Design Cybernetics: Navigating the New Design cybernetics offers a way of looking at ourselves - curious, creative, and ethical humans - as self-organising systems that negotiate their own goals in open-ended explorations of the previously unknown. It is a theory of and for epistemic practices (learning, designing, researching) that is deeply committed to the autonomy of others and hence offers no prescriptive methodology. Design cybernetics describes design practice as inextricable from conversation - a way of enquiring, developing shared understanding and reaching the new that harnesses reliable control as well as error and serendipity. Recognising circular causality, observer-dependency and non-determinability, design cybernetics extends beyond tenets of scientific research into the creative, ethical and aesthetic domain. From this perspective, design is not an ill-conceived subset of scientific research. Instead, scientific research emerges as a particularly restricted subset of the broader human activity of design. This volume offers a cross-section of design cybernetic theory and practice with contributions ranging across architecture, interior lighting studies, product design, embedded systems, design pedagogy, design theory, social transformation design, research epistemology, art and poetics, as well as theatre and acting. Addressing designers, design educators and researchers interested in a rigorous, practice-based epistemology, it establishes design cybernetics as a foundational perspective of design research. "This is a conceptually elegant, well structured, and comprehensive presentation of design cybernetics. It fills a gap in the literature of the field." Ken Friedman, Chair Professor, Tongji University "This book offers a valuable and timely introduction to second-order cybernetics as society grapples with complex issues like climate change and rising inequality." Joichi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab

How can manufacturers of capital goods succeed in service business development? What are the potential network approaches for manufacturing companies planning on extending their service business? Over the last decade, the business environment of capital goods manufacturers has changed dramatically. Few capital goods manufacturers are able to outrun the competition with pure product-related technologies and innovation alone. For this reason they have added services to products as a way of responding to eroding margins and the loss of strategic differentiation through product innovation and technological superiority. Based on over twelve years of research, this book provides academics and business professionals with a thorough overview of the strategies available for value creation through service business development. It features case studies and covers a wide range of topics, including emerging issues such as service business in small and medium-sized companies, business innovation through services and the impact of rapidly growing Asian markets.

This book is the first volume about Artillery Regiment 1 of the 1st Waffen-SS Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (LAH). The artillery batteries of the LAH during the whole of World War II faced some of the hardest combat, and probably no other artillery unit was used as often at critical spots on all fronts. While it had only three batteries of light field howitzers during the French campaign, when the full artillery regiment was set up in August 1940, it later received heavier guns and 88mm flak. In April 1941, at Lake Kastoria in Macedonia during a tremendous artillery battle, the full regiment fired as a unit for the first time. During the battles on the Russian Front the regiment's artillery equipment was constantly upgraded. One of the artillery batteries was equipped from 1943 with Wespe and Hummel self-propelled guns and later with Nebelwerfer rocket launchers that gave the regiment its tremendous firepower. Especially during the difficult defensive battles in the winter of 1943-1944 in the Ukraine, every artillery piece - whether a heavy field howitzer, or 15cm rocket launcher - was often used at such close range that it was fired with barrels in a horizontal position. The battery was later attached to the reconnaissance unit in the vanguard of the LAH and experienced the hardest battles while using Panzermeyer tactics that required rapid marches and lightning fast deployment into firing positions. Nearly 300 photos, most never before published, document the bitter battles of the LAH artillery regiment.

Dieses Praxisbuch beschreibt alle modernen Anwendungen des Kontrastmittelultraschalls (CEUS-contrast enhanced ultrasound) innerhalb der Radiologie. Neben kurzen technischen Aspekten gibt das Buch einen aktuellen Stand zu den Indikationen und praktische Informationen für die tägliche Durchführung. Das Buch kann sowohl als Begleitbuch zum CEUS-Kurs-Zertifikat der DRG wie auch alleinstehend zum Erlernen der Methodik und Verfestigen der eigenen Fähigkeiten genutzt werden. Ultraschallvideos per kostenloser SpringerNature MoreMedia-App ergänzen die Bebilderung der einzelnen Kapitel um eine multimediale Komponente. Zum Starten der Videos fotografieren Sie einfach die gekennzeichneten Bilder mit der MoreMedia App ab. Die Inhalte im Einzelnen: CEUS der Leber,  CEUS der Gallenblase,  CEUS des Pankreas,  CEUS der Milz und Lymphknoten,  Urogenitaler CEUS, CEUS der Abdominelle Aorta CEUS bei Trauma,  CEUS gestützte Interventionen Charakterisierung von fokalen Burstläsionen  Pädiatrische CEUS-Anwendungen.

This book presents the proceedings of the virtual conference NeuroIS Retreat 2020, June 2-4, hosted in Austria, reporting on topics at the intersection of information systems (IS) research, neurophysiology and the brain sciences. Readers will discover the latest findings from top scholars in the field of NeuroIS, which offer detailed insights on the neurobiology underlying IS behavior, essential methods and tools and their applications for IS, as well as the application of neuroscience and neurophysiological theories to advance IS theory.

This book presents the proceedings of the NeuroIS Retreat 2019, held on June 4-6 in Vienna, Austria, reporting on topics at the intersection of information systems (IS) research, neurophysiology and the brain sciences. Featuring the latest findings from top scholars in the field, it offers detailed insights into the neurobiology underlying IS behavior, essential methods and tools and their applications for IS, as well as applying neuroscience and neurophysiological to advance IS theory.

This book explores the application of the open-source software OpenGeoSys (OGS) for hydrological numerical simulations concerning conservative and reactive transport modeling. It provides general information on the hydrological and groundwater flow modeling of a real case study and step-by-step model set-up with OGS, while also highlighting related components such as the OGS Data Explorer. The material is based on unpublished manuals and the results of a collaborative project between China and Germany (SUSTAIN H2O). Though the book is primarily intended for graduate students and applied scientists who deal with hydrological modeling, it also offers a valuable source of information for professional geoscientists wishing to expand their knowledge of the numerical modeling of hydrological processes including nitrate reactive transport modeling. This book is the second in a series that showcases further applications of computational modeling in hydrological science.

This authoritative handbook, written and edited by forty international leaders in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) practice and theory, is the most comprehensive state-of-the-art review of the field to date. The book surveys the full breadth and depth of SEA, bringing together a range of international perspectives and insights on the theoretical, methodological and institutional dimensions and practical issues of the field.Part I comprises a review of SEA frameworks in leading countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US), the European Union and developing regions (Africa, Asia, Latin America and Newly Independent States). Part 2 reviews SEA practice in several major sectors (energy, minerals, transport, water, development assistance and coastal zone management). Part 3 addresses the linkages between SEA and other comparable tools such as spatial planning and environmental management. Part 4 probes key cross-cutting issues in SEA, including how to address cumulative and transboundary effects. Part 5 identifies ways and means of SEA process and capacity development, focusing on how to improve and upgrade the theory and practice of the field. Part 6 examines the shift from conventional SEA towards more integrative approaches, drawing on experience and examples from a number of countries.This Handbook is the most comprehensive examination of SEA to date and is the essential reference for all practitioners, researchers, impact assessors, planners, environmental managers, policy-makers and regulators in all jurisdictions worldwide.Published with IAIA.

Banking Law Day 2012 inFrankfurt adressed the topics of "Anlegerschutz im Wertpapiergeschaft" and "Verantwortlichkeit der Organmitglieder von Kreditinstituten." Under the direction of Markus Artz and Volker Gross, expert speakers from academia and daily praxis debated the issues."

This commemorative work is dedicated to Ruth Rissing-van Saan, Presiding Judge at the Federal Supreme Court, on the occasion of her 65th birthday. Friends, colleagues and companions have compiled this work in her honor.

Design Cybernetics: Navigating the New Design cybernetics offers a way of looking at ourselves - curious, creative, and ethical humans - as self-organising systems that negotiate their own goals in open-ended explorations of the previously unknown. It is a theory of and for epistemic practices (learning, designing, researching) that is deeply committed to the autonomy of others and hence offers no prescriptive methodology. Design cybernetics describes design practice as inextricable from conversation - a way of enquiring, developing shared understanding and reaching the new that harnesses reliable control as well as error and serendipity. Recognising circular causality, observer-dependency and non-determinability, design cybernetics extends beyond tenets of scientific research into the creative, ethical and aesthetic domain. From this perspective, design is not an ill-conceived subset of scientific research. Instead, scientific research emerges as a particularly restricted subset of the broader human activity of design. This volume offers a cross-section of design cybernetic theory and practice with contributions ranging across architecture, interior lighting studies, product design, embedded systems, design pedagogy, design theory, social transformation design, research epistemology, art and poetics, as well as theatre and acting. Addressing designers, design educators and researchers interested in a rigorous, practice-based epistemology, it establishes design cybernetics as a foundational perspective of design research. "This is a conceptually elegant, well structured, and comprehensive presentation of design cybernetics. It fills a gap in the literature of the field." Ken Friedman, Chair Professor, Tongji University "This book offers a valuable and timely introduction to second-order cybernetics as society grapples with complex issues like climate change and rising inequality." Joichi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab

How can manufacturers of capital goods succeed in service business development? What are the potential network approaches for manufacturing companies planning on extending their service business? Over the last decade, the business environment of capital goods manufacturers has changed dramatically. Few capital goods manufacturers are able to outrun the competition with pure product-related technologies and innovation alone. For this reason they have added services to products as a way of responding to eroding margins and the loss of strategic differentiation through product innovation and technological superiority. Based on over twelve years of research, this book provides academics and business professionals with a thorough overview of the strategies available for value creation through service business development. It features case studies and covers a wide range of topics, including emerging issues such as service business in small and medium-sized companies, business innovation through services and the impact of rapidly growing Asian markets.

Der Band thematisiert gesellschaftliche Wandlungsprozesse, die im Kontext von FluchtMigration zu beobachten sind. Alle Beitrage vereint die Perspektive auf Migration als Normalzustand gesellschaftlicher Wirklichkeit. Die Analysen politischer Strukturen, die historisierenden Betrachtungen migrantischer Lebenswelten sowie die ethnografischen Detailforschungen uber Alltagsphanomene bilden ein breites Spektrum theoretisch-methodologischer Zugange ab. Als transdisziplinare Zusammenschau bietet der Band Einblicke in aktuelle Forschungsfelder und Forschungsprojekte zu FluchtMigration.

Von der Umsetzung der Vorgaben aus Basel II bis zum elektronischen Zahlungsverkehr - alle Neuigkeiten der Banken-IT.
Die zweite Auflage dieses Standardwerkes wurde komplett neu strukturiert und gestaltet. Es bietet den aktuellen Stand der bankbetrieblichen IT: Renommierte Experten aus Banken, Hochschulen und Beratungsunternehmen haben zukunftsweisende IT-Architekturen fur alle Geschaftsfelder sowie die Schnittstellen zum Bankenumfeld entwickelt."

Cellular Biophysics is a quantitatively oriented basic physiology text for senior undergraduate and graduate students in bioengineering, biophysics, physiology, and neuroscience programs. It will also serve as a major reference work for biophysicists.Developed from the author's notes for a course that he has taught at MIT for many years, these books provide a clear and logical explanation of the foundations of cell biophysics, teaching transport and the electrical properties of cells from a combined biological, physical, and engineering viewpoint. Each volume contains introductory chapters that motivate the material and present it in a broad historical context. Important experimental results and methods are described. Theories are derived almost always from first principles so that students develop an understanding of not only the predictions of the theory but also its limitations. Theoretical results are compared carefully with experimental findings and new results appear throughout. There are many time-tested exercises and problems as well as extensive lists of references. The volume on the electrical properties of cells covers both electrically inexcitable cells as well as electrically excitable cells such as neurons and muscle cells. Included are chapters on lumped-parameter and distributed-parameter models of cells, linear electric properties of cells, the Hodgkin-Huxley model of the giant axon of the squid, saltatory conduction in myelinated nerve fibers, and voltage-gated ion channels.

Cellular Biophysics is a quantitatively oriented basic physiology text for senior undergraduate and graduate students in bioengineering, biophysics, physiology, and neuroscience programs. It will also serve as a major reference work for biophysicists. Developed from the author's notes for a course that he has taught at MIT for many years, these books provide a clear and logical explanation of the foundations of cell biophysics, teaching transport and the electrical properties of cells from a combined biological, physical, and engineering viewpoint. Each volume contains introductory chapters that motivate the material and present it in a broad historical context. Important experimental results and methods are described. Theories are derived almost always from first principles so that students develop an understanding of not only the predictions of the theory but also its limitations. Theoretical results are compared carefully with experimental findings and new results appear throughout. There are many time-tested exercises and problems as well as extensive lists of references. The volume on transport is unique in that no other text on this important topic develops it clearly and systematically at the student level. It explains all the principal mechanisms by which matter is transported across cellular membranes and describes the homeostatic mechanisms that allow cells to maintain their concentrations of solutes, their volume, and the potential across the membrane. Chapters are organized by individual transport mechanisms-diffusion, osmosis, coupled solute and solvent transport, carrier-mediated transport, and ion transport (both passive and active). A final chapter discusses the interplay of all these mechanisms in cellular homeostasis.

Compared to modern standard, the Roman army of the imperial era was surprisingly small. However, when assessed in terms of their various tasks, they by far outstrip modern armies - acting not only as an armed power of the state in external and internal conflicts, but also carrying out functions which nowadays are performed by police, local government, customs and tax authorities, as well as constructing roads, ships, and buildings. With this opulent volume, Thomas Fischer presents a comprehensive and unique exploration of the Roman military of the imperial era. With over 600 illustrations, the costumes, weapons and equipment of the Roman army are explored in detail using archaeological finds dating from the late Republic to Late Antiquity, and from all over the Roman Empire. The buildings and fortifications associated with the Roman army are also discussed. By comparing conflicts, border security, weaponry and artefacts, the development of the army through time is traced. This work is intended for experts as well as to readers with a general interest in Roman history. It is also a treasure-trove for re-enactment groups, as it puts many common perceptions of the weaponry, equipment and dress of the Roman army to the test.

This authoritative handbook surveys the full breadth and depth of SEA, bringing together a range of international perspectives and insights on the theoretical, methodological and institutional dimensions and practical issues of the field. It then subjects this conventional wisdom to a critical reappraisal, looks at the vast lessons of experience and offers new ideas and interpretations as to where the field is going. The volume is organized into six major sections, beginning with an introduction and overview of the development of the field and a framework for evaluating SEA good practice. Part I comprises a review of SEA frameworks in leading countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA), the European Union and developing regions (Africa, Asia, Latin America and Newly Independent States). Part II reviews SEA practice in several major sectors (energy, minerals, transport, water, development assistance and coastal zone management). Part III addresses the linkages between SEA and other comparable tools such as spatial planning and environmental management. Part IV probes key cross-cutting issues in SEA, including how to address cumulative and trans-boundary effects. Part V identifies ways and means of SEA process and capacity development, focusing on how to improve and upgrade the theory and practice of the field. Part VI examines the shift from conventional SEA towards more integrative approaches, drawing on experience and examples from a number of countries. Published with IAIA

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich BWL - Personal und Organisation, Note: 2,0, Wirtschafts- und Sozialakademie der Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen gGmbH, Veranstaltung: 4-semestriges BWL-Studium, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit befasst sich mit dem demographischen Wandel und seinen Auswirkungen auf die Personalstrategien seitens Unternehmen.( Fuhrungs- und Fachkraftemangel) Sie besteht aus einer Einleitung / Problemstellung, Erklarung "Demographischer Wandel,"Differenzierung zw. jungen und alteren Mitarbeitern, Erlauterungen zeitgemasser Personalentwicklung und Fazit. Begriffe wie Employer Branding, Work-Life-Balance und Diversity Management werden ebenso behandelt wie Fuhrung, Motivation, Retention Management und Auswirkungen von PISA. Das praktische Beispiel erfolgte anhand der Firma Peek&Cloppenburg, Hamburg. Hier wurde eng mit dem Personalmanagement des Hauses zusammengearbeitet

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensforschung, Operations Research, Note: 2,3, Technische Universitat Darmstadt (Fachgebiet Operations Research), Veranstaltung: Seminar Operations Research, 29 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ein Teilgebiet der innerbetrieblichen Standortplanung oder Layoutplanung sind Quadratische Zuordnungsprobleme (QZOP). Diese Formulierung geht auf Koopmans und Beckmann 1957 16] zuruck. Grundproblem ist es einzelne Organisationseinheiten auf einer rechteckigen Grundflache so anzuordnen, dass die Summe der Transportkosten minimiert wird. In diesem Zusammenhang wird zwischen Problemen mit gleichem sowie ungleichem Flachenbedarf der Organisationseinheiten unterschieden. Zunachst werden die grundlegenden Begriffe geklart. Ausserdem werden die wichtigsten Modellierungsverfahren fur Probleme mit gleichem und ungleichem Flachenbedarf sowie wichtige Losungsalgorithmen und Heuristiken vorgestellt. Diese Arbeit gibt einen allgemeinen Uberblick uber die Literatur der Jahre 2001 bis 2008. Sechs Arbeiten aus diesem Zeitraum werden in Abschnitt 3 kurz vorgestellt. Im darauffolgenden Abschnitt wird auf drei ausgewahlte Arbeiten detaillierter eingegangen. Der Fokus liegt hier auf Losungsmoglichkeiten fur Probleme mit ungleichem Flachenbedarf, die auch in der Praxis eine wichtigere Rolle spielen. Zum Verstandnis des Themenkomplexes sowie der Einordnung von Quadratischen Zuordnungsproblemen in den Gesamtkontext der innerbetrieblichen Standortplanung werden im Folgenden die grundlegenden Fakten und Merkmale dieser Probleme betrachtet. In dieser Sektion werden die Basisbegriffe der quadratischen Zuordnungsprobleme erlautert, sowie deren Verwendung innerhalb der Problemlosungsstrategien aufgezeigt. Das quadratische Zuordnungsproblem wird im Deutschen auch als QZOP und im Englischen als QAP abgekurzt. Bei Problemen mit ungleichem Flachenbedarf spricht man auch von Generalized Quadratic Assignment Problems (GQA