Wie können WissenschaftlerInnen ihre Projekte mit Power auf den Point präsentieren? Als ultimativer Leitfaden übersetzt dieses Buch komplexe Forschung in überzeugende Kurzvorträge. Das innovative ESPRIT-Modell gibt WissenschaftlerInnen die nötigen Tools an die Hand, um Professionalität mit Persönlichkeit zu verbinden und so ihr Zielpublikum zu überzeugen.Dieses Praxis-Handbuch integriert Anwendungen der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) und Foliengestaltung. Praxisorientierte Tipps mit ...

How can scientists present their projects with power to the point? This book is the ultimate guide for transforming complex research into captivating, convincing Science Pitches in a given time. The innovative ESPRIT model equips scientists with tools to blend professional expertise with personal passion, ensuring every presentation resonates deeply with its target audience.This concise manual combines research excellence and professionalism. It integrates artificial intelligence (...

A new book to help senior executives and boards get smart about risk managementThe ability of businesses to survive and thrive often requires unconventional thinking and calculated risk taking. The key is to make the right decisions—even under the most risky, uncertain, and turbulent conditions.In the new book, Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise, authors Rick Funston and Steve Wagner suggest that effective risk t...

The Risk Intelligent Enterprise: Value Creation and Protection, shows how to effectively and efficiently manage risks for future growth and existing assets. The book covers calculated risk taking for reward, how to calculate the risk you take, and if you are taking enough risk. It covers the intelligence needed to identify and successfully take potentially rewarded risk such as entry onto new market with new products or business models and how to avoid unrewarded risks such as non-complian...

NEW WARRIORS IN AN ANCIENT BATTLE…The ongoing battle against the immortal Elder Gods enters the modern age. Magic, mayhem, and murder no longer reign in dusty books discovered in decrepit libraries. Today's monsters can be called by more than uncanny rituals in candlelit basements. Madness lurks on the internet and lives in the locker room. It breeds in the mall and ambushes its victims outside the club.But those who fight this vast evil have also moved int...

This revised and updated third edition of Best New Horror showcases some of the very best short stories and novellas published in 1991. In this vilifying volume you will rediscover terrifying tales by, amongst many others, Ramsey Campbell, Robert McCammon, Dennis Etchison, Elizabeth Hand, Michael Marshall Smith, Charles L. Grant, Joel Lane and Thomas Tessier, along with an overview of the year in horror by the editors and a nightmare necrology of those who kicked off this mortal coil durin...

This revised and updated second edition of Best New Horror showcases some of the very best short stories and novellas published in 1990, the year when the horror boom finally went bust. In this vilifying volume you will rediscover terrifying tales by, amongst many others, Poppy Z. Brite, Jonathan Carroll, Harlan Ellison, Elizabeth Hand, Michael Marshall Smith, Peter Straub, F. Paul Wilson, Gahan Wilson and Gene Wolfe, along with an overview of the year in horror by the editors and a nightm...

AN ANTHOLOGY edited by Stephen Jones & Ramsey CampbellCATEGORY HorrorPUBLICATION DATE September 2014COVER ILLUSTRATION Lee EliasCOVER DESIGN Smith & JonesA 25th Anniversary edition of the longest running anthology series of the very best in horror fiction.Introduction: Horror in 1989 — The EditorsPin — Robert R. McCammonThe House on Cemetery Street — Cherry WilderThe Horn — Stephen GallagherBreaking Up — Alex Quiro...

As the use of AI becomes more and more ubiquitous in companies around the world, managers charged with taking key decisions require resources to enable them to evaluate new projects effectively. The business case for AI projects is not necessarily clear cut and part of the reason for this is the lack of understanding on key decision criteria. AI touches on many ethical concepts - data privacy, validity and more importantly, its potential misuse. AI is often being used to replace human deci...

Reid Malenfant a été renvoyé de la NASA. Il est aujourd'hui un homme d'affaires très fortuné et bien décidé à convaincre le monde de l'intérêt économique et scientifique de l'exploration de notre système.Sa rencontre avec Cornélius Taine, mathématicien de génie, sera décisive. Selon Taine, l'humanité s'éteindra dans deux cents ans. Mais un espoir subsiste : un message a été capté sur un astéroïde proche. Il n'en faut pas plus à Reid pour monter une expédition dont les conséquences s...

Well over a century after Wagners death, the man and his music are as controversial as ever. Praised for his profound insights into the workings of the human heart, he has also been condemned as a dangerous libertine, a proto-fascist and an arrogant bore. His vast four-part operatic Ring cycle has been elevated as one of the greatest achievements of western culture and dismissed as an unparalleled example of creative megalomania. This book makes no attempt to gloss over the darker sides of Wa...

This report examines the use of natural capital (natural resources and services) around the world. It finds that most countries are using these resources inefficiently, and closing these efficiency gaps can address many of the world's pressing economic and environmental problems.