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Challenge Social Innovation
Potentials for Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Welfare and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
In recent years, social innovation has experienced a steep career. Numerous national governments and large organisations like the OECD, the European Commission and UNESCO have adopted the term. Social innovation basically means that people adopt new social practices in order to meet social needs in...
Future Viability, Business Models, and Values
Strategy, Business Management and Economy in Disruptive Markets
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book challenges the traditional models of modern economy, business education and management, which are devoted to the concepts of scarcity, competition, growth and yield. It deconstructs the spiral of acceleration in which technological shifts concerning global markets and enterprises produce...
A Decade of Research on School Principals
Cases from 24 Countries
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
This book provides a unique map of the focus and directions of contemporary research on school leadership since 2000 in 24 countries. Each of these directions has its own particular cultural, educational and policy history. Taken together, the various chapters in the volume provide a rich and varied...
Wine Positioning
A Handbook with 30 Case Studies of Wine Brands and Wine Regions in the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This book introduces readers to the concept and implementation of positioning techniques in the context of the wine industry. Featuring 30 case studies on brands and wine regions around the world - all based on the same principles - it presents a successful, cutting-edge strategy for the marketing...
by Itzhak Bars, John Terning
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
In physics, the idea of extra spatial dimensions originates from Nordstöm’s 5-dimensional vector theory in 1914, followed by Kaluza-Klein theory in 1921, in an effort to unify general relativity and electromagnetism in a 5 dimensional space-time (4 dimensions for space and 1 for time). Kaluza–Klein...
Gravity, Strings and Particles
A Journey Into the Unknown
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
New fundamental forces of Nature? New forms of "dark'' energy? Signals from epochs preceding the Big Bang? Is our space-time unique? Only a joint study of the three topics examined in this book – gravity, strings and particles – may provide answers to these questions. Such a study may also...
The B−L Phase Transition
Implications for Cosmology and Neutrinos
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Several of the very foundations of the cosmological standard model — the baryon asymmetry of the universe, dark matter, and the origin of the hot big bang itself — still call for an explanation from the perspective of fundamental physics. This work advocates one intriguing possibility for a consistent...
by Sylvain Carrozza
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
The main focus of this thesis is the mathematical structure of Group Field Theories (GFTs) from the point of view of renormalization theory. Such quantum field theories are found in approaches to quantum gravity related, on the one hand, to Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) and on the other, to matrix- and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Beginning with an overview of the theory of black holes by the editor, this book presents a collection of ten chapters by leading physicists dealing with the variety of quantum mechanical and quantum gravitational effects pertinent to black holes. The contributions address topics such as Hawking radiation,...
The Conscious Universe
Parts and Wholes in Physical Reality
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A discussion of the implications for philosophy of recent experimental results that confirm some counterintuitive aspects of the way matter behaves. The authors show that a generalised principle of complementarity is pervasive not only in physical theories such as cosmological models of the universe,...
by Ahmad Borzou
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
This thesis represents a unique mix of theoretical work discussing the Lorentz theory of gravity and experimental work searching for supersymmetry with the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. It begins by reviewing a set of widely-discussed theoretical solutions to the cosmological...
by Maurizio Gasperini
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
This reference textbook is an up-to-date and self-contained introduction to the theory of gravitational interactions. The first part of the book follows the traditional presentation of general relativity as a geometric theory of the macroscopic gravitational field. A second, advanced part then discusses...
Gravity, a Geometrical Course
Volume 1: Development of the Theory and Basic Physical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
‘Gravity, a Geometrical Course’ presents general relativity (GR) in a systematic and exhaustive way, covering three aspects that are homogenized into a single texture: i) the mathematical, geometrical foundations, exposed in a self consistent contemporary formalism, ii) the main physical, astrophysical...
by Steven Schramm
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This thesis describes the search for Dark Matter at the LHC in the mono-jet plus missing transverse momentum final state, using the full dataset recorded in 2012 by the ATLAS Experiment. It is the first time that the number of jets is not explicitly restricted to one or two, thus increasing the...