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In early 2007, Edish.com was a thriving discontinued china business with two stores, a huge Internet presence, and more than 200, 000 loyal customers. By January 2009, the company was on the brink of failure. This text chronicles the ups and downs of attempting to save the business and of the author's relationship with her two partners.

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) hat sich binnen kurzer Zeit zu einem der meistdiskutierten Phänomene in der jüngeren Geschichte der Informationstechnologie herausgebildet. Die millionenfach frequentierten Musiktauschbörsen wie etwa Napster haben dabei zu kontroversen Bewertungen von P2P geführt. Neben File-Sharing à la Napster zählen Instant Messaging, Collaboration/P2P Groupware, Grid bzw. Distributed Computing und Web Services zu den weiteren Facetten vo...

Geostatistics for Engineers and Earth Scientists

The ageing, financial and labour market challenges facing the old age pension systems of the member states of the European Union are well known. Those who cast doubt on the ability of the present system of pension provision - at least to the extent that it is pay-as-you-go financed - to cope with the problems posed by these challenges are getting more vociferous. Increasingly there are calls for pay-as-you-go systems to be cut back and for fun...

Um eine Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstelle gut zu entwerfen, muß man von Anfang an die Disziplinen Hard- und Software-Entwicklung, Design und Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation berücksichtigen. Die gleichberechtigte Gewichtung dieser vier Disziplinen ist das Besondere an diesem Fachbuch. Es bietet dem Leser einen sehr praxisorientierten Einstieg in die Problematik des Entwurfs von MMS und ist nicht im Stil wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten gehalten, sondern v...

The renowned theoretical physicist Victor F. Weisskopf rightly pointed out that a real understanding of natural phenomena implies a clear distinction between the essential and the peripheral. Only when we reach such an understanding - that is to say ­ when we are able to separate the relevant from the irrelevant, will the phenomena no longer appear complex, but intelectually transparent. This statement, which is generally valid, reflects the v...

Experts in herbicide research and development - chemists and plant physiologists -, have written 15 chapters that review all aspects pertinent to peroxidizing herbicides, compounds of topical interest since extremely low use rates ensure high environmental safety. Topics covered include structure-activity relationships, relevant patent literature, preparative methods, modes of action, greenhouse screening, laboratory assays, plant pigment bioc...

A state-of-the-art view of recent developments in the use of artificial neural networks for analysing remotely sensed satellite data. Neural networks, as a new form of computational paradigm, appear well suited to many of the tasks involved in this image analysis. This book demonstrates a wide range of uses of neural networks for remote sensing applications and reports the views of a large number of European experts brought together as part of...

The book covers theoretical questions including the latest extension of the formalism, and computational issues and focuses on some of the more fruitful and promising applications, including statistical signal processing, nonparametric curve estimation, random measures, limit theorems, learning theory and some applications at the fringe between Statistics and Approximation Theory. It is geared to graduate students in Statistics, Mathematics or...

In International Standardisation of Good Corporate Governance - Best Practices for the Board of Directors the Academy of Directors (AoD) presents a multidisciplinary approach for the governance of a company. The AoD also aims to use the interaction between the academic and the business world to change the environment in which companies work. This task is realised in different ways: by conducting applied scientific research, creating a large ...

Dear participant in the second European Workshop on Microelectronics Education, It is a pleasure to present you the Proceedings of the Second European Workshop on Microelectronics Education and to welcome you at the Workshop. The Organising Committee is very pleased that it has found several key persons, with highly appreciated levels of knowledge and expertise, willing to present Invited Contributions to this Workshop. We have striven for an ...

Mobile systems - primarily cellular telephony - have been the fastest moving telecommunications development to date with a world-wide customer base that in the ten or so years to April 1996 reached 100 million and continues with a current growth rate of 60% per annum world-wide. Predictions suggest that the customer base will exceed 1 billion within the next ten years and that the saturation level is around 80% of any population. Faced with su...

religious values at the office door. Apartheid was an evil, and business had great power in South Africa. Where there is power, there is also responsibil­ ity. I prayed about this long and hard. I pushed the companies as much as I thought I could. There were advances and there were setbacks, but finally we prevailed and the Blacks of South Africa secured their freedom. My effort in behalf of the Sullivan Principles was only one of a number of ...

Introduction to Intelligent Simulation of Complex Discrete Systems and Processes: RAO Language focuses on a unique approach in modeling and simulation of complex systems. In this volume are considered features of complex systems and processes, their mathematical description, and modeling. Theoretical foundations of the RAO (Resource-Action-Operation) language as well as its syntax and utilisation are given. Examples of simulation models of dif...

Integration of the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) into the European Union (EU) has become more a question of timing than a question whether it will or should be made. Since one of the objectives of the EU is to establish a system ensuring competition in the internal market is not distorted the question arises if the CEECs can be integrated into such a competitive system. Which rules of competition are appropriate to improve the...

Prof. Albrecht Scholz dokumentiert die spannende Entwicklung der Dermatologie von ihren Anfängen in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis in die Gegenwart. In akribischer Detailarbeit hat der Autor historisches Material, Beiträge, Biographien und eigene Veröffentlichungen zu diesem umfassenden Überblick ausgewertet und zusammengestellt. Tabellen, Übersichten und Abbildungen illustrieren die historischen Abläufe. - Die Institutionalisier...

Low-Power CMOS Wireless Communications: A Wideband CDMA System Design focuses on the issues behind the development of a high-bandwidth, silicon complementary metal-oxide silicon (CMOS) low-power transceiver system for mobile RF wireless data communications. In the design of any RF communications system, three distinct factors must be considered: the propagation environment in question, the multiplexing and modulation of user data streams, and ...

Each year over 400, 000 people have a new onset of heart failure in the United States, adding to a current patient population of over 4.8 million Americans. Basics of Heart Failure takes a problem-solving approach to examining heart failure and to providing the reader with an up-to-date account of our knowledge in this area. Chapters on the diagnosis and therapy of heart failure emphasize data from recent multicenter trials.

This volwne contains the Proceedings of a two-week summer conference titled "Advances in Integrated Optics" held June 1-9, 1993, in Erice, Sicily. This was the 18th annual course organized by the International School of Quantum Electronics, under the auspices of the "Ettore Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture. The term Integrated Optics signifies guided-wave optical circuits consisting of two or more devices on a single substrate. Since it...

Die regenerativen Energietrager haben bereits heute einen signifikanten Anteil an der weltweiten Stromerzeugung. 1m Jahre 1997 trugen sie knapp 20 % zur Gesamt­ produktion von etwa 12. 000 TWh bei. Dieser Anteil wurde fast ausschlieBlich von der Wasserkraft gedeckt, der Beitrag der Solarthermie war mit 0, 7 TWh sehr klein, obwohl bereits Ende des letzten, Anfang dieses Jahrhunderts erste Anlagen u. a. zum Antrieb von Bewasserungspumpen auf Bas...