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Dieser praktische Insektenführer bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in die faszinierende Welt der Insekten. Das Bestimmungsbuch für heimische Insekten verbindet wissenschaftliche Grundlagen mit praktischer Anwendung. Der erste Teil widmet sich den entomologischen Grundlagen: Von der detaillierten Anatomie der Gliederfüße über Entwicklungsstadien bis hin zu evolutionären Anpassungen werden alle wichtigen Aspekte behandelt. Besonders die Beschreibung der verschiedenen Flügeltypen und Sinnesorgane hilft bei der späteren Bestimmung. Im Bereich Lebensräume und Ökologie lernen Leser die vielfältigen Habitate der Krabbeltiere in Feld, Wald und Wiese kennen. Das Buch erklärt die komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Insekten und ihrer Umwelt, von Waldökosystemen bis zu urbanen Lebensräumen. Ein wichtiger Schwerpunkt liegt auf praktischen Anleitungen zur Insektenbestimmung. Moderne Beobachtungsmethoden, Fangtechniken und Bestimmungsschlüssel werden ausführlich vorgestellt. Für Interessierte an der Terrarienhaltung bietet das Insekten-Lexikon detaillierte Informationen zu Haltung und Zucht. Der Band behandelt auch die Bedeutung der Insekten für Ökosysteme und Menschen. Von der Rolle bei der Bestäubung bis zur Verwendung in der Biotechnologie werden aktuelle Forschungserkenntnisse verständlich dargestellt. Mit zahlreichen Illustrationen und Bestimmungshilfen ist dieses Insektenbuch sowohl für Einsteiger als auch fortgeschrittene Naturbeobachter geeignet. Es ermöglicht das sichere Erkennen heimischer Arten und vermittelt grundlegendes Wissen über die Welt der Insekten.

This book is to provide readers with an overview of in utero Pediatrics, an interdisciplinary medicine focusing on sequential and comprehensive care for fetuses and children who have functional and/or structural disorders originated from in utero. It covers congenital disorders in cardiology, neurosurgery, urology, general surgery, endocrine genetics, and other related topics. Each chapter starts with the basic theory, illustrates clinical practices on certain congenital disorders, and summaries recent research and advances in the field. Written by experts with wealthy experiences, this case-based book will be a valuable reference for pediatricians and perinatologists, as well as those who are interested in this field.

This book covers topics in portfolio management and multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), presenting a transparent and unified methodology for the portfolio construction process. The most important feature of the book includes the proposed methodological framework that integrates two individual subsystems, the portfolio selection subsystem and the portfolio optimization subsystem. An additional highlight of the book includes the detailed, step-by-step implementation of the proposed multicriteria algorithms in Python. The implementation is presented in detail; each step is elaborately described, from the input of the data to the extraction of the results. Algorithms are organized into small cells of code, accompanied by targeted remarks and comments, in order to help the reader to fully understand their mechanics. Readers are provided with a link to access the source code through GitHub.This Work may also be considered as a reference which presents the state-of-art research on portfolio construction with multiple and complex investment objectives and constraints. The book consists of eight chapters. A brief introduction is provided in Chapter 1. The fundamental issues of modern portfolio theory are discussed in Chapter 2. In Chapter 3, the various multicriteria decision aid methods, either discrete or continuous, are concisely described. In Chapter 4, a comprehensive review of the published literature in the field of multicriteria portfolio management is considered. In Chapter 5, an integrated and original multicriteria portfolio construction methodology is developed. Chapter 6 presents the web-based information system, in which the suggested methodological framework has been implemented. In Chapter 7, the experimental application of the proposed methodology is discussed and in Chapter 8, the authors provide overall conclusions.The readership of the book aims to be a diverse group, including fund managers, risk managers, investment advisors, bankers, private investors, analytics scientists, operations researchers scientists, and computer engineers, to name just several. Portions of the book may be used as instructional for either advanced undergraduate or post-graduate courses in investment analysis, portfolio engineering, decision science, computer science, or financial engineering.

This book provides a platform of scientific interaction between the three challenging and closely linked areas of ICT-enabled-application research and development: software intensive systems, complex systems and intelligent systems. Software intensive systems strongly interact with other systems, sensors, actuators, devices, other software systems and users. More and more domains are using software intensive systems, e.g. automotive and telecommunication systems, embedded systems in general, industrial automation systems and business applications. Moreover, web services offer a new platform for enabling software intensive systems. Complex systems research is focused on the overall understanding of systems rather than their components. Complex systems are characterized by the changing environments in which they interact. They evolve and adapt through internal and external dynamic interactions. The development of intelligent systems and agents, which are increasingly characterized by their use of ontologies and their logical foundations, offer impulses for both software intensive systems and complex systems. Recent research in the field of intelligent systems, robotics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and cognitive sciences are vital for the future development and innovation of software intensive and complex systems.

Violent Neoliberalism explores the complex unfolding relationship between neoliberalism and violence. Employing a series of theoretical dialogues on development, discourse and dispossession Cambodia, this study sheds significant empirical light on the vicious implications of free market ideology and practice.

Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 International Conference on Green Materials and Environmental Engineering (GMEE 2014), September 21-22, 2014, Hong Kong

Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 4th International Conference on Advanced Engineering Materials and Technology (AEMT 2014), June 14-15, 2014, Xiamen, China

Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 2nd International Conference on Advances in Energy and Environmental Science (ICAEES 2014), June 21-22, 2014, Guangzhou, China

Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2nd International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Civil Engineering (ICMEMSCE 2013), October 25-26, 2013, Beijing, China

2011 International Conference in Electrics, Communication and Automatic Control Proceedings examines state-of-art and advances in Electrics, Communication and Automatic Control. This book presents developments in Power Conversion, Signal and image processing, Image & video Signal Processing. The conference brings together researchers, engineers, academic as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to promote the developments of Electrics, Communication and Automatic Control.

Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2012 International Conference on Material Sciences and Manufacturing Technology (ICMSMT 2012), October 5-6, 2012, Dalian, China

Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2011 International Conference on Material Science and Information Technology (MSIT 2011), September 16-18, 2011, Singapore

This volume contains revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the ICF4C 2011 conference. 2011 International Conference on Future Communication, Computing, Control and Management (ICF4C 2011) has been held on December 16-17, 2011, Phuket, Thailand. Topics covered include intelligent computing, network management, wireless networks, telecommunication, power engineering, control engineering, Signal and Image Processing, Machine Learning, Control Systems and Applications, The book will offer the states of arts of tremendous advances in Computing, Communication, Control, and Management and also serve as an excellent reference work for researchers and graduate students working on Computing, Communication, Control, and Management Research.

Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2011 International Conference on Textile Engineering and Materials, (ICTEM 2011), 23-25 September, 2011, Tianjin, China

This periodical edition includes peer-reviewed scientific and engineering papers on all aspects of research in the area of nanoscience and nanotechnologies and wide practical application of the achieved results.

Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2010 International Conference on Advanced Mechanical Engineering (AME 2010) will be held on September 4~5, 2010 in Luoyang, China

Selected papers from the 2009 International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Engineering (ICMSE 2009), 26-28 December, 2009, Zhuhai, China