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As before, this text provides the material for a graduate introductory course in engineering acoustics for students with basic knowledge in mathematics. In this second, enlarged edition, the teaching aspects of the book have been substantially improved.

This book demonstrates how companies can effectively promote their business by assuming political responsibility and expanding their investment concept to include a political component. It shows that the success of companies is crucially dependent on socio-political conditions. In other words: politically sustainable management is a business case. Therefore companies should take a closer look at the opportunities at the interface of politics and business.To date, there has not been a satisfactory assessment of the issue of Corporate Political Responsibility (CPR), which combines a conceptual framework with practical measures for implementation. This book remedies that oversight, and shows how companies can develop the necessary attitude and operate in concrete CPR fields of action, illustrated by diagrams and examples. While doing so, the author explains how CPR is different from shere lobbying or Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).The author provides an overview of the public realm and its actors, and shows how, through political contributions, they can strengthen the performance of the state and thus their own performance. Companies have unique resources for doing so, and in their own interest they should get involved: being impartial in particular, but partial in principle - when it comes to our liberal way of life as such.

Burgerschaft und Politik stehen vor der Wahl, die EU durch massive Reformen nicht nur wirtschaftlich, sondern auch politisch zu einer Weltmacht zu entwickeln oder sie zu einem Kerneuropa mit differenzierter Peripherie abschmelzen zu lassen.

Soziale Roboter sind sensomotorische Maschinen, die für den Umgang mit Menschen oder Tieren geschaffen wurden. Sie können über fünf Dimensionen bestimmt werden, nämlich die Interaktion mit Lebewesen, die Kommunikation mit Lebewesen, die Nähe zu Lebewesen, die Abbildung von (Aspekten von) Lebewesen sowie ¿ im Zentrum ¿ den Nutzen für Lebewesen. Bei einem weiten Begriff können neben Hardwarerobotern auch Softwareroboter wie gewisse Chatbots, Voicebots und Social Bots dazu zählen. Die Disziplin, die soziale Roboter ¿ ob als Spielzeugroboter, als Serviceroboter (Pflegeroboter, Therapieroboter, Sexroboter, Sicherheitsroboter etc.) oder als Industrieroboter in der Art von Kooperations- und Kollaborationsrobotern (Co-Robots bzw. Cobots) ¿ erforscht und hervorbringt, ist die Soziale Robotik. Das Buch schafft Grundlagen in technikwissenschaftlicher, wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher, philosophischer, psychologischer und soziologischer Hinsicht. Es stelltdar, was soziale Roboter ausmacht, wie sie gebaut und programmiert werden, welche Anwendungsmöglichkeiten existieren und welche Herausforderungen sich ergeben.Das Kapitel 2 wird auf link.springer.com unter der Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Lizenz veröffentlicht.

Nothing new from the Ice Age? The sequence of the individual ice advances, the direction of ice movement and the direction of meltwater drainage are only partially known, but they can be reconstructed.

Using numerous illustrations and case studies, the author maps out the creative process involved in producing interactive media, such as CD-ROM productions and network applications.

Not only is the lifestyle of the legendary pink dolphins, piranhas and tarantulas explained here, but the impressive amphibians, reptiles and mammals of the jungle are also discussed.epiphytes and lianas from different habitats are described in detail and illustrated with excellent photographs.

Despite the increasing number of gamers worldwide, the moral classification of computer gaming marks an as yet unsolved riddle of philosophical ethics. His current research focuses on normative differences in moral theories, problem areas in applied ethics, the aesthetics and ethics of computer games and the ethics of education and teaching.

This guidebook helps people in creative professions or with creative career goals to "sell themselves better."

by a more general quadratic algebra (possibly obtained by deformation) and then to derive Rq [G] by requiring it to possess the latter as a comodule. Drinfeld found that it could be essentially made to work for the "Borel part" of Uq(g) denoted U (b) and further found a general construction (the Drinfeld double) q mirroring a Lie bialgebra.

This non-fiction book explains the background and facts about the effect of forest visits on a scientifically sound basis and sensitizes readers to the great health benefits of forest bathing (Shinrin-Yoku) and forest therapy.

Get ready to embark on the exciting search for dark matter¿the invisible mass that dominates our universe. This popular science book explains why this mysterious dark matter has been incorporated into the standard model of the universe and how scientists are able to ¿observe¿ the invisible. The book starts with the early indications of the existence of dark matter, including the strange cohesion of galaxy clusters, before moving on to modern observations like cosmic background radiation. Along the way, you will learn about the direct and indirect methods being used by researchers to track down dark matter and whatever is behind this strange phenomenon.The Mystery of Dark Matter will appeal to general readers who wish to understand what scientists actually know about dark matter, along with the methods they use to help crack the mystery. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Das Rätsel Dunkle Materie by WolfgangKapferer, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland in 2018.The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

Bootlegging, Illegitimacy, and Management's Attitude

The focus of this book is centered on the participation of children in countries of the South. In this sense, it will review the possibilities of children's participation, as well as their forms of participation in different contexts of daily life.

The author shows that we are the active designers of our living conditions and thus determine our own physical and mental health.Be inspired to participate in shaping the future of a human society in which we have to decide where we live, how we live with each other, how we work, and how we educate ourselves.

This book is focussed on forms of energy for the future, while maintaining climate neutrality, partly by drastically reducing, partly by recycling the resulting carbon dioxide emissions.

This first book on pulsed magnet design deals with the design of pulsed, non-destructive coils for the generation of high magnetic fields. It provides readers with a concise and comprehensive text describing every aspect of coil construction.

With CRISPR/Cas gene editing tools in hand, we are currently experiencing a new dimension in genetic engineering.