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Surface Effects in Magnetic Nanoparticles
The book is aimed to provide an overview of progress in the understanding of surface properties and surface driven effects in magnetic nanoparticles through recent results of different modelling, simulation and experimental investigations. Its intended audience is Ph.D. students and researchers in materials science. Magnetic nanoparticles have been the subject of continuous and growing interest, from both fundamental and technological points of view, in the last 50 years, since the pionering work of Louis Niel. Nanoparticles are unique physical objects with remarkable magnetic properties which differ greatly from their parent massive materials. They are due to finite size effects of the magnetic core, related to the reduced number of spins cooperatively linked within the particle, and to surface and interface effects, related to the lack of coordination for the surface ions, inducing broken exchange bonds which can result in frustration and spin disorder.
Supply Chain Strategy and Financial Metrics : The Supply Chain Triangle Of Service, Cost And Cash
Examines the 'inventory' or 'working capital' angle, which is overlooked in many of the more strategic supply chain management texts / Includes a practical road map on how to improve a business and facilitate an improved Return-on-Capital-Employed / Online resources: Includes worksheets covering basic financial concepts such as cash flow and working capital, with example data sets and guidelines/exercises to make it interactive / Provides insightful case studies examining successful supply chain transformation programmes employed in a wide variety of international companies
SUPERSUIT : Poetic Interventions in Urban Spaces
The increasing accumulation of people in historyless living machines, the challenges posed by migration and a lack of space update the need for new thinking and action in public spaces. SUPERSUIT is an interdisciplinary experiment on the border between human and space. It is a tool for poetic interventions in different urban situations, invites participation and questions the relationship between people, space and city in a sensual way. As a marker of public space, the spontaneously emerging forms of the SUPERSUIT respond directly to the parameters of the urban context. SUPERSUIT enables the change of current design processes and the conception of new human-material constellations via performative interventions
Successful Decision-making : A Systematic Approach to Complex Problems
Making decisions is certainly the most important task of a manager and it is often a very difficult one. This book offers a decision making procedure for solving complex problems step by step. Unlike other texts, the book focuses on problem analysis, on developing solution options and on establishing the decision making matrix.The book is intended for decision makers in companies, in non-profit organisations and in public administration. It is an approach to helping them to solve complex problems successfully. The book is also addressed to students and to participants in executive courses.
Success Factors of Corporate Spin-Offs
Success Factors of Corporate Spin-Offs was designed to meet these demands by analysing the success factors of Corporate Spin-Offs, their relative contribution to the process and the role of the different actors involved. Based on an extensive literature review and a new Spin-Off typology, a broad range of success factors and success dimensions is proposed. Using a combination of multivariate models, the responses from 211 European companies to a questionnaire are analysed and typologies derived.
Studies in Hebrew Language and Jewish Culture : Presented to Albert van der Heide on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday
Include studies in Rabbinics, Classical Hebrew linguistics, early Hebrew-Greek glossary, Hebrew manuscripts, Medieval and Modern Hebrew literature, Medieval and Early-Modern interpretation of Scripture, Medieval and Early-Modern Jewish philosophy.
Structured Finance : Techniques, Products and Market
In recent years, financial engineering has developed new ways of financing deals based primarily on the capacity of the operations to generate sufficient cash for the repayment of loans or bonds. The business of structured finance has then become an interesting business area for non-financial companies, investment and commercial banks and consultants. In terms of volumes, it shows figures easily comparable to other, more traditional, sources of funding.This book provides the reader with an analysis of the characteristics of structured finance deals – asset-backed securitization, project finance, structured leasing and leveraged acquisitions – together with updated data on the current state of the international financial markets for these operations.
Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition ; Joint IAPR International Workshop, SSPR & SPR 2008, Orlando, USA, December 4-6, 2008. Proceedings
This book includes : graph-based methods, probabilistic and stochastic structural models for PR, image and video analysis, shape analysis, kernel methods, recognition and classification, applications, ensemble methods, feature selection, density estimation and clustering, computer vision and biometrics, pattern recognition and applications, pattern recognition, as well as feature selection and clustering.
Structural Information and Communication Complexity ; Vol. 4056 ; 13th International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2006, Chester, UK, July 2-5, 2006, Proceedings
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2006, held in Chester, UK, in July 2006. The 24 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The papers address issues such as topics in distributed and parallel computing, information dissemination, communication complexity, interconnection networks, high speed networks, wireless and sensor networks, mobile computing, optical computing, autonomous robots, and related areas. The papers are organized in topical sections on robots, routing, distributed algorithms, fault tolerance, radio networks, and self-stabilizing alorgithms.
Stroke Recovery with Cellular Therapies
As the leading cause of adult disability, stroke poses substantial economic and psychological burdens to populations around the world. Against this dismal backdrop, several novel "neurorestorative" approaches are being investigated as adjunctive treatments to physiotherapy. Stroke Recovery with Cellular Therapies discusses the promising investigations around the world on cell-based therapies to enhance recovery from stroke. Throughout this groundbreaking text, chapters detail the potential benefits of various types of cells and approaches for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, and all studies rely upon traditional histological and functional outcomes. Among the topics detailed in this volume are transplanting immortalized neural stem cells, transplantation of bone marrow stromal cells, adipose-derived stem cells, endogenous neural stem cells in tissue remodeling, and an investigation into the ethics of stem cell research.
Strategies and Tactics in Supply Chain Event Management
This book gives unique insights into the Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) of world-leading companies. Aims, methods, instruments as well as resources and budgets in Supply Chain Event Management are discussed. The reader will gain a strong understanding of the way to deal with problems along the supply chain and how to avoid them. Supply Chain Event Management is a transparent view of the company and all value chain partners and allows to meet timelines with decreased cost and risks.
Strategic Retail Management : Text and International Cases
This is not a traditional textbook or collection of case studies, but is intended to demonstrate the complex and manifold questions of retail management in the form of 15 lessons that provide a thematic overview of key issues and illustrate them with the help of comprehensive case studies. Internationally known retail companies are used as examples to facilitate an understanding of what is involved in strategic retail management and to present some best practices.The book can be used in teaching as a basis for working with case studies. For this purpose, the case studies are integrated into the lessons in such a way that they provide additional content and a specific application of the individual lessons.
Strategic Management
The fastest growing Strategy title in the market because it uses a unified, singular voice to help students synthesize and integrate theory, empirical research, and practical applications with current, real-world examples. It prepares students with the foundation they need to understand how companies gain and sustain competitive advantage, while developing students’ skills to become successful future leaders capable of making well-reasoned strategic decisions.
Strategic IT Management : Increase value, control performance, reduce costs
Growth, mergers, restructuring, innovation - all these important topics of today’s companies cannot be implemented without a systematic approach to IT management. This book does not point out unrealistic „one size fits all“ solutions but offers basic systems to solve a broad range of IT problems and challenges. It also presents case examples for successfully implemented solutions – mostly in big companies as they ask for specific IT management."IT is not a cost factor, but a tool, to cut process costs in a company. This message cannot be elaborated enough in times of very short IT budgets. The book points out, how a company with tight resources can generate value – using standard as well as individual software
Storytelling : Branding in Practice
As a concept, storytelling has won a decisive foothold in the debate on how brands of the future will be shaped. Yet, companies are still confused as to how and why storytelling can make a difference to their business. What is the point of telling stories anyway? What makes a good story? And how do you go about telling it so that it supports the company brand? This book is written for practitioners by practitioners. Through real life examples, simple guidelines and practical tools, the book aims to inspire companies to use storytelling as a means of building their brand - internally as well as externally
Storie di cose semplici = Stories of simple things
The nut, the thread, the key, the ring, the mirror, the button and the sphere are simple things that we encounter every day, but of which we often forget, because contemporary culture is more and more bewitched by the complexity of the systems and the lightness of virtual realities. This essay, countering Italo Calvino's five American Lectures, examines how "simple things" in fact often demonstrate their importance in simplicity, slowness, heaviness, singularity, in invisibility itself. But their "consistency" - this precisely should have been the sixth Lesson - lies precisely in the fact that their symbolic and real strength lies precisely in the fact that they are concrete things, which we can all touch, even when they take on a metaphorical meaning. The seven simple objects could have been accompanied by many other examples, but this book must remain above all a stimulus so that we can recover greater attention to the concreteness of things, which is not only important when they are placed in the windows of a museum of material culture, but because they are part of us. Literature and technique, art and philosophy, music and news, every day show how these "things" are the real protagonists of what the French call civilization: the Ring of the Nibelung, Pushkin's Button, and the "Brunelleschi's nut" are just a few examples of how these "things" have found a place of honor in history. And this is a book in which many stories are told, like fairy tales that introduce our things, to let us enter their world accompanied by fantasy.
Stepping into Virtual Reality
Reviews the basic theoretical and practical concepts involved in the visual aspect of virtual environments. Part 2 provides more details on the components, structure and types of virtual worlds that can be created, including detailed explanations of the main modeling and animation techniques for virtual characters - one of the most important aspects in a virtual world. A review and discussion of the main types of VR system architectures defines the different alternatives for organizing and designing a VR application. The final part covers the main principles of Virtual Reality hardware using a generic classification of interaction devices based on a human-centered approach (via the five human senses: vision, sound, touch, smell and taste). The book closes with an overview of successful VR systems and applications and gives a glimpse of what lies in the future.
Statistical quantitative methods in finance : From theory to quantitative portfolio management
Explores the theoretical foundations of statistical models, from ordinary least squares (OLS) to the generalized method of moments (GMM) used in econometrics. additionally, the book delves into non-linear methods and bayesian approaches, which are becoming increasingly popular among practitioners thanks to advancements in computational resources. the book also offers valuable insights into quantitative portfolio management, showcasing how traditional data science tools can be enhanced with machine learning models. these enhancements are illustrated through real-world examples from finance and econometrics, accompanied by python code.
Statistical Methods in Molecular Evolution
This book provides an overview of the statistical theory and methods used in studies of molecular evolution. It includes an introductory section suitable for readers that are new to the field, a section discussing practical methods for data analysis, and more specialized sections discussing specific models and addressing statistical issues relating to estimation and model choice. The chapters are written by the leaders in the field and they will take the reader from basic introductory material to the state-of the-art statistical methods.
Static Analysis ; 14th International Symposium, SAS 2007, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, August 22-24, 2007, Proceedings
The aim of static analysis is to develop principles, techniques and tools for validatingpropertiesofprograms,fordesigningsemantics-basedtransformations of programs and for obtaining high-performance implementations of high-level programming languages. Over the years the series of static analysis symposia has served as the primary venue for presentation and discussion of theoretical, practical and innovative advances in the area. This volume contains the papers accepted for presentation at the 14th Int- national Static Analysis Symposium (SAS 2007).
