This book, the third one of three volumes, focuses on data and the actions around data, like storage and processing. The angle shifts over the volumes from a business-driven approach in "Disruption and DNA" to a strong technical focus in "Data Storage, Processing and Analysis", leaving "Digitalization and Machine Learning Applications" with the business and technical aspects in-between. In the last volume of the series, "Data Storage, Processing and Analysis", the shifts in the way we deal with data are addressed.
Discover the Basics of Thermodynamics with the Field's Leading Textbook for over Thirty Years Thermodynamics is the branch of physics concerning the relationship between heat and temperature on the one hand, and energy, entropy, and the properties of matter on the other. Its engineering applications are innumerable, and include engine design, heat transfer, air conditioning and refrigeration, energy conversion, and more. For more than three decades, Fundamentals of Thermodynamics has served as the foundational introduction to this subject for students and interested readers. Now fully updated to incorporate the latest research and new pedagogical tools, it promises to continue as the field's indispensable survey. Readers of the Eleventh Edition of Fundamentals of Thermodynamics will find: Detailed, step-by-step worked-through examples to facilitate learningNew material on statistical thermodynamics and other burgeoning subjectsAn expansive collection of online resources including bonus chapters, additional problem sets, study problems, and more Fundamentals of Thermodynamics is ideal for students and instructors in thermodynamics or engineering of thermodynamics at the intermediate or advanced undergraduate level.
This book, the second one of three volumes, gives practical examples by a number of use cases showing how to take first steps in the digital journey of banks and insurance companies. The angle shifts over the volumes from a business-driven approach in "Disruption and DNA" to a strong technical focus in "Data Storage, Processing and Analysis", leaving "Digitalization and Machine Learning Applications" with the business and technical aspects in-between. This second volume mainly emphasizes use cases as well as the methods and technologies applied to drive digital transformation (such as processes, leveraging computational power and machine learning models).
This book, one of three volumes, showcases the effective transformation of companies providing banking and insurance services. This first volume gives a business-oriented introduction to the setting and the current challenges of fintech, regtech, and insurtech and provides an outlook on what will be needed in the future. Specific sub-departments in financial services are examined with a view to accounting, risk, and regulatory segments. The book also addresses the importance of cultural aspects of the coming digital transformation with an eye to requirements that will enable a digital bank or insurance company to thrive in 2025. The angle shifts over the volumes from a business-driven approach in "Disruption and DNA" to a strong technical focus in "Data Storage, Processing and Analysis", leaving "Digitalization and Machine Learning Applications" with the business and technical aspects in-between.
This open access collection deals with musical moments in film as one of the most pivotal and compelling issues of current film music research. Musical moments as defined by Amy Herzog occur when a musical number inverts the normal relationship between the image track and the soundtrack in a film in such a way that what we see is determined by what we hear. As one potential approach, this definition provokes a variety of perspectives to investigate the disruptive potential of these moments and numbers as a creative device in the production of audiovisual narratives. In this sense, the book responds to a need for an anthology that introduces students as well as scholars of cinema, musicology, media studies and cultural studies more broadly, to recent discourses in film music scholarship. The volume includes contributions by early career researchers as well as by established experts in the fields of musicology, film studies, media studies, and cultural studies, promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration in film music research.
Notre culture est entrée il y a près de 50 ans dans l'ère numérique. Impactant ses techniques de production, ses canaux de diffusion et ses modes de consommation, cette transformation a notamment redécoupé les frontières traditionnelles qui permettaient d'identifier différents « arts » ou « médias ». Cet ouvrage retrace l'évolution propre de chaque média confronté aux technologies numériques, puis envisage le phénomène de la convergence médiatique qui a conduit à l'interconnection des médias traditionnels. Il offre enfin un aperçu des principaux paradigmes et des problématiques incontournables qui émergent dans un tel contexte.Ouvrage collectif réunissant 15 autres auteurs, enseignants et/ou chercheurs en histoire et esthétique du cinéma, littérature, médias, journalisme et communication, sémiologie... : Jan BAETENS (Université de Leuven, Belgique), Julien BAUDRY (Université Paris Diderot, France), Alain BOILAT (Université de Lausanne, Suisse), Simon BROUSSEAU (Université du Québec, Canada), Danielle CHAPERON (Université de Lausanne, Suisse), Yves CITTON (Université Paris 8, France), Samuel ESTIER (Université de Lausanne, Suisse), Bertrand GERVAIS (Canada), Henry JENKINS (Université de Californie du Sud, USA), François JOST (Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris), Selim KRICHANE (Université de Lausanne, Suisse), Philippe MARION (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique), Izabella PLUTA (Ecole de théâtre Les Teintureries et Université de Lausanne, Suisse), Marie-Laure RYAN (Université du Colorado, USA), Richard SAINT-GELAIS (Université de Laval, Québec).
Color Atlas of Equine Pathology offers a practical guide to identifying equine diseases, presenting a single resource with more than 1000 images showing predominantly gross pathology. Organized by body systems, the book allows for picture matching during or after an equine necropsy. In this user-friendly atlas, each chapter takes a common format, presenting the disease process as well as congenital, degenerative, inflammatory, and neoplastic sequences, with text boxes offering quick reference to key information. The book begins with an introductory chapter summarizing the principles of the equine field necropsy, and subsequent organ-based chapters depict gross features of disease, focusing on macroscopic digital images supplemented by histology and immunohistochemistry when necessary. Some clinical information for correlation with pathology is included. Color Atlas of Equine Pathology is an essential resource for diagnostic veterinary pathologists and pathology residents, as well as for equine practitioners performing necropsies in the field.
Maximising reader insights into the theory, models, methods and fundamental reasoning of design, this book addresses design activities in industrial settings, as well as the actors involved. This approach offers readers a new understanding of design activities and related functions, properties and dispositions. Presenting a `design mindset' that seeks to empower students, researchers, and practitioners alike, it features a strong focus on how designers create new concepts to be developed into products, and how they generate new business and satisfy human needs. Employing a multi-faceted perspective, the book supplies the reader with a comprehensive worldview of design in the form of a proposed model that will empower their activities as student, researcher or practitioner. We draw the reader into the core role of design conceptualisation for society, for the development of industry, for users and buyers of products, and for citizens in relation to public systems. The book also features original contributions related to exploration, conceptualisation and product synthesis. Exploring both the power and limitations of formal design process models, methods, and tools viewed in the light of human ingenuity and cognition, the book develops a unique design mindset that adds human understanding to the list of methods and tools essential to design. This insight is distilled into useful mindset heuristics included throughout the book.
The present volume aims to be a comprehensive survey on the derivation of the equations of motion, both in General Relativity as well as in alternative gravity theories. The topics covered range from the description of test bodies, to self-gravitating (heavy) bodies, to current and future observations.
Emphasis is put on the coverage of various approximation methods (e.g., multipolar, post-Newtonian, self-force methods) which are extensively used in the context of the relativistic problem of motion. Applications discussed in this volume range from the motion of binary systems -- and the gravitational waves emitted by such systems -- to observations of the galactic center. In particular the impact of choices at a fundamental theoretical level on the interpretation of experiments is highlighted.
This book provides a broad and up-do-date status report, which will not only be of value for the experts working in this field, but also may serve as a guideline for students with background in General Relativity who like to enter this field.
Compiled by world- class leaders in the field of collaborative information retrieval and search (CIS), this book centres on the notion that information seeking is not always a solitary activity and working in collaboration to perform information-seeking tasks should be studied and supported. Covering aspects of theories, models, and applications the book is divided in three parts:· Best Practices and Studies: providing an overview of current knowledge and state-of-the-art in the field.· New Domains: covers some of the new and exciting opportunities of applying CIS· New Thoughts: focuses on new research directions by scholars from academia and industry from around the world.Collaborative Information Seeking provides a valuable reference for student, teachers, and researchers interested in the area of collaborative work, information seeking/retrieval, and human-computer interaction.
The mechanics of similarity encompasses the analysis of dimensions, performed by various procedures, the gasdynamic similarity and the model technology. The analysis of dimensions delivers the dimensionless numbers by which specific physical challenges can be described with a reduced number of variables. Thereby the assessment of physical problems is facilitated. For fluid dynamics and all sorts of heat transfer the discipline of the mechanics of similarity was so important in the past, that the historical background is highlighted of all the persons who have contributed to the development of this discipline.
The goal of the classical gasdynamic similarity was to find rules, which enables the aerodynamic engineer to perform transformations from existing flow fields to others, which meet geometrical and other specific flow field parameters. Most of these rules and findings do no longer play a role today, because a lot of potent experimental and theoretical/numerical methods are now available. This problem is addressed in the book.
A recent investigation regarding the longitudinal aerodynamics of space vehicles has revealed, that there exist other astonishing similarities for hypersonic and supersonic flight Mach numbers. It seems, that obviously most of the longitudinal aerodynamics is independent from the geometrical configurations of the space vehicle considered, if a simple transformation is applied. A section of this book is devoted to these new findings.
Ein guter Vortrag ist nicht nur eine Sache der pers nlichen Begabung oder Ausstrahlung des Redners. Dahinter steckt mindestens genauso viel harte Arbeit und das n tige Wissen. Dieses Wissen um die beste Vortragstechnik haben die Autoren in unterhaltsamer Form zusammengestellt und sch pfen dabei aus ihrem eigenen reichen Erfahrungsschatz als Redner vor verschiedenstem Publikum. Die dritte Auflage dieses Standardwerks zum wissenschaftlichen Vortragen wurde im Hinblick auf die modernen Bildbearbeitungs- und Projektionstechniken durchgehend aktualisiert und erg nzt. Die perfekte Vorbereitung f r den ersten ffentlichen Vortrag, aber auch "alte Hasen" werden hier noch viel Neues entdecken. "au ergew hnlich lehrreich und doch nicht belehrend; die lockere Art der Darstellung [macht] das Lesen zu einer wahren Freude" (Nahrung / Food) "eine u erst hilfreiche Anleitung zur Bew ltigung technischer Klippen bereits weit im Vorfeld des ffentlichen Ernstfalles" (Physik in unserer Zeit) "beschreibt mit bestechender Gr ndlichkeit und gro em didaktischen Geschick, was bei der Vorbereitung und Durchf hrung eines Vortrags alles falsch gemacht werden kann und daher zu beachten ist" (Arzneimittel-Forschung)
Developers frequently introduce errors into software systems when they fail to recognise module dependencies.Using forty-three software families and Software Product Lines (SPLs), where the majority are commonly used in industrial practice, the authors reports on the feature modularization problem and provides a study of how often it may occur in practice. To solve the problem they present the concept of emergent feature modularization which aims to establish contracts between features to prevent developers from breaking other features when performing a maintenance task.
From the more basic concepts to the most advanced ones where long and laborious simulation models are required, Electromagnetic Transients in Power Cables provides a thorough insight into the study of electromagnetic transients and underground power cables. Explanations and demonstrations of different electromagnetic transient phenomena are provided, from simple lumped-parameter circuits to complex cable-based high voltage networks, as well as instructions on how to model the cables.Supported throughout by illustrations, circuit diagrams and simulation results, each chapter contains exercises, solutions and examples in order to develop a practical understanding of the topics. Harmonic analysis of cable-based networks and instructions on how to accurately model a cable-based network are also covered, including several "tricks" and workarounds to help less experienced engineers perform simulations and analyses more efficiently.Electromagnetic Transients in Power Cables is an invaluable resource for students and engineers new to the field, but also as a point of reference for more experienced industry professionals.
This volume, which addresses various basic sensor principles, covers micro gravimetric sensors, semiconducting and nano tube sensors, calorimetric sensors and optical sensors. Furthermore, the authors discuss recent developments in the related sensitive layers including new properties of nano structured metal oxide layers. They provide in-depth insights into the unique chemistry and signal generation of copper oxide in percolating sensors and present a variety of applications of functional polymers made possible by proper imprinting.Highlights of the subjects covered include:o requirements for high-temperature sensorso carbon nano tube sensorso new sensing model for nanostructured In2O3o bio mimetic approach for semiconductor sensor-based systemso optical readout for inorganic and organic semiconductor sensorso concept of virtual multisensors to improve specificity and selectivityo calorimetric sensors for hydrogen peroxide detectiono percolation effect-based sensors to implement dosimeterso imprinted polymer layers for bulk and surface acoustic wave sensors
In Zeiten, in denen sich die Rahmenbedingungen für Führung und Management stetig ändern, steht auch die Führungskräfteentwicklung vor der immer neuen Herausforderung, die richtigen Schwerpunkte zu setzen und Wichtiges von schnell zerplatzenden Mode-Blasen zu unterscheiden. Häufig wird der Ruf laut nach einer Art fundiertem Handlungs-Kompass für Führungskräfte und deren Aus- und Weiterbildung. Dieses Buch will ein solcher Kompass sein und es setzt auf die angewandte Psychologie! Denn diese bietet wissenschaftlich fundiertes Wissen dazu, wie Entwicklungsmaßnahmen zielorientiert definiert und umgesetzt und Potenziale genutzt werden, damit Manager und Führungskräfte aller Ebenen ihren persnlichen Wirkungsgrad steigern knnen. - Teil 1 des Buches fokussiert auf Management-Entwicklung als strategischen Prozess. Teil 2 leitet durch die Praxis der Führungskräfteentwicklung: vom allgemeinen Grundverständnis der Potenzialentwicklung über das Verhältnis zu den eigenen Kunden, die methodischen Gestaltung von Lernprozessen bis hin zu ganz praktischen Tipps für den Alltag. Teil 3 widmet sich konkreten Fragen des Performance-Managements und entsprechender Systeme. - Ein Buch aus der Praxis für die Praxis für Personal- und Managemententwickler, mit anschaulichen Grafiken, Checklisten und Zusammenfassungen.
This book presents an innovative concept for designing a 400 kV double circuit composite tower. The major challenges encountered by the authors in the electrical design process of the composite tower are addressed. They concern material selection for the full composite cross-arm core, electrical insulation of the cross-arm, electrical dimensioning of the full composite tower, lightning shielding performance and failure of the full composite tower. The electric field performance of the tower's insulation has been investigated theoretically by using finite element method and experimentally by testing different fiber reinforced polymers as candidates. The book reports in detail those finite element simulations and tests, together with the authors' recommendations on the most suitable materials and manufacturing process as well as conductor clamp designs for the cross-arm. Another important issue of the full composite tower, which concerns the environmental aspects of the full composite tower, has also been evaluated. This book offers a timely reference guide on a highly innovative topic, addressing researchers working on power transmission system both in industry and academia.
Ergonomisch gestaltete Medizintechnik führt zu effizienteren Arbeitsabläufen, erhht die Patientensicherheit und reduziert die Arbeitsbelastung der Anwender. Gebrauchstaugliche Geräte verbessern die Anwenderakzeptanz und werden daher beim Kauf neuer Produkte bevorzugt. Das Buch erläutert für Studium und Praxis, wie Medizintechnik mglichst optimal an die Bedürfnisse der Nutzer und Anwender angepasst werden kann. Durch das beschriebene Vorgehen ist es mglich, sowohl die bestehenden ergonomischen Anforderungen der harmonisierten Normen DIN EN 62366 und DIN EN 60601-1-6 bei der Entwicklung und Marktzulassung medizintechnischer Produkte umzusetzen, als auch neue Lsungsansätze für die erfolgreiche Entwicklung innovativer Medizintechnik zu erarbeiten.In ausgewählten Praxisbeispielen wird die Umsetzung der Methodik des Usability-Engineering in der Medizintechnik erläutert. Das Buch spricht damit nicht nur die Entwickler und Hersteller von Medizinprodukten an, sondern erläutert auch die richtige Auswahl gebrauchsoptimierter Geräte und Technologien für die Anwender und Betreiber solcher Produkte.
Verschwrungstheorien psychologisch zu ergründen ist wichtig: Wir finden dieses Phänomen seit dem Beginn menschlicher Kultur. Oft sind sie fiktional, basieren manchmal aber auch auf realen Fakten. Angeblich bewachen Templerritter den heiligen Gral und Reptilienwesen kontrollieren die Welt; tatsächlich wird unsere gesamte digitale Kommunikation überwacht. Oft sind diese Theorien gefährlich und hetzerisch, andere fordern aktives Eintreten für Demokratie und Menschenrechte. Die Verschwrungstheorie gibt es nicht, und auch nicht die Verschwrungstheoretiker.
Psychologische Grundmechanismen wie das Vergnügen an guten Geschichten, am Rätsellsen und der Wunsch nach Selbsterkenntnis spielen eine Rolle. Dieses Buch erklärt die Hintergründe und zeigt, wie man besser und souveräner auf Verschwrungstheorien reagiert, aber auch, was den Reiz von Verschwrungstheorien ausmacht.
Wir dürfen Ihnen nicht sagen, wer John F. Kennedy wirklich umgebracht hat, aber wir knnen Ihnen sagen, warum uns diese Frage bis heute nicht loslässt.
Claus Lampert ermglicht den Auszubildenden und Mitarbeitern in der Hotel- und Gastronomiebranche mittels Hotel- und Barpsychologie einen Einblick in die Grundlagen der Psychologie. Waren sie bei psychologischen Fragestellungen bisher auf ihre Intuition und Erfahrung angewiesen, so knnen sie nun auf das Wissen der Hotel- und Barpsychologie zugreifen. Deren Aussagen beruhen auf der wissenschaftlichen Psychologie und werden vermittelt als Theorie- und Anwendungsfach gleichermaßen. Neben der Psychologie der Gästeberatung widmet sich der Autor der Allgemeinen Psychologie und Typenlehre.
Claus D. Eck beschreibt das Zusammenspiel von zwei hochkomplexen Phänomenen: Führung und Persnlichkeit. Diese beiden Faktoren sind nicht voneinander trennbar und ständig aufeinander bezogen. Denn Führung wird nicht von Strukturen oder Systemen ausgeübt, sondern von Personen, und sie bezieht sich auf Personen. Die Persnlichkeit und die Führung sind im Sinne von Waldenfels "Hyperphänomene". Führen ist mehr als das Schließen der unvermeidlichen Lücken und somit auch mehr als eine Ergänzung der Managementfunktion. Was Führung ausmacht, sind der Wille und die Fähigkeit, auf andere einen maßgebenden Einfluss auszuüben, andere zu befähigen, selbsttätig die gegebenen Herausforderungen zu meistern. Führung ist punktuell, aber entscheidend, sie weiß sich immer auch zurückzunehmen und frdert so die relative Autonomie der Geführten.
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
1 Avril 2014
9783035195736
Bereits zeitgenssische Kritiker stehen irritiert vor der Breite des Werks des Schriftstellers und Journalisten Hermann Bahr (18631934) und monieren vor allem dessen Heterogenität. Verwirrung stiftet seine Praxis, ständig neue künstlerische Stile und kulturelle Tendenzen zu erahnen, sie zu lancieren und bald wieder zu überwinden. Das lässt sich als Symptom für die um 1900 drastisch zunehmende Geschwindigkeit der kulturellen und technischen Entwicklung begreifen. So untersucht dieser Band, wie sehr das Übermorgen des Trendsetters Bahr nicht sowieso bereits die Gegenwart seiner Zeitgenossen darstellt. Die in diesem Band dokumentierten Aufsätze eint, dass er nicht als Vorreiter, sondern als Zeiterscheinung gefasst werden soll. Ursprünglich Vorträge einer Tagung, die im Mai 2013 in Berlin stattfand, erweitern sie die Diskussion in Bahrs Arbeitsfeldern Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Kunst- und Literaturgeschichte, Philosophie und Theater. Ferner behandeln sie seine Publikationspraxis sowie die Überlieferung seines Nachlasses.
This book will cover both the evidence for biofilms in many chronic bacterial infections as well as the problems facing these infections such as diagnostics and treatment regimes. A still increasing interest and emphasis on the sessile bacterial lifestyle biofilms has been seen since it was realized that that less than 0.1% of the total microbial biomass lives in the planktonic mode of growth. The term was coined in 1978 by Costerton et al. who defined the term biofilm for the first time.In 1993 the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) recognised that the biofilmmode of growth was relevant to microbiology. Lately many articles have been published on the clinical implications of bacterial biofilms. Both original articles and reviews concerning the biofilm problem are available.
This book reconstructs major paradigms in the history of economic ethics up to, and including, the present day. Asserting that ethics should be integral rather than marginal to economics and management education, Reframing Economic Ethics highlights the need for a paradigm change from mechanistic to humanistic management, and argues that the failures of markets and managers in recent years were paved by a misguided management education. The author shows how the reader can and must learn from the history of economic thinking in order to overcome the theoretical shortcomings and the practical failings of the present system.
