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This book offers a unique perspective on cosmopolitanism, examining the ways it is constructed and reconstructed on the small scale in an ongoing process of matching the local with the global, a process entailing mutual transformation. Based on a wide range of...
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Springer
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2015-05-15
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Elisabeth Eppinger erforscht in diesem Buch aktuelle Patentpools, ihre Eigenschaften und alternative Lösungen zur gemeinsamen Nutzung von Patenten. Patentpools haben das Potenzial, Patentblockaden zu lösen und Innovationen zu fördern. Die Autorin diskutiert die Rolle...
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Springer Gabler
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2015-05-12
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This book provides, in an easy-to-use format, an extensive collection of data and information on China’s 31 provinces and its interprovincial economic linkages. Intended as a comprehensive resource book, it profiles the geography, demography, and economy for each...
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Springer
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2015-04-27
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Based on interviews with R&D managers and a survey amongst R&D employees, Verena Nedon shows that perceived social pressure has an immense impact on R&D employees working in OI-projects. Employees’ attitude (regardless of whether positive or negative) and...
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Springer Gabler
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2015-04-22
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Patenschriften sind durch ihre juristische Prägung für Techniker teilweise schwer verständlich. Dem Leser wird gezeigt wie er Patente lesen sollte, um sie besser zu verstehen. Er erfährt nach welcher Methode die Prüfung einer Patentschrift erfolgt, wie Patentschriften...
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Springer Vieweg
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2015-04-20
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Ensuring that their work has a positive influence on society is a responsibility and a privilege for engineers, but also a considerable challenge. This book addresses the ways in which engineers meet this challenge, working from the assumption that for a project to be...
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Springer
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2015-03-20
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Every city, region and state wants to do better---or at the very least, not do worse. Places have a strong and vigorous concern with and stake in generating a stronger economic performance. This concern spans a broad spectrum of constituents and interests, including...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-03-02
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This book discusses the use, economic importance and impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in public and private Sudanese universities. The author provides an in-depth analysis of the economic impact of ICT from the demand perspective as well...
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Springer
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2015-02-11
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This is the first English book that presents a professional analysis of the recent dynamic movement of the Chinese economy by focusing on the Yangtze River Delta region, which is the main engine of the Chinese economy. The impact of the international financial crisis on...
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Springer
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2015-02-02
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This handbook provides a comprehensive historical account of the field of Quality of Life. It brings together theoretical insights and empirical findings and presents the main items of global quality of life and wellbeing research. Worldwide in its scope of topics, the...
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Springer
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2015-01-22
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Food price volatility is one of the major challenges...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-27
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This edited volume looks at energy poverty, an issue whose pivotal role in the fight for human development is only now being recognised by policymakers. Nearly one quarter of humanity still lacks access to electricity. Close to one third rely on traditional fuels like...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-27
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This book examines how theories of human emotion can be applied to engineering in order to improve product design and value. ‘Emotional Engineering Vol. 3’ establishes the idea that customer satisfaction can be maximised by using knowledge and experience in a more...
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Springer
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2014-11-19
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This edited collection provides the most comprehensive thematic analysis of capital flight from Africa, covering economic and institutional aspects, as well as domestic and global dimensions. It is organized in three parts. The first part discusses the importance of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-06
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Interdisciplinarity has seemingly become a paradigm for modern and meaningful research. Clearly, the interdisciplinary modus of deliberation enables to unfold relevant but quite different disciplinary perspectives to the reflection of broader scientific questions or...
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Springer
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2014-10-29
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The author investigates the agenda for transformation in contemporary African development studies: policy studies, strategic studies, international relations and economic diplomacy. With a focus on the capacity dimension, he proposes critical policy and action-oriented...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-28
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This monograph presents a collection of major developments leading toward the implementation of white space technology - an emerging wireless standard for using wireless spectrum in locations where it is unused by licensed users. Some of the key research areas in the...
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Springer
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2014-10-13
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This book explores how moral factors exert influence on economy from an economic and philosophical point of view. The book takes an in-depth look at topics such as efficiency and coordination, fairness and identification, law and self-discipline and the third...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-09-16
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Substantial progress in the fight against extreme poverty was made in the last two decades. But the slowdown in global economic growth and significant increases in income inequality in many developed and developing countries raise serious concerns about the continuation...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-09-04
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Substantial progress in the fight against extreme poverty was made in the last two decades. But the slowdown in global economic growth and significant increases in income inequality in many developed and developing countries raise serious concerns about the continuation...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-09-04
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