Springer Jun 2000 (375 results)

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Provides an accessible account of the social construction of racialized groups. Using both primary (in-depth interviews) and secondary data, four nations are examined: the UK, US, South Africa and Jamaica. Little attention has traditionally been given to theorizing multiracial identity in the context of white supremacist thought and practice.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Modern cell biology has brought improvements in therapy for advanced malignant diseases through immunomodulation, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and other advanced techniques. Collected here are selected papers from the Fifth International Symposium of Keio University for Life Sciences and Medicine on Cell Therapy.All chapters include innovative basic research for clinical application: immunotherapy, cancer vaccination, molecular biology of hematopoietic stem cells, stem cell processing, and gene therapy.The book is divided into three parts: Immunotherapy for malignant diseases; Hematopoietic stem cell biology and clinical application; and International collaboration in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Included in the third part is information on bone marrow registries from around the world.The book thus presents up-to-date information on biological and clinical aspects of treatment, with insight into the future of cell therapy.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an increasingly important health problem world-wide. Whereas most other leading diseases have shown a decline in the past decades, COPD morbidity and mortality is on a steady increase. Exacerbations are usually defined as an increase in cough, a change in the colour or quantity of sputum, and a worsening dyspnea. The role of bacterial infections and the efficacy of antimicrobial therapy in acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis (AECD) is still controversial. Exacerbations of chronic bronchitis are a common occurrence in clinical practice and are a leading cause of antibiotic prescription among respiratory infections. It is still uncertain whether each new exacerbation may deteriorate the natural history of chronic bronchitis. Undoubtedly, every episode includes a temporary worsening in lung function and may therefore pose the threat of respiratory failure or death in more severely obstructed patients.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) threatens TB control programs worldwide. Outbreaks of MDRTB in the United States grabbed the attention of the medical community and the general public, and subsequent surveys have found 'hot spots' of MDRTB in low- and middle-income countries on four continents. Unlike other textbooks that contain only a single chapter on MDRTB, this book is devoted to the subject. Contributions from experts from multi disciplines provide detailed descriptions, causation, molecular biology, laboratory diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and public health, aspect of this disease. This book provides an authoritative overview of MDRTB and will be a useful reference book for clinicians, scientists and other health personnel involved in the care of TB and MDRTB patients in industrialized and developing countries.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Session A: Basics of Electromagnetics and Dosimetry. Chair: Y. Grigoriev. Session B: Dielectric Properties of Biological Tissue. Chair: C. Gabriel. Session C: Theoretical Dosimetry. Chair: O.P. Gandhi. Session D: Experimental Dosimetry. Chair: N. Kuster. Session E: Contact and Induced Currents. Chair: M. Israel. Session F: Response of Man and Animals I. Chair: E.R. Adair. Session G: Responses of Man and Animals II. Chair: J.A. D'Andrea. Session H: Applications of Dosimetry in Biology & Medicine. Chair: D. Miklavcic. Session I: Standards and Applications. Chair: J.M. Osepchuk. Session J: The Dosimetry Handbook. Chair: P.A. Mason. Appendix. Speakers. Participants. Official Photograph. Index.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Preface. Acknowledgements. Summary Poem. Introduction. 1. Oceanic freshwater fluxes in the climate system; A. Stigebrandt. 2. Global atmospheric circulation patterns and relationships to Arctic freshwater fluxes; J.E. Walsh. 3. Atmospheric components of the Arctic Ocean freshwater balance and their interannual variability; R.G. Barry, M.C. Serreze. 4. Hydroclimatology of the Arctic drainage basin; L.C. Bowling, P.D. Lettenmaier, B.V. Matheussen. 5. The Arctic Ocean's freshwater budget: sources, storage and export; E.C. Carmack. 6. The Arctic Ocean freshwater budget of a climate General Circulation Model; H. Cattle, D. Cresswell. 7. Atmospheric components of the Arctic Ocean hydrologic budget assessed from Rawinsonde data; M.C. Serreze, R.G. Barry. 8. Reanalyses depictions of the Arctic atmospheric moisture budget; D.H. Bromwich, R.I. Cullather, M.C. Serreze. 9. Moisture transport to Arctic drainage basins relating to significant precipitation events and cyclogenesis; J.R. Gyakum. 10. Atmospheric climate models: simulation of the Arctic Ocean fresh water budget components; V.M. Kattsov, J.E. Walsh, A. Rinke, K. Dethloff. 11. Discharge observation networks in Arctic regions: computation of the river runoff into the Arctic Ocean, its seasonality and variability; W.E. Grabs, F. Portmann, T. de Couet. 12. Arctic river flow: a review of contributing areas; T.D. Prowse, P.O. Flegg. 13. The dynamics of river water inflow to the Arctic Ocean; I.A. Shiklomanov, A.I. Shiklomanov, R.B. Lammers, B.J. Peterson, C.J. Vorosmarty. 14. River input of water, sediment, major ions, nutrients and trace metals from Russian territory to the Arctic Ocean; V.V. Gordeev. 15. The dispersion of Siberian river flows into coastal waters: meteorological, hydrological and hydrochemical aspects; I.P. Semiletov, N.I. Savelieva, G.E. Weller, I.I. Pipko, S.P. Pugach, A.Yu. Gukov, L.N. Vasilevskaya. 16. The variable climate of the Mackenzie River basin: its water cycle and fresh water discharge; R.E. Stewart. 17. Arctic estuaries and ice: a positive-negative estuarine couple; R.W. Macdonald. 18. Satellite views of the Arctic Ocean freshwater balance; D.A. Rothrock, R. Kwok, D. Groves. 19. Tracer studies of the Arctic freshwater budget; P. Schlosser, B. Ekwurzel, S. Khatiwala, B. Newton, W. Maslowski, S. Pfirman. 20. Exchanges of freshwater through the shallow straits of the North American Arctic; H. Melling. 21. The transformations of Atlantic water in the Arctic Ocean and their significance for the freshwater budget; B. Rudels, H.J. Friedrich. 22. Modelling the variability of exchanges between the Arctic Ocean and the Nordic seas; R. Gerdes. 23. Sea ice growth, melt and modeling: a survey; M. Steele M., G.M. Flato. 24. Fresh water freezing/melting cycle in the Arctic Ocean; G.V. Alekseev, L.V. Bulatov, V.F. Zakharov. Subject Index.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Dr. Olcbee Lee SchoolofEducation, UniversityofMiami Coral Gables, Florida 33124 I remember my excitement and appreciation several years ago when I first read World View Theory and Science Education Research by Bill Cobern (1991). It was a comprehensive, theoretical discussion ofworldview theory in science education. I am delighted to see that Cobern has taken the next step to provide empirical accountsofworldview in Everyday Thoughts about Nature. . The primary goal of the book is to understand how typical- ninth grade students and their science teachers think about Nature or the natural world, and how their thoughts are related to science. In pursuing this goal, the book raises a basicquestion about the purpose ofscienceeducationfor the public: Should science education seek to educate 'scientific thinkers' in the pattern of the science teachers Or, should science education seek to foster sound science learning within the matrices ofvari ous cultural perspectives (p. 3) The answer to this question becomes clear, thanks to Cobern's excellent research and persuasivearguments. First, this research takes a humanistic approach in understanding what students and teachers think about Nature 'through the language and ideas voluntarily expressed' (p. I). The research used multi directional prompts and encouraged students and teachers to speak freely and at length in any directions they wished. This humanistic approach is stated clearly: '[T]he research seeks to illuminate some of the various ways in which students think aboutNature withoutjudging eventhe most unorthodox perspectives' (p. 14).…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Business Processes, Legacy Systems and a Flexible Future (Peter Henderson).- Modelling the Co-Evolution of Business Processes and IT Systems (Brian Warboys, Mark Greenwood and Peter Kawalek).- Complexity: Partial Support for BPR (Eve Mitleton-Kelly).- FLEXX: Designing Software for Change through Evolvable Architectures (Stephen Rank, Keith Bennett, Steven Glover).- RIPPLE: Retaining Integrity in Process Products over their Long-Term Evolution (Dave Bustard).- Understanding Change: Using the Patterns Paradigm in the Context of Business Domain Knowledge (Nadia Amin, Pat Hall, Matthew Hinton).- Combining Organisational and Technical Change in Finding Solutions to Legacy Systems (Magnus Ramage, Carole Brooke, Keith Bennett and Malcolm Munro).- Connecting Business Modelling to Requirements Engineering (Alistair Sutcliffe and G. Li).- Interpretivist Modelling for Information System Definition (Frank Stowell and D. Champion).- Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Impacts and Future Directions (Ben Light and Chris Holland).- The Implications of Information Technology Infrastructure Capabilities for Business Process Change Success (Julie Eatock, George Giaglis, Ray Paul and Alan Serrano).- IT Support for the Very High Value Added Bid Pricing Process (Madan Singh, Nathalie Cassaigne, Paul Bussey and Vicky Papaioannou).- Social Viewpoints on Legacy Systems (Tim Rodden, Mark Rouncefield, Ian Sommerville and Stephen Viller).- Co-Evolution and an Enabling Infrastructure: A Solution to Legacy (Eve Mitleton-Kelly and Maria-Christiana Papaefthimiou).- Modelling Legacy Telecommunications: Switching Systems for Interaction Analysis (Muffy Calder and Stephan Reiff).- Reverse Requirements Engineering: The AMBOLS Approach (Albert Alderson and Kecheng Liu).- Reconstruction of Legacy Systems for Evolutionary Change (Elizabeth Burd, Malcolm Munro and Peter Young).- Handling Legacy IT in Banking by using Object Design Patterns to Separate Business and IT Issues (John Edwards, Ian Coutts, Stuart McLeod and Tim Millea).- Legacy System Anti-Patterns and a Pattern-Oriented Migration Response (Anthony Lauder and Stuart Kent).- Assisting Requirements Recovery from Legacy Documents (Paul Rayson, Roger Garside and Pete Sawyer).- The Systematic Construction of Information Systems (Antonio Cau and Hussein Zedan).- Its Not Just About Old Software: A Wider View of Legacy Systems (Magnus Ramage and Malcolm Munro).- Delivering Business Performance: Opportunities and Challenges for IT (Rachel Harrison, M. Wells, P. Brerton, P. Dunning-Lewis, G. Fitzgerald and D. Targett).…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Agriculture is a crucial component of the economies of many of the countries in transition from a centrally-planned to a market economy and the sector is by no means immune to the environmental and socioeconomic problems confronting the countries as a whole. The concept of sustainable development provides a convenient framework for the formulation of government environmental policy for such countries, especially those of them that aspire to join the EU and would thus be expected to meet EU environmental standards. For agriculture, this inevitably involves appropriate strategies for balancing crop and animal production while protecting the quality of the national soil and water resources. There is thus an urgent need to compile, exchange and evaluate current information on the quality of soils in these countries, and to assess the potential impact of new management practices on the soil and on the wider environment. …

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Financial systems around the world are undergoing a process of modernization due to many different forces. Advances in information technology, product and market innovations, and recent regional financial crises have contributed to this movement. As a result, evolution in the financial sector is leading to larger, more complex financial organizations that render inadequate the supervisory and regulatory structures currently in place. While some changes in regulatory policies have already occurred, the adaptation of supervisory oversight and regulation in the face of these new developments is expected to continue for many years to come. This book collects papers originally presented in September 1998 at the Financial Modernization and Regulation Conference co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and San Francisco. Revised before publication, the papers seek to identify the reasons for changes in the financial services sector, and the implications these changes pose for financial supervision and regulation. Taken together, the papers offer valuable insights on 1) the forces behind financial modernization; 2) the implications financial modernization poses for corporate structure, market discipline, and financial regulation; 3) how to price deposit insurance accurately to reflect banks' risk-taking; and 4) balancing private versus public interests and managing potentially conflicting public policy goals. …

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The discovery of the human T cell leukemia virus type I in the late 1970s heralded a new era in retrovirology. For the first time, it was demonstrated that a retrovirus could play a role in the development of a human disease, in this case adult T cell leukemia (ATL). Several years later, the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic began, and it was dem- strated that a retrovirus, originally designated the human T cell lymp- tropic virus type 3, was the causal agent of this syndrome. This virus, later named the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), has since been extensively studied in terms of its pathogenesis as well as its ability to elicit immune responses. In that time, a tremendous amount of information has been obtained about the virus. Although recent drug regimens have been useful in significantly lowering viral loads and perhaps maintaining an asymptomatic state among individuals infected with HIV-1, an established 'cure' for AIDS eludes us. In addition, the effective drug therapies are very expensive, and are not available to infected people in the third world, where greater than 90% of new infections occur. Furthermore, the development of viral resistance against the drug therapies is an additional concern. Despite extensive study, no effective vaccine has been developed. One of the problems in developing an effective vaccine against HIV-1 is the ability of the virus, particularly in the immunogenic envelop glycoprotein, to undergo amino acid hypervariability. …

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This timely publication fills a large gap in the ophthalmic literature which has so far lacked a monograph on the clinically very important subject of macular edema. The book presents the most up-to-date scientific concepts concerning the etiology and pathogenesis of blood retinal barrier breakdown such as tight junction associated protein dysfunction, and changes in fluid transport properties of the retinal pigment epithelium. The bulk of the book is clinically oriented and addresses novel imaging and diagnostic techniques for the detection of macular edema as well as the clinical context of a panoply of ocular diseases which induce macular edema, such as diabetes, other vasculopathies, uveitis, and many others. New light is shed on the association between highly active antiretroviral therapy and the induction of macular edema in HIV-positive patients. Novel drug treatment regimens with steroids and carbonic anhydrase inhibitors as well as new ways of applying laser and surgical therapies are also discussed in detail, and practical treatment guidelines are given. This book will be helpful for vitreoretinal specialists as well as for the practising ophthalmologist confronted with patients suffering from macular edema.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - of UB's medical school, that UB developed its School of Arts and Sciences, and thus, assumed its place among the other institutions of higher education. Had Fillmore lived throughout UB's first seventy years, he would probably have been elated by the success of his university, and he should have been satisfied and pleased that UB remained intrinsically bonded to its community while at the same time engrafting the values and standards important to higher education's mission in the region. UB and its medical school have undergone many challenging transitions since 1846. Included among them were: (1) the completion of an academic campus in the far northeast comer of the City of Buffalo while leaving its medical, dental and law schools firmly situated in the core of downtown Buffalo; (2) the eventual relocation, after the second world war, of the law school to the newer campus in Amherst, and the medical and dental school to the original academic campus: and (3) the merger with the State University of New York System in 1962. Despite these significant transitions, any one of which could have changed the intrinsic integrity of UB and disrupted the bonding between community and university, that did not happen. To this day, the ties between community and academe persist. Fillmore and White should celebrate their success and important contribution to Buffalo and Western New York.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - For more than 25 years the Standard Model of particle physics has withstood the confrontation with experimental results of increasing precision, but this does not imply that the Standard Model can answer all questions about the ultimate constituents of nature. This book presents a critical examination of the latest experimental results and confronts them with the predictions of the Standard Model. Besides discussions of accelerator results from LEP, HERA and the TEVATRON, attention is paid to the unresolved problems of neutrino oscillations, CP violation, dark matter and cosmology. New theoretical ideas are also analyzed in order to explore possible extensions of the standard model. Realistic plans for future accelerators are presented and their physics potential is discussed, paving the way for the next generation of particle physics experiments. …

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - From the perspective of the investigator, Graves' disease is a fascinating disorder with unique features and opportunities for study. The discovery in 1956 that Graves' disease was caused by a humoral factor, later shown to be an antibody to the TSH receptor, was a triumph for modern investigative medicine. Rapid progress is now being made in (i) understanding the molecular interaction between autoantibodies and the TSH receptor, (ii) identifying the genes that contribute to the predisposition to disease, (iii) developing an animal model of Graves' disease, and (iv) identifying the long-sought orbital antigen in ophthalmopathy. From the clinical standpoint, although Graves' disease is eminently treatable, there is no definitive cure. None of the therapeutic options are ideal. It is hoped that rapid progress in understanding the pathogenesis of the disease will lead to the ultimate goal of some form of immunotherapy that will make antithyroid drugs, radioiodine and thyroidectomy obsolete. The chapters in Graves' Disease: Pathogenesis and Treatment represent the viewpoints of many prominent clinicians and investigators working in the field. The editors are grateful for their contributions which cover an unusually comprehensive compendium of subjects relating to the disease.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Interfaces between media, whether air-water or sediment-water interfaces or organisms themselves, pose considerable problems to marine organisms attempting to live at these boundaries. In the present volume, a number of authors address various aspects of these two topics. Locations under scrutiny range from intertidal areas to the deep sea, while both macro-and meiofaunal organisms are investigated. Distribution patterns and effects of variable temperatures, pressures, and salinities are analysed. Aspects of fouling induction and prevention are also addressed. This book is intended as a progress report from the 33rd European Marine Biology Symposium held in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, in September 1998.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book presents the most recent research advances in the theory, design, control and application of robotic systems, which are intended for a variety of purposes such as manipulation, manufacturing, automation, surgery, locomotion and biomechanics. The issues addressed are fundamentally kinematic in nature, including synthesis, calibration, redundancy, force control, dexterity, inverse and forward kinematics, kinematic singularities, as well as over-constrained systems. Methods used include line geometry, quaternion algebra, screw algebra, and linear algebra. These methods are applied to both parallel and serial multi-degree-of-freedom systems. The results should interest researchers, teachers and students, in fields of engineering and mathematics related to robot theory, design, control and application. All articles in the book were reported at the seventh international symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics that was organised in June 2000 in the beautiful ancient Mediterranean town of Piran in Slovenia. The preceding symposia of the series took place in Ljubljana (1988), Linz (1990), Ferrara (1992), Ljubljana (1994), and Piran (1996), and Salzburg (1998).…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - System Modelling and Optimization covers research issues within systems theory, optimization, modelling, and computing. It includes contributions to structural mechanics, integer programming, nonlinear programming, interior point methods, dynamical systems, stability analysis, stochastic optimization, bilevel optimization, and semidefinite programming. Several survey papers written by leading experts in their fields complement new developments in theory and applications. This book contains most of the invited papers and a few carefully selected submitted papers that were presented at the 19th IFIP TC7 Conference on System Modelling and Optimization, which was held in Cambridge, England, from July 12 to 16, 1999, and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - While this book presents the results of comprehensive and cooperative international reseirch, this effort would not have been successful without the assistance of various institutions and personalities. Financial support for the conference was received from the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) which is gratefully acknowledged. The Deutsche Ralffeisenverband kindly contributed to hosting the international group of researchers in Bonn. For their valuable comments we also thank: Uwe Eiteljorge, Johannes Jutting, Amim Kuhn, Witold-Roger Poganietz, Matin Qaim, Alexandra Schleier, Ludwig Striewe, Jllrgen Wandel, Peter Weingarten, Manfred Wiebelt and Susanna Wolf. The editors also acknowledge the help provided by James Creed, Karin Clark, and Ulla Knodt in checking language and style of the articles, most of them written by non-native speakers. Martin Grub, Tina Klebsch, and Andrea Stang have been helpful in providing technical assistance needed to prepare the manuscript. Bonn Peter Wehrheim Eugenia V. Serova Moscow Halle/Saale Klaus Frohberg Bonn Joachim von Braun January 2000 x Russia's Agro-food Sector: Towards Truly Functioning Markets Wehrheim, P., E. V. Serova, K. Frohberg, and J. von Braun (eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 1 - 8 SECTION 1 Introduction and Overview Peter Wehrheim, Eugenia V. Serova, Klaus Frohberg, and Joachim von Braun 1. INTRODUCTION This publication takes a close look at the agro-food economy in Russia.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Scattering theory is, roughly speaking, perturbation theory of self-adjoint operators on the (absolutely) continuous spectrum. It has its origin in mathematical problems of quantum mechanics and is intimately related to the theory of partial differential equations. Some recently solved problems, such as asymptotic completeness for the Schrödinger operator with long-range and multiparticle potentials, as well as open problems, are discussed. We construct also potentials for which asymptotic completeness is violated. This corresponds to a new class of asymptotic solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. Special attention is paid to the properties of the scattering matrix, which is the main observable of the theory. The book is addressed to readers interested in a deeper study of the subject. 192 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book systematically develops the nonlinear potential theory connected with the weighted Sobolev space Wm,pw( ), where the weight usually belongs to Muckenhoupt's class of Ap weights. These spaces occur as solutions spaces for degenerate elliptic partial differential equations. The Sobolev space theory covers results concerning approximation, extension, and interpolation, Sobolev and Poincare inequalities, Maz'ya type embedding theorems, and isoperimetric inequalities. In the chapter devoted to potential theory, several weighted capacities are investigated. Moreover, 'Kellogg lemmas' are established for various concepts of thinness. Applications of potential theory to weighted Sobolev spaces include quasi continuity of Sobolev functions, Poincare inequalities, and spectral synthesis theorems. 196 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -As this Preface is being written, the twentieth century is coming to an end. Historians may perhaps come to refer to it as the century of information, just as its predecessor is associated with the process of industrialisation. Successive technological developments such as the telephone, radio, television, computers and the Internet have had profound effects on the way we live. We can see pic tures of the surface of Mars or the early shape of the Universe. The contents of a whole shelf-load of library books can be compressed onto an almost weight less piece of plastic. Billions of people can watch the same football match, or can keep in instant touch with friends around the world without leaving home. In short, massive amounts of information can now be stored, transmitted and processed, with surprising speed, accuracy and economy. Of course, these developments do not happen without some theoretical ba sis, and as is so often the case, much of this is provided by mathematics. Many of the first mathematical advances in this area were made in the mid-twentieth century by engineers, often relying on intuition and experience rather than a deep theoretical knowledge to lead them to their discoveries. Soon the math ematicians, delighted to see new applications for their subject, joined in and developed the engineers' practical examples into wide-ranging theories, com plete with definitions, theorems and proofs. 228 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -While conducting research on intellectual and neuropsychological perfonnance of various patient populations across time, we became aware of the lack of information concerning practice effects associated with many widely used assessment instruments. Although test-retest data were available for almost all of these instruments, it typically came in the form of correlation coefficients and mean changes in performance between assessments was often absent. In a 1995 article (McCaffrey & Westervelt, 1995), we discussed a number of issues relevant to serial neuropsychological and intellectual assessment and concluded that clinical neuropsychological practitioners had few guidelines to assist them in interpreting change in a patient's performance across assessments. This volume represents our efforts at reviewing the literature between 1970 and 1998 and extracting the reported information on practice effects. The tables include the assessment instrument used, information on the subject/patient groups, the sample size fu}, gender, age, intervention, interval between the assessments, scores at both assessment points, and the citation. The tables reflect the existing published literature within intellectual assessment and, therefore, some instruments (e.g., Wechsler tests) comprise a majority of the tables whereas others (e.g., Raven's Progressive Matrices, Stanford-Binet) do not. The test index is arranged by the name of the test as reported in the specific article. We caution readers to refer to the original articles if additional or more specific information is needed. 292 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This interdisciplinary book provides a compendium of projects, plus numerous example programs for readers to study and explore. Designed for advanced undergraduates or graduates of science, mathematics and engineering who will deal with scientific computation in their future studies and research, it also contains new and useful reference materials for researchers. The problem sets range from the tutorial to exploratory and, at times, to 'the impossible'. The projects were collected from research results and computational dilemmas during the author's tenure as Chief Scientist at NeXT Computer, and from his lectures at Reed College. The content assumes familiarity with such college topics as calculus, differential equations, and at least elementary programming. Each project focuses on computation, theory, graphics, or a combination of these, an d is designed with an estimated level of difficulty. The support code for each takes the form of either C or Mathematica, and is included in the appendix and on the bundled diskette. The algorithms are clearly laid out within the projects, such that the book may be used with other symbolic numerical and algebraic manipulation products.System requirements:Any NEXTSTEP computer running Mathematica 2.0 or higher is recommended to fully utilize disk contents. The diskette is also compatible with DOS, Windows, Macintosh and most UNIX computer systems (especially C language and Mathematica). 500 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The papers contained in this volumewere presented at the 11thAnnual Sym- sium on CombinatorialPattern Matching, held June 21-23, 2000 at the Univ- sit edeMontr eal. They were selected from 44 abstracts submitted in response to the call for papers. In addition, there were invited lectures by Andrei Broder (AltaVista), Fernando Pereira (AT&T Research Labs), and Ian H. Witten (U- versity of Waikato). The symposium was preceded by a two-day summer school set up to - tract and train young researchers. The lecturers at the school were Greg Butler, ClementLam,andGusGrahne:BLAST!Howdoyousearchsequencedatabases , DavidBryant:Phylogeny,Ra aeleGiancarlo: Algorithmicaspectsof speech rec- nition, Nadia El-Mabrouk: Genome rearrangement,LaxmiParida: Flexib- pattern discovery, and Ian H. Witten: Adaptive text mining: inferring structure from sequences. Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM) addresses issues of searching and matching strings and more complicated patterns such as trees, regular expr- sions graphs, point sets, and arrays. The goal is to derive non-trivial combi- torial properties of such structures and to exploit these properties in order to achieve superior performance for the corresponding computational problems. Over recent years a steady ow of high-quality research on this subject has changed a sparse set of isolated results into a fully- edged area of algorithmics. 440 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -ACISP 2000, the Fifth Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, was held in Brisbane, Australia, 10 12 July, 2000. The conference was sponsored by the Information Security Research Centre at Queensland Univ- sity of Technology, the Australian Computer Society, Telstra, Boeing Australia Limited, SecureGate Limited, and RSA Security Pty Ltd. We are grateful to all these organizations for their support of the conference. The conference brought together researchers, designers, implementors, and users of information security systems. The aim of the conference is to have a series of technical refereed and invited papers to discuss all di erent aspects of information security. The program committee invited seven distinguished sp- kers: Mike Burmester, G. R. Blakley, Bob Blakley, Brian Denehy, Roger Lyle, John Snare, and Alan Underwood. Mike Burmester from Royal Holloway C- lege,UniversityofLondonpresentedapaperentitled ASurveyofKeyDistri- tion ; G. R. Blakley from Texas A&M University and Bob Blakley from the IBM Tivoli Security Business Unit presented a paper entitled All Sail, No Anchor, I: Cryptography, Risk, and e-Commerce ; Brian Denehy from SecureGate Limited presented a paper entitled Secure Networks or Network Security Approaches toBoth ;RogerLylefromStandardsAustraliaandJohnSnarefromTelstrap- sented a paper entitled Perspectives on Australia s New Information Security Management Standard ; and Alan Underwood from the Australian Computer Societypresentedapaperentitled ProfessionalEthicsinaSecurityandPrivacy Context The Perspective of a National Computing Society . There were 81 technical papers submitted to the conference from an int- national authorship. These papers were refereed by the program committee and 37 papers were accepted for the conference. 504 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the proceedings of the ninth international workshop on logic-based program synthesis and transformation (LOPSTR'99) which was held in Venice (Italy), September 22-24, 1999. LOPSTRistheannualworkshopandforumforresearchersinthelogic-based program development stream of computational logic. The main focus used to be on synthesis and transformation of logic programs, but the workshop is open to contributions on logic-based program development in any paradigm. Previous workshops were held in Manchester, UK (1991, 1992), Louvain-la-Neuve, B- gium (1993), Pisa, Italy (1994), Arnhem, The Netherlands (1995), Stockholm, Sweden (1996), Leuven, Belgium (1997), and Manchester, UK (1998). LOPSTR is a real workshop in the sense that it is a friendly and lively forum for presenting recent and current research as well as discussing future trends. Formal proceedings of the workshop are produced only after the workshop and contain only those papers selected by the program committee after a second refereeing process. The program committee of LOPSTR'99 accepted 20 extended abstracts for presentation at the workshop; then selected 14 papers for inclusion in the po- workshop proceedings. Selected papers cover all the main streams of LOPSTR's topics: synthesis, specialization, transformation, analysis, and veri cation. Ve- cation, transformation, and specialization methods are applied to functional, constraint, logic, and imperative programming. 328 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains lectures given at the Saint-Flour Summer School of Probability Theory during 17th Aug. - 3rd Sept. 1998. The contents of the three courses are the following:- Continuous martingales on differential manifolds.- Topics in non-parametric statistics.- Free probability theory.The reader is expected to have a graduate level in probability theory and statistics. This book is of interest to PhD students in probability and statistics or operators theory as well as for researchers in all these fields. The series of lecture notes from the Saint-Flour Probability Summer School can be considered as an encyclopedia of probability theory and related fields. 372 pp. Englisch, Französisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications. The conference was held July 10-12, 2000,attheUniversityofEastAnglia,Norwich,U. K. Itisthemajorforumfor thepresentationofresearchonalltheoreticalandpracticalaspectsofrewriting. InformationaboutpreviousRTAconferencescanbefoundat loria. fr/rta/ andinformationaboutthegeneralresearchareaofrewritingat loria. fr/vigneron/RewritingHP/ Theprogramcommitteeselected18papers,includingthreesystemdescr- tions, from a total of 44 submissions. In addition the program included invited talksbyJoseMeseguer,DaleMiller,andAndreiVoronkov;andaninvitedtu- rialbySophieTison. ManypeoplecontributedtoRTA-2000andIwouldliketoexpressmysincere thanks to all of them. I am grateful to the program committee members and the external referees for reviewing the submissions and maintaining the high standard of the RTA conferences; to Richard Kennaway, who was responsible for the local arrangements for the conference; and to Jos e Meseguer, the RTA publicitychair. ItisaparticularpleasuretothankAshishTiwariforhisextensive assistance in many of my tasks as the program chair. Finally, I wish to thank the School of Information Systems at the University of East Anglia both for nancialsupportandforprovidingthefacilities. May2000 LeoBachmair VI Organization ConferenceOrganization ProgramChair LeoBachmair(StonyBrook) ProgramCommittee FranzBaader(Aachen) GillesDowek(Rocquencourt) NeilGhani(Leicester) JuergenGiesl(Albuquerque) Jean-PierreJouannaud(Orsay) ChrisLynch(Potsdam,NewYork) AartMiddeldorp(Tsukuba) MitsuhiroOkada(Tokyo) FemkevanRaamsdonk(Amsterdam) AlbertRubio(Barcelona) YoshihitoToyama(Tatsunokuchi) RakeshVerma(Houston) LocalArrangementsChair RichardKennaway(Norwich) PublicityChair Jos eMeseguer(MenloPark) RTAOrganizingCommittee HubertComon(Cachan) TobiasNipkow(Munich) NachumDershowitz,chair(Urbana) MichaelRusinowitch(Nancy) Jos eMeseguer(MenloPark) YoshihitoToyama(Tatsunokuchi) External Referees VII ExternalReferees Y. Akama T. Aoto T. Arts F. Blanqui R. Bloo A. Boudet J. Chrzaszcz E. Contejean D. Dougherty K. Erk M. Fernandez W. Fokkink G. Godoy B. Gramlich T. Ida F. Jacquemard S. Kahrs Y. Kaji D. Kesner K. Kusakari F. Lang C. Luth M. Leucker J. Levy R. Matthes R. Mayr B. Monate J. J. MorenoNavarro M. Nagayama P. Narendran J. Niehren R. Nieuwenhuis K. Ogata E. Ohlebusch S. Okui C. -H. L. 292 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the main papers presented at the International Conference on Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX 2000) held on July 3 7, 2000 in St Andrews, Scotland. This conference succeeded other meetings on the same topic held in Lautenbach (1992), Marseille (1993), Abingdon (1994), St Goar (1995), Terrasini (1996), Pont-` a-Mousson (1997), Oisterwijk (1998) and Saratoga Springs (1999). Tableaux and related methods, such as Gentzen calculi, are convenient and e ective for automating deduction not just in classical logic but also in various non-standard logics. Examples taken from this meeting alone include temporal, description, non-monotonic, tense, modal, epistemic, fuzzy and intuitionistic - gics. Areas of application include veri cation of software and computer systems, deductive databases, knowledge representation and system diagnosis. The c- ference brought together researchers interested in all aspects theoretical fo- dations, implementation techniques, systems development, experimental com- rison and applications of the automation of reasoning by means of tableaux or related methods. 456 pp. Englisch.…