Laser Diode Microsystems provides the reader with the basic knowledge and understanding required for using semiconductor laser diodes in optical microsystems and micro-optical electromechanic systems. This tutorial addresses the fundamentals of semiconductor laser operation and design, coupled with an overview of the types of laser diodes suitable for use in Microsystems, along with their distinguishing characteristics. Emphasis is placed on laser diode characterization and measurement as well as the assembly techniques and optical accessories required for incorporation of semiconductor lasers into complex microsystems. Equipped with typical results and calculation examples, this hand-on text helps readers to develop a feel for how to choose a laser diode, characterize it and incorporate it into a microsystem.

Valves are the components in a fluid flow or pressure system that regulate either the flow or the pressure of the fluid. They are used extensively in the process industries, especially petrochemical. Though there are only four basic types of valves, there is an enormous number of different kinds of valves within each category, each one used for a specific purpose. No other book on the market analyzes the use, construction, and selection of valves in such a comprehensive manner.
-Covers new environmentally-conscious equipment and practices, the most important hot-button issue in the petrochemical industry today
-Details new generations of valves for offshore projects, the oil industry's fastest-growing segment
-Includes numerous new products that have never before been written about in the mainstream literature

Laser Diode Microsystems provides the reader with the basic knowledge and understanding required for using semiconductor laser diodes in optical microsystems and micro-optical electromechanic systems. This tutorial addresses the fundamentals of semiconductor laser operation and design, coupled with an overview of the types of laser diodes suitable for use in Microsystems, along with their distinguishing characteristics. Emphasis is placed on laser diode characterization and measurement as well as the assembly techniques and optical accessories required for incorporation of semiconductor lasers into complex microsystems. Equipped with typical results and calculation examples, this hand-on text helps readers to develop a feel for how to choose a laser diode, characterize it and incorporate it into a microsystem.

Presenting state-of-the-art research into the dynamic field of tunable micro-optics, this is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey covering a varied range of topics including novel materials, actuation concepts and new imaging systems in optics. Internationally renowned researchers present a diverse range of chapters on cutting-edge materials, devices and subsystems, including soft matter, artificial muscles, tunable lenses and apertures, photonic crystals, and complete tunable imagers. Special contributions also provide in-depth treatment of micro-optical characterisation, scanners, and the use of natural eye models as inspiration for new concepts in advanced optics. With applications extending from medical diagnosis to fibre telecommunications, Tunable Micro-optics equips readers with a solid understanding of the broader technical context through its interdisciplinary approach to the realisation of new types of optical systems. This is an essential resource for engineers in industry and academia, and advanced students working on optical systems design.

This collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and related anxieties concerning the future of human affairs, as crucial for any understanding of current forms of "weird" and "fantastic" literature and culture. Given their focus on the culturally marginal, unknown, and "other," these genres figure as diagnostic modes of storytelling, outlining the latent anxieties and social dynamics that define a culture's "structure of feeling" at a given historical moment. The contributions in this volume map the long and continuous tradition of weird and fantastic fiction as a seismograph for eco-geographical turmoil from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, offering innovative and insightful ecocritical readings of H. P. Lovecraft, Harriet Prescott Spofford, China Mieville, N. K. Jemisin, Thomas Ligotti, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others.

This collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and related anxieties concerning the future of human affairs, as crucial for any understanding of current forms of "weird" and "fantastic" literature and culture. Given their focus on the culturally marginal, unknown, and "other," these genres figure as diagnostic modes of storytelling, outlining the latent anxieties and social dynamics that define a culture's "structure of feeling" at a given historical moment. The contributions in this volume map the long and continuous tradition of weird and fantastic fiction as a seismograph for eco-geographical turmoil from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, offering innovative and insightful ecocritical readings of H. P. Lovecraft, Harriet Prescott Spofford, China Mieville, N. K. Jemisin, Thomas Ligotti, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others.

Das Benchmarking stellt ein wichtiges Controlling-Instrument von Planungs- und Kontrollprozessen in Unternehmungen dar. Es ermoglicht einen systematischen quantitativen und qualitativen Vergleich gleichartiger Unternehmungen. Mithilfe des Einsatzes dieses Instrumentes konnen Unternehmungen ihre Marktposition im Wettbewerbsumfeld einschatzen sowie Verbesserungspotenziale identifizieren und ausschopfen. Im Krankenhausbereich ist es sinnvoll, im Rahmen einer Benchmarking-Analyse die InEK-Kostendaten als Vergleichsgrosse zu verwenden. Sie haben eine hohe Aussagekraft, da sie die Erlose eines Krankenhauses darstellen. Die Autoren fuhren daher ein Benchmarking auf Basis der InEK-Kostendaten auf DRG-Ebene am Beispiel eines Modellkrankenhauses durch und leiten daraus Implementationsmoglichkeiten fur die Praxis ab. Grundlage bildet eine zuvor entwickelte anwendungsorientierte Vorgehensweise."

Die Innerbetriebliche Leistungsverrechnung ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil der Kosten-, Leistungs-, Erlos- und Ergebnisrechnung, denn uber die Verrechnungsgrossen konnen unterschiedliche Preise generiert werden. Die Autoren stellen mit dem Zahlenmaterial eines Modellkrankenhauses verschiedene Herangehensweisen der Verrechnung dar, so dass der Praktiker entscheiden kann, welches Verfahren er fur geeignet halt, sowohl kostenrechnerisch als auch managementorientiert eingesetzt zu werden. Diese Transparenz hilft, die Wirkungen unterschiedlicher Vorgehensweisen beim Management und Controlling ebenso nachvollziehen zu konnen wie in der Pflege und in der Medizin."

Die praktische, konkrete Arbeit des Menschen l{ t sich nicht isolieren von seinen der Religion, den Mythen und der Philosophie entlehnten weltanschaulichen Vorstellungen. Die Wissenschaften dringen immer weiter in Gebiete vor, die bislang philosophischer Neugier vorbehalten waren. Vor diesem Hintergrund zeigt der Band die Ber}hrungspunkte zwischen Philosophie (Theorie) und praktischer Medizin (Praxis) auf.