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What inspires people to leave certainty behind to pursue their vision through creativity and entrepreneurship? The authors, entrepreneurial researchers at Nyenrode Business University, explore entrepreneurship through the lens of human behaviour.

The evolution of the microelectronics is controlled by the idea of scaling. This book deals with the miniaturization of electronic devices towards the nanoscale. It is intended to be self-contained providing in appendices the necessary side knowledge.

This book is on approximation methods and applications of QDFT, a new local effective-potential-energy theory of electronic structure. Approximation methods incorporating different electron correlations, as well as many-body perturbation theory, are developed.

Luis Santalo was a mathematician who laid the foundations of Stereology and its applications. This book contains a selection of his papers as well as a short biography, photographs, a list of his publications, and various appreciations of his influence.

In this book, an applicative model of complex urban interventions is presented. Based on a literature review, the model integrates different forms of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). Case studies of different European urban centres are explored.

As the first pioneering study to assess the impact of megaconferences on water policies and projects at global, regional and national levels, this volume finds that their impact is at best marginal in a number of areas, including environmental conservation.

This book provides a good understanding of fundamentals and principles of Neurology. It presents a hybrid of information, both from the clinical field and from basic physiology. There is strong emphasis on concepts, but less emphasis on various diseases.

In this context, the present study aims to model the new conduct of the 'legacy' carriers in a new liberalized European market in terms of network and pricing competition with l- cost carriers and competitive reaction to the global economic crises.

The framework at hand enables applicants to view social contexts holistically while at the same time envisioning a rich picture of what leverages the implementation of social purposes beyond the boxes of the professional disciplines: social structures can be assessed, strengths and weaknesses identified and measures arrived at.

The book constructed univariate probit models for labour market participation, and primary sector employment and unemployment for both groups of women. The models tended to support the works of other authors who have found that education and labour market experience were signi?cant in improving the labour market position of individuals.

New studies reveal that automatic and robotic welding can partially emulate a skilled human welder's intelligent behavior. This book presents research on various application issues confronting artificial intelligence welding.

Trajectory planning and motion law generation for automatic machines and robots are becoming ever more relevant in motion control system design. This book examines the problems, especially in applications where high dynamics in the payloads are desired.

The first part of this overview on extended defects in Germanium covers fundamentals, describing crystallographic structure and other physical and electrical properties. The second part treats the extended defects during wafer and device processing.

With this book, the authors aim to provide an overview of enterprise architecture including the process of creating, applying and maintaining it. The book successfully combines technology and business perspectives, and it questions standard approaches.

In recent years, the Geomathematics Group, TU Kaiserslautern, has worked to set up a theory of spherical functions of mathematical physics. This book is a collection of all the material that group generated during the process.

This book will arouse interest among those involved with Baltic problems. It also gives important background information for those working with biogeochemical processes in the Baltic Sea, because the physical forcing for those processes is of vital importance.

This atlas focuses on high-resolution industrial radiographs of the hand and wrist used in the diagnosis of pathologic conditions. It serves as a guide in diagnosing various systemic and localized diseases manifested in the hand and wrist.

This book, one of the first of its kind, presents mechanisms, protocols, and system architectures needed to attain end-to-end Quality of Service over heterogeneous wired and wireless networks in the Internet.

This book is a global synthesis of fire in tropical ecosystems. In detailing the fire situations of 17 tropical systems, it discusses all relevant subjects ranging from causes of fire to human land use and climate change to long range implications.

This monograph develops a unified methodology for dynamic analysis and minimization of the inertia-induced forces occurring in high speed multiloop planar as well as spatial mechanisms based on the multibody system modeling approach.

This monograph gives an overview of various classes of infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their applications in Hamiltonian mechanics, fluid dynamics, integrable systems, gauge theory, and complex geometry. The text includes many exercises and open questions.

In this book, the author thoroughly examines the basic mechanical and thermal effects of rotation. The author is an internationally recognized researcher, and the book offers the first comprehensive pedagogically written treatment for researchers and students.

This account of patterns of biodiversity describes major trends in species richness as well as uncertainties in current knowledge. It offers possible explanations for past and present species patterns plus implications of climate change and habitat loss.

This book is based on nearly a decade of materials and electronics research at the leading research institution on the nitride topic in Europe. It is a comprehensive monograph and tutorial that will be of interest to graduate students of electrical engineering, communication engineering, and physics;

For many years the reduction of eutrophication in the Baltic Sea has been a hot issue. This book presents a remedial strategy to combat eutrophication in the Baltic Seas, which challenges the accepted remedial strategy.

This monograph helps teachers at all levels to diagnose and 'cure' erroneous pre-concepts about science, often picked up in school. In case of the school-made misconceptions it will help to prevent them from the very beginning through reflective teaching.

Light is now a tool: it can be used to control electron transport to influence the properties of solids, thereby opening new ways to produce materials. This book presents the theoretical bases of these processes as well as optical motors.

This book provides a comprehensive study of complexity results and optimal and suboptimal algorithms concerning time-dependent scheduling in single-, parallel- and dedicated-machine environments. This is the first monograph on time-dependent scheduling.

This superbly illustrated clinical atlas with concise text follows the American diagnosis classification DSM-V and current evidence-based guidelines. It allows rapid recognition of masked emotional disorders and thus early and efficient targeted treatment.

Laser Diode Microsystems provides the reader with the basic knowledge and understanding required for using semiconductor laser diodes in optical microsystems and micro-optical electromechanic systems.