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Green Building Certification Systems

Assessing sustainability - International system comparison - Economic impact of certifications

By: Thilo Ebert,Natalie Eßig,Gerd Hauser

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Green Building Certification Systems

Assessing sustainability - International system comparison - Economic impact of certifications

By: Thilo Ebert,Natalie Eßig,Gerd Hauser

Certification systems for buildings aim to make sustainability transparent for the general public and economically feasible for investors. Several hundred systems have been developed since around 1990.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3955531686

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Simply Rational

Decision Making in the Real World

By: Gerd Gigerenzer

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Simply Rational

Decision Making in the Real World

By: Gerd Gigerenzer

Statistical illiteracy can have an enormously negative impact on decision making. This volume of collected papers brings together applied and theoretical research on risks and decision making across the fields of medicine, psychology, and economics. Collectively, the essays demonstrate why the frame in which statistics are communicated is essential for broader understanding and sound decision making, and that understanding risks and uncertainty has wide-reaching implications for daily life. Gerd Gigerenzer provides a lucid review and catalog of concrete instances of heuristics, or rules of thumb, that people and animals rely on to make decisions under uncertainty, explaining why these are very often more rational than probability models. After a critical look at behavioral theories that do not model actual psychological processes, the book concludes with a call for a "heuristic revolution" that will enable us to understand the ecological rationality of both statistics and heuristics, and bring a dose of sanity to the study of rationality.

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Oxford University Press

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0199390088

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Framed Visions

Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination

By: Gerd Gemünden

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Framed Visions

Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination

By: Gerd Gemünden

Emphasizes the fluid relationship between literature, cinema, and social life

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University of Michigan Press

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0472085603

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9780472085606

Dermatology

By: Otto Braun-Falco,Gerd Plewig,Helmut Heinrich Wolff,Walter H.C. Burgdorf

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Dermatology

By: Otto Braun-Falco,Gerd Plewig,Helmut Heinrich Wolff,Walter H.C. Burgdorf

Completely revised and updated, Dermatology covers all the classical and related fields of dermatology, providing a wealth of information on clinical features, pathophysiology, and differential diagnosis. Over 900 color photographs acquaint the reader with a variety of dermatological diseases. Each chapter contains detailed proposals for comprehensive therapy.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642979319

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Ecological Rationality

Intelligence in the World

By: Peter M. Todd,Gerd Gigerenzer

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Ecological Rationality

Intelligence in the World

By: Peter M. Todd,Gerd Gigerenzer

More information is always better, and full information is best. More computation is always better, and optimization is best." More-is-better ideals such as these have long shaped our vision of rationality. Yet humans and other animals typically rely on simple heuristics to solve adaptive problems, focusing on one or a few important cues and ignoring the rest, and shortcutting computation rather than striving for as much as possible. In this book, we argue that in an uncertain world, more information and computation are not always better, and we ask when, and why, less can be more. The answers to these questions constitute the idea of ecological rationality: how we are able to achieve intelligence in the world by using simple heuristics matched to the environments we face, exploiting the structures inherent in our physical, biological, social, and cultural surroundings.

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Oxford University Press

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019971794X

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9780199717941

This Was America, 1865-1965

Unequal Citizens in the Segregated Republic

By: Gerd Korman

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This Was America, 1865-1965

Unequal Citizens in the Segregated Republic

By: Gerd Korman

By examining Jewish experiences between the American Civil War and the African American Civil Rights Revolution, this book focuses on citizens who usually spent their daily lives in Black and white “peoplehoods.” Some of the white ones, commanding the nation’s “public square,” structured a segregated republic and capitalist economy that would experience WWII and the news about the Holocaust that murdered millions of Jews. This political economy sustained a hierarchy of privatized ethnic groups whose race and religion, in their norms of “ethnicking,” was used to deprive them of legal and equal collective standing. This Was America is a book about those privatized identities that the years of the Civil Rights Revolution would bring into the republic’s public square.

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Academic Studies PRess

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1644696398

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9781644696392

Nasal Tumors in Animals and Man Vol. II (1983)

Tumor Pathology

By: Gerd Reznik,Sherman F. Stinson

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Nasal Tumors in Animals and Man Vol. II (1983)

Tumor Pathology

By: Gerd Reznik,Sherman F. Stinson

This Monograph brings together within one cover the current knowledge about tumors of the nasal passages in man, in domestic and nondomestic animals, and in the rodents which are commonly employed in carcinogenesis studies in the laboratory.

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CRC Press

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1351359916

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Synchronization of Oscillators and Global Output Regulation for Rigid Body Systems

By: Gerd Simon Schmidt

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Synchronization of Oscillators and Global Output Regulation for Rigid Body Systems

By: Gerd Simon Schmidt

The investigation of nonlinear dynamis in physical and engineering systems from the point of view of systems and control theory is important to develop better engineering systems. Synchronization of oscillators and output regulation for rigid body systems are two problem classes which are inherently nonlinear and are of great importance in applications. This thesis contains novel results for both problem classes. In the case of sychronization of oscillators we consider two different system classes and give sufficient or necessary conditions for synchronization. In the case of the output regulation problems for rigid body systems we provide a new two-step control design procedure, a detailed analysis for the error dynamics and an application scenario for satellite control. A highlight of the thesis is a new separation principle which is the underlying principle of the two-step design procedure for the output regulation problem.

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Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

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3832537902

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9783832537906

The Royal Dutch Theatre at the Hague 1804–1876

By: Gerd Aage Gillhoff

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The Royal Dutch Theatre at the Hague 1804–1876

By: Gerd Aage Gillhoff

The history of the Koninklijke Nederduitsche Schouwburg (Royal Dutch Theatre) at The Hague begins in I804. although the theatre did not bear that name until Willem I granted it an annual subsidy a decade later. The present investigation covers the years from I804 to I876 because the company of Royal Dutch Players which was disbanded in the latter year had its origin in the group of actors that gave the opening performance of the new theatre on the K-orte V oorhout in the spring of I804. During the entire seventy-two years there were no important changes of policy at the Royal Dutch Theatre; it was not until I876 that a new period commenced in the theatrical life of the court city and of Holland. Although the Dutch players made frequent appearances in other towns and cities, particularly in Rotterdam and Leiden, the author has limited himself as much as possible to a dis cussion of their activities at The Hague. There is an almost complete absence of newspaper criticism on the Haagsche Schouwburg throughout the first three fourths of the Nineteenth Century, but this lack would be far more serious if the greater part of the period, at least from about I830 to I876, had not been one of theatrical and dramatic poverty . We have enough sources to know that the performances and plays were rarely better than me diocre. The little newspaper criticism available is usually of such an adulatory nature that it can hardly be called helpful.

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Springer

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9401575398

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9789401575393

Reframing the Problem of Climate Change

From Zero Sum Game to Win-Win Solutions

By: Klaus Hasselmann,Carlo Jaeger,Gerd Leipold,Diana Mangalagiu,Joan David Tàbara

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Reframing the Problem of Climate Change

From Zero Sum Game to Win-Win Solutions

By: Klaus Hasselmann,Carlo Jaeger,Gerd Leipold,Diana Mangalagiu,Joan David Tàbara

This book provides an evaluation of the science and policy debates on climate change and offers a reframing of the challenges they pose, as understood by key international experts and players in the field. It also gives an important and original perspective on interpreting climate action and provides compelling evidence of the weakness of arguments that frame climate policy as a win-or-lose situation. At the same time, the book goes beyond providing yet another description of climate change trends and policy processes. Its goal is to make available, in a series of in-depth reflections and insights by key international figures representing science, business, finance and civil society, what is really needed to link knowledge to action. Different contributions convincingly show that it is time – and possible – to reframe the climate debate in a completely new light, perhaps as a system transformative attractor for new green growth, sustainable development, and technological innovation. Reframing the Problem of Climate Change reflects a deep belief that dealing with climate change does not have to be a zero sum game, with winners and losers. The contributors argue that our societies can learn to respond to the challenge it presents and avoid both human suffering and large scale destruction of ecosystems; and that this does not necessarily require economic sacrifice. Therefore, it is vital reading for students, academics and policy makers involved in the debate surrounding climate change.

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Routledge

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1136578692

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The Intelligence of Intuition

By: Gerd Gigerenzer

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The Intelligence of Intuition

By: Gerd Gigerenzer

Challenges perceptions of the fallibility of intuition and recasts intuition as a unique form of intelligence.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009304860

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Language-driven Exploration and Implementation of Partially Re-configurable ASIPs

By: Anupam Chattopadhyay,Rainer Leupers,Heinrich Meyr,Gerd Ascheid

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Language-driven Exploration and Implementation of Partially Re-configurable ASIPs

By: Anupam Chattopadhyay,Rainer Leupers,Heinrich Meyr,Gerd Ascheid

Increasing complexity of modern embedded systems demands system designers to ramp up their design productivity without compromising performance goals. This is promoted by modern Electronic System Level (ESL) techniques. Language-driven Exploration and Implementation of Partially Re-configurable ASIPs addresses an important segment of the ESL area by modeling partially re-configurable processors via high-level Architecture Description Language (ADL). This approach also hints an imminent evolution in the area of re-configurable system design.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402092970

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Rationality for Mortals

How People Cope with Uncertainty

By: Gerd Gigerenzer

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Rationality for Mortals

How People Cope with Uncertainty

By: Gerd Gigerenzer

What is the nature of human wisdom? For many, the ideal image of sapiens is a heavenly one: an omniscient God, a Laplacean demon, a supercomputer, or a fully consistent logical system. Gerd Gigerenzer argues, in contrast, that there are more efficient tools than logic in our minds, which he calls fast and frugal heuristics. These adaptive tools work in a world where the present is only partially known and the future is uncertain. Here, rationality is not logical but ecological, and this volume shows how this insight can help remedy even the widespread problem of statistical innumeracy.RATIONALITY FOR MORTALS (which follows on a previous collection, ADAPTIVE THINKING, also published by OUP) presents Gigerenzer's most recent articles, revised and updated where appropriate, together with a newly written introduction.

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Oxford University Press

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0199747091

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Linguistic Archaeology

An Introduction and Methodological Guide

By: Gerd Carling

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Linguistic Archaeology

An Introduction and Methodological Guide

By: Gerd Carling

Linguistic Archaeology provides students with an accessible introduction to the field of linguistic archaeology, both as theoretical framework and methodological toolkit, for understanding the conceptual foundations and practical considerations involved in reconstructing the prehistory of language. The book introduces the field’s expansion out of traditional approaches to focus more on the interplay of related disciplines and the reconstruction of human language beyond the written period. The opening chapter outlines key theories and charts their development from the nineteenth century through to today, drawing on work from computational historical linguistics, phylogenetics, and linguistic anthropology. Subsequent chapters build on theory to take a hands-on approach in mining empirical data in the process of reconstructing language prehistory, including references, links, and instructions to open access resources, and offering a step-by-step guide for employing the rich range of available methods in working with this data. Closing chapters situate theory and method in context against chronological and geographic perspectives and look ahead to future trajectories for continued progress in this emerging area of study. Offering a holistic entry point into linguistic archaeology, this innovative volume will be a helpful resource for students in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology, language evolution, and cultural geography.

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Taylor & Francis

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104000928X

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9781040009284

Ecological Biochemistry

Environmental and Interspecies Interactions

By: Gerd-Joachim Krauss,Dietrich H. Nies

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Ecological Biochemistry

Environmental and Interspecies Interactions

By: Gerd-Joachim Krauss,Dietrich H. Nies

The first stand-alone textbook for at least ten years on this increasingly hot topic in times of global climate change and sustainability in ecosystems. Ecological biochemistry refers to the interaction of organisms with their abiotic environment and other organisms by chemical means. Biotic and abiotic factors determine the biochemical flexibility of organisms, which otherwise easily adapt to environmental changes by altering their metabolism. Sessile plants, in particular, have evolved intricate biochemical response mechanisms to fit into a changing environment. This book covers the chemistry behind these interactions, bottom up from the atomic to the system's level. An introductory part explains the physico-chemical basis and biochemical roots of living cells, leading to secondary metabolites as crucial bridges between organisms and the respective ecosystem. The focus then shifts to the biochemical interactions of plants, fungi and bacteria within terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems with the aim of linking biochemical insights to ecological research, also in human-influenced habitats. A section is devoted to methodology, which allows network-based analyses of molecular processes underlying systems phenomena. A companion website offering an extended version of the introductory chapter on Basic Biochemical Roots is available at http://www.wiley.com/go/Krauss/Nies/EcologicalBiochemistry

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527316507

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9783527316502

Supercritical Fluids as Solvents and Reaction Media

By: Gerd H. Brunner

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Supercritical Fluids as Solvents and Reaction Media

By: Gerd H. Brunner

Supercritical fluids behave either like a gas or a liquid, depending on the values of thermodynamic properties. This tuning of properties, and other advantageous properties of supercritical fluids led to innovative technologies. More than 100 plants of production size are now in operation worldwide in the areas of process and production technology, environmental applications, and particle engineering. New processes are under research and development in various fields. This book provides an overview of the research activities in the field of Supercritical Fluids in Germany. It is based on the research program "Supercritical fluids as solvents and reaction media" on the initiative of the "GVC-Fachausschuß Hochdruckverfahrenstechnik" (i.e. the German working party on High Pressure Chemical Engineering of the Society of Chemical Engineers).This research program provided an immensely valuable platform for exchange of knowledge and experience. More than 50 young researchers were involved contributing with their expertise, their new ideas, and the motivation of youth. The results of this innovative research are described in this book.- This book provides an overview of the research activities in the field of Supercritical Fluids in Germany- Contains results of projects within the research program on "Supercritical fluids as solvents and reaction media" on the initiative of the German working party on High Pressure Chemical Engineering of the Society of Chemical Engineers.- More than 50 young researchers were involved in contributing with their expertise, their new ideas, and the motivation of youth.

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Elsevier

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0080542107

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9780080542102

Green Building Certification Systems

Assessing sustainability - International system comparison - Economic impact of certifications

By: Thilo Ebert,Natalie Eßig,Gerd Hauser

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Green Building Certification Systems

Assessing sustainability - International system comparison - Economic impact of certifications

By: Thilo Ebert,Natalie Eßig,Gerd Hauser

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