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This book analyses aspects of CRM systems from both organizational and technological perspectives. The emphasis is on development of effective CRM (and CRM 2.0) initiatives using case studies of successful CRM systems implementations in the financial industry.

In a new approach to possibilistic clustering, the sought clustering structure of the set is based directly on the formal definition of fuzzy cluster and possibilistic memberships are determined directly from the values of the pairwise similarity of objects.

This book covers management of hair loss in women of all ages, examining myths, describing examination techniques, discussing forms of hair loss and treatment in detail, outlining approaches to follow-up, and considering management of patient expectations.

This detailed review of long memory processes includes a thorough discussion of mathematical and probabilistic foundations and statistical methods, emphasizing their practical motivation and mathematical justification. Includes proofs and data examples.

Principles, Modeling, Simulation, and Application

This book reviews environmental issues related to biocomposites, and offers a new modeling method incorporating process-oriented Denitrification-Decomposition into site-specific LCA studies, to simulate carbon and nitrogen dynamics in the wheat agro-ecosystem.

From the reviews: "[...] an excellent reference book. I have no doubt it will become a much-thumbed resource for students and researchers in mineralogy and crystallography." Geological Magazine

After three decades of intense research in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, the time was ripe to summarize basic knowledge on X-ray and gamma-ray spectroscopy for interested students and researchers ready to become involved in new high-energy missions.

finite-difference, finite-element, and finite-volume methods), parallel methods, and adaptive methods as well as fast solvers, with particular focus on explaining the interactions of the different methods.

The author begins by describing the history of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and many other conferences, and their dire predictions on global temperatures, rainfall, weather and climate, while highlighting confusion and sensationalism media reports.

This book offers a comprehensive presentation of some of the most successful and popular domain decomposition preconditioners for finite and spectral element approximations of partial differential equations. It covers in detail important methods such as FETI and balancing Neumann-Neumann methods and algorithms for spectral element methods.

This advanced comprehensive textbook introduces the practical application of phase diagrams to the thermodynamics of materials consisting of several phases.

Authored by leading international researchers, this monograph introduces and reviews developed tomograhic methods for discovering 2D and 3D structures of the ionosphere, and discusses the experimental implementation of these methods. The detailed derivations and explanations make this book an excellent starting point for non-specialists.

This book explores freeze-thaw effects on the accumulation and release of carbon and nitrogen in wetland soils, as a step toward investigating wetland biogeochemical processes in seasonal freeze-thaw areas. Offers strategies aimed at impacts of global warming.

With hundreds of explanatory figures and tables, this volume deals with the latest achievements in hot areas such as nanofabrication and nanotechnology, with multi-disciplinary results on promising low-cost, high-throughput nanostructure manufacturing methods.

This self-contained introduction treats thin geometries and thick buildings from a diagrammatic perspective, covers polar geometries whose projective planes are Desarguesian and offers a basic reference for study of diagram geometry. Includes many examples.

This book offers a detailed proof of the classification theorem for compact surfaces. It presents the technical tools needed to deploy the method effectively as well as demonstrates their use in a clearly structured, worked example.

This book correlates different minerals and lipids serum profiles with the prevalence of cardiovascular disorders in South Asian countries, focusing on Pakistan. The data presented will help promote understanding and more effective solutions to the problem.

Progress in in radiotherapy, radionuclide diagnostics and therapy, digital imaging systems, and detection technology have greatly enhanced medicine's fight against the global scourge of cancer. This volume has extended discussion on all these topics.

This outstanding thesis makes an invaluable contribution to land surface process modeling n arid and semi-arid zones, using a two-phase heat- and mass-transport model that incorporates the essential but previously neglected effects of vapor convection.

Monetary incentives, as a driving force for human behavior, are the main theme of this book.

This book details how hidden hunger affects human health long before malnutrition becomes obvious. It examines scientific, political and economic contexts to the problem and advocates sustainable solutions by investments in agriculture and small-scale farming.

This book presents seismic events in glaciers. It describes two groups of quakes: typical icequakes and ice vibrations, and also discusses the problem of climate change.

The Semantic web has greatly motivated the development of ontologies and multi-agent systems separately. This book is the first to provide an integrated treatment of the modeling, design and implementation of combined ontology/multi-agent systems.

This is a highly descriptive textbook providing an excellent introduction to the latest methodologies for mapping geomorphological formations in a variety of environments. Case studies with many examples of geomorphological maps are included.