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In 17 chapters, this book attempts to deal with well-known and less well-known topics in mathematics.

The ultimate proofs that black holes exist have been obtained very recently thanks to the detection of gravitational waves from their coalescence and due to material orbiting at a distance of some gravitational radii imaged by optical interferometry or X-ray reverberation mapping.

Singular spectrum analysis (SSA) is a technique of time series analysis and forecasting combining elements of classical time series analysis, multivariate statistics, multivariate geometry, dynamical systems and signal processing.

Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Logic, Language, and Meaning, TLLM 2020, held in Tsinghua, China, in December 2020.

The major objective of this book is to introduce advanced design and (online) optimization methods for fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control from different aspects.

Requiring no programming experience, this book teaches game programming and the C# language. It discusses basic game structure, player input, game objects, game worlds, levels, animation, physics and intelligence, guiding the reader to create playable games.

Topics include Bayesian updating, conjugate and reference priors, Bayesian point and interval estimates, Bayesian asymptotics and empirical Bayes methods.

This textbook demonstrates how Enterprise Risk Management creates value in strategic- and decision-making-processes. Since traditional risk management in practice is often an independent stand-alone process with no impact on decision-making processes, it is unable to create value and ties up resources in the company unnecessarily.

This book treats essentials from neurophysiology (Hodgkin-Huxley equations, synaptic transmission, prototype networks of neurons) and related mathematical concepts (dimensionality reductions, equilibria, bifurcations, limit cycles and phase plane analysis).

Healthcare Management

Some years ago a conference on l-adic cohomology in Oberwolfach was held with the aim of reaching an understanding of Deligne's proof of the Weil conjec tures. We intended especially to provide a complete introduction to etale and l-adic cohomology theory including the monodromy theory of Lefschetz pencils.

Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine Einführung in die wichtigsten mathematischen Methoden, die Studierende der Physik in den ersten Semestern benötigen. Der Fokus liegt auf der Anwendung dieser Methoden, nicht auf ihrer Begründung. Mit zahlreichen Übungsaufgaben am Ende der Kapitel können Leserinnen und Leser ihre Fähigkeiten überprüfen.Computeralgebrasysteme bilden ein unverzichtbares Hilfsmittel bei der Lösung von Problemen der angewandten Mathematik. Die Entwicklung der mathematischen Methoden wird daher durch spezielle MapleTM-Worksheets ergänzt, die den Einstieg in die Nutzung solcher Systeme erleichtern. Auch eine Reihe der Übungsaufgaben erfordert einen entsprechenden Einsatz von MapleTM. Die Worksheets stehen im Buch sowie online zur Verfügung.Zielgruppe sind in erster Linie Studierende der Physik in den ersten Semestern an deutschsprachigen Universitäten und Hochschulen. Das Buch baut auf einem Kenntnisstand in Mathematik auf, wie er mit dem Abitur erreicht wird.Aus dem InhaltDifferentiation und IntegrationDifferentielle ModellbildungLineare Räume und lineare AbbildungenMehrdimensionale Differentiation und Integration, krummlinige KoordinatensystemeGewöhnliche Differentialgleichungen, Newton'sche MechanikPartielle Differentialgleichungen, Green'sche Funktion, Fourier-TransformationDer AutorAndreas Engel ist Professor für theoretische Physik an der Universität Oldenburg. Das Buch basiert auf seiner Vorlesung "Einführung in die theoretische Physik", die er mehrfach gehalten hat. Sein Arbeitsgebiet liegt in der statistischen Physik.

Alexander Rhode investigates performance-oriented measures of Contracting Authorities in public tenders conducted within the EU. In public procurement, suppliers tend to attribute increased credibility to precise starting prices which reduces their (perceived) entry risks.

From a mathematical point of view, physiologically structured population models are an underdeveloped branch of the theory of infinite dimensional dynamical systems.

Poisson structures appear in a large variety of contexts, ranging from string theory, classical/quantum mechanics and differential geometry to abstract algebra, algebraic geometry and representation theory.

This book is focused on the recent developments on problems of probability model uncertainty by using the notion of nonlinear expectations and, in particular, sublinear expectations.

This book analyzes regulatory models established in the field of online music distribution, and examines their consistency with the overarching objectives of copyright law. In turn, Part II will above all appeal to scholars interested in "law and economics" and in the theoretical foundations of online music copyright.

This open access book builds on the European Union's (EU) Horizon 2020 project 'Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society' (FIRES).

This book addresses the question of how competition authorities assess mergers in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector so as to promote competition in innovation. Given its scope, the book offers an invaluable guide for competition law scholars, practitioners in the field, and competition authorities worldwide.

The Internet of Things, cloud computing, connected vehicles, Big Data, analytics - what does this have to do with the automotive industry? Large, traditional companies in particular will have to adapt, develop new business models and implement flexibility with the aid of appropriate enterprise architectures.