Romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez. After years of directionless dating, Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) has finally decided that the wait for the perfect man has been too long. Determined to become a mother before it is too late, she decides to go it alone and signs up to conceive a baby through artificial insemination. But when she meets Stan (Alex O'Loughlin) on the same day as successfully conceiving twins, a comedy of errors ensues as Zoe tries to keep her new relationship alive while struggling with the early stages of pregnancy.

Project management has become a widespread instrument enabling organizations to efficiently master the challenges of steadily shortening product life cycles, global markets and decreasing profit margins. With projects increasing in size and complexity, their planning and control represents one of the most crucial management tasks. This is especially true for scheduling, which is concerned with establishing execution dates for the sub-activities to be performed in order to complete the project. The ability to manage projects where resources must be allocated between concurrent projects or even sub-activities of a single project requires the use of commercial project management software packages. However, the results yielded by the solution procedures included are often rather unsatisfactory. Scheduling of Resource-Constrained Projects develops more efficient procedures, which can easily be integrated into software packages by incorporated programming languages, and thus should be of great interest for practitioners as well as scientists working in the field of project management. The book is divided into two parts. In Part I, the project management process is described and the management tasks to be accomplished during project planning and control are discussed. This allows for identifying the major scheduling problems arising in the planning process, among which the resource-constrained project scheduling problem is the most important. Part II deals with efficient computer-based procedures for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem and its generalized version. Since both problems are NP-hard, the development of such procedures which yield satisfactory solutions in a reasonable amount of computation time is very challenging, and a number of new and very promising approaches are introduced. This includes heuristic procedures based on priority rules and tabu search as well as lower bound methods and branch and bound procedures which can be applied for computing optimal solutions.

This fifth edition of the successful Promotion and Marketing for Broadcasting, Cable, and the Web, 4ed takes an important, timely look at the newest media venue, the Internet. Under its new title, Media Promotion and Marketing for Broadcast, Cable and the Internet, 5ed it takes a fresh look at the industry and the latest strategies for media promotion and marketing. The book explores the scope and goals of media production from the perspectives of network and local television, cable, Internet and radio, including public broadcasting. Topics include: goals of promotion; research in promotion; on-air, print, and Web message design; radio promotion; television network and station promotion and new campaigns; non-commercial radio and television promotion; cable marketing and promotion; research and budgeting for promotion; syndicated program marketing; global and international promotion and marketing; and online marketing and promotion.

Violence is a growing problem in American society, and hardly a day goes by that we don't hear about yet another heart-wrenching episode of mass violence. Such events, unfortunately, are only the most public manifestation of violence in America. The full nature and extent of daily violence, the various and pervasive forms it takes, and the enormous social, emotional, moral, and economic consequences that result, remain largely outside of our awareness. More importantly, our ability to identify the root causes and know how best to effectively intervene remains limited. Most investigations in this field have focused on the individual psychodynamic characteristics of the perpetrators. The underlying group dynamic factors that include consideration of broader social, cultural, socioeconomic, and historical variables have received less attention. This volume brings together for the first time a collection of distinguished group psychotherapists, all of whom have been trained to recognize both individual psychodynamic characteristics and group dynamic factors, to apply the lessons learned through years of clinical practice to arrive at a deeper understanding of the etiology, treatment, and prevention of violence. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy.

Project management has become a widespread instrument enabling organizations to efficiently master the challenges of steadily shortening product life cycles, global markets and decreasing profit margins. With projects increasing in size and complexity, their planning and control represents one of the most crucial management tasks. This is especially true for scheduling, which is concerned with establishing execution dates for the sub-activities to be performed in order to complete the project. The ability to manage projects where resources must be allocated between concurrent projects or even sub-activities of a single project requires the use of commercial project management software packages. However, the results yielded by the solution procedures included are often rather unsatisfactory. Scheduling of Resource-Constrained Projects develops more efficient procedures, which can easily be integrated into software packages by incorporated programming languages, and thus should be of great interest for practitioners as well as scientists working in the field of project management. The book is divided into two parts. In Part I, the project management process is described and the management tasks to be accomplished during project planning and control are discussed. This allows for identifying the major scheduling problems arising in the planning process, among which the resource-constrained project scheduling problem is the most important. Part II deals with efficient computer-based procedures for the resource-constrained project scheduling problem and its generalized version. Since both problems are NP-hard, the development of such procedures which yield satisfactory solutions in a reasonable amount of computation time is very challenging, and a number of new and very promising approaches are introduced. This includes heuristic procedures based on priority rules and tabu search as well as lower bound methods and branch and bound procedures which can be applied for computing optimal solutions.

The international conference \Operations Research 2008," the annual meeting of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), was held at the University of Augsburg on September 3-5, 2008. About 580 p- ticipants from more than 30 countries presented and listened to nearly 400 talks on a broad range of Operations Research. The general subject \Operations Research and Global Business" str- ses the important role of Operations Research in improving decisions in the increasingly complex business processes in a global environment. The plenary speakers Morris A. Cohen (Wharton School) and Bernd Liepert (Executive Board of KUKA Robotics) addressed this subject. Moreover, one of the founders of Operations Research, Saul Gass (U- versity of Maryland), gave the opening speech on the early history of Operations Research. This volume contains 93 papers presented at the conference, selected by the program committee and the section chairs, forming a representative sample of the various subjects dealt with at Operations Research 2008. The volume follows the structure of the conference, with 12 sections, grouped into six \Fields of Applications" and six \Fields of Methods and Theory." This structure in no way means a separation of theory and application, which would be detrimental in Operations Research, but displays the large spectrum of aspects in the focus of the papers. Of course, most papers present theory, methods and applications together.

Violence is a growing problem in American society, and hardly a day goes by that we don't hear about yet another heart-wrenching episode of mass violence. Such events, unfortunately, are only the most public manifestation of violence in America. The full nature and extent of daily violence, the various and pervasive forms it takes, and the enormous social, emotional, moral, and economic consequences that result, remain largely outside of our awareness. More importantly, our ability to identify the root causes and know how best to effectively intervene remains limited. Most investigations in this field have focused on the individual psychodynamic characteristics of the perpetrators. The underlying group dynamic factors that include consideration of broader social, cultural, socioeconomic, and historical variables have received less attention. This volume brings together for the first time a collection of distinguished group psychotherapists, all of whom have been trained to recognize both individual psychodynamic characteristics and group dynamic factors, to apply the lessons learned through years of clinical practice to arrive at a deeper understanding of the etiology, treatment, and prevention of violence. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy.

Mit der kommentierten Auswahl der Briefe und Notizen von Carl Dahlhaus (1928–1989) wird die Korrespondenz eines der bedeutendsten Musikwissenschaftler des 20. Jahrhunderts erstmals in breiter Form zugänglich. Sie wirft neues Licht auf die Entwicklung der Musikwissenschaft in dieser Zeit. Zudem gestattet sie einen fesselnden Einblick in den Lebensweg und den (Arbeits-)Alltag eines bundesrepublikanischen Intellektuellen mit Wissenschaftlern wie Theodor W. Adorno, Peter Szondi, Reinhart Koselleck und Hans Robert Jauß oder den Komponisten György Ligeti und Hans Werner Henze. Ihre sprachliche und stilistische Verve verleiht nicht wenigen von Dahlhaus’ Briefen und Notizen zugleich genuin literarische Qualitäten.

This fifth edition of the successful Promotion and Marketing for Broadcasting, Cable, and the Web, 4ed takes an important, timely look at the newest media venue, the Internet. Under its new title, Media Promotion and Marketing for Broadcast, Cable and the Internet, 5ed it takes a fresh look at the industry and the latest strategies for media promotion and marketing.
The book explores the scope and goals of media production from the perspectives of network and local television, cable, Internet and radio, including public broadcasting. Topics include: goals of promotion; research in promotion; on-air, print, and Web message design; radio promotion; television network and station promotion and new campaigns; non-commercial radio and television promotion; cable marketing and promotion; research and budgeting for promotion; syndicated program marketing; global and international promotion and marketing; and online marketing and promotion.
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Die Autorin widmet sich musikalischen Monodramen, einer besonderen Stroemung des Musiktheaters im 20. Jahrhundert. In den Buhnenwerken fur nur eine Singstimme wird die Einsamkeit haufig zu einem zentralen und zeitlos aktuellen Thema. Ebenso aus musikhistorischer wie musikdidaktischer Perspektive geht dieses Buch daher der Frage nach, auf welche Weise die Stucke Zugange zur grundlegenden, menschlichen Erfahrung der Einsamkeit ermoeglichen koennen. Dabei entstehen vier toposanalytisch und interdisziplinar angelegte Modelle zu "Erwartung" von Arnold Schoenberg, "La Voix humaine" von Francis Poulenc, "Dnevnik Anni Frank" von Grigori S. Frid und "Neither" von Morton Feldman. Zugange uber Bilder, Inszenierungen und biografisches Material runden die Ansatze ab. Musikalische Monodramen erscheinen auf diese Weise grundsatzlich in neuem Licht.

Das erste deutschsprachige Lehrbuch zum Thema Revenue Management erlautert die wesentlichen Grundkonzepte und behandelt die zentralen Instrumente Preisdifferenzierung, Kapazitatssteuerung, Uberbuchungssteuerung sowie Dynamic Pricing. Die jeweils grundlegenden mathematischen Modelle und Methoden werden vorgestellt und anhand vieler Rechenbeispiele verdeutlicht. Das Buch richtet sich an Studenten der Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftsinformatiker sowie Wirtschaftsingenieure und ist auch zum Selbststudium geeignet. Mit Ubungen zur Lernkontrolle."

Das UEbungsbuch zum fuhrenden Operations Research-Lehrbuch im deutschsprachigen Raum: Begleitet Vorlesungen, UEbungen und Tutorien, die als Basislekture das Lehrbuch "Einfuhrung in Operations Research" von derselben Autorengruppe verwenden. Es ist aber auch dann geeignet, wenn ein anderes Lehrbuch eingesetzt wird. Enthalt neben UEbungen auch Fallbeispiele, die unter Verwendung von Standardsoftware zur Optimierung geloest werden und dient der Vertiefung des Verstandnisses der Modellierung von Optimierungsproblemen. Zu jedem Kapitel finden sich zahlreiche Aufgaben, anhand derer die Anwendung der grundlegenden Methoden geubt werden kann. Einige Aufgaben erweitern und vertiefen daruber hinaus spezielle Fragestellungen, die im Lehrbuch nur knapp behandelt werden.

Didaktisch effektives und effizientes Standardwerk in der 9. Auflage: Dieses Buch entstand aus Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in Operations Research (OR) fur Studierende der Betriebs- und Volkswirtschaftslehre, des Wirtschaftsingenieurwesens, der Wirtschaftsinformatik und der Wirtschaftsmathematik. Es zeichnet sich, in der Vermittlung der Grundlagen des OR, durch eine gelungene didaktische Aufbereitung des Stoffes aus und ist auch zum Selbststudium geeignet. Die Autoren beschreiben Verfahren algorithmisch und verdeutlichen sie anhand von aussagekraftigen Beispielen. Der Text behandelt lineare, ganzzahlige und kombinatorische, dynamische sowie nichtlineare Optimierung, Graphen- und Warteschlangentheorie, Netzplantechnik und Simulation. Das Schlusskapitel vermittelt die Loesung von OR-Problemen mittels Tabellenkalkulationssoftware. Zur Vertiefung und Anwendung der vorgestellten Methoden wird das Buch "UEbungen und Fallbeispiele zum Operations Research" derselben Autoren empfohlen. Es enthalt eine grosse Anzahl an UEbungsaufgaben und eine Einfuhrung in die Optimierung mit Standardsoftware.