The Handbook of Feynman Path Integrals appears just fifty years after Richard Feynman published his pioneering paper in 1948 entitled „Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics“, in which he introduced his new formulation of quantum mechanics in terms of path integrals. The book presents for the first time a comprehensive table of Feynman path integrals together with an extensive list of references; it will serve the reader as a thorough introduction to the theory of path integrals. As a reference book, it is unique in its scope and will be essential for many physicists, chemists and mathematicians working in different areas of research.
Mass Customization is a strategic approach that aims at exploiting heterogeneous markets by creating high-variety product offerings that enable customers to find products that meet their individual needs. However, implementing such a business model requires companies to acquire the strategic capability of solution space development: a firm's ability to identify the drivers of product variety in a product domain and conceptualize a respective high-variety product offering. Surprisingly, this product management task has rather been neglected in current management literature. In order to address this gap in existing research, this dissertation investigates the phenomenon of solutions space development for mass customization in detail. The study adds to existing research by developing a theoretical framework for solution space development and deriving a catalog of managerial activities, methods and tools that can be applied in this context. Therefore, a broad list of managerial activities and organizational mechanisms is suggested and linked to a set of essential tasks of solution space development, which have been defined through prior analysis. Beyond this analysis of the strategic capability of solution space development for mass customization, this dissertation develops formative measurement indices for all three strategic capabilities of mass customization. The resulting measurement tool carries important managerial implications, as it enables practitioners to benchmark their company's mass customization performance against the performance of potential competitors. Thus, the benchmarking tool helps practitioners to identify specific activities that must be implemented and resources that need to be acquired in order to improve a firm´s mass customization strategy.
Albert Einstein, der größte Physiker seit Newton, wurde 1879 in Ulm geboren. Im Jahre 1929 schrieb er der „Ulmer Abendpost“ auf eine Anfrage: „Die Stadt der Geburt hängt dem Leben als etwas ebenso Einzigartiges an wie die Herkunft von der leiblichen Mutter. Auch der Geburtsstadt verdanken wir einen Teil unseres Wesens. So gedenke ich Ulms in Dankbarkeit, da es edle künstlerische Tradition mit schlichter und gesunder Wesensart verbindet.“ Das Jubiläum des 125. Geburtstags wurde in Ulm mit zahlreichen wissenschaftlichen und festlichen Veranstaltungen gefeiert. Dieses faszinierende Buch enthält die öffentlichen Vorträge, die im Einstein-Jahr 2004 im Stadthaus Ulm von der Universität Ulm im Rahmen des studium generale und der „Einstein-Vorlesungen“ durchgeführt wurden. Physiker, Wissenschaftshistoriker und Einstein-Forscher schildern auf allgemeinverständliche Weise Leben und Werk des Genies Albert Einstein. Der Nobelpreisträger von 1921 ist nicht nur der Schöpfer der Speziellen und Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, sondern hat auch mit seinen bahnbrechenden Arbeiten über das Licht, die Atome und Quanten unser modernes Weltbild revolutioniert.
