Authors:Gerhard Fuchs, Philip Shapira,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: regional, innovation, economics, science, technology, breakthrough, path, change, rethinking, dependency
Number of Pages: 321
Published: 2004-10-06
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 0387230017
ISBN-13: 9780387230016

Rethinking Regional Innovation and Change brings together papers from leading international scholars in the field of regional development and policy. The contributors examine the interactions between path-dependent developments, institutions, and governance structures that influence regional innovation capacity. Up-to-date case studies present diverse theoretical perspectives from economics, political science, geography, planning, and public policy.   " Taken as a whole, the volume offers a broad and up-to-date perspective on the inheritance aspect of an area’s future. Without excep

Authors:Ewald Fuchs, Mohammad A. S. Masoum,
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: power, machines, electrical, systems, quality
Number of Pages: 664
Published: 2008-03-07
List price: $136.00
ISBN-10: 0123695368
ISBN-13: 9780123695369

Power Quality of power systems affects all connected electrical and electronic equipment. Power Quality is a measure of deviations in voltage and frequency of the particular supply system. In recent years, there has been a considerable increase in nonlinear loads; in particular distributed loads, such as computers, TV monitors and lighting. These draw harmonic currents which, when distorted, have detrimental effects including interference, loss of reliability, increased operating costs, equipment overheating, motor failures, capacitor failure and inaccurate power metering. This subject is pert

Authors:Armin Fuchs, Viktor K. Jirsa,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: understanding, complex, systems, dynamics, social, neural, behavioral, coordination
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2008-02-13
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 3540744762
ISBN-13: 9783540744764

One of the most striking features of Coordination Dynamics is its interdisciplinary character. The problems we are trying to solve in this field range from behavioral phenomena of interlimb coordination and coordination between stimuli and movements (perception-action tasks) through neural activation patterns that can be observed during these tasks to clinical applications and social behavior. It is not surprising that close collaboration among scientists from different fields as psychology, kinesiology, neurology and even physics are imperative to deal with the enormous difficulties we are

Authors:Bharat Bhushan, Harald Fuchs,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: scanning, probe, nanoscience, technology, techniques, methods, applied, microscopy
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2006-04-11
List price: $239.00
ISBN-10: 3540262423
ISBN-13: 9783540262428

Volumes II, III and IV examine the physical and technical foundation for recent progress in applied near-field scanning probe techniques, and build upon the first volume published in early 2004. The field is progressing so fast that there is a need for a second set of volumes to capture the latest developments. It constitutes a timely comprehensive overview of SPM applications, now that industrial applications span topographic and dynamical surface studies of thin-film semiconductors, polymers, paper, ceramics, and magnetic and biological materials. Volume II introduces scanning probe microsco

Authors:Ross Melnick, Andreas Fuchs,
Publisher: MBI
Keywords: movie, theaters, classic, new, treasures, cinema
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2004-10-15
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0760314926
ISBN-13: 9780760314920

For more than a century, movie theaters have provided the physical setting where motion pictures have delighted and transported audiences. While enough books about film, filmmakers, and movie stars have been written to wrap around the equator, the story behind the movie theaters – the buildings themselves - and the manner in which industrial, social, and artistic trends have informed its evolution has remained largely ignored. Cinema Treasures is an ambitious and marvelously illustrated history of the American movie theater from the early nickelodeons through today’s state-of-the-art megap

Authors:Manfred Fuchs, Gerhard Apfelthaler,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: der, wirtschaftswissenschaften, german, kurzlehrbã¼cher, springers, internationaler, geschã¤ftstã¤tigkeit, management
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 2008-10-16
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 3211756140
ISBN-13: 9783211756140

Im ersten Teil beschäftigen sich die Autoren mit den Grundfragen des internationalen Managements und der internationalen Geschäftstätigkeit, im zweiten Teil werden Markteintrittsentscheidungen problem- und anwendungsorientiert diskutiert. Ausführlich werden alternative Markteintrittsstrategien kritisch verglichen und zentrale Probleme verschiedener Markteintrittsformen diskutiert. Jedes Kapitel wird mit ausgewählten Fragen zur Überprüfung des Wissens abgerundet, die einzelnen Abschnitte mit aktuellen und praktischen Fallbeispielen abgerundet. Das Buch ist nicht nur für Studierende inte

Authors:Ulrike Gretzel, Rob Law, Matthias Fuchs,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: conference, lugano, switzerland, february, international, proceedings, communication, technologies, tourism, information
Number of Pages: 642
Published: 2010-04-08
List price: $209.00
ISBN-10: 3211994068
ISBN-13: 9783211994061

The papers in this volume address advances in mobile tourism services, online destination marketing, GPS-based tracking of tourist behaviors, decision support tools, website design and evaluation, online travel distribution, ICT adoption in tourism and hospitality businesses, virtual experiences, online information search, Web 2.0, social media marketing, and the role of ICTs in sustainable tourism development. The volume shows a high diversity in disciplinary approaches and methodologies used to explore the intersection of tourism and technology. Thus, the included papers would be of interest