Dieses Fachbuch – nicht nur für Praktiker – beschäftigt sich mit allen Facetten und Fragestellungen der Anwendung von Building Information Modeling (BIM) im Immobilienbetrieb und Facility Management (FM). Ausgehend von den Grundlagen und Vorzügen von BIM sowie dessen Entwicklung, werden alle Bereiche im Immobilienbetrieb beleuchtet, bei denen BIM sinnvoll eingesetzt werden kann. Dabei werden BIM- und CAFM-Grundlagen, moderne Digitalisierungstechniken, Datenstandards und Datenaustausch sowie Interoperabilität und Aspekte der Wirtschaftlichkeit von BIM-Projekten ausführlich erläutert. Das Vorgehen bei der BIM-Einführung, Anwendungsszenarien und konkrete Praxisbeispiele runden das Werk ebenso ab wie ein Blick in aktuelle Forschungsthemen und künftige Entwicklungen.

Children's animation in which a young boy, Taylor McTuttle (voice of Michael May), no longer believes in the magic of Christmas. Elf Chippy (Brendan Dooling) is sent to help him recapture his faith in Santa Claus.

The three volume set LNAI 9284, 9285, and 9286 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2015, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2015. The 131 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 483 submissions. These include 89 research papers, 11 industrial papers, 14 nectar papers, 17 demo papers. They were organized in topical sections named: classification, regression and supervised learning; clustering and unsupervised learning; data preprocessing; data streams and online learning; deep learning; distance and metric learning; large scale learning and big data; matrix and tensor analysis; pattern and sequence mining; preference learning and label ranking; probabilistic, statistical, and graphical approaches; rich data; and social and graphs. Part III is structured in industrial track, nectar track, and demo track.

The Betrayal Bind introduces new language, concepts, and imagery to explore the crucial relational dilemma that betrayed partners face when their significant other is unsafe to connect to, yet connection is the key to healing. Betrayed partners, whether dealing with typical infidelity or sexual addiction, need immediate support to navigate the new terrain of their relationship. They need a clear articulation of betrayal trauma, a thorough education about their normal attachment-based reactions, and a proven path to healing. Most of all, they need the answer to this pivotal question: what happens when your partner, your lover, your primary person cheats on you and, in an instant, becomes a source of danger, pain, and threat? The Betrayal Bind offers a new, game-changing exploration into an age-old problem and connects the dots from research to the lived experience of betrayed partners.

Um Nachhaltigkeit im Facility Management zu realisieren, sind praxisgerechte Bezugsgrossen erforderlich. Die Autoren stellen in dem Band eine Definition der Nachhaltigkeit vor, die auf Kennzahlen fur das Facility Management basiert und die sie in Kooperation mit Unternehmen erarbeitet haben. Anhand eines IT-gestutzten Systems werden die flexible Erfassung, Verwaltung, Messung und Auswertung von Nachhaltigkeitskennzahlen im Unternehmen dargestellt und das Tool in seinen Kernfunktionen beschrieben."

Der Bundeskongress Soziale Arbeit ist zu einer Institution geworden. Seine Diskussionen stellen einen besonderen Beitrag dar zur Theorie-Praxis- und Theorie-Politik-Verknupfung und zur Reflexion fachlicher Entwicklungen. Beim 4. Bundeskongress 2001 in Mainz / Wiesbaden wurde die Entwicklung der Sozialen Arbeit im Prozess der europaischen Integration in den Mittelpunkt der Aufmerksamkeit gestellt. Die Analyse der europaischen Entwicklung wurde in Beitragen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen verknupft mit der Formulierung von Gestaltungsaufgaben der Sozialen Arbeit. Insgesamt skizzieren die Beitrage fur das Plenum des Bundeskongresses den Rahmen fur die soziale Entwicklung im nachsten Europaischen Jahrzehnt."

Organisations are failing the leaders of the 21st century. Operating models are not producing business value, hierarchical structures are not conducive to productivity, inflexible strategies that are too rigid in today's ever-changing environment, and a workforce that is drowning in a sea of change has become the norm. Organisations are experiencing an identity crisis in the knowledge economy. "Why do we exist?," "What is our core business?," and "What are we aiming to achieve?" are all questions that organisations need to answer if they aspire to navigate the hyper-turbulent environment and remain sustainable into the future. Change has become an essential capability that organisations need to manage if they are to be successful into the future. Yet it is evident that leaders are ill-equipped to guide and create meaning for their followers during change journeys with an estimated 90% of change journeys not yielding return on investment. This book explores leaders' stories during a change transformation journey in order to understand and guide an organisation into the future.

A divorce can be one of the most stressful and emotionally involved experiences of your life. Questions like "Am I ready for divorce?" or "Do I need an attorney?" become critically important. Although no substitute for the specific advice of an attorney about a particular situation, Ms. O'Neil and Ms. Russell provide essential information about a Texas divorce, including the four stages of a Texas divorce proceeding, the difference between a no-fault divorce and a fault divorce, how to approach dividing property in a Texas divorce, and the four issues that relate to children in a Texas divorce. This book is ideal for anyone wanting to educate themselves better on the process of a Texas divorce.

Drawing on diverse cultural forms, and ranging across disciplinary boundaries, Nation States maps the contested cultural terrain of Irish nationalism from the Act of Union of 1800 to the present. In looking at Irish nationalism as a site of struggle, Mays examines both the myriad ways in which the nation fashions itself as the a priori ground of identity, and those processes through which nationalism engenders an ostensibly unique national identity corresponding to one and only one nation-state, the place where we always have been, and can only ever be, at home.

Drawing on diverse cultural forms, and ranging across disciplinary boundaries, Nation States maps the contested cultural terrain of Irish nationalism from the Act of Union of 1800 to the present. In looking at Irish nationalism as a site of struggle, Mays examines both the myriad ways in which the nation fashions itself as the a priori ground of identity, and those processes through which nationalism engenders an ostensibly unique national identity corresponding to one and only one nation-state, the place where we always have been, and can only ever be, Oat home.O

A revisionist study that rejects the time-honored argument that the Great War was the cataclysmic break with the epoch that preceded it Download Plain Text version Although many novels and works of history have been published on the calamity that was the First World War, no work until this one has sought to unify current historical and literary interpretations of the 1914-1918 era and its implications for modern life. The essays collected here chart the war and its cultural and literary contours from a variety of new and challenging intellectual vantage points. Focusing in different essays on America, France, Britain, and Germany, the contributors to this book contest the long-accepted argument about World War I as the crucible of modern life. Instead, their interrogations of the trench experience, home-front conditions, forms of mass culture, and literary genres reveal that the war was as much a moment of cultural opportunity as it was the point of origin for modern society or its cultural forms. Showing how prudery and decency became patriotic imperatives after 1914, for example, they explore how the wartime experience allowed for a cultural ""crackdown"" on decadence and sexuality that had been a conservative cry long before the war but became a matter of state policy only with the start of hostilities. In similarly revisionist interpretations of politics, literature, morality, and post-war efforts to memorialize the wartime experience, the contributors collapse the long-held notion of the war as a cataclysmic break with the epoch that preceded it. What they show instead is that the mass culture of the pre-war era produced and defined the war, just as the warring states used the forces of mass culture to keep the fighting going, to sustain society behind the lines, and ultimately to construct meaning and historical memory out of a thing we still call the ""Great War."" Douglas Mackaman, the author of Leisure Settings: Bourgeois Culture, Medicine and the Spa in Modern France, is an associate professor of history and the director of French area studies at the University of Southern Mississippi. Michael Mays is an associate professor of English and the co-founder and co-director of the Institute for the Study of Modern Life at the University of Southern Mississippi.