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Published by Springer Netherlands Feb 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1402027095ISBN 13: 9781402027093
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a personal account of scholars in philosophy and education with whom I have had the good fortune to interact during the course of my half century at Harvard University and elsewhere. My aim in writing this account is threefold: rst, to recapture for myself the pleasure of their memorable company for its own sake, secondly, to have occasion to re ect on the educational impact of their teaching, and, nally, to counteract the prevalent amnesia of universities by recalling the conduct of scholars of past generations who still have things to teach us. Iowe thanks to many people who have helped me in this endeavor. Professor Harvey Siegel, Dr. Stefania Jha, and Dr. Rosalind Schef er read initial versions of the manuscript and gave me the bene t of their criticisms, as did the publisher s anonymous readers. JoAnne Sorabella and Stefania Jha listened to my readings of a number of these chapters, and JoAnne Sorabella produced several typescripts of the whole with her usual matchless pro ciency. I presented some portions of the manuscript to the Philosophy of Education Research Center at Harvard and pro ted from these occasions. After I joined the Mandel Center at Brandeis University in the Fall of 2003, Avital Feuer assisted me ably in readying the nal version of the book. And I am grateful to Laurie Schef er for her meticulous help with proofreading. 176 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402031106ISBN 13: 9781402031106
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Plates and panels are primary components in many structures including space vehicles, aircraft, automobiles, buildings, bridge decks, ships and submarines. The ability to design, analyse, optimise and select the proper materials for these structures is a necessity for structural designers, analysts and researchers.This text consists of four parts. The first deals with plates of isotropic (metallic and polymeric) materials. The second involves composite material plates, including anisotropy and laminate considerations. The third section treats sandwich constructions of various types, and the final section gives an introduction to plates involving piezoelectric materials, in which the 'smart' or 'intelligent' materials are used as actuators or sensors.In each section, the formulations encompass plate structures subjected to static loads, dynamic loads, buckling, thermal/moisture environments, and minimum weight structural optimisation.This is a textbook for a graduate course, an undergraduate senior course and a reference. Many homework problems are given in various chapters. 444 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402031211ISBN 13: 9781402031212
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume presents a unified approach to constructing iterative methods for solving irregular operator equations and provides rigorous theoretical analysis for several classes of these methods. The analysis of methods includes convergence theorems as well as necessary and sufficient conditions for their convergence at a given rate. The principal groups of methods studied in the book are iterative processes based on the technique of universal linear approximations, stable gradient-type processes, and methods of stable continuous approximations. Compared to existing monographs and textbooks on ill-posed problems, the main distinguishing feature of the presented approach is that it doesn't require any structural conditions on equations under consideration, except for standard smoothness conditions. This allows to obtain in a uniform style stable iterative methods applicable to wide classes of nonlinear inverse problems. Practical efficiency of suggested algorithms is illustrated in application to inverse problems of potential theory and acoustic scattering. The volume can be read by anyone with a basic knowledge of functional analysis.The book will be of interest to applied mathematicians and specialists in mathematical modeling and inverse problems. 308 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 140202472XISBN 13: 9781402024726
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Most people (including moral philosophers), when faced with the fact that some of their cherished moral views lead up to the Repugnant Conclusion, feel that they have to revise their moral outlook. However, it is a moot question as to how this should be done. It is not an easy thing to say how one should avoid the Repugnant Conclusion, without having to face even more serious implications from one's basic moral outlook. Several such attempts are presented in this volume. This is the first volume devoted entirely to the cardinal problem of modern population ethics, known as 'The Repugnant Conclusion'.This book is a must for (moral) philosophers with an interest in population ethics. 272 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402031297ISBN 13: 9781402031298
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Any list of the most influential figures of the second half of the twentieth century would arguably have to begin with the name of Pope John Paul II. From 1978, when he was inaugurated, to the present, over a quarter of a century later, the Pope has been a dominant force in the world, both within the Catholic and Christian Church, and in the larger international community. Among the areas in which the Pope has been of signal importance to contemporary discussion, argument, and policy has been the field of bioethics. This collection brings together for the first time in an accessible and readable form a summary and assessment of John Paul II's contribution to bioethical issues and theories. It includes discussion of the Pope's views on the dignity of the person and the sanctity of human life, and the application of these views to various difficulties in medical ethics such as abortion and embryo research, the right to health care and the problem of suffering. Throughout, attention is paid to the way in which the Pope stands as a recognizably authentic voice for the Catholic faith in the medical arena. 200 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402023731ISBN 13: 9781402023736
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book assembles major writings in speech production and phonetics of the pioneering Gunnar Fant, along with his more recent work on speech prosody. The book reviews the stages of the speech chain, covering production, speech data analysis and speech perception. 19 selected articles are grouped in 6 chapters, including a historical outline plus Speech production and synthesis; The voice source; Speech analysis and features; Speech perception; Prosody. 336 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 140202701XISBN 13: 9781402027017
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In facing the challenges of rapid globalization, IT intensification, international competition and local demands for developments, educators, scholars and leaders in the Asia-Pacific region and other parts of the world are concerned with reforms of teacher education for the future of education in the new millennium. This edited volume aims to provide a global sharing of the major trends and characteristics of the ongoing teacher education reforms in this region and the major challenges and issues raised in policy formulation and reform implementation.With a total of 14 chapters prepared by 18 scholars from nine educational systems - Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and United States - in the Asia-Pacific region, the book highlights the trends and challenges in the reform of teacher education in the region generally and in eight educational systems in particular. Most chapters directly or indirectly address the latest issues of teacher education and development at operational, site, and macro levels from a national or regional perspective.This volume is of interest to teachers, teacher educators, researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders in all developed and developing countries. 252 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402026757ISBN 13: 9781402026751
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -For professional speech researchers, there is a rich technical literature covering many years of primary research in speech. However, this literature is not necessarily applicable to the needs of business people, application developers, and students who are interested in learning about the practical uses of speech technology. On the other hand, while existing introductory resources cover the basic mechanics of development of application development as well as aspects of the voice user interface, they don't go far enough in dealing with the details that have to be taken into account to make spoken dialog systems successful in practice. What's missing is information in between the in-depth technical literature and the more introductory development resources. The goal of this book is to provide information for anyone who wants to take the next step beyond the basics of current speech applications but isn't yet ready to dive into the technical literature. It is hoped that this book will help project managers, application developers, and students gain a fuller and more complete understanding of spoken dialog technology and the practical aspects of developing and deploying spoken dialog applications. 248 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402030991ISBN 13: 9781402030994
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides extensive insight on remote sensing of coastal waters from aircraft and space-based platforms. The primary focus of the book is optical remote sensing using passive instruments, to measure and analyze the coastal aquatic environment. The authors have gathered information from a variety of sources, to help non-specialists grasp new techniques and technology, to quickly produce useful data 368 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402028091ISBN 13: 9781402028090
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'Potential anatomical spaces' have attracted surgeons in the past and in recent years. Due to the development of modern imaging techniques and the advent of minimally invasive surgery, access to these spaces has become a real surgical option.The purpose of this book is to document the challenges related to 'potential anatomical spaces', traditionally described as 'hidden' spaces.The spread of video-assisted surgery and its application in the management of diseases involving organs or anatomical structures placed in the 'potential spaces' (neck, mediastinum, pro-peritoneum and retro-peritoneum, subfacial space of the leg, and axilla), has rendered their surgical anatomy less abstract. 168 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 140203086XISBN 13: 9781402030864
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This multidisciplinary study combines social science, energy analysis, and risk communication, using theory, research, and computer-aided interviews to illustrate the range and relative effectiveness of interventions that support sustainable energy consumption. Based on award-winning research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the book combines analytical modeling techniques with social science on sustainable consumption. 236 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer Netherlands Feb 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1402030126ISBN 13: 9781402030123
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This proceedings volume archives the contributions of the speakers who attended the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on 'Science and Technology of Semiconductor-On-Insulator Structures and Devices Operating in a Harsh Environment' held at the Sanatorium Puscha Ozerna, th th Kyiv, Ukraine, from 25 to 29 April 2004. The semiconductor industry has maintained a very rapid growth during the last three decades through impressive technological achievements which have resulted in products with higher performance and lower cost per function. After many years of development semiconductor-on-insulator materials have entered volume production and will increasingly be used by the manufacturing industry. The wider use of semiconductor (especially silicon) on insulator materials will not only enable the benefits of these materials to be further demonstrated but, also, will drive down the cost of substrates which, in turn, will stimulate the development of other novel devices and applications. In itself this trend will encourage the promotion of the skills and ideas generated by researchers in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and their incorporation in future collaborations. 364 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer Netherlands Feb 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1402030118ISBN 13: 9781402030116
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This proceedings volume archives the contributions of the speakers who attended the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on 'Science and Technology of Semiconductor-On-Insulator Structures and Devices Operating in a Harsh Environment' held at the Sanatorium Puscha Ozerna, th th Kyiv, Ukraine, from 25 to 29 April 2004. The semiconductor industry has maintained a very rapid growth during the last three decades through impressive technological achievements which have resulted in products with higher performance and lower cost per function. After many years of development semiconductor-on-insulator materials have entered volume production and will increasingly be used by the manufacturing industry. The wider use of semiconductor (especially silicon) on insulator materials will not only enable the benefits of these materials to be further demonstrated but, also, will drive down the cost of substrates which, in turn, will stimulate the development of other novel devices and applications. In itself this trend will encourage the promotion of the skills and ideas generated by researchers in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and their incorporation in future collaborations. 364 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402030398ISBN 13: 9781402030390
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -For many years I was organizing a weekly seminar on dynamical astronomy, and I used to make some historical remarks on every subject, including some anecdotes from my contacts with many leading scientists over the years. I described also the development of various subjects and the emergence of new ideasindynamicalastronomy. Thenseveralpeoplepromptedmetowritedown these remarks, which cannot be found in papers, or books. Thus, I decided to write this book, which contains my experiences over the years. I hope that this book may be helpful to astronomy students all over the world. During my many years of teaching, as a visiting professor, in American Universities (1962-1994, Yale, Harvard, MIT, Cornell, Chicago, Maryland and Florida) I was impressed by the quality of my graduate students. Most of them were very bright, asking penetrating questions, and preparing their homework in a perfect way. In a few cases, instead of a nal examination, I assigned to them some small research projects and they presented their results at the end of the course. They were excellent in preparing the appropriate slides and in presenting their results in a concise and clear way. 212 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402029616ISBN 13: 9781402029615
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The concept of summerschools and workshops at the Kanzelh ohe Solar Observatory,Karn ten,Austria,devotedtoup-to-datetopicsinsolarphysics has been proven to be extremely successful, and thus in August/September 2003 the third combined summerschool and workshop was held there. This book contains the proceedings of the Summerschool and Wo- shop Solar Magnetic Phenomena held from 25 August to 5 September 2003 at the Solar Observatory Kanzelh ohe, which belongs to the Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics and Meteorology of the University of Graz, Austria. The book contains the contributions from six invited lecturers. They give an overview on the following topics: observations of the pho- sphere and chromosphere, solar are observations and theory, coronal mass ejections and the relevance of magnetic helicity, high-energy radiation from the Sun, the physics of solar prominences and highlights from the SOHO mission. The lectures contain about 25 to 30 pages each and provide a valuableintroduction to the topics mentioned above. The comprehensive lists ofreferences at theendof each contribution enablethe interested reader to go into more detail. The second part of the book contains contributed papers. These - pers were presented anddiscussed in theworkshop sessions during the afternoons. The sessions stimulated intensive discussions between the p- ticipants and lecturers. 304 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402030584ISBN 13: 9781402030581
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The emergence of topological quantum eld theory has been one of the most important breakthroughs which have occurred in the context of ma- ematical physics in the last century, a century characterizedbyindependent developments of the main ideas in both disciplines, physics and mathematics, which has concluded with two decades of strong interaction between them, where physics, as in previous centuries, has acted as a source of new mat- matics. Topological quantum eld theories constitute the core of these p- nomena, although the main drivingforce behind it has been the enormous e ort made in theoretical particle physics to understand string theory as a theory able to unify the four fundamental interactions observed in nature. These theories set up a new realm where both disciplines pro t from each other. Although the most striking results have appeared on the mathema- calside,theoreticalphysicshasclearlyalsobene tted,sincethecorresponding developments have helped better to understand aspects of the fundamentals of eld and string theory. 236 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402030185ISBN 13: 9781402030185
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -As the characteristic dimensions of electronic devices continue to shrink, the ability to characterize their electronic properties at the nanometer scale has come to be of outstanding importance. In this sense, Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) is becoming an indispensable tool, playing a key role in nanoscience and nanotechnology. SPM is opening new opportunities to measure semiconductor electronic properties with unprecedented spatial resolution. SPM is being successfully applied for nanoscale characterization of ferroelectric thin films. In the area of functional molecular materials it is being used as a probe to contact molecular structures in order to characterize their electrical properties, as a manipulator to assemble nanoparticles and nanotubes into simple devices, and as a tool to pattern molecular nanostructures. This book provides in-depth information on new and emerging applications of SPM to the field of materials science, namely in the areas of characterisation, device application and nanofabrication of functional materials. Starting with the general properties of functional materials the authors present an updated overview of the fundamentals of Scanning Probe Techniques and the application of SPM techniques to the characterization of specified functional materials such as piezoelectric and ferroelectric and to the fabrication of some nano electronic devices. Its uniqueness is in the combination of the fundamental nanoscale research with the progress in fabrication of realistic nanodevices. By bringing together the contribution of leading researchers from the materials science and SPM communities, relevant information is conveyed that allows researchers to learn more about the actual developments in SPM applied to functional materials. This book will contribute to the continuous education and development in the field of nanotechnology. 528 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402030509ISBN 13: 9781402030505
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Intelligent Multimodal Information Presentation relates to the ability of a computer system to automatically produce interactive information presentations, taking into account the specifics about the user, such as needs, interests and knowledge, and engaging in a collaborative interaction that helps the retrieval of relevant information and its understanding on the part of the user.The volume includes descriptions of some of the most representative recent works on Intelligent Information Presentation and a view of the challenges ahead. 358 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402027176ISBN 13: 9781402027178
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The researchers in the field of theoretical and theoretically inclined descriptive linguistics have for a long time felt a need for detailed and clearly presented linguistic treatments of various syntactic phenomena in South Asian languages.Clause Structure in South Asian Languages:provides a comprehensive overview and covers major aspects of clause structure in a variety of South Asian languages;provides detailed analyses of several aspects of phrase structure of many prominent South Asian languages;gives theoretically up-to-date treatment of several important issues in South Asian syntax and semantics;contains papers by some of the most prominent linguists working on South Asian languages. 332 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402027184ISBN 13: 9781402027185
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The researchers in the field of theoretical and theoretically inclined descriptive linguistics have for a long time felt a need for detailed and clearly presented linguistic treatments of various syntactic phenomena in South Asian languages.Clause Structure in South Asian Languages:provides a comprehensive overview and covers major aspects of clause structure in a variety of South Asian languages;provides detailed analyses of several aspects of phrase structure of many prominent South Asian languages;gives theoretically up-to-date treatment of several important issues in South Asian syntax and semantics;contains papers by some of the most prominent linguists working on South Asian languages. 332 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402030096ISBN 13: 9781402030093
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This outstanding volume provides an up-to-date overview of the advances in our knowledge of harmful cyanobacteria. An essential reference for all scientists and environmental professionals interested in cyanobacterial ecology and water management. 260 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402022948ISBN 13: 9781402022944
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Parsing can be defined as the decomposition of complex structures into their constituent parts, and parsing technology as the methods, the tools, and the software to parse automatically. Parsing is a central area of research in the automatic processing of human language. Parsers are being used in many application areas, for example question answering, extraction of information from text, speech recognition and understanding, and machine translation. New developments in parsing technology are thus widely applicable. This book contains contributions from many of today's leading researchers in the area of natural language parsing technology. The contributors describe their most recent work and a diverse range of techniques and results. This collection provides an excellent picture of the current state of affairs in this area. This volume is the third in a series of such collections, and its breadth of coverage should make it suitable both as an overview of the current state of the field for graduate students, and as a reference for established researchers. 420 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402017634ISBN 13: 9781402017636
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Public Health Policy and Ethics brings together philosophers and practitioners to address the foundations and principles upon which public health policy may be advanced. What is the basis that justifies public health in the first place Why should individuals be disadvantaged for the sake of the group How do policy concerns and clinical practice work together and work against each other Can the boundaries of public health be extended to include social ills that are amenable to group-dynamic solutions These are some of the crucial questions that form the core of this volume of original essays sure to cause practitioners to engage in a critical re-evaluation of the role of ethics in public health policy. This volume is unique because of its philosophical approach. It develops a theoretical basis for public health and then examines cutting-edge issues of practice that include social and political issues of public health. In this way the book extends the usual purview of public health. Public Health Policy and Ethics is of interest to those working in public health policy, ethics and social philosophy. It may be used as a textbook for courses on public health policy and ethics, medical ethics, social philosophy and applied or public philosophy. 280 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402030746ISBN 13: 9781402030741
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is based on publications from the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Multi-Modal Dialogue in Mobile Environments held at Kloster Irsee, Germany, in 2002. The workshop covered various aspects of devel- ment and evaluation of spoken multimodal dialogue systems and components with particular emphasis on mobile environments, and discussed the state-- the-art within this area. On the development side the major aspects addressed include speech recognition, dialogue management, multimodal output gene- tion, system architectures, full applications, and user interface issues. On the evaluation side primarily usability evaluation was addressed. A number of high quality papers from the workshop were selected to form the basis of this book. The volume is divided into three major parts which group together the ov- all aspects covered by the workshop. The selected papers have all been - tended, reviewed and improved after the workshop to form the backbone of the book. In addition, we have supplemented each of the three parts by an invited contribution intended to serve as an overview chapter. 436 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402030614ISBN 13: 9781402030611
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Like its predecessor, New Dimensions in Bioethics, this volume developed out of a series of lectures at Yale University's Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Each speaker in the Bioethics & Public Policy Seminar Series was invited because of her or his expertise in a given area of bioethics. Each of the more successful participants was invited to contribute a manuscript for publication. The essays are bound together by the application of an ethical analysis to scientific questions, and by consideration of policy implications. At its inception, bioethics was virtually synonymous with medical ethics. As the field grew and attracted new practitioners, it became clear that other applications of this new subject required extension of its scope. For example, environmental ethics, propelled by such authors as Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, quickly developed a vigorous literature of its own. More recently, developments in the analysis of the human genome, the enticing medical possibilities offered by the therapeutic use of stem cells, the complexities surrounding the cloning of animals and possibly humans and the development of transgenic agricultural crops have given new impetus to the expansion of traditional bioethical horizons. Bioethics must now adjust to these new realities, for it is clear that public interest in the field is growing as these new challenges appear. 280 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402029462ISBN 13: 9781402029462
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -From the 18th to the 30th August 2003 , a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) was held in Cargèse, Corsica, France. Cargèse is a nice small village situated by the mediterranean sea and the Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese provides a traditional place to organize Theoretical Physics Summer Schools and Workshops \* in a closed and well equiped place. The ASI was an International Summer School on 'Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Classical and Quantum Systems'. The main goal of the school was to develop the mutual interaction between Physics and Mathematics concerning statistical properties of classical and quantum dynamical systems. Various experimental and numerical observations have shown new phenomena of chaotic and anomalous transport, fractal structures, chaos in physics accelerators and in cooled atoms inside atom-optics billiards, space-time chaos, fluctuations far from equilibrium, quantum decoherence etc. New theoretical methods have been developed in order to modelize and to understand these phenomena (volume preserving and ergodic dynamical systems, non-equilibrium statistical dynamics, fractional kinetics, coupled maps, space-time entropy, quantum dissipative processes etc). The school gathered a team of specialists from several horizons lecturing and discussing on the achievements, perspectives and open problems (both fundamental and applied). 476 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402031688ISBN 13: 9781402031687
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Computer Engineering in Applied Electromagnetism contains papers which were presented at the International Symposium on Electromagnetic Fields in Electrical Engineering, held in Maribor, Slovenia, 18-20 September 2003. It consists of three parts, Computational Techniques, Electromagnetic Engineering, and Special Applications.The contributions selected for the book cover a wide spectrum of theory and practice, being simultaneously of high theoretical level and deeply rooted in engineering problems. Thus, this volume touches on what is of key importance in electromagnetism. 384 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402030150ISBN 13: 9781402030154
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The advance of scienti c thought in ways resembles biological and geologic transformation: long periods of gradual change punctuated by episodes of radical upheaval. Twentieth century physics witnessed at least three major shifts - relativity, quantum mechanics and chaos theory - as well many lesser ones. Now, st early in the 21 , another shift appears imminent, this one involving the second law of thermodynamics. Over the last 20 years the absolute status of the second law has come under increased scrutiny, more than during any other period its 180-year history. Since the early 1980's, roughly 50 papers representing over 20 challenges have appeared in the refereed scienti c literature. In July 2002, the rst conference on its status was convened at the University of San Diego, attended by 120 researchers from 25 countries (QLSL2002) [1]. In 2003, the second edition of Le 's and Rex's classic anthology on Maxwell demons appeared [2], further raising interest in this emerging eld. In 2004, the mainstream scienti c journal Entropy published a special edition devoted to second law challenges [3]. And, in July 2004, an echo of QLSL2002 was held in Prague, Czech Republic [4]. Modern second law challenges began in the early 1980's with the theoretical proposals of Gordon and Denur. Starting in the mid-1990's, several proposals for experimentally testable challenges were advanced by Sheehan, et al. By the late 1990's and early 2000's, a rapid succession of theoretical quantum mechanical challenges were being advanced by C apek, et al. 372 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 1402030533ISBN 13: 9781402030536
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Genomes and Genomics of Nitrogen-fixing Organisms This is Volume 3 of a seven-volume series on all aspects of Nitrogen Fixation. The series aims to be the definitive authority in the field and to act as a benchmark for some years to come. Rather than attempting to cram the whole field into a single volume, the subject matter is divided among seven volumes to allow authors the luxury of writing in depth with a comprehensive reference base. All authors are recognized practicing scientists in the area of their contribution, which ensures the high quality, relevance, and readability of the chapters. In establishing the rationale for, and the organization of, this book, we realized the need to divide it into two sections. The first section should be organism based and should review our current knowledge of the genomes of nitrogen-fixing organisms and what these nucleotide sequences tell us. The second section should then be technology based. It should review what technologies are available to mine the data inherent in the nucleotide sequences and how they are now being used to produce gene-function data from differential gene expression. 264 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer Netherlands Feb 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1402031238ISBN 13: 9781402031236
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -An academically focused collection of papers highlighting the successes and challenges of a move from disaster to risk management in responding to drought. The book passes on the experiences gained from Australia's trail-blazing new policy, introduced in 1992. 224 pp. Englisch.