Springer aug 1993 (274 resultados)

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Applies the methods of modern quality to the testing of digital integrated circuits. Explains new paradigms and techniques ranging from SSI to high-level VLSI, and how to match testing methods to the design and physical layout of the device. Accounts for the change in the electronics industry from a.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The present volume is the first attempt to bring together, in a comprehensive and comparative manner, the vast knowledge accumulated on the mycoplasma cell membranes. The state-of-the-art coverage includes physical studies of lipid organization and dynamics in mycoplasma membranes, the role of cholesterol in mycoplasma membranes, spiralins, and eight other subjects.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - One: Introduction. Two: Markets, Firms and Publicly Held Corporations. Three: Securities Regulations, Market Efficiency, and the Role of the SEC. Four: The Law of Insider Trading. Five: The Empirical Literature on Insider Trading: an Overview. Six: Insiders and Outsiders: an Empirical Analysis of Price and Volume Runups Preceding Tender Offer Announcements. Seven: Public Policy towards Insider Trading: a Proposal for Decriminalization. References. Index.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Preface. Section 1: Scattering Mechanisms. Section 2: High Frequency Measurements and Mechanisms. Section 3: Reverberation Modelling. Section 4: ARSRP Mid-Atlantic Ridge Experiment. Section 5: Low Frequency Measurements. Section 6: Volume Scattering. Section 7: Signal Processing Issues. Section 8: Applications. Author Index. Subject Index.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Cell Colonies: Fractal Growth and Morphological Change in Bacterial Colony Formation; M. Matsushita, et al. Surfaces and Interfaces: Dynamic Scaling in Surface Growth Phenomena; F. Family. Diffusion Limited Aggregation, Viscous Fingering and Fracture: Ionic Concentration and Electric Field in Fractal Electrodeposition; M. Rosso, et al. Cellular Patterns: 2D Manifolds Arising from Local Interactions; H. Terrones, et al. Dynamical Systems: Order, Pattern Selection, and Noise in Low-Dimensional Systems; M. San Miguel. Self-Replication: Molecular Quasi-Species in Hopfield Replication Landscapes; P. Tarazona. Self-Organization: Effects of Noise on Self-Organized Critical Phenomena; A. Diaz-Guilera. Measurement and Characterization: The Practical Measurement of Fractal Parameters; E.H. Dooijes, Z.R. Struzik. 36 additional articles. Index.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Published as a companion to Volume 12, the current volume presents the latest advances in electron paramagnetic resonance of iron proteins, metalloproteins, and free radicals. The book features a diskette containing programs for iron ERP spectral simulation and ENDOR analyses.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 1 Introduction: Scope and Need for an Ecology of Subtle Human Effects and Populated Areas.- Section I The Human Factor: Perception and Processes.- 2 The History and Present Entanglements of Some General Ecological Perspectives.- 3 An Exceptionally Powerful Biotic Factor.- 4 Environmental Change: The Human Factor.- 5 The Iceberg and the Titanic: Human Economic Behavior in Ecological Models.- 6 Ecosystems and Human Actions.- 7 The Human Component of Ecosystems.- Section II Approaches to the Study of Humans as Components of Ecosystems.- 8 Discovery of the Subtle.- 9 Land-use History and Forest Transformations in Central New England.- 10 Variability in Lake Ecosystems: Complex Responses by the Apical Predator.- 11 Humans as a Component of the Lake Titicaca Ecosystem: A Model System for the Study of Environmental Deterioration.- 12 Nitrogen Loading of Rivers as a Human-Driven Process.- 13 Humans: Capstone Strong Actors in the Past and Present Coastal Ecological Play.- 14 Modification of Nitrogen Cycling at the Regional Scale: The Subtle Effects of Atmospheric Deposition.- 15 The Application of the Ecological Gradient Paradigm to the Study of Urban Effects.- 16 The Process of Plant Colonization in Small Settlements and Large Cities.- 17 Ecological Implications of Landscape Fragmentation.- Section III Implications for Ecosystem Management and Construction.- 18 Integration of Social and Ecological Factors: Dynamic Area Models of Subtle Human Influences on Ecosystems.- 19 Human Influences on Ecosystems: Dealing With Biodiversity.- 20 'Natural' or 'Healthy' Ecosystems: Are U.S. National Parks Providing Them .- 21 Restoration as a Technique for Identifying and Characterizing Human Influences on Ecosystems.- 22 Biosphere 2 and the Study of Human/Ecosystem Dynamics.- Section IV Overview.- 23 Part I: A Social Scientist's Perspective.- II: A Human Ecologist's Perspective.- III: A Marine Ecologist's Perspective-Humans as Capstone-Species.- IV: A Theoretical Ecologist's Perspective: Toward a Unified Paradigm for Subtle Human Effects and an Ecology of Populated Areas.- 24 Humans as Components of Ecosystems: A Synthesis.…

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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Main Economic Policy Areas of the EC: After 1992 is a completely rewritten version of past editions. It examines successes and problems associated with the EC's main economic policy areas and makes proposals for the future. For the first time, a chapter on the very important policy area of transport is included.This volume is an indispensable course book and handbook for all individuals interested in the European Community's main policy areas at the beginning of the coming into effect of the Single European Market.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Law is traditionally conceived as consisting of norms of conduct and power-conferring norms. This conception, however, is unable to account for a variety of elements of modern legal systems that differ significantly from the classical notions. This book concerns the problem of which results of human activity can obtain legal validity. The author makes use of recent findings in speech act theory, especially John R. Searle and Daniel Vanderveken's illocutionary logic. He sets out a theory of legal norms conceived as institutional legal facts resulting from performances of speech acts specified in power-conferring norms. The theory provides a classification of acts-in-the-law and of legal norms resulting from performances of these. Finally, the transition is made from institutional legal facts to legal institutions. The book is a contribution to the institutional theory of law as developed by N. MacCormick and O. Weinberger.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most important pulse crop in Latin America, as well as in large parts of Asia and Africa. It is particularly important due to its ability, in symbiosis with Rhizobium bacteria, to fix atmospheric nitrogen and due to its high nutrient value.Incorporating contributions from plant breeders, microbiologists, plant physiologists and soil scientists, this volume reports the results of an FAO/IAEA Coordinated Research Programme (1985--1991), whose main objective was to enhance yield and biological nitrogen fixation in common bean by reducing its reliance on soil and fertilizer nitrogen.The volume will be invaluable to scientists working on biological nitrogen fixation and legume production.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book contains analyses of the concrete development and real extent of international police cooperation in Western Europe at several levels, from the bilateral level of cooperation along the Dutch-Belgian-German border to the transatlantic level of cooperation between the American and European police forces. It also contains descriptions of the official and informal viewpoints within France, United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium concerning the present state and the future of international police cooperation in the European Community.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Applies the methods of modern quality to the testing of digital integrated circuits. Explains new paradigms and techniques ranging from SSI to high-level VLSI, and how to match testing methods to the design and physical layout of the device. Accounts for the change in the electronics industry from a 194 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Nature is totally amoral! There are at least 3-4 million people in France alone who suffer from arterial hypertension, and whose cardiovascular system is submitted day and night to both a haemodynamic and hormonal stress. In all cases, the vasculature hypertrophies as does the myocardium. This growth process is obviously mainly detrimental at the outset since it lowers compliance of the arteries and makes them stiffer. In contrast, myocardial hypertrophy is initially beneficial since the growth process multiplies the number of contractile units and by so doing improves external work. In addition, according to Starling's law, wall stress is lowered. Growth factors playa major role in this amoral process as a trigger for hypertrophy at the vascular level, and very likely at the level of the myocardium. Another major point of interest is the role of growth factors as determinants of restenosis after angioplasty and also of atherogenesis. Several chapters in this book are directly or indirectly concerned with this problem which is far from being purely academic since several groups are currently trying to control these processes by gene transfer. Certainly, one of the major clinical questions arising from such studies is why restenosis is not more frequent in clinical practice. After de-endotheliazation, the biologist would predict on the basis of recent studies on growth factors, and in contrast with current clinical opinion, that hypertrophy would occur in all cases with more or less complete restenosis.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Das Buch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die Hardware- und Software-Konzepte, auf denen moderne Rechnersysteme beruhen, von den Arbeitsplatzrechnern bis zu den Supercomputern und den zukünftigen massiv-parallelen Rechnern. Im Anschluß an die Betrachtung der Architektur sequentieller Rechner, ihrer Prozessoren und ihrer Speicherhierarchien werden die Grundlagen für die Parallelarbeit dargelegt. Zunächst werden die Prinzipien der Parallelarbeit im Prozessor behandelt, was zu den VLIW-Maschinen und den superskalaren Prozessoren führt, und die damit verbundenen Compilerprobleme erörtert. Ein Kapitel ist den SIMD-Architekturen in Form der Vektormaschinen oder der Anordnungen gleichartiger Rechnerelemente gewidmet. Ein eigenes Kapitel stellt ausführlich und mit Beispielen die Prinzipien der Datenstruktur-Architekturen und der Sprach-Architekturen dar. Datenstruktur-Architekturen sind dahingehend optimiert, datenparallele Anwendungen mit komplexen Datenstrukturtypen möglichst effizient zu bearbeiten. Sprach-Architekturen dienen der Unterstützung von Sprachen wie Lisp und Prolog. Datenflußarchitekturen werden in einem eigenen Kapitel ausführlich behandelt. Die letzten drei Kapitel sind den Parallelrechnern gewidmet: Aus den Programmiermodellen für massiv-parallele Architekturen werden die verschiedenen Architekturformen abgeleitet. Die Eigenschaften der einzelnen Architekturformen, die zentrale Frage der Kommunikationslatenz und die spezifischen Softwarefragen werden gründlich behandelt. Das Buch zeichnet sich durch eine sehr systematische Darstellung aus sowie auch dadurch, daß nicht nur auf die Hardware-Architekturen eingegangen wird, sondern ebenso sehr auf die relevanten Fragen der Systemsoftware und Programmierung.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Diese Einf}hrung zeichnet sich nicht nur durch diedidaktisch geschickte Darstellung der Grundlagen, sonderndurch eine F}lle von Erl{uterungen zu vielverwendetenSchaltungen aus.Der aktuelle Stand der analogen und digitalenHalbleiterelektronik wird exemplarisch aufgezeigt. Auftypische Anf{ngerschwierigkeiten, z.B. bei Entwurf undDimensionierung einfacher Schaltungen, wird eingegangen.Die Eigenschaften von grundlegenden Transistor- undOperationsverst{rkerschaltungen werden im Rahmen derlinearen Netzwerkanalyse berechnet. Die wichtigstenLogikfamilien der digitalen Elektronik werden besprochen undzahlreiche TTL-Schaltungen angegeben - bis hin zu parallelenund seriellen Schaltungen der Grundrechenarten. Die letztenKapitel sind modernen me~technischen Problemen gewidmet:Signalumsetzung, Messung kleiner Signale und Beispiele ausdernuklearen Elektronik.Das Buch wendet sich sowohl an den Anf{nger, sei er Studentoder Hobby-Elektroniker, als auch an denElektronik-Anwender.Ein gro~er Teil der angegebenen Schaltungen kann miteinfacher Experimentierausr}stung oder durchComputer-Simulation getestet werden. In den Abschnitten DOIT YOURSELF werden hierzu Vorschl{ge gemacht.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the text of four sets of lecturesdelivered at the third session of the Summer Schoolorganized by C.I.M.E. (Centro Internazionale MatematicoEstivo). These texts are preceded by an introduction writtenby C. Cercignani and M. Pulvirenti which summarizes thepresent status in the area of Nonequilibrium Problems inMany-Particle Systems and tries to put the contents of thedifferent sets of lectures in the right perspective, inorder to orient the reader. The lectures deal with theglobal existence of weak solutions for kinetic models andrelated topics, the basic concepts of non-standard analysisand their application to gas kinetics, the kinetic equationsfor semiconductors and the entropy methods in the study ofhydrodynamic limits.CONTENTS: C. Cercignani, M. Pulvirenti: NonequilibriumProblems in Many-Particle Systems. An Introduction.- L.Arkeryd: Some Examples of NSA in Kinetic Theory.- P.L.Lions: Global Solutions of Kinetic Models and RelatedProblems.- P.A. Markowich: Kinetic Models forSemiconductors.- S.R.S. Varadhan: Entropy Methods inHydrodynamic Scaling. 172 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The number field sieve is an algorithm for finding the prime factors of large integers. It depends on algebraic number theory. Proposed by John Pollard in 1988, the method was used in 1990 to factor the ninth Fermat number, a 155-digit integer. The algorithm is most suited to numbers of a special form, but there is a promising variant that applies in general. This volume contains six research papers that describe the operation of the number field sieve, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Pollard's original manuscript is included. In addition, there is an annotated bibliography of directly related literature. 148 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This graduate level textbook deals with analyzing and forecasting multiple time series. It considers a wide range of multiple time series models and methods. The models include vector autoregressive, vector autoregressive moving average, cointegrated, and periodic processes as well as state space and dynamic simultaneous equations models. Least squares, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian methods are considered for estimating these models. Different procedures for model selection or specification are treated and a range of tests and criteria for evaluating the adequacy of a chosen model are introduced. The choice of point and interval forecasts is considered and impulse response analysis, dynamic multipliers as well as innovation accounting are presented as tools for structural analysis within the multiple time series context. This book is accessible to graduate students in business and economics. In addition, multiple time series courses in other fields such as statistics and engineering may be based on this book. Applied researchers involved in analyzing multiple time series may benefit from the book as it provides the background and tools for their task. It enables the reader to perform his or her analyses in a gap to the difficult technical literature on the topic. 568 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 7thEuropean Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (EKAW `93), held inToulouse and Caylus, France, in September 1993.Traditionally the EKAW workshops deal with the variousaspects of knowledge acquisition as a crucial topic inartificial intelligence as well as in computer science,engineering in general, and cognitive science. EKAW `93 hadist emphasis on knowledge acquisition for knowledge-basedsystems; besides the scientific workshop on the inter-disciplinary topic of knowledge acquisition there also wasoffered an open day as a users' forum open to the public.This proceedings contains the best papers presented at thescientific workshop after they had been selected by aninternational program committee consisting of leadingexperts in the field. The volume includes two surveys by GuyBoy and Brian Gaines and is divided in two main parts: thefirst part on problem solving models has sections onbuilding steps, support tools, and comparison of approaches;the second part on life cycle and methodologies is dividedin sections on refinement, methodologies, workbenches, andelicitation techniques. 468 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Graphs can be used to convey information about relationshipsin many applications. State transition diagrams, PERT/CPMcharts, and entity-relationship diagrams are a few examplesof many applications involving graphs. Typically, nodes inthe graph represent items in the application and the edgesrepresent the relationships among these items. A grapheditor is an interactive tool that presents a graph to theuser pictorially and allows the user to edit the graph.This monograph presents the design of an extendible grapheditor, which is a graph editor that can be adapted easilyto many different application areas. Several fundamental andrecurring problem areas associated with graph editors areinvestigated and a solution is proposed for each. The topicsinvestigated are:- Graph layout: a layout constraint mechanism is presentedwhich can easily be combined with various graph layoutalgorithms.- Graphical abstraction: a novel clustering techniquecallededge concentration is presented which can reduce theapparent complexity of the graph.- Persistence: the graph structures produced by theeditorcan be kept in long-term storage using a standardized,external format for graphs.- Extendibility: the design of the proposed graph editormakes it easy to adapt to various applications.To demonstrate their feasibility, the proposed solutionshave been incorporated into EDGE, an extendible graph editorprotoype. 212 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Third Kurt G|del Symposium, KGC'93, held in Brno, CzechRepublic, August1993, is the third in a series of biennialsymposia on logic, theoretical computer science, andphilosophy of mathematics. The aim of this meeting wastobring together researchers working in the fields ofcomputational logic and proof theory. While proof theorytraditionally is a discipline of mathematical logic, thecentral activity in computational logic can be foundincomputer science. In both disciplines methods were inventedwhich arecrucial to one another. This volume contains theproceedings of the symposium. It contains contributions by36 authors from 10 different countries. In addition to 10invited papers there are 26 contributed papers selected fromover 50 submissions. 372 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Computational geometry is the part of theoretical computerscience that concerns itself with geometrical objects; itaims to define efficient algorithms for problems involvingpoints, lines, polygons, and so on. The field has gainedpopularity very rapidly during the last decade. This ispartly due to the many application areas of computationalgeometry and partly due to the beauty of the field itself.This monograph focuses on three problems that arise inthree-dimensional computational geometry. The first problemis the ray shooting problem: preprocess a set of polyhedrainto a data structure such that the first polyhedron that ishit by a query ray can be determined quickly. The secondproblem is that of computing depth orders: we want to sort aset of polyhedra such thatif one polyhedron is (partially)obscured by another polyhedron then it comes first in theorder. The third problem is the hidden surface removalproblem: given a set of polyhedra and a view point, computewhich parts of the polyhedra are visible from the viewpoint. These three problems involve issues that arefundamental to three-dimensional computational geometry.The book also contains a large introductory part discussingthe techniques used to tackle the problems. This part shouldinterest not only those who need the background for the restof the book but also anyone who wants to know more aboutsome recent techniques in computational geometry. 220 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is about the smooth classification of a certainclass of algebraicsurfaces, namely regular ellipticsurfaces of geometric genus one, i.e. elliptic surfaces withb1 = 0 and b2+ = 3. The authors give a completeclassification of these surfaces up to diffeomorphism. Theyachieve this result by partially computing one of Donalson'spolynomial invariants. The computation is carried out usingtechniques from algebraic geometry. In these computationsboth thebasic facts about the Donaldson invariants and therelationship of the moduli space of ASD connections with themoduli space of stable bundles are assumed known. Somefamiliarity with the basic facts of the theory of moduliofsheaves and bundles on a surface is also assumed. This workgives a good and fairly comprehensive indication of how themethods of algebraic geometry can be used to computeDonaldson invariants. 236 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book has passed through a number of editions each involving some modifications while retaining the general character of the first. The most substantial changes occurred in the fifth (1983), but that is now out-of-date. Mycology has not been immune from the rapid evolution of biology in the past decade and the preparation was a long way beyond the capacity of the older writer (C.T.I.). So a younger one (H.J.H.) has collaborated with him. Substantial changes have been made throughout, particularly in relation to taxonomy but in general Chapters 1-7 have undergone relatively little revision. However, this is not true of Chapters 8-12 where the influence of the younger author is paramount. The basic idea of the book remains, namely to present fungi as living organisms profoundly affecting the lives of other kinds of living organisms, especially Man. Their study is of the greatest importance and what is more it is great fun. Many of the diagrams have been retained, but some have been redrawn and new ones added. Weare pleased to acknowledge the patience and artistic skills of Mrs Lindsay J. Wilson in producing these. Some coloured plates have also been introduced from photographs taken by H.J .H. 240 pp. Englisch.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book puts emphasis on developing the basic ideas behind the different approaches to non-equilibrium thermodynamics and on applying them to solids. After a survey about different approaches an introduction to their common fundamentals is given in the first part. In the second part the mechanical behavior of special materials such as viscoelasticity, viscoplasticity, viscoelastoplasticity, and thermoplasticity are discussed. The third part is devoted to extended thermodynamics. The basic ideas, phenomenological as well as microscopical, are reviewed and applied to thermo- and viscoelastic materials. Electromagnetic solids showing dielectric relaxation, such as ceramics, showing electromagneto-mechanical hysteresis and superconductivity are treated in the fourth part. In the last part stability with regard to constitutive equations is investigated. Especially stability of quasi-static processes and of elastic-plastic systems are discussed. 340 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -We have only begun to understand the experimental nature ofsoftware engineering, the role of empirical studies andmeasurement within software engineering, and the mechanismsneeded to apply them successfully. This volume presents theproceedings of a workshop whose purpose was to gather thosemembers of the software engineering community who support anengineering approach based upon empirical studies to providean interchange of ideas and paradigms for research.The papers in the volume are grouped into six partscorresponding to the workshop sessions: The experimentalparadigm in software engineering; Objectives and context ofmeasurement/experimentation; Procedures and mechanisms formeasurement/experimentation; Measurement-based modeling;packaging for reuse/reuse of models; and technologytransfer, teaching and training. Each part opens with akeynote paper and ends with a discussion summary.The workshop served as an important event in continuing tostrengthen empirical software engineering as a majorsubdiscipline ofsoftware engineering. The deep interactionsand important accomplishments from the meeting documented inthese proceedings have helped identify key issues in movingsoftware engineering as a whole towards a true engineeringdiscipline. 292 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains the proceedings of the fourth EuropeanSoftware Engineering Conference. It contains 6 invitedpapers and 27 contributed papers selected from more than 135submissions.The volume has a mixtureof themes. Some, such as softwareengineering and computer supported collaborative work, areforward-looking and anticipate future developments; others,such as systems engineering, are more concerned with reportsof practical industrial applications. Some topics, such assoftware reuse, reflect the fact that some of the concernsfirst raised in 1969 when software engineering was bornremain unsolved problems.The contributed papers are organized under the followingheadings: requirements specification, environments, systemsengineering, distributed software engineering, real-timesystems, software engineering and computer supportedcollaborative work, software reuse, software process, andformal aspects of software engineering. 536 pp. Englisch.…