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Water injection is one of the most promising technologies to improve the engine combustion efficiency, by mitigating knock occurrences and controlling exhaust gas temperature before turbine. As result, the engine can operate at stoichiometric conditions over the whole engine map, even during the more power-demanding RDE cycles. Antonino Vacca presents a methodology to study and optimize the effect of water injection for gasoline engines by investigating different engine layouts and injection strategies through the set-up of a 3D-CFD virtual test bench. He investigates indirect and direct water injection strategies to increase the engine knock limit and to reduce exhaust gas temperature for several operating points.

The question if states should intervene in massive humanitarian emergencies without a legal right to do so, is still object of an important debate in the theory and practice of international relations. This situation has not changed with the emergence of the 'Responsibility to Protect' norm, which stopped short of a right to intervene without a Security Council authorisation. The book assesses the impact of such unauthorised humanitarian interventions on international society and regions; it is written in the context of the English School of International Relations. Based on empirical studies the author argues that they can be progressive-constructive for international order, if conducted with explicit legitimacy, integrity, and great power participation. The argument is based on the analysis of six cases conducted between 1946 and 2005. Specific consideration is given to the cases of Liberia (1990) and Kosovo (1999). In sum, the book contributes to the solidarism-pluralism debate and the discourse on humanitarian interventions.

Due to the improvements on electric motors and motor control technology, alternative vehicle power system layouts have been considered. One of the latest is known as distributed drive electric vehicles (DDEVs), which consist of four motors that are integrated into each drive and can be independently controllable. Such an innovative design provides packaging advantages, including short transmission chain, fast and accurate torque response, and so on. Based on these advantages and features, this book takes stability and energy-saving as cut-in points, and conducts investigations from the aspects of Vehicle State Estimation, Direct Yaw Moment Control (DYC), Control Allocation (CA). Moreover, lots of advanced algorithms, such as general regression neural network, adaptive sliding mode control-based optimization, as well as genetic algorithms, are applied for a better control performance.

Thomas Glatte provides a comprehensive view on the essentials of corporate real estate management (CREM). The author explains in the influence of corporate strategies on real estate strategies for non-property-companies as well as the importance of corporate real estate portfolios, the set-up of CREM organizations and the handling of respective services. He also elaborates the specifics of corporate social responsibility, sustainability, corporate architecture & design and workplace management.

For the development of clinical decision support systems based on Bayesian networks, Mario A. Cypko investigates comprehensive expert models of multidisciplinary clinical treatment decisions and solves challenges in their modeling. The presented methods, models and tools are developed in close and intensive cooperation between knowledge engineers and clinicians. In the course of this study, laryngeal cancer serves as an exemplary treatment decision. The reader is guided through a development process and new opportunities for research and development are opened up: in modeling and validation of workflows, guided modeling, semi-automated modeling, advanced Bayesian networks, model-user interaction, inter-institutional modeling and quality management.

The capital of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, has been the scene of fundamental changes in recent decades. In the context of the tripole of petrochemistry, Louisiana State University (LSU) and public administration (especially of the state of Louisiana), which has been fully developed since the end of the 1920s, general processes (such as the transition from modern to post-modern spatial development) mix with specific local and regional characteristics and logics, also in dealing with spaces (such as the eccentric location of the downtown area, the limited influence of spatial planning). The result is a social-spatial formation of a 'multivillage metropolis'. The investigation of this 'multivillage metropolis' follows a neopragmatic approach that triangulates different theories, methods, data and researcher perspectives.Videos per App: Laden Sie die Springer Nature More Media kostenlos herunter - Abbildungen im Buch per App mit Handy oder Tablet scannen, um Videos zu streamen.

With the rare researches that focus on the cross-cultural aspects, this book tends to investigate how Arab immigrants construct and use landscape and public space in Berlin as a host city. The approach of social constructivist landscape research is chosen to highlight the effects of past and present in their experiences, including the effect of home and childhood period, social and cultural background, previous and current migration experiences including the level of integration and patterns of settlements, the importance of networking including the sense of community and groups and shared interests, as well as place attachment, and hybridization. Biographical semi-structured interviews with 72 Arab immigrants in Berlin were conducted, in addition to both participant and site observation.

Wie konnen wir Klimakrise und Ressourcenverknappung bewaltigen? Wie muss ein Werkzeugkasten zur Reparatur der Menschheitsprobleme bestuckt sein? Reicht das Werkzeug der Effizienz oder benotigen wir auf Grund der Dringlichkeit und der existenziellen Bedeutung einen ganzen Satz an Strategien, Methoden und Werkzeugen?Dieses Buch gibt Antworten auf diese Fragen und einen Uberblick uber unterschiedliche Konzepte der Nachhaltigkeit. Es zeigt die Bandbreite an Perspektiven auf, wie den bestehenden Herausforderungen begegnet werden kann. Dabei wirbt es fur ein starkes Miteinander der Strategien und ermutigt jeden zum Handeln und zur Veranderung.

The subject matter integrates various engineering disciplines, from electrical engineering and information technology to manufacturing and control engineering, materials engineering and structural mechanics - to name but a few of the relevant subject areas.

Das Fachbuch beinhaltet eine umfassende Darstellung von Tools, mit deren Hilfe systematisch innovative Ideen fur neues Unternehmenswachstum generiert werden konnen (Opportunities"e;). In der Praxis lasst sich beobachten, dass Unternehmen erhebliche Anstrengungen unternehmen, Ideen fur Innovationen zu identifizieren, die ihre Branche entscheidend pragen konnen. Grund dafur ist nicht zuletzt das Wissen, dass eine verpasste Innovationswelle zu groen Problemen fur das gesamte Unternehmen fuhren kann. Eine zentrale Erkenntnis der betriebswirtschaftlichen Forschung ist, dass Ideen zur Generierung zukunftiger Wachstumschancen oft kein Zufallsprodukt sind, sondern Ergebnisse systematischer Analysen. Die Autoren bieten eine strukturierte und umfassende Ubersicht der wichtigsten Tools zur Erkennung neuer Wachstumschancen. Sie unterscheiden zwischen unternehmensbezogenen, marktbezogenen und umweltbezogenen Ansatzen, binden zahlreiche praktische Beispiele ein und geben anwendungsorientierte Hilfestellungen fur die Anwendung dieser Tools.

This book intends to analyze Reinhold Niebuhr's understanding of the state in his Christian Realism. The task of this book is to develop a hypothesis in terms of under what political, social, organizational or intellectual context Niebuhr made use of what definition of the state.

This study has two central research questions: Do democracy profiles affect policy performance?

In this anthology of health literacy, drawing on New Social Literacy studies and contemporary debates on equity, we discuss health literacy within German regional and cultural contexts as well as in selected non-European regions, such as in Asia and South America.

Europas Parteien verändern sich gegenwärtig drastisch. Neue demokratische, aber auch populistische und völkische Bewegungen sind auf den Plan getreten. Für die klassische Parteienforschung stellen diese Entwicklungen eine Herausforderung dar und so lassen sich gegenwärtig interdisziplinär viele Versuche beobachten, das Geschehen in Europas Parteienlandschaft einzuordnen. Eine wichtige Stimme ist in diesen Debatten zu einer der bedeutsamsten politischen Entwicklungen der Gegenwart jedoch erstaunlich leise: die Stimme der Soziologie. In den letzten Jahrzehnten war ihr Verhältnis zu den Parteien eher von Desinteresse geprägt, Forschung zu Parteien wurden vor allem der Politikwissenschaft überlassen. Dadurch ging und geht der Parteienforschung etwas verloren. Der Sammelband formuliert Vorschläge, wie der soziologische Blick auf Parteien zu neuen (und vielleicht überraschenden) Einsichten führen kann ¿ um unser Verständnis für die Funktionsweise und innere Logik des Parteiwesens zuerweitern und die grundsätzlichen Veränderungen zu erklären, denen sich Parteiorganisationen aktuell ausgesetzt sehen.