The traditional project coaching takes place mostly in a number of face-to-face coaching sessions. However, under conditions of time pressure in IT projects, a physical presence of coaches could form a bottleneck. These facts led to the idea of using Internet technologies to support  the project coaching. The benefits of the web based...

Lebenslaufanalyse und Biografieforschung haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einem zentralen Instrument der Untersuchung von Individualisierung in dynamischen Gesellschaften entwickelt. Der Band erläutert die wichtigsten Theorien auf diesem Gebiet (Generation, Alter, Biografie, Institutionalisierung). Die qualitativen und...

The third edition of Combined Scintigraphic and Radiographic Diagnosis of Bone and Joint Diseases has been comprehensively rewritten and rearranged. It now encompasses, in addition to the bone and joint diseases described in the two earlier editions, hitherto unpublished novel applications of pinhole scanning to the diagnosis of a broader...

Cardiovascular diseases continue to be the leading cause of death in the - jority of industrialized countries. The most frequent underlying pathology, namely atherosclerosis, and its clinical sequelae, namely coronary heart d- ease, cerebrovascular disease and peripheral artery disease, remain common although for a long time we have been made...

This book encompasses the different technologies employed in thermal ablation, its indications and the results achieved in various clinical conditions. It clearly explains the basics of thermal ablative techniques. In the main part of the book, techniques of guiding the applicators to the target structures by use of different imaging tools...

This volume presents recent advances in the dynamic field of Artificial Economics and its various applications. Artificial Economics provides a structured approach to model and investigate economic and social systems. In particular, this approach is based on the use of agent-based simulations and further computational techniques. The main aim...

Marketers and retailers have to understand how to manage different consumer perception levels of retail brands, which have a major determining role on store loyalty across different complex contexts. Addressing these issues, Bettina Berg analyzes first whether corporate reputation and retail store equity have a reciprocal relationship in...

In projektorientierten Unternehmen spielen Projektmanagement-Offices (PMO) eine immer wichtigere Rolle, insbesondere dann, wenn die Projektmanagementaktivitäten des Unternehmens zielgerichtet und effizient ausgerichtet werden sollen. PMOs können unterschiedliche Aufgaben, Funktionen und organisatorische Rahmenbedingungen haben. Die...

Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), one of the most important developments in radiation oncology in the past 25 years, involves technology to deliver radiation to tumors in the right location, quantity and time. Unavoidable irradiation of surrounding normal tissues is distributed so as to preserve their function. The...

We are proud to offer this unique textbook, the first in Radiology, The International Congress of Radiology, its class presenting state-of-the-art radiologic images of The Radiological Society of North America Assembly, the entire body correlated with underlying pathology. among others made us believe that radiologists, as well This book is...