Few would dispute that many Western industrial democracies undertook extensive deregulation in the 1970s and 1980s. Yet this narrative, in its most familiar form, depends upon several historiographical assumptions that bely the complexities and pitfalls of studying the recent past. Across thirteen case studies, the contributors to this volume investigate this "deregulatory moment" from a variety of historical perspectives, including transnational, comparative, pan-European, and national approaches. Collectively, they challenge an interpretive framework that treats individual decades in isolation and ignores broader trends that extend to the end of the Second World War.

This book is thematically positioned at the intersections of Urban Design, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Computer Science, and it has the goal to provide specialists coming from respective fields a multi-angle overview of state-of-the-art work currently being carried out. It addresses both newcomers who wish to obtain more knowledge about this growing area of interest, as well as established researchers and practitioners who want to keep up to date. In terms of organization, the volume starts out with chapters looking at the domain at a wide-angle and then moves focus towards technical viewpoints and approaches.

This book contains the final versions of the proceedings of the fifth EUROGRA PHICS Workshop on Rendering held in Darmstadt, Germany, between 13-15 June 1994. With around 80 participants and 30 papers, the event continued the successful tradition of the previous ones establishing the event as the most im portant meeting for persons working on this area world-wide. After more than 20 years of research, rendering remains an partially unsolved, interesting, and challenging topic. This year 71 (!) papers have been submitted from Europe, North America, and Asia. The average quality in terms of technical merit was impressive, showing that substantial work is achieved on this topic from several groups around the world. In general we all gained the impression that in the mean time the technical quality of the contributions is comparable to that of a specialised high-end, full scale conference. All papers have been reviewed from at least three members of the program committee. In addition, several colleagues helped us in managing the reviewing process in time either by supporting additional reviews, or by assisting the members of the committee. We have been very happy to welcome eminent invited speakers. Holly Rush meier is internationally well known for her excellent work in all areas of rendering and gave us a review of modelling and rendering participating media with em phasis on scientific visualization. In addition, Peter Shirley presented a survey about future rends in rendering techniques.

The subject of algebraic cycles has thrived through its interaction with algebraic K-theory, Hodge theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry, number theory, and topology. These interactions have led to such developments as a description of Chow groups in terms of algebraic K-theory, the arithmetic Abel-Jacobi mapping, progress on the celebrated conjectures of Hodge and Tate, and the conjectures of Bloch and Beilinson. The immense recent progress in algebraic cycles, based on so many interactions with so many other areas of mathematics, has contributed to a considerable degree of inaccessibility, especially for graduate students. Even specialists in one approach to algebraic cycles may not understand other approaches well. This book offers students and specialists alike a broad perspective of algebraic cycles, presented from several viewpoints, including arithmetic, transcendental, topological, motives and K-theory methods. Topics include a discussion of the arithmetic Abel-Jacobi mapping, higher Abel-Jacobi regulator maps, polylogarithms and L-series, candidate Bloch-Beilinson filtrations, applications of Chern-Simons invariants to algebraic cycles via the study of algebraic vector bundles with algebraic connection, motivic cohomology, Chow groups of singular varieties, and recent progress on the Hodge and Tate conjectures for Abelian varieties.

The subject of algebraic cycles has thrived through its interaction with algebraic K-theory, Hodge theory, arithmetic algebraic geometry, number theory, and topology. These interactions have led to such developments as a description of Chow groups in terms of algebraic K-theory, the arithmetic Abel-Jacobi mapping, progress on the celebrated conjectures of Hodge and Tate, and the conjectures of Bloch and Beilinson. The immense recent progress in algebraic cycles, based on so many interactions with so many other areas of mathematics, has contributed to a considerable degree of inaccessibility, especially for graduate students. Even specialists in one approach to algebraic cycles may not understand other approaches well. This book offers students and specialists alike a broad perspective of algebraic cycles, presented from several viewpoints, including arithmetic, transcendental, topological, motives and K-theory methods. Topics include a discussion of the arithmetic Abel-Jacobi mapping, higher Abel-Jacobi regulator maps, polylogarithms and L-series, candidate Bloch-Beilinson filtrations, applications of Chern-Simons invariants to algebraic cycles via the study of algebraic vector bundles with algebraic connection, motivic cohomology, Chow groups of singular varieties, and recent progress on the Hodge and Tate conjectures for Abelian varieties.

Current therapies for most human genetic diseases are inadequate. In response to the need for effective treatments, modern molecular genetics is providing tools for an unprecedented new approach to the treatment of diseases; e.g. the direct manipulation of mutant genes or the input on new therapeutic genes. The treatment of human disease by gene transfer has now moved from the theoretical to the practical realm. With the initiation of clinical trials involving somatic gene therapy in different countries, a critical assessment of the different aspects involved with this new technique is necessary. This volume provides an overview on all these interdisciplinary aspects by some well known experts all over the world.

This book casts the theory of periods of algebraic varieties in the natural setting of Madhav Nori's abelian category of mixed motives. It develops Nori's approach to mixed motives from scratch, thereby filling an important gap in the literature, and then explains the connection of mixed motives to periods, including a detailed account of the theory of period numbers in the sense of Kontsevich-Zagier and their structural properties. Period numbers are central to number theory and algebraic geometry, and also play an important role in other fields such as mathematical physics. There are long-standing conjectures about their transcendence properties, best understood in the language of cohomology of algebraic varieties or, more generally, motives. Readers of this book will discover that Nori's unconditional construction of an abelian category of motives (over fields embeddable into the complex numbers) is particularly well suited for this purpose. Notably, Kontsevich's formal period algebra represents a torsor under the motivic Galois group in Nori's sense, and the period conjecture of Kontsevich and Zagier can be recast in this setting. Periods and Nori Motives is highly informative and will appeal to graduate students interested in algebraic geometry and number theory as well as researchers working in related fields. Containing relevant background material on topics such as singular cohomology, algebraic de Rham cohomology, diagram categories and rigid tensor categories, as well as many interesting examples, the overall presentation of this book is self-contained.

Collating different aspects of Vector-valued Partial Differential Equations and Applications, this volume is based on the 2013 CIME Course with the same name which took place at Cetraro, Italy, under the scientific direction of John Ball and Paolo Marcellini. It contains the following contributions: The pullback equation (Bernard Dacorogna), The stability of the isoperimetric inequality (Nicola Fusco), Mathematical problems in thin elastic sheets: scaling limits, packing, crumpling and singularities (Stefan Muller), and Aspects of PDEs related to fluid flows (Vladimir Sverak). These lectures are addressed to graduate students and researchers in the field.

This book casts the theory of periods of algebraic varieties in the natural setting of Madhav Nori's abelian category of mixed motives. It develops Nori's approach to mixed motives from scratch, thereby filling an important gap in the literature, and then explains the connection of mixed motives to periods, including a detailed account of the theory of period numbers in the sense of Kontsevich-Zagier and their structural properties. Period numbers are central to number theory and algebraic geometry, and also play an important role in other fields such as mathematical physics. There are long-standing conjectures about their transcendence properties, best understood in the language of cohomology of algebraic varieties or, more generally, motives. Readers of this book will discover that Nori's unconditional construction of an abelian category of motives (over fields embeddable into the complex numbers) is particularly well suited for this purpose. Notably, Kontsevich's formal period algebra represents a torsor under the motivic Galois group in Nori's sense, and the period conjecture of Kontsevich and Zagier can be recast in this setting. Periods and Nori Motives is highly informative and will appeal to graduate students interested in algebraic geometry and number theory as well as researchers working in related fields. Containing relevant background material on topics such as singular cohomology, algebraic de Rham cohomology, diagram categories and rigid tensor categories, as well as many interesting examples, the overall presentation of this book is self-contained.

"Bilanzanalyse" stellt umfassend, anwendungsorientiert und auf aktuellstem Stand das Instrumentarium fur eine gezielte Auswertung des Jahresabschlusses vor. Behandelt wird die Analyse sowohl von Einzel- und Konzernabschlussen wie auch von Abschlussen nach HGB und nach internationalen Standards. Viele Unternehmensbeispiele verdeutlichen die Analysemethoden und -aussagen und schaffen so die Verbindung zur praktischen Umsetzung.

Dichotomien erleichtern das Denken. Sie geben Orientierung, sind Grundlage von rationalen Entscheidungen, geben Anleitung zur Systematisierung und nicht selten zur Bewertung. An ihre Grenzen gerat eine binare Logik, wenn sich Phanomene nicht innerhalb einer zweiwertigen Ordnung bestimmen lassen. Die Uberfuhrung starrer, dualistischer (Denk-)Formen in eine erweiterte Verhaltnisbestimmung bildet den Anspruch sozialwissenschaftlicher Ansatze, die an Hegel und Adorno anschliessen. Ein bestimmter Widerspruchstyp gilt ihnen als produktive Kategorie. Der Sammelband stellt Elemente einer dialektischen Theorie zur Diskussion."

Soziale Arbeit ist eine personenbezogene Arbeit. Sie vollzieht sich im Wesentlichen zwischen Personen, wovon in der Regel eine hilfebedurftig und die andere unterstutzend bzw. anleitend ist. Personen als beruflich Tatige bzw. Handelnde sind damit das wichtigste Medium in der Sozialen Arbeit. Dieses Buch greift erstmalig diesen Themenbereich sowohl aus der Historie und Theorie als auch im Hinblick auf die diversen Tatigkeitsfelder auf. Gleichzeitig wird der Frage der Qualifizierung der Erzieherpersonlichkeiten nachgegangen und wie sich diese uber die Berufsjahre hinweg erhalten lasst.

In einer Gesellschaft, in der sich - nicht zuletzt hervorgerufen durch die Globalisierung - der Wettbewerb zunehmend verscharft und gleichzeitig die meisten Markte gesattigt sind, kommt der Kundenbindung eine immer bedeutendere Rolle zu. Im vorliegenden Band wird dieses Thema von fuhrenden Personlichkeiten aus der Sicht der Werbewirtschaft, des europaischen und nordamerikanischen Handels, der Mittelstandes und des Marketing beleuchtet. Anschliessend werden die wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten der diesjahrigen Preistrager des Otto-Beisheim-Forderpreises in Form von Kurzdarstellungen vorgestellt."

Die Autoren stellen die verschiedenen Aspekte des Technikrechts dar und orientieren sich dabei an den Managementbereichen, wie sie in Unternehmen vorzufinden sind (Produktionsmanagement, Qualitatsmanagement, technisches Vertriebsmanagement, Risikomanagement, Umweltmanagement, Projektmanagement, Wissensmanagement). Das Werk bereitet den aktuellen Stand von Rechtsprechung und Rechtswissenschaft auch fur Nicht-Juristen verstandlich auf. Es zeigt Handlungsempfehlungen und Strategien fur den Umgang mit der rechtlichen Lage auf.

Das Buch wendet sich an alle, die in die klassischen Themen der Zahlentheorie einsteigen wollen. Viel Wert wird auf die konkrete Berechenbarkeit bei allen Problemlosungen gelegt. So gibt es auch Abschnitte uber moderne Primzahltests und Faktorisierungsalgorithmen und am Ende des Buches wird ein Weg zur Bestimmung der Klassenzahl der quadratischen Zahlkorper aufgezeigt.
Im Rahmen der Bachelor-/Master-Studiengange eignet sich das Buch als Grundlage fur zwei Semester: ein Aufbaumodul in elementarer Zahlentheorie mit einem Vertiefungsmodul in algebraischer Zahlentheorie.

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Stefan Hoffmann stellt dar, weshalb sich Konsumenten an einem Boykott beteiligen. Er entwickelt ein umfassendes, empirisch validiertes Modell des politisch motivierten Kaufverhaltens, auf dessen Basis sich Implikationen fur Manager und politische Akteure ableiten lassen."

Das Rechnungswesen gehoert zu den zentralen Unternehmensbereichen. Neben der Abbildung interner Vorgange im Rahmen des Controllings bildet es auch die Basis fur die extern orientierte Unternehmensrechnung. Beide Teilgebiete haben sich in den letzten Jahren dynamisch entwickelt. Entsprechend komplex und kontrovers ist die Diskussion in Wissenschaft und Praxis. In "Controlling und Rechnungslegung" bieten renommierte Fachexperten eine ausgewogene Mischung aus neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen und aktuellen Beispielen.

The book is concerned with a particular set of Indo-European sounds, the laryngeals, and the effect they had on the sounds, forms and etymologies of the Germanic languages. It contains detailed introductions to all the fundamentals of laryngeal theory, together with an introduction to the problematic history of the laryngeal theory which can be read without specialist knowledge. Research into the Germanic languages has not previously taken account of laryngeal theory, but with it many a sound law, etymology and morphological development can be reformulated or made more precise.

Das 7.Otto-Beisheim-Kolloquium diskutiert zentrale Fragen zur Zukunft der Stadt mit prominenten Vertretern aus Wissenschaft und Praxis. Sie zeigen exemplarisch, welchen Stadten es gelang, ihre Innenstadte zu revitalisieren.

Renommierte Fachexperten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis diskutieren uber den aktuellen Stand und ausgewahlte Perspektiven des Finanz-, Rechnungs- und Bankwesens.
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