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The Bible's grand narrative about Israel's Exodus from Egypt is central to Biblical religion, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim identity and the formation of the academic disciplines studying the ancient Near East. It has also been a pervasive theme in artistic and popular imagination.Israel's Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspectiveis a pioneering worksurveying this tradition in unprecedented breadth, combiningarchaeological discovery, quantitative methodology and close literary reading. Archaeologists, Egyptologists, Biblical Scholars, Computer Scientists, Geoscientists and other experts contribute their diverse approaches in a novel, transdisciplinary consideration of ancient topography, Egyptian and Near Eastern parallels to the Exodus story, the historicity of the Exodus, the interface of the Exodus question with archaeological fieldwork on emergent Israel, the formation of biblical literature, and the cultural memory of the Exodus in ancient Israel and beyond. This edited volume contains research presented at the groundbreaking symposium"Out of Egypt: Israel s Exodus Between Text and Memory, History and Imagination"""held in 2013at the Qualcomm Institute of the University of California, San Diego. The combination of 44 contributions by an international group of scholars from diverse disciplines makes this the first such transdisciplinary study of ancient text and history. In the original conference and with this new volume, revolutionary media, such as a 3D immersive virtual reality environment, impart innovative, Exodus-based research to a wider audience. Out of archaeology, ancient texts, science and technology emergean up-to-date picture of the Exodus for the21stCentury and a new standard for collaborative research."
This comprehensive and didactic overview explores the nonlinear effects from a physical point of view and discusses the implications for signal capacity. Enriched with practical considerations and experimental results, the book offers special chapters dealing with applications of nonlinear effects for signal processing, ultrafast-optical switching, wavelength conversion, nonlinear amplification, and optical phase-conjugation. Equipped with chapter-end summaries and problems, this valuable reference can also serve as a graduate-level textbook.
Secure two-party computation, called secure function evaluation (SFE), enables two mutually mistrusting parties, the client and server, to evaluate an arbitrary function on their respective private inputs while revealing nothing but the result. Originally the technique was considered to be too inefficient for practical privacy-preserving applications, but in recent years rapid speed-up in computers and communication networks, algorithmic improvements, automatic generation, and optimizations have enabled their application in many scenarios. The author offers an extensive overview of the most practical and efficient modern techniques used in the design and implementation of secure computation and related protocols. After an introduction that sets secure computation in its larger context of other privacy-enhancing technologies such as secure channels and trusted computing, he covers the basics of practically efficient secure function evaluation, circuit optimizations and constructions, hardware-assisted garbled circuit protocols, and the modular design of efficient SFE protocols. The goal of the author's research is to use algorithm engineering methods to engineer efficient secure protocols, both as a generic tool and for solving practical applications, and he achieves an excellent balance between the theory and applicability. The book is essential for researchers, students and practitioners in the area of applied cryptography and information security who aim to construct practical cryptographic protocols for privacy-preserving real-world applications.
How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or its victims to sleep at night? Did they endorse the regime? Or did they look the other way, whether out of deliberate denial or out of fear for their own personal safety? The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich is a collection of groundbreaking essays that shed light on this previously overlooked piece of history. The Betrayal of the Humanities accepts the regrettable news that academics and intellectuals in Nazi Germany betrayed the humanities, and explores what went wrong, what occurred at the universities, and what happened to the major disciplines of the humanities under National Socialism. The Betrayal of the Humanities details not only how individual scholars, particular departments, and even entire universities collaborated with the Nazi regime but also examines the legacy of this era on higher education in Germany. In particular, it looks at the peculiar position of many German scholars in the post-war world having to defend their own work, or the work of their mentors, while simultaneously not appearing to accept Nazism.
How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or its victims to sleep at night? Did they endorse the regime? Or did they look the other way, whether out of deliberate denial or out of fear for their own personal safety? The Betrayal of the Humanities: The University during the Third Reich is a collection of groundbreaking essays that shed light on this previously overlooked piece of history. The Betrayal of the Humanities accepts the regrettable news that academics and intellectuals in Nazi Germany betrayed the humanities, and explores what went wrong, what occurred at the universities, and what happened to the major disciplines of the humanities under National Socialism. The Betrayal of the Humanities details not only how individual scholars, particular departments, and even entire universities collaborated with the Nazi regime but also examines the legacy of this era on higher education in Germany. In particular, it looks at the peculiar position of many German scholars in the post-war world having to defend their own work, or the work of their mentors, while simultaneously not appearing to accept Nazism.
Crystal Structure Refinement is a mixture of textbook and tutorial. As A Crystallographers Guide to SHELXL it covers advanced aspects of practical crystal structure refinement, which have not been much addressed by textbooks so far. After an introduction to SHELXL in the first chapter, a brief survey of crystal structure refinement is provided. Chapters three and higher address the various aspects of structure refinement, from the treatment of hydrogen atoms to the assignment of atom types, to disorder, to non-crystallographic symmetry and twinning. One chapter is dedicated to the refinement of macromolecular structures and two short chapters deal with structure validation (one for small molecule structures and one for macromolecules). In each of the chapters the book gives refinement examples, based on the program SHELXL, describing every problem in detail. It comes with a CD-ROM with all files necessary to reproduce the refinements.
This comprehensive and didactic overview explores the nonlinear effects from a physical point of view and discusses the implications for signal capacity. Enriched with practical considerations and experimental results, the book offers special chapters dealing with applications of nonlinear effects for signal processing, ultrafast-optical switching, wavelength conversion, nonlinear amplification, and optical phase-conjugation. Equipped with chapter-end summaries and problems, this valuable reference can also serve as a graduate-level textbook.
Praxiswissen und Hintergrundinformationen fur den Notfalleinsatz Im Taschenatlas Notfall- und Rettungsmedizin finden Sie ubersichtlich und reich bebildert alle Informationen rund um den Einsatz. Der Klassiker in kleinem Format erscheint bereits in seiner 4. Auflage. Diese ist komplett aktualisiert und durch ein neues Layout noch ubersichtlicher. Das bewahrte Konzept bleibt erhalten: Systematische Darstellung aller Notfallsituationen, gegliedert in: Hintergrundinformationen - fur den Notfall relevante Fakten, schnelle Orientierung durch ubersichtliche Darstellung von Ursachen, Symptomen, Differenzialdiagnosen und Therapie, ausfuhrliche Beschreibung und alphabethische Anordnung der Notfallmedikamente. Fur alle Notarzte und den Bereitschaftsdienst - fur schnelles, sicheres und kompetentes Handeln in allen Notfallsituationen. Ein kleines, handliches Buch mit viel Inhalt, das in jede Kitteltasche passt."
The possibilities and limits of digitalization in general and artificial intelligence in particular are demonstrated in a practice-oriented manner. Ways to generate and secure competitive advantages are presented. The topic is examined from the perspective of the company, the function of controlling and the personal position in controlling. The aim is rather to accompany the reader in the concrete implementation than to present a uniform guide.
Unlike many standard works on compliance, this book focuses not on the goals, but on the means that enable effective compliance. From the internal perspective of the compliance officer, everyday problems are addressed and solved with the help of concrete, tried-and-tested measures. Based on the tension between profit generation and compliance, ethical principles as well as the appearance of compliance, its handling of contacts and its procedure in the event of violations are also discussed. Psychological and sociological insights broaden the perspective, put people at the center and offer new starting points for the design of successful compliance.
Dieses Buch beleuchtet das Motiv der Voellerei in der englischen Literatur der Fruhen Neuzeit. Der Autor untersucht, wie die klassische Todsunde zur Beschreibung des Eigenen und Fremden genutzt wird, um durch Selbstuberhoehung und Fremdabwertung die nationale Identitat zu starken. Sein Analysemodell vereint Erkenntnisse aus der Systemtheorie mit zentralen Befunden der Nationenforschung. Dadurch kann er die Komplexitat der englischen Gesellschaft abbilden und verschiedene Arten von Identitat und Alteritat herausarbeiten. Das Buch wirft einen detaillierten Blick auf Eliten, soziale Restriktionen, den Kampf gegen das Fremde und das Erwachen einer jungen Nation.
How well do we really know ancient Egypt? The world of the Egyptians seems strangely familiar to us: exhibitions of ancient art and archaeological discoveries in the desert sands continue to generate interest and amazement, while Egyptian motifs appear in architecture, literature, artworks, advertising, and film. Yet, this modern reception can sometimes preserve the myths and inaccuracies about ancient Egypt that derive from classical antiquity and the Renaissance. It is only in the past two hundred years that we have been able to read for ourselves ancient Egyptian texts and to reveal the true nature of its civilization through excavation. This modern discovery of ancient Egypt is now astonishing us with a culture of incomparable richness and remarkable diversity. In this book, the internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Thomas Schneider asks, "What are the 101 most important questions about ancient Egypt?" The questions he has chosen and the answers he provides challenge almost everything we thought we knew about the ancient civilization in the Nile valley. They range from the surprising ("Why did upper-class Egyptians never wear a beard?") to the profound ( Was ancient Egypt a culture of death? ) and the provocative ( What do we not know about ancient Egypt? ). Schneider's answers will surprise, inspire, and challenge a wide range of readers. Ancient Egypt in 101 Questions and Answers provides a completely fresh way of looking at all aspects of ancient Egypt from history, art, and everyday life to religion and ancient attitudes to death and the afterlife."
Praxisorientiert werden Moeglichkeiten und Grenzen der Digitalisierung im Allgemeinen und der kunstlichen Intelligenz im Speziellen aufgezeigt. Wege zur Generierung und Sicherung von Wettbewerbsvorteilen werden dargestellt. Die Thematik wird aus der Perspektive des Unternehmens, der Funktion des Controllings und der persoenlichen Position im Controlling beleuchtet. Dabei wird vielmehr das Ziel verfolgt den Leser bei der konkreten Umsetzung zu begleiten als eine einheitliche Anleitung zu prasentieren.
Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches stehen, anders als bei vielen Standardwerken zur Compliance, nicht die Ziele, sondern die Mittel, die eine wirkungsvolle Compliance ermoeglichen. Aus der Innensicht des Compliance Officer werden alltagliche Probleme thematisiert und anhand konkreter, praxiserprobter Massnahmen geloest. Ausgehend vom Spannungsfeld zwischen Gewinnerzielung und Compliance werden daruber hinaus ethische Grundsatze sowie das Auftreten der Compliance, ihr Umgang mit Ansprechpartnern und ihr Vorgehen bei Verstoessen diskutiert. Psychologisch sowie soziologisch begrundete Erkenntnisse erweitern hier die Perspektive, rucken den Menschen ins Zentrum und bieten neue Ansatzpunkte fur die Gestaltung einer erfolgreichen Compliance. Zusatzmaterial erhalten Sie via App: Laden Sie die Springer Nature Flashcards-App kostenlos herunter und nutzen Sie als Printbuchkaufer exklusive Inhalte, um Ihr Wissen zu prufen.
Die zunehmende sportliche Betatigung auch im fortgeschrittenen Alter in Trendsportarten wie z. B. Tennis oder Golf geht mit einer gehauften Inzidenz akuter Schulter- und Ellenbogenprobleme einher. Diese dokumentieren sich klinisch in Akutverletzungen, aber auch besonders in chronischen Uberlastungsschaden. In diesem Buch, das aus ausgewahlten Beitragen des Jahreskongresses der Deutschen Vereinigung fur Schulter- und Ellenbogenchirurgie 2004 entstanden ist, werden spezielle Problemkomplexe facettenreich aufgearbeitet."
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