This book explores the phenomena of the urban everyday and new urban tourism. It provides a systematic framework and draws on a mix of theoretical and empirical work to look at the increasing intermingling of 'tourists' and 'residents'. Tourism and urban everyday life are deeply connected in a mutually constitutive way. Tourism has become a key momentum of urban development and affects cities beyond its economic dimension. Urban everyday life itself can turn into a matter of tourist interest for people searching for experiences off the beaten track. Even living in a city as a resident involves moments, activities and practices which could be labelled as 'touristic'. These observations demonstrate some of the various layers in which urban tourism and everyday city life are intertwined. This book gathers multiple interdisciplinary approaches, a diversity of topics and methodological variety to examine this complex relationship. It presents a systematic framework for the dynamic research field of new urban tourism along three dimensions: the extraordinary mundane, encounters and contact zones, and urban co-production. This book will be of interest to students and researchers across fields such as Tourism and Mobility Studies, Urban Studies, Leisure Studies, Tourism Geography, and Tourism Sociology.

This book explores the phenomena of the urban everyday and new urban tourism. It provides a systematic framework and draws on a mix of theoretical and empirical work to look at the increasing intermingling of 'tourists' and 'residents'. Tourism and urban everyday life are deeply connected in a mutually constitutive way. Tourism has become a key momentum of urban development and affects cities beyond its economic dimension. Urban everyday life itself can turn into a matter of tourist interest for people searching for experiences off the beaten track. Even living in a city as a resident involves moments, activities and practices which could be labelled as 'touristic'. These observations demonstrate some of the various layers in which urban tourism and everyday city life are intertwined. This book gathers multiple interdisciplinary approaches, a diversity of topics and methodological variety to examine this complex relationship. It presents a systematic framework for the dynamic research field of new urban tourism along three dimensions: the extraordinary mundane, encounters and contact zones, and urban co-production. This book will be of interest to students and researchers across fields such as Tourism and Mobility Studies, Urban Studies, Leisure Studies, Tourism Geography, and Tourism Sociology.

With this essential guide to vehicular networking, you will learn about everything from conceptual approaches and state-of-the-art protocols, to system designs and their evaluation. Covering both in- and inter-vehicle communication, this comprehensive work outlines the foundations of vehicular networking as well as demonstrating its commercial applications, from improved vehicle performance, to entertainment, and traffic information systems. All of this is supported by in-depth case studies and detailed information on proposed protocols and solutions for access technologies and information dissemination, as well as topics on rulemaking, regulations, and standardization. Importantly, for a field which is attracting increasing commercial interest, you will learn about the future trends of this technology, its problems, and solutions to overcome them. Whether you are a student, a communications professional or a researcher, this is an invaluable resource.

One field where the implications of the omnipresent globalization and hereby initiated new forms of cross-border business activity are exceptionally profound is the income taxation of multinational enterprises. The contemporary worldwide norm, which was adopted in the 1930s, is the separate accounting method. Despite its longevity as the preferred means for the taxation of multinational enterprises, the erosion of tax revenues from alleged transfer price manipulations by firms has goaded public discussion on whether or not the separate accounting method is still a satisfactory solution to the problem of international income taxation. Particularly the European Commission's study "Company Taxation in the Internal Market" and its suggestion to replace separate accounting with unitary apportionment in the European Union has strongly accelerated the debate about the future of group taxation. In the present treatise, both abovementioned taxation concepts are elucidated as well as qualitatively and quantitatively reviewed against the background of the economic rationale for the multinational enterprise, the way it generates income and the management of its internal affairs. The highlight of this treatise is the general equilibrium model of firm behavior under unitary apportionment, which is, as will be seen, in several important respects more powerful than the usual partial equilibrium treatment of the formulary approach. The presented model, therefore, provides considerable insights regarding the tax incidence and induced real-economic distortions under unitary apportionment. Above all, this model will allow policy-makers and tax authorities to make reasonable estimates concerning potential alterations in tax revenues collected if separate accounting was replaced by unitary apportionment in the future.

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 1995 im Fachbereich Werkstoffkunde, Note: 1,3, Universitat des Saarlandes (Unbekannt), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Einleitung: Titan ist ein Metall der neuen Zeit. Die Entwicklung von Titanwerkstoffen wurde besonders in der Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik vorangetrieben. Die besonderen Eigenschaften von Titan und seinen Legierungen wie gute Korrosionsbestandigkeit, hohe Festigkeit auch bei erhohten Temperaturen und Kriechbestandigkeit sowie die geringe Dichte sind Grunde fur eine vielfaltige Verwendung. Sie reicht vom Einsatz in der Luft- und Raumfahrt, der chemischen Industrie, im Maschinenbau bis hin zur feinmechanischen Industrie. Aufgrund ihres biokompatiblen Verhaltens hielten Titanlegierungen sogar in der Medizintechnik als Implantatwerkstoff im menschlichen Korper Einzug. Ungunstige Eigenschaften zeigen Titanwerkstoffe allerdings bei Reibungs- und Verschleissbeanspruchungen. Titan besitzt eine hexagonale Gitterstruktur. Das Achsenverhaltnis c/a = 1,587 liegt aber weit unterhalb vom idealen Achsenverhaltnis c/a = 1,633 der dichtesten Kugelpackung, so dass prismatisches Gleiten zur plastischen Verformung beitragt. Gleitpaarungen aus Titan neigen zum adhasiven bedingten Fressen oder zum Materialubertrag auf verschiedenen Gegenkorperwerkstoffen. Welche Auswirkungen solche Verschleisserscheinungen vor allem auf die Funktionalitat eines Bauteils mit sich bringen, soll anhand des Einsatzes von Titanlegierungen als Implantatwerkstoff stark tribologisch beanspruchter Gelenkendoprothesen diskutiert werden. Anstrengungen, die zur Vermeidung von Verschleisserscheinungen unternommen werden, fuhren meist zu Konzepten, die das Harten der Bauteiloberflache durch das Aufbringen von Verschleissschutzschichten zum Inhalt haben. Auf dieser Grundlage wird die Herstellung und Untersuchung von Legierungen aus Titan, Eisen und Bor fur den Verschleissschutz Gegenstand dieser Arbeit. Inhaltsverzeichnis: Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1.Einleitung1 1.1Titan als