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Dynamic markets and changing framework conditions (e.g. shortened innovation and product life cycles), whose ever faster change is seen as a major challenge for logistics and thus for distribution and its planning, require a quick adjustment of the distribution of goods within a given distribution structure. The core of this work is a planning concept for the versatile distribution of goods in wholesale distribution systems, which, taking into account the constantly changing influencing factors, enables control and monitoring of the...

The World Bank put the concept of vulnerability in the spotlight of poverty research by presenting it in the World Development Report 2000/01 as an important component of combating poverty. The reason for assigning such a prominent position to vulnerability is threefold: It decreases current well-being, it determines future levels of poverty and it may be at the root of long-term hardship. Building on panel data from rural households in Thailand and Vietnam this book contributes to our knowledge and...

The aortic aneurysm is a common disease that is particularly relevant due to the feared complication of rupture with an extraordinarily high mortality rate. The valid recording of aortic growth is essential, since therapeutic decisions that are relevant for the patient's outcome depend on it. In the present work, the growth behavior of the aorta was quantified, CT-morphological and clinical growth predictors were derived and growth rates were compared on the basis of different parameters. Details Title: Predictors for the...

Infectious diseases alone have historically claimed more lives than wars - be it the "Spanish flu" after World War I or AIDS, malaria, polio and tuberculosis. Together they cost millions of lives every year. A multitude of actors are active in the global health world in the fight against these pathogens, but among this myriad one actor has received little research attention to date: philanthropic foundations. As a result, the question of the efficiency of philanthropic foundations remained largely unaddressed...

With this book, Klaus Behnam Shad presents a provocative reflection on the possibilities and limits of universal ethics, which, particularly in the form of human rights, currently serve to legitimize a wide range of humanitarian interventions. On the one hand, Behnam Shad goes beyond the usual ethnological concern with research-practical moral questions and, on the other hand, beyond the empirical investigation of moral problems of actors in the context of recent anthropology of morality. Rather, he exposes himself and the...

COVER STORY Botch, tricks and rip-offs by tennis service companies. Anyone who entrusts the spring repairs to a specialist company rightly expects professional performance. However, if you end up with the wrong company, you will instead receive bad service, unskilled work and botched places. NEWS 1. Top through breadth - Karl-Georg Altenburg is the new President of the Deutscher Tennis Bundes 2. Farewell TeXX, welcome performance classes - The new binding point and rating system in the DTB 3. 24...

COVER TOPIC Tennis & School. The cooperation with a school can be seen as one of THE possibilities to discover talents and bring new youngsters into the club. Many opportunities for implementation and support pave the way for tennis clubs to go to school - and for students to join the club. NEWS 1. After a successful premiere, the future lies in Berlin - Review of the 25th DTB/VDT Federal Congress 2. When moaning is very (dis)nervating - grunting in...

COVER STORY The tennis surface from Sportas promises outdoor courts that can be played all year round and indoor conditions like a classic clay court. In the meantime, the tennis surface has been installed in 14 European countries as well as in China and Australia. Sportas has developed Tennis Force. RETURNAL asked what makes this new rubber so special and spoke to clubs that have decided on the product. NEWS 1. Women's power in Styria - At the general meeting...

COVER STORY The flood disaster in June 2013 caused devastating damage, especially in northern, southern and eastern Germany. Water levels in the Saale of up to 8.10 meters or even almost 13 meters in the Danube caused masses of water to overflow their banks and caused extensive damage to property and extensive evacuations from parts of the city. In addition to private households and business owners, a large number of tennis clubs in Germany were also existentially affected by the...

Coal has been mined and extracted worldwide for some time. This raw material, which has been described as the engine of industrialization, is mainly used for power generation and steel production and gives countries with sufficient reserves an important position in the world economy by being able to produce their own energy. Germany is one of the countries with the highest coal reserves in the world. RAG Deutsche Steinkohle is part of the RAG Aktiengesellschaft group of companies and is...

The starting point of this work are the traditional stereotypes about black people that are still to be found in Central Europe and, via Europe, also in large parts of the USA. Due to the comprehensive socio-cultural changes of modernity and the resulting new perspectives of what is one's own and what is foreign, the previously stable ethno-characteristic images are currently beginning to become more and more dynamic. This is where the present study comes in, which is based on...

One is generally more persuaded by the reasons one has found oneself than by those which have arisen in the minds of others."  - Blaise Pascal The active examination of the laws of nature, combined with physical knowledge, offers a wealth of learning opportunities for both physics and physical education classes. This can be implemented in a lesson that deals with the topic of sailing across subject boundaries. In this book, possibilities for interdisciplinary teaching are shown and a sample...