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This book focusses on the after sales business and presents the Service Parts Planning (SPP) solution which was developed by SAP in a joint effort with Caterpillar and Ford in order to address the specific planning problems of service parts.

This book follows the fascinating journey of personal names across the world, using maps and networks to identify alternative combinations of ethnic and geographic origins in contemporary population groups and neighbourhoods.

This book provides international readers with a fresh outlook on China's tort law system, exploring its principles, theories and history. It features real cases to explain the application of China's tort laws and the meaning of the corresponding statutes.

This book examines the underlying nature of price formation in financial markets as a predominantly sociological phenomenon that relates individual decision-making to emergent and co-evolving social and financial structures.

This book presents a unique approach to natural-language processing, with the ultimate goal being the creation of cognitive machines that humans can freely talk with in their respective natural language.

This book explains situational method engineering and details how to apply it in software development. It features step-by-step explanations, from the basics to the customization and quality assessment of constructed methods. Includes industrial case studies.

This book examines physically unclonable functions in all their facets: the multitude of their physical constructions, the algorithmic and physical properties which describe them, and the techniques required to deploy them in information security applications.

This book offers insights into theoretical computer science and mathematics, distilling complex topics into manageable essays that summarize and explain key developments, historical context, and future directions of complexity, computability and algorithms.

This thesis presents research which has resulted in the synthesis, structural and spectroscopic characterization of the first high-valent iron nitride complexes. It also details the reactivity of a unique iron (V) nitride complex with water, yielding ammonia.

Claudia Backes reviews her work on noncovalent functionalization of carbon nanotubes in water, showing how rational surfactant design offers a key to solubilization, allowing nanotube surface and optical properties to be tailored in fully reversible fashion.

This second edition remains a comprehensive book on the subject. It offers beginners and advanced modelers alike a minimum theoretical background and a strong focus on the practical solution of geochemical modeling with PHREEQC.

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This book discusses oxidative stress and hormesis from the perspective of an evolutionary ecologist or physiologist. The author illustrates how oxidative stress and hormesis have shaped diversity in organism life-histories, behavioral profiles, morphological phenotypes, and aging mechanisms.

There is no doubt that quality has become a major feature in the survival plan of organisations. Survival programmes based on quality improvement require an unrelenting com mitment to include everyone, from the Managing Director down, in an ongoing, never-ending involvement based on monitoring, and improving, all our activities.