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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For classroom reading teachers and specialists, this unique resource is one of two volumes of 'Reading Stories for Comprehension Success' packed with ready-to-use story lessons and activities for building students' reading, comprehension, and writing skills in grades 1 through 6. Volume I, PRIMARY LEVEL, presents 45 detailed lessons, reproducible story selections and questions, and related activities for reading grade levels 1, 2, and 3. Volume II, INTERMEDIATE LEVEL, presents 45 detailed lessons, reproducible story selections and questions, and related activities for reading grade levels 4, 5, and 6. The story lessons and activities in both volumes are designed with modifications for the learning disabled built in. They can be used with all regular and special students in any basal or whole language reading program, and help increase students' confidence, interest, and involvement in learning while growing comprehension skills. You'll find 15 story lessons at each grade level. Each story lesson is organized into the following sections: About the Story: A brief overview introduces the story's topic, e.g., 'Fast-Food Computers' (Reading Level 2) or 'The Mystery of St. Elmo's Fire' (Reading Level 4). Preview Words: A helpful word list introduces students to any unfamiliar vocabulary. Books to Read: Recommended books relate to the subject of the story lesson. Videos/CD's, Records & Cassettes: These additional resources will help get students hooked into the story lesson. Introductory Activities: Role-playing, card games, crafts projects, and other activities familiarize students with the topics of the story. The Story: Each factual story is designed to capture and hold children's interest and is accompanied by a reproducible full-page picture. Questions: Specially designed comprehension questions require students to think out their answer and respond with complete, written sentences. Extension Activities: Projects, plays, and a variety of other activities allow the student to experience the subject beyond the story. Each grade-level volume also includes a special introduction offering detailed suggestions for using 'Reading Stories for Comprehension Success' with students of all abilities. This covers teaching strategies, reading ability guidelines, sentence writing lessons, and directions for effective use of the pre-tests, teacher lesson plans, and student data sheets. In short, 'Reading Stories for Comprehension Success' gives you a single developmental program you can use with all of the regular and special students in your classroom. It provides maximum flexibility in lesson preparation and the freedom to base each lesson on your students' needs.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The SUPERMEN'After a rare speech at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, in 1976, programmers in the audience had suddenly fallen silent when Cray offered to answer questions. He stood there for several minutes, waiting for their queries, but none came. When he left, the head of NCAR's computing division chided the programmers. 'Why didn't someone raise a hand ' After a tense moment, one programmer replied, 'How do you talk to God '' -from The SUPERMEN The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards behind the Supercomputer'They were building revolutionary, not evolutionary, machines. . . . They were blazing a trail-molding science into a product. . . . The freedom to create was extraordinary.' -from The SupermenIn 1951, a soft-spoken, skinny young man fresh from the University of Minnesota took a job in an old glider factory in St. Paul. Computer technology would never be the same, for the glider factory was the home of Engineering Research Associates and the recent college grad was Seymour R. Cray. During his extraordinary career, Cray would be alternately hailed as 'the Albert Einstein,' 'the Thomas Edison,' and 'the Evel Knievel' of supercomputing. At various times, he was all three-a master craftsman, inventor, and visionary whose disdain for the rigors of corporate life became legendary, and whose achievements remain unsurpassed.The Supermen is award-winning writer Charles J. Murray's exhilarating account of how the brilliant-some would say eccentric-Cray and his gifted colleagues blazed the trail that led to the Information Age. This is a thrilling, real-life scientific adventure, deftly capturing the daring, seat-of-the-pants spirit of the early days of computer development, as well as an audacious, modern-day David and Goliath battle, in which a group of maverick engineers beat out IBM to become the runaway industry leaders.Murray's briskly paced narrative begins during the final months of the Second World War, when men such as William Norris and Howard Engstrom began researching commercial applications for the code-breaking machines of wartime, and charts the rise of technological research in response to the Cold War. In those days computers were huge, cumbersome machines with names like Demon and Atlas. When Cray came on board, things quickly changed.Drawing on in-depth interviews-including the last interview Cray completed before his untimely and tragic death-Murray provides rare insight into Cray's often controversial approach to his work. Cray could spend exhausting hours in single-minded pursuit of a particular goal, and Murray takes us behind the scenes to witness late-night brainstorming sessions and miraculous eleventh-hour fixes. Cray's casual, often hostile attitude toward management, although alienating to some, was more than a passionate need for independence; he simply thought differently than others. Seymour Cray saw farther and faster, and trusted his vision with an unassailable confidence. Yet he inspired great loyalty as well, making it possible for his own start-up company, Cray Research, to bring the 54,000-employee conglomerate of Control Data to its knees.Ultimately, The Supermen is a story of genius, and how a unique set of circumstances-a small-team approach, corporate detachment, and a government-backed marketplace-enabled that genius to flourish. In an atmosphere of unparalleled freedom and creativity, Seymour Cray's vision and drive fueled a technological revolution from which America would emerge as the world's leader in supercomputing. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This program translates each style into a mode of thinking so groups and departments can realize the talents at their disposal to accomplish various goals. Using Enneagram personality styles, this program helps people: - Recognize their strengths in resolving problems - Tailor communication style to be most effective in various situations - Optimize interactions with people of differing styles to deter conflict - Understand their role in problem-solving processes . . . and more! This is an excellent tool for furthering process improvement, management skills, team development, and more! Be sure to give each participant a set of reminder cards to use as a daily and spur-of-the-moment reminder of behaviors as they work to improve their problem-solving skills.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Beyond the Numbers How Leading Companies Measure and Drive Success William L. Simon 'This book stands at the intersection of management and money, the place where modern business fundamentals and current financial principles come together. Business managers have traditionally used accounting-based financials that looked backward, at the wake--showing where the organization had been; today, they are learning to use financials that look forward toward the horizon.' --from the Preface Businesses can't afford to have a financial system which only measures its past. In order to build a successful company, you need a financial system that also shows you how to plan your company's future. This must-have book for executives, managers, analysts, and other stakeholders, will show you how to refine your current financials or thoroughly overhaul them. In Beyond the Numbers, you have the opportunity to profit from the experiences of CEOs and CFOs at market leading companies in a variety of industries. You will learn how to build a truly effective corporate financial system--one that: \* Ensures accurate financial reporting that emphasizes necessary details \* Educates key business managers about the refined financial measures needed to reach strategic goals \* Enables financial and operating managers to communicate key data analyses effectively \* Empowers key personnel throughout the company with a clear understanding of the links between financial measurements and overall business strategies \* Emphasizes the right themes when reporting financial health to investment analysts and the business press. Numbers are meaningless unless they are gathered, interpreted, and utilized in the right way. The methods and methodologies captured in Beyond the Numbers will help you to better recognize your company's strengths, maximize its opportunities, and optimize its future.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As a member of the board of directors of several major international financial services corporations, Patricia Pitcher was in a privileged position to observe the inner workings of the corporate world. What she witnessed was a crisis of leadership rooted in a misunderstanding of what leading is all about. Not content to simply offer an opinion-opinions come cheap-she embarked on an eight-year research project to document the reasons for the rapid collapse of a global giant. That collapse, she shows us, began with one critical succession error and was compounded by a chronic failure to understand the importance of personality in the leadership equation. One wrong person at the helm turned a dream into a nightmare.In The Drama of Leadership, Patricia Pitcher shares her findings and, in the process, explodes a number of popular myths about leadership, including the one that leadership and vision are qualities that can be taught in management seminars. She refutes the common belief that leaders are in short supply and proves that the corporate talent pool abounds with potential leaders whose talents either go unrecognized or are tragically undervalued. And she explains why, at a time when vision, innovation, humanity, and passion are so desperately needed, so many companies cast in leadership roles people who possess none of these qualities, and who distrust anyone who does.But who are the good and bad leaders, and how do you identify them In answer to this question, Patricia Pitcher identifies three types of leaders: Artists, who are people-oriented, open-minded, intuitive, and visionary; Craftsmen, to whom the adjectives 'humane,' 'dedicated,' and 'wise' best apply; and Technocrats - brilliant and well-schooled in the latest theory, they are detail-oriented, rigid, methodical, self-centered, and, when left in control, pose a serious threat to corporate competitiveness. The power struggles between these types are dramas being played out in companies everywhere. Whether the story has a happy or an unhappy ending depends entirely upon which type gets top billing.The author also offers her wise recommendations on what companies can do to protect themselves against a technocratic hegemony and how to cultivate the talents of Artists and Craftsmen. She also tells you how to determine what type of leader you are and how to interact with other types to achieve both personal and corporate success.The Drama of Leadership is an articulate, insightful, passionate appeal to develop the kind of leaders and organizations that can take us into the twenty-first century.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The second, fully revised edition of this best-selling handbook features wide ranging, updated overviews of developments worldwide by leading international specialists of developments worldwide from the UK, USA, Europe and Australia as well as ccontributions on all aspects of HRM practice including, for the first time in this edition, chapters on HRM in public sector organizations, its role in the development of business ethics, and HRM in Information technology. The cases retain updated studies of Ford, Sainsbury and the controversial Rosyth Royal Dockyard as well as new cases of teamworking in an electronics multinational and two studies from Ghana and Korea on the impact of national culture on management.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Small Store Survival should challenge retailers' views of small store retailing by questioning key areas of business. What is the vision for the store in 10 years How have the customers changed over the past few years How current are the managers about what customers genuinely like and dislike What is being done to attract, educate, and motivate the best retail talent in the area How effective is the merchandising strategy What plans exist for succession.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is a real-world critique of the ideologies and theories of health care management as applied to today's practice. Central issues such as people management and workplace education are approached from contemporary, theoretical and practical perspectives. Concepts of training, quality, finance, information and transition management are considered in detail with a strong emphasis on inter-professional working. Excellence in Health Care Management will appeal to students studying general management courses as well as human resource managers, health professionals, and management trainees. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the author of Four Critical Years--a book the Journal of Higher Education called the most cited work in higher education literature--What Matters in College presents the definitive study of how students change and develop in college and how colleges can enhance that development. Based on a study of more than 20,000 students, 25,000 faculty members, and 200 institutions, the book shows how academic programs, faculty, student peer groups, and other variables affect students' college experiences.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Credit Union Investment Management provides an in-depth examination of the methods executives use to achieve investment objectives and maximize returns on invested capital, while measuring and minimizing risk. Complete coverage includes: detailed features of investment vehicles, yield measures and their limitations, total return analysis, and stress testing.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A one-of-a-kind book that shows you how to cash in on the latest investing trend--short selling.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The authors have done an admirable job.This book is a revealing and fascinating glimpse of the technologies which may rule the financial world in the years to come. --The Financial Times, February 1997 [This] new book looks at the progress made, both in practice and in theory, toward producing a usable model of the market. Some of the theoretical foundations of efficient market theory are being demolished.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A complete blueprint for all types of restaurant development--from concept through constructionWhether you are planning a small neighborhood bistro or an expansive hotel eatery, Restaurant Planning, Design, and Construction provides you with the specific information and in-depth guidance you need to navigate the restaurant development process effectively. With easy-to-use worksheets, checklists, review procedures, and guidelines, this comprehensive manual can help you to avoid the pitfalls of miscommunication, omission, and faulty execution that can mean the difference between your success and failure. Taking you step by step through each phase of the development process, the book shows you how to: Assemble and manage your restaurant development team Prepare a marketable business plan to use when seeking financial backing Approach site evaluation, budgets, scheduling, and more Write a detailed operational plan of how the restaurant will function Prepare an effective design program to fulfill your operational requirements Coordinate key elements of planning and design Manage the construction phase, pre-opening activities, and follow-upNo matter what your business background--catering, marketing, management, or finance--this self-contained guide is one resource you will not want to be without.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Destined to become a market classic, Dynamic Hedging is the only practical reference in exotic options hedgingand arbitrage for professional traders and money managersWatch the professionals. From central banks to brokerages to multinationals, institutional investors are flocking to a new generation of exotic and complex options contracts and derivatives. But the promise of ever larger profits also creates the potential for catastrophic trading losses. Now more than ever, the key to trading derivatives lies in implementing preventive risk management techniques that plan for and avoid these appalling downturns. Unlike other books that offer risk management for corporate treasurers, Dynamic Hedging targets the real-world needs of professional traders and money managers. Written by a leading options trader and derivatives risk advisor to global banks and exchanges, this book provides a practical, real-world methodology for monitoring and managing all the risks associated with portfolio management.Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the founder of Empirica Capital LLC, a hedge fund operator, and a fellow at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He has held a variety of senior derivative trading positions in New York and London and worked as an independent floor trader in Chicago. Dr. Taleb was inducted in February 2001 in the Derivatives Strategy Hall of Fame. He received an MBA from the Wharton School and a Ph.D. from University Paris-Dauphine.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The definitive practical guide to understanding and solving seepageand drainage problems Now in its third edition, this unique resource offers simplemethods for analyzing and designing seepage and groundwater controlsystems for all major types of civil engineering works. Completewith solid coverage of seepage principles and flow netconstruction, this book is an invaluable aid to engineeringprofessionals and students in mastering this vital subject. Seepage, Drainage, and Flow Nets, Third Edition, features: \* Clear explanations of Darcy's law, permeability, and other coreconcepts \* Seepage analyses and drainage designs for earth dams, levees,foundations, earth slopes, roads, airfields, streets, parking lots,and more \* Information on contemporary topics, including 'wick' drains,'fin' drains, and the protection of groundwaters from contamination \* An assessment of computer solutions to seepage and drainageproblems \* Over 100 examples of flow nets, ranging from the simple to thecomplex --accompanied by step-by-step instructions \* Useful chapter references to facilitate further study.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Unifies the field of optimization with a few geometric principles.The number of books that can legitimately be called classics in their fields is small indeed, but David Luenberger's Optimization by Vector Space Methods certainly qualifies. Not only does Luenberger clearly demonstrate that a large segment of the field of optimization can be effectively unified by a few geometric principles of linear vector space theory, but his methods have found applications quite removed from the engineering problems to which they were first applied. Nearly 30 years after its initial publication, this book is still among the most frequently cited sources in books and articles on financial optimization.The book uses functional analysis --the study of linear vector spaces --to impose simple, intuitive interpretations on complex, infinite-dimensional problems. The early chapters offer an introduction to functional analysis, with applications to optimization. Topics addressed include linear space, Hilbert space, least-squares estimation, dual spaces, and linear operators and adjoints. Later chapters deal explicitly with optimization theory, discussing Optimization of functionals Global theory of constrained optimization Local theory of constrained optimization Iterative methods of optimization.End-of-chapter problems constitute a major component of this book and come in two basic varieties. The first consists of miscellaneous mathematical problems and proofs that extend and supplement the theoretical material in the text; the second, optimization problems, illustrates further areas of application and helps the reader formulate and solve practical problems.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The last few years have seen important advances in the use ofgenetic algorithms to address challenging optimization problems inindustrial engineering. Genetic Algorithms and Engineering Designis the only book to cover the most recent technologies and theirapplication to manufacturing, presenting a comprehensive and fullyup-to-date treatment of genetic algorithms in industrialengineering and operations research. Beginning with a tutorial on genetic algorithm fundamentals andtheir use in solving constrained and combinatorial optimizationproblems, the book applies these techniques to problems in specificareas--sequencing, scheduling and production plans, transportationand vehicle routing, facility layout, location-allocation, andmore. Each topic features a clearly written problem description,mathematical model, and summary of conventional heuristicalgorithms. All algorithms are explained in intuitive, rather thanhighly-technical, language and are reinforced with illustrativefigures and numerical examples. Written by two internationally acknowledged experts in the field,Genetic Algorithms and Engineering Design features originalmaterial on the foundation and application of genetic algorithms,and also standardizes the terms and symbols used in othersources--making this complex subject truly accessible to thebeginner as well as to the more advanced reader. Ideal for both self-study and classroom use, this self-containedreference provides indispensable state-of-the-art guidance toprofessionals and students working in industrial engineering,management science, operations research, computer science, andartificial intelligence. The only comprehensive, state-of-the-arttreatment available on the use of genetic algorithms in industrialengineering and operations research . . . Written by internationally recognized experts in the field ofgenetic algorithms and artificial intelligence, Genetic Algorithmsand Engineering Design provides total coverage of currenttechnologies and their application to manufacturing systems.Incorporating original material on the foundation and applicationof genetic algorithms, this unique resource also standardizes theterms and symbols used in other sources--making this complexsubject truly accessible to students as well as experiencedprofessionals. Designed for clarity and ease of use, thisself-contained reference: \* Provides a comprehensive survey of selection strategies, penaltytechniques, and genetic operators used for constrained andcombinatorial optimization problems \* Shows how to use genetic algorithms to make production schedules,solve facility/location problems, make transportation/vehiclerouting plans, enhance system reliability, and much more \* Contains detailed numerical examples, plus more than 160auxiliary figures to make solution procedures transparent andunderstandable.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ecological Assessment of Polymers Strategies for Product Stewardship and Regulatory Programs John D. Hamilton and Roger Sutcliffe The expense of providing ecological assessments of new commercial products is formidable. The cost of the failure to comply with the current regulations--measured in fines, liability damages, and loss of public trust--is potentially much, much higher. Establishing effective environmental product stewardship strategies for assessment upfront not only promotes initial and continued compliance, it can reduce costs via the more efficient development of new products. Based on the collaboration of the Rohm and Haas Company and S.C. Johnson Wax with other manufacturers, contract laboratories, universities, and government agencies, Ecological Assessment of Polymers is the first complete reference to provide environment-oriented information about polymers from a product development and regulatory compliance perspective. A number of books deal with the potential hazards of pesticides and solvents. This is the first to focus on the commercial synthetic polymers that exist in laundry detergents, paints, super-absorbent diapers, packaging materials, and many other consumer and industrial products. Using the principles of environmental toxicology and chemistry, Ecological Assessment of Polymers approaches environmental evaluation as a decision-making process. The book demonstrates how assessment can be used as a planning tool for developing products, reducing potential liability, and creating new products, processes, and disposal systems. Featured discussions: \* Overviews of methods, instrumentation, and databases used by environmental scientists to assess processes/products involving polymers \* Environmental regulatory assessment schemes for preventing dangerous environmental exposure during manufacture, use, transport, storage, and disposal \* Interpretations of ecotoxicity and fate tests with polymers \* New directions of research in degradable polymers \* Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) of polymers \* Polymer regulations from the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Pacific Region Authoritative, accessible, and comprehensive, Ecological Assessment of Polymers fills a void in the working libraries of technical managers, product development personnel, environmental chemists and engineers, regulatory staff, environmental toxicologists, and students.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work brigdges the compartmentalized undergraduate organic and biochemistry and biology subjects to the pharmacology and the clinical areas a modern pharmacy practice requires. The changes and constantly increasing responsibilities of today's pharmacist have dictated a restructuring of the pharmacy curriculum, including individual course content. This book reflects and addresses these developments. This is a well-written work that covers most major areas of pharmaceutical research. The text is presented in a logical and concise fashion being divided into chapters based upon therapeutic topic. This makes the work very useful for teaching a course in medicinal chemistry since therapeutic areas can be separately covered without having to make use of the entire book which overall contains a tremendous amount of information. This book is a significant contribution to understanding what medicinal chemistry is and how this science is used to develop new therapeutic agents.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Summary of contents:1. Preface2. Chemistry of Explosives3. Mechanics of Burning4. Sound, Shock, and Detonation5. Ignition and Initiators6. Scaling in Design and Analysis7. Off-the-Shelf Explosive Devices8. Classification, Transportation, and Storage of Explosives9. Explosive Facilities and Explosive Operations10. Appendix11. Index; Eine kurze, gut verständliche Einführung in die Technologie der Explosivstoffe - Chemie, Verbrennungsvorgänge, Druckwellen und Zündungstechniken. Eine wertvolle Hilfe bei der Verständigung mit Fachleuten! Sie lernen auch, einfache ingenieurtechnische Berechnungen selbständig auszuführen. Ein praktischer Begleiter für die Ausbildung. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The aim of this book is to suggest and exemplify a systematic methodology for analysing survival data which contains 'immune', or 'cured' individuals, denoted generically as 'long-term survivors'. Such data occurs in medical and epidemiological applications, where the intention may be to identify whether or not cured or immune individuals are present in a population, perhaps as a result of treatments given; in the analysis of recidivism data in criminology, where the intentions are similar with respect to prisoners released from and possibly returning to prison; and in many other areas where followup data is available on individuals, with the possibility that not all suffer the event under investigation. Both nonparametric and parametric methods are proposed and developed. The effects of covariate information can be assessed via a kind of generalised linear framework in the parametric analyses. The proposed methodologies are supported by asymptotic analyses and simulations of real situations. While these theoretical underpinnings are presented in reasonable rigour and detail, the book is aimed very much at the practitioner who wishes to analyse survival data with (or even without) immunes.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The main objective of the authors is to deliver specifications and underlying concepts for future computer-aided tools for the design and the control of flexible manufacturing systems for mechanical and electro-mechanical assemblies. This book presents an integrated computer-aided method which supports a concurrent engineering approach for assembled products. This integrated method is divided in several modules which analyse the ease of assembly of a design, the assembly order, the design of an assembly workshop, and the simulation of the workshop taking into account scheduling and flow control. Automatic, semi-automatic and manual utilisations are presented for each module. Communication between design and manufacturing has been emphasised. The environment in this book is a real concurrent engineering one and for the first time the concurrent engineering steps are integrated in a CAD system. The method has been implemented in one of the world s most used CAD systems: CATIA.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides comprehensive treatment of wind effects on structures. It starts with the load chain, then moves on to meteorological considerations, atmospheric boundary layer, static wind load, dynamic wind load and scaling laws used in wind-tunnel tests. Includes the latest information on the Euronorms: Eurocode 1, Actions on Structures. Provides a logical and comprehensive treatment of the basic principles. Wind Loads on Structures Claës Dyrbye Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby Svend O. Hansen Svend Ole Hansen, Consulting Engineers, Copenhagen, Denmark Wind loads have to be taken into account when designing civil engineering structures. The wind load on structures can be systematised by means of the wind load chain: wind climate (global wind), terrain (wind at low height), aerodynamic response (wind flow to pressure), mechanical response (wind pressure to structural response) and design criteria. Starting with an introduction of the wind load chain, the book moves on to meteorological considerations, atmospheric boundary layer, static wind load, dynamic wind load and scaling laws used in wind-tunnel tests. The dynamic wind load covers vibrations induced by wind turbulence, vortex shedding, flutter and galloping. The book gives a comprehensive treatment of wind effects on structures and it will be useful for consulting engineers designing wind-sensitive structures. It will also be valuable for students of civil engineering as textbook or background material. It derives the theoretical background of wind loaded structures and gives practical applications for a large variety of structures, such as low rise static structures, buildings, chimneys and cable-supported bridges. The European Prestandard on Wind Actions, ENV 1991-2-4, is used throughout the book as a code reference.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ein detailliertes Bild der neuesten Erkenntnisse zur biologischen Energieumwandlung und Evolution vermittelt diese Monographie. Renommierte Autoren legen ihre Standpunkte zu Entwicklung und Wechselbeziehung in bakteriellen, pflanzlichen und tierischen Systemen auf molekularer Ebene dar. Für Biochemiker, Biologen und Interessenten angrenzender Fachgebiete.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This graduate text, and Cooper's companion introductory text ('Introduction to the Technology of Explosives'), serve the same markets as the successful explosives reference by Meyer, now in its 4th edition. VCH also published the International Journal of Propellants, Explosives, and Pyrotechnics. The resulting package would give VCH the major presence in the field.This text presents the basic technologies used in the engineering of explosives and explosive systems, i.e., chemistry, burning, detonation, shock waves, initiation theories, scaling. The book is written for upper-division undergraduate or graduate-level scientists and engineers, and assumes a good grasp of basic physics, chemistry, mechanics and mathematic through calculus. It is based on lecture notes used for graduate courses at the Dept. of Energy Laboratories, and could serve as a core text for a course at schools of mining or military engineering. The intent of the book is to provide the engineer or scientist in the field with an understanding of the phenomena involved and the engineering tools needed to solve/ design/ analyze a broad range of real problems. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Die wichtigsten Möglichkeiten des Einsatzes von Lasern in der Atomspektroskopie - übersichtlich zusammengestellt und kritisch diskutiert! Diese erste Monographie zum Thema bringt Ihnen vielfältige Aspekte dieses noch jungen Gebietes nahe, von dem man sich eine stürmische Entwicklung im Verlauf der nächste 4-5 Jahre verspricht. Neben einer zügigen, mathematisch nicht überladenen Einführung in die Grundlagen der Atomspektroskopie und Lasertechnologie erfahren Sie von anerkannten Spezialisten Einzelheiten zur Atomfluoreszenzspektroskopie mit Laseranregung, Laserablation (Probenpräparation in ICP-MS und ICP-AES), zur laserinduzierten Emissionsspektrometrie (LIBS) und laserverstärkten Ionisationsspektrometrie (LEI).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Chemiker von internationaler Reputation präsentieren die neuesten Erkenntnisse auf diesem Gebiet. Topaktuelle Artikel mit zahlreichen Abbildungen behandeln eine viefältige Reihe von Themen, wie z.B. den Einsatz der Röntgenkristallstrukturanalyse zur Klassifizierung von molekularen und stofflich-anorganischen Substanzen. (10/97).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Transgenic Plants: A Production System for Industrial andPharmaceutical Proteins provides a detailed guide to the principlesand practice of using transgenic plants as a system for theproduction of heterologous proteins. It is unique in that it coversthe complete process of heterologous protein production in plants,from the initial transformation of the plant, through totranscription, transgene stability and finally the downstreamingprocessing events for protein purification. Written by aninternational team of industrialists and academics, this bookdescribes: \* the fundamental issues associated with expressing heterologousproteins in plants; \* a number of detailed examples of the successful small-andlarge-scale production of proteins; \* the essentials of patenting; and \* the commercial exploitation. Transgenic Plants: A Production System for Industrial andPharmaceutical Proteins will be of interest to plantbiotechnologists, molecular biologists and protein biochemists inthe biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Design encompasses some of the highest cognitive abilities of human beings, including creativity, synthesis and problem solving. A substantial and varied range of research methods has been developed and adopted for the analysis of design activity, but until now it has been difficult to compare the work of different researchers using different methods. This book contains the results of an international workshop held in Delft, The Netherlands, which focused on one particular research method, that of protocol analysis. Researchers from seventeen different leading centres around the world were invited to analyse the same video recordings of designers working on an engineering product design. The 20 chapters in this book are the records of that workshop, providing rich insights into the design process and an overview of accumulated knowledge on design from these researchers. There is also a discussion of the properties and limitations of protocol analysis as a research technique for analysing design activity. The book is a substantial contribution to developing understanding of the nature of design activity, and is of value to researchers, teachers and practitioners of design.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Diese Reihe untersucht eine breite Palette von Themen zur chemischen Physik. Die Themenkomplexe werden umfassend erläutert, so daß sich auch Neulinge auf diesem Gebiet einen guten Überblick verschaffen können. (10/97).