Technological innovation combined with scientific research has always constituted a driving force of transformation in our societies. At the same time, it is no longer simply possible to transfer technologies from the North to the South; it is also essential to consider technical innovations that are adapted to the social, environmental, cultural and economic conditions of receiving countries, and which can be appropriated by their potential users and as such prove to be real technologies for fostering development.

The first International Scientific Conference on the topic organized by the UNESCO Chair Technologies for Development at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in 2010 focused on its four priority sectors: Technologies for Sustainable Development of Habitat and Cities, ICTs for the Environment, Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Technologies for the Production of Sustainable Energy.

This volume reflects the main outcomes of the conference and provides some significant orientation and success criteria for the effective implementation and use of innovative technologies, their aims, their particular applications in the context of developing countries, their accessibility for users, and their appropriation by producers and stakeholders in the field of development both in the North and South, thus ensuring their sustainability. This kind of scientific cooperation also highlights the added values for northern researchers in sharing their knowledge and know-how, leading to a real win-win partnership.

The authors gathered within this book include representatives from academic and research institutions and other organizations from diverse countries and offer a significant synergy of competences, approaches and disciplines. "

This book is intended to give a general overview of reliability, faults, fault models, nanotechnology, nanodevices, fault-tolerant architectures and reliability evaluation techniques. Additionally, the book provides an in depth state-of-the-art research results and methods for fault tolerance as well as the methodology for designing fault-tolerant systems out of highly unreliable components.

Wireless Cortical Implantable Systems examines the design for data acquisition and transmission in cortical implants. The first part of the book covers existing system level cortical implants, as well as future devices. The authors discuss the major constraints in terms of microelectronic integrations are presented. The second part of the book focuses on system-level as well as circuit and system level solutions to the development of ultra low-power and low-noise microelectronics for cortical implants. Existing solutions are presented and novel methods and solutions proposed. The third part of the book focuses on the usage of digital impulse radio ultra wide band transmission as an efficient method to transmit cortically neural recorded data at high data rate to the outside world. Original architectural and circuit and system solutions are discussed.

This book is intended to give a general overview of reliability, faults, fault models, nanotechnology, nanodevices, fault-tolerant architectures and reliability evaluation techniques. Additionally, the book provides an in depth state-of-the-art research results and methods for fault tolerance as well as the methodology for designing fault-tolerant systems out of highly unreliable components.

Technological innovation combined with scientific research has always constituted a driving force of transformation in our societies. At the same time, it is no longer simply possible to transfer technologies from the North to the South; it is also essential to consider technical innovations that are adapted to the social, environmental, cultural and economic conditions of receiving countries, and which can be appropriated by their potential users and as such prove to be real technologies for fostering development.

The first International Scientific Conference on the topic organized by the UNESCO Chair Technologies for Development at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in 2010 focused on its four priority sectors: Technologies for Sustainable Development of Habitat and Cities, ICTs for the Environment, Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Technologies for the Production of Sustainable Energy.

This volume reflects the main outcomes of the conference and provides some significant orientation and success criteria for the effective implementation and use of innovative technologies, their aims, their particular applications in the context of developing countries, their accessibility for users, and their appropriation by producers and stakeholders in the field of development both in the North and South, thus ensuring their sustainability. This kind of scientific cooperation also highlights the added values for northern researchers in sharing their knowledge and know-how, leading to a real win-win partnership.

The authors gathered within this book include representatives from academic and research institutions and other organizations from diverse countries and offer a significant synergy of competences, approaches and disciplines. "

It is now 20 years since thoracoscopic surgery first entered everyday hospital practice, revolutionizing surgery and offering major benefits to patients. The intervening years have witnessed rapid progress, with the development of a variety of specialized techniques and equipment. This superbly illustrated book provides authoritative and comprehensive descriptions of the various minimally invasive techniques that are currently employed in thoracic and cardiac surgery. A wide range of thoracoscopic procedures are explained and discussed, and detailed attention is also paid to robotic and robot-assisted surgical techniques. Throughout, the emphasis is on clear description of procedures and identification of practical aspects of relevance in surgical practice. The authors are some of the world's most experienced thoracic and cardiac surgeons, and many of them have contributed greatly to the exploration and development of the field.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Nano-Networks, Nano-Net 2009, held in Lucerne, Switherland, in October 2009. The 36 invited and regular papers address the whole spectrum of Nano-Networks and spans topis like modeling, simulation, statdards, architectural aspects, novel information and graph theory aspects, device physics and interconnects, nanorobotics as well as nano-biological systems. The volume also contains the workshop on Nano-Bio-Sensing Paradigms as well as the workshop on Brain Inspired Interconnects and Circuits.

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich BWL - Marketing, Unternehmenskommunikation, CRM, Marktforschung, Social Media, Note: 1,7, Fachhochschule Biberach Hochschule fur Bauwesen und Wirtschaft (Bauakademie Biberach), Veranstaltung: Internationales Immobilienmanagement, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Anforderungen an die Wohnungswirtschaft haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten stark verandert. Die Flexibilisierung des Arbeitsmarktes fordert von vielen Menschen hohere Mobilitat, da die Arbeitswelt durch das Internet und die damit einhergehende Globalisierung schneller' und beweglicher' geworden ist. Die demographische Entwicklung mit einer prognostizierten schrumpfenden und alternden Bevolkerung in Deutschland sowie der Wandel zu vielfaltigen Lebensstilen sorgt fur weitere Veranderungen. Diese Faktoren haben einen grossen Einfluss auf den Erfolg aktueller und zukunftiger Wohnkonzepte. Burolandschaften haben auf diesen Trend bereits mit verschiedenen Konzepten, wie temporar buchbaren und voll ausgestatteten Arbeitsplatzen reagiert. Die Wohnungswirtschaft kann hier noch keine ahnlichen Konzepte vorweisen, die auf die neuen Bedurfnisse der Menschen eingehen. Diese Arbeit zeigt einen Uberblick uber die aktuellen Trends in der Wohnungswirtschaft in Deutschland. Fur den beispielhaften Standort Munchen wird ein Konzept erarbeitet, das eine erfolgsversprechende Marktlucke nutzt und Moglichkeiten fur eine innovative und wirtschaftlich lukrative Wohnform aufzeigt. Raumprogramme und Serviceleistungen aus Hotels, Boardinghausern und anderen Wohnformen werden dazu kombiniert und in eine neue Wohnform uberfuhrt. Als wesentlicher Baustein wird untersucht, wie mit gezielter integrierter Markenbildung von Wohnungsbauunternehmen oder Bauvorhaben der zunehmende Wettbewerb in diesem Segment ausgehebelt und der Zwang nach Qualitats- oder Kostenfuhrerschaft umgangen werden kann. Die Markenbildung wird hierbei als zentrales Element im Geschaftsmodell integriert. Dabei werden v