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Aging is an inevitable part of life and is becoming a worldwide social, economic and health problem. This is mainly due to the fact that the increasing proportion of individuals in the advanced age category have a higher probability of developing age-related disorders, such as type II diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disorders, sarcopenia, and neurodegenerative conditions. New therapeutic approaches are still needed to decrease or slow the ef...

This book contributes to both the internal debate in liberalism and the application of political liberalism to the process of democratization in East Asia. Beyond John Rawls' original intention to limit the scope of political liberalism to only existing and well-ordered liberal democracies, political liberalism has the potential to inspire and contribute to democratic establishment and maintenance in East Asia. Specifically, the book has two m...

This book addresses one of the most important unsolved problems in artificial intelligence: the task of learning, in an unsupervised manner, from massive quantities of spatiotemporal visual data that are available at low cost. The book covers important scientific discoveries and findings, with a focus on the latest advances in the field.Presenting a coherent structure, the book logically connects novel mathematical formulations and efficient c...

This book offers a primer on the valuation of startups. Innovative startups are characterized by high growth potential that usually absorbs liquidity. This is unattractive for traditional banks, replaced by other specialized intermediaries such as venture capital or private equity funds, which diversify their portfolio basing their strategies on a multi-year exit. Startups coexist in an evolving ecosystem with established firms, to which they ...

This book shows that constitutional courts exercise direct and indirect power on political branches through decision-making. The first face of judicial power is characterized by courts directing political actors to implement judicial decisions in specific ways. The second face leads political actors to anticipate judicial review and draft policies accordingly. The judicial-political interaction originating from both faces is herein formally mo...

This book reports on theoretical and experimental research answering key questions in neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and cognitive research. It gives a special emphasis on findings achieved within the territory of the former U.S.S.R, which has remained largely unknown to an international readership. The volume gathers authoritative studies on cognitive development, consciousness, attention and perception. It covers research on eye movements...

This thesis provides a comprehensive view of the physics of charmed hadrons in high-energy proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions. Given their large masses, charm quarks are produced in the early stage of a heavy-ion collision and they subsequently experience the full system evolution probing the colour-deconfined medium called quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in such collisions. In this thesis, the mechanisms of charm-quark in-medium energy l...

This book, the first of two volumes, examines ancient civilizations to explore the ethical foundations of modern economic systems. The origin of ethical values is analyzed from a historical context and, through investigating the spread of the Aryan civilization from India into the rest of the world, the links between ancient Russia, India, Japan, and Greece are highlighted. By examining the business management in these societies, the developme...

This book addresses 5G network capacity requirements with a new architecture for 5G Optical Backhaul Network. The author first describes the challenges for 5G backhaul network requirements and then the details of an Optical Backhaul Network for 5G. The author describes an architecture, in which small cells deploy as a cluster (i.e., 3-5 small cells in one cluster), where one small cell works as an aggregation point using an optical transceiver...

Bringing much needed clarity and definition to the term 'minority entrepreneur, ' this authoritative and timely handbook explores the distinctive challenges that minority communities face when founding and managing new ventures. The handbook is inclusive of any community who might be considered disadvantaged or under-represented in terms of entrepreneurial activity and included are women, youths, seniors, disabled, immigrants, Indigenous peopl...

This book, the second of two volumes, is inspired by the famous philosopher of India, Kautilya, author of the first book on economics in the world, Arthashashtra. It analyzes the influence of ethical values from ancient societies on modern systems of management and economics. While this book deals with the "global sages" like Aristotle, Buddha, Jesus, the scope is also expanded to incorporate other notable modern thinkers like Karl Marx, Adam ...

This book focuses on distributed and economic Model Predictive Control (MPC) with applications in different fields. MPC is one of the most successful advanced control methodologies due to the simplicity of the basic idea (measure the current state, predict and optimize the future behavior of the plant to determine an input signal, and repeat this procedure ad infinitum) and its capability to deal with constrained nonlinear multi-input multi-ou...

Excess weight is at an all-time high, in fact, it has reached such high proportions that it can truly be considered a health crisis. In the United States alone statistics claim that over two thirds of the population are overweight, that number jumps to 2.1 billion when one looks at the world as a whole. It truly has become a worldwide epidemic with people from every walk of life striving to lose weight, either with the latest diet fad, craze o...

Es geht weiter mit den Retter des Alltags Teil 3. Es geht um Frau Dr. Sonja Knebel, die Notärztin mit ihren Mann Bernhard Knebel, der Bilanzbuchhalter ist und die Kinder Max Knebel, vier Jahre alt und Sabine Knebel, die Anderthalb Jahre ist. Die Notärztin erlebt wieder viele spannenden Notfalleinsätze. Privat passiert auch einiges. Eine Freundin hat einen sehr schlimmen Fahrradunfall und ihre andere Freundin muss schnell notoperiert werden. La...

Detoxing is much more than a fad word or a trend, it is a time honored tradition that has benefitted countless generations. With modern medicine and food advances, we have discovered even more ways to detox the body, including using certain roots like ginger or fruits like lemon. Add the two together and you have a potent combination of amazing proportions.The Lemon Ginger detox is a good starting point for anyone seeking to cleanse the body b...

Die Autorin erzählt in diesem Büchlein die Geschichte, wie sie als eine Nicht-Katzenliebhaberin während ihres Urlaubs in Spanien von drei kleinen Kätzchen verzaubert wurde und in ihren Bann fiel. Die Charaktereigenschaften dieser Tierchen und die Abenteuer, die sie in einem kleinen spanischen Dorf erlebten, werden auf eine authentische und lebhafte Weise beschrieben.

Die Psychologie fasziniert den Menschen schon seit Jahrhunderten und dennoch wirft unser Gehirn noch viele Fragen auf. Kaum ein Organ im menschlichen Körper ist so komplex und beeindruckend, wodurch auch die Psychologie unglaublich komplex ist. Dennoch haben die Erkenntnisse in dieser Wissenschaft ein großes Potenzial, auch Ihnen im Alltag zu helfen. Wie genau das möglich ist, erfahren Sie in diesem Buch. Das erwartet Sie:-Grundlagen der Psych...

First of all, physics and magic are two completely different worldviews: - Physics looks at evolution along the time-ray and finds quantitative correlations - magic looks at simultaneities and finds qualitative correlations. - Physics considers quantity-equalities and finds formulas by it - magic considers quality-equalities and finds analogies by it. - Physics considers the multiplicity of the world and finds the perfect determinacy of all ou...

Die Geheimnisse mitreißenden Erzählens sind seit über 2.000 Jahren dieselben. Wer sie entdeckt, bezwingt jedes Publikum. Diese einmalige Schatzkarte für Unterhaltungsschriftsteller in spannenden Genres und Drehbuchautoren führt zum Ur-Quell abendländischer Erzählkunst, von dem alle Fachbücher seitdem Kopien sind. Dafür werden die entscheidenden Stellen der Poetik in Überschriften zusammengefasst, durch geklammerte Einschübe und anschließende K...

Gedanken und Augenblicke aus meiner bunten Gefühlswelt habe ich festgehalten und hier federleicht zu Papier gebracht. Für mich und für dich. Amüsant. Alltäglich. Merkwürdig.