Includes bibliographical references (p.[435]-441) and index.

This book provides a critical discussion of fuzzy controllers from the perspective of classical control theory. Special emphasis is placed on topics of importance for industrial applications, including self-tuning of fuzzy controllers, optimisation and stability analysis. The text begins with a detailed introduction to fuzzy systems and control theory, and guides the reader to a thorough understanding of up-to-date research results.

This book contains selected state-of-the-art contributions to the 9th conference on natural language processing, KONVENS 2008 (Konferenz zur Verarbeitung naturlicher Sprache), with the central theme: text resources and lexical knowledge. The collection is unique in its placement of focus on the interaction between both of the above-mentioned fields, illustrating in particular the importance of methods in corpus linguistics for building lexical resources on the one hand, and the relevance of lexical resources for the analysis of and intelligent search methods for text corpora on the other. The selected articles all present novel approaches to one of three different research areas which in turn define the three parts of the book: Techniques and models for the linguistic analysis of text resources: contributions from computational linguistics Methods and tools for the acquisition of lexical knowledge from digitized and linguistically annotated text resources Approaches to the representation of lexical knowledge in digital media for various purposes.

This book examines the normative tensions inherent in upward mobility within the international system, focusing particularly on the clash between sovereign self-interest and the putatively universal norms associated with international interventions. It provides extensive detail and deep analysis of Brazil's nature as a rising power, and that nature's implications for how the country crafts its international profile on issues such as intervention. In addition, the book proposes innovative ways of (re)organising thematic, conceptual and empirical research on the normative behaviour of emergent powers with regard to institutions of global governance and questions of intervention. In analysing what distinguishes Brazil as a rising power, the contributors begin from the assumption that participation in intervention is an increasingly crucial element in demonstrating the capacity and responsibility for which demand accrues as a state seeks increased international profile. As such, the debates around intervention serve as an indicative locus for examining the clash of norms that accompanies emergence as a global player. The book's approach is to organise the analysis around thematic rather than chronological or praxis-based lines, using the Brazilian case as an illustrative example capable of extrapolation to other emerging powers such as Turkey, India and others. This work draws together rich empirical detail with sophisticated and varied conceptual analysis and will be of interest to scholars of international relations, Latin-American politics and global governance.

This volume is the first English-language work to focus specifically on South America in the context of peace operations. The region of South America has been undergoing significant changes recently with regard to its attitudes towards participation in peace operations. Leaving behind a strong reluctance with regard to intervention, the states have recently taken on a much stronger presence among UN peacekeepers. The foremost showcase of this more robust and responsible stance has been MINUSTAH, the current UN mission in Haiti. South American contributors provide over half the operation's troops, and the Force Commander is provided by Brazil. This book is intended as an introduction for researchers to the nexus of issues surrounding South America's increasing influence as a contributor to peace operations. The authors provide the reader with a historically and theoretically grounded understanding of what motivates defence policy and decisions on intervention in the region. Featuring contributions from prominent thinkers in the field and a broad range of case studies, this volume successfully combines practical applicability with diversity of analysis. This book will be of much interest to students of peacekeeping, South American politics, peace and conflict studies, security studies and International Relations in general.

Dieses Buch führt in die Ziele, Strategien und Maßnahmen des Nachhaltigkeitsmarketings ein. Dabei werden ökonomische, ökologische und soziale Perspektiven berücksichtigt. Die Absicht ist, vor allem die Prinzipien und Merkmale des Nachhaltigkeitsmarketings stärker als Standard für alle Marketingaktivitäten zu verankern. Eine ausgewogene Mischung aus theoretischen Grundlagen und Fallbeispielen – wie Allos-Hofmanufaktur, dm-drogerie Markt, Initiative Tierwohl und Edeka Zentrale Stiftung & Co. KG, Migros, Molkerei Söbbeke, Pampers, Raizen Biosprit Produktion, Rügenwalder Mühle, Vaude, Waschbär, Weleda – machen das Buch sowohl für Studierende als auch für die unternehmerische Praxis interessant. Die 2. Auflage wurde vollständig überarbeitet und um zahlreiche Praxisbeispiele erweitert. Insbesondere wurden folgende Anpassungen vorgenommen:  Integration der Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) als normativen Orientierungspunkt für die Ausgestaltung des Nachhaltigkeitsmarketings bis 2030 Stärkere Berücksichtigung der normativen, strategischen und operativen Managementebene Integration der Digitalisierung im Rahmen von digitalen Märkten, einer organisatorischen und instrumentellen Ebene (Technologien und Dienste) Zudem erhalten Sie Zusatzmaterial via App: Laden Sie die Springer Nature Flashcards-App herunter und nutzen Sie exklusive Inhalte, um Ihr Wissen zu überprüfen.

The Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, lived for centuries on the land that English colonists later called New Jersey. But once America gained its independence, they were forced to move further west: to Indiana, then Missouri, and finally to the territory that became Oklahoma. These reluctant migrants were not able to carry much from their ancestral homeland, but they managed to preserve the stories that had been passed down for generations.    On the Turtle’s Back is the first collection of Lenape folklore, originally compiled by anthropologist M. R. Harrington over a century ago but never published until now. In it, the Delaware share their cherished tales about the world’s creation, epic heroes, and ordinary human foibles. It features stories told to Harrington by two Lenape couples, Julius and Minnie Fouts and Charles and Susan Elkhair, who sought to officially record their legends before their language and cultural traditions died out. More recent interviews with Lenape elders are also included, as their reflections on hearing these stories as children speak to the status of the tribe and its culture today. Together, they welcome you into their rich and wondrous imaginative world.   

The controlled clinical trial has become an essential part of the clinician's decision-making process. Clinical trials, however, still raise methodological problems that are important and at the same time controversial: subgroup analysis and interactions, meta-analy sis of similar trials, consideration of subjective clinical opinions and those of the public at large, assessment of quality of life, pre vention trials, and so on. In February 1987 we took our third step along the road to evaluating these issues in dialogues between cli nicians, psychologists, legal experts, and statisticians. The talks presented at the meeting were revised by the authors afterwards and have been rearranged by the editors to form a strictly organ 1 2 ized book. The two preceding meetings in 1978 and 1981 focused strongly on adjuvant therapy in primary breast cancer, but this top ic served merely as a nucleus in the third meeting. This meeting, although called the Third Heidelberg Symposium was forced to leave Heidelberg and in fact was held in Freiburg. Without the interest and enthusiasm of Professor Martin Schu macher and his colleagues in Freiburg the meeting would never have taken place. The meeting was generously supported again by the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology (Bundesministe rium flir Forschung und Technologie, BMFT) within the framework of the West German BMFT Breast Cancer Study Group. We are grateful, in particular, to Mr. Hans W. Herzog for his personal in volvement. Juni 1988 H. Scheurlen, R. Kay, M."

This book provides a critical discussion of fuzzy controllers from the perspective of classical control theory. Special emphasis is placed on topics of importance for industrial applications, including self-tuning of fuzzy controllers, optimisation and stability analysis. The text begins with a detailed introduction to fuzzy systems and control theory, and guides the reader to a thorough understanding of up-to-date research results.

In birds, the beak is the most important organ for manipulative actions: its manipulative capabilities vary as much as those of the forepaws and snouts of mammals. For the peripheral parts and at brainstem levels, the sensorimotor circuit of the avian oral region is roughly similar to the mammalian, but is strikingly different at higher levels of the central nervous system (CNS) (Ariens- Kappers et al. 1936). Our field of interest is the organization of the telencephalic areas involved in the manipulative actions of the bill. The goose was chosen as a subject because of the extensive development of the tactile system of the oral region. The mechanoreceptors in the lower and upper beak are innervated by the trigeminal nerve (Cords 1904; Berkhoudt 1980), while the tongue is innervated by branches of the glossopharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves (Cords 1904). In the ganglion semilunare, the perikarya of the fibers of the trigeminal nerve are separated into a distinct ophthalmic population, and two mutually overlap- ping maxillary and mandibulary populations (Dubbeldam and Veenman 1978; Noden 1980). In duck and cockatoo both the glossopharyngeal nerve and trige- minal nerve relay in the metencephalic principal sensory nucleus of the trige- minal nerve (PrV) (Dubbeldam et al. 1979; Dubbeldam 1980; Wild 1981). In PrY the three trigeminal branches are represented in an overlapping dorsoventral sequence (Zeigler and Witkovsky 1968; Dubbeldam and Karten 1978).

The Alexandrine Schism (1159 1177) has generally been interpreted as a conflict between Pope Alexander III and Frederick I Barbarossa. In contrast to past research, this study uses private documents to examine different perceptions of this ecclesiastical crisis and explore the strategies of action pursued by those on lower levels of political power in dealing with demands for absolute obedience."

The Bible is the bestselling book of all time. It has been venerated -or excoriated,as God's word, but so far no one has read the Bible for what it is: humanity's diary, chronicling our ancestors' valiant attempts to cope with the trials and tribulations of life on Earth.In The Good Book of Human Nature , evolutionary anthropologist Carel van Schaik and historian Kai Michel advance a new view of Homo sapiens' cultural evolution. The Bible, they argue, was written to make sense of the single greatest change in history: the transition from egalitarian hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies. Religion arose as a strategy to cope with the unprecedented levels of epidemic disease, violence, inequality, and injustice that confronted us when we abandoned the bush,and which still confront us today.Armed with the latest findings from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, archeology, and religious history, van Schaik and Michel take us on a journey through the Book of Books, from the Garden of Eden all the way to Golgotha. The Book of Genesis, they reveal, marked the emergence of private property,one can no longer take the fruit off any tree, as one could before agriculture. The Torah as a whole is the product of a surprisingly logical, even scientific, approach to society's problems. This ground-breaking perspective allows van Schaik and Michel to coax unexpected secrets from the familiar stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Able, Abraham and Moses, Jesus of Nazareth and Mary. The Bible may have a dark side, but in van Schaik and Michel's hands, it proves to be a hallmark of human indefatigability.Provocative and deeply original, The Good Book of Human Nature offers a radically new understanding of the Bible. It shows that the Bible is more than just a pillar for religious belief: it is a pioneering attempt at scientific inquiry.

Studenten sowie Praktiker erhalten eine praxisorientierte Einfuhrung in die zentralen Grundlagen des Marketing. Ausgangspunkt jedes Kapitels ist eine Fallstudie, die eine konkrete praktische Rahmenbedingung eines Unternehmens vorstellt. Diese Situation wird in den Ausfuhrungen dann mit den theoretischen und methodischen Ansatzen verknupft. Dadurch wird die Transferleistung von Theorie zur Praxis und vice versa fur den Leser erleichtert. Der Leser lernt auf diese Weise die Aufgaben des Marketing im Unternehmen zu verstehen und einzuschatzen. Neben der Unternehmensperspektive wird ferner ein Verstandnis uber die Markt- und Konsumentenperspektive erarbeitet. Daruber hinaus werden die klassischen Instrumente des Marketing-Mix nicht nur singular dargestellt, sondern mit Bezugen zu den originaren Wachstum- oder Kostenzielen von Unternehmen. Zusatzliche UEbungen helfen Studierenden, sich fruhzeitig auf Klausuren vorzubereiten.

Kai-Michael Griese untersucht den Einfluss langerfristig vorhandener emotionaler Dispositionen einer Person auf die Kundenzufriedenheit. Diese wird anhand des Konfirmations-/Diskonfirmationsparadigma charakterisiert."

Nachdem die ersten Fuzzy-Regler Anfang der siebziger Jahre entwickelt und in der Praxis erprobt wurden, hat das Gebiet der Fuzzy-Regelung in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten einen gewaltigen Fortschritt erfahren. Die zugrunde liegenden mathematischen und technischen Konzepte sind umfassend analysiert worden, und mittlerweile werden Fuzzy-Regler in vielen industriellen Anwendungen routinemassig eingesetzt. Das Ziel dieses Buches ist eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme der Fuzzy-Regler aus Sicht der klassischen Regelungstechnik. Der Schwerpunkt dieses Buches liegt in der Darstellung von Themen, die fur den Anwender von besonderem Interesse sind. Hierzu zahlen insbesondere die (Selbst-) Einstellung, Optimierung und Stabilitatsanalyse von Fuzzy-Reglern. Ausgehend von einer detaillierten Einfuhrung in die Gebiete Fuzzy-Systeme und Regelungstechnik wird der Leser systematisch an aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse herangefuhrt."

Der Autor analysiert Konzepte zur Erschliessung des Kreativitats- und Problemlosungspotentials der Mitarbeiter und die auftretenden Motivationshemmnisse. Er erarbeitet Ansatze fur kontinuierliche Problemlosungsprozesse und uberpruft sie empirisch."

Der deutsche Gesetzgeber ist der Ansicht, mit dem 3. Opferrechtsreformgesetz die seitens der EU vorgegebenen europaischen Mindeststandards, wie sie sich aus der Opferschutzrichtlinie 2012/29/EU ableiten lassen, ausreichend umgesetzt zu haben. Der Autor kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass dies nicht der Fall ist. Der deutsche Gesetzgeber hat die Tragweite dieser Mindeststandards, fur die vereinzelt auch die Rechtsprechung des EGMR zur Auslegung der EMRK heranzuziehen ist, zumindest teilweise verkannt. Dieses Ergebnis wird von einer umfassenden Wurdigung der deutschen Rechtslage zu den Opferrechten im Strafverfahrensrecht getragen, bei der auch verfassungsrechtliche und straftheoretische Erwagungen nicht zu kurz kommen, um den rechtspolitischen Nachholbedarf zu umreissen.

The Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, lived for centuries on the land that English colonists later called New Jersey. But once America gained its independence, they were forced to move further west: to Indiana, then Missouri, and finally to the territory that became Oklahoma. These reluctant migrants were not able to carry much from their ancestral homeland, but they managed to preserve the stories that had been passed down for generations.    On the Turtle’s Back is the first collection of Lenape folklore, originally compiled by anthropologist M. R. Harrington over a century ago but never published until now. In it, the Delaware share their cherished tales about the world’s creation, epic heroes, and ordinary human foibles. It features stories told to Harrington by two Lenape couples, Julius and Minnie Fouts and Charles and Susan Elkhair, who sought to officially record their legends before their language and cultural traditions died out. More recent interviews with Lenape elders are also included, as their reflections on hearing these stories as children speak to the status of the tribe and its culture today. Together, they welcome you into their rich and wondrous imaginative world.   

Includes bibliographical references (p.[435]-441) and index.

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften - Bauingenieurwesen, Note: 1,3, Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal; Standort Magdeburg (unbekannt), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Einleitung: Durch die vorliegende Diplomarbeit wird das Thema des energie-sparenden Bauen auf Grundlage der neuen Energieeinsparverordnung aufgegriffen. Zielstellung soll es sein, ein normales Einfamilienhaus, das nach heutigen Massstaben dem Niedrigenergiehausstandard (Q''H 75 kWh/m a) entsprechen wurde, schrittweise bis zum Passivhausstandard (Q''H 15 kWh/m a) weiterzuentwickeln. Die Ausrichtung der entsprechenden Varianten erfolgt auf Grundlage des flachenbezogenen JahresPrimarenergiebedarfs Q''P, da dieser die Grundlage fur die Bewertung nach der Energieeinsparverordnung ist. Die dabei herausgearbeiteten Varianten sind hinsichtlich ihrer baukonstruktiven und ihrer anlagentechnischen Massnahmen darzu-stellen und zu bewerten. Gang der Untersuchung: Die nachfolgende Diplomarbeit gliedert sich in einen theoretischen Teil und in einen Teil zur praktischen Umsetzung. Der theoretische Teil soll dazu dienen, dem Leser die Grundlagen der Energieeinsparverordnung und der Bewertung von Gebauden nach der Energieeinsparverordnung zu vermitteln. Im praktischen Teil werden die Gesetzmassigkeiten der Energieeinsparverordnung anhand verschiedener Beispiele angewendet. Um eine grossere Auswahlmoglichkeit zu erhalten, sind Hausvarianten mit unterschiedlichen Wandkonstruktionen und verschiedene technischen Anlagen zur Beheizung und Trinkwassererwarmung miteinander kombiniert worden. Die daraus resultierenden Ergebnisse fur den flachenbezogenen JahresPrimarenergiebedarf Q''P, den flachen- bezogenen Endenergiebedarf Q''WE, E, den flachenbezogenen Hilfsenergie- bedarf Q''HE, E, die jahrlichen Betriebskosten und die jahrlichen Gesamtkosten aus den Investitions- und den Betriebskosten sind in Tabellen- und Diagrammform zusammengefasst worden, um eine bessere Vergleichsmoglich