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Monetary Economics in Globalised Financial Markets

By: Ansgar Belke,Thorsten Polleit

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Monetary Economics in Globalised Financial Markets

By: Ansgar Belke,Thorsten Polleit

This book integrates the fundamentals of monetary theory, monetary policy theory and financial market theory, providing an accessible introduction to the workings and interactions of globalised financial markets. Includes examples and extensive data analyses.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540710027

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High-Temperature Liquid Chromatography

A User's Guide for Method Development

By: Thorsten Teutenberg

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High-Temperature Liquid Chromatography

A User's Guide for Method Development

By: Thorsten Teutenberg

High-temperature liquid chromatography has attracted much interest in recent years but has not yet recognized its full potential in the chromatographic community. There is a widespread reluctance in industry to use temperature to speed up the separation process, influence the selectivity of a separation or implement novel detection techniques. However, the technology has now matured and could revolutionize chromatography as we see it today. Better equipment, such as heating systems able to generate faster heating rates, is becoming more readily available. Also, columns based on silica gel, which can withstand higher temperatures for an extended period, are now being introduced. Nevertheless, further technological and methodical efforts are needed to establish the method in a regulated environment like the pharmaceutical industry. This is the only text to cover all the practical aspects, as well as the underlying theoretical principles, of setting up an HPLC system for high temperature operation. It is not intended solely for academics but will also benefit the researcher interested in more practical considerations. The author is a recognized expert and has conducted several studies with partners from industry to validate the method. Many real examples from these studies have been included in the book. The aim is to support practitioners in the creation of their own protocols without the need to rely solely on trial and error. The book starts with a brief definition of high temperature liquid chromatography before going on to cover: system set up; the heating system; mobile phase considerations; suitable stationary phases; method development using temperature programming; analyte stability, and special hyphenation techniques using superheated water as a mobile phase. In each chapter, experimental data is used to illustrate the main statements and the advantages over conventional HPLC are evaluated. The book concludes with a critical outlook on further developments and applications underlining the necessary advances needed to make high temperature HPLC more robust.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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1849731098

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9781849731096

Design, Software Engineering and Implementation of an Embedded Telemetry System for a Solar-Powered Racing Car

By: Thorsten Jungmann

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Design, Software Engineering and Implementation of an Embedded Telemetry System for a Solar-Powered Racing Car

By: Thorsten Jungmann

Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: An embedded telemetry system has been designed and implemented into the solar-powered racing car Mad Dog 3 . The system shall assist strategists in making decisions during a solar car race. It delivers input data for a computer simulation model and for reconstruction of situations when failure occurred. System requirements have been analysed and the scope of solutions on the market has been explored. As a result, the choice of hardware and peripheral components has been made in favour of a microcomputer-based system. Strategy-relevant quantities in the solar car are measured by transducers and at the same time displayed on panel meters in the cockpit. Measured data are transmitted via a bus system to the central processing unit, which consists of the world s smallest PC. From the sensor signals the car s performance data is computed. As a result of computation, sets of performance data are sent to a laptop computer in one of the support vehicles by a pair of wireless modems. For safety reason, the system has been designed redundant. There is a digital device and a second analogue instrument for all key measurements. Communication equipment between the solar car driver and support staff has been reviewed and recommendations have been given. The project has been completed successfully, i.e. project aims have been reached. This was confirmed during a test drive. The range of the wireless modems has been proven satisfactory. CB radios have been shown not to be appropriate. There is a wide scope of additional investigation and supplementary features, due to the flexible nature of a microcomputer-based system. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents: Acknowledgements Notationii 1.Introduction1 1.1Solar Energy3 1.2Solar Car Racing4 1.2.1ASC Race Regulations6 2.Project Work7 2.1Project Aims7 2.2Project management9 2.3Fund Raising11 2.4Research.12 2.4.1Telemetry12 2.4.2Previous Work15 2.4.3Types of Telemetry Systems17 2.4.4Embedded Systems.19 2.5Design21 2.5.1Requirements21 2.5.2Components24 2.5.3Software Engineering28 2.5.4Test and Debugging32 2.6Implementation33 2.7Maintenance34 2.8Communication35 3.Recommendations37 References38 Appendix39

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The Struggle for a Better Future

By: Thorsten U. Reinhardt

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The Struggle for a Better Future

By: Thorsten U. Reinhardt

The Struggle for a Better Future is a firsthand look into the real struggles of an entrepreneur with a dream to make a difference in the world. It follows the failures, triumphs, and important lessons learned by technology titan Thorsten U. Reinhardt. You will learn about the truly dynamic nature of life as an entrepreneur, and get a feel for the challenges and potential payoffs that lie ahead.

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TWENTYSIX

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3740710764

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How Much Religion is Good for Us?

If Religion Were a Game

By: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

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How Much Religion is Good for Us?

If Religion Were a Game

By: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

How Much Religion is Good for Us? is a provocative book which examines parallels between play and religion from a philosophical, theological, and anthropological perspective. Understanding “religion as a game” in the context of secular culture, it explores the “playful” patterning of spiritual and religious belief in modern societies. Drawing on the Nietzschean concept of a dead but powerful God, the book depicts modern civilizations as players treading a secular age in which the spirit of religion unconsciously survives. It argues that the spirit of religion is preserved in cultures in the form of a spiritual game, distilling moral precepts and imperatives much like poetry and works of art do. Comparative in scope, it references Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Sufism, and Daoism. This interdisciplinary volume is an outstanding resource for students and scholars of Religious Studies, Islamic Studies, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, and Anthropology.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040103014

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9781040103012

Conceptual Programming with Python

By: Thorsten Altenkirch,Isaac Triguero

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Conceptual Programming with Python

By: Thorsten Altenkirch,Isaac Triguero

Thorsten and Isaac have written this book based on a programming course we teach for Master's Students at the School of Computer Science of the University of Nottingham. The book is intended for students with little or no background in programming coming from different backgrounds educationally as well as culturally. It is not mainly a Python course but we use Python as a vehicle to teach basic programming concepts. Hence, the words conceptual programming in the title. We cover basic concepts about data structures, imperative programming, recursion and backtracking, object-oriented programming, functional programming, game development and some basics of data science.

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Lulu.com

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024482276X

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9780244822767

Financial Economics

A Concise Introduction to Classical and Behavioral Finance

By: Thorsten Hens,Marc Oliver Rieger

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Financial Economics

A Concise Introduction to Classical and Behavioral Finance

By: Thorsten Hens,Marc Oliver Rieger

Financial economics is a fascinating topic where ideas from economics, mathematics and, most recently, psychology are combined to understand financial markets. This book gives a concise introduction into this field and includes for the first time recent results from behavioral finance that help to understand many puzzles in traditional finance. The book is tailor made for master and PhD students and includes tests and exercises that enable the students to keep track of their progress. Parts of the book can also be used on a bachelor level. Researchers will find it particularly useful as a source for recent results in behavioral finance and decision theory.

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3662496887

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9783662496886

Industrial Tribology

Tribosystems, Friction, Wear and Surface Engineering, Lubrication

By: Theo Mang,Kirsten Bobzin,Thorsten Bartels

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Industrial Tribology

Tribosystems, Friction, Wear and Surface Engineering, Lubrication

By: Theo Mang,Kirsten Bobzin,Thorsten Bartels

Integrating very interesting results from the most important R & D project ever made in Germany, this book offers a basic understanding of tribological systems and the latest developments in reduction of wear and energy consumption by tribological measures. This ready reference and handbook provides an analysis of the most important tribosystems using modern test equipment in laboratories and test fields, the latest results in material selection and wear protection by special coatings and surface engineering, as well as with lubrication and lubricants. This result is a quick introduction for mechanical engineers and laboratory technicians who have to monitor and evaluate lubricants, as well as for plant maintenance personnel, engineers and chemists in the automotive and transportation industries and in all fields of mechanical manufacturing industries, researchers in the field of mechanical engineering, chemistry and material sciences.

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John Wiley & Sons

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352763259X

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Taming Uncertainty

By: Ralph Hertwig,Timothy J. Pleskac,Thorsten Pachur

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Taming Uncertainty

By: Ralph Hertwig,Timothy J. Pleskac,Thorsten Pachur

An examination of the cognitive tools that the mind uses to grapple with uncertainty in the real world. How do humans navigate uncertainty, continuously making near-effortless decisions and predictions even under conditions of imperfect knowledge, high complexity, and extreme time pressure? Taming Uncertainty argues that the human mind has developed tools to grapple with uncertainty. Unlike much previous scholarship in psychology and economics, this approach is rooted in what is known about what real minds can do. Rather than reducing the human response to uncertainty to an act of juggling probabilities, the authors propose that the human cognitive system has specific tools for dealing with different forms of uncertainty. They identify three types of tools: simple heuristics, tools for information search, and tools for harnessing the wisdom of others. This set of strategies for making predictions, inferences, and decisions constitute the mind's adaptive toolbox. The authors show how these three dimensions of human decision making are integrated and they argue that the toolbox, its cognitive foundation, and the environment are in constant flux and subject to developmental change. They demonstrate that each cognitive tool can be analyzed through the concept of ecological rationality—that is, the fit between specific tools and specific environments. Chapters deal with such specific instances of decision making as food choice architecture, intertemporal choice, financial uncertainty, pedestrian navigation, and adolescent behavior.

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MIT Press

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0262353148

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9780262353144

SAP on the Cloud

By: Michael Missbach,Thorsten Staerk,Cameron Gardiner,Joshua McCloud,Robert Madl,Mark Tempes,George Anderson

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SAP on the Cloud

By: Michael Missbach,Thorsten Staerk,Cameron Gardiner,Joshua McCloud,Robert Madl,Mark Tempes,George Anderson

This book offers a comprehensive guide to implementing SAP and HANA on private, public and hybrid clouds. Cloud computing has transformed the way organizations run their IT infrastructures: the shift from legacy monolithic mainframes and UNIX platforms to cloud based infrastructures offering ubiquitous access to critical information, elastic provisioning and drastic cost savings has made cloud an essential part of every organization’s business strategy. Cloud based services have evolved from simple file sharing, email and messaging utilities in the past, to the current situation, where their improved technical capabilities and SLAs make running mission-critical applications such as SAP possible. However, IT professionals must take due care when deploying SAP in a public, private or hybrid cloud environment. As a foundation for core business operations, SAP cloud deployments must satisfy stringent requirements concerning their performance, scale and security, while delivering measurable improvements in IT efficiency and cost savings. The 2nd edition of “SAP on the Cloud” continues the work of its successful predecessor released in 2013, providing updated guidance for deploying SAP in public, private and hybrid clouds. To do so, it discusses the technical requirements and considerations necessary for IT professionals to successfully implement SAP software in a cloud environment, including best-practice architectures for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS deployments. The section on SAP’s in-memory database HANA has been significantly extended to cover Suite on HANA (SoH) and the different incarnations of HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) and Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI). As cyber threats are a significant concern, it also explores appropriate security models for defending SAP cloud deployments against modern and sophisticated attacks. The reader will gain the insights needed to understand the respective benefits and drawbacks of various deployment models and how SAP on the cloud can be used to deliver IT efficiency and cost-savings in a secure and agile manner.

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3662474182

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Switchpoints for the Future of Logistics

By: Ingo Wieck,Martin Streichfuss,Thorsten Klaas-Wissing,Wolfgang Stölzle

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Switchpoints for the Future of Logistics

By: Ingo Wieck,Martin Streichfuss,Thorsten Klaas-Wissing,Wolfgang Stölzle

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and the University of St. Gallen's Chair of Logistics Management conducted this study in order to identify and assess switchpoints that will shape the future of the logistics industry. Rather than making projections focused on a fixed point in time, the authors instead aimed to identify the most unpredictable developments that could impact logistics. Consequently, the topics for discussion range from fairly specific near-future developments to more exploratory "blue-sky" topics. Throughout their highly interesting discussions with respondents and experts, the authors encountered a wide range of uncommon and unexpected, but not at all unlikely projections for the future.

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3642234933

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India’s Foreign Policy Discourse and its Conceptions of World Order

The Quest for Power and Identity

By: Thorsten Wojczewski

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India’s Foreign Policy Discourse and its Conceptions of World Order

The Quest for Power and Identity

By: Thorsten Wojczewski

Given India’s growing power and aspirations in world politics, there has been increasing interest among practitioners and scholars of international relations (IR) in how India views the world. This book offers the first systematic investigation of the world order models in India’s foreign policy discourse. By examining how the signifier ‘world order’ is endowed with meaning in the discourse, it moves beyond Western-centric IR and sheds light on how a state located outside the Western ‘core’ conceptualizes world order. Drawing on poststructuralism and discourse theory, the book proposes a novel analytical framework for studying foreign policy discourses and understanding the changes and continuities in India’s post-cold war foreign policy. It shows that foreign policy and world order have been crucial sites for the (re)production of India’s identity by drawing a political frontier between the Self and a set of Others and placing India into a system of differences that constitutes ‘what India is’. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of Indian foreign policy, foreign policy analysis, South Asian studies, IR and IR theory, international political thought and global order studies.

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Routledge

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1351583174

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e-learning in European SMEs

Observations, Analyses & Forecasting ; Proceedings of the ARIEL Final Conference, 08.11.2005 in Brussels

By: Doris Beer, Ileana Hamburg, Bruxelles ARIEL Final Conference &,amp,2005, Thorsten Busse

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e-learning in European SMEs

Observations, Analyses & Forecasting ; Proceedings of the ARIEL Final Conference, 08.11.2005 in Brussels

By: Doris Beer, Ileana Hamburg, Bruxelles ARIEL Final Conference &,amp,2005, Thorsten Busse

The ARIEL-project, supported within the e-learning initiative of the European Commission, investigated supply and demand factors on the e-learning market for small and medium-sized enterprises and described future trends with the scenario method. The proceedings of the ARIEL final conference in 2005 give an overview of the research results.

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Waxmann Verlag

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3830966318

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The Video Game Debate 2

Revisiting the Physical, Social, and Psychological Effects of Video Games

By: Rachel Kowert,Thorsten Quandt

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The Video Game Debate 2

Revisiting the Physical, Social, and Psychological Effects of Video Games

By: Rachel Kowert,Thorsten Quandt

This student-friendly book provides an accessible overview of the primary debates about the effects of video games. It expands on the original The Video Game Debate to address the new technologies that have emerged within the field of game studies over the last few years. Debates about the negative effects of video game play have been evident since their introduction in the 1970s, but the advent of online and mobile gaming has revived these concerns, reinvigorating old debates and generating brand new ones. The Video Game Debate 2 draws from the latest research findings from the top scholars of digital games research to address these concerns. The book explores key developments such as virtual and augmented reality, the use of micro-transactions, the integration of loot boxes, and the growth of mobile gaming and games for change (serious games). Furthermore, several new chapters explore contemporary debates around e-sports, gamification, sex and gender discrimination in games, and the use of games in therapy. This book offers students and scholars of games studies and digital media, as well as policymakers, the essential information they need to participate in the debate.

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1000224287

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The Political Aesthetics of ISIS and Italian Futurism

By: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

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The Political Aesthetics of ISIS and Italian Futurism

By: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

Through empirical analysis and theoretical reflection, this book shows that the aesthetics and politics of the Islamic State is “futurist.” ISIS overcomes postmodern pessimism and joins the modern, techno-oriented, and optimistic attitude propagated by Italian Futurism in the early twentieth century. The Islamic State does not only excel through the extensive use of high-tech weapons, social media, commercial bot, and automated text systems. By putting forward the presence of speeding cars and tanks, mobile phones, and computers, ISIS presents jihad life as connected to modern urban culture. Futurism praised violence as a means of leaving behind imitations of the past in order to project itself most efficiently into the future. A profound sense of crisis produces in both Futurism and jihadism a nihilistic attitude toward the present state of society that will be overcome through an exaltation of technology. Futurists were opposed to parliamentary democracy and sympathized with nationalism and colonialism. ISIS jihadism suggests a similarly curious combination of modernism and conservative values. The most obvious modern characteristic of this new image of fundamentalism is the highly aestheticized recruiting material.

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Lexington Books

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1498564372

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Mastering Parallel Programming with R

By: Simon R. Chapple,Eilidh Troup,Thorsten Forster,Terence Sloan

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Mastering Parallel Programming with R

By: Simon R. Chapple,Eilidh Troup,Thorsten Forster,Terence Sloan

Master the robust features of R parallel programming to accelerate your data science computations About This Book Create R programs that exploit the computational capability of your cloud platforms and computers to the fullest Become an expert in writing the most efficient and highest performance parallel algorithms in R Get to grips with the concept of parallelism to accelerate your existing R programs Who This Book Is For This book is for R programmers who want to step beyond its inherent single-threaded and restricted memory limitations and learn how to implement highly accelerated and scalable algorithms that are a necessity for the performant processing of Big Data. No previous knowledge of parallelism is required. This book also provides for the more advanced technical programmer seeking to go beyond high level parallel frameworks. What You Will Learn Create and structure efficient load-balanced parallel computation in R, using R's built-in parallel package Deploy and utilize cloud-based parallel infrastructure from R, including launching a distributed computation on Hadoop running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Get accustomed to parallel efficiency, and apply simple techniques to benchmark, measure speed and target improvement in your own code Develop complex parallel processing algorithms with the standard Message Passing Interface (MPI) using RMPI, pbdMPI, and SPRINT packages Build and extend a parallel R package (SPRINT) with your own MPI-based routines Implement accelerated numerical functions in R utilizing the vector processing capability of your Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) with OpenCL Understand parallel programming pitfalls, such as deadlock and numerical instability, and the approaches to handle and avoid them Build a task farm master-worker, spatial grid, and hybrid parallel R programs In Detail R is one of the most popular programming languages used in data science. Applying R to big data and complex analytic tasks requires the harnessing of scalable compute resources. Mastering Parallel Programming with R presents a comprehensive and practical treatise on how to build highly scalable and efficient algorithms in R. It will teach you a variety of parallelization techniques, from simple use of R's built-in parallel package versions of lapply(), to high-level AWS cloud-based Hadoop and Apache Spark frameworks. It will also teach you low level scalable parallel programming using RMPI and pbdMPI for message passing, applicable to clusters and supercomputers, and how to exploit thousand-fold simple processor GPUs through ROpenCL. By the end of the book, you will understand the factors that influence parallel efficiency, including assessing code performance and implementing load balancing; pitfalls to avoid, including deadlock and numerical instability issues; how to structure your code and data for the most appropriate type of parallelism for your problem domain; and how to extract the maximum performance from your R code running on a variety of computer systems. Style and approach This book leads you chapter by chapter from the easy to more complex forms of parallelism. The author's insights are presented through clear practical examples applied to a range of different problems, with comprehensive reference information for each of the R packages employed. The book can be read from start to finish, or by dipping in chapter by chapter, as each chapter describes a specific parallel approach and technology, so can be read as a standalone.

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Packt Publishing Ltd

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1784394629

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Magnetic Nanoparticles

Particle Science, Imaging Technology, and Clinical Applications : Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging

By: Thorsten M. Buzug

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Magnetic Nanoparticles

Particle Science, Imaging Technology, and Clinical Applications : Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Magnetic Particle Imaging

By: Thorsten M. Buzug

In these proceedings, an overview on recent results of a novel imaging modality based on magnetic nanoparticles is given. This imaging concept, called magnetic particle imaging (MPI), falls into the category of functional imaging and, hence, the magnetic nanoparticles may serve as tracers of metabolic processes. Today, there are interesting challenges within the practical set-up of a scanning device and also in the design of new MPI nanoparticles. During this workshop at the University of Lbeck in 2010, scientists from chemical engineering, biology, electrical engineering, physics, computer sciences and medicine discussed the promises and challenges of MPI.

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World Scientific

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9814324671

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9789814324670

Successfully tame budgies within a few weeks

How does clicker training birds with budgerigars work? A step-by-step guide for budgies taming and parakeet training.

By: Thorsten Hawk

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Successfully tame budgies within a few weeks

How does clicker training birds with budgerigars work? A step-by-step guide for budgies taming and parakeet training.

By: Thorsten Hawk

Successfully tame budgies within a few weeks. How does clicker training birds with budgerigars work? A step-by-step guide for budgies taming and parakeet training. You've never had a budgie before and are wondering: How to tame budgies? How long does it take to tame a budgie? How can you tame a budgie? How does the Clicker Training work? What do the sounds of budgies reveal? Differences in age or gender? These and many more questions are answered for you in this guide. This is how taming and gaining the trust of budgies should work. You can have a lot of fun with these wonderful birds. But please do not keep them on their own!

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3754937952

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China - World Power Of The 21st Century?

A Research of the Automotive Industry

By: Christian Lutz,Benjamin Pflüger,Thorsten Iwanowski

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China - World Power Of The 21st Century?

A Research of the Automotive Industry

By: Christian Lutz,Benjamin Pflüger,Thorsten Iwanowski

Inhaltsangabe:Introduction: The approach of this research paper is to give an overview about the Chinese automotive industry. An analysis of the People s Republic of China (PRC) shows the investment possibilities for foreign automotive manufactures. This research introduces the major opportunities and threats of political, social, economical, environmental, technological and legal dimensions within China. In the first part the Political System will be analysed by Christian Lutz. The historical and cultural roots are important to understand the political developments. The theoretical and actual politcal system and their problems will be shown. He also reflects the Social System with its different specifications. The current fall-back system with community health, retirement pension and unemployment will be analysed. Furthermore the potential opportunities and risks for automotive investors will be addressed. In the third part Economy Benjamin Pflüger point out that China is potentially the largest and one of the fatest-growing automotive markets in the world and therefore significant for all foreign automobile manufactures. There are both great opportunities and possible threats existing in China. The huge population, economic growth, increasing income and improved environment for consumers as well as China`s membership of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are important for the future development of the global economy. This also leads to unavoidable consequences for the environment. The current situation and the environmental impact of China`s motorization, such as infrastructure shortage and air pollution, will be presented in sup-topic Environment . In the fifth chapter Technology Thorsten Iwanowski will introduce aspects of technology and technology management in China. As nowadays the main form of investment is the joint venture, this will be focused. The accelerating technological development within the last decades does not only generate advantages for the Chinese people. After having created several constitutions within the last 50 years, a modern and future oriented one has been passed. This constitution basing the new legal system will require fast and further legal rules and laws to meet the challenges of the Chinese future. These circumstances and their influence on the automobile industry will be pointed out in the part Legal System . The last years show an increasing volume of Foreign Invested Enterprises (FIE) within [...]

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3832486321

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Politics and Economics of Tropical High Forest Management

A case study of Ghana

By: Thorsten Treue

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Politics and Economics of Tropical High Forest Management

A case study of Ghana

By: Thorsten Treue

For the last two decades the loss of, in particular, tropical rainforest has alarmed the public in the developed parts of the world. The debate has been characterised by a lack of understand ing of the causes and effects of the process, leading to the prevailing reaction being unquali fied condemnation. Such attitude has even been observed among scientists, claiming suprem acy to biodiversity conservation. Many scientific analyses are available, but the basis for so ber debates and appropriate actions is still highly insufficient. Two recent international initia tives! will hopefully lead to improved knowledge of deforestation and forest degradation as they recognise the need for studies to critically investigate those issues. This book will pro vide useful input to the initiatives. In my opinion, the scientific analyses have not sufficiently promoted the understanding that the fate of tropical forests is first and foremost a concern of the governments of the countries in which the forests are situated. Tropical forests may be important to the global environment and their rich biodiversity may be a human heritage. But their main importance is their poten tial contribution to improving livelihood in the countries in question.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401007063

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9789401007061

Guitar works

By: Thorsten Kober

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Guitar works

By: Thorsten Kober

A method that covers the most important aspects of guitar playing and music making in one volume...will get you started and take you to an advanced level of musicianship."-p. [4] of cover.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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0634031236

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9780634031236

Handbook of Spatial Point-Pattern Analysis in Ecology

By: Thorsten Wiegand,Kirk A. Moloney

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Handbook of Spatial Point-Pattern Analysis in Ecology

By: Thorsten Wiegand,Kirk A. Moloney

Understand How to Analyze and Interpret Information in Ecological Point Patterns Although numerous statistical methods for analyzing spatial point patterns have been available for several decades, they haven’t been extensively applied in an ecological context. Addressing this gap, Handbook of Spatial Point-Pattern Analysis in Ecology shows how the techniques of point-pattern analysis are useful for tackling ecological problems. Within an ecological framework, the book guides readers through a variety of methods for different data types and aids in the interpretation of the results obtained by point-pattern analysis. Ideal for empirical ecologists who want to avoid advanced theoretical literature, the book covers statistical techniques for analyzing and interpreting the information contained in ecological patterns. It presents methods used to extract information hidden in spatial point-pattern data that may point to the underlying processes. The authors focus on point processes and null models that have proven their immediate utility for broad ecological applications, such as cluster processes. Along with the techniques, the handbook provides a comprehensive selection of real-world examples. Most of the examples are analyzed using Programita, a continuously updated software package based on the authors’ many years of teaching and collaborative research in ecological point-pattern analysis. Programita is tailored to meet the needs of real-world applications in ecology. The software and a manual are available online.

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Minimum Wages, Collective Bargaining and Economic Development in Asia and Europe

A Labour Perspective

By: Maarten van Klaveren,Denis Gregory,Thorsten Schulten

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Minimum Wages, Collective Bargaining and Economic Development in Asia and Europe

A Labour Perspective

By: Maarten van Klaveren,Denis Gregory,Thorsten Schulten

This book offers a labour perspective on wage-setting institutions, collective bargaining and economic development. Sixteen country chapters, eight on Asia and eight on Europe, focus in particular on the role and effectiveness of minimum wages in the context of national trends in income inequality, economic development, and social security.

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Thermal Analysis of the Milling Process

By: Thorsten Augspurger

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Thermal Analysis of the Milling Process

By: Thorsten Augspurger

The aim of the current work was the analysis of temperatures in the milling process in order to understand causal and statistical relationships between process parameters and thermal state variables. The first step included fundamental empirical investigations in the form of orthogonal cuts in order to estimate the heat partitioning depending on the process parameters. Based on the empirical data from the orthogonal cuts temperature fields in the milling process were modelled analytically and validated.

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Successful Resilience Training

Easy to Learn with the 7 pillars principle. Your Resilience Pproject to master any crisis with self-confidence. Incl. tips for more serenity.

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Successful Resilience Training

Easy to Learn with the 7 pillars principle. Your Resilience Pproject to master any crisis with self-confidence. Incl. tips for more serenity.

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★ Successful Resilience Training. ★ Easy to Learn with the 7 pillars principle. Your Resilience Project to master any crisis with self-confidence. Incl. tips for more serenity. Many people have to deal with crises in their everyday lives. Whether it is our own health, a stroke of fate or another crisis that rules our lives. A crisis is not easy to put away and follows us throughout our lives. But how can we go through life better despite crises? How to build a healthy self-esteem and how to become resilient and build your self-confidence? In the following guide, we'll show you how you can become resilient and boost your self-confidence with simple tricks.

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Valuing Digital Business Designs and Platforms

An Integrated Strategic and Financial Valuation Framework

By: Thorsten Feix

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Valuing Digital Business Designs and Platforms

An Integrated Strategic and Financial Valuation Framework

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This book develops an interwoven framework for the strategic and financial valuation of digital business designs and platform companies which became game changers for a multitude of ecosystems in the 21st century. But, also incumbents of traditional industries are challenged by those digital natives and have therefore either to revitalize their business design or facing the risk to be marginalized. The business design twin of innovation is resilience to create lasting competitive advantage and capture value for the post-pandemic world of the 20s. The ultimate idea of the book rests on the hypothesis that only the combination of business design analytics - 10C Business Design and the 8 strategic levers of platform strength - with intense financial modeling - Reverse DCF - enables a true understanding of the competitive advantage and value of such business designs. Based on a tailored strategic-financial conceptual framework a set of high-profile, new case studies will highlight the working principles and application of the concept.

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Event History Analysis With Stata

2nd Edition

By: Hans-Peter Blossfeld,Gotz Rohwer,Thorsten Schneider

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Event History Analysis With Stata

2nd Edition

By: Hans-Peter Blossfeld,Gotz Rohwer,Thorsten Schneider

Nowadays, event history analysis can draw on a well-established set of statistical tools for the description and causal analysis of event history data. The second edition of Event History Analysis with Stata provides an updated introduction to event history modeling, along with many instructive Stata examples. Using the latest Stata software, each of these practical examples develops a research question, refers to useful substantive background information, gives a short exposition of the underlying statistical concepts, describes the organization of the input data and the application of the statistical Stata procedures, and assists the reader in performing a substantive interpretation of the obtained results. Emphasising the strengths and limitations of event history model techniques in each field of application, this book demonstrates that event history models provide a useful approach with which to uncover causal relationships or to map out a system of causal relations. It demonstrates how long-term processes can be studied and how changing context information on the micro, meso, and macro levels can be integrated easily into a dynamic analysis of longitudinal data. Event History Analysis with Stata is an invaluable resource for both novice students and researchers who need an introductory textbook and experienced researchers (from sociology, economics, political science, pedagogy, psychology, or demography) who are looking for a practical handbook for their research.

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0429522541

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Bartu - Part I

By: Thorsten Schröder

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Bartu - Part I

By: Thorsten Schröder

Thoras and his friends live a perfectly normal life for a young Bartu teenager. Falling in love, dealing with school, etc. But this life is turned upside down when the horrors of nuclear war ravage their planet and confront them with a bleak and hopeless future of living in a radioactive wasteland with only one hope: An almost finished colony-ship aimed at a neigbouring planet.

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Man/Machine Interaction in the Work of Stanley Kubrick

By: Thorsten Felden

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Man/Machine Interaction in the Work of Stanley Kubrick

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Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2006 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: In this paper, I want to examine Kubrick's work for the notion of man interacting with machines and relate it to various theoretical models that also deal with the relation of man and machine. I chose the term 'machine' as a generic term for any theory applying technological, mechanical or machinic ideas, most of which using the machine as a metaphor for sociological, philosophical or psychoanalytic approaches. At the same time, I want to illustrate on the basis of Kubrick’s work how the theoretical discourse on this topic has changed in the course of time. Being initially cut down to a very literal understanding of machines as actual physical devices, the 20th century discourse about technology has shown that the demarcation line between what is nature and what is technology is not as easily drawn as it might appear. Man is inseparably bound up with his tools and culture as a whole could be regarded as some kind of machinery. Thus, a great part of both this paper and Kubrick's work deals with the notion of a cultural machine. Another part, however, will leave the narrow view of the machine as a strictly cultural metaphor. Recent philosophical currents like the work of Deleuze, Maturana and the academic gender discourse try to evolve a new coining of the term ‘machinic’ that goes beyond rigid dualistic notions. I will try to show that these ideas can be found in Kubrick’s films as well.

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3638716511

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A Profound Mystery

The Use of the Old Testament in Ephesians

By: Thorsten Moritz

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A Profound Mystery

The Use of the Old Testament in Ephesians

By: Thorsten Moritz

The primary focus of this study is the question of the extent and impact of Old Testament traditions in Ephesians. A close examination of the range of quotations, allusions and echoes found in the epistle shows that the Old Testament influence was greater and more deliberate than has hitherto been assumed. The main part of the book is a thorough exegetical study of various aspects of the question, ranging from identification of the relevant Old Testament texts to an examination of the ways in which they are appropriated and applied in the New Testament context. A number of implications emerge for our understanding of the letter's intended readership, and these are illuminating for the assessment of the epistle's relationship to the letter to the Colossians.

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900426731X

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Construction Materials Manual

By: Manfred Hegger,Volker Auch-Schwelk,Matthias Fuchs,Thorsten Rosenkranz

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Construction Materials Manual

By: Manfred Hegger,Volker Auch-Schwelk,Matthias Fuchs,Thorsten Rosenkranz

Eine Übersicht für Architekten, die auch die Bedeutung der Baustoffwahl für die sinnliche Wahrnehmung von Architektur wie Haptik, Geruch, Farbe, Oberflächenstruktur berücksichtigt, gab es bisher nicht. Mit dem Baustoff Atlas wird diese Lücke nun geschlossen. Als ein auf die Interessen von Architekten und Bauingenieuren gleichermassen abgestimmtes Grundlagenwerk wird er alle genannten Betrachtungsebenen vereinen. Dabei werden sowohl grundsätzliche Nachhaltigkeitsfragen wie Lebensdauer, Umweltbelastung und Stoffkreisläufe erörtert als auch Materialinnovationen vorgestellt. Alle wesentlichen herkömmlichen und neuartigen Baustoffe werden hinsichtlich Herstellung, Verarbeitung, Oberflächen, Anschlüssen und Kenndaten umfassend dokumentiert. Internationale Beispiele, deren Erscheinungsbild sich häufig aus jeweils einem Material definiert, veranschaulichen die Anwendung in der Architektur. Der Baustoff Atlas unterstützt damit die tägliche Arbeit von Architekten und Ingenieuren bei der Baustoffauswahl auf eine umfassende, zugleich anschauliche und anregende Weise.

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3034614551

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Cyberevolution - William Gibson's Evolutionary Ideas

By: Thorsten Felden

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Cyberevolution - William Gibson's Evolutionary Ideas

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Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne, course: Between Chance and Adaptation. Reverberations of the Theory of Evolution in Ethnology, Literature and History, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Classic evolutionary theory always looks backwards. Darwin, his predecessors and successors put forward their theories by comparing present organic records with those of the past. Indeed some ideas of social evolution are imbued with a certain kind of perspective into the future, believing in an ongoing progression of human societies. Still, in order to prove the accuracy of those ideas, one had to rely on evidence taken from history or from cultures which were believed to be primitive and thus representing former states of societies. Science fiction's view goes quite in the opposite direction: Here, the present marks the point of view from where we look into the future of society, the future of mankind. The following paper examines the notions of evolution we can find in William Gibson's work. I will try to deal with the question how we can perceive an evolution of the human race in his novels and what other ideas of evolution Gibson incorporates into his work. Starting off with the query whether there is to find any sort of biological evolution in Gibson's work, the second chapter will deal with the picture of nature Gibson draws. How does he describe nature (meaning organic beings or biological environments), or to put it more correctly, how is nature conceived through the eyes of his protagonists? Then I will take a closer look at the dualistic relationship of nature and technology. What importance has technology for the societies Gibson sketches, and what effect has technology on their inventors? The main topic of this chapter will be the investigation of nature's and technology's evolutionary features in Gibson's work: How does the human species develop and which way doe

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3638668584

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Barthes and the Bard - Scriptibilité and Two Adaptations of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

By: Thorsten Leiendecker

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Barthes and the Bard - Scriptibilité and Two Adaptations of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

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Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), course: Shakespeare on Screen, 36 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In this paper I discuss two film adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Adrian Noble's TV production from 1996 and Michael Hoffman's Hollywood film from 1998. The two versions offer different contemporary readings of a text, so that it is not only Shakespeare we evaluate but also ourselves and what our occupation with his texts signifies. The methodological key concepts employed are Roland Barthes's critical terms from S/Z, the writerly and the readerly (scriptibilit and lisibilit ), as well his own cinematic terminology of 'the third meaning'. Used in the anaysis, these concepts support the critical differentiation of the Hollywood blockbuster and the art house production, their specific filmic properties and their social functions.

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