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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Das Buch bietet anhand von LEGO Mindstorms NXT-Robotern einen anschaulichen Einstieg in die Informatik. Nach einer allgemeinen Einführung in informationstechnische Prinzipien und Komponenten werden in Teil 2 die NXT-Elemente behandelt. Dazu gehören die Bauteile und ihre Funktionsweisen sowie die grafische Programmierumgebung. Teil 3 führt in die objektorientierte Programmiersprache JAVA und die Programmierung von LEGO-Robotern ein. Softwareprogramme, Aufgabenlösungen und Bauanleitungen werden auf der begleitenden Homepage bereitgestellt. 248 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Anhand einer durchgängigen Fallstudie wird das Geschäftsprozessmanagement mit Hilfe von SAP-Technologien erläutert. Konzeptionelle und technische Grundlagen (insb. Einführung in die verwendete Integrationsplattform SAP XI und SAP Business Workflows) werden der Fallstudie vorangestellt. Die Fallstudie des Buches beschäftigt sich mit der Ermittlung der Umweltwirkung von Produkten und thematisiert damit eine Problemstellung, die im Kontext unterschiedlicher Geschäftsprozesse und Branchen auftritt: um das kundenseitige Informationsbedürfnis zur Umweltwirkung eines Produktes erfüllen zu können, werden Produktionsdetails entlang der Wertschöpfungskette von der Rohstoffentnahme bis zum Vertrieb gesammelt. Auf Grundlage der so gewonnenen Daten erhält der Verbraucher Aufschluss über die Herkunft der verarbeiteten Rohstoffe und die angewendeten Produktionsverfahren. Die erforderlichen Prozesse werden am Beispiel des produktbezogenen Carbon Footprint (PCF) konzipiert und implementiert. 280 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Das Buch liefert neben einem Überblick über die Theorie der Einteilchen-Wellengleichungen auch eine Einführung in die Berechnung quantenelektrodynamischer Prozesse. Die intuitive und direkte Betrachtung hilft Experimentalphysikern, sich die fortgeschrittene Quantenmechanik anzueignen - ohne Vorkenntnisse in der Quantenfeldtheorie. Die Übungsaufgaben enthalten zumeist detaillierte Anleitungen und thematisieren wichtige Aspekte wie die diskreten Symmetrien der Dirac-Gleichung oder die Quantisierung des Klein-Gordon- und des Dirac-Feldes. 368 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Eingebettete Systeme werden aufgrund ihrer Spezialisiertheit zunehmend aus interagierenden Hardware- und Software-Komponenten realisiert. Dies macht ein ganzheitliches Verständnis der Verifikationsproblematik erforderlich. Das Lehrbuch dient als Einführung in die systematische Verifikation eingebetteter Systeme, sowohl bei spezialisierten Verfahren zur Hardware- und Software-Verifikation als auch bei der Verifikation der Schnittstellen. Der Band dient als Nachschlagewerk für Entwickler und als Begleiter im Informatik- und Elektrotechnik-Studium. 612 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Business meets IT - wenn diese Welten aufeinander treffen, werden relevante Themen nur selten aus einem gemeinsamen Blickwinkel betrachtet. Ablauf und Erfolg von IT-Projekten in Unternehmen werden aber wesentlich von dieser Konstellation beeinflusst. Das Handbuch soll dazu dienen, eine gemeinsame Grundlage für die erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit in IT-Projekten zu schaffen, eine Basis für die zielgerichtete Kommunikation zu erarbeiten und ein Gesamtkonzept zur Anwendungsentwicklung zu vermitteln. 476 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Neuromuscular monitoring is critical for the judicious use of muscle relaxants. In combination with reversal, it is fundamental to every successful strategy for managing postoperative residual blocks. This reference work is a compendium of all the essential information needed to monitor neuromuscular function. Physiological and pharmacological basics of neuromuscular transmission, principles of neuromuscular monitoring: How to place stimulation electrodes, properly select the stimulation mode and interprete findings, practical techniques for clinical routine, clinical concepts behind qualitative and quantitative nerve stimulators, comprehensive presentation of acceleromyography including a question & answer section, summaries of all key points, current guidelines on the scientific use of acceleromyography. 224 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die vorliegende Studie untersucht den historischen Entwicklungsprozess homöopathischer Therapieformen bis zum Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Behandlung mit Doppel- bzw. Komplexmitteln. Bereits zu Lebzeiten Hahnemanns, der selbst mit Doppelmitteln experimentierte, führte ihre Zulässigkeit zu heftigen Kontroversen. Unterschiedliche Richtungen in der Homöopathie, Spagyrik, Naturheilkunde und Schulmedizin setzten sich für homöopathische Arzneimitteltherapien ein und förderten die Weiterentwicklung medizinischer Heilkonzepte, denen ein ganzheitliches Denken' zugrundelag. Zu den Befürwortern alternativer Heilmethoden gehörte u. a. der berühmte Berliner Chirurg August Bier (1861-1949). Er sah in homöopathischen Therapien eine von mehreren möglichen' Behandlungsmethoden und argumentierte im Sinne Heraklits, dass man nicht zu einer harmonischen Auffassung' der Heilkunde gelange, schließe man eine dieser Heilregeln aus. 117 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Anwendungsorientierten Mikroprozessoren, also Mikroprozessoren, die für den Einsatz in einem weiten Spektrum von Anwendungen konstruiert wurden, haben die Realisierung vieler moderner elektronischer Anwendungen vereinfacht oder erst ermöglicht. Zu den anwendungsorientierten Mikroprozessoren gehören zum einen die Mikrocontroller, die vollständige Mikrocomputer auf einem einzigen Chip darstellen, sowie die digitalen Signalprozessoren, die insbesondere zur digitalen Verarbeitung analoger Signale konzipiert sind. Das bestens zum Selbststudium geeignete Buch bietet eine ausführliche Darstellung der anwendungsorientierten Mikroprozessoren. Reichhaltige Bebilderung und eine in sich geschlossene und autonomen Darstellung unterstützen den Leser, die komplexe Materie umfassend zu erlernen. 512 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The electronic Schrodi nger equation describes the motion of N electrons under Coulomb interaction forces in a eld of clamped nuclei. Solutions of this equation depend on 3N variables, three spatial dimensions for each electron. Approxim- ing the solutions is thus inordinately challenging, and it is conventionally believed that a reduction to simpli ed models, such as those of the Hartree-Fock method or density functional theory, is the only tenable approach. This book seeks to c- vince the reader that this conventional wisdom need not be ironclad: the regularity of the solutions, which increases with the number of electrons, the decay behavior of their mixed derivatives, and the antisymmetry enforced by the Pauli principle contribute properties that allow these functions to be approximated with an order of complexity which comes arbitrarily close to that for a system of one or two electrons. The present notes arose from lectures that I gave in Berlin during the academic year 2008/09 to introduce beginning graduate students of mathematics into this subject. They are kept on an intermediate level that should be accessible to an audience of this kind as well as to physicists and theoretical chemists with a c- responding mathematical training. 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The advancementof the softwareindustry has hada substantialimpact notonly onproductivityandonGDPgrowthglobally,butalsoonourdailyworkandlife. Software business refers to commercial activity of the software industry, aimed at generating income from delivery of software products and software services. Although software business shares common features with other international knowledge-intensive businesses, it carries many inherent features making it an intriguing and challenging domain for research. Until now, however, software business has received little attention from the academic community. The First International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2010) was organized in Jyv askyl a during June 21-23, 2010. This inaugural conference brought together a strong Program Committee of 52 members with research disciplines from various elds of business management and technology mana- mentaswellasinternational avorwithmemberscomingfrom17countriesfrom South and North America to Europe, India and Australia. Wereceived35researchpapersubmissions.Thepaperswentthroughadoub- blind review process producing at least three reviews for each accepted paper. The ProgramCommittee accepted 13 submissions to be presented as full papers in the conference, equaling 37% of the submissions. In addition, ten papers were accepted as short papers. The accepted papers represent the wide variety of - searchactivityonsoftwarebusiness.Forthepurposesoftheconferenceprogram, the papers were organized under eight themes: business models, business m- agement, ecosystems, education and research, internationalization, open source software and social media, product management, and software as a service. In addition to the paper sessions, the conference program included three keynote presentations and a Business Innovation Track containing best-practice presentations from the software industry. The conference program also included two workshops, three tutorials and an adjunct meeting of the Cloud Software Consortia. 230 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the p- motion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. th Euro-Par 2009 was the 15 edition in this conference series. Througout the years, the Euro-Par conferences have always attracted high-quality submissions and have become one of the established conferences in the area of parallel and distributed processing. Built upon the success of the annual conferences and in order to accommodate the needs of special interest groups (among the conf- ence participants), starting from 2006,a series of workshopsin conjunction with the Euro-Par main conference have been organized. This was the fth year in which workshops were organized within the Euro-Par conference format. The workshops focus on advanced specialized topics in parallel and d- tributed computing. These topics re ect new scienti c and technological dev- opments. While the community for such new and speci c developments is still small and the topics have yet to become mature, the Euro-Par conference o ers a platform in the form of a workshop to exchange ideas and discuss cooperation opportunities. The workshops in the past four years have been very successful. The number ofworkshopproposalsandthenumberof nallyacceptedworkshopshavegra- ally increasedsince 2006.In 2008,nine workshopswereorganizedin conjunction with the main Euro-Par conference. In 2009, there were again nine workshops. 468 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -NewInternetdevelopmentsposegreaterandgreaterprivacydilemmas. Inthe- formation Society, the need for individuals to protect their autonomy and retain control over their personal information is becoming more and more important. Today,informationandcommunicationtechnologies andthepeopleresponsible for making decisions about them, designing, and implementing them scarcely consider those requirements, thereby potentially putting individuals privacy at risk. The increasingly collaborative character of the Internet enables anyone to compose services and contribute and distribute information. It may become hard for individuals to manage and control information that concerns them and particularly how to eliminate outdated or unwanted personal information, thus leavingpersonalhistoriesexposedpermanently. Theseactivitiesraisesubstantial new challenges for personal privacy at the technical, social, ethical, regulatory, and legal levels: How can privacy in emerging Internet applications such as c- laborative scenarios and virtual communities be protected What frameworks and technical tools could be utilized to maintain life-long privacy DuringSeptember3 10,2009,IFIP(InternationalFederationforInformation Processing)workinggroups9. 2 (Social Accountability),9. 6/11. 7(IT Misuseand theLaw),11. 4(NetworkSecurity)and11. 6(IdentityManagement)heldtheir5th InternationalSummerSchoolincooperationwiththeEUFP7integratedproject PrimeLife in Sophia Antipolis and Nice, France. The focus of the event was on privacy and identity managementfor emerging Internet applications throughout a person s lifetime. The aim of the IFIP Summer Schools has been to encourage young a- demic and industry entrants to share their own ideas about privacy and identity management and to build up collegial relationships with others. As such, the Summer Schools havebeen introducing participants to the social implications of information technology through the process of informed discussion. 314 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Poisson-Dirichlet distribution is an infinite dimensional probability distribution. It was introduced by Kingman over thirty years ago, and has found applications in a broad range of areas including Bayesian statistics, combinatorics, differential geometry, economics, number theory, physics, and population genetics. This monograph provides a comprehensive study of this distribution and some related topics, with particular emphasis on recent progresses in evolutionary dynamics and asymptotic behaviors. One central scheme is the unification of the Poisson-Dirichlet distribution, the urn structure, the coalescent, the evolutionary dynamics through the grand particle system of Donnelly and Kurtz. It is largely self-contained. The methods and techniques used in it appeal to researchers in a wide variety of subjects. 218 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Aside from the obvious statement that it should be a theory capable of unifying general relativity and quantum field theory, not much is known about the true nature of quantum gravity.New ideas - and there are many of them for this is an exciting field of research - often diverge to a degree where it seems impossible to decide in which of the many possible direction(s) the ongoing developments should be further sustained.The division of the book in two (overlapping) parts reflects the duality between the physical vision and the mathematical construction. The former is represented by tutorial reviews on non-commutative geometry, on space-time discretization and renormalization and on gauge field path integrals. The latter one by lectures on cohomology, on stochastic geometry and on mathematical tools for the effective action in quantum gravity.The book will benefit everyone working or entering the field of quantum gravity research. 350 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Natural monopolies are not subject to the market-based principle of competition. Consequently, it is necessary to control companies in such monopoly positions with regard to their pricing. In the future, it will become more and more important to consider a possible change in the regulation regime when the future-oriented costs of equity - both in terms of price regulation and for conducting capital market-oriented business valuations - are to be determined. Based on the principal-agent problem, the book explains this topic. The effect of a change in the regulation regime is presented in the form of two studies: an international secondary analysis of the effects on cost of equity based on event studies of the Anglo-Saxon area and a primary analysis based on the Austrian regulation policy for energy and gas supply systems. The two studies arrive at similar results: The change from a rate-of-return regulation to incentive regulation systems leads to a significant increase in systematic risk 180 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is the first English book on Project Comparison Technique, i.e. comparative project prognoses, project theory, project evaluation, and project benchmarking in all branches. It facilitates the first steps towards project comparisons for project management experts and scientists, details possible approaches and relates real-world experiences. While readers are assumed to have some knowledge of project management, the mathematical and statistical aspects are explained. For the first time in the history of project management we show that the efficiency of project realizations can be evaluated objectively and numerically in detail and as a whole, and how to do so. We lay out the first comprehensive, scientifically founded characteristics system for projects, formulate the first mathematical project model, demonstrate the usefulness of the characteristics system with authentic projects, and show how to handle the new tools and how to present them in tables and diagrams. 175 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -We read in order to know we are not alone, I once heard, and perhaps it could also be suggested that we write in order not to be alone, to endorse, to promote continuity. The idea for this book took about ten years to materialize, and it is the author's hope that its content will constitute the beginning of further explorations beyond current horizons. More speci cally, this book appeals to the reader to engage upon and persevere with a journey, moving through the less well explored territories in the evolution of the very early universe, and pushing towards new landscapes. P- haps, during or after consulting this book, this attitude and this willingness will be embraced by someone, somewhere, and this person will go on to enrich our quantum cosmological description of the early universe, by means of a clearer supersymm- ric perspective. It is to these creative and inquisitive 'young minds' that the book is addressed. The reader will not therefore nd in this book all the answers to all the problems regarding a supersymmetric and quantum description of the early universe, and this remark is substantiated in the book by a list of unresolved and challenging problems, itself incomplete. 350 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the papers presented at WoLLIC 2010: 17th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation held during July 6-9, 2010, on the campus of Universidade de Bras lia (UnB), Brazil. The Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoL- LIC) is an annual event, meeting every year since 1994, which aims at fostering interdisciplinary research in pure and applied logic. The idea is to have a forum which is large enough in the number of possible interactions between logic and the sciences related to information and computation, and yet is small enough to allow for concrete and useful interaction among participants. The present volume contains 13 contributed papers that were selected from among 32 submissions after a rigorous review by the Program Committee. Each submission was reviewed by at least two, and on average three, Program C- mittee members. This volume also containspapersor abstractsthat relateto the seven invited talks presented at the workshop. Between them, these papers give a snapshot of some fascinating work taking place at the frontiers between computation, logic, and linguistics. We are grateful to all the people who made this meeting possible and are responsible for its success: the members of the Program Committee and the external reviewers, the invited speakers, the contributors, and the people who were involved in organizing the workshop. 272 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Agile software development has become an umbrella term for a number of changes in how software developers plan and coordinate their work, how they communicate with customers and external stakeholders, and how software development is organized in small, medium, and large companies, from the telecom and healthcare sectors to games and interactive media. Still, after a decade of research, agile software development is the source of continued debate due to its multifaceted nature and insufficient synthesis of research results.Dingsøyr, Dybå, and Moe now present a comprehensive snapshot of the knowledge gained over many years of research by those working closely with or in the industry. It shows the current state of research on agile software development through an introduction and ten invited contributions on the main research fields, each written by renowned experts. These chapters cover three main issues: foundations and background of agile development, agile methods in practice, and principal challenges and new frontiers. They show the important results in each subfield, and in addition they explain what these results mean to practitioners as well as for future research in the field.The book is aimed at reflective practitioners and researchers alike, and it also can serve as the basis for graduate courses at universities. 256 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -As modern society relies on the fault-free operation of complex computing systems, system fault-tolerance has become an indispensable requirement. Therefore, we need mechanisms that guarantee correct service in cases where system components fail, be they software or hardware elements. Redundancy patterns are commonly used, for either redundancy in space or redundancy in time.Wolter's book details methods of redundancy in time that need to be issued at the right moment. In particular, she addresses the so-called 'timeout selection problem', i.e., the question of choosing the right time for different fault-tolerance mechanisms like restart, rejuvenation and checkpointing. Restart indicates the pure system restart, rejuvenation denotes the restart of the operating environment of a task, and checkpointing includes saving the system state periodically and reinitializing the system at the most recent checkpoint upon failure of the system. Her presentation includes a brief introduction to the methods, their detailed stochastic description, and also aspects of their efficient implementation in real-world systems.The book is targeted at researchers and graduate students in system dependability, stochastic modeling and software reliability. Readers will find here an up-to-date overview of the key theoretical results, making this the only comprehensive text on stochastic models for restart-related problems. 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Ordinary differential equations play a central role in science and have been extended to evolution equations in Banach spaces. For many applications, however, it is difficult to specify a suitable normed vector space. Shapes without a priori restrictions, for example, do not have an obvious linear structure.This book generalizes ordinary differential equations beyond the borders of vector spaces with a focus on the well-posed Cauchy problem in finite time intervals.Here are some of the examples:- Feedback evolutions of compact subsets of the Euclidean space- Birth-and-growth processes of random sets (not necessarily convex)- Semilinear evolution equations- Nonlocal parabolic differential equations- Nonlinear transport equations for Radon measures- A structured population model- Stochastic differential equations with nonlocal sample dependence and how they can be coupled in systems immediately - due to the joint framework of Mutational Analysis. Finally, the book offers new tools for modelling. 532 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Most well known structures in planetary atmospheres and the Earth's oceans are jets or fronts interacting with vortices on a wide range of scales. The transition from one state to another, such as in unbalanced or adjustment flows, involves the generation of waves as well as the interaction of coherent structures with these waves.This book presents a fluid mechanics perspective to the dynamics of fronts and vortices and their interaction with waves in geophysical flows. It provides a basic physical background for modeling coherent structures in a geophysical context, and it gives essential information on advanced topics such as spontaneous wave emission and wavemomentum transfer in geophysical flows.Based on a set of lectures by leading specialists, this text is targeted at graduate students, researchers and engineers in geophysics and environmental fluid mechanics. 204 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Manufacturing and operations management paradigms are evolving toward more open and resilient spaces where innovation is driven not only by ever-changing customer needs but also by agile and fast-reacting networked structures. Flexibility, adaptability and responsiveness are properties that the next generation of systems must have in order to successfully support such new emerging trends. Customers are being attracted to be involved in Co-innovation Networks, as - proved responsiveness and agility is expected from industry ecosystems. Renewed production systems needs to be modeled, engineered and deployed in order to achieve cost-effective solutions. BASYS conferences have been developed and organized as a forum in which to share visions and research findings for innovative sustainable and knowledge-based products-services and manufacturing models. Thus, the focus of BASYS is to discuss how human actors, emergent technologies and even organizations are integrated in order to redefine the way in which the val- creation process must be conceived and realized. BASYS 2010, which was held in Valencia, Spain, proposed new approaches in automation where synergies between people, systems and organizations need to be fully exploited in order to create high added-value products and services. This book contains the selection of the papers which were accepted for presentation at the BASYS 2010 conference, covering consolidated and emerging topics of the conference scope. 324 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Der Fehlzeiten-Report informiert über die Krankenstandsentwicklung in der deutschen Wirtschaft und stellt aktuelle Befunde zu den Gründen und Mustern vor - dieses Jahr mit dem Scherpunktthema 'Vielfalt managen: Gesundheit fördern - Potenziale nutzen'. Die Möglichkeiten eines betrieblichen Gesundheits- und Diversity Managements werden bewertet und Vorgehensweisen vorgeschlagen. Darüber hinaus werden Forschungsergebnisse zu spezifischen Beschäftigtengruppen und Erfahrungen aus der Unternehmenspraxis diskutiert. 508 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die Bewältigung von Krisen in einem Projekt muss nicht unbedingt eine schmerzhafte Erfahrung sein. Die aktive Bekämpfung einer Krise kann erlernt werden. Dieses Buch bietet konkrete Hilfestellungen wie Fallbeispiele, Handlungsregeln und Checklisten, die als Werkzeuge für den Umgang mit der Krise eingesetzt werden. Gleichzeitig werden psychologische Aspekte einer Krisenbewältigung dargestellt. Die Inhalte fußen auf jahrzehntelanger Erfahrung im Projektmanagement.Neu in der 3. Auflage werden Fragen der Krisenprävention ausführlicher behandelt. Kern ist das Konzept der Krisenorganisation mit folgender Zielsetzung:Schnelle Reaktion auf akute KrisensituationenRegelmäßige Auditierung von KrisenabläufenAufdecken von Schwachpunkten im ProjektmanagementBereitstellung von Ressourcen zur KrisenbekämpfungEng mit der Krisenorganisation verbunden ist ein angemessenes Risikomanagement zur aktiven, risikoorientierten Bewertung von Krisenlösungskonzepten sowie Maßnahmen zur Deeskalation. 296 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book captures and communicates the wealth of architecture experience Capgemini has gathered as a member of The Open Group - a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium formed by major industry players - in developing, deploying, and using its 'Integrated Architecture Framework' (IAF) since its origination in 1993. Today, many elements of IAF have been incorporated into the new version 9 of TOGAF, the related Open Group standard. The authors, all working on and with IAF for many years, here provide a full reference to IAF and a guide on how to apply it. In addition, they describe in detail the relations between IAF and the architecture standards TOGAF and Archimate and other development or process frameworks like ITIL, CMMI, and RUP. Their presentation is targeted at architects, project managers, and process analysts who have either considered or are already working with IAF - they will find many roadmaps, case studies, checklists, and tips and advice for their daily work. 246 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -An Ingredient Brand is exactly what the name implies: an ingredient or component of a product that has its own brand identity. This is the first comprehensive book that explains how Ingredient Branding works and how brand managers can successfully improve the performance of component marketing. The authors have examined more than one hundred examples, analyzed four industries and developed nine detailed case studies to demonstrate the viability of this marketing innovation. The new concepts and principles can easily be applied by professionals. In the light of the success stories of Intel, GoreTex, Dolby, TetraPak, Shimano, and Teflon it can be expected that component suppliers will increasingly use Ingredient Branding strategies in the future. 416 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In der Arbeit wird untersucht, unter welchen Voraussetzungen die Erhaltung menschlichen Lebens Schadensersatzansprüche desjenigen begründet, der einstweilig am Leben erhalten wird. Diese möglicherweise befremdlich anmutende Fragestellung ergibt sich aus der Existenz des Patientenrechts auf Selbstbestimmung, das auch die Ablehnung lebenserhaltender Maßnahmen umfasst. Nach Darstellung der strafrechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen und der arzthaftungsrechtlichen Grundlagen wird unter Berücksichtigung des Dritten Gesetzes zur Änderung des Betreuungsrechts vom 29.7.2009 erläutert, wer in welcher Situation nach welchem Maßstab die Entscheidung über die Vornahme oder Nichtvornahme lebenserhaltender Maßnahmen zu treffen hat. Anschließend wird anhand verschiedener Fallkonstellationen geprüft, inwieweit lebenserhaltende Maßnahmen bei Sterbenden, tödlich Kranken, Wachkomapatienten, Suizidwilligen und Patienten, die aus religiösen Gründen eine vital indizierte Behandlung ablehnen, Schadensersatzansprüche auslösen. 316 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Der Schutz der Gesundheit verlangt medizinischen Fortschritt und die tatsächliche Verfügbarkeit von Spitzenmedizin. Allerdings werden damit zusammenhängende Ausgabensteigerungen angesichts der Kostendämpfungsmaxime' oft als Fehlentwicklung wahrgenommen. Der Aufsatzband stellt diese Maxime interdisziplinär auf den Prüfstand. Autorinnen und Autoren aus Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaft, aus Medizinethik und medizinischer und juristischer Praxis erörtern, ob Sozialrecht und medizinische Ethik die Vermeidung von Innovationshemmnissen fordern. Volkswirtschaftlichen Wachstumseffekten eines innovationsfreundlichen Gesundheitssystems wird nachgegangen, ebenso der Zahlungsbereitschaft der Versichertengemeinschaft für Innovationen und dem Stellenwert des Gutes Gesundheit' aus Sicht der Bevölkerung. Mit Blick auf die politische Durchsetzbarkeit wird diskutiert, ob eine Akzeptanz sichernde Implementation von Gesundheitsreformmaßnahmen gelingen kann. 224 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Must-read for managers on a powerful branding tool of the future.Up-to-date cases from the business world, plenty of illustrations and easy-to-use tools.Recommended by managers of top international firms.Covers both the internal and external benefits of storytelling for a business company.Danish version sold more than 2000 copies. 254 pp. Englisch.