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Managing Complexity in Social Systems

Leverage Points for Policy and Strategy

By: Christoph E. Mandl

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Managing Complexity in Social Systems

Leverage Points for Policy and Strategy

By: Christoph E. Mandl

Why do policies and strategies often fail, and what can be done about it? How can complexity be managed in cases where it cannot be reduced? The answers to these questions are anything but trivial, and can only be found by combining insights from complexity science, system dynamics, system theory and systems thinking. Rooted in the seminal works of Gregory Bateson, Jay Forrester, Donella Meadows, Peter Senge, W. Brian Arthur, John Sterman and Thomas Schelling, this book bridges the gap between rigorous science and real-life experience to explore the potential and limitations of leverage points in implementing policies and strategies. It also presents diagnostic tools to help recognize system archetypes, as well as the powerful language of stock and flow diagrams, which allows us to think in terms of circular causality. These tools are subsequently employed to thoroughly analyze particularly thorny problems such as global climate change, the tragedy of the commons, path dependence, diffusion of innovations, and exponential growth of inequality.

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Internetworking

Technological Foundations and Applications

By: Christoph Meinel,Harald Sack

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Internetworking

Technological Foundations and Applications

By: Christoph Meinel,Harald Sack

This book is supposed to serve as a comprehensive and instructive guide through the new world of digital communication. On the physical layer optical and electrical cabling technology are described as well as wireless communication technologies. On the data link layer local area networks (LANs) are introduced together with the most popular LAN technologies such as Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, and ATM as well as wireless LAN technologies including IEEE 802.x, Bluetooth, or ZigBee. A wide range of WAN technologies are covered including contemporary high speed technologies like PDH and SDH up to high speed wireless WANs (WiMAX) and 4th generation wireless telephone networks LTE. Routing technologies conclude the treatment of the data link layer. Next, there is the Internet layer with the Internet protocol IP that establishes a virtual uniform network out of the net of heterogeneous networks. In detail, both versions, IPv4 as well as the successor IPv6 are covered in detail as well as ICMP, NDP, and Mobile IP. In the subsequent transport layer protocol functions are provided to offer a connection-oriented and reliable transport service on the basis of the simple and unreliable IP. The basic protocols TCP and UDP are introduced as well as NAT, the network address translation. Beside transport layer security protocols like SSL and TLS are presented. On the upmost application layer popular Internet application protocols are described like DNS, SMTP, PGP, (S)FTP, NFS, SSH, DHCP, SNMP, RTP, RTCP, RTSP, and World Wide Web.

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3642353924

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Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe

Eurostudent 8 Synopsis of Indicators 2021-2024

By: Kristina Hauschildt,Christoph Gwosc,Hendrik Schirmer,Sylvia Mandl,Cordelia Menz

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Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe

Eurostudent 8 Synopsis of Indicators 2021-2024

By: Kristina Hauschildt,Christoph Gwosc,Hendrik Schirmer,Sylvia Mandl,Cordelia Menz

The EUROSTUDENT 8 - Synopsis of Indicators is the central publication of the EUROSTUDENT project and the result of the collaboration of a European-wide network including researchers, data collectors, representatives of national ministries, and other stakeholders. It comprises data from student surveys conducted in 25 countries in the European Higher Education Area during the eighth round of the EUROSTUDENT project. Adopting a broad, comparative perspective, the EUROSTUDENT 8 - Synopsis of Indicators provides information on students' socio-economic and study-related backgrounds, their study conditions and experiences, including international mobility, and their living conditions. It aims to inspire policy debates on the topic of the social dimension and lay the ground for further research. Die EUROSTUDENT 8 ist die zentrale Veröffentlichung des EUROSTUDENT-Projekts und das Ergebnis der Zusammenarbeit eines europaweiten Netzwerks aus Forschern, Datenerhebern, Vertretern nationaler Ministerien und anderen Beteiligten. Sie enthält Daten aus Studierendenbefragungen, die in 25 Ländern des Europäischen Hochschulraums während der achten Runde des EUROSTUDENT-Projekts durchgeführt wurden. Die Publikation nimmt eine breite, vergleichende Perspektive ein und liefert Informationen über den sozioökonomischen und studienbezogenen Hintergrund der Studierenden, ihre Studienbedingungen und -erfahrungen, einschließlich internationaler Mobilität, sowie ihre Lebensbedingungen. Sie soll politische Debatten zum Thema der sozialen Dimension anregen und die Grundlage für weitere Forschung schaffen.

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Convexity and Optimization in Finite Dimensions I

By: Josef Stoer,Christoph Witzgall

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Convexity and Optimization in Finite Dimensions I

By: Josef Stoer,Christoph Witzgall

Dantzig's development of linear programming into one of the most applicable optimization techniques has spread interest in the algebra of linear inequalities, the geometry of polyhedra, the topology of convex sets, and the analysis of convex functions. It is the goal of this volume to provide a synopsis of these topics, and thereby the theoretical back ground for the arithmetic of convex optimization to be treated in a sub sequent volume. The exposition of each chapter is essentially independent, and attempts to reflect a specific style of mathematical reasoning. The emphasis lies on linear and convex duality theory, as initiated by Gale, Kuhn and Tucker, Fenchel, and v. Neumann, because it represents the theoretical development whose impact on modern optimi zation techniques has been the most pronounced. Chapters 5 and 6 are devoted to two characteristic aspects of duality theory: conjugate functions or polarity on the one hand, and saddle points on the other. The Farkas lemma on linear inequalities and its generalizations, Motzkin's description of polyhedra, Minkowski's supporting plane theorem are indispensable elementary tools which are contained in chapters 1, 2 and 3, respectively. The treatment of extremal properties of polyhedra as well as of general convex sets is based on the far reaching work of Klee. Chapter 2 terminates with a description of Gale diagrams, a recently developed successful technique for exploring polyhedral structures.

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3642462162

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Building Leadership in Project and Network Management

A Facilitator's Toolset

By: Hans-Werner Franz,Christoph Kaletka,Bastian Pelka,Ruggiera Sarcina

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Building Leadership in Project and Network Management

A Facilitator's Toolset

By: Hans-Werner Franz,Christoph Kaletka,Bastian Pelka,Ruggiera Sarcina

This book introduces readers to essential facilitation techniques for leadership in the contexts of project and network management. It provides method-based messages, a facilitator curriculum, and a veritable arsenal of 50 carefully selected and 'reality-tested' tools for facilitation in non-hierarchical contexts. As such, readers will benefit just as much from learning by doing as from doing by learning. This book is also intended for all managers who are responsible for successful communication and co-operation in projects in and across organisations or networks of organisations, and who want to know how to share their plans effectively and improve collaboration. Though the book employs scientific principles, it is chiefly a practical guide, and draws on the authors’ extensive experience in consultancy and management.

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3319782681

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Technology and Work in German Industry

By: Norbert Altmann,Christoph Kohler,Pamela Meil

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Technology and Work in German Industry

By: Norbert Altmann,Christoph Kohler,Pamela Meil

German industry in particular is a central focus for studying technical and organizational changes in industry due to its pivotal position in international markets, its technological sophistication and its well-established training systems. Originally published in 1992, this study brings together contributions which contain both theoretical approaches and extensive empirical studies, on the manufacturing industry in Germany, including comparisons to other european countries. It looks at the developments of new technology, identifying trends in rationalization and the influences they have on organizational behaviour. As it discusses the relationships between technology and the work-force it includes discussion on flexible specialization, labour processes, union relations, small and large firms and training processes.

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1351815814

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Introduction to Discourse Studies

New edition

By: Jan Renkema,Christoph Schubert

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Introduction to Discourse Studies

New edition

By: Jan Renkema,Christoph Schubert

This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook, which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone interested in the analysis of texts and discourses. Supported by an international advisory board of 14 leading experts, it deals with all main subdomains in discourse studies, from pragmatics to cognitive linguistics, from critical discourse analysis to stylistics, and many more. The book approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European as well as the Asian traditions. It provides an ‘academic toolkit’ for future courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of professional literature. The chapters are subdivided in modular sections that can be studied separately. The pedagogical objectives are further supported by over 500 index entries covering frequently used concepts that are accurately defined with examples throughout the text; more than 150 test-yourself questions, all elaborately answered, which are ideal for self-study; nearly 100 assignments that provide ample material for lecturers to focus on specific topics in their courses. Jan Renkema is Emeritus Professor of Discourse Quality at the Department of Communication and Information Sciences at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He is also editor of Discourse, of Course (2009) and author of The Texture of Discourse (2009). In 2009, a Chinese edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies was published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. Christoph Schubert is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Vechta University, Germany. He is author of an Introduction to English text linguistics (2nd ed. 2012) and co-editor of Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse (2016) and Variational Text Linguistics (2016).

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027263108

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Dispossession

Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953

By: Christoph Kreutzmüller,Jonathan R Zatlin

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Dispossession

Plundering German Jewry, 1933-1953

By: Christoph Kreutzmüller,Jonathan R Zatlin

This collection of essays by a range of international, multidisciplinary scholars explores the financial history, social significance, and cultural meanings of the theft, starting in 1933, of assets owned by German Jews. Despite the fraught topic and the ongoing legal discussions surrounding it, the subject has not received much scholarly attention until now. As such, the volume offers a much needed contribution to our understanding of the history of the period and the acts. The essays examine the confiscatory taxation of Jewish property, the looting of art and confiscation of gold, the role of German freight forwarders in property theft, salesmen and dispossession in the retail world, theft from the elderly, and the complicity of the banking industry, as well as the reach of the practice beyond German borders"--

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0472132032

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Austrian Desserts

Over 400 Cakes, Pastries, Strudels, Tortes, and Candies

By: Toni Mörwald,Christoph Wagner

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Austrian Desserts

Over 400 Cakes, Pastries, Strudels, Tortes, and Candies

By: Toni Mörwald,Christoph Wagner

For Austrians, dessert is the culmination of any meal—the crowning achievement that can make or break a culinary experience. In this beautifully photographed cookbook, Austrian pastry master Toni Mörwald, and award-winning restaurant critic Christoph Wagner share the secrets to crafting over 500 perfect Austrian desserts. From Old World traditional dishes such as Linzertorte and Apfelstrudel, to contemporary and diet-conscious recipes, Austrian Desserts has it all. With easy-to-understand instructions, Mörwald and Wagner allow chefs of any skill level to create and serve: Iced temptations for sultry summer days Fresh berry roasts and pies Crème brulées with an Austrian twist A variety of flaked baumkuchen (layer cake) Chocolates and candied confections And so much more! Sprinkled between these delicious recipes are tips and tricks from a kitchen connoisseur, suggestions for health-conscious substitutions, and notes on the traditional origins of numerous Austrian dishes.

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1628738057

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9781628738056

Elemental Germans

Klaus Fuchs, Rudolf Peierls and the Making of British Nuclear Culture 1939-59

By: Christoph Laucht

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Elemental Germans

Klaus Fuchs, Rudolf Peierls and the Making of British Nuclear Culture 1939-59

By: Christoph Laucht

Christoph Laucht offers the first investigation into the roles played by two German-born emigre atomic scientists, Klaus Fuchs and Rudolf Peierls, in the development of British nuclear culture, especially the practice of nuclear science and the political implications of the atomic scientists' work, from the start of the Second World War until 1959.

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1137028335

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Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe

Eurostudent VII 2018-2021 | Synopsis of Indicators

By: Christoph Gwosc,Kristina Hauschildt,Froukje Wartenbergh-Cras,Hendrik Schirmer

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Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe

Eurostudent VII 2018-2021 | Synopsis of Indicators

By: Christoph Gwosc,Kristina Hauschildt,Froukje Wartenbergh-Cras,Hendrik Schirmer

The project EUROSTUDENT has been delivering data on the social and economic conditions of student life in Europe for the past 20 years. The current edition presents the data and results from the period 2018 to 2021, and is based on information provided by students from 25 countries in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The project also examines the social dimensions of studying at a higher education institute, as well as, in part, the impact of COVID-19. The EHEA emphasised this social dimension in its 2020 Rome Communiqué; it was therefore one of the key topics the project group focused on with the aim of inspiring education policy debates and establishing the basis for future research work. The latest report therefore includes data on access to higher education and the respective conditions experienced by the students, their willingness to relocate internationally to pursue their studies, the quality of higher education courses and the planned courses of study. The report is the EUROSTUDENT project's most important publication, and is developed by a network of researchers and national ministry representatives as well as other stakeholders from all over Europe. Seit 20 Jahren liefert das Projekt EUROSTUDENT Daten zu den sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Bedingungen für Studierende in Europa. Der aktuelle Band präsentiert die Daten und Ergebnisse aus dem Zeitraum 2018-2021, die bei Studierenden in 25 Ländern des Europäischen Hochschulraums (EHEA) erhoben wurden. Untersucht wurden dabei auch die gesellschaftlichen Dimensionen des Studiums sowie teilweise soziale Auswirkungen von COVID-19. Die soziale Dimension des Studiums, die im Rom Communiqué der EHEA 2020 betont wurde, ist ein zentrales Thema der Untersuchungen, mit denen die Projektgruppe bildungspolitische Debatten anregen und die Basis für künftige Forschungsarbeit legen will. Daher werden Daten zum Zugang zu höherer Bildung, zu Studienbedingungen, zur internationalen Mobilität der Studierenden, zur Qualität von Studiengängen und zu geplanten Studienprogrammen aufbereitet. Der Bericht ist die wichtigste Publikation des Projektes EUROSTUDENT, das von einem Netzwerk aus Forscher:innen und Vertreter:innen nationaler Ministerien sowie weiterer Stakeholder aus ganz Europa erarbeitet wird.

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Magnetism

From Fundamentals to Nanoscale Dynamics

By: Joachim Stöhr,Hans Christoph Siegmann

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Magnetism

From Fundamentals to Nanoscale Dynamics

By: Joachim Stöhr,Hans Christoph Siegmann

This text book gives a comprehensive account of magnetism, one of the oldest yet most vibrant fields of physics. It spans the historical development, the physical foundations and the continuing research underlying the subject. The book covers both the classical and quantum mechanical aspects of magnetism and novel experimental techniques. Perhaps uniquely, it discusses spin transport and magnetization dynamics phenomena associated with atomically and spin engineered nano-structures against the backdrop of spintronics and magnetic storage and memory applications. The book is for students, and serves as a reference for scientists in academia and research laboratories.

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3540302832

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The Co-creative Meeting

Practicing Consensual Effectivity in Organizations

By: Christoph Mandl,Markus Hauser,Hanna Mandl

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Practicing Consensual Effectivity in Organizations

By: Christoph Mandl,Markus Hauser,Hanna Mandl

“Co-creative meetings” foster invention and innovation, and therefore enable innovative developmental processes in an organizational and inter-organizational context, including strategy development, product development, human resource development, R&D, and trans-organizational projects. This book illustrates the difference between productive and innovative organizations and what that difference means for meetings taking place in such organizations, both from a conceptual and practical point of view. It provides managers, coaches, consultants and other professionals whose job it is to organize meetings with clear and action-oriented guidelines for the design of “co-creative meetings”, and also shows how to incorporate them through experiential learning.

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The Co-creative Meeting

Practicing Consensual Effectivity in Organizations

By: Christoph Mandl,Markus Hauser,Hanna Mandl

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Practicing Consensual Effectivity in Organizations

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Managing Complexity in Social Systems

Leverage Points for Policy and Strategy

By: Christoph E. Mandl

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Leverage Points for Policy and Strategy

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Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe

Eurostudent 8 Synopsis of Indicators 2021-2024

By: Kristina Hauschildt,Christoph Gwosc,Hendrik Schirmer,Sylvia Mandl,Cordelia Menz

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Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe

Eurostudent 8 Synopsis of Indicators 2021-2024

By: Kristina Hauschildt,Christoph Gwosc,Hendrik Schirmer,Sylvia Mandl,Cordelia Menz

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Managing Complexity in Social Systems

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Internetworking

Internetworking

Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe

Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe

Convexity and Optimization in Finite Dimensions I

Convexity and Optimization in Finite Dimensions I

Building Leadership in Project and Network Management

Building Leadership in Project and Network Management

Technology and Work in German Industry

Technology and Work in German Industry

Introduction to Discourse Studies

Introduction to Discourse Studies

Dispossession

Dispossession

Austrian Desserts

Austrian Desserts

Elemental Germans

Elemental Germans

Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe

Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe

Magnetism

Magnetism

The Co-creative Meeting

The Co-creative Meeting

The Co-creative Meeting

The Co-creative Meeting

Managing Complexity in Social Systems

Managing Complexity in Social Systems

Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe

Social and Economic Conditions of Student Life in Europe

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