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As before, this text provides the material for a graduate introductory course in engineering acoustics for students with basic knowledge in mathematics. In this second, enlarged edition, the teaching aspects of the book have been substantially improved.

This book demonstrates how companies can effectively promote their business by assuming political responsibility and expanding their investment concept to include a political component. It shows that the success of companies is crucially dependent on socio-political conditions. In other words: politically sustainable management is a business case. Therefore companies should take a closer look at the opportunities at the interface of politics and business.To date, there has not been a satisfactory assessment of the issue of Corporate Political Responsibility (CPR), which combines a conceptual framework with practical measures for implementation. This book remedies that oversight, and shows how companies can develop the necessary attitude and operate in concrete CPR fields of action, illustrated by diagrams and examples. While doing so, the author explains how CPR is different from shere lobbying or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).The author provides an overview of the public realm and its actors, and shows how, through political contributions, they can strengthen the performance of the state and thus their own performance. Companies have unique resources for doing so, and in their own interest they should get involved: being impartial in particular, but partial in principle - when it comes to our liberal way of life as such.

Burgerschaft und Politik stehen vor der Wahl, die EU durch massive Reformen nicht nur wirtschaftlich, sondern auch politisch zu einer Weltmacht zu entwickeln oder sie zu einem Kerneuropa mit differenzierter Peripherie abschmelzen zu lassen.

Soziale Roboter sind sensomotorische Maschinen, die für den Umgang mit Menschen oder Tieren geschaffen wurden. Sie können über fünf Dimensionen bestimmt werden, nämlich die Interaktion mit Lebewesen, die Kommunikation mit Lebewesen, die Nähe zu Lebewesen, die Abbildung von (Aspekten von) Lebewesen sowie ¿ im Zentrum ¿ den Nutzen für Lebewesen. Bei einem weiten Begriff können neben Hardwarerobotern auch Softwareroboter wie gewisse Chatbots, Voicebots und Social Bots dazu zählen. Die Disziplin, die soziale Roboter ¿ ob als Spielzeugroboter, als Serviceroboter (Pflegeroboter, Therapieroboter, Sexroboter, Sicherheitsroboter etc.) oder als Industrieroboter in der Art von Kooperations- und Kollaborationsrobotern (Co-Robots bzw. Cobots) ¿ erforscht und hervorbringt, ist die Soziale Robotik. Das Buch schafft Grundlagen in technikwissenschaftlicher, wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher, philosophischer, psychologischer und soziologischer Hinsicht. Es stelltdar, was soziale Roboter ausmacht, wie sie gebaut und programmiert werden, welche Anwendungsmöglichkeiten existieren und welche Herausforderungen sich ergeben.Das Kapitel 2 wird auf link.springer.com unter der Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Lizenz veröffentlicht.

Nothing new from the Ice Age? The sequence of the individual ice advances, the direction of ice movement and the direction of meltwater drainage are only partially known, but they can be reconstructed.

Using numerous illustrations and case studies, the author maps out the creative process involved in producing interactive media, such as CD-ROM productions and network applications.

Not only is the lifestyle of the legendary pink dolphins, piranhas and tarantulas explained here, but the impressive amphibians, reptiles and mammals of the jungle are also discussed.epiphytes and lianas from different habitats are described in detail and illustrated with excellent photographs.

This guidebook helps people in creative professions or with creative career goals to "sell themselves better."

by a more general quadratic algebra (possibly obtained by deformation) and then to derive Rq [G] by requiring it to possess the latter as a comodule. Drinfeld found that it could be essentially made to work for the "Borel part" of Uq(g) denoted U (b) and further found a general construction (the Drinfeld double) q mirroring a Lie bialgebra.

Bootlegging, Illegitimacy, and Management's Attitude

The focus of this book is centered on the participation of children in countries of the South. In this sense, it will review the possibilities of children's participation, as well as their forms of participation in different contexts of daily life.

The author shows that we are the active designers of our living conditions and thus determine our own physical and mental health.Be inspired to participate in shaping the future of a human society in which we have to decide where we live, how we live with each other, how we work, and how we educate ourselves.

This book is focussed on forms of energy for the future, while maintaining climate neutrality, partly by drastically reducing, partly by recycling the resulting carbon dioxide emissions.

This first book on pulsed magnet design deals with the design of pulsed, non-destructive coils for the generation of high magnetic fields. It provides readers with a concise and comprehensive text describing every aspect of coil construction.

This textbook on urban ecosystems answers important questions about the ecological structure, functions and socio-ecological development of cities worldwide. Based on how cities are developing today in an increasingly urbanized world, it explains ecological challenges for cities of the 21st century such as resource efficiency, climate change, moderation of quality of life and resilience. The book combines theories of urban development and ecology with practical applications and case studies, thus identifying potential for improvement and examples of good ecological urban development worldwide. It shows that cities are by far not only problem areas but also offer great potential for a good life and that the various urban ecosystems can make a considerable contribution to this. The "eco-city" is thus not a utopia,but a real goal that can be pursued step by step in a targeted manner, taking into account the local and regional context.Four renowned urban ecologists have contributed their specific experience in sub-areas without losing sight of the big picture. Jürgen Breuste is an urban ecologist and works at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg, Austria, on the topics of sustainable urban development, urban biodiversity, ecosystem services and eco-cities. Dagmar Haase is Landschaftsökologin and works at the Humboldt University of Berlin on urban ecosystem services and land use modeling. Stephan Pauleit is a landscape planner and works at the Technical University of Munich on strategies for the sustainable development of urban landscapes. Martin Sauerwein is a geographer and works at the University of Hildesheim on geo-ecology in cultural landscapes, geoarchaeology and soil protection.The textbook addresses a broad audience of students, teachersand also to practitioners in the fields of ecology, urban ecology, urban development, sustainability, urban geography, nature and landscape conservation, spatial planning, landscape ecology, socialsciences and urban studies. The numerous photos and graphics, many of them in four colors, as well as clear tables illustrate the facts. Case studies, examples and explanations allow a deeper insight. Questions at the end of each chapter allow the progress of knowledge to be checked, and a comprehensive bibliography for each chapter provides further studies.This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Stadtökosysteme by Jürgen Breuste published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2016. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.This springer essential is a translation of the original German 1st edition essentials,Stadtökosysteme by Jürgen Breuste published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2016. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

In recent decades, policymakers all over the world have sought to strengthen the meaning and effect of public, non-medical healthcare. In this book, researchers from the participating universities and organizations explore the topic of public health in all its facets: How can public policy and education influence people's health?