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Besides the investigation of general chains the book contains chapters which are concerned with eigenvalue techniques, conductance, stopping times, the strong Markov property, couplings, strong uniform times, Markov chains on arbitrary finite groups (including a crash-course in harmonic analysis), random generation and counting, Markov random fields, Gibbs fields, the Metropolis sampler, and simulated annealing. With 170 exercises.

These essays set the relationship between the Army and society in the context of the 20th century as a whole. They then consider the key areas of current controversy - the pressure on the Army caused by changes in society, the Army's "right to be different, " race, homosexuality and gender.

it Bezug auf die bemerkenswerten Veränderungen der öffentlichen politischen Kommunikation seit den sechziger Jahren, insbesondere jedoch seit der Deregulierung der elektronischen Medien und der ökonomischen Konzentration, Globalisierung und Diversifizierung des Mediensystems in den achtziger Jahren, gilt das Interesse des Bandes den Steuerungs- und Regelungsproblemen in der Informationsgesellschaft. Dies erfordert eine gesamtgesellschaftliche ...

practice at the example of the strategy array developed for the Ostalb-Klinikum Aalen.

Herbert Meyr beschreibt mathematische Modelle, die die bisher weitgehend isoliert betrachteten Einzelaufgaben Losgrößenplanung, Linienzuweisung und Reihenfolgeplanung verbinden.

Frieder Knüpling stellt die wichtigsten Eigenschaften der Schwellen- und Markov-Modelle aus statistischer und ökonometrischer Sicht dar und erläutert die relevanten Schätz-, Test- und Prognoseverfahren.

Der Autor untersucht in ausgewählten Unternehmen, welche Ansätze zur Koordination von Informationsmanagement und Controlling in der Praxis vorhanden sind, und entwickelt ein Informations-Management-Controllingkonzept,

Die Autoren präsentieren die zentralen Ergebnisse der wissenschaftlichen Begleitforschung der Dach-ARGE BMWi-Erweiterungsbau, in der sich neun Unternehmen zusammenschlossen.

Donald Barry is professor of political science at theUniversity of Calgary. His publications include Canada'sDepartment of External Affairs: Coming of Age, 1946-1968, withJohn Hilliker (1995), and Toward a North American Community?Canada, the United States, and Mexico (1995). Ronald C.Keith is professor and head of the Department of PoliticalScience at the University of Calgary. His publications include Lawand Justice in China's Market Place (...

The author, one of the most influential Latin Americanists in the US, has published a number of books, but none display the importance of her work in literary criticism, cultural studies and marxist and feminist theory as successfully as this collection o

On 14 August 1844, French and Moroccan armies collided at the Battle of Isly, marking the beginning of Morocco's incorporation within the rising orbit of European imperialism. A hundred years later, French and Moroccan soldiers fought side by side for the liberation of France. When resisting foreign domination, Moroccans demonstrated the same endurance they had shown when serving the cause of the colonial power which had gained control over th...

∗ Includes non-western texts as well as the classics of the western tradition. ∗ Lucid Introduction and preambles to the texts. ∗ Chronologically arranged. ∗ Belongs to a well-established, successful and continuing series which, when complete, will be the largest anthology of philosophical classics ever assembled.

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The IT Value Quest How to Capture the Business Value of IT-based infrastructure Theo J.W. Renkema Although the potential of information technology (IT) is beyond dispute, it proves to be very difficult to evaluate its true business value. In the present competitive business arena, modern IT provides the enabling infrastructure for efficient and effective business operations, leveraging business improvements and securing a competitive edge. Cap...

Metaphysics: The Classic Readings" is an essential collection of the most influential attempts to depict the fundamental nature of reality or being - from Spinoza's doctrine of a single, indivisible substance to Russell's 'logical atomism', and from the Buddha's account of a causally interrelated world to Leibniz's one of casually independent 'monads'.

A candid and practical book on one of parenting's classic dilemmas--how and when to talk to kids about sex, and what to tell them, by the bestselling authors of "Teaching Your Children Values.

Stereotypical representations of the Mezzogiorno are a persistent feature of Italian culture at all levels. John Dickie analyzes these stereotypes in the post Unification period, when the Mezzogiornio was widely seen as barbaric, violent or irrational, an "Africa" on the European continent.

With the great merit of Aristotle's Poetics , poetic logic became a theoretical activity endowed with a philosophical nature allowing it to be more philosophical than the pure representation of existence. Today, however, the theoretical status of poetic logic has been greatly demoted. The Angel's Corpse restores to poetic logic (or lyric philosophy) the cognitive and epistemological significance attributed to it by Aristotle. The Angel's corps...

In the fall of 1901, Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1883-1961) jumped off a Southern Railway train in the unfamiliar backwoods of Guilford County, North Carolina. She was black, single, and barely eighteen years old and had come alone from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to begin her first real job as a teacher at a small, struggling school for African Americans.She stayed for over half a century. When the failing school was closed at the end of her first...

Almost thirty years ago, Charles Wright (who teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry) began a poetic project of astonishing scope--a series of three trilogies. The first trilogy was collected in "Country Music, the second in "The World of the Ten Thousand Things, and the third began with "Chickamauga and continued with "Black Zodiac. "Appalachia is the ...