Nicolas: 1685 books

This book provides a comprehensive overview of power electronic converters (DC / DC, DC / AC, AC / DC and AC / AC) conventionally used in industrial and transportation applications, specifically for the supply of electric machines with variable speed drop off window. From the perspective of design...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1,0, Reutlingen University (sib - school of international business Reutlingen), course: International Financing, 45 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract:...

This book develops two key machine learning principles: the semi-supervised paradigm and learning with interdependent data. It reveals new applications, primarily web related, that transgress the classical machine learning framework through learning with interdependent data. The book traces...

What if you could sit down with some of the most talented security engineers in the world and ask any network security question you wanted? Security Power Tools lets you do exactly that! Members of Juniper Networks' Security Engineering team and a few guest experts reveal how to use, tweak, and push...

This book presents tools and algorithms required to compress/uncompress signals such as speech and music. These algorithms are largely used in mobile phones, DVD players, HDTV sets, etc. In a first rather theoretical part, this book presents the standard tools used in compression systems: scalar...

This book highlights what is now achievable in terms of materials characterization with the new generation of cold-field emission scanning electron microscopes applied to real materials at high spatial resolution. It discusses advanced scanning electron microscopes/scanning- transmission electron...

Novel techniques for modeling 3D cracks and their evolution in solids are presented. Cracks are modeled in terms of signed distance functions (level sets). Stress, strain and displacement field are determined using the extended finite elements method (X-FEM). Non-linear constitutive behavior for the...

The Crisis and Miss Emily's Perceptions draws an analogy between the theme and the characters in Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" and the global financial crisis. In Faulkner's story, all the characters try to deny realities, thus allowing an unstable situation to last longer than it should...

The motivation is to help Latin American policymakers deal with two problems of abundance that are now at play: i) those related to easy external financial conditions; and ii) those coming from high commodity export prices. While these phenomena are distinct, note that the latter tends to reinforce...

In instituting its prospective studies the European Cultural Founda­ tion has to some extent gone against tradition. Until now those who were deeply committed to the idea of a European Community looked into the past rather than into the future for bases on which the com­ munity could be integrated....

En 2014, la nouvelle loi bancaire du 25 avril 2014 était l’enfant né de la crise financière. Elle était imprégnée très largement par le droit européen. Quelques mois plus tard, il était temps de faire le point sur cette réglementation à la lumière de la transposition de ces textes dans...

Quel lien existe-t-il entre la titrisation et David Bowie ? A priori, aucun ! La crise des subprimes contribue à renforcer l’image de la titrisation d’après laquelle il s’agirait d’un montage complexe de transformation de créances de prêts en titres financiers. En revanche, on connaît...

Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1, Vienna University of Economics and Business (Informationsverarbeitung & Prozessmanagement), language: English, abstract: Changing economic conditions and increasing competition forced...

Der Autor untersucht die Streitfrage, ob der Geschäftsleiter einer insolvenzreifen AG oder GmbH deren Abgabenpflichten erfüllen muss oder ob ihm dies umgekehrt gemäß §§ 92 Abs. 2 AktG, 64 Satz 1 GmbHG verboten ist. Der Darstellung der wechselhaften Rechtsprechung und der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion...