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Ancient Views on the Quality of Life
This monograph describes the contributions to our current understanding of quality of life made by the most important ancient philosophers in the Western Tradition. It does so from the point of view of a contemporary researcher in quality of life or human well-being. Revisiting ancient texts from about 600 BCE to 300 BCE, the book explores the earliest ideas in recorded western philosophical an…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-16525-7
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- XI, 91
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
- Call Number
- 300 MIC a
Anatomy and Exposures of Spinal Nerves
This book is a comprehensive illustrated surgical guide to operative exposures of the spinal nerves, also known as peripheral nerves. Each chapter is devoted to a particular nerve and describes the origin, anatomic relations, branches, surgical approaches, and clinical significance. The text is concise and easy to read and is complemented by informative color photos from cadaveric dissections a…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-14520-4
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- XIV, 129
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- -
- Call Number
- 617.48 HAN a
Business Cycles in the Run of History
This book analyzes the development of economic cycles in the run of history. The focus is on the development of cycle theory, with maximum emphasis upon ideas. Chapter 1 delivers an overview of the debate about cycles before the 1970s. Chapter 2 completes this survey by presenting the main empirical investigations since that time. Finally, Chapters 3 and 4 illustrate the discourse, by presentin…
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- 978-3-319-24325-2
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Analyzing and Modeling Interdisciplinary Product Development: A Framework for…
Frank Neumann focuses on establishing a theoretical basis that allows a description of the interplay between individual and collective processes in product development. For this purpose, he introduces the integrated descriptive model of knowledge creation as the first constituent of his research framework. As a second part of the research framework, an analysis and modeling method is proposed t…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-658-11092-5
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- XXVI, 258
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- -
- Call Number
- 621 NEU a
Business Architecture Management : Architecting the Business for Consistency …
This book presents a comprehensive overview of enterprise architecture management with a specific focus on the business aspects. While recent approaches to enterprise architecture management have dealt mainly with aspects of information technology, this book covers all areas of business architecture from business motivation and models to business execution. The book provides examples of how arc…
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- 650
Business Challenges in the Changing Economic Landscape - Vol. 1: Proceedings …
This book is the first of the two volumes featuring selected articles from the 14th Eurasia Business and Economics conference held in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2014. Peer-reviewed articles in this first volume present latest research breakthroughs in the areas of Accounting, Corporate Governance, Finance and Banking, Institutional and International Economics, and Regional Studies. The contri…
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- 978-3-319-22596-8
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- 332
Analyzing Political Communication with Digital Trace Data: The Role of Twitte…
This book offers a framework for the analysis of political communication in election campaigns based on digital trace data that documents political behavior, interests and opinions. The author investigates the data-generating processes leading users to interact with digital services in politically relevant contexts. These interactions produce digital traces, which in turn can be analyzed to dra…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-20319-5
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- XXI, 220
- Series Title
- Contributions to Political Science
- Call Number
- 353.008 JUN a
Analyzing Financial Data and Implementing Financial Models Using R
This book is a comprehensive introduction to financial modeling that teaches advanced undergraduate and graduate students in finance and economics how to use R to analyze financial data and implement financial models. This text will show students how to obtain publicly available data, manipulate such data, implement the models, and generate typical output expected for a particular analysis. …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-14075-9
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- XVI, 351
- Series Title
- Springer Texts in Business and Economics
- Call Number
- 332 ANG a
The Power of the Chinese Dragon
This important reader brings together published articles from Palgrave's journal The European Journal of Development Research on the development between China and Africa as well as emerging national economies in the BRICs group. Topics include trade relations, investment in sub-Saharan Africa, global politics of development and more.
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- 978-1-137-57449-7
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- XII, 275
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- Palgrave Readers in Economics
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Analytics for Smart Energy Management: Tools and Applications for Sustainable…
This book introduces the issues and problems that arise when implementing smart energy management for sustainable manufacturing in the automotive manufacturing industry and the analytical tools and applications to deal with them. It uses a number of illustrative examples to explain energy management in automotive manufacturing, which involves most types of manufacturing technology and various l…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-32729-7
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- XI, 295
- Series Title
- Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing
- Call Number
- 658 OHS a
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