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Eigensinn und Bindung
Katholische Intellektuelle im 20. Jahrhundert
Language: German
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Ob in Philosophie, Literatur, Bildenden Künsten, Publizistik oder Politik - katholische deutsche Intellektuelle haben die geistige Landschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts wesentlich mitgeprägt. Sie stellten Fragen an die Zeit und ihre Mitmenschen, die anderen nicht einfielen oder die sie nicht zu stellen...
Communication Ethics and Crisis
Negotiating Differences in Public and Private Spheres
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
This collection of essays extends the conversation on communication ethics and crisis communication to offer practical wisdom for meeting the challenges of a complex and ever-changing world. In multiple contexts ranging from the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and family to the political and public,...
Gravissimum Educationis
Golden Opportunities in American Catholic Education 50 Years after Vatican II
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Gravissimus Educationis: Golden Opportunities in American Catholic Education 50 Years after Vatican II reviews the development of American Catholic schools since the promulgation of Gravissimus Educationis, the only document on education produced by the Ecumenical Council known as Vatican II. This...
by Alla V. Bailey, Massoud J. Miri, Roman J. Press
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Introduces the field of hydrogen technology and explains the basic chemistry underlying promising and innovative new technologies
This new and completely updated edition of Introduction to Hydrogen Technology explains, at an introductory level, the scientific and technical aspects of hydrogen...
by Tahir S. Shamsi, Jens Langhoff-Roos, Charles J. Lockwood
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Reproductive hemostasis: A global approach to a global challenge
A hemostatic change in women through their reproductive lifetime is emerging as an issue of global importance. No wonder, as obstetric hemorrhage remains a major cause of maternal mortality in both developed and developing countries....
Modelling Population Dynamics
Model Formulation, Fitting and Assessment using State-Space Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This book gives a unifying framework for estimating the abundance of open populations: populations subject to births, deaths and movement, given imperfect measurements or samples of the populations. The focus is primarily on populations of vertebrates for which dynamics are typically modelled within...
Scheduling of Power Generation
A Large-Scale Mixed-Variable Model
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
The book contains description of a real life application of modern mathematical optimization tools in an important problem solution for power networks. The objective is the modelling and calculation of optimal daily scheduling of power generation, by thermal power plants, to satisfy all demands...
by Peter J.B. Slater, Jay S. Rosenblatt, Timothy J. Roper
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 1999
Advances in the Study of Behavior continues to serve scientists across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Focusing on new theories and research developments with respect to behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, and comparative psychology, these volumes foster cooperation and communication in these diverse fields.
Discovering Leadership
Designing Your Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
Discovering Leadership: Designing Your Success by Anthony Middlebrooks, Scott J. Allen, Mindy McNutt, and James Morrison provides a practical, engaging foundation and easy-to-understand framework for individuals to purposefully design leadership. This action-oriented text starts with the self and...
Minding the Weather
How Expert Forecasters Think
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
A detailed study of research on the psychology of expertise in weather forecasting, drawing on findings in cognitive science, meteorology, and computer science.
This book argues that the human cognition system is the least understood, yet probably most important, component of forecasting accuracy....
Wastewater Management for Coastal Cities
The Ocean Disposal Option
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Protection of coastal waters from direct pollution by coastal cities is a vital task in preserving marine ecosystems and promoting human health. This book, edited by two leading experts on wastewater management for coastal cities, delves deeply into the ecological and oceanographic fundamentals that...
by J. J. Landsberg, S. T. Gower, Jacques Roy
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 1997
Forest management is a complex process that now incorporates information obtained from many sources. It is increasingly obvious that the physiological status of the trees in a forest has a dramatic impact on the likely success of any particular management strategy. Indeed, models described in this...
Corneal Surgery E-Book
Theory Technique and Tissue
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
This updated, full-color 4th edition features a greatly expanded surgical focus for a practical guide to corneal surgery. The expert guidance of internationally renowned editors provides you with authoritative and current coverage that takes you from an in-depth exploration corneal function as related...
From the Pleistocene to the Holocene
Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...