'Eco-friendly' variants are rapidly gaining market share in many industries such as food, textiles, furniture, detergents and paints, automobiles, electrical appliances and domestic energy. These markets usually exhibit environmental differentiation, where consumers differ in their willingness to pay for the environmental attributes of a product. Building on the existing literature, this novel book provides a comprehensive analysis of firm strategy and environmental policy making in these types of 'green' markets. The author introduces the model of an environmentally differentiated duopoly, in order to explicitly analyse the strategic interaction within such a market. He studies in detail the effects of environmental product standards, eco-labels, 'green' R&D subsidies and environmental taxation on firm behaviour, welfare and emissions. Non-technical sections providing the empirical context expertly complement the formal theoretical analysis of environmental policy making. The author goes on to present important new conclusions for environmental policy and an agenda for future research. The Greening of Markets will be of immense interest to students and academics of environmental economics and applied industrial organisation, as well as policy makers and environmental managers.

The project CLEAN (CO2 Large-Scale Enhanced Gas Recovery in the Altmark Natural Gas Field) provides site specific knowledge for a potential future pilot project. This contributed volume gives an overview and final results of the entire project which is finalized to the end of 2012.

The book introduces the topic of geochemical modeling of fluids in subsurface and hydrothermal systems. The intention is to serve as a textbook for graduate students in aqueous, environmental and groundwater geochemistry, despite the fact that its focus is on the special topic of geochemistry in hydrothermal systems, it also provides new insights for experienced researchers with respect to the topic of reactive transport. The overall purpose is to give the reader an understanding of the processes that control the chemical composition of waters in hydrothermal systems and to highlight the interfaces between chemistry, geothermics and hydrogeology.

From the reviews:

.."is a nice, compact introduction to the principles of modeling coupled fluid flow and fluid-mineral reactions in active geothermal systems, as used for heating and electricity generation." ( Christoph A. Heinrich, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, June 2004)

This book presents the authors' attempts to interrogate the ways that white institutional, pedagogical, and curricular heteronormativity affects equity in writing instruction at Two Year Colleges. Written from a wide range of subject and identity positions, this volume explores issues that arise among students inside historically white-dominant classrooms, among faculty as curriculum and hiring decisions are made, and among colleagues when they attempt to engage the wider institution in equity work. Aiming to significantly change how urban Community College writing instruction is delivered in this country, the book operates on the principle that equity is essential to successful writing pedagogy, curricular development, and student success.

The project CLEAN (CO2 Large-Scale Enhanced Gas Recovery in the Altmark Natural Gas Field) provides site specific knowledge for a potential future pilot project. This contributed volume gives an overview and final results of the entire project which is finalized to the end of 2012.

The book introduces the topic of geochemical modeling of fluids in subsurface and hydrothermal systems. The intention is to serve as a textbook for graduate students in aqueous, environmental and groundwater geochemistry, despite the fact that its focus is on the special topic of geochemistry in hydrothermal systems, it also provides new insights for experienced researchers with respect to the topic of reactive transport. The overall purpose is to give the reader an understanding of the processes that control the chemical composition of waters in hydrothermal systems and to highlight the interfaces between chemistry, geothermics and hydrogeology.

From the reviews:

.."is a nice, compact introduction to the principles of modeling coupled fluid flow and fluid-mineral reactions in active geothermal systems, as used for heating and electricity generation." ( Christoph A. Heinrich, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, June 2004)

This collection of research papers explores some of the salient issues relating to the impact of demographic change on the workings and outcomes of labour markets. A first chapter studies the direct impact of ageing on employment and unemployment. However, the age structure of the workforce also shapes productivity and the scope for innovation, issues which are taken up in turn. Furthermore, it is often argued that a decline in the size of the workforce may be offset by an increase in the workers' skills and knowledge. The impact of demographic developments such as ageing and migration on the accumulation and transfer of human capital is, therefore, studied by a further set of contributions. The volume is rounded off with analyses relating to the supply of labour by women and by older workers. The authors ask, for instance, whether (female) labour migration as well as changes in retirement patterns and policies may counterbalance the expected workforce shrinking.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops held at the 26th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2020, which took place in Warsaw, Poland, in August 2020. The workshops were held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic.The 27 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. Euro-Par is an annual, international conference in Europe, covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing. These range from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to full-edged applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects.

Das Buch stellt die sich wandelnden Interessen der europaischen Grossmachte wahrend des Ersten Weltkriegs gegenuber einer sich erst herausbildenden polnischen Frage dar. Es zeigt, wie die Mittelmachte und die Entente-Machte Polen zunachst lediglich instrumental betrachteten. Auch den verschiedenen, mitunter gegensatzlichen Artikulationen und Aktionen der politischen und militarischen Lager in Polen selbst gibt der Autor breiten Raum. Zu den markantesten innerpolnischen Gegenspielern wurden nicht erst gegen Kriegsende das von Jozef Pilsudski gefuhrte Unabhangigkeitslager und das Polnische Nationalkomitee unter Roman Dmowskis Fuhrung.

At the beginning of the new millennium, the social sciences discover an epochal turn making it necessary to revolutionise their theory-building: As a response to what they call the globalisation of the social, they find the need to globalise their theorising as well. It is odd to discover after two centuries of colonialism and imperialism, after two world wars and several economic world crises that there is a world beyond the national socials; it is even more strange that the social sciences globalise their theorising by comparing theories about nationally confined socials and by creating all sorts of, preferably, local theories, just as if any national social was a secluded social biotope. Discussing how to globalise the social sciences, they argue that globalising social science theorising means finding a way of theorising that must, above all, be liberated from scientism in order to allow a provincialisation of thinking. Not surprisingly, the globalising social sciences also rediscover mythological and moral thinking as a means for a true scientific universalism. Michael Kuhns book presents many thought-provoking arguments on the oddities of the globalising social sciences and on how these oddities are not accidents, but a consequence of the nature of how the social sciences theorise about the social.

That we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversities has become common sense. It was the social sciences that gave birth to a new theoretical paradigm, the creation of cultural theories. Since then, social science theorising applies to any social phenomenon across the world exploring cultural diversities in any social practice -- except in regard to the social sciences and how they practice the creation of knowledge. How academics in the social sciences across the world create knowledge is no topic for cultural theories. Social science theorising seemingly assumes that creating knowledge does not know such diversities. Kazumi Okamoto presents the development of an analytical instrument that helps study academic culture, analyse academic practices of how social sciences create and distribute knowledge, and the influence the academic environment has on their knowledge productions. Applying this theoretical tool to the academe in Japan, she further presents a case study about how social scientists in Japan interpret academic practices and how they are affected by their academic environment. Studying the academic culture in the case of Japan, she reveals that not only the academic practices and the academic environment of the academe in Japan show much less diversities than cultural theories tend to presuppose, but that the assumption that creating social science knowledge does not know cultural diversities is an error as well.

The European social sciences tend to absorb criticism that has been passed on the European approach and re-label it as a part of what the critique opposes; criticism of European social sciences by subaltern social sciences, their talking back, has become a frequent line of reflection in European social sciences. The re-labelling of the critique of the European approach to social sciences towards a critique from Southern social sciences of Western social sciences has somehow turned Southern as well as Western social sciences into competing contributors to the same globalising social sciences. Both are no longer arguing about the European approach to social sciences but about which social thought from which part of the globe prevails. If the critique becomes a part of what it opposes, one might conclude that the European social sciences are very adaptable and capable of learning. One might, however, also raise the question whether there is anything wrong with the criticism of the European social sciences; or, for that matter, whether there is anything wrong with the European social sciences themselves. The contributions in this book discuss these questions from different angles: They revisit the mainstream critique of the European social sciences, and they suggest new arguments criticising social science theories that may be found as often in the Western as in the Southern discourse.

In dieser Studie ruckt eine bis dato in journalistischen, politischen und wissenschaftlichen Veroeffentlichungen kaum beachteter Gegenstand in den Fokus: Die Besonderheiten von Wirtschaften und Arbeiten in Musikszenen. Der Autor erweitert die post-traditionale Szenetheorie und zeigt mit der Theorie der Szenewirtschaft und asthetischen Subkultur am Beispiel von Techno und House in Berlin, dass Musikszenen einer eigenen wirtschaftlichen Logik folgen. "Jan-Michael Kuhn's ethnographische Studie uber die Berliner Techno-Szene blickt hinter ihre ekstatischen Seiten und zeigt anschaulich, in methodisch genauer und detaillierter Weise, wie sich in der subkulturellen Szene eigene Arbeitsformen, eine eigene OEkonomie und neue Institutionen ausbilden, die nicht nur den Untergrund, sondern auch die Oberflache der Gesellschaft verandern." Prof. Dr. Hubert Knoblauch, Professor fur Allgemeine Soziologie an der Technischen Universitat Berlin

In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not follow the definition for scientific knowledge as applied by the European social sciences as an alternative concept of knowledge, as indigenous knowledge. Perception has changed with time: Not only has indigenous knowledge become an entrance ticket to the European social science world, but the indigenisation of European theories is seen by some as the contribution of peripheral social sciences to join the theories of the centres. This book offers contributions to the discourses about alternative concepts of knowledge, inviting the reader to decide if they are alternative, indigenous, or European types of knowledge. However, in order to make this decision, the reader must know what the nature of the European concepts of science and of scientific knowledge is; this might be a motivation to read a book that presents thoughts claiming to be alternative concepts of knowledge, alternative to the European concept of science.

This innovative book provides new perspectives on the globalization of knowledge and the notion of hegemonic sciences. Tying together contributions of authors from all across the world, it challenges existing theories of hegemonic sciences and sheds new light on how they have been and are being constructed. Examining more closely the notions of 'human rights' and 'individualization', this much-needed volume offers new and alternative ideas on how to transform the universalization of the Western model of science and can serve as an eye-opener for all those interested in non-hegemonic scientific discourse. This book is published within the Series 'Beyond the Social Sciences'.

Der steigende Einfluss der Herstellerindustrie sowie Autonomieverluste der Anwender durch globale Vernetzungen lassen heute nur noch einen schmalen Gestaltungskorridor im Anwenderbetrieb ubrig. Die Gestaltung von Arbeit und Technik kann somit kaum noch als alleiniges Problem "autonomer" Anwenderbetriebe behandelt werden. Die Anwendung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechniken im Buro folgt nicht der Automatik einer "Nutzungslogik," sondern wird vonOrientierungen und Leitbildern starker beeinflusst als bisher angenommen. Dies weisen die Autoren aufgrund empirischer Untersuchungen nach und eroffnen aus der Sicht einer sozialorientierten Informatik neue Perspektiven der Gestaltung von Arbeit und Technik."

Global, local, glocal reflecting on the area of world social science seems to be above all a matter of space. In these spatial dichotomies the global has no location and locations seem beyond this world. Discourses about world social science thought not only distinguish social thought along spaces where they are created. Space has become an attribute of thinking when social scientists reflect on the world of social thought: Southern, Western and Northern knowledge, the location in which thoughts are created, is not only a hint about the address of a thinker, but about the theoretical perspective through which social science thinkers look at social reality. Social thoughts are imagined as imprisoned in the spatial context in which they are created, and social science thinkers are imagined as representatives of spaces, whether these are defined politically, culturally, or in any other context in which their thoughts must be rooted as if the product of human minds was nothing but a voicing of the nature of spaces. And should we imagine the world social science arena, the encounter of all these spatially bound thoughts, as the encounter of many parochial knowledges that never manage to arrive at shared thoughts unless they already share the same spatial context? Why should we then at all meet each other? This book discusses examples of spatially constructed knowledges and the struggles these knowledges encounter as they seek to meet one another and escape from the mind prison of their spatial contexts. Or does the world social science arena after all only prove that the 'Western' dogma of contextualising social thought is a dead end road for social thought -- everywhere?

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Information Management, grade: 2,0, Neisse University Gorlitz (Neisse University), 45 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This bachelor thesis presents a manual about the implementation of neural networks in the software environment MATLAB. The thesis can be divided into four parts. After an introduction into the thesis, the theoretical background of neural networks and MATLAB is explained in two chapters. The third part is the description how to implement networks in a general way and with examples, too. The manual is created for the "Master Course of Computer Studies" at the University of Applied Science Zittau/Gorlitz. Due to the fact, that this manual is a bachelor thesis just a small theoretical and practical overview about neural networks can be given.

In our globalized world economical processes get constantly more and more connected with each other. Therefore they demand an effective and optimized business communication between all involved partners. Michael Kuhn presents in his book an overview of the needs and requirements which occur during the application of communication systems in modern business management, as well as of the possible solutions. The author gives a detailed description of the communication process and communication systems, which is crucial for a better understanding of aspects of business communication in modern business. A general analysis of three modern communication systems provides a practical focus. The systems are presented briefly with their general features and criticized in the focus of the needs and requirements defined beforehand. A profound analysis of one communication system at the example of a fictive counselling company consolidates the theoretical and practical knowledge about communication systems in modern business structures. The analysis shows that today's communication systems are able to handle various needs and requirements of modern companies. The book is directed mostly to decision-making units and managers in modern businesses.

"Internationaliation of the Social Sciences" rests on the setup of international scientific infrastructures, networks and research agendas, yet it has also stimulated discussions on academic dependency and the need for the indigeniation of theories and methods. This book traces phenomena that accompany the internationaliation of social sciences in different parts of the world. Contributions from East Asia, India, Russia, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, South Africa and Latin America offer manifold perspectives on the pathways and desiderata of internationaliation and make this volume an important basis for future debates.

Michael Kuhn is the director of KnowWhy Global Research.

Doris Weidemann is a cultural psychologist and professor at the University of Applied Sciences of Zwickau, Germany.