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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Award-winning monograph of the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize 2002.The subject of this book is the study of automorphic distributions, by which is meant distributions on R2 invariant under the linear action of SL(2,Z), and of the operators associated with such distributions under the Weyl rule of symbolic calculus.Researchers and postgraduates interested in pseudodifferential analyis, the theory of non-holomorphic modular forms, and symbolic calculi will benefit from the clear exposition and new results and insights.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Communication networks are very complex and interdependent systems requiring complicated management and control operations under strict resource and time constraints. A finite number of network components with limited capacities need to be shared for dynamically allocating a high number of traffic demands. Moreover, coordination of peer provider is required whenever these demands span domains controlled by distinct operators. In this context, traditional human-driven management is becoming increasingly inadequate to cope with the growing heterogeneity of actors, services and technologies populating the current deregulated market.This book proposes a novel approach to improve multi-provider interactions based on the coordination of autonomous and self-motivated software entities acting on behalf of distinct operators. Coordination is achieved by means of distributed constraint satisfaction techniques integrated within economic mechanisms, which enable automated negotiations to take place. This allows software agents to find efficient allocations of service demands spanning several networks without having to reveal strategic or confidential data. In addition, a novel way of addressing resource allocation and pricing in a compact framework is made possible by the use of powerful resource abstraction techniques.The book is addressed to researchers in the area of agent technology, automated negotiation, distributed constraint satisfaction, and networking, in particular for what concerns resource allocation and pricing. Furthermore, it should be a valuable resource for both network and service providersSpringer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 296 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Die Bedeutung Hossdorfs für das architektonische Geschehen der 50er bis 70er Jahre ist erst in jüngster Zeit erkannt worden. Obwohl er als Bauingenieur vorwiegend im Bereich des Hochbaus tätig war, oft im Schatten der ihn beiziehenden Architekten, tritt seine eigene Handschrift bei diesen Bauten deutlich zu Tage. In seinem Privatinstitut entstand ein eigenes Modellversuchslaboratorium in dem er neuartige Messgeräte bis hin zu kompletten computergesteuerten Versuchs- und Berechnungssystemen, wie die weltweit beachtete 'Hybridstatik', entwickelte.Springer Basel AG in Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin 276 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Because of the correspondences existing among all levels of reality, truths pertaining to a lower level can be considered as symbols of truths at a higher level and can therefore be the 'foundation' or support leading by analogy to a knowledge of the latter. This confers to every science a superior or 'elevating' meaning, far deeper than its own original one. - R. GUENON, The Crisis of Modern World Having been interested in the Kepler Problem for a long time, I have al ways found it astonishing that no book has been written yet that would address all aspects of the problem. Besides hundreds of articles, at least three books (to my knowledge) have indeed been published al ready on the subject, namely Englefield (1972), Stiefel & Scheifele (1971) and Guillemin & Sternberg (1990). Each of these three books deals only with one or another aspect of the problem, though. For example, En glefield (1972) treats only the quantum aspects, and that in a local way. Similarly, Stiefel & Scheifele (1971) only considers the linearization of the equations of motion with application to the perturbations of celes tial mechanics. Finally, Guillemin & Sternberg (1990) is devoted to the group theoretical and geometrical structure.Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 464 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -This book contains the proceedings of the conference 'Fractals in Graz 2001 - Analysis, Dynamics, Geometry, Stochastics' that was held in the second week of June 2001 at Graz University of Technology, in the capital of Styria, southeastern province of Austria. The scientific committee of the meeting consisted of M. Barlow (Vancouver), R. Strichartz (Ithaca), P. Grabner and W. Woess (both Graz), the latter two being the local organizers and editors of this volume. We made an effort to unite in the conference as well as in the present pro ceedings a multitude of different directions of active current work, and to bring together researchers from various countries as well as research fields that all are linked in some way with the modern theory of fractal structures. Although (or because) in Graz there is only a very small group working on fractal structures, consisting of 'non-insiders', we hope to have been successful with this program of wide horizons. All papers were written upon explicit invitation by the editors, and we are happy to be able to present this representative panorama of recent work on poten tial theory, random walks, spectral theory, fractal groups, dynamic systems, fractal geometry, and more. The papers presented here underwent a refereeing process.Springer Nature c/o IBS, Benzstrasse 21, 48619 Heek 296 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The seminar on Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Physics of the Ca tholic University of Chile, started in Santiago in 1984, has being followed and enlarged since 1995 by a series of international workshops aimed at pro moting a wide-spectrum dialogue between experts on the fields of classical and quantum stochastic analysis, mathematical physics, and physics. This volume collects most of the contributions to the Fourth Interna tional Workshop on Stochastic Analysis and Mathematical Physics (whose Spanish abbreviation is 'ANESTOC'; in English, 'STAMP'), held in San tiago, Chile, from January 5 to 11, 2000. The workshop style stimulated a vivid exchange of ideas which finally led to a number of written con tributions which I am glad to introduce here. However, we are currently submitted to a sort of invasion of proceedings books, and we do not want to increase our own shelves with a new one of the like. On the other hand, the editors of conference proceedings have to use different exhausting and com pulsive strategies to persuade authors to write and provide texts in time, a task which terrifies us. As a result, this volume is aimed at smoothly start ing a new kind of publication. What we would like to have is a collection of books organized like our seminar. 162 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book introduces new techniques that imply rigorous lower bounds on the com plexity of some number-theoretic and cryptographic problems. It also establishes certain attractive pseudorandom properties of various cryptographic primitives. These methods and techniques are based on bounds of character sums and num bers of solutions of some polynomial equations over finite fields and residue rings. Other number theoretic techniques such as sieve methods and lattice reduction algorithms are used as well. The book also contains a number of open problems and proposals for further research. The emphasis is on obtaining unconditional rigorously proved statements. The bright side of this approach is that the results do not depend on any assumptions or conjectures. On the downside, the results are much weaker than those which are widely believed to be true. We obtain several lower bounds, exponential in terms of logp, on the degrees and orders of o polynomials; o algebraic functions; o Boolean functions; o linear recurrence sequences; coinciding with values of the discrete logarithm modulo a prime p at sufficiently many points (the number of points can be as small as pI/2+O:). These functions are considered over the residue ring modulo p and over the residue ring modulo an arbitrary divisor d of p - 1. The case of d = 2 is of special interest since it corresponds to the representation of the rightmost bit of the discrete logarithm and defines whether the argument is a quadratic residue. 414 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This manual reflects practical approaches to handling bacteria in the labora tory. It is designed to recall historical methods of bacterial genetics that have had recent developments and to present new techniques that allow full genome analysis. It has been written for microbiologists who need to group their protocols at the state of the art of a new millennium and also for scientists in other fields of life sciences who need to use bacteria for their research. Teachers, graduate students, and postdocs also will benefit from having these protocols to help them understand modern bacterial genetics. I learned so much from these contributions from my colleagues that I have no doubt about the daily usefulness of this book. April 2002 Michel Blot XII Abbreviations Acyl-HSL N-acyl homoserine lactone moi multiplicity of infection Amp or Ap ampicillin N amino C carboxy NMR nuclear magnetic resonance CIO-HSL N-decanoyl-L-homoserine lactone 3-0H-C14:1-HSL N-(3-hydroxy-7 -cis-tetra- C12-HSL N-dodecanoyl-L-homoserine lac- decanoyl)homo-serine lactone tone 3-0H-C4-HSL N-3-hydroxybutanoyl-L- C14-HSL N-tetradecanoyl-L-homoserine homoserine lactone lactone ONPG o-nitrophenyl ~-D-galactopyranoside C4-HSL N-butanoyl-L-homoserine lactone ORF open reading frame C6-HSL N-hexanoyl-L-homoserine lactone OTG I-S-octyl-~-D-thioglucoside C8-HSL N-octanoyl-L-homoserine lactone 3-oxo-CIO-HSL N-3-oxodecanoyl-L-homo- Cam or Cm chloramphenicol serine lactone CBD chitin binding domain 3-oxo-C12-HSL N-3-oxododecanoyl-L CHEF contour clamped homogenous electric homoserine lactone field 3-oxo-C14-HSL N-3-oxotetradecanoyl-L CI consistency index homoserine lactone CRIM conditional-replication, integration, 3-oxo-C4-HSL N-3-oxobutanoyl-L-homoser and modular ine lactone dCTP deoxycytidine triphosphate 3-oxo-C6-HSL N-3 -oxohexanoyl-L-homoser deg. 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Mikroorganismen kommen natürlicherweise im Grund- und Trinkwasser vor. Kritisch wird es dann, wenn pathogene Keime im Trinkwasser auftreten. Das vorliegende Buch gibt einen umfassenden Einblick in den Wissensstand zum Transport von Mikroorganismen im Grundwasser und zeigt die Bedeutung der pathogenen Mikroorganismen für die menschliche Gesundheit sowie das Epidemienrisiko auf. Es stellt neuste und zukünftige Nachweismethoden vor und bietet Lösungsstrategien für die Erhaltung einer guten Trinkwasserqualität. Es wird die Komplexität der Trinkwassergewinnung anhand von Beispielen erläutert und für das Thema Grund- und Trinkwasser sensibilisiert. Die Einzigartigkeit liegt darin, dass die Aspekte vom Eintrag von Mikroorganismen in den Untergrund bis zu den technischen Fragen der Aufbereitung des Rohwassers für die Trinkwassernutzung themenübergreifend dargestellt werden. Das Buch richtet sich an Fachleute aus den Bereichen Mikrobiologie, Umweltwissenschaften und Hydrogeologie, aber auch an Praktiker in den Wasserversorgungen, die sich mit Grund- und Trinkwasser, Wassermanagement und Wasseraufbereitung beschäftigen. 184 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Research in the pharmaceutical industry today is in many respects quite different from what it used to be only fifteen years ago. There have been dramatic changes in approaches for identifying new chemical entities with a desired biological activity. While chemical modification of existing leads was the most important approach in the 1970s and 1980s, high-throughput screening and structure-based design are now major players among a multitude of methods used in drug discov ery. Quite often, companies favor one of these relatively new approaches over the other, e.g., screening over rational design, or vice versa, but we believe that an intelligent and concerted use of several or all methods currently available to drug discovery will be more successful in the medium term. What has changed most significantly in the past few years is the time available for identifying new chemical entities. Because of the high costs of drug discovery projects, pressure for maximum success in the shortest possible time is higher than ever. In addition, the multidisciplinary character of the field is much more pronounced today than it used to be. As a consequence, researchers and project managers in the pharmaceutical industry should have a solid knowledge of the more important methods available to drug discovery, because it is the rapidly and intelligently combined use of these which will determine the success or failure of preclinical projects. 292 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This manual reflects practical approaches to handling bacteria in the labora tory. It is designed to recall historical methods of bacterial genetics that have had recent developments and to present new techniques that allow full genome analysis. It has been written for microbiologists who need to group their protocols at the state of the art of a new millennium and also for scientists in other fields of life sciences who need to use bacteria for their research. Teachers, graduate students, and postdocs also will benefit from having these protocols to help them understand modern bacterial genetics. I learned so much from these contributions from my colleagues that I have no doubt about the daily usefulness of this book. April 2002 Michel Blot XII Abbreviations Acyl-HSL N-acyl homoserine lactone moi multiplicity of infection Amp or Ap ampicillin N amino C carboxy NMR nuclear magnetic resonance CIO-HSL N-decanoyl-L-homoserine lactone 3-0H-C14:1-HSL N-(3-hydroxy-7 -cis-tetra- C12-HSL N-dodecanoyl-L-homoserine lac- decanoyl)homo-serine lactone tone 3-0H-C4-HSL N-3-hydroxybutanoyl-L- C14-HSL N-tetradecanoyl-L-homoserine homoserine lactone lactone ONPG o-nitrophenyl ~-D-galactopyranoside C4-HSL N-butanoyl-L-homoserine lactone ORF open reading frame C6-HSL N-hexanoyl-L-homoserine lactone OTG I-S-octyl-~-D-thioglucoside C8-HSL N-octanoyl-L-homoserine lactone 3-oxo-CIO-HSL N-3-oxodecanoyl-L-homo- Cam or Cm chloramphenicol serine lactone CBD chitin binding domain 3-oxo-C12-HSL N-3-oxododecanoyl-L CHEF contour clamped homogenous electric homoserine lactone field 3-oxo-C14-HSL N-3-oxotetradecanoyl-L CI consistency index homoserine lactone CRIM conditional-replication, integration, 3-oxo-C4-HSL N-3-oxobutanoyl-L-homoser and modular ine lactone dCTP deoxycytidine triphosphate 3-oxo-C6-HSL N-3 -oxohexanoyl-L-homoser deg. 208 pp. Englisch.