The Global Financial Crisis (2007–2009) and the following European Sovereign Debt Crisis (2009–) have caused tremendous changes in the business, economy and governance. The spillover effect and globalization of the crisis affected millions and stated a genuine challenge for modern societies. Thus it was a task of extreme importance for us to revise our book and present actualized resear…
This volume reviews the latest trends in organic optoelectronic materials. Each comprehensive chapter allows graduate students and newcomers to the field to grasp the basics, whilst also ensuring that they have the most up-to-date overview of the latest research. Topics include: organic conductors and semiconductors; conducting polymers and conjugated polymer semiconductors, as well as their ap…
This SpringerBrief examines the technology of email privacy encryption from its origins to its theoretical and practical details. It explains the challenges in standardization, usability, and trust that interfere with the user experience for software protection. Chapters address the origins of email encryption and why email encryption is rarely used despite the myriad of its benefits -- benefit…
Never have so many organizational decisions been taken based on statistics as today! Everything is supported by numbers. This applies to marketing, economics, social sciences, natural sciences, industry, and administrative work within organizations, businesses, and institutions. It is, therefore, important to have insight into basic statistical concepts, when assessing statistical data mater…
This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic realities as well as re-make “tradition.” The papers in this volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries…
This book is intended as a text for Mathematics students taking their first course in Statistics, and grew out of my second-year course for mathematics undergraduates at EPFL. It is a book on “Statistics for Mathematicians” rather than on “Mathematical Statistics”: the intent is not to focus on the deeper mathematical/theoretical aspects of the subject but rather to provide an intro…
second editions for an overview; what we wrote there is still relevant as an introduction to our subject and the method of the book. For the teacher who has used prior editions, this edition includes over twenty new sections, including the following: }1.5.4 (SIDS tragedies), }5.5.2 (State trooper literacy exam), }8.1.3 (Rheumatoid arthritis drug), }11.1.4 (Exonerations in death-sentence cas…
Encountering Personal Injury is written for anyone who has professional contact with adolescents and adults who have a disability arising from a personal injury. The text provides a comprehensive introduction to the major injury groups for postgraduate students. It covers the conditions commonly experienced in everyday practice, such as traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, psychiatric im…
The need for the development and understanding of large, complex data sets in a wide range of different fields, including economics, chemistry, chemical engineering, and control engineering is very important. In all these fields, the common thread is using these data sets for the development of models to forecast or predict future behaviour. Furthermore, the availability of fast computers ha…
This comprehensive text collects the progress made in recent years in the fabrication, processing, and performance of organic nanophotonic materials and devices. The first part of the book addresses photonic nanofabrications in a chapter on multiphoton processes in nanofabrication and microscopy imaging. The second part of the book is focused on nanoscale light sources for integrated nanophoton…