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Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung: Die Neustrukturierung des nationalen Eisenbahnwesens stellt seit Beginn der neunziger Jahre in Deutschland eine der größten Herausforderungen an die Verkehrspolitik dar. In Anbetracht prognostizierter hoher Zuwächse der Verkehrsleistungen sowohl im Personen- als auch im Güterverkehr gilt es, einen Großteil dieses Wachstums auf den Verkehrsträger Schiene zu verlagern, um Umweltbelastungen durch den Straßenverkehr...

Educate, Medicate, or Litigate? tackles an issue that is increasingly taking the fore in school safety issues: intervention. Until now, the response to antisocial behaviour in schools has been generally reactive in nature due to the fact that few contemporary `preventative' measures actually prevent anything. While medical and legal recourses cannot be eschewed, after the tragedy at Columbine and other much-publicized school shootings across t...

Research into the physical and chemical properties of clusters is presently very active. This timely volume collects contributions from the leading scientists actively working in the field of the spectroscopy (time- and frequency-resolved), structure, dynamics, reactivity, and applications of clusters.

This volume contains seven important articles in materials science and engineering, based upon inaugural lectures given by professors at Imperial College, London. Each author deals with an area of work in which he has been involved over a periOd of years, and gives a personal account, partly historical, of the main features and importance of his subject. The topics covered include: the strength and deformation of metals, the brittle behaviour ...

This volume is a follow-up to the IChemE symposium on "Neural Networks and Other Learning Technologies", held at Imperial College, London, in May 1999. It presents aspects of neural network utilization and shows the versatility of neural networks in various aspects of process engineering.

This unique and richly informative addition to American educational, religious, and cultural history examines the college life of Jews at Yale from the first Jewish graduate in 1809 to the present time, drawing comparisons to the Jewish experience at other elite colleges and universities and to the experiences of other minorities at Yale. In this revised edition, Oren draws on new interviews and references to present the dramatic events of the...

A study of the problem of station keeping for orbits near libration points in the solar system. The main focus is on orbits near halo ones in the (Earth+Moon)-Sun system. Taking as its starting point the restricted three-body problem, the motion in the full solar system is considered.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and the 21st Century, held in Cairo in January 2000. Topics covered include: enumerative geometry, optical solitons, non-smooth dynamical systems, finite groups, and mathematics education.

Praxisgerechte Anleitung für Differentialdiagnostik und Bewertung - Alle aktuellen bildgebenden Verfahren mit Stellenwert und Beurteilung - Übersichtliche Gliederung nach Organsystemen mit entsprechenden Krankheitsbildern - Zahlreiche Flussdiagramme und anschauliche Bildbeispiele

This book provides a detailed, multi-disciplinary analysis of innovation networks in a variety of organisational settings. All the contributors are employed at Aston Business School, which is one of the UK's foremost institutions in terms of both teaching and research. The book illustrates the way in which innovation networks are formed and sustained in a variety of organisational settings: the public sector, public-private collaboration, nati...

The action of The Pirate takes place in Shetland and Orkney in the last years of the seventeenth century. The plot hinges on an illicit relationship and is dominated by obsessed women and dark men twisted by their criminality. The new edition does not change the story, but in its return to the manuscript it recovers the underlying pattern, and exhibits not only Scott's considerable knowledge of northern history, but his extraordinary grasp of ...

Who Cooked the Last Supper? overturns the phallusy of history and gives voice to the untold history of the world: the contributions of millions of unsung women.Men dominate history because men write history. There have been many heroes, but no heroines. Here, in Who Cooked the Last Supper?, is the history you never learned--but should have! Without politics or polemics, this brilliant and witty book overturns centuries of preconceptions to res...

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In these times of dramatic social, economic and political change, governments around the world are questioning their roles and responsibilities in the public sector. There is a trend away from traditional public sector model and that of market ideology, but there does not yet exist a universally accepted alternative. Brendan Nolan offers a comparative analysis of public administration in several OECD countries (the UK, USA, Australia, and Scan...

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This book offers ways to overcome problems that arise because voters, politicians and bureaucrats pursue selfish interests rather than the general interest in their political behaviour. It combines previously published ideas about charging people the costs of their political actions and selling insurance against unfavourable political outcomes, with new ideas about competing legislatures and incentives for generating efficient political outcom...

This book offers ways to overcome problems that arise because voters, politicians and bureaucrats pursue selfish interests rather than the general interest in their political behaviour. It combines previously published ideas about charging people the costs of their political actions and selling insurance against unfavourable political outcomes, with new ideas about competing legislatures and incentives for generating efficient political outcom...

The story of the rise and fall of drug baron Curtis Warren, Britain's richest criminal ever to be caught. Over 15, 000 copies were sold in hardback. "Next to Warren, the Krays were pathetic minnows" "The Observer".

My parent needs help, but refuses to consider a nursing home." That's the dilemma facing millions of baby boomers today. How can we ensure responsible, compassionate, even uplifting care for our aging parents at home? Mindfulness is key, Ann Cason writes. Good care begins with watching and listening, with entering the elder's world and accepting it. Drawing on decades of experience in caring for the elderly, Cason helps us understand how old a...

People always say I'm going to look back on these days and laugh — why put it off?”When Angela Nissel found herself struggling financially while in college, instead of sulking, she decided to entertain herself by creating an online journal that chronicled her day-to-day trials and tribulations. Written with humor and intelligence, her "Broke Diary” quickly found an audience as people wrote to Angela to empathize with, console, and laugh with h...