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Simon Grimm examines new multi-microphone signal processing strategies that aim to achieve noise reduction and dereverberation. The author analyses how additional knowledge about the location of a speaker as well as the microphone arrangement can be used to achieve further noise reduction and dereverberation.

Omar Abu Mohareb proposes a novel dynamic inductor control (DIC) that can be generally applied to various DC-DC converter types.

The author solves challenges of attributing multifunctionality (co-products) and temporal system boundaries (crop rotations) of agricultural systems by establishing two new Life Cycle Inventory methodologies, which conform to ISO-standards on LCA.

Anne Dreller shows that data sharing offers great opportunities and huge value creation potential for the business world.

Daryoush Daniel Vaziri illustrates that the use of mixed methods designs may support the induction of more subtle and complete theories about older adults' use of technologies for the support of active and healthy aging.

Based on close to two hundred interviews with decision-makers, government officials, and industry stakeholders, Karoline Steinbacher presents the first in-depth enquiry into Germany's efforts of "exporting" its sustainable energy policies.

The concept of a circular economy gains more and more popularity for companies and politics. This book addresses the following research questions: How is the concept of the circular economy implemented?

The target groups are professional engineers and biologists, as well as students of both disciplines. The book presents a selection of methods for specific activities in bio-inspired design, namely: planning a bio-inspired design project, abstraction, search, analysis and comparison, and transfer of analogies.

Kaum ein Begriff wird im Managementdiskurs so leichtfertig gebraucht wie der der Organisationskultur. Wahrend es in der Diskussion bisher eher ublich ist, den Begriff weit zu definieren und darunter so unterschiedliche Phanomene wie Annahmen"e;, Werte"e;, Traditionen"e;, Glaubenssatze"e;, Mythen"e; und Artefakte"e; zusammenzufassen, wird in diesem Buch ein enger Begriff verwendet. Organisationskultur - die informale Struktur einer Organisation - sind die Verhaltenserwartungen, uber die nicht bewusst entschieden wurde, sondern die sich langsam durch Wiederholungen und Imitationen eingeschlichen haben. Es wird gezeigt, wie es mithilfe dieser engen Bestimmung moglich ist, die Kultur einer Organisation genau zu erfassen, um Ansatze fur Veranderungen identifizieren zu konnen. Denn: Die einzige Moglichkeit, die Organisationskultur zu beeinflussen, besteht fur das Management darin - und das mag zunachst paradox klingen -, die formale Struktur der Organisation zu verandern. 

Florian Kumb provides a comprehensive review of the current state of the international literature on the motion picture industry and then applies a mix of appropriate quantitative and qualitative research methods in three empirical studies. He enters uncharted research territory examining the effects that major film characteristics cause in the post-theatrical exhibition, he identifies key factors that influence public film funding decisions, and then forecasts the future market development of a European film-financing network. The author shows that the characteristics of local movies, public film funding, and the local film financing network are major reasons for the low international competitiveness of Germany's motion picture industry.

In diesem essential beschreibt Jan-Uwe Schmidt, wie durch Kiebitzinseln nicht nur dem Kiebitz geholfen wird, sondern auch andere Tier- und Pflanzenarten profitieren konnen. Durch jahrliche Anlage einer Schwarzbrache mit mindestens 2 Hektar Groe lassen sich Nassstellen leicht als Kiebitzbrutplatz einrichten. Landwirte erhohen so die Nachhaltigkeit der Landnutzung und schaffen auerdem einen sicheren Erlos aus der Vergutung der Agrarumweltmanahme. Dieses essential gibt praktische Hinweise zur Planung und Anlage von Kiebitzinseln mithilfe von Luftbildern.

Angela Pohlmann analyses the social embeddedness of renewable energy production. Energy production instead is analyzed as an outcome of complex situations within which dynamic negotiation processes unfold.

Hendrik Herold explores potentials and hindrances of using retrospective geoinformation for monitoring, communicating, modeling, and eventually understanding the complex and gradually evolving processes of land cover and land use change.

Nadja Bieletzki explores how university presidents lead universities. Based on the results from semi-structured expert interviews and their qualitative analysis, the author shows that university presidents do not use all their formal power although their position has been strengthened by law.

By doing so, the author considers the ongoing structural transformation of the Eurasian continent against the backdrop of deepening commercial interconnectivity in Eurasia into broader areas of trade, supported by the rapid development of rail connectivity.

Philipp Bergmeir works on the development and enhancement of data mining and machine learning methods with the aim of analysing automatically huge amounts of load spectrum data that are recorded for large hybrid electric vehicle fleets.