Wissenschaftliche Literatur Techniques

Mareike Elisabeth Hinsch

User Innovation in Techniques

Empirical Studies in the Medical Devices Industry

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Techniques, i.e. systematic activities to accomplish a complex task, play an important role in innovation as they often are a prerequisite for the development of new products or increase the benefit drawn from already existing products. Users are a primary source of new techniques. Even though user-generated techniques are a pervasive phenomenon which can be observed in many different contexts, existing research on user innovation has focused on product and service…

Helmut Wasserbacher

Causal Inference and Causal Machine Learning for Data-Driven Management

Applications in Corporate Finance and Marketing

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

The availability of large amounts of data, coupled with artificial intelligence and machine learning as suitable techniques to exploit them, has led to increasing interest in data-driven management. Data are turned into insights, and insights into management decisions.

In the midst of this passion for artificial intelligence, practitioners must remain aware that most machine learning methods maximize predictive performance. This is not the same as identifying…

Peter Berk / Denis Stajnko / Aleš Belšak

Sensor Based Alternative Plant Protection Product Application Techniques in Orchards

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Dieses Buch stellt die Entwicklung und den Stand der Technik alternativer Pflanzenschutzmittel-Anwendungstechniken auf der Grundlage verschiedener Prinzipien des Sprühgerätebetriebs in den letzten Jahrzehnten dar.

Nach der massiven Einführung der Sprühgeräte in die Obstbauproduktion wurde die Dosierung des Pflanzenschutzmittels (PSM) zur ersten wichtigen Aufgabe, die es zu lösen galt, da es zunächst zu einer enormen Abweichung in den Obstgärten aufgrund der…

Robert Celec

Contribution to the Solution of some Ecological Problems Under the Aspect of Sustainability

EUB. Erziehung – Unterricht – Bildung

The scientific monograph Contribution to the Solution of some Ecological Problems Under the Aspect of Sustainability features six scientific articles that cover different environmental topics.

The first article explores the prevalence and species of ectoparasites in feral pigeons in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The second article discusses the importance of green buildings and safe construction facilities for sustainable community health…

Urška Štremfel

A Decade After the Lisbon Strategy: Decisive for the Development of the EU and National Educational Space

Schriften zur Europapolitik

For a long time, education had been a more or less neglected policy field in European integration. The Lisbon Strategy (2000) marked the turning point, when education was first recognised as important for the social and economic development of the European Union (EU). Since then, EU cooperation in the field has significantly widened and deepened. Following the implementation of two strategic frameworks for European cooperation in education and training (2000–2010,…

Marek Krawiec / Robert Pritchard (eds.)

Seize the Day: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

In Seize the Day: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, educators from several European countries consider new conditions and expectations in foreign-language (FL) teaching, and how teachers may best serve their learners in a changed and changing world.

The volume begins with several articles on the role and attributes of the FL teacher. With a focus on learners that permeates the volume, Marek Krawiec and Agnieszka Miklasz report…

Johanna Sand

Third Parties in Negotiations

Schriftenreihe zum Verhandlungsmanagement

Since negotiators do not always manage to achieve mutually accepted agreements, they seek for better techniques to manage their oftentimes high-impact conflicts. Third-party intervention has been in the focus of alternative dispute resolution especially due to its advantages. However, giving up decision-making power to transfer it to people who are not primarily involved is a delicate business for negotiators. Since relinquishing power always comes with a loss of…

Donna Roberts

Brief Therapy Approaches in the Treatment of Substance Abuse

Schriftenreihe Gesundheitswissenschaften

The use of brief intervention and brief therapy techniques focused on short-term, problem-specific approaches has become an increasingly important part of the continuum of care in the treatment of substance abuse problems and addictive disorders. Currently, the psychotherapy of substance abuse utilizes a wide variety of treatment modalities based on diverse theoretical perspectives, including cognitive-behavioral, strategic and interactional, humanistic and existential,…

Bojan Jošt / Janez Vodičar

Development of the Ski Jump Hill Profile from the Viewpoint of Ski Jumping Technique

Schriften zur Sportwissenschaft

Historicallly, the development of ski jumping hills has been in line with the development of ski jumping techniques. The development of ski jumping centers around the world has made great progress over the past decade, as new ones have been built and many existing centers have been modernized. This monograph presents the brief development of the world’s most recognized ski jumping centers. As a rule, their development has been associated with the organization of major…

Piotr Sulikowski

Mountains and Words – Tadeusz Rózewicz‘s Selected Poems in English

On Translation Techniques in the Language of Poetry

TRANSLATOLOGIE – Studien zur Übersetzungswissenschaft

The literary translation appears to be a dangerous game with an unexpected quantity, a crusade towards new, unknown worlds, a struggle with linguistic and cultural mysteries, intertextual and intersemiotic relationships. The main aim of the monograph is to depict the translation phenomena of Tadeusz Różewicz’s poetry in English. Does the poetry of one of the most important contemporary Polish poets disappear while translated? Does a translation mean the death of the poem?…