Focusing on the theme of compassion, the book explores how understanding and embracing differences can profoundly impact individuals. It highlights the transformative power of empathy in fostering connections and improving lives, encouraging readers to recognize the significance of kindness in their interactions with others.
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Mobile devices, Smartphone Apps, App Usage Behaviors
Focusing on the rapid growth of smartphones and app usage, this thesis explores the Android system and its related studies. It introduces an enhanced experience-sampling questionnaire tool called Fragebogen, designed to aid researchers in collecting data on app usage contexts and to provide developers with valuable feedback on their applications. The tool is tested in a 14-day field study of the official Wikipedia app, generating a data set for analysis and comparison with existing knowledge in the field.
The design and the analysis of thin-walled structures rely on the quality of the geometric models. Isogeometric Analysis provides a natural framework in considering both models as one. Consequently, geometrical errors are excluded by construction. In order to extend the applicability of Isogeometric Analysis, a combination of reconstruction and coupling methods is proposed to perform analysis on trimmed NURBS surfaces. This approach comprises trimmed single and multi-patch surfaces. The performance of this new methodology is highlighted in various examples. Moreover, a new concept, denoted as Isogeometric Load Design, is derived. This method enables to define areas of arbitrary shape to be subjected to a given loading. In particular, these loading areas do not have to conform with the underlying parameterization. Thus, a new feature is added to the framework of integrated design and analysis. Another aspect in the design and analysis of thin-walled structures deals with shape optimization. It can be shown that Isogeometric Analysis and Shape Optimization merge naturally. Moreover, the equality of the involved models provides several advantages compared to the classical approaches. Additionally, it is demonstrated that only the coefficients of a gradient field and not the discrete gradient vectors should be applied to update the design. Otherwise, the influence of the individual design variables and its basis functions is not correctly reflected. In a next step, Isogeometric Shape Optimization is extended from single patch problems to multi-patches. The need for a continuity constraint on the optimization model is delineated and a variational formulation of this constraint is introduced. This formulation provides the possibility to handle design models consisting of conforming and nonconforming multi-patches. At several examples, it is highlighted that this constraint can be used to perpetuate continuity across patch boundaries. Moreover, it is shown that initial non-smoothly joined patches can be transformed during the optimization procedure into a smooth multi-patch shape.
A Psychological View on Human Expectation Formation in Foreign Exchange Markets
Focusing on the psychological factors influencing exchange rate movements, this book explores the emerging field of behavioral economics. It argues that human behavior often strays from economic rationality due to incomplete information and limited cognitive processing abilities. The authors analyze how traders in foreign exchange markets utilize simple heuristics to navigate complex decision-making environments, highlighting the significance of these heuristics in understanding market dynamics.
In the Age of Adventure, a French Count, on his way to the New World to improve his family's fortune, loses his wares and money and is forced into a secret identity and a new career as a pirate. Using his education and leadership skills, Bandry rises to the top of his new profession in a quest to restore the family honor and fortune. In the process, he creates another identity to help him escape the constraints and guilt of piracy that torment him. While leading this life of duel identities, both of which could cause instant death, Bandry discovers his essence and value as a human being. Struggling to extricate himself from his pirate identity, Bandry's life in complicated by Solene's rescue and subsequent guardianship driven by a suppressed sense of nobility. Solene's youth, inexperience, and struggle to escape her gilded prison test the limits of Bandry's resolve. This jeopardizes and adds unneeded complications to his plans to restore himself to his previous status. Can Bandry succeed in his mission or will he be exposed and face a horrible death at the hands of the Pirates or the authorities.
Dr. Ellen Hallett searches for the secret to pheremone attraction. Trying to unravel the mysteries of what triggers desire and mating, she creates a method for mimicking pheremones, the biochemical aphrodisiacs of nature. As she struggles to control the dark side of her discovery, she and her young assistant become the targets of a military madman and a pornography kingpin, both willing to break all the rules to gain her knowledge. Detective Buddy Wescott races to save his daughter, Jesse, and track down two unrelated suspects, all the while aware that somewhere a madman is loose with a biochemical high explosive and the willingness to turn an entire city into a collection of rapists and victims. Robert Schmidt weaves a scorching tale of violence, lust, greed, and courage with every chapter a cliffhanger that never lets up until the final bullet.