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"A Systems Approach to Leadership" (SAL) is a methodology for creating sustained high performance in conditions of high complexity and uncertainty. Presenting actionable methods for use by everyday leaders, this book puts sound systems approach methods for managing complexity into the hands of professionals.

This book is a unique collection of experimental data in the field of internal friction, anelastic relaxation, and damping properties of metallic materials.

We study the boundary behaviour of a conformal map of the unit disk onto an arbitrary simply connected plane domain. Then the conformal map has many unexpected properties, for instance almost all the boundary is mapped onto almost nothing and vice versa.

This book discusses legal issues related to the principle of indemnity in marine insurance contracts as well as disputes that may arise in a representative sample of common and continental law jurisdictions. It examines the scope for a legal reform and the potential of achieving a better, more flexible, and modern indemnification regime.

The Chinese market is appealing, but its legal environment is very complicated and full of nooses that await investors. This book intends to provide an in-depth analysis of the legal environment and its hidden risks for foreign investment.

This is Volume 4 of the book series of the Body and Soul mathematics education reform program. It presents a unified new approach to computational simulation of turbulent flow starting from the general basis of calculus and linear algebra of Vol 1-3.

This volume will help individuals and organizations, from both academia and industry, to effectively work together on R&D projects. This inspiring and highly readable book covers winning grant support, the legal arrangements, working with academics and practitioners, managing project progress, and exploiting the project results.

Following Quillen's approach to complex cobordism, the authors introduce the notion of oriented cohomology theory on the category of smooth varieties over a fixed field. They prove the existence of a universal such theory (in characteristic 0) called Algebraic Cobordism. The book also contains some examples of computations and applications.

The safety of vehicle traffic depends on how well automotive lighting supports the visual perception of the driver. physiology of eye and brain, as well as those of automotive lighting technology, like e.g.

Local search has been applied successfully to a diverse collection of optimization problems. It provides the reader with a coherent overview of the achievements obtained so far, and serves as a source of inspiration for the development of novel results in the challenging field of local search.

This book describes and analyzes the formation, operation, and impacts of modern global cartels. Complete with intensive case studies, it provides a broad picture of the economics, competition law and history of international price fixing.

This book surveys the use of botulinum toxin A in aesthetic medicine, including patient selection and evaluation, as well as rules and requirements. A section with tips and tricks makes this an invaluable resource for practicing dermatologists and plastic surgeons.

Develops and explains the foundations of noise-induced processes. Following an introduction to the mathematical tools, this book analyzes the occurrence and the properties of noise-induced transitions for rapidly fluctuating environments describable by the white-noise idealization. It considers more realistic and general types of colored noises.

This book details the protocol of staged external fixation developed by the authors: primary temporary unilateral tubular stabilization followed by definitive circular Ilizarov (hybrid) fixation. The book draws from an archive of clinical photographs and X-ray documentation that cover all steps in a large variety of complex cases.

This book reviews recent progress in the theory of oligopoly and market leadership and provides new results on the theory of Stackelberg competition and Nash competition with strategic investment under endogenous entry. The results are used to propose a new approach to competition policy and issues of the abuse of dominance.

This lab manual guides chemists through demonstrations of synergistic effects between polyelectrolytes and nanoparticles. After a short introduction into the field of polyelectrolytes and polyelectrolyte characterization, the book discusses the role of polyelectrolytes in the process of nanoparticle formation.

This book presents topics of science and engineering which are part of daily life. The author has chosen topics representing his career-long interests, including the flow of fluids and gases, granular flows, biological processes, kinetics of rarified gases and semiconductor devices.

Are the particles of modern physics "real" or are they virtual entities, their existence deduced merely by abstract theories? This book examines the continuing debate regarding the inner constitution of matter by exploring the particle concept in physics. It investigates if the particles of particle physics are real or not.

Adaptive business intelligence systems combine prediction and optimization techniques to assist decision makers in complex, rapidly changing environments. This book explains the science and application of numerous prediction and optimization techniques, and shows how they can be used to develop adaptive systems.

Wholeheartedly recommended to every student and user of mathematics, this is an extremely original and highly informative essay on algebra and its place in modern mathematics and science.

This book presents the concept of cognition in a clear, lucid and highly comprehensive style. It provides an in-depth analysis of mathematical models and algorithms, and demonstrates their application with real life experiments.

This text presents coarsening theories such that the main issues and underlying mathematics of self-similar coarsening of dispersed systems can be understood. It contains the background needed to understand growth and coarsening of spherical particles or droplets in a liquid or solid matrix.

The Local Langlands Conjecture for GL(2) contributes an unprecedented text to the so-called Langlands theory. It presupposes no special knowledge beyond the beginnings of the representation theory of finite groups and the structure theory of local fields.

The new edition includes additional analytical methods in the classical theory of viscoelasticity. This leads to a new theory of finite linear viscoelasticity of incompressible isotropic materials.

As the debate about the environmental cost of nuclear power and the issue of nuclear safety continues, a comprehensive assessment of the Chernobyl accident, its long-term environmental consequences and solutions to the problems found, is timely.

The seminal ideas of this book played a key role in the development of group theory since the 70s. Several generations of mathematicians learned geometric ideas in group theory from this book. In it, the author proves the fundamental theorem for the special cases of free groups and tree products before dealing with the proof of the general case.

This book presents mathematical models that arise in current photographic science. It then proceeds to develop a mathematical model, using mathematical tools such as ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, and stochastic processes.

This text explores the new economics of monetary union. Amongst other things, it discusses the effects of shocks and policies on output and prices. A feature of the book is the numerical estimation of shock and policy multipliers.

Here is a practical guide for anyone faced with organising a business. It will help readers adapt tools and concepts for successfully analyzing and transforming the organisation. The book explains how to apply best practices and avoid common pitfalls.

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