This volume provides approaches and solutions to challenges occurring at the interface of research fields such as, e.g., data analysis, data mining and knowledge discovery, computer science, operations research, and statistics. In addition to theory-oriented contributions various application areas are included. Moreover, traditional...
* Provides technical details on different renewable energy systems plus background information on climate change and related economics * Contains free CD-ROM, including simulation software and figures from the book * Ideal as a student text, including worked examples
Beginning with an overview of renewables (including biomass,...
Robert A. Forczyk provides a riveting and intense description of the design and development of these two deadly opponents, the Panther and the T-34, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses and describing their tactics, weaponry and training. Moreover he gives an insight into the lives of the tank crews themselves, who were caught up in the...
Der Band bietet eine fundierte Darstellung der Reinraumtechnik als branchenübergreifende Disziplin. Dabei verknüpfen die Autoren die Grundlagen der Reinraumtechnik mit deren Anwendungen und mit einer Anleitung zum selbständigen Erarbeiten von Problemlösungen. Für die 3. Auflage wurden Ergebnisse der nationalen und...
This volume presents the best papers of the special issue "E-Services" of the Journal of Value Chain Management. In association with Marketing Center Muenster (University of Muenster, Germany) and the Center for Services Marketing and Management (Florida Atlantic University, USA), the volume provides a thorough introduction and...
By the end of the 1960s, when I started to get interested in how the TV set at home really worked, color television and the second national TV channel was introduced in Sweden. The old medium-wave radio, with glowing electron tubes underneath its cover, made it possible to listen to voices from distant countries, but the TV programming choices were...
Most of the reasons that I have written this book can be explained in terms of what reportedly happened one day in the eighteenth century when the great German mathematician Leonhard Euler confronted the eminent French scholar and atheist Denis Diderot with a spurious mathematical proof for the existence of God. Euler, it seems, accepted an...
Wie Kinder lesen und schreiben lernen ist bis heute Gegenstand von Kontroversen, die sich in unterschiedlichen Methoden der Gestaltung des Anfangsunterrichts widerspiegeln. Fibellehrgänge, Spracherfahrungsansatz und das Konzept 'Lesen durch Schreiben' sind die meist verbreiteten Konzepte, die systematisch dargestellt aber auch...
For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as the ‘land of music’. But just how was this reputation established and transformed over time, and to what extent was it produced within or outside of Germany? Through case studies that range from Bruckner to the Beatles and from symphonies to dance-club music, this...
August Mobius was one of the 19th century's most influential mathematicians and astronomers. Written by six distinguished contributors, this book explores the work of Mobius and his brilliant German contemporaries. The work emphasizes those achievements which in many ways can be seen to reflect the exciting advances taking place at the time...
Ingenieurwissenschaftliche Zusammenhänge erschließen sich häufig erst bei der Bearbeitung konkreter Aufgaben. Genau an dieser Stelle setzt das Buch an: Es präsentiert die wesentlichen Gebiete der Statik von Stabtragwerken anhand von detailliert ausgearbeiteten Beispielen. Die Aufgaben können sowohl „von...
Multimedia ist aus modernem Lehren und Lernen nicht mehr wegzudenken. Wie lässt sich die Qualität neuer multimedialer Angebote sicherstellen? Welche Standards gibt es? Welche didaktischen Ansätze sind effektiv? Welche aktuellen lehr- und lernpsychologischen Theorien und Befunde sind hilfreich bei der Konzeption, welche...
