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This book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021). It emphasizes on the role of civil engineering for a disaster resilient society. Various topics covered in this book are risk assessment, prevention, mitigation, preparedness and response, early warning system, hazard mapping, engineering innovations for hazard mitigation, and safe design of structures. This book is a comprehensive volu...

This book addresses a special topic in the field of nonlinear dynamical systems, develops a new research direction of surface chaos and surface bifurcation. It provides a clear watershed for original nonlinear chaos and bifurcation research. The novel content of this book makes nonlinear system research more systematical and personalized. This book introduces the chaos and bifurcation behavior of surface dynamics in the sense of Li Yorke, the ...

This book explores the multifaceted obstacles to social change that India, Myanmar and Thailand face, and ways to overcome them. With a collection of essays that identify common challenges and salient features affecting diverse communities, this volume examines topics from subnational and local perspectives across the peripheries. The book argues that identity-based divisions have created a system of oppression and political contention that ha...

The book integrates the latest scholarly literature on the entire Indian Ocean region, from East Africa to China. Issues such as India's history, Indiäs changing status in the region, and India's cross-cultural networking over a long period are explored in this book. It is organized in specific themes in thirteen chapters. It incorporates a wealth of research on Indiäs strategic significance in the Indian Ocean arena throughout history. It enr...

This volume provides detailed, up-to-date methods used in research on Atherosclerosis. Chapters guide readers through an overview of the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and model systems together with in vitro, ex vivo, in vivo and emerging methods in atherosclerosis research. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials ...

In Dennis Callaci's third book, Lost Reflection, the author has assembled seven short stories that are sewn together with characters whose reflections on the past are not to be trusted. Tug at the seams of the book to find the connective tissue-a clone of a character in one story appearing with an assumed name in the next, a reinterpretation of previous events here and again there. Or pay no mind to the lost echo searching eternally.

This book uses humanity-rationality and experience and the freedom of human will as a theoretical perspective to examine the basic framework of criminal law theories constructed by the criminal classic school and the criminal empirical school. The author puts forward the principle of the duality of rationality and experience of humanity and affirms the determinism of human behavior in the ontological sense and the freedom of will in the axiolo...

This edited collection provides an alternative discourse on cities evolving with physically and virtually networked communities-the 'digital polis'-and offers a variety of perspectives from the humanities, media studies, geography, architecture, and urban studies. As an emergent concept that encompasses research and practice, the digital polis is oriented toward a counter-mapping of the digital cityscape beyond policing and gatekeeping in phys...

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A beautifully illustrated book on contemporary Belgian paper artist Guy Leclef, who transforms recycled paper and cardboard into visceral works of beauty and subtlety.

Der Medien- und Kommunikationssektor hat sich zu einem zentralen Wirtschaftsbereich in der Informationsgesellschaft entwickelt. Dieses Buch behandelt das Medienmanagement für die elektronischen und printbasierten Medien. Vor dem Hintergrund der Branchenkonvergenz werden die grundlegenden Entwicklungen, Wertschöpfungsstrukturen, Geschäftsmodelle und Wettbewerbsstrategien im Rahmen einer integrierten Managementbetrachtung dargestellt. Darüber hi...

Performing Postracialism provides an in-depth investigation of contemporary blackface incidents in Canada and its educational institutions.

Das Buch der TV-Rechtsexpertin der TV-Familienexpertin - mit Hilfe aus der Praxis! Es beginnt mit kleinen abwertenden Bemerkungen. Es endet mit psychischen und sogar physischen Verletzungen: Das zerstörerische Gift schleicht sich unauffällig in die Beziehung. Und es kann jede treffen. Oft wird der Zeitpunkt, die Beziehung zu beenden, bevor Schlimmeres passiert, übersehen. Toxische Beziehungsmuster zerstören das Selbstbewusstsein und führen hä...

This book identifies and analyzes the significant regional differences in suicide rates of various age groups and different sexes among Chinese rural residents. It goes beyond the analytic dichotomy in traditional Western suicide studies and argues that the phenomena of suicide among Chinese farmers are the result of a combination of social structure and social action, rather than being determined by either of these two factors alone. This stu...

Das Buch behandelt die Bewertung von Derivaten und strukturierten Produkten im Equity- und Zinsmarkt (Standard und Exotische Optionen) durch numerisches Lösen der entsprechenden Pricing-Gleichungen für eine Vielfalt von Modellen (Black-Scholes, lokale- und stochastische Volatilität, Sprungmodelle). Die Kalibrierung dieser Modelle an Marktdaten sowie die hierzu benötigte Berechnung der "Greeks" werden ebenso behandelt. Die Konstruktion von Zins...

Whisky expert and enthusiast Fernand Daquin shares 43 amusing, surprising, and engaging anecdotes about the most beautiful and luxurious bottles of whiskey he has encountered over the past 40 years.

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