Why doesn't your home page appear on the first page of search results, even when you query your own name? How do other web pages always appear at the top? What creates these powerful rankings? And how? The first book ever about the science of web page rankings, Google's PageRank and Beyond supplies the answers to these and other questions and more.The book serves two very different audiences: the curious science reader and the technical computational reader. The chapters b...

The mathematics behind today's most widely used rating and ranking methodsA website's ranking on Google can spell the difference between success and failure for a new business. NCAA football ratings determine which schools get to play for the big money in postseason bowl games. Product ratings influence everything from the clothes we wear to the movies we select on Netflix. Ratings and rankings are everywhere, but how exactly do they work? Who's #1? offers...

Add value with every decision using a simple yet powerful frameworkFew things are as valuable in business, and in life, as the ability to make good decisions. Can you imagine how much more rewarding your life and your business would be if every decision you made were the best it could be? Decision Quality empowers you to make the best possible choice and get more of what you truly want from every decision.Dr. Carl Spetzler is a leader in the field ...

Das Wörterbuch schlüsselt die zentralen philosophischen Begriffe von der Antike über das Mittelalter bis hin zum deutschen Idealismus auf, erweitert um die Grundbegriffe der Philosophie der Gegenwart. Dieses im Laufe der Zeit zum Klassiker avancierte Wörterbuch schlüsselt die philosophischen Begriffe von der Antike über das Mittelalter bis hin zum deutschen Idealismus auf, erweitert um die Grundbegriffe der Philosophie der Gegenwart und unter Verzicht auf allgemeine philosophiegeschichtlic...

Das jetzt in 4. Auflage vorliegende, komplett überarbeitete Buch "Augenheilkunde" von Albert J. Augustin ist Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk in Einem. Es deckt wie kein anderes deutschsprachiges Werk die gesamte Breite und Tiefe des Fachgebietes ab und berücksichtigt die aktuellsten Kenntnisse der gesamten Augenheilkunde: Diagnostik, medikamentöse und ophthalmochirurgische Therapie werden von zahlreichen Spezialisten ebenso ausführlich dargelegt wie Anatomie, Physiologie, Biochemie, Pathophys...

Band 7 "Grundlagen des Strafverfahrensrechts" widmet sich neben den historischen und verfassungsrechtlichen Grundlagen des Strafverfahrens auch seinen Grundstrukturen, den Prozessmaximen und Verfahrensbeteiligten im Einzelnen, der Stellung und den Aufgaben der Gerichte und der erstinstanzlichen Zuständigkeit, der Tat im prozessualen Sinn und dem Strafklageverbrauch sowie ...

"Essential Practices for Player Development is a must-have book for all coaches aiming to offer their players a progressive pathway of development across a season." –Noel Dempsey, UEFA 'A' Licence Coach, Coach Educator, University Lecturer and Former FA Tutor and Coach Mentor Often coaches find that to keep their players motivated and engaged, they must create new practices every week. But when there are those particular practices that the players enjoy playing again and again which also p...

The early exercise opportunity of an American option makes it challenging to price and an array of approaches have been proposed in the vast literature on this topic. In The Numerical Solution of the American Option Pricing Problem, Carl Chiarella, Boda Kang and Gunter Meyer focus on two numerical approaches that have proved useful for finding all prices, hedge ratios and early exercise boundaries of an American option. One is a finite difference approach which is based on the numerical so...

Festskrift af forfatter og journalist Carl Muusmann i forbindelse med hundredårsjubilæet for firmaet Em. Meyers Eftf.Den 28.juni 1834 modtog grundlæggeren Jørgen Ernst Meyer sit borgerbrev. Dette borgerbrev skulle siden vise sig at danne grundlag for en velstående virksomhed, som små hundrede år senere stadig var i familiens hænder og flere hundrede ansatte større.Festskriftet er tilegnet Fabrikant Emil Meyers minde. Carl Muusmann (1863-1936) var en dansk forfatter og journ...

In der Gerontologie wird die Notwendigkeit hochwertiger Interventionen samt Prävention mit dem Erreichen des Renteneintritts der Babyboomer-Generation, dem stetigen Anstieg der Lebenserwartung und dem künftigen Fachkräftemangel drängender denn je. Vor diesem Hintergrund zeigt die neue "Interventionsgerontologie" wie ihre Vorgänger in den Jahren 2000 und 2012 prägnant das breite Spektrum an verhaltensbezogenen Interventionen in 100 Beiträgen. Neu an der "Interventionsgerontologie" ist eine ...

Few things are as valuable in business, and in life, as the ability to make good decisions. Decision Quality is here to help you make decisions that maximize value creation and manage risk- every time.This audiobook comes from the dynamic team of award- winning educator Carl Spetzler and his colleagues, Hannah Winter and Jennifer Meyer. This trio has helped shape the decision quality profession over the years-in the field and in the classroom. They've also worked with leaders aroun...

This book outlines the World War II experiences of Carl E. Meyers, an Ohio man, from registering for the draft in 1940 to fighting in the European Theater of Operations in 1944. A large part of the book is the letters Meyers wrote home from his basic training and from Europe. This volume traces his military experiences from 1940 to 1944, showing how an average American went through registering for the draft, being drafted, basic training, and combat during World War II.The primary ...