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Sociodynamics
A Systematic Approach to Mathematical Modelling in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
An introduction to terminology, approaches, and goals in modelling, this well-organized text deals with applications and their mathematical methods. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it requires a solid background in algebra and calculus. Topics include population dynamics,...
The Independence of the Media and its Regulatory Agencies
Shedding New Light on Formal and Actual Independence against the National Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Media independence is vital for democracies, and so is the independence of the regulatory bodies governing it.The Independence of the Media and its Regulatory Agencies explores the complex relationship between media governance and independence of media regulatory authorities within Europe, which...
by Wolfgang Mr. Bergthaler, Kenneth Mr. Kang, Yan Ms. Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
The global financial crisis has left a large private sector debt overhang and high levels of non- performing loans (NPLs) in several European countries. Small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) represent a significant and weak segment of the nonfinancial corporate sector. SMEs face a number of legal,...
Anti-Corruption
Implementing Curriculum Change in Management Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Successful businesses are built on trust. Employees and colleagues need to trust one another and they need to deserve and receive trust from customers and suppliers. Anti-Corruption provides resources for building trust through the implementation of comprehensive guidelines on how to professionalize...
CAPEX Excellence
Optimizing Fixed Asset Investments
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Much of current management literature focuses on a limited set of 'classical' value levers, such as cost reduction, sales optimization or mergers & acquisitions, thus neglecting another core value lever: capital investments. That capital investments receive such limited attention is all the more...
by Zorana Grbac, Wolfgang Runggaldier
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
Filling a gap in the literature caused by the recent financial crisis, this book provides a treatment of the techniques needed to model and evaluate interest rate derivatives according to the new paradigm for fixed income markets. Concerning this new development, there presently exist only research...
by Johannes Pittermann, Angela Pittermann, Wolfgang Minker
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
In this book, a novel approach that combines speech-based emotion recognition with adaptive human-computer dialogue modeling is described. With the robust recognition of emotions from speech signals as their goal, the authors analyze the effectiveness of using a plain emotion recognizer, a speech-emotion...
Social Entrepreneurship
An Evidence-Based Approach to Creating Social Value
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Social entrepreneurship explained
Social entrepreneurship is a hot topic in public and non-profit management. Organizations everywhere are looking for innovative ways to respond to financial, social, and regulatory pressures. The next generation of transformative leaders will be risk takers...
Nagios, 2nd Edition
System and Network Monitoring
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Good system administrators recognize problems long before anyone asks, "Hey, is the Internet down?" Nagios, an open source system and network monitoring tool, has emerged as the most popular solution for sys admins in organizations of all sizes. It's robust but also complex, and Nagios:...
Inter-organizational Cooperation with SAP Solutions
Design and Management of Supply Networks
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
While this book provides a brief introduction to the theory of co-operations and the foundations of logistics, service management and supply chain management, the main focus is on examining SAP systems in order to support inter-company co-operations. The authors present both well-known logistics solutions,...
Tanning Chemistry
The Science of Leather
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Even in the 21st Century, the manufacture of leather retains an air of the dark arts, still somewhat shrouded in the mysteries of a millennia old, craft based industry. Despite the best efforts of a few scientists over the last century or so, much of the understanding of the principles of tanning...
Designing for Designers (Routledge Revivals)
Lessons Learned from Schools of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
First published in 2007, this book examines the designs of seventeen architecture and design schools and answers questions such as: How has architectural education evolved and what is its future? Are architectural schools discernible types of designs and what are their effects on those who experience...
Materials Design Inspired by Nature
Function Through Inner Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
The inner architecture of a material can have an astonishing effect on its overall properties and is vital to understand when designing new materials. Nature is a master at designing hierarchical structures and so researchers are looking at biological examples for inspiration, specifically to understand...
Clinical Psychology
A Modern Health Profession
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Clinical Psychology invites students to think like clinical psychologists and develop an integrated sense of how science, experience, ethical behavior, and intuition get woven into our professional identity. Built around typical psychologists and the problems they need to solve, it demonstrates that...