E-Books

EU Accession - Financial Sector Opportunities and Challenges for Southeast Europe

<P>A distinguished international group of central bankers, commercial bankers, entrepreneurs, academic advisors, policymakers, and representatives of development finance organizations and do...

Seehäfen

Birgitt Brinkmann

Map-based Mobile Services

The development of wireless telecommunication and ubiquitous computing te- nologies has led to a growing mobile population and dramatically changed p- terns of working and everyday life. A smooth ...

Principles of BOI

Stefan Ihde

<p>Basal Osseointegration as a procedure developed on the basis of disc implantology is the method most commonly used for the unilateral treatment of advanced maxillary atrophy. The method i...

Tips and Techniques in Laparoscopic Surgery

Jean-Louis Dulucq

Performing a surgical operation could be compared to na- gating inside the human body. Two essential requirements are necessary for a successful apprenticeship: ? A perfect understanding of the ro...

European Oncology Leaders

<P>CancerFutures was launched in 2001 with the aim of increasing knowledge about the complex world of cancer care through people and facts. Cover Story and Masterpiece are two key sections o...

Hand Bone Age

Osman Ratib / Vicente Gilsanz

<P>For decades, the determination of bone maturity has relied on a visual evaluation of skeletal development in the hand and wrist, most commonly using the Greulich and Pyle atlas. The Gilsa...

Interacting Stochastic Systems

Unternehmen steuern mit Controlling

Fritz Weißmann

Banking for Family Business

<P>Academics and professionals from corporate banking and private banking present a detailed look at what banking means for family business. The text covers a wide spectrum of topics, includ...

Putting Knowledge Networks into Action

<P>The concepts and theories of knowledge management and networks are well documented. Yet there are few, if any, guidelines on how to implement knowledge management within an organization, ...

Protein Folding Kinetics

Bengt Nölting

<P>First methods book which includes many detailed descriptions</P><P>Absolutely needed and thus timely for the scientific community</P><P>Comprises 15% more content ...

Towards Environmental Innovation Systems

<P>Here is a dialog among worldwide experts across disciplines concerning theoretical frameworks and practical experiences to guide research and policy "towards environmental innovation ...

International Economic Policy Coordination

Michael Carlberg

This book studies the international coordination of monetary and fiscal policies in the world economy. It carefully discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperat...

The Practical Real-Time Enterprise

Speed as a factor for success Our modern industrial society lives life in the fast lane. The catchwords “faster”, “shorter”, “more powerful” reflect what we experience in almost all as...

Haemostasis in Spine Surgery

Blood loss in spine surgery is a significant and very common problem connected with all kinds of surgical procedures. An international faculty of authors provide a comprehensive survey on the rese...

Communication Acoustics

<P><STRONG>Communication Acoustics</STRONG> deals with the fundamentals of those areas of acoustics which are related to modern communication technologies. Due to the advent of d...

Urinary and Fecal Incontinence

<P>- This text gives a more universal approach to the subject</P><P>- Reaches a wide range of physicians from different disciplines</P><P>- Easily structured for hand...

Enterprise Architecture at Work

Marc Lankhorst

<P>An enterprise architecture tries to describe and control an organisation’s structure, processes, applications, systems and techniques in an integrated way. The unambiguous specification...

Laparoscopic Urologic Surgery in Malignancies

<P>The horizons of laparoscopic surgery are expanding, such that the overwhelming majority of abdominal urologic procedures have now been performed laparoscopically. In some of these procedu...