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A research network has examined how quality management is implemented in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Germany, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The research has taken place within the framework of the Leonoardo Da Vinci pogramme. Managers of SMEs in the metalworking and food processing industries were asked what the consequences of the implementation of quality management were for the qualifica...

This volume contains papers presented during the science trace at the 4th International Conference of Business Information Systems, BIS 2000, held in Poznan, Poland, 12-13 April 2000, which discussed the development, implementation, applications and improvement of computer systems for business processes. The papers deal with practical, industry experiences and validated prototype implementations, and cover areas such as integration of informat...

Europe Divided is a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to a complex age of movement and conflict. Professor Elliott's strong narrative takes account of political, economic and social developments and provides vivid portraits of the leading personalities of the era. The book examines the hard lines of division in late sixteenth-century Europe: between a Protestant North and a Catholic South, between the rich, expanding economy of the Wes...

Provides guidance in the practical aspects of fieldwork and gives suggestions for collecting both qualitative and quantitative cultural data. The author was inspired by students and fieldworkers to write a practical field guide to cultural research for those who want to discover culture from an emic perspective. It is useful to ethnographers, development workers, sociologists, missionaries, and anyone who desires to study another culture in de...

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung: Ein zentraler Aspekt der Arbeit ist Frage, welche Bedeutung zeitliche, qualitative und kostenmäßige Aspekte bei der Anschaffung eines medizintechnischen Gerätes besitzen. Hierbei möchte ich die verschiedenen Meinungen und Ansichten von Medizinern, Krankenhausverwaltungen, Kostenträgern und Patienten berücksichtigen. I. Kapitel: Gesundheitswesen im Spannungsfeld von Wettbewerb und technologischem Wandel. ...

Die Studie untersucht den bisher in der Philologie nicht eingehend betrachteten Editionstypus «Frühe Nachlaßedition», also solche Ausgaben, die relativ kurz nach dem Tod des Autors von der Familie oder Freunden veranstaltet worden sind und zumeist bis dahin nicht publizierte Texte des Autors aus seinem Nachlaß bieten. Zu klären ist, ob solche Texte mit heute nicht mehr evidenter Textgestalt überhaupt echt (authentisch) sind, also auf Material ...

This handbook offers the information necessary for numerous tasks, such as selecting a catalyst, designing a process, diagnosing operating problems, and improving existing processes. It provides an overview of 150 major commercial processes and the heterogeneous catalyst used for each. Rase (chemical engineering, University of Texas) draws from chemistry, thermodynamics, and surface science to develop a framework for reasoning about catalyst s...

DNA sequencing (VI), andthe polymerase chain reaction (VII).

David L. Hoffmann is Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941, also from Cornell.

This book introduces students to new ways of thinking about development. It integrates the recent scholarship of cultural studies within the existing frameworks of development studies, which have primarily focused on issues of political economy and structural transformation.

To be poor, working-class, or a person of color in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country's environmental problems. Starting with the premise that all Americans

The first edition received widespread praise eg "a comprehensive and incisive review of much relevant scholarship and case study material" (Area) and "a must for every reading list" (Progress in Human Geography) and this latest volume will also be invaluable for researchers and students of politics, environmental management, international relations and political geography.

Leading international experts comprehensively review all aspects of platinum anticancer drugs and their current use in treatment, as well as examining their future therapeutic prospects. Writing from a variety of disciplines, these authorities discuss the chemistry of cisplatin in aqueous solution, the molecular interaction of platinum drugs with DNA, and such exciting new areas as DNA mismatch repair and replicative bypass, apoptosis, and the...

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Birding in the American West: A Handbook-- tells where to go, what birds to look for, and how to identify them.-- describes the exciting and varied bird habitats found in the West.-- is heavily illustrated with drawings and photographs to help birders in the field.-- spells out useful techniques for distinguishing among similar-looking species and addresses difficult cases in far greater detail than do standard field guides.-- features species...

Synthetic Aspects of Iridoid Chemistry (H. Franzyk): Introduction, Classification of Iridoids, Availability and Production of Iridoids, Semi-Synthetic Conversions Between Iridoids, Monoterpene Alkaloids Structurally Related to Iridoids, Syntheses from Iridoids, References.- The Defensive Chemistry of Ants (S. Leclercq, J. C. Braekman, D. Daloze, J. M. Pasteels): Introduction, Alkaloids, Nonalkaloidal Compounds, Biosynthesis, References.

Multiple Options for Achieving a Single Goal With its combination of composition segments, grammar lessons, literature models, and hands-on practice exercises, "Writer's Choice" initiates, expands, and executes what it takes to make your students willing, proficient writers.

Multiple Options for Achieving a Single GoalWith its combination of composition segments, grammar lessons, literature models, and hands-on practice exercises, "Writer's Choice" initiates, expands, and executes what it takes to make your students willing, proficient writers.

Multiple Options for Achieving a Single Goal With its combination of composition segments, grammar lessons, literature models, and hands-on practice exercises, "Writer's Choice" initiates, expands, and executes what it takes to make your students willing, proficient writers.

Lu Ning, former assistant to a vice-foreign minister of China, draws on archival materials, interviews, and personal experiences, to provide unique insights into the key players in, and the formal and