This book illustrates a new quantitative risk analysis model for road tunnels that is capable of evaluating the role of infrastructure measures, equipment and management procedures as prescribed by EU Directive 2004/54/EC. The risk assessment draws on the typical F-N curves of societal risk, evaluated with the help of event tree analysis, vehicle queue formation dynamics, and users’ egress and tenability models. In addition, the model considers the reliability of the safety measures. The work provides essential guidance on the following aspects: how a quantitative model can be implemented to evaluate risk in road tunnels; how to build an event tree for the accident scenarios considered; how to simulate the vehicle queue formation; how to simulate the evolution of accident scenarios; and how to simulate the users’ egress. Given its scope and depth of coverage, the book will be of interest to all engineers whose work involves fire protection and safety in tunnels, all persons engaged in safety and transport engineering or risk analysis for road tunnels, as well as public and private bodies involved in the application of Directive 2004/54/EC. <p></p>
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Linus und Greta lieben sich. Ihre Beziehung sprüht vor Erotik. Beide lieben es, sich gegenseitig zu verwöhnen. Ihre Lust leben sie aus in Fesselspielen, fisten, squirten und hemmungslosem Sex.
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<p></p> <p>“There is no strategic investment that has a higher return than investing in good pricing, and the text by Gallego and Topaloghu provides the best technical treatment of pricing strategy and tactics available.” Preston McAfee, the J. Stanley Johnson Professor, California Institute of Technology and Chief Economist and Corp VP, Microsoft.</p>“The book by Gallego and Topaloglu provides a fresh, up-to-date and in depth treatment of revenue management and pricing. It fills an important gap as it covers not only traditional revenue management topics also new and important topics such as revenue management under customer choice as well as pricing under competition and online learning. The book can be used for different audiences that range from advanced undergraduate students to masters and PhD students. It provides an in-depth treatment covering recent state of the art topics in an interesting and innovative way. I highly recommend it." Professor Georgia Perakis, the William F. Pounds Professor of Operations Research and Operations Management at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  <p></p>“This book is an important and timely addition to the pricing analytics literature by two authors who have made major contributions to the field. It covers traditional revenue management as well as assortment optimization and dynamic pricing. The comprehensive treatment of choice models in each application is particularly welcome.  It is mathematically rigorous but accessible to students at the advanced undergraduate or graduate levels with a rich set of exercises at the end of each chapter. This book is highly recommended for Masters or PhD level courses on the topic and is a necessity for researchers with an interest in the field.” Robert L. Phillips, Director of Pricing Research at Amazon <div> <br> <div> “At last, a serious and comprehensive treatment of modern revenue management and assortment optimization integrated with choice modeling.  In this book, Gallego and Topaloglu provide the underlying model derivations together with a wide range of applications and examples; all of these facets will better equip students for handling real-world problems.  For mathematically inclined researchers and practitioners, it will doubtless prove to be thought-provoking and an invaluable reference.” Richard Ratliff, Research Scientist at Sabre <b> </b> <br> <p></p> <p>“This book, written by two of the leading researchers in the area, brings together in one place most of the recent research on revenue management and pricing analytics.    New industries (ride sharing, cloud computing, restaurants) and new developments in the airline and hotel industries make this book very timely and relevant, and will serve as a critical reference for researchers.” Professor Kalyan Talluri, the Munjal Chair in Global Bu...
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In the 1960s, twenty-thousand young Americans landed in South America to serve as Peace Corps volunteers. The program was hailed by President John F. Kennedy and by volunteers themselves as an exceptional initiative to end global poverty. In practice, it was another front for fighting the Cold War and promoting American interests in the Global South. This book examines how this ideological project played out on the ground as volunteers encountered a range of local actors and agencies engaged in anti-poverty efforts of their own. As they negotiated the complexities of community intervention, these volunteers faced conflicts and frustrations, struggled to adapt, and gradually transformed the Peace Corps of the 1960s into a truly global, decentralized institution. Drawing on letters, diaries, reports, and newsletters created by volunteers themselves, Fernando Purcell shows how their experiences offer an invaluable perspective on local manifestations of the global Cold War. <p></p>
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<p>This book integrates the foundations of quantum computing with a hands-on coding approach to this emerging field; it is the first work to bring these strands together in an updated manner. This work is suitable for both academic coursework and corporate technical training.</p> <p>This volume comprises three books under one cover: Part I outlines the necessary foundations of quantum computing and quantum circuits. Part II walks through the canon of quantum computing algorithms and provides code on a range of quantum computing methods in current use. Part III covers the mathematical toolkit required to master quantum computing. Additional resources include a table of operators and circuit elements and a companion GitHub site providing code and updates.</p> <b>Jack D. Hidary</b> is a research scientist in quantum computing and in AI at Alphabet X, formerly Google X. <p></p> <p>“Quantum Computing will change our world in unexpected ways. Everything technology leaders, engineers and graduate students need is in this book including the methods and hands-on code to program on this novel platform.”<br></p> <p>—Eric Schmidt, PhD, Former Chairman and CEO of Google; Founder, Innovation Endeavors<br></p> <p></p> <p></p>
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<p></p> <p>Any contemporary state presents itself as committed to the “rule of law”, and this notion is perhaps the most powerful political ideal within the current global discourse on legal and political institutions. Despite being a contested concept, the rule of law is generally recognised as meaning that government is bound in all its actions by fixed and public rules, and that these rules respect certain formal requirements and are enforced by an independent judiciary. </p> This book focuses on formal legality and the question of how to achieve good laws—a topic that was famously addressed by the 18th century enlightened thinkers, but also by prominent legal scholars of our time. Historically, the canon of “good legislation” demanded generality, publicity and accessibility, and comprehensibility of laws; non-retroactivity; consistency; the possibility of complying with legal obligations and prohibitions; stability; and congruency between enacted laws and their application. All these are valuable ideals that should not be abandoned in today’s legal systems, particularly in view of the silent revolution that is transforming our legality-based “states of law” into jurisdictional states. Such ideals are still worth pursuing for those who believe in representative democracy, in the rule of law and in the dignity of legislation. The idea for the book stemmed from the author’s parliamentary and governmental experience; he was responsible for the Government of Spain’s legislative co-ordination from 1982 to 1993, which were years of intensive legislative production. The more than five hundred laws (and thousands of decrees) elaborated in this period profoundly changed all sectors of the legal order inherited from Franco’s dictatorship, and laid the foundations of a new social and democratic system. For an academic, this was an exciting experience, which offered a unique opportunity to put the theory of legislation to the test. Reflecting and elaborating on this experience, the book not only increases scholarly awareness of how laws are made, but above all, improves the quality of legislation and as a result the rule of law. <p></p> <br> <p></p>
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Liebesroman von A. F. Morland Der Umfang dieses Buchs entspricht 119 Taschenbuchseiten. "Mister Right" gesucht! Anja lernt durch Zufall den sympathischen Markus kennen. Aber andererseits ist da auch noch Richy. Die beiden Männer sind grundverschieden. Als Richy wegen seiner Geschäfte eine Weile fort ist, glaubt Anja bei Markus das zu finden, was ihr bei Richy fehlt...
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Neben den individuellen technischen und taktischen Fähigkeiten können auch verschiedene trainierte Kooperationen helfen, den Angriff zu strukturieren und die Abwehr in Bewegung zu bringen, um zum Torerfolg zu kommen. In diesem Fachbuch werden Auftakthandlungen und mögliche Weiterspieloptionen gegen unterschiedliche Abwehrformationen ausführlich und Schritt für Schritt beschrieben. Ziel der Auftakthandlungen ist es immer, durch ein Zusammenspiel Situationen zu schaffen, in denen ein Spieler den eigenen Abschluss suchen kann. Sollte das nicht möglich sein, weil sich die Abwehr gut positioniert, beschreiben wir verschiedene Weiterspielmöglichkeiten und die sich daraus ergebenden Abschlussmöglichkeiten. Im ersten Kapitel wird zunächst auf einfache Kooperationen wie Kreuzen, Parallelstoß und Zusammenspiel mit dem Kreisläufer eingegangen – Einzelbausteine, die für viele der folgenden Spielvarianten im 6gegen6 bedeutend sind. In den weiteren Kapiteln werden exemplarisch Abläufe gegen defensive und offensive Abwehrkooperationen dargestellt. Viele Auftakthandlungen können, leicht abgewandelt, auch gegen andere Abwehrsysteme gespielt werden. Optimal ist es, wenn die Spieler im Entscheidungsverhalten so ausgebildet werden, dass sie auf sich ändernde Situationen reagieren und den Ablauf „kreativ“ anpassen können. Eine Auslösehandlung kann so spontan geändert oder erweitert werden und so zu immer neuen Abschlussoptionen führen. Teil E behandelt Spielmöglichkeiten im Gegenstoß und aus der schnellen Mitte heraus. In den letzten beiden Kapiteln steht dann das Angriffsspiel in Überzahl im Vordergrund, zunächst durch das Einbinden eines zusätzlichen Feldspielers bei Herausnahme des Torhüters oder beim Angriffsspiel mit dem siebten Feldspieler im anschließenden Überzahlangriff bei Zeitstrafe für die abwehrende Mannschaft. Enthaltene Kategorien: Teil A: Kooperationen in der Kleingruppe Teil B: Auftakthandlungen und Spielkonzepte gegen eine 6:0-Abwehr Teil C: Auftakthandlungen gegen eine 5:1 oder 3:2:1-Abwehr Teil D: Auftakthandlungen gegen 4:2-Abwehr Teil E: Schnelle Mitte und Gegenstoß in der zweiten Welle Teil F: Herausnahme des Torhüters: Spiel im 7gegen6 oder 6gegen6 in Unterzahl Teil G: Überzahlspiel gegen fünf Abwehrspieler
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