Concert Halls by Nagata Acoustics - Motoo Komoda - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This visually stunning and data rich text catalogs the design of 32 concert halls by world-renowned acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota and his team at Nagata Acoustics, the firm behind the celebrated Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and numerous others.

The Puzzles of Nobuyuki Yoshigahara - Takayuki Yoshigahara - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book convenes a selection of 200 mathematical puzzles with original solutions, all celebrating the inquisitive and inspiring spirit of Nobuyuki “Nob” Yoshigahara – a legend in the worldwide community of mathematical and mechanical puzzles.

Materia Medica of New and Old Homeopathic Medicines - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

He has investigated the interplay between contemporary research methods and the research methods associated with homeopathic drug provings. These homeopathic drug provings all follow good clinical practice (GCP) research guidelines and incorporate the guidelines suggested by Dr Samuel Hahnemann more than 200 yearsago.

Androgenetic Alopecia From A to Z - Konstantinos Anastassakis - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This reference volume conveys complete understanding and management of Androgenetic Alopecia and Female Pattern Hair Loss (AGA/FPHL).

Maternal Healthcare and Doulas in China - Zoe Z. Dai - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This brief explores the resurgence of the role of doulas in the child birthing process in Chinese clinical settings, as a lens to understand comparative pre- and post-natal care worldwide. The demand for doulas in China is increasing, and the rise in the use of doulas is thought to be due to increasing dissatisfaction with current institutional maternity health care. Attention is focused on Chinese women''s relationships with their bodies and on women''s experiences of choice, agency, and access to health and reproductive services as well as maternal health care information and support. Chapters present an overview of the current experience of pre- and post- natal care in China. In addition, chapters explore interview data on how Chinese doulas construct multiple identities, in terms of serving as lactation consultants, child care providers, and child care educators for women during pregnancy and childbirth. Maternal Healthcare and Doulas in China will be of interest to researchers in public health and health policy, particularly with an interest in maternal health or Asian studies, as well as, health practitioners, and clinicians who are interested in issues related to women, maternity, health care, childbirth, and feminist research in China.

Substance in Aristotle's Metaphysics Zeta - Norman O. Dahl - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book argues that according to Metaphysics Zeta, substantial forms constitute substantial being in the sensible world, and individual composites make up the basic constituents that possess this kind of being. The study explains why Aristotle provides a reexamination of substance after the Categories , Physics , and De Anima , and highlights the contribution Z is meant to make to the science of being. Norman O. Dahl argues that Z.1-11 leaves both substantial forms and individual composites as candidates for basic constituents, with Z.12 being something that can be set aside. He explains that although the main focus of Z.13-16 is to argue against a Platonic view that takes universals to be basic constituents, some of its arguments commit Aristotle to individual composites as basic constituents, with Z.17''s taking substantial form to constitute substantial being is compatible with that commitment. .

Substance in Aristotle's Metaphysics Zeta - Norman O. Dahl - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book argues that according to Metaphysics Zeta, substantial forms constitute substantial being in the sensible world, and individual composites make up the basic constituents that possess this kind of being. The study explains why Aristotle provides a reexamination of substance after the Categories , Physics , and De Anima , and highlights the contribution Z is meant to make to the science of being. Norman O. Dahl argues that Z.1-11 leaves both substantial forms and individual composites as candidates for basic constituents, with Z.12 being something that can be set aside. He explains that although the main focus of Z.13-16 is to argue against a Platonic view that takes universals to be basic constituents, some of its arguments commit Aristotle to individual composites as basic constituents, with Z.17''s taking substantial form to constitute substantial being is compatible with that commitment. .

The Dental Team in the European Union - Sondra Z. Koff - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book discusses dental healthcare professionals in the European Union and EU policy output and activities in the context of Europeanization and its impact on oral health care. Adopting a framework focused on an institution and its policies allows for discussion from the perspective of multiple actors, both national and international. The research is timely and significant because of the momentous changes that have taken and are taking place in healthcare delivery systems and professions in the Member States of the European Union. In the book, the author constructs a profile of the oral healthcare professions in the Member States; creates an inventory of challenges faced by these professions; illustrates the impact Europeanization and one of its organs, the European Union, have had on oral health care; demonstrates the way in which national traits and institutions exercise a role in the transposition of EU outputs; and catalogues the stages and views of some representatives of the dental team. Topics explored include: - The First Stage of Professionalization: Education - Dental Care Professionals: Regulation - Member States: Healthcare Provision - The Workplace - The European Union and the Dental Team Readers not only learn the fundamentals of oral health professions, their realities, and healthcare delivery, but also become familiar with the political concepts, institutions, and practice related to the field. The Dental Team in the European Union , having academic and general interest as well as practical value, appeals to diverse audiences. The book is an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences and the healthcare and dental worlds. It also can be used as required or supplemental reading for students in the healthcare professions, public policy, and political science. Decision-makers at various levels of government and persons affiliated with funding agencies as well as scholarly and professional associations in the United States and abroad also would find this a useful text.

The Dental Team in the European Union - Sondra Z. Koff - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book discusses dental healthcare professionals in the European Union and EU policy output and activities in the context of Europeanization and its impact on oral health care. Adopting a framework focused on an institution and its policies allows for discussion from the perspective of multiple actors, both national and international. The research is timely and significant because of the momentous changes that have taken and are taking place in healthcare delivery systems and professions in the Member States of the European Union. In the book, the author constructs a profile of the oral healthcare professions in the Member States; creates an inventory of challenges faced by these professions; illustrates the impact Europeanization and one of its organs, the European Union, have had on oral health care; demonstrates the way in which national traits and institutions exercise a role in the transposition of EU outputs; and catalogues the stages and views ofsome representatives of the dental team. Topics explored include:The First Stage of Professionalization: EducationDental Care Professionals: RegulationMember States: Healthcare ProvisionThe WorkplaceThe European Union and the Dental TeamReaders not only learn the fundamentals of oral health professions, their realities, and healthcare delivery, but also become familiar with the political concepts, institutions, and practice related to the field. The Dental Team in the European Union, having academic and general interest as well as practical value, appeals to diverse audiences. The book is an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences and the healthcare and dental worlds. It also can be used as required or supplemental reading for students in the healthcare professions, public policy, and political science. Decision-makers at various levels of government and persons affiliated with funding agencies as well as scholarly and professional associations in the United States and abroad also would find this a useful text.

Quantitative Geosciences: Data Analytics, Geostatistics, Reservoir Characterization and Modeling - Y. Z. Ma - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG -

As the petroleum industry is heading towards operating oil fields digitally, a multidisciplinary skillset is a must for geoscientists who need to use data analytics to resolve inconsistencies in various sources of data, model reservoir properties, evaluate uncertainties, and quantify risk for decision making.

Career Advice for Young Scientists in Biomedical Research - Bela Z. Schmidt - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698 - Haig Z. Smith - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

1. Introduction: Introduction: ''A Just Government'': Empire, Religion, Chaplains and the Corporation .- 2. The Virginia Company and the Foundations of Religious Governance in English Commercial Expansion .- 3. The Plymouth Company and Massachusetts Bay Company (1622-1639): Establishing Theocratic Corporate Governance .- 4. Apostasy and Debauchery (1601-1660): Behaviour, Passive Evangelism and the East India and Levant Company Chaplains .- 5. The Massachusetts Bay Company and New England Company (1640-1684): Exportation, Revaluation and the Demise of Corporate Theocratic Governance .- 6. The East India Company (1661-1698): Territorial Acquisition and the ''Amsterdam of Liberty'' .- 7. Conclusion .- 8. Bibliography.

Multivariate Prediction, de Branges Spaces, and Related Extension and Inverse Problems - Damir Z. Arov - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG -

This monograph deals primarily with the prediction of vector valued stochastic processes that are either weakly stationary, or have weakly stationary increments, from finite segments of their past. The main focus is on the analytic counterpart of these problems, which amounts to computing projections onto subspaces of a Hilbert space of p x 1 vector valued functions with an inner product that is defined in terms of the p x p matrix valued spectral density of the process. The strategy is to identify these subspaces as vector valued de Branges spaces and then to express projections in terms of the reproducing kernels of these spaces and/or in terms of a generalized Fourier transform that is obtained from the solution of an associated inverse spectral problem. Subsequently, the projection of the past onto the future and the future onto the past is interpreted in terms of the range of appropriately defined Hankel operators and their adjoints, and, in the last chapter, assorted computations are carried out for rational spectral densities. The underlying mathematics needed to tackle this class of problems is developed in careful detail, but, to ease the reading, an attempt is made to avoid excessive generality. En route a number of results that, to the best of our knowledge, were only known for p = 1 are generalized to the case p 1.

Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698 - Haig Z. Smith - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century.

Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This two part LNCS volumes constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th CCF Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, ChineseCSCW 2024, held in Hohhot, China, in July 12-14, 2024. The 52 full papers and 18 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 200 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows : Part-I : Trend; CSCW and Social Computing, and Human-Machine-Things Fusion and Human-AI Collaborative Computing. Part-II : Crowd Cooperative Computing and Evolutionary Computation, and Collaborative Data, Software and Services.

Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This two part LNCS volumes constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th CCF Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, ChineseCSCW 2024, held in Hohhot, China, in July 12- 14, 2024. The 52 full papers and 18 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 200 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows : Part-I : Trend; CSCW and Social Computing, and Human-Machine-Things Fusion and Human-AI Collaborative Computing. Part-II : Crowd Cooperative Computing and Evolutionary Computation, and Collaborative Data, Software and Services.

Special Relativity - Michael Tsamparlis - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This textbook develops Special Relativity in a systematic way and offers the unique feature of having more than 200 problems with detailed solutions to empower students to gain a real understanding of this core subject in physics. This new edition has been thoroughly updated and has new sections on relativistic fluids, relativistic kinematics and on four-acceleration. The problems and solution section has been significantly expanded and short history sections have been included throughout the book. The approach is structural in the sense that it develops Special Relativity in Minkowski space following the same steps as the development of Newtonian Physics in Euclidian space. A second characteristic of the book is that it discusses the mathematics of the theory independently of the physical principles, so that the reader will appreciate its role in the development of the physical theory. The book is intended to be used both as a textbook for an advanced undergraduate teaching course in Special Relativity but also as a reference book for the future. In that respect it is linked to an online repository with more than 200 problems, carefully classified according to subject area and solved in detail, providing an independent problem book on Special Relativity.

Cardiac Electrophysiology - Milind G. Parikh - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book offers a comprehensive review of clinical cardiac electrophysiology in a question and answer format. Chapters contain over 200 questions divided into 9 chapters, each organized by cardiac electrophysiology topic. Each question is followed by the correct answer with a detailed explanation along with references for further reading. Important concepts are highlighted and supported by over 200 illustrations and high resolution images. The book addresses a broad range of topics that are important when studying for the initial certification or recertification of the clinical cardiac electrophysiology board examination. It is also highly relevant for daily clinical practice in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology. Topics covered in the book include:Review of basic and clinical cardiac electrophysiology principles associated with cardiac arrhythmiasThe evaluation and management of patients with cardiac rhythm disordersReview of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies for the treatment of arrhythmiasClinical indications, fundamental principles and electrical characteristics of implantable cardiac electronic devices such as pacemakers and defibrillatorsClinical, electrocardiographic, and electrophysiologic characteristics of specific cardiac arrhythmia syndromes Cardiac Electrophysiology Board Review is a must-have resource for cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology trainees as well as attending physicians preparing for the certification or recertification examination. It may also be a useful guide for cardiologists, cardiac electrophysiologists and all clinicians who wish to further their understanding of heart rhythm disorders.

Modernity and the Ideals of Arab-Islamic and Western-Scientific Philosophy - A. Z. Obiedat - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This is the first study to compare the philosophical systems of secular scientific philosopher Mario Bunge (1919-2020), and Moroccan Islamic philosopher Taha Abd al-Rahman (b.1945).

Solved Problems in Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics - Gregor Skacej - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book contains a modern selection of about 200 solved problems and examples arranged in a didactic way for hands-on experience with course work in a standard advanced undergraduate/first-year graduate class in thermodynamics and statistical physics. The principles of thermodynamics and equilibrium statistical physics are few and simple, but their application often proves more involved than it may seem at first sight. This book is a comprehensive complement to any textbook in the field, emphasizing the analogies between the different systems, and paves the way for an in-depth study of solid state physics, soft matter physics, and field theory.

Advances of Science and Technology - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advancement of Science and Technology, ICAST 2020, which took place in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, in October 2020.The 74 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 200 submissions of which 157 were sent out for peer review. The papers present economic and technologic developments in modern societies in 6 tracks: Chemical, food and bio-process engineering; Electrical and computer engineering; IT, computer science and software engineering; Civil, water resources, and environmental engineering; Mechanical and industrial engineering; Material science and engineering.

Advances of Science and Technology - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advancement of Science and Technology, ICAST 2020, which took place in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, in October 2020.The 74 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 200 submissions of which 157 were sent out for peer review. The papers present economic and technologic developments in modern societies in 6 tracks: Chemical, food and bio-process engineering; Electrical and computer engineering; IT, computer science and software engineering; Civil, water resources, and environmental engineering; Mechanical and industrial engineering; Material science and engineering.

State-Formation and Democratization - Sarah Lehtinen - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the connection between two major developments in the world: state-formation and democratization. Since 1946, the number of states has increased from 66 to almost 200 independent states, but our knowledge of these state-formation processes is limited. The authors present a new database on state-formation and democratization, which enables novel classifications and analyses of these processes on the global level. They argue that the form of state-formation affects the probability for democratization in new states and that the initial regime that state-formation establishes at the time of independence has long-term effects on new states'' democratization.

Nano/Microscale Heat Transfer - Zhuomin M. Zhang - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This substantially updated and augmented second edition adds over 200 pages of text covering and an array of newer developments in nanoscale thermal transport. In Nano/Microscale Heat Transfer, 2nd edition, Dr. Zhang expands his classroom-proven text to incorporate thermal conductivity spectroscopy, time-domain and frequency-domain thermoreflectance techniques, quantum size effect on specific heat, coherent phonon, minimum thermal conductivity, interface thermal conductance, thermal interface materials, 2D sheet materials and their unique thermal properties, soft materials, first-principles simulation, hyperbolic metamaterials, magnetic polaritons, and new near-field radiation experiments and numerical simulations. Informed by over 12 years use, the author’s research experience, and feedback from teaching faculty, the book has been reorganized in many sections and enriched with more examples and homework problems. Solutions for selected problems are also available to qualified faculty via a password-protected website.• Substantially updates and augments the widely adopted original edition, adding over 200 pages and many new illustrations;• Incorporates student and faculty feedback from a decade of classroom use;• Elucidates concepts explained with many examples and illustrations;• Supports student application of theory with 300 homework problems;• Maximizes reader understanding of micro/nanoscale thermophysical properties and processes and how to apply them to thermal science and engineering;• Features MATLAB codes for working with size and temperature effects on thermal conductivity, specific heat of nanostructures, thin-film optics, RCWA, and near-field radiation.

Nano/Microscale Heat Transfer - Zhuomin M. Zhang - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This substantially updated and augmented second edition adds over 200 pages of text covering and an array of newer developments in nanoscale thermal transport. In Nano/Microscale Heat Transfer, 2nd edition, Dr. Zhang expands his classroom-proven text to incorporate thermal conductivity spectroscopy, time-domain and frequency-domain thermoreflectance techniques, quantum size effect on specific heat, coherent phonon, minimum thermal conductivity, interface thermal conductance, thermal interface materials, 2D sheet materials and their unique thermal properties, soft materials, first-principles simulation, hyperbolic metamaterials, magnetic polaritons, and new near-field radiation experiments and numerical simulations. Informed by over 12 years use, the author''s research experience, and feedback from teaching faculty, the book has been reorganized in many sections and enriched with more examples and homework problems. Solutions for selected problems are also available to qualified faculty via a password-protected website. • Substantially updates and augments the widely adopted original edition, adding over 200 pages and many new illustrations; • Incorporates student and faculty feedback from a decade of classroom use; • Elucidates concepts explained with many examples and illustrations; • Supports student application of theory with 300 homework problems; • Maximizes reader understanding of micro/nanoscale thermophysical properties and processes and how to apply them to thermal science and engineering; • Features MATLAB codes for working with size and temperature effects on thermal conductivity, specific heat of nanostructures, thin-film optics, RCWA, and near-field radiation.