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Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 038729824XISBN 13: 9780387298245
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book presents basic optimization principles and gradient-based algorithms to a general audience, in a brief and easy-to-read form. It enables professionals to apply optimization theory to engineering, physics, chemistry, or business economics. 280 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387249664ISBN 13: 9780387249667
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This excellent Senior undergraduate/graduate textbook offers an unprecedented measurement of science perspective on DSP theory and applications, a wealth of definitions and real-life examples making it invaluable for students, while practical. 300 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387259236ISBN 13: 9780387259239
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Sexual risk behaviors have inspired profound ideas and effective teamwork. But as the early history of AIDS demonstrates, when sexual practice is part of the equation, the same bold thinkers may be stymied, or just silent. Safe sex and monogamy have been proposed as answers to a gamut of social problems, but there is frequently little consensus on what these terms mean.Sexual Partnering, Sexual Practices, and Health replaces myth and stereotype with meticulously documented findings on real people and their behaviors in their social, environmental, and individual contexts. Author Sana Loue examines the range of partnerships not only in the U.S. but also Europe and the developing world, focusing on both consenting relationships and exploitative sexual interactions:- Varieties of monogamy between consenting adults- Relationships involving multiple adult partners- Incest, pedophilia, and child marriage- Sex work, trafficking, and pornography- Fetishes and related behaviorsAll chapters cogently address the health issues that arise from these arrangements, concluding with implications for research, prevention, and intervention.Throughout, Loue argues for a common language across disciplines and challenges her readers therapists, health care providers, and policymakers alike to rethink their assumptions about clients, their health needs, and the communities they represent.'Dr. Loue's work is a truly significant scholarly contribution to a topic too often characterized by pseudo-science and ideological distortions. 'Sexual Partnering, Sexual Practices, and Health' should prove an invaluable resource for researchers and community practitioners alike in helping understand dimensions of sexual practice, and designing more effective approaches to sexual health and violence prevention.'-Earl Pike, Executive Director, AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland 212 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387238549ISBN 13: 9780387238548
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides a review of image analysis techniques as they are applied in the field of diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine. Driven in part by the remarkable sophistication of nuclear medicine instrumentation and - crease in computing power and its ready and inexpensive availability, this is a relatively new yet rapidly expanding field. Likewise, although the use of nuclear imaging for diagnosis and therapy has origins dating back almost to the pioneering work of Dr G. de Hevesy, quantitative imaging has only recently emerged as a promising approach for diagnosis and therapy of many diseases. An effort has, therefore, been made to place the reviews provided in this book in a broader context. The effort to do this is reflected by the inclusion of introductory chapters that address basic principles of nuclear medicine instrumentation and dual-modality imaging, followed by overview of issues that are closely related to quantitative nuclear imaging and its potential role in diagnostic and therapeutic applications. A brief overview of each chapter is provided below. Chapter 1 presents a general overview of nuclear medicine imaging physics and instrumentation including planar scintigraphy, single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET). Nowadays, patients' diagnosis and therapy is rarely done without the use of imaging technology. As such, imaging considerations are incorporated in almost every chapter of the book. The development of dual-modality - aging systems is an emerging research field, which is addressed in chapter 2. 596 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387261036ISBN 13: 9780387261034
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Describes in a consolidated way the results of a three-year research project, during which researchers from leading european industrial companies and research institutes have been working together. Contributors come from academia and industry, such companies as INTRACOM, VTT and Nokia being representedProposes brand new approaches based on SystemC and OCAPI-XL that explicitly handle issues related to reconfiguration at the system levelIntroduces a design flow for designing reconfigurable systems-on-chipProvides a comprehensive introduction to reconfigurable hardware and existing reconfigurable technologiesPresents examples on how reconfigurable hardware can be exploited for the development of complex systemsProvides useful feedback from the application of the proposed design flow and system level design methods on different real life design cases 232 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387255737ISBN 13: 9780387255736
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Atomic Spectroscopy provides a comprehensive discussion on the general approach to the theory of atomic spectra, based on the use of the Lagrangian canonical formalism. This approach is developed and applied to explain the hydrogenic hyperfine structure associated with the nucleus motion, its finite mass, and spin. The non-relativistic or relativistic, spin or spin-free particle approximations can be used as a starting point of general approach. The special attention is paid to the theory of Lamb shift formation. The formulae for hydrogenic spectrum including the account of Lamb shift are written in simple analytical form. The book is of interest to specialists, graduate and postgraduate students, who are involved into the experimental and theoretical research in the field of modern atomic spectroscopy. 292 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387300120ISBN 13: 9780387300122
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware 336 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387244263ISBN 13: 9780387244266
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Denial-of-service attacks are one of the most severe challenges confronting the online world. This ground-breaking volume discusses a new method of countering denial-of-service attacks called hop integrity. It details a suite of protocols for providing hop integrity. In particular, each protocol in this suite is specified and verified using an abstract and formal notation, called the Secure Protocol Notation. In addition, the book presents an alternative way to achieve strong hop integrity with hard sequence numbers. 128 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387258701ISBN 13: 9780387258706
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Presents a range of CAD algorithms and techniques for synthesizing and optimizing interconnectProvides insight & intuition into layout analysis and optimization for interconnect in high speed, high complexity integrated circuits 160 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387291466ISBN 13: 9780387291468
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The area of similarity searching is a very hot topic for both research and c- mercial applications. Current data processing applications use data with c- siderably less structure and much less precise queries than traditional database systems. Examples are multimedia data like images or videos that offer query by example search, product catalogs that provide users with preference based search, scientific data records from observations or experimental analyses such as biochemical and medical data, or XML documents that come from hetero- neous data sources on the Web or in intranets and thus does not exhibit a global schema. Such data can neither be ordered in a canonical manner nor meani- fully searched by precise database queries that would return exact matches. This novel situation is what has given rise to similarity searching, also - ferred to as content based or similarity retrieval. The most general approach to similarity search, still allowing construction of index structures, is modeled in metric space. In this book. Prof. Zezula and his co authors provide the first monograph on this topic, describing its theoretical background as well as the practical search tools of this innovative technology. 240 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387233288ISBN 13: 9780387233284
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The last decade, technical improvements will have changed the inventory of many research laboratories. New techniques and discoveries continuously give rise to observations that consequently result in the definition of new research objectives. In the past, research departments used to be clearly demarcated. Nowadays, technology that is shared by all lines of research stimulates convergence of research interests. This also applies to cardiovascular research. Vascular occlusive disease is now core business for researchers employed by cardiology, vascular surgery, vascular medicine, radiology, cell biology, chemistry, physiology and many more departments. Knowledge on actual research developments are shared by researchers with different skills.It is sometimes difficult to acquire expertise when a researcher feels his experimental work could be improved by introducing a new research technique. In this book the investigator will find an overview of recent developments that are relevant for research in general but cardiovascular research in particular. Genomics, proteomics, micro-array, RNAi, stem cells and progenitor cells: just some phrases that became increasingly prevalent in literature the last couple of years and that are recognized by many, but fully understood by few. In this book experts in their research fields will share the most appreciated new developments and techniques in cardiovascular research. We hope that this book will help the reader, who is working in cardiovascular research, to understand and critically appreciate current research and that it will help improve the quality of the experimental work. 272 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387287809ISBN 13: 9780387287805
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -With its extreme accuracy and reasonable computational efficiency, the linearized augmented plane wave (LAPW) method has emerged as the standard by which density functional calculations for transition metal and rare-earth containing materials are judged. The second edition of Planewaves, Pseudopotentials and the LAPW Method presents an updated, thorough and self-contained exposition of the first principles methods for calculating properties of solids, in particular the 'LAPW' method and will make connections between this method and planewave pseudopotential approaches.Theory is discussed, but the emphasis is on how practical implementation proceeds. In addition, the author suggests future directions for adapting the LAPW method to simulations of complex materials requiring large unit cells. He does this by elucidating the connections between the LAPW method and planewave pseudopotential approaches and by showing how Car-Parrinello type algorithms can be adapted to the LAPW method.The new edition contains new sections on developments over the last 10 years, including for example the LDA+U method, non-collinear magnetism and the APW+LO method. 152 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 038724123XISBN 13: 9780387241234
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Genome Exploitation: Data Mining the Genome is developed from the 23rd Stadler Genetic Symposium. This volume discusses and illustrates how scientists are going to characterize and make use of the massive amount of information being accumulated about the plant and animal genomes. Genome Exploitation: Data Mining the Genome is a state-of-the-art picture on mining the Genome databases. This is one of the few times that researchers in both plants and animals will be working together to create a seminal data resource. 272 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387294244ISBN 13: 9780387294247
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Having spent almost fifty years of my life defending the separate accou- ing, arm's length pricing method, I have to admit that I was somewhat surprised to be asked to contribute to a book suggesting that the European Union might do well to consider adopting a formulary approach to deal with the taxation of inter and intra company transactions. I was even more surprised to see the invitation coming from Ms. Joann Weiner an ardent co-defender of arm's length pricing and my strong right arm in that regard while we both served in the U.S. Treasury Department in the mid '90s. The book gives Ms Weiner the opportunity to comment frankly from an insider's perspective of the many admitted problems of the arm's length system which could be avoided by a formulary approach. Ms. Weiner brings to this project a thorough expert knowledge of the b- efits and shortfalls of each of the systems she discusses - separate accounting v. formulary apportionment. Who better to decide to give qualified support to formulary than someone who organized a U.S. Treasury conference to defend arm's length pricing against a Congressional challenge in favor of formulary apportionment. 144 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387275819ISBN 13: 9780387275819
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A research focus on hazards, risk perception and risk minimizing strategies is relatively new in the social and environmental sciences. This volume by a prominent scholar of East African societies is a powerful example of this growing interest. Earlier theory and research tended to describe social and economic systems in some form of equilibrium. However recent thinking in human ecology, evolutionary biology, not to mention in economic and political theory has come to assign to 'risk' a prominent role in predictive modeling of behavior. It turns out that risk minimalization is central to the understanding of individual strategies and numerous social institutions. It is not simply a peripheral and transient moment in a group's history. Anthropologists interested in forager societies have emphasized risk management strategies as a major force shaping hunting and gathering routines and structuring institutions of food sharing and territorial behavior. This book builds on some of these developments but through the analysis of quite complex pastoral and farming peoples and in populations with substantial known histories. The method of analysis depends heavily on the controlled comparisons of different populations sharing some cultural characteristics but differing in exposure to certain risks or hazards.The central questions guiding this approach are: 1) How are hazards generated through environmental variation and degradation, through increasing internal stratification, violent conflicts and marginalization 2) How do these hazards result in damages to single households or to individual actors and how do these costs vary within one society 3) How are hazards perceived by the people affected 4) How do actors of different wealth, social status, age and gender try to minimize risks by delimiting the effect of damages during an on-going crisis and what kind of institutionalized measures do they design to insure themselves against hazards, preventing their occurrence or limiting their effects 5) How is risk minimization affected by cultural innovation and how can the importance of the quest for enhanced security as a driving force of cultural evolution be estimated 472 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387241558ISBN 13: 9780387241555
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Bridging the gap between the needs of the technical engineer and cognitive researchers related to speech technology applications. Systematic approach focusing on the utility of speech related product designDesigned to respond to the growing need for specific theories, tools and methods for design, testing and evaluating speech related human-system interfaces.Targeted at designers, engineers, anddecision makers working in the area of speech technology research 412 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 038729547XISBN 13: 9780387295473
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Aims to give to the reader the tools necessary to apply semi-Markov processes in real-life problems.The book is self-contained and, starting from a low level of probability concepts, gradually brings the reader to a deep knowledge of semi-Markov processes.Presents homogeneous and non-homogeneous semi-Markov processes, as well as Markov and semi-Markov rewards processes.The concepts are fundamental for many applications, but they are not as thoroughly presented in other books on the subject as they are here. 324 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 0387285806ISBN 13: 9780387285801
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis and Its Uses: With DEA-Solver Software and References has been carefully designed by the authors to provide a systematic introduction to DEA and its uses as a multifaceted tool for evaluating problems in a variety of contexts. The authors have been involved in DEA's development from the beginning. William Cooper (with Abraham Charnes and Edwardo Rhodes) is a founder of DEA. Lawrence Seiford and Kaoru Tone have been actively involved as researchers and practitioners from its earliest beginnings. All have been deeply involved in uses of DEA in practical applications as well as in the development of its basic theory and methodologies. The result is a textbook grounded in authority, experience and substance. 392 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387241574ISBN 13: 9780387241579
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Intuitive Probability and Random Processes using MATLAB® is an introduction to probability and random processes that merges theory with practice. Based on the author's belief that only 'hands-on' experience with the material can promote intuitive understanding, the approach is to motivate the need for theory using MATLAB examples, followed by theory and analysis, and finally descriptions of 'real-world' examples to acquaint the reader with a wide variety of applications. The latter is intended to answer the usual question 'Why do we have to study this ' Other salient features are:\*heavy reliance on computer simulation for illustration and student exercises \*the incorporation of MATLAB programs and code segments\*discussion of discrete random variables followed by continuous random variables to minimize confusion\*summary sections at the beginning of each chapter\*in-line equation explanations\*warnings on common errors and pitfalls\*over 750 problems designed to help the reader assimilate and extend the conceptsIntuitive Probability and Random Processes using MATLAB® is intended for undergraduate and first-year graduate students in engineering. The practicing engineer as well as others having the appropriate mathematical background will also benefit from this book. About the AuthorSteven M. Kay is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Rhode Island and a leading expert in signal processing. He has received the Education Award 'for outstanding contributions in education and in writing scholarly books and texts.' from the IEEE Signal Processing society and has been listed as among the 250 most cited researchers in the world in engineering. 856 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 0387259880ISBN 13: 9780387259888
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -For many years, cognitive-behavioral techniques have been at the forefront of treatment for anxiety disorders. More recently, strategies rooted in Eastern concepts of acceptance and mindfulness have have demonstrated some promise in treating anxiety, especially in tandem with CBT. Now, with Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapies for Anxiety, thirty expert clinicians and researchers present a comprehensive guide to integrating these powerful complementary approaches-where they match, when they differ, and why they work so well together.Chapter authors clearly place mindfulness and acceptance into the clinical lexicon, establishing links with established traditions, including emotion theory and experiential therapy. In addition, separate chapters discuss specific anxiety disorders, the current state of treatment for each, and practical ways of integrating acceptance and mindfulness approaches into therapy. 400 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387281894ISBN 13: 9780387281896
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Mechanisms of neural plasticity enable the encoding and memorization of information based on sensory inputs and can be harnessed to partially restore function after CNS assault such as stroke or head trauma. In the present book, experts from the field of visual system plasticity describe and evaluate the evidence for neural mechanisms proposed to underlie CNS plasticity in the major divisions of the brain dedicated to visual processing, the retina, sub-cortical structures and cortex. We present studies from a wide variety of disciplines that range from molecular biology to neurophysiology and computer modeling. Leading investigators discuss their own work, and integrate this research with colleagues from other specializations. The book points out future applications for this research including clinical uses and engineering within the biomedical sciences. This book is an exciting and thought provoking read for all levels of science enthusiast interested in the physical basis of learning and cognition. 384 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387286578ISBN 13: 9780387286570
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Tremendous progress has been made in understanding the pathophysiology of ischemic heart disease. As a result, new therapeutic approaches for protecting the heart from ischemic injury are in development.This volume will highlight issues concerning basic mechanisms of ischemia-reperfusion injury in relation to potential therapeutic strategies. 216 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387283218ISBN 13: 9780387283210
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book has been written for graduate students, scientists and engineers who need in-depth theoretical foundations to solve two-phase problems in various technological systems. Based on extensive research experiences focused on the fundamental physics of two-phase flow, the authors present the detailed theoretical foundation of multi-phase flow thermo-fluid dynamics as they apply to a variety of scenarios, including nuclear reactor transient and accident analysis, energy systems, power generation systems and even space propulsion. 480 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387295526ISBN 13: 9780387295527
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Antioxidants and Cardiovascular Disease, Second Edition addresses a complex but very timely and fascinating problem in cardiovascular medicine. It is written by recognized experts in the fields of atherosclerosis and antioxidants. It should be of interest not only to academicians but also to practicing physicians. The first five chapters review the general concepts of oxidative stress and their relationship to lipid metabolism, endothelial dysfunction, genetics and transcriptional factors. The next seven chapters describe recently defined markers of oxidative stress, pharmacological compounds with antioxidant activity, natural antioxidants found in micronutrients and in nutrient-rich diets, and reviews the recent evidence for their efficacy or lack of efficacy in patients with cardiovascular disease or cardiovascular risk factors. The last seven chapters discuss the potential therapeutic benefits of antioxidants in a number of cardiovascular conditions which include atherosclerosis, restenosis after percutaneous coronary intervention, major cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus and dyslipidemia, and left ventricular dysfunction and congestive heart failure.Martial G. Bourassa, M.D. and Jean-Claude Tardif, M.D. are affiliated with the Montreal Heart Institute, Research Center and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 512 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 0387257888ISBN 13: 9780387257884
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Inexcess of 7 million people worldwide die of coronary heart disease each year. Only one-third of these heart attack victims recover completely. The remainder suffer the consequences of myocardial infarction and its ill fated remodeling process, resulting in chronic congestive heart failure. This malady alone is the leading cause of hospital admissions in the United States.New breakthroughs in stem cell therapy and tissue engineering have promised to reverse this dismal outcome by cardiovascular repair. World authorities, including scientists and regulatory authorities, have joined in a collaborative effort to present for the reader the first collective review of stem cell therapy for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. These contributions in basic science, pre-clinical and clinical experience guided by the regulatory pathways, assure a rapid course of translational research and clinical trials.The contents of this publication will become a prerequisite for those preparing to meet the challenges of this exciting and potentially rewarding field of stem cell research. 356 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 0387279350ISBN 13: 9780387279350
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Internet and the Web continue to have a major impact on society. By allowing us to discover and access information on a global scale, they have created entirely new businesses and brought new meaning to the term surf. In addition, however, we want processing, and increasingly, we want collaborative processing within distributed teams. This need has led to the creation of the Grid - an infrastructure that enables us to share capabilities, and integrate services and resources within and across enterprises.Future Generation Grids is the second in the CoreGRID series. This edited volume brings together contributed articles by scientists and researchers in the Grid community in an attempt to draw a clearer picture of the future generation Grids. This book also identifies some of the most challenging problems on the way to achieving the invisible Grid ideas. 328 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 1402032072ISBN 13: 9781402032073
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -SOC test design and its optimization is the topic of Introduction to Advanced System-on-Chip Test Design and Optimization. It gives an introduction to testing, describes the problems related to SOC testing, discusses the modeling granularity and the implementation into EDA (electronic design automation) tools. The book is divided into three sections: i) test concepts, ii) SOC design for test, and iii) SOC test applications. The first part covers an introduction into test problems including faults, fault types, design-flow, design-for-test techniques such as scan-testing and Boundary Scan. The second part of the book discusses SOC related problems such as system modeling, test conflicts, power consumption, test access mechanism design, test scheduling and defect-oriented scheduling. Finally, the third part focuses on SOC applications, such as integrated test scheduling and TAM design, defect-oriented scheduling, and integrating test design with the core selection process. 408 pp. Englisch.
Published by Springer US Nov 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0387262822ISBN 13: 9780387262826
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A link between inflammation and cancer has been established many years ago, yet it is only recently that the potential significance of this connection has become apparent. Although several examples of chronic inflammatory conditions, often induced by persistent irritation and/or infection, developing into cancer have been known for some time, there has been a notable resistance to contemplate the possibility that this association may apply in a causative way to other cancers. Examples for such progression from chronic inflammation to cancer are colon carcinoma developing with increased frequency in patients with ulcerative colitis, and the increased incidence of bladder cancer in patients suffering from chronic Schistosoma infection. Inflammation and cancer have been recognized to be linked in another context for many years, i.e., with regards to pathologies resembling chronic lacerations or 'wounds that do not heal.' More recently, the immunology of wound healing has given us clues as to the mechanistic link between inflammation and cancer, in as much as wounds and chronic inflammation turn off local cell-mediated immune responses and switch on growth factor release as well the growth of new blood vessels - angiogenesis. Both of these are features of most types of tumours, which suggest that tumours may require an immunologically shielded milieu and a growth factor-rich environment. 268 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 0387294503ISBN 13: 9780387294506
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The last 15 years in development of biology were marked with accumulation of unprecedentedly huge arrays of experimental data. The information was amassed with exclusively high rates due to the advent of highly efficient experimental technologies that provided for high throughput genomic sequencing; of functional genomics technologies allowing investigation of expression dynamics of large groups of genes using expression DNA chips; of proteomics methods giving the possibility to analyze protein compositions of cells, tissues, and organs, assess the dynamics of the cell proteome, and reconstruct the networks of protein-protein interactions; and of metabolomics, in particular, high resolution mass spectrometry study of cell metabolites, and distribution of metabolic fluxes in the cells with a concurrent investigation of the dynamics of thousands metabolites in an individual cell. Analysis, comprehension, and use of the tremendous volumes of experimental data reflecting the intricate processes underlying the functioning of molecular genetic systems are unfeasible in principle without the systems approach and involvement of the state-of-the-art information and computer technologies and efficient mathematical methods for data analysis and simulation of biological systems and processes. The need in solving these problems initiated the birth of a new science- postgenomic bioinformatics or systems biology in silico. 576 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 0387295542ISBN 13: 9780387295541
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'From nothing I have created a new different world,' wrote János Bolyai to his father, Wolgang Bolyai, on November 3, 1823, to let him know his discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, as we call it today. The results of Bolyai and the co-discoverer, the Russian Lobachevskii, changed the course of mathematics, opened the way for modern physical theories of the twentieth century, and had an impact on the history of human culture.The papers in this volume, which commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth of János Bolyai, were written by leading scientists of non-Euclidean geometry, its history, and its applications. Some of the papers present new discoveries about the life and works of János Bolyai and the history of non-Euclidean geometry, others deal with geometrical axiomatics; polyhedra; fractals; hyperbolic, Riemannian and discrete geometry; tilings; visualization; and applications in physics. 524 pp. Englisch.