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This book presents a new approach to management in an increasingly interactive world.

Diverse alterations of glycosylation occur in diseases such as cancer, metastasis, leukemia, inflammatory and other diseases. Disease specific glycosylation may contribute to the disease process by altering cellular functions, or may be exploited therapeutically.

This book covers three fundamental problems at the interface of multi-project management and human resource management: the selection of projects, the composition of small project teams, and workload leveling.

This book provides an introduction to the use of automated methods for gathering competitive strategic intelligence. It examines the gathering of knowledge that appears of paramount importance to organizations.

This book presents the collaborative control paradigm for operating assistive robots, which attempts to give the disabled user just the right amount of help in a transparent, seamless way. Describes extensive testing of the (CARMEN) approach.

Engineers need to acquire "Back-of-the-Envelope" survival skills to obtain rough quantitative answers to real-world problems. This volume offers step-by-step examples of the quick-fire method, and demonstrates more detailed physics-based engineering models.

Using computational intelligence in product design is a fast-growing and promising research area in computer sciences and industrial engineering. These assembled papers from the CIMA 2010 workshop cover the full spectrum of topics in this exciting field.

This book develops a quantitative definition of polarisation resolution, establishes precision limits in electromagnetic systems, develops modeling tools for propagation of arbitrary electromagnetic fields, and applies these to a number of optical systems.

In its revised, expanded 2nd edition, this book provides a foundation for the study of complex-valued neural networks. The author emphasizes basic ideas and ways of thinking, and offers meaningful hints on using neural networks in fully practical applications.

This book offers a complete framework for classifying and transcribing sequential data with recurrent neural networks. It uses state-of-the-art results in speech and handwriting recognition to show the framework in action.

This book presents pioneering research on China's energy economy, using a new econometric approach to assess budget constraints, technological change, energy demand and economic growth. Provides new econometric findings and derives new policy implications.

This book develops a simple general equilibrium model of a small open economy which is used to derive a cost-benefit rule for assessing projects that divert water from electricity generation to recreational and other uses (or vice versa). Case study included.

Modern cancer treatments are becoming ever more effective, yet nutrition remains a vital aspect of cancer patient care. This publication offers a comprehensive collation of up-to-date nutritional strategies for relieving a variety of cancer treatment effects.

This book describes the methods by which tensors can be practically treated and shows how numerical operations can be performed. Applications include problems from quantum chemistry, approximation of multivariate functions, solution of pde and more.

This book examines a wide range of ferroelectric materials. It explains the theoretical background of ultrathin ferroelectric films, presents applications of ferroelectric materials, and displays the mechanism of switching of nanosized ferroelectric films.

This book reviews the key conceptions and economic theories of poverty, explains poverty-environment nexus, and finally offers innovative socio-economic and scientific geospatial solutions for the 21st Century.

This book provides insight and enhanced appreciation of analysis, modeling and control of dynamic systems. It presents realistic problems in order to analyze, design and develop automatic control systems.

Starting with the basic concepts of fuzzy sets, and progressing through a normative view on possibility distributions and OWA operators in multiple-criteria decisions, this volume sets out five applications of the theory, based on complex, real-world problems.

This book provides information on available sources of energy in East Africa and how energy suppliers can exploit them in an integrated form to produce the right blend of energy for various applications: industrial, domestic and recreational uses.

Chapter 1 provides an overview of the main radiative and remote sensing characteristics and provides discussion on the properties of optically active substances (OAS) in the water and their variability and concentration, drawing on original data obtained in the Baltic Sea region.

In this illustrated book every urologic procedure is described in a step-by-step sequence of events. It provides the Urologic Surgeon with the state-of-the-art of Laparoscopic Surgery and guides the reader through every stage of the laparoscopic procedure.

In this book, methods from fractal geometry are applied to model growth forms, taking as a case study a type of growth process which can be found among various taxonomic classes such as sponges and corals.

Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy

Despite their long tradition spices are subject to international modern scientific research. The book addresses this need by informing the reader about the complex worldwide use of spice plants. The many spice and aromatic plants are arranged in alphabetical order of their botanical relevance.

Presents a comprehensive work dealing with plant ecology in any form. This book also presents complex issues as the self-thinning rule and represents a useful selection of the most important key words. It is suitable for advanced students, university and high school teachers and other researchers in plant ecology.

This book attempts to characterize a new organizational form that is now visible in many companies as a substitute of previous forms related to mechanized or mechanistic standards. The book is based on the approach of organizational structure and on Henry Mintzberg's work on organizational configurations.

The main research problem addressed in the book is the one regarding the role that export diversification could play for enhancing economic growth in Colombia, both in terms of new products and new geographic markets.

This book addresses the nexus of issues exploring governance structures and mechanisms in public service organizations, thus contributing to the development of disciplines that focus on public management.