A practical guide to how to redesign, rethink and reframe projects, initiatives and even an entire business model, this text reveals how to proceed with investments in the digital economy.

Presenting concepts of fracture mechanics,this text considers homogeneous and structured models, where microstructure plays an essential role for fracture and phase transition.

Environmental Kuznets curves, one of the most controversial issues of environmental economics, suggest that economic growth may lead to environmental quality improvements. Why and under which circumstances this may be so, are the questions addressed in this book.

Surveys conceptual problems and provide insights into the classes of systems considered, namely one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and molecular magnets. This title introduces the methods used in the field of quantum magnetism, including spin wave analysis, exact diagonalization, quantum field theory, coupled cluster methods, and the Betheansatz.

Lebende Zellen durchlaufen wahrend ihres Lebenszyklus definierte Phasen des Wachstums, der Teilung oder erhohter Aktivitaten. Die Regulation dieser Phasen kann gestort sein und wie z.B. bei der Tumorentwicklung zur unkontrollierten Zellvermehrung fuhren.

This book offers broad coverage of magnetism, revealing key concepts on which many practical applications rest. Traditional subjects are discussed in the first half, and the second section includes coverage of today's technological achievements.

Features an account on the history of software. By exploring the understanding of software and its history, this book explores the fundamental elements that make software what it is.

Focuses on advances on feedback control designs for various types of electric motors. This book shows that the adaptive robust nonlinear controller on its own achieves reasonably good performance without requiring the knowledge of motor parameters.

The persistence of any number of strange attractors in saddle-focus connections is explored in this book. The coexistence and persistence of any number of strange attractors in a simple three-dimensional scenario are proved, as is the fact that infinitely many of them exist simultaneously.

This work covers all aspects of the transfer of nitrogen from the air to a final resting place in the seed protein of a crop plant. It describes the physiological and molecular mechanisms of ammonium and nitrate transport and assimilation, including symbiotic nitrogen fixation by the Rhizobiacea.

Fuhrende Wissenschaftler auf dem Gebiet der Schlafforschung verbinden in diesem Buch zum ersten Mal die neuesten Erkenntnisse aus der Grundlagenforschung und der klinischen Erforschung der Pharmakologie des Schlafes.

This book describes state-of-the-art micromachining of transparent materials which, due to the nonlinear absorption mechanism of ultrashort pulses, allows unique three-dimensional capabilities and is exploitable for fabrication of complex microsystems.

This volume reflects thinking on the implications of corporate governance shifting from shareholders to stakeholders. It deals with the socio-economics of decision making, and closes with a comparative analysis between socio-economics and communitarian thinking.

Gives background knowledge about the difficult matter of electrochemical behaviour of glass melts and solid glasses, laying the foundations for a sound understanding of physicochemical redox and ion transfer processes in solid or liquid glasses, and the interpretation of experimental results.