“…This book explains how the methodological approach of the Six Sigma can be used to provide an effective solution to one of the most widespread problems faced by Small and Medium Enterprises: the frequent undercapitalisation linked to short-term investments often funded by bank loans. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: A Tool for Exercising due Diligence in Life Cycle Management -- Life Cycle Management: Labeling, Declarations and Certifications at the Product Level —Different Approaches -- Mainstreaming the Use of Life Cycle Management in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Using a Sector Based and Regional Approach -- Part II: Advancing the Implementation of Life Cycle Management in Business Practice -- From Projects to Processes to Implement Life Cycle Management in Business -- How to Make the LCA Team a Business Partner -- Sustainability Improvements and Life Cycle Approaches in Industry Partnerships -- Sustainable Value Creation with Life Cycle Management -- Part III: Life Cycle Management as Part of Sustainable Consumption and Production Strategies and Policies -- Hotspots Analysis: Providing the Focus for Action -- From Sustainable Production to Sustainable Consumption.…”

“…Almost all key materials, as well as their integration into a cell, are discussed: the bus plates that collect the electrical current, the gas diffusion medium that distributes the reactants over catalysts promoting faster reactions, and the membrane separating oxygen and hydrogen gases and closing the electrical circuit by transporting protons. …”

“…Realismusdebatten und literarische Strömungen der italienischen Nachkriegsliteratur legen meist eine Überlappung von außersprachlicher Realität und deren Darstellung im Medium des Romans zugrunde. Einige Literaturschaffende entziehen sich dieser Tradition jedoch, indem sie sich auf ästhetische, politische und explizit an ein neues soziopolitisches Paradigma der Nachkriegszeit geknüpfte Gesichtspunkte beziehen. …”

“…PREFACE Wireless multimedia communication systems (WMCSs) have become one of the most important medium for information exchange and the core communication environment for business relations as well as for social interactions. …”

“…What is the role of urban and regional planning in achieving the sustainable development goals of our communities considering the major issues posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in urban planning? And how do these medium- and long-term objectives interact with the needs that the emergency has given rise to? …”

“…An integrated report is a concise communication about how an organization’s strategy, governance, performance and prospects lead to the creation of value over the short, medium and long term. This book offers a fresh perspective with expert contributions focusing on both the theoretical underpinnings and the practical challenges for the future of corporate reporting…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Use of Groupes de Parole as a Medium for Change in the Tunisian Penal System: Confronting institutional violence in a context of democratic transition. …”

“…With the growing popularity and influence of comics and graphic novels in contemporary culture, this book provides a valuable addition to the discussion of the medium, focusing on religious and sociological aspects. …”

“…It explores how they grasped the geographical characteristics of the region through their own perspective, influenced by their own professional positions, individual careers, motivations, and by the broader historical and social medium. The way the area between the provinces of Lower Austria and Styria came about as Burgenland is enthralling, as is how the people there experienced this change of sovereignty and how everyday social and economic relationships were transformed. …”

“…Deep learning techniques for medium-term wind speed and solar irradiance forecasting are presented, using for first time a specific cloud index. …”

“…While the long-term gains from liberalization are generally accepted, liberalizing economies are, nevertheless, likely to face short to medium term adjustment costs. Yet most developing countries do not have well-developed social safety nets to address these problems. …”

“…Drawing on historical case studies, chapters illuminate the different factors linking hotels and the broader tourism system including interventions of the public authorities and the State, the importance of private involvement, commercial strategies, the medium-term development of private hotels, hotel entrepreneurship, and the impact of economic crises and wars. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1.6.7 Beamforming MIMO Antenna Arrays1.6.8 Downlink MIMO Architectures; 1.6.9 Open-Loop and Closed-Loop MIMO; 1.6.10 Single-User and Multiuser MIMO; 1.7 Interference; 1.7.1 Spatial Frequency Reuse; 1.7.2 Cochannel Interference; 1.7.3 Multiuser Interference; 1.8 Mobility and Handoff; 1.8.1 Intercell versus Intracell Handoff; 1.8.2 Mobile-Initiated versus Network-Initiated Handoff; 1.8.3 Forward versus Backward Handoff; 1.9 Channel Assignment Strategies; 1.9.1 Medium Access Control Protocols; 1.9.2 Signal Duplexing Techniques; 1.9.3 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Titel -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Abbildungsnachweise -- 1 Einleitung -- 1.1 Aufbau und Quellen der Studie -- 1.2 Theoretische und methodische Verortung -- 1.2.1 Objekte und Praktiken des Wissens -- 1.2.2 Wissen über die Psyche -- 1.2.3 Person und Form -- 1.3 Person, ›Charakter‹, ›Persönlichkeit‹ - eine ideengeschichtliche Skizze -- 1.3.1 Der Mensch als Individuum und Subjekt -- 1.3.2 Persona und Persönlichkeit - Rolle und Form -- 1.3.3 Charakter und Temperament - Material und Stoff -- 1.3.4 Kulturelle Aufladungen und Rezeptionsweisen -- 2 Der Ausdruck der ›Persönlichkeit‹ -- 2.1 Experimente in Berlin -- 2.2 »T he Expression of Personality« -- 2.2.1 Epistemisch-mediale Praktiken -- 2.2.2 Populäre Vorstellungen und fachspezifische Rezeptionsweisen -- 2.3 »Diagrams of the Unconscious« -- 2.3.1 Epistemisch-mediale Praktiken -- 2.3.2 Rezeption in der Medienöffentlichkeit und im Fachdiskurs -- 2.4 Fazit -- 3 Der Körper als Medium des Psychischen -- 3.1 Der Körper als Abdruck und Spur / Handschrift -- 3.1.1 Marker von Identität und Medium psychischer Merkmale -- 3.1.2 Graphologische Analysen und Schriftexperimente in Nordamerika -- 3.2 Der Klang des Körpers / Stimme und Sprechweise -- 3.2.1 Die Stimme im Umkreis von Ausdruckspsychologie und Charakterologie -- 3.2.2 Stimm-Studien jenseits des Atlantik -- 3.2.3 Fazit -- 3.3 Der Ausdruck des Körpers / Mimik und Pantomimik -- 3.3.1 Mimik und ›Charakter‹ in der Heerespsychologie -- 3.3.2 Das Gesicht zwischen populärer Diagnostik und wissenschaftlicher Psychologie -- 3.4 Die Form des Körpers / Tektonik und Konstitution -- 3.4.1 Die Psyche des pyknischen Körpers - Kretschmers Konstitutionstypologie -- 3.4.2 Endomorphe Wesensarten - Sheldons Konstitutionspsychologie -- 3.5 Fazit -- 4 Projektionen der ›Persönlichkeit‹ -- 4.1 Der Inhalt einer blauen Pappschachtel…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Diskursgeschichtliche Einordnung der Trias von Literatur, Geschichtsschreibung und Visualität -- 2.1 Theoretische und definitorische Prämissen für die Untersuchung der fiktionalen Geschichtsdarstellung im historischen Roman -- 2.1.1 Verortung im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs der literarischen Geschichtsdarstellung -- 2.1.2 Literarische Geschichtsdarstellung als Medium der Reflexion von geschichtstheoretischen Aporien -- 2.1.3 Der geschichtsphilosophische Diskurs des 20. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.6 INTERMEDIATE-SIZED DUCTS-MIXED MASS-RESISTANCE ELEMENTS -- Medium tube [a (in meters) 0.01/f and a &lt -- 10/f] [3,4] -- Medium slit [t (in meters) 0.02/f and t&lt -- 20/f] [5] -- 4.7 PERFORATED SHEET-MIXED MASS-RESISTANCE ELEMENT [A (IN METERS) 0.01/F AND A&lt -- 10/F] [3,4] -- Definition of Q -- 4.8 ACOUSTIC TRANSFORMERS -- Junction of two pipes of different areas -- Two pipes of different areas joined by an exponential connector [6] -- XI: ELEMENTARY REFLECTION AND RADIATION OF SOUND -- 4.9 REFLECTION OF A PLANE WAVE FROM A PLANE -- 4.10 RADIATION FROM A PULSATING SPHERE -- Radiation impedance -- 4.11 RADIATION FROM A MONOPOLE POINT SOURCE (SIMPLE SOURCE) -- Pressure and particle velocity -- Strength of a point source [6] -- Intensity at distance r -- 4.12 COMBINATION OF POINT SOURCES -- Two point sources -- Linear array of point sources -- 4.13 STEERED BEAM-FORMING ARRAY OF POINT SOURCES -- 4.14 DIPOLE POINT SOURCE (DOUBLET) -- Near-field and far-field -- 4.15 RADIATION FROM AN OSCILLATING SPHERE -- Near-field pressure -- Far-field pressure -- Radiation impedance -- XII: DIRECTIVITY INDEX -- 4.16 DIRECTIVITY INDEX AND DIRECTIVITY FACTOR -- Directivity factor [Q(f)] -- Directivity index [DI(f)] -- Calculation of Q(f) and DI(f) -- XIII: RADIATION IMPEDANCES -- 4.17 PULSATING SPHERE -- 4.18 OSCILLATING SPHERE -- 4.19 PLANE CIRCULAR PISTON IN INFINITE BAFFLE -- Approximate analogous circuits -- Low- and high-frequency approximations -- 4.20 PLANE CIRCULAR FREE DISK -- 4.21 PLANE CIRCULAR PISTON RADIATING FROM ONE SIDE ONLY IN FREE SPACE -- XIV: VISCOUS AND THERMAL LOSSES -- 4.22 SOUND IN LOSSY TUBES -- 4.23 WAVE EQUATION FOR AN INFINITE LOSSY TUBE -- Assumptions -- Categories -- The momentum conservation equation -- Thermal conduction (entropy) and the gas law -- Solution of the velocity and temperature radial equations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…"Contents"; "Message to Symposium on the Media and the Rwanda Genocide"; "Preface"; "Notes on Contributors"; "1 Introduction"; "2 The Media Dichotomy"; "3 Rwanda: Walking the Road to Genocide"; "PART ONE: HATE MEDIA IN RWANDA"; "4 Call to Genocide: Radio in Rwanda, 1994"; "5 RTLM Propaganda: the Democratic Alibi"; "6 Kangura: the Triumph of Propaganda Refined"; "7 Rwandan Private Print Media on the Eve of the Genocide"; "8 Echoes of Violence: Considerations on Radio and Genocide in Rwanda"; "9 RTLM: the Medium that Became a Tool for Mass Murder"…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…On the rhetor2 level: Audiovisual effects; Ethos: the Image of the rhetor; Conclusion; Nico Prucha: Worldwide Online Jihad versus the Gaming Industry Reloaded - Ventures of the Web; All level access: The Internet as the medium for armchair jihadists; A note regarding organization via the Internet…”