes from the two bodies of theory, the Anglo-American and the Con- nental. She begins with the Harm Principle and scrutinises its main criterion: the conduct's intrusion into the interests of other persons. She undertakes a careful dissection of this criterion: e.g., what constitutes 'harm' and what is the scope of 'others' (and whether and to what extent the latter includes collective interests). This discussion provides not only a thoughtful analysis of the Harm Principle itself; it also provides her with the basis of her critique, later in the volume, of Continental criminalisation theories.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Economists have long studied the efficiency of firms, industries, and entire economies. This volume brings together leading scholars to make connections between efficiency and a number of diverse areas of current interest to economists, including an examination of the efficiency of tax systems across generations that overlap, and the efficiency of firm mergers that highlights the tradeoff between the synergy of the merger and the problem of managerial oversight in the now larger firm. An empirical look at productivity growth of states uses a tripartite decomposition of labor productivity into technological innovation, improvement in efficiency, and the capital deepening brought about by new business investment, shedding light on important debates on their relative importance. The efficiency of patent laws is examined in a modern model of economic growth. These contributions are complemented by analyses of methodological problems involved in the measurement, estimation and aggregation of efficiency indices.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Recently, wireless LAN standards have emerged in the market. Those standards operate in various frequency ranges. To reduce component count, it is of importance to design a multi-mode frequency synthesizer that serves all wireless LAN standards including 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g standards. With different specifications for those standards, designing integer-based phase-locked loop frequency synthesizers can not be achieved. Fractional-N frequency synthesizers offer the solution required for a common multi-mode local oscillator. Those fractional-N synthesizers are based on delta-sigma modulators which in combination with a divider yield the fractional division required for the desired frequency of interest. In CMOS Single Chip Fast Frequency Hopping Synthesizers for Wireless Multi-Gigahertz Applications, the authors outline detailed design methodology for fast frequency hopping synthesizers for RF and wireless communications applications. Great emphasis on fractional-N delta-sigma based phase locked loops from specifications, system analysis and architecture planning to circuit design and silicon implementation. The book describes an efficient design and characterization methodology that has been developed to study loop trade-offs in both open and close loop modelling techniques. This is based on a simulation platform that incorporates both behavioral models and measured/simulated sub-blocks of the chosen frequency synthesizer. The platform predicts accurately the phase noise, spurious and switching performance of the final design. Therefore excellent phase noise and spurious performance can be achieved while meeting all the specified requirements. The design methodology reduces the need for silicon re-spin enabling circuit designers to directly meet cost, performance and schedule milestones.The developed knowledge and techniques have been used in the successful design and implementation of two high speed multi-modefractional-N frequency synthesizers for the IEEE 801.11a/b/g standards. Both synthesizer designs are described in details.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reviewing the various IC packaging, assembly, and interconnection technologies, this professional guide and reference provides an overview of the materials and the processes, as well as the trends and available options, that encompass electronic manufacturing. It covers both the technical issues and touches on some of the reliability concerns with the various technologies applicable to packaging and assembly of the IC.The focus is on the electronic manufacturing process, which in its simplest form involves assembly of the IC into a package or interconnect substrate or board. The book discusses the various packaging approaches available, namely, single chip, multichip, and Chip On Board; the assembly options, chip & wire, tape automated bonding, and flip chip; and the essential high density package/substrate manufacturing technologies, thin film, thick film, cofired ceramic, and laminate printed wiring board (PWB) processes. Included also is a discussion of high density PWBs using build up/sequential processes.Integrated Circuit Packaging, Assembly and Interconnections is an introduction, a review and an update of packaging technologies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth IFIP International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility, NETCON 2005. The conference, organized by the International Federation for Information Processing, was held in Lannion, France from November 14-18, 2005.Among other topics, this volume explores Network Security, Network Policy, Quality of Service, Wireless Networks, Intelligent Networks, and Performance Evaluation. This title would be of interest to engineers and computer scientists in both academic and professional settings.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book aims to give a complete and self-contained presentation of semi- Markov models with finitely many states, in view of solving real life problems of risk management in three main fields: Finance, Insurance and Reliability providing a useful complement to our first book (Janssen and Manca (2006)) which gives a theoretical presentation of semi-Markov theory. However, to help assure the book is self-contained, the first three chapters provide a summary of the basic tools on semi-Markov theory that the reader will need to understand our presentation. For more details, we refer the reader to our first book (Janssen and Manca (2006)) whose notations, definitions and results have been used in these four first chapters. Nowadays, the potential for theoretical models to be used on real-life problems is severely limited if there are no good computer programs to process the relevant data. We therefore systematically propose the basic algorithms so that effective numerical results can be obtained. Another important feature of this book is its presentation of both homogeneous and non-homogeneous models. It is well known that the fundamental structure of many real-life problems is n- homogeneous in time, and the application of homogeneous models to such problems gives, in the best case, only approximated results or, in the worst case, nonsense results.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The articles collected in this book cover a wide range of materials with extraordinary superconducting and magnetic properties. For many of the materials studied, strong electronic correlations provide a link between these two phenomena which were long thought to be highly antagonistic. Both the progress in our understanding of fundamental physical processes and the advances made towards the development of devices are reported here. The materials studied come in a variety of forms and shapes from bulk to epitaxial films, nano- and heterostructures down to those involving single molecules and double quantum dots. In some cases the structuring serves the study of bulk properties. More often it is the change of these properties with nanostructuring and the properties of different materials in close proximity with each other that are of key interest because of possible application of these materials or heterostructures to quantum computing and spintronics.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jugular vein and carotid artery cannulations are among the most widely used surgeries in research labs around the world. These cannulations are extremely important for confirmed intravenous delivery of test substances and arterial blood collection. Cannulation reduces the stress of multiple sampling as observed in association with tail vein or orbital sinus techniques (Ling, 2003; Flynn, 1988; Cocchetto, 1983). Very few adverse effects, including a possible rise of corticosterones and a decrease in platelets, are associated with indwelling catheters except under chronic conditions (Fagin, 1983; Richman, 1980).Typically, technicians teach these skills to incoming employees and move on to graduate studies or other fields. A resulting 'oral history' of cannulation has been passed down from technician to technician. I have endeavored to capture these techniques on paper. Through the years, I have searched for and collected a number of training materials and guides for teaching purposes. This is my attempt to compile all the necessary information in one source.The contents of this manual include two cannulation procedures detailed in a format of materials, instruction, and pictorial for each step. In addition, the manual is rounded out with information regarding procedures for anesthesia, pre- and post- operatives, anatomy, bleeding techniques using catheters implanted, and rat biodata compiled from numerous sources. The content is thoroughly researched and reported based on over 80 references and 7 reviewers' suggestions.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Visual languages have long been a pursuit of effective communication between human and machine. With rapid advances of the Internet and Web technology, human-human communication through the Web or electronic mobile devices is becoming more and more prevalent.Visual Languages and Applications is a comprehensive introduction to diagrammatical visual languages. This book discusses what visual programming languagesare, and how such languages and their underlying foundations can be usefully applied to other fields in computer science. It also covers a broad range of contents from the underlying theory of graph grammars to the applications in various domains. Pointers to related topics and further readings are provided as well.Visual Languages and Applications is designed as a secondary text book for upper-undergraduate-level students and graduate-level students in computer science and engineering. Thisvolume is also suitable for practitioners and researchers in industry as a professional book.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Over the past decade there has been an explosion of developments in mixed e ects models and their applications. This book concentrates on two major classes of mixed e ects models, linear mixed models and generalized linear mixed models, with the intention of o ering an up-to-date account of theory and methods in the analysis of these models as well as their applications in various elds. The rst two chapters are devoted to linear mixed models. We classify l- ear mixed models as Gaussian (linear) mixed models and non-Gaussian linear mixed models. There have been extensive studies in estimation in Gaussian mixed models as well as tests and con dence intervals. On the other hand, the literature on non-Gaussian linear mixed models is much less extensive, partially because of the di culties in inference about these models. However, non-Gaussian linear mixed models are important because, in practice, one is never certain that normality holds. This book o ers a systematic approach to inference about non-Gaussian linear mixed models. In particular, it has included recently developed methods, such as partially observed information, iterative weighted least squares, and jackknife in the context of mixed models. Other new methods introduced in this book include goodness-of- t tests, p- diction intervals, and mixed model selection. These are, of course, in addition to traditional topics such as maximum likelihood and restricted maximum likelihood in Gaussian mixed models.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Over the past twenty-five years, the effects of the spatial distribution and scaling of resources on animal populations have been increasingly studied in wildlife biology, landscape ecology, conservation biology, and related fields. However, spatial patterns change over time. In Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology: Wildlife Responses to Variable Resources, the authors discuss the effects that temporal changes in resources have on animal populations. Resource availability and quality are not distributed homogeneously over time, depending for example on predictable changes in seasons, mating and birthing cycles, unpredictable resource pulses and weather-related phenomena, ecological disturbances, and historical legacies.Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Ecology brings together chapters that address the idea of current as well as historical temporal influences on resource availability, quality, and distribution. The authors draw attention to the neglected temporal issues so important to understanding species and community responses. This book will be of interest to both wildlife and conservation students and practitioners working with temporal and spatial scale issues.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thermal drying has been recognized as an important unit operation as it is ener- intensive and has a decisive effect on the quality of most products that are dried commercially. Escalating energy costs, demand for eco-friendly and sustainable te- nologies as well as the rising consumer demand for higher quality products, have given fresh incentives to industry and academia to devote great effort to drying R&D. Fortunately, this area does not demand a massive perfusion of R&D funds to come up with valuable insights and innovations, with only a few exceptions. Indeed, there is already a sustainable level of R&D support-both in terms of human and nancial resources-around the world. Emerging economies of the world, such as China, B- zil, India, etc, have picked up the slack caused by the fully developed economies of the west moving towards nanotechnologies. Overall, the global R&D effort has been rising despite precipitous drops in North America and Europe. With 12-25% of the national industrial energy consumption attributable to industrial drying in developed countries, it is only a matter of time before high energy costs will stimulate further R&D in drying.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Gene mapping is used in experimental genetics to improve the hardiness or productivity of animals or plants of agricultural value, to explore basic mechanisms of inheritance, or to study animal models of human inheritance. In human populations it is used as a first step to identify genes associated with human health and disease. This book presents a unified discussion of the statistical concepts applied in gene mapping, first in the experimental context of crosses of inbred lines and then in outbred populations, primarily humans. The development involves elementary principles of probability and statistics, which are implemented by computational tools based on the R programming language to simulate genetic experiments and evaluate statistical analyses. The viewpoint reflects the modern approach of using anonymous DNA markers distributed throughout the genome to identify regions likely to contain genes of interest. The reader is assumed to have some familiarity with probability/statistics and with elementary genetics. Important topics are reviewed in the first three chapters. The R programming language is developed in the text. Each chapter contains exercises, both theoretical and computational, some routine and others that are more challenging. The book is suitable for upper level undergraduate students or graduate students of genetics or statistics.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Genetic Programming Theory and Practice IV was developed from the fourth workshop at the University of Michigan's Center for the Study of Complex Systems to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information related to the rapidly advancing field of Genetic Programming (GP). Contributions from the foremost international researchers and practitioners in the GP arena examine the similarities and differences between theoretical and empirical results on real-world problems. The text explores the synergy between theory and practice, producing a comprehensive view of the state of the art in GP application.This volume represents a watershed moment in the GP field in that GP has begun to move from hand-crafted software used primarily in academic research, to an engineering methodology applied to commercial applications. It is a unique and indispensable tool for academics, researchers and industry professionals involved in GP, evolutionary computation, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We are on the verge of what many are calling the 'second information revolution,' based on ubiquitous access to both computing and information. Handheld communication devices will become portable and even wearable remote control devices for both the social and physical worlds. At the same time, access to information will likely flourish, with an explosion in the volumes of data collected and distributed by these new devices - volumes of information about people delivered to more and more people, in new ways. The technologies of instant access have potential to transform dramatically our lives, cities, societies and economies much like the railroad, telephone, automobile and Internet changed our world in the previous ages.This book contains chapters by leading international experts who discuss issues surrounding the impact of instant access on cities, daily lives, transportation, privacy, social and economic networks, community and education.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ultra-wideband (UWB), short-pulse (SP) electromagnetics are now being used for an increasingly wide variety of applications, including collision avoidance radar, concealed object detection, and communications. Notable progress in UWB and SP technologies has been achieved by investigations of their theoretical bases and improvements in solid-state manufacturing, computers, and digitizers. UWB radar systems are also being used for mine clearing, oil pipeline inspections, archeology, geology, and electronic effects testing. Ultra-Wideband Short-Pulse Electromagnetics 7 presents selected papers of deep technical content and high scientific quality from the UWB-SP7 Conference, including wide-ranging contributions on electromagnetic theory, scattering, UWB antennas, UWB systems, ground penetrating radar (GPR), UWB communications, pulsed-power generation, time-domain computational electromagnetics, UWB compatibility, target detection and discrimination, propagation through dispersive media, and wavelet and multi-resolution techniques. This book serves as an essential for scientists and engineers working in these applications areas.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a very comprehensive way this book covers all aspects of high power diode laser technology for materials processing. Basics as well as new application oriented results obtained in a government funded national German research project are described in detail. Along the technological chain after a short introduction in the second chapter diode laser bar technology is discussed regarding structure, manufacturing technology and metrology. The third chapter illuminates all aspects of mounting and cooling, whereas chapter four gives wide spanning details on beam forming, beam guiding and beam combination, which are essential topics for incoherently coupled multi-emitter based high power diode lasers. Metrology, standards and safety aspects are the theme of chapter five. As an outcome of all the knowledge from chapter two to four various system configurations of high power diode lasers are described in chapter six; not only systems focussed on best available beam quality but especially also so called 'modular' set-ups are considered, where assemblies adapted to special applications are chosen. Finally, a wide field of applications, performed with the systems described in chapter six is described in chapter seven.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In diesem Lehrbuch wird ein anwendungsorientierter Zugang zur mathematischen Theorie der Daten und des Zufalls entwickelt, der von Phänomenen des Alltags ausgeht und bis in die axiomatische Theorie der Wahrscheinlichkeit hineinreicht. Es richtet sich vor allem an Studierende des Lehramts Mathematik, ist aber auch als sinnstiftender Zugang zur Stochastik für andere Studierende der Mathematik (Diplom, BA) geeignet. Im Kapitel 'Beschreibende Statistik' werden Konzepte der Datenreduktion und -präsentation entwickelt. Der Aufbau der 'Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung' erfolgt von typischen Beispielen aus, wobei die geschichtliche und inhaltliche Entwicklung des Wahrscheinlichkeitsbegriffs ausführlich dargestellt werden. Diese beiden Teilgebiete werden im Kapitel 'Beurteilende Statistik' zusammengeführt. Den Abschluss bildet ein Ausblick auf die Anwendung stochastischer Methoden in den empirischen Wissenschaften. Zahlreiche Abbildungen sowie Lern- und Übungsaufgaben mit Lösungshinweisen runden die Darstellung ab.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Membranverfahren sind Ingenieuren und Naturwissenschaftlern längst mehr als nur ein Begriff. Unentbehrlich in Medizin, Wasser- und Lebensmitteltechnik, mit hohen Wachstumsraten im Umweltschutz und der Chemie gehören sie zu den Schlüsseltechnologien des 21. Jahrhunderts. Ging es aber um eine konkrete Anwendung oder einen Verfahrensvergleich oder waren gar Pilotversuche und dann eine Auslegung verlangt, so war guter Rat zwar nicht teuer, aber er lautete übereinstimmend: Bei Rautenbach nachlesen. Membranen spielen bei vielen Stoffaustauschprozessen in der Natur - wie beispielsweiseise beim Stoffwechsel von lebenden Zellen oder bei der Wasseraufnahme von Pflanzen - eine zentrale Rolle. Sie haben die Eigenschaft, bestimmte Stoffe hervorragend passieren zu lassen und für andere eine nahezu unüberwindbare Barriere darzustellen, d.h. sie sind in der Lage, zwischen den Komponenten einer Mischung zu unterscheiden. Mit der Herstellung synthetischer Membranen ist es gelungen, diese faszinierenden Austausch- und Trenneigenschaften der Membranprozesse auch für technische Prozesse in großem Maßstab nutzbar zu machen. Neben den physikalischen Grundlagen bilden insbesondere auch die ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Aspekte wie Modulkonstruktion, Optimierung des Anlagenbetriebs oder Minimierung der Betriebskosten einen Schwerpunkt der Technologie. Das IVT in Aachen unter Professor Melin setzt die Entwicklung unter Professor Rautenbach erfolgfreich fort. Das von Rautenbach begründete Buch wurde bereits zum zweiten Mal bearbeitet.Die dritte Auflage behält die erfolgreiche Kombination von Handbuch und Lehrbuch bei. Ausgehend von klar dargestellten Grundlagen werden die Werkzeuge und Methoden der Auslegung von Membranverfahren erarbeitet und an Beispielen demonstriert. Neuerungen im Vergleich zur Vorauflage finden sich u.a. zu den Themen Design von Modulen, Transportmechanismen in porösen Materialien und Membranreaktoren.