Older employees are often seen as an obstacle and not as an opportunity for companies, especially regarding the transfer of knowledge and experience. Effective development and utilization of older professional and managerial ...

The book describes conventional metal cutting process (turning, milling, shaper, grinding, drilling), computer aided manufacturing and modern machining processes (EDM, LBM, AJM, ECM), accompanying theoretical concepts with ...

This book covers 10 surface characterization techniques divided into three sections. The first section covers the theoretical background, instrumentation and their salient features and a general understanding behind the ...

Languages in which non-finite verbs (infinitives, gerunds etc.) are classified using the same linguistic means as nouns are rare. This typologically unusual phenomenon is found in some Atlantic (Niger-Congo) languages, ...

Smart polymers react sharply to small changes in physical or chemical conditions and present an intelligent response to chemical stimuli (i.e., chemical species -including biomolecules-, pH, solvents, redox, stimuli that ...

A business ecosystem may be defined as a dynamic group of largely independent economic players that create products or services that together constitute a coherent solution for customers. Business ecosystems are high on ...

Even though many data analytics tools have been developed in the past years, their usage in the field of cyber twin warrants new approaches that consider various aspects including unified data representation, zero-day ...

'Studia typologica'ist der Titel der Beihefte zur Zeitschrift'Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung/Language Typology and Universals (STUF)'. In den'Studia typologica'werden Beiträge veröffentlicht, die den höchsten ...

This is the first comprehensive work on word and sentence prosody in Koshikijima Japanese, a dialect of Japanese not fully documented in the literature. It is an endangered dialect spoken by about 2,000 speakers on a small ...

This book addresses the difficult field of pediatric glycometabolic disorders, which have often been considered the exclusive field of specialists in the sector. However, if all the intricate subjects of long-term treatment ...