This informative and entertaining book provides a broad look at the fascinating history of CERN, and the physicists working in different areas at CERN who were active in the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Profound and well-structured, the contents combine present day interviews with the scientists of CERN, the world's largest laboratory dedicated to the pursuit of fundamental science, with important figures in the history of science (e.g., Maxwell, Faraday, Einstein), and also gives a lot of information on the history of quantum mechanics and the history of physics from its beginnings.It is an easy-to-read book on a complex topic, providing a very personal insight into the personalities of top scientists and the history of science as well. This invaluable book will capture the interest of the curious reader, telling the story of one of the greatest scientific endeavors ever.

Get More Face Time and Higher Close Rates--the SMART Way Smart Prospecting That Works Every Time! introduces a proven sales method that balances social media marketing strategies, online applications, and traditional appointment-setting techniques to help you connect with more clients and close more sales than ever. "Krause is an uncommon salesperson and author who can turn his common sense into your common dollars." -- Jeffrey Gitomer, author of The Little Red Book of Selling "By implementing Mike’s strategies, you will reap the benefits of making stronger connections with your ideal clients. Read it, use it, and succeed!" -- Tom Hopkins, author of How to Master the Art of Selling "Smart Prospecting cuts through the clutter and gets to the heart of making cold calls successfully." -- Jill Konrath, author of SNAP Selling and Selling to Big Companies "This is not just a must-read, it is must-do book for everyone in sales." -- Stephan Schiffman, author of Cold Calling Techniques (That Really Work!)

Sell or Sink delivers the sales coaching and professional advice you need to keep your business afloat. Business leaders and sales executives need sales sense - the ability to understand and apply consistent, reliable sales growth strategies to attain solid results. Sell or Sink explains a key strategy, and then provides structured questions and actions to help you apply the strategy to your own organization. Each strategy is short and direct so you can move through them quickly while extracting value, developing insight about your organization and providing meaningful information that you can implement right away. At the end of each chapter, diagnostics questions help you apply the foregoing strategies to your own organization. The diagnostics reveal what you need to put your organization's sales team and their results on a sustainable, healthy, upward trajectory. The purpose here is to help you to think constructively about your sales organization, what it is presently and what it can become in the future. Michael Krause wrote Sell or Sink to give you the basics of selling, then show you how to put the lessons to work to achieve your organization's sales goals. Without a basic understanding of selling strategies, you won't sell productively and, ultimately, you and your organization will sink. With a committed focus on these important areas of business basics and adherence to Krause's plan, any company can turn the tide of weak sales and loss of market share in their core line of business.

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Region: USA, grade: 2,0, Dublin Institute of Technology, course: Int. Political Economy, language: English, abstract: When talking about hegemony, mentioning the name Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is inevitable. Gramsci was an Italian theorist who had a significant influence on the definition of the term as we know it today. Although one might think that especially the western society is mostly governed by democratic powers, adherers of hegemonial assumption have a slightly different opinion. This phenomenon will be examined in the following essay written by Michael Krause, Erasmus student at the Dublin Institute of Technology. Emphasis will lay on today’s forces in different fields of society and the question if one or several of these forces can be described as hegemon(s).

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, grade: 1,00, Saint Mary's University (Economics), course: Course: Development Economics, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The paper focuses on international trade and foreign aid in relationship with economic development comparing two former Soviet Union states: Latvia and Georgia. Communism divided the economic world into two different camps, with countries characterized by centrally planned economies and others with a free market economic system. After the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, now capitalism equally separated the former Soviet nations.

Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: We are facing an increasing bandwidth in the mobile systems and this opens up for new applications in a mobile terminal. It will be possible to download, record, send and receive images and videosequences. Even if we have more bandwidth, images and video data must be compressed before it can be sent, because of the amount of information it contains. MPEG-4 and H.263 are standards for compression of video data. The problem is that encoding and decoding algorithms are computationally intensive and complexity increases with the size of the video. In mobile applications, processing capabilities such as memory space and calculation time are limited and optimized algorithms for decoding and encoding are necessary. The question is if it is possible to encode raw video data with low complexity. Single frames e.g. from a digital camera, can then be coded and transmitted as a video sequence. On the other hand, the decoder needs to be able to handle sequences with different resolution. Thus, decoder in new mobile terminals must decode higher resolution sequences with the same complexity as low resolution video requires. The work will involve literature studies of MPEG-4 and H.263. The goal is to investigate the possibility to encode video data with low complexity and to find a way for optimized downscaling of larger sequences in a decoder. The work should include - Literature studies of MPEG-4 and H.263. - Theoretical study how CIF sequences (352x288-pixel) can be downscaled to QCIF (176x144-pixel) size. - Finding of optimized algorithms for a low complexity encoder. - Implementation of such an encoder in a microprocessor, e.g. a DSP. - Complexity analysis of processing consumption. Prerequisite experience is fair C-programming, signalprocessing skills and basic knowledge in H.263 and MPEG-4 is useful. New mobile communication standards provide an increased bandwidth, which opens up for many new media applications and services in future mobile phones. Video recording using the MMS standard, video conferencing and downloading of movies from the Internet are some of those applications. Even if the data rate is high, video data needs to be compressed using international video compression standards such as MPEG-4 or H.263. Efficient video compression algorithms are the focus of this thesis. Very limited computational capabilities of the terminals require low complexity encoder and decoder. A low complexity encoder for usage with [...]

Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: This thesis has the development of a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) based on an Electro-Cardiogram (ECG) analysis system as its main theme. The system measures cardiac signals using two surface ECG leads from which individual heartbeats and pulse trends are extracted. Processed information can be presented on any Bluetooth enabled Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). The system combines several technologies, e.g. signal measuring and forming unit, DSP hard- and software and a WAP1 server with Bluetooth interface. A basis for this project was a master's thesis that investigates and implements WAP over Bluetooth (see Chapters 5 and 6). The focus of this work is hardware and software design of the ECG measurement and DSP system. The DSP software includes implementation of medical real-time algorithms for heart beat detection, average beat and pulse trend calculation. All algorithms have been implemented using the C language. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Inhaltsverzeichnis: Abstract2 Acknowledgement3 Contents4 Figures6 1.Introduction8 1.1System overview8 1.2Functional description9 2.Introduction into heart anatomy, cardiac signals and measuring methods10 2.1The heart and the atrial contraction10 2.2Cardiac signal characterization and measuring methods12 3.Hardware14 3.1Hardware architecture14 3.2Analog measurement hardware design14 3.2.1System architecture15 3.2.2Patient safety aspects16 3.2.3Detailed system description17 3.3DSP hardware26 3.3.1Development board overview26 3.3.2TI TMS320C5402 DSP features27 3.3.3DSP and DSP board integration29 4.Software31 4.1DSP software architecture31 4.2Main program32 4.3Sensor data acquisition and voltage supervision33 4.3.1McBSP33 4.3.2DMA controller36 4.3.3Timer operation39 4.4Digital signal processing40 4.4.1Signal preprocessing41 4.4.2Beat detection and pulse calculation49 4.4.3Average beat and pulse trend calculation50 4.4.4Preamplifier gain setting51 4.5WAP server communication51 4.5.1UART51 4.5.2EWS commands and UART ISR52 4.6Labview PC-application53 5.Embedded WAP-server55 5.1Wireless Application Protocol55 5.1.1The WAP concept55 5.1.2WAP servers57 5.2Embedded WAP server (EWS)57 5.3Medical surveillance WAP application58 6.Bluetooth interface60 6.1Introduction into Bluetooth60 6.2WAP over Bluetooth (WOB) Implementation62 7.Conclusions63 8.References64 Appendix A - ECG measurements hardware65 Appendix B - DSP software source code73 Appendix C [...]

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Region: Western Europe, grade: 1,8, Dublin Institute of Technology, course: Int. Political Economy, language: English, abstract: Stocks are traded worldwide, mails are sent from Australia to Europe and forwarded to the US, the head of the catholic church, Pope Benedict XVI visits Turkey and has a meeting with the head of the Turkish government. 1 Our world has become a so-called “global village” where everyone can interact with everyone else within seconds or even realtime. Links between countries, companies and even individuals are no longer limited to borders, religion or attitudes. The following essay, written by Michael Krause, Erasmus student at the Dublin Institute of Technology, describes how globalization is affecting nowadays life in different fields of society and shows the positive as well as negative influence this global transformation has on lesser developed nations. [...]

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Applied Geography, grade: 1,9, Dublin Institute of Technology (University), course: Irish Culture, language: English, abstract: Early Celtic people were surrounded on all sides by the natural world. They were continually aware of its presence, and their utter dependence on its balance and fertility for their basic nurture and comfort. Even for the most powerful king a harsh winter or a blight on the soil was a serious and sometimes life-endangering issue. Although Ireland’s mythology did not completely survive the conversion into Christianity, a large part of it was preserved in Irish literature. 70 Originally it was recorded in oral form and passed down through the centuries by the Druids, an intellectual religious group, not unlike the Christian monks. The oral traditions recorded history, mythology, and sometimes a combination of both. [...]

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Economics - Job market economics, grade: 1,00 (A+), Saint Mary's University (Economics), 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The labour market within the European Union is an enormously remarkable area to observe several interesting issues regarding relationships between both genders. The multicultural conglomerate is now incorporating 25 autonomous European countries including approximately 379.400.000 million people, who are speaking over 30 different languages. As a result the European Community presents a great variety of distinctive cultures, different federal government systems and diverse lifestyles.