springer berlin heidelberg aug 2010 (218 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Die Bakterien ergreifen das Wort . und erzählen ihre eigene Geschichte! 'Wollten Sie je jemand anderes sein Jemand völlig anderes Jemand - oder etwas - wie in einer Kafka-Erzählung Hier ist Ihre Chance. Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie wären gerade einen Millimeter groß, könnten nicht sehen und sich, wenn überhaupt, nur durch den Schlag Ihrer Geißeln durch die Flüssigkeit bewegen, in der Sie leben .' Hier ist Thermotoga maritima - Ihr Berichterstatter von einem in der Geschichte der Wissenschaft beispiellosen Ereignis. Der Erste Außerordentliche Bakterienkongress führt alles, was in der Bakterienwelt Rang und Namen hat, am Prokaryote Pond zusammen. Hier tauschen die mikroskopisch kleinen Organismen Erkenntnisse über ihre Geschichte, ihre besonderen Fähigkeiten und ihre gegenwärtige Koexistenz mit dem Menschen aus. Die Redner berichten von den Lebensräumen, die sie besiedeln, von den Strukturen ihrer Zellen, von den Krankheiten, die sie bei Mensch und Tier verursachen, und von der existenziellen Bedrohung, die Antibiotika für sie bedeuten. Ihre Unzufriedenheit mit den Menschen, von denen sie sich missverstanden, oft zu Unrecht gefürchtet und häufig abschätzig behandelt fühlen, mündet in eine große Schlussveranstaltung, auf der die Art Homo sapiens eine Neubenennung erfährt. Dieses pfiffige und unterhaltsame Buch bietet einen ungewöhnlichen und faszinierenden Blick auf die Beziehung zwischen Menschen und Bakterien. Man lernt dabei - ganz nebenbei - eine Menge über Mikroorganismen und ihre verborgene Macht.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Absolut praxisnah und immer eher mit einem zwinkernden Auge, statt mit dem erhobenen Zeigefinger beantwortet der vorliegende Leitfaden folgende Fragestellungen und Themen rund um die Erstellung einer wissenschaftlichen Ausarbeitung: - Wie und wo recherchiere ich Wie verwalte ich die Quellen - Wie zitiere und referenziere ich korrekt - Welches Material darf ich hinsichtlich der Urheberrechte verwenden - Wie baue ich meine Gliederung auf - Welche Software-Tools sind für welche Aufgaben besonders geeignet - Wie erstelle ich Grafiken, Charts, Formeln, Diagramme - Wie bette ich sie ein - Wie funktioniert der Austausch mit dem Verlag bzw. mit der Druckerei - Neue deutsche Rechtschreibung, Stil, normgerechte Zeichnungen.Als solide Basis für eine studentische Arbeit oder auch eine Dissertation ist zu diesem Buch eine komfortable LaTeX-Vorlage online frei erhältlich.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 156 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -1 The Third International OPAALS Conference was an opportunity to explore and discuss digital ecosystem research issues as well as emerging and future trends in the field. The conference was organized by IPTI ¿ Instituto de Pesquisas em Tecnologia e Inovação ( ipti. org. br). IPTI is a member of the OPAALS Framework P- gramme 7 Network of Excellence, which is led by the London School of Economics and Political Science. OPAALS is a multi-disciplinary research network of excellence for developing the science and technology behind digital ecosystems. The conference was held within the scope of a broader EU¿Brazil bilateral workshop hosted by IPTI in cooperation with the Brazilian government and the European Commission and designed to foster EU support of information and communications technologies (ICT) enablement and socio-economic development in Brazil. The event was held in the city of Aracajú, Sergipe, in the northeast of Brazil, during March 22¿23, 2010. Aracajú is the capital of the state of Sergipe and is located on the coast, a tropical region with lush vegetation, rivers and mangroves and an e- nomic landscape dominated by fisheries, tourism and the challenges associated with fostering local economic development in the presence of low ICT penetration. Digital ecosystems (DEs) in some ways represent the next generation of ICT and Internet usage. Applicable to many contexts, they will perhaps have the greatest effect in enabling small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to compete on the global stage.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 324 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Enterprise Architecture, Integration, and Interoperability and the Networked enterprise have become the theme of many conferences in the past few years. These conferences were organised by IFIP TC5 with the support of its two working groups: WG 5. 12 (Architectures for Enterprise Integration) and WG 5. 8 (Enterprise Interoperability), both concerned with aspects of the topic: how is it possible to architect and implement businesses that are flexible and able to change, to interact, and use one another¿s s- vices in a dynamic manner for the purpose of (joint) value creation. The original qu- tion of enterprise integration in the 1980s was: how can we achieve and integrate - formation and material flow in the enterprise Various methods and reference models were developed or proposed ¿ ranging from tightly integrated monolithic system - chitectures, through cell-based manufacturing to on-demand interconnection of bu- nesses to form virtual enterprises in response to market opportunities. Two camps have emerged in the endeavour to achieve the same goal, namely, to achieve interoperability between businesses (whereupon interoperability is the ability to exchange information in order to use one another¿s services or to jointly implement a service). One school of researchers addresses the technical aspects of creating dynamic (and static) interconnections between disparate businesses (or parts thereof).Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 196 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Lectures on scientific data, educational lectures, and the various other forms of oral presentation are the basis for every medical meeting. Physicians are not professionally trained in giving lectures. This becomes very obvious when one visits a medical meeting. Often the message of the presentation is lost because of poor preparation, slides that fail to communicate effectively, and a generally unconvincing performance by the lecturer. To give a high-quality lecture that will be remembered for its content and form, one first has to learn some basic rules about preparation, PowerPoint slides, and oral communication. This book will enable the reader to overcome all the common presentation mistakes and to start a new career as a professional lecturer and esteemed faculty member.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 92 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -¿Subdivision¿ is a way of representing smooth shapes in a computer. A curve or surface (both of which contain an in nite number of points) is described in terms of two objects. One object is a sequence of vertices, which we visualise as a polygon, for curves, or a network of vertices, which we visualise by drawing the edges or faces of the network, for surfaces. The other object is a set of rules for making denser sequences or networks. When applied repeatedly, the denser and denser sequences are claimed to converge to a limit, which is the curve or surface that we want to represent. This book focusses on curves, because the theory for that is complete enough that a book claiming that our understanding is complete is exactly what is needed to stimulate research proving that claim wrong. Also because there are already a number of good books on subdivision surfaces. The way in which the limit curve relates to the polygon, and a lot of interesting properties of the limit curve, depend on the set of rules, and this book is about how one can deduce those properties from the set of rules, and how one can then use that understanding to construct rules which give the properties that one wants.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 232 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC) is one of the most important conferences in the area of computer science at the worldwide level and it has a federated structure, which takes into account the rapidly growing and expanding interests in this area. Informatics is rapidly changing and becoming more and more connected to a number of human and social science disciplines. Human¿computer interaction is now a mature and still dynamically evolving part of this area, which is represented in IFIP by the Technical Committee 13 on HCI. In this WCC edition it was interesting and useful to have again a Symposium on Human¿Computer Interaction in order to p- sent and discuss a number of contributions in this field. There has been increasing awareness among designers of interactive systems of the importance of designing for usability, but we are still far from having products that are really usable, and usability can mean different things depending on the app- cation domain. We are all aware that too many users of current technology often feel frustrated because computer systems are not compatible with their abilities and needs in existing work practices. As designers of tomorrow¿s technology, we have the - sponsibility of creating computer artifacts that would permit better user experience with the various computing devices, so that users may enjoy more satisfying expe- ences with information and communications technologies.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 328 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -st This volume contains the proceedings of two conferences held as part of the 21 IFIP World Computer Congress in Brisbane, Australia, 20¿23 September 2010. th The first part of the book presents the proceedings of DIPES 2010, the 7 IFIP Conference on Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems. The conference, int- duced in a separate preface by the Chairs, covers a range of topics from specification and design of embedded systems through to dependability and fault tolerance. rd The second part of the book contains the proceedings of BICC 2010, the 3 IFIP Conference on Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing. The conference is concerned with emerging techniques from research areas such as organic computing, autonomic computing and self-adaptive systems, where inspiraton for techniques - rives from exhibited behaviour in nature and biology. Such techniques require the use of research developed by the DIPES community in supporting collaboration over multiple systems. We hope that the combination of the two proceedings will add value for the reader and advance our related work.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 332 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Welcome to the Second International IFIP Entertainment Computing Symposium on st Cultural Computing (ECS 2010), which was part of the 21 IFIP World Computer Congress, held in Brisbane, Australia during September 21¿23, 2010. On behalf of the people who made this conference happen, we wish to welcome you to this inter- tional event. The IFIP World Computer Congress has offered an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their findings and research results in several prominent areas of computer science and engineering. In the last World Computer Congress, WCC 2008, held in Milan, Italy in September 2008, IFIP launched a new initiative focused on all the relevant issues concerning computing and entertainment. As a - sult, the two-day technical program of the First Entertainment Computing Symposium (ECS 2008) provided a forum to address, explore and exchange information on the state of the art of computer-based entertainment and allied technologies, their design and use, and their impact on society. Based on the success of ECS 2008, at this Second IFIP Entertainment Computing Symposium (ECS 2010), our challenge was to focus on a new area in entertainment computing: cultural computing.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 256 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The papers in this volume comprise the refereed proceedings of the conference Arti- cial Intelligence in Theory and Practice (IFIP AI 2010), which formed part of the 21st World Computer Congress of IFIP, the International Federation for Information Pr- essing (WCC-2010), in Brisbane, Australia in September 2010. The conference was organized by the IFIP Technical Committee on Artificial Int- ligence (Technical Committee 12) and its Working Group 12.5 (Artificial Intelligence Applications). All papers were reviewed by at least two members of our Program Committee. - nal decisions were made by the Executive Program Committee, which comprised John Debenham (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia), Ilias Maglogiannis (University of Central Greece, Lamia, Greece), Eunika Mercier-Laurent (KIM, France) and myself. The best papers were selected for the conference, either as long papers (maximum 10 pages) or as short papers (maximum 5 pages) and are included in this volume. The international nature of IFIP is amply reflected in the large number of countries represented here. I should like to thank the Conference Chair, Tharam Dillon, for all his efforts and the members of our Program Committee for reviewing papers under a very tight de- line. 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Biomedical engineering and medical informatics are challenging and rapidly growing areas. Applications of information technology in these areas are of paramount imp- tance. The aim of the first ITBAM conference was to bring together scientists, - searchers and practitioners from different disciplines (mathematics, bioinformatics, biology, medicine, biomedical engineering and computer science) having such c- mon interests. We hope that ITBAM conferences will provide opportunities for fru- ful discussions between all attendees and provide a platform where participants can exchange their most recent results, identify future directions and challenges, initiate possible collaborative research and system development, and develop common l- guages for solving problems in the realm of biomedical engineering, bioinformatics and medical informatics. The importance of computer-aided diagnosis and therapy has drawn more and more attention worldwide and laid the foundation for modern medicine with excellent potential for promising applications such as telemedicine, Web-based healthcare and analysis of genetic information. For this conference, after a peer-review process, we finally selected 13 long papers and 8 short papers that are now published in this volume. They are divided in to the following groups: workflow management and database; decision support and data management in biomedicine; medical data modelling and information retrieval; data mining in bioinformatics; knowledge representation and data management in bio- formatics; biological data and signal processing. The papers show how broad the spectrum of topics in applications of information technology to biomedical engine- ing and medical informatics is.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 252 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Thisvolumecontainstheinvitedandregularpaperspresentedat TCS 2010,the 6thIFIP International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, organised by IFIP Tech- cal Committee 1 (Foundations of Computer Science) and IFIP WG 2.2 (Formal - scriptions of Programming Concepts) in association with SIGACT and EATCS. TCS 2010 was part of the World Computer Congress held in Brisbane, Australia, during September 20¿23, 2010 ( ). TCS 2010 is composed of two main areas: (A) Algorithms, Complexity and Models of Computation, and (B) Logic, Semantics, Speci cation and Veri cation. The selection process led to the acceptance of 23 papers out of 39 submissions, eachofwhichwasreviewedbythreeProgrammeCommitteemembers.ThePr ogramme Committee discussion was held electronically using Easychair. The invited speakers at TCS 2010 are: Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA, Australia) Bart Jacobs (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA and LIX, Paris, France) Sabina Rossi (Venice, Italy) James Harland (Australia) and Barry Jay (Australia) acted as TCS 2010 Chairs. We take this occasion to thank the members of the Programme Committees and the external reviewers for the professional and timely work; the conference Chairs for their support; the invited speakers for their scholarly contribution; and of course the authors for submitting their work to TCS 2010.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 400 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Given that context-free grammars (CFG) cannot adequately describe natural languages, grammar formalisms beyond CFG that are still computationally tractable are of central interest for computational linguists. This book provides an extensive overview of the formal language landscape between CFG and PTIME, moving from Tree Adjoining Grammars to Multiple Context-Free Grammars and then to Range Concatenation Grammars while explaining available parsing techniques for these formalisms.Although familiarity with the basic notions of parsing and formal languages is helpful when reading this book, it is not a strict requirement. The presentation is supported with many illustrations and examples relating to the different formalisms and algorithms, and chapter summaries, problems and solutions. The book will be useful for students and researchers in computational linguistics and in formal language theory.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das Buch bietet eine schlanke Einführung, sowohl in die klassischen als auch in die moderneren Methoden der Theorie der Automorphen Formen, und führt auf einem sehr zugänglichem Niveau in die adelische und darstellungstheoretische Sichtweise ein. Durch die Konzentration auf das Wesentliche der Theorie und die Beschränkung auf den ¿Grundkörper Q¿ wird der Leser schnell zu den wesentlichen Zielen und Ergebnissen geführt.Für an Zahlentheorie und angrenzenden Gebieten wie z.B. algebraische/arithmetische Geometrie interessierte Studierende der Mathematik bietet das Buch einen optimalen Einstieg in das Thema.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 260 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Both classical geometry and modern differential geometry have been active subjects of research throughout the 20th century and lie at the heart of many recent advances in mathematics and physics. The underlying motivating concept for the present book is that it offers readers the elements of a modern geometric culture by means of a whole series of visually appealing unsolved (or recently solved) problems that require the creation of concepts and tools of varying abstraction. Starting with such natural, classical objects as lines, planes, circles, spheres, polygons, polyhedra, curves, surfaces, convex sets, etc., crucial ideas and above all abstract concepts needed for attaining the results are elucidated. These are conceptual notions, each built 'above' the preceding and permitting an increase in abstraction, represented metaphorically by Jacob's ladder with its rungs: the 'ladder' in the Old Testament, that angels ascended and descended.In all this, the aim of the book isto demonstrate to readers the unceasingly renewed spirit of geometry and that even so-called 'elementary' geometry is very much alive and at the very heart of the work of numerous contemporary mathematicians. It is also shown that there are innumerable paths yet to be explored and concepts to be created. The book is visually rich and inviting, so that readers may open it at random places and find much pleasure throughout according their own intuitions and inclinations.Marcel Berger is the author of numerous successful books on geometry, this book once again is addressed to all students and teachers of mathematics with an affinity for geometry.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 848 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Die Fallsammlung zur Rechtsgestaltung wendet sich insbesondere an Studenten und Rechtsreferendare, welche die Methode der Rechtsgestaltung einüben wollen. Sie versteht sich als fallbezogene Anleitung für das Erlernen und Trainieren einer zentralen juristischen Fähigkeit. Die Erfahrung zeigt, dass Studenten und Referendare häufig Probleme haben, das durchaus vorhandene rechtliche Wissen unter dem besonderen Blickwinkel, den eine rechtliche Gestaltung erfordert, umzusetzen. Sie sind gewohnt, Sachverhalte unter rechtliche Normen zu subsumieren, um rückblickend einen abgeschlossenen Sachverhalt zu entscheiden. Dagegen fehlt ihnen vielfach der Blick für eine vorsorgende, zukunftsgerichtete Gestaltung. Die Fallsammlung greift typische Fallgestaltungen des Zivil- und Verwaltungsrechts auf, um an diesen das Vorgehen eines Kautelarjuristen zu verdeutlichen. Zugleich wird vermittelt, wie das materielle und methodische Wissen in einer konkreten Fallbearbeitung gutachtentechnisch umgesetzt werden muss, um eine überzeugende Klausurleistung zu erbringen.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 292 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das Buch gibt einen einführenden, entscheidungstheoretisch begründeten Überblick über wichtige Probleme und Modelle der Produktionswirtschaft, veranschaulicht durch praxisnahe Beispiele unterschiedlicher Branchen. Eine zentrale Rolle spielen grafentheoretische Konzepte und Werkzeuge, die systematisch aus grundlegenden Modellen der Produktions theorie abgeleitet werden. Das Buch richtet sich in erster Linie an (angehende) Wirtschafts ingenieure, Betriebswirte und verwandte Studiengänge.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 328 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Clusterrechner und Grid-Computing bieten eine Basistechnologie für Computational Science. Mit starker Betonung der Anwenderseite haben die Autoren das Buch in drei Teile gegliedert: Grundlagen, Middleware, Simulationsexperimente. Im ersten Abschnitt werden relevante Grundlagen in den Disziplinen Mathematik / Informatik / Naturwissenschaften vermittelt.Der Zusammenhang Paralleles Rechnen, Middleware und Grid-Rechnerstrukturen wird detailliert dargestellt. Es folgt die Verbindung der Blöcke Grundlagen und Middleware durch Aufzeigen von in Grids und Clustern durchgeführten Simulationsexperimenten.Der besondere Nutzen des Buches liegt in der Darstellung interdisziplinärer Zusammenhänge im Bereich des Computational Science. Ein Ingenieur oder Naturwissenschaftler erfährt von Möglichkeiten der Cluster- und Grid-Rechentechnologie. Umgekehrt lernt ein Informatiker von den Bedürfnissen und Anforderungen der Ingenieur- und Naturwissenschaftler. Beide Seiten können somit ihre eigene Arbeitsweise besser planen.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 544 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das Spannungsfeld zwischen Mathematik und Mechanik bildet eine nie versiegende Quelle neuer Entwicklungen. Das vorliegende Lehrbuch enthält ein breit gefächertes Angebot klassischer Themen von Dreikörperproblem und Kreiseltheorie bis hin zur Bifurkationstheorie, Optimierung und Kontinuumsmechanik für elastische Körper und Flüssigkeiten. Mit Hilfe einer großen Palette von Matlab-Programmen, die auf der Homepage des Autors zur Verfügung gestellt werden, kann der Leser zu jedem der behandelten Themen mathematische Experimente durchführen. Dieses Internetangebot ist wesentlicher Bestandteil des Buches, und die kompakte, übersichtliche Form in Matlab erlaubt es vielfach, technische Details durch das Programm selbst zu erklären, was bei älteren Formelsprachen nicht möglich war. Insbesondere kann der Leser jedes Bild oder Diagramm selbst erzeugen und die Daten oder den Algorithmus nach Belieben abändern.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 652 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das vorliegende Buch gibt zunächst eine Darstellung der grundlegenden Prinzipien der Mikrocontroller und Mikroprozessoren. Anschließend wird detailliert der neueste Stand der Technik dieser Hardware-Bausteine erläutert, und es werden alle wichtigen Entwicklungstendenzen bis hin zum aktuellen Forschungsstand vorgestellt. Ferner werden in der Praxis häufig verwendete Mikrocontroller und Mikroprozessoren in ihrer Funktionsweise analysiert und zukunftsweisende Technologien dieser Bausteine aufgezeigt. Dieses Buch ist besonders geeignet für Studierende der Informatik oder Elektrotechnik im fortgeschrittenen Grundstudium oder zu Beginn des Hauptstudiums sowie in der Praxis stehende Fachleute der Elektrotechnik, Automatisierungstechnik und hardwarenahen Informatik, die mit der Planung und der Entwicklung oder dem Einsatz von Mikrocontrollern und Mikroprozessoren befasst sind.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 480 pp. Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Durch Mikroorganismen verursachte Infektionen sind in Gynäkologie und Geburtsmedizin von großer Bedeutung. Die Betreuung von Patientinnen mit Infektionserkrankungen erfordert fachspezifische und fundierte Kenntnisse über zahlreiche mikrobiologische Methoden sowie ein umfangreiches Wissen zur antiinfektiven Therapie.Das Buch richtet sich an alle Frauenärztinnen und Frauenärzte, die sich über infektiologische Krankheitsbilder, deren Klinik, Labordiagnostik, Therapie und Prävention informieren wollen. Die langjährig erfahrenen Autoren beantworten regelmäßig Anfragen aus Frauenarztpraxen zur Infektiologie.Der Übersichtsdarstellung aller relevanten bakteriellen, viralen, mykotischen und parasitären Infektionskrankheiten folgt ein diagnostischer Teil mit einem Überblick über die wesentlichen Parameter und Nachweisverfahren. Die sich daran anschließende Zusammenstellung der Therapieempfehlungen spiegelt den aktuellen Wissensstand wider.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 284 pp. Deutsch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Nanoscience stands out for its interdisciplinarity. Barriers between disciplines disappear and the fields tend to converge at the very smallest scale, where basic principles and tools are universal. Novel properties are inherent to nanosized systems due to quantum effects and a reduction in dimensionality: nanoscience is likely to continue to revolutionize many areas of human activity, such as materials science, nanoelectronics, information processing, biotechnology and medicine. This textbook spans all fields of nanoscience, covering its basics and broad applications. After an introduction to the physical and chemical principles of nanoscience, coverage moves on to the adjacent fields of microscopy, nanoanalysis, synthesis, nanocrystals, nanowires, nanolayers, carbon nanostructures, bulk nanomaterials, nanomechanics, nanophotonics, nanofluidics, nanomagnetism, nanotechnology for computers, nanochemistry, nanobiology, and nanomedicine. Consequently, this broad yet unified coverage addresses research in academia and industry across the natural scientists. Didactically structured and replete with hundreds of illustrations, the textbook is aimed primarily at graduate and advanced-undergraduate students of natural sciences and medicine, and their lecturers.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 800 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -This volume contains papers presented in a workshop of international experts in September 2008 in Berlin. The experts discussed how environmental consequences of EU legislation can be incorporated in a more effective way. In other words, this contribution focuses on the question of which measures can strengthen the cons- eration of environmental effects in the EU impact assessment procedure and in the subsequent legislative decision-making process. This allows drawing conclusions for the impact assessment process in Germany. This volume begins with an introductory paper (Bizer/Lechner/Führ) which served as the basis for discussion in our workshop. The questions raised in this paper are addressed by the authors of the subsequent chapters. Stephen White (DG Environment, EU-Commission) discusses the impact assessment from an int- nal perspective within the Commission. Pendo Maro (European Environmental Bureau) reviews the impact assessment practice from the perspective of an en- ronmental NGO. Martin Schmidt et al. discuss the potential for more formalism to strengthen environmental issues within impact assessments and favour a checklist.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 164 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The Caucasus region, situated on a natural isthmus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, has long been a border zone and a melting pot for a diverse range of cultures and peoples. As the intersection between Europe and Asia, and also - tween Russia and the Ottoman and Persian Empires, it has featured in the strategic plans of numerous great powers over the centuries. Given its abundance of natural resources, the ready-made raw material transport routes to Europe and its enduring position on the edge of Russia, nothing has changed to the present day. The tremendous development opportunities of the Caucasian region are being tarnished by unresolved territorial conflicts that put a continual and regionally balanced growth, sustained democratisation and long-term stability at risk. These conflicts, which all erupted with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, include the separatist movements in Abkhazia, Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh and South - setia. The war over South Ossetia, which erupted between Russia and Georgia in August 2008, spelt out the explosive potential still inherent in these conflicts.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 168 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Is the procedural autonomy of EU Member State a myth or a reality What should this concept be taken to mean Starting from the analysis of requirements and principles regulating, generally speaking, the relationships between Member States¿ and EU law, this book provides a definition of procedural autonomy able to account for the concept¿s inherent limits.Out of an analysis of the more relevant EU jurisprudence, the author identifies the rationale underlying the interventions of the ECJ on issues of procedural autonomy and the common logic that emerges from it; and reveals how, in an unchanged context of ¿procedural autonomy¿ of the Member States, national procedural law becomes more and more ¿functionalized¿ to the requirements of effectiveness of substantive EU law. As such, we should speak of a ¿functionalized procedural competence¿ rather than of procedural autonomy. But this is by no means a case of ¿Paradise Lost.¿The book includes a foreword by Prof. Jürgen Schwarze, one of the founding fathers of European Administrative Law.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 164 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Profs. W. Bassett (Geological Sciences, Cornell University) and D. Baker (Earth&PlanetarySciences,McGill)forinstructionsregardingDAC,Dr. I-Ming Chou(U. S. GeologicalSurvey)forusefuldiscussionsofthepressurecalculation procedure. Drs. M. Watanabe and T. Sato (Research Center of Supercritical Fluid Technology, Tohoku University, Japan) for discussions about the experimental set-upofthebatchand owreactors. Drs. S. Xu,H. Assaaoudi,R. HashaikehandA. Sobhy,whoworkedwithmeat McGillinCanada. ix Contents 1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. 1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. 2 RapidExpansionofSupercriticalSolution(RESS)Process . . . 4 1. 3 SupercriticalAntisolvent(SAS)Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1. 4 OtherPhysicalProcesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1. 5 SupercriticalWaterProcess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2 Supercritical Water Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2. 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2. 2 BatchReactor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2. 3 FlowReactor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2. 4 DiamondAnvilCell(DAC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3 Metal Oxides Synthesis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3. 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 3. 2 Boehmite(AlOOH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 3. 3 Ferrites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 3. 4 Phosphor(YAG) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 3. 5 LiCoO /LiMn O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 2 2 4 3. 6 Ce Zr O (x =0 1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 1 x x 2 3Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 120 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Catalysis and catalyst is a key technology to solve the problems in energy and environment issues to sustain our human society. We believe that comprehensive understanding of the catalysis and catalyst provides us a chance to develop a new catalyst and contributes greatly to our society. However, the eld of heterogeneous catalyst is dif cultto study andstill stays behindmoredeveloped elds ofchemistry such as organic and physical chemistries. This is a dilemma to the chemists who study the catalysis and catalyst. While we can accomplish the progress in the - dustrial application, the scienti c understandingis not complete yet. A gap between the useful application and incomplete scienti c understanding, however, becomes smaller and smaller in recent years. Because zeolites are ne crystals, and the structure is clearly known, the study on the catalysis using the zeolites is easier than those encountered in other catalysts such as metals and metal oxides. Very fortunately, zeolites provide us the strong acidity with the ne distribution which enables various useful catalytic reactions. When some metals and cations are loaded in close to the acid sites, these loadede- ments show extraordinarycharacters, and many catalytic reactions proceed thereon.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 196 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The present book contains the proceedings of two conferences held at the World Computer Congress 2010 in Brisbane, Australia (September 20¿23) organised by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). In the first part, the reader can find the proceedings of the 9th Human Choice and Computers International C- ference (HCC9) organised by the IFIP Technical Committee TC9 on the Relationship Between ICT and Society. The HCC9 part is subdivided into four tracks: Ethics and ICT Governance, Virtual Technologies and Social Shaping, Surveillance and Privacy, and ICT and Sustainable Development. The second part consists of papers given at the Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Conference (CIP) organized by the IFIP Technical Committee TC11 on Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems. The two parts of the book are introduced by the respective Conference Chairs. Chapter 1 introduces HCC9, providing a short summary of the HCC conference series, which started in 1974, and explaining the overview of HCC9, detailing the rationale behind each of the tracks in this conference. The details related to the papers of each track are discussed by the Track Chairs in the respective introductions to the specific tracks of HCC9 (Chaps. 2, 10, 16 and 22). Finally, Chap. 22 introduces the CIP part.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 416 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The pervasive creation and consumption of content, especially visual content, is ingrained into our modern world. We¿re constantly consuming visual media content, in printed form and in digital form, in work and in leisure pursuits. Like our cave¿ man forefathers, we use pictures to record things which are of importance to us as memory cues for the future, but nowadays we also use pictures and images to document processes; we use them in engineering, in art, in science, in medicine, in entertainment and we also use images in advertising. Moreover, when images are in digital format, either scanned from an analogue format or more often than not born digital, we can use the power of our computing and networking to exploit images to great effect. Most of the technical problems associated with creating, compressing, storing, transmitting, rendering and protecting image data are already solved. We use - cepted standards and have tremendous infrastructure and the only outstanding ch- lenges, apart from managing the scale issues associated with growth, are to do with locating images. That involves analysing them to determine their content, clas- fying them into related groupings, and searching for images. To overcome these challenges we currently rely on image metadata, the description of the images, - ther captured automatically at creation time or manually added afterwards.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 572 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -The 2010 edition of the European Conference on Computer Vision was held in Heraklion, Crete. The call for papers attracted an absolute record of 1,174 submissions. We describe here the selection of the accepted papers: Thirty-eight area chairs were selected coming from Europe (18), USA and Canada (16), and Asia (4). Their selection was based on the following criteria: (1) Researchers who had served at least two times as Area Chairs within the past two years at major vision conferences were excluded; (2) Researchers who served as Area Chairs at the 2010 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition were also excluded (exception: ECCV 2012 Program Chairs); (3) Minimization of overlap introduced by Area Chairs being former student and advisors; (4) 20% of the Area Chairs had never served before in a major conference; (5) The Area Chair selection process made all possible efforts to achieve a reasonable geographic distribution between countries, thematic areas and trends in computer vision. EachArea Chair was assigned by the Program Chairs between 28¿32 papers. Based on paper content, the Area Chair recommended up to seven potential reviewers per paper. Such assignment was made using all reviewers in the database including the conflicting ones. The Program Chairs manually entered the missing conflict domains of approximately 300 reviewers. Based on the recommendation of the Area Chairs, three reviewers were selected per paper (with at least one being of the top three suggestions), with 99.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 840 pp. Englisch.