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Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Hopkins, Bruce Joyce, Michael Huberman, Matthew Miles, and Virginia Richardson. But we have chosen to present our own experience and empirical data first and then, in Part 3, to show how this experience and data relates to models which have been proposed by others. We will address here methodological issues concerned with collecting and interpreting evidence of relationships amongst the many individual and situational factors associated with PD, and re-visit the arguments about 'process-product' research on PD. In the light of our experience, we will interrogate models of PD which have been proposed by others and attempt to move forward our total understanding of the process of the professional development of teachers for educational change. In conclusion, we will look at some current national practice in professional development, concentrating on the recent English experience of introducing 'strategies' into schools but referring also, by way of contrast, to the situation in the United States. WHAT'S THE PROBLEM Why has the professional development of teachers already exercised so many good minds for so long And how can we justify adding another book to this field The answer to both questions must lie in the continuing demand from society in general (at least as interpreted by politicians and newspaper editors) for improvements in the quality of education.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book arises from case studies and two back-to-back workshops held in Cotonou, Benin in November 2001. They were the combination of much experience and knowledge gathered in the West Africa region and were brought about to explore the concept of poverty, especially how it is a part of the life of fishing communities and our ways of thinking about resolving the issue. The workshops were conceived as a partnership between the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (F AO) and 25 countries of West Africa, working together through the Sustainable Fisheries Livelihood Programme (SFLP) to join forces with the Centre for the Economics and Management of Aquatic Resources (CEMARE). The SFLP, with its remit of poverty alleviation in West African artisanal fisheries communities through better governance and improved policies to involve communities in management of the resources on which their livelihoods depend, had quickly realised that it needed to define what and whom it was targeting. In this respect, the two large back-to-back workshops marked a milestone for the SFLP. Those participating in the workshop soon emphasised that we need to push forward our ideas from the previous simplistic 'less than a dollar a day' type definitions to show that poverty is multi-faceted and a dynamic feature of human society. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Software systems that used to be relatively autonomous entities such as e.g. accounting systems, order-entry systems etc. are now interlinked in large networks comprising extensive information infrastructures. What earlier used to be stand-alone proprietary systems are now for the most part replaced by more or less standardized interdependent systems that form large networks of production and use. Organizations have to make decisions about what office suite to purchase The easiest option is to continuously upgrade the existing office suite to the latest version, but the battle between WordPerfect and Microsoft Word demonstrated that the choice is not obvious. What instant messenger network to join for global communication Preferably the one most colleagues and friends use; AOL Instant Messenger, Microsoft Messenger, and ICQ represent three satisfactory, but disjunctive alternatives. Similarly organizations abandon their portfolio of homegrown IT systems and replace them with a single Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Several ERP alternatives exist on the market, but which is the right one for you The argumentation and rationale behind these considerations are obviously related to the technological and social networks we are embedded in, but it is not always easy to specify how. Networked Information Technologies: Diffusion and Adoption offers contributions from academics and practitioners who study networked information systems from a diffusion and adoption point of view. Themes related to the conceptualisation of diffusion and adoption of networked information systems are discussed along with studies of the diffusion of networked information systems in public sector institutions and private businesses. This volume contains the edited proceedings of the IFIP Conference on The Diffusion and Adoption of Networked Information Technologies, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) WorkingGroup 8.6 and held in Copenhagen, Denmark in October 2003.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - At the risk of sounding frivolous, there is a good case to be made for the argument that women constitute the revolutionary force behind contemporary social and economic transformation. It is in large part the changing role of women that explains the new household structure, our altered demographic behaviour, the growth of the service economy and, as a consequence, the new dilemmas that the advanced societies face. Most European countries have failed to adapt adequately to the novel challenges and the result is an increasingly serious disequilibrium. Women explicitly desire economic independence and the societal collective, too, needs to maximise female employment. And yet, this runs up against severe incompatibility problems that then result in very low birth rates. Our aging societies need more kids, yet fertility levels are often only half of what citizens define as their desired number of children. No matter what happens in the next decade, we are doomed to have exceedingly small cohorts that, in turn, must shoulder the massive burden of supporting a retired baby-boom generation. Hence it is tantamount that tomorrow's adults be maximally productive and, yet, the typical EU member state invests very little in its children and families.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Introduction; A.B.Deolalikar & E.M.Pernia PART I: GENERAL ESSAYS Poverty Reduction: Approaches and the Role of Political Institutions; A.B.Deolalikar and E.M.Pernia Sociocultural Factors Affecting Poverty and Poverty Reduction; M.Racelis & M.Concepcion Castro Guevara Public Sector Reform and Poverty Reduction; A.B.Brillantes Jr Decentralization and Poverty Reduction; R.Gaiha PART II: COUNTRY STUDIES Revisiting Growth and Poverty Reduction in Indonesia; A.M.Balisacan, E.M.Pernia & A.Asra Poverty, Inequality and Growth in the Philippines; A.M.Balisacan & E.M.Pernia Poverty, Growth and Inequality in Thailand; A.B.Deolalikar Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Vietnam; A.M.Balisacan, E.M.Pernia & G.E.B.Estrada.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Achieving the promise of e-business Two divergent approaches exist in purchasing and supply management organizations today, which give at least the perception of conflicting direction: 1. Some organizations, counseled by consultants and e-procurement software suppliers, but without a clear understanding of current actual procurement processes, have implemented expensive systems with the expectations of tremendous savings and spectacular supply chain improvements. The results often haven't lived up to the claims. 2. Many buyers and purchasing managers, failing to grasp the potential benefits from e-procurement, have resisted change, and not given their full support to system improvements. Those who have delayed have missed the opportunities of vastly improved processes and supplier contributions. Both have valid viewpoints, but neither has delivered on the true promise of supply chain improvements, so the lessons of this book should benefit both. Active supporters of e-procurement can benefit from understanding the 'nuts and bolts' approach to the fundamental supply management processes in a global context. Moreover, buyers and their managers with a better vision of the future will be better prepared to adapt to and support the needed changes.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - These pages contain a number of chapters from specialists in the field who consider, from a number of different perspectives, the currently available evidence that supports the environmental cancer aetiology hypothesis. This constitutes the first part of the book. In the second part of the book, an examination of the policy implications of accepting that the cancer epidemic may essentially be preventable is presented. This will pose some difficult problems for politicians and decision-makers, who will have to consider adopting policies that may damage the economy in the short term in order to reap health benefits which will only become apparent several decades in the future.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Patients with advanced breast or prostate cancers usually develop bone metastases. The principal complications resulting from metastatic bone disease are pain, spinal cord compression, pathologic fractures and bone marrow suppression. Improving the management of bone metastases is crucial to quality of life for patients with breast and prostate cancer. Advances in understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology of bone metastasis are driving the development of new therapeutic strategies.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In the last half of the twentieth century industry encountered a revolutionary change brought about by the harnessed power of seemingly ever-increasing capacity, speed and functionality of computers and microprocessors. This strength provided management and workers within industries with new capabilities for management, planning and control, design, quality assurance and customer support. Organized information flow became the mainstay of industrial companies. New tools and information technology systems emerged and evolved to enable companies to integrate the various departments (Design, Procurement, Manufacturing, Sales and Finance) within companies, particularly the lager ones, including international corporations. This was to give them a chance to meet new demands for product time to market, just in time supply of orders, and customer support. To the smaller company these changes were not so apparent. Neither the tools nor systems nor indeed their economic value seemed appropriate to them except for special cases. While all this was happening the structure of the larger companies began to disintegrate. Strong competitive pressures and globalization of the market place brought this about. Shedding unwanted competence and subcontracting it to others became common practice. Regional market pressures triggered companies to reorganize to create, produce, and distribute goods and services. Greater dependency on chains of supply from external companies became the norm. Medium and smaller sized companies began to gain some advantage and at the same time some were sucked into management and control systems governed by the larger companies.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Every cell and organism faces the problem of spaces, made up of the two leaflets of the lipid generating a confined space in which metabolic bilayer. The importance of traffic and signaling across membranes is reflected by the estimate and anabolic reactions take place and at the same time allowing entry and exit of metabo that 20% of all genes in the human genome encode membrane proteins. A failure of any of lites, ions, proteins, and signals across its bor der. Evolution has solved the problem by these proteins may have dramatic con se generating lipid membranes that contain trans quences for ceH function. In recent years much porters, ion channels, and receptors. In eukary attention has been paid to diseases resulting otic cells, this problem is exacerbated by the from nonfunctional ion channels ('chan presence of multiple organelles, which are con nelopathies'). Not surprisingly, many of these fined spaces in their own right. Even the lipid diseases affect the excitability of cells. membrane consists of two relatively separate Transporter diseases (perhaps coined 'carrier vi PREFACE diseases') are more related to metabolic dis Each chapter is concluded by a summary, and eases, Transporters are frequently found at the most chapters also contain an overview of the beginning or the end of metabolic pathways clinical features of a particular transporter and as a result can have similar effects to disease. a missing enzyme.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Secondary forms of hypertension are not uncommon in clinical prac tice, but they are often overlooked or forgotten by clinicians in many fields of medicine. Dr. George Mansoor' s volume on Secondary Hyper tension is an important contribution to the field of clinical hypertension and vascular diseases, since it brings up to date the numerous diagnostic and therapeutic advances in the evaluation for secondary types of hyper tension. In the past, textbooks usually stated that an etiology could be determined in less than 5% of patients presenting with newly diagnosed hypertension. We now know this is far too low a proportion (e.g., pri mary hyperaldosteronism alone may account for hypertension in 5% of patients presenting with chronic elevations in blood pressure). Secondary Hypertension has been thoughtfully organized into chap ters evaluating screening and diagnosis, as well as medical and/or sur gical intervention of the well-known etiologies of secondary hypertension in adults and children. Additional coverage is given to such exogenous or lesser appreciated causes of secondary hypertension as obstructive sleep apnea and drugs. These sections make this book novel because in the past little attention has been paid to the effects of noncar diac drugs that interfere with antihypertensive therapy or to exogenous substances that might induce refractory hypertension.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - TV viewers today are exposed to overwhelming amounts of information, and challenged by the plethora of interactive functionality provided by current set-top boxes. To ensure broad adoption of this technology by consumers, future Digital Television will have to take usability issues thoroughly into account. In particular, serious attention must be paid to facilitate the selection of content on an individual basis, and to provide easy-to-use interfaces that satisfy viewers' interaction requirements.This volume collects selected research reports on the development of personalized services for Interactive TV. Drawing upon contributions from academia and industry in the US, Europe and Asia, this book represents a comprehensive picture of leading edge research in personalized television.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A research agenda for collaborative networks Purpose. Many practical application experiments and pilot cases nowadays provide evidence on what works and what still remains as a challenge for collaborative networked organizations (CNOs). The fast evolution of the information and communication technologies and in particular the so-called Internet technologies, also represents an important motivator for the emergence of new forms of collaboration. However, most efforts in this area are highly fragmented, considering only some partial facets and not a holistic perspective that would be required. We are therefore at a point in which it is necessary to define much more consolidated and sustainable research strategies for a second phase of research and development in this area. This book addresses the main disciplines involved in CNOs. It further synthesizes the views and opinions expressed by a large number of visionaries from the main disciplines involved in CNOs, and offers a comprehensive set of recommendations for the establishment of a research agenda on collaborative networks. As recognized experts in their specific areas, different authors in this book have presented work that is backed by a large number of research results, each focusing on specific facets of collaborative networks, and coming out of a large number of international and national projects.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This volume, Prefrontal Cortex: from Synaptic Plasticity to Cognition, is an interdisciplinary approach to characterize the function of the anterior portion of the frontal lobe in rodents and human and non-human primates. The specific topics discussed in the chapters of this volume are purposefully diverse: they range from membrane properties of prefrontal neurons to cognitive psychology. Nevertheless, this volume must not be regarded as a mere collection of writings with the different sub-themes. As you will see, chapters often vigorously encompass domains of the prefrontal field in effort to provide a big picture. That is actually what we attempted to do in this volume. On one hand, we have accumulated knowledge on the properties of neurons and synapses in the prefrontal cortex as well as the actions of critical neuromodulators such as dopamine. On the other hand, behavioral and cognitive neurosciences have begun to reveal the fascinating role of the prefrontal cortex in such mental processes as working memory, attention switching and rule following, and long-term memory. Needless to say, our ultimate goal as neurobiologists is to know what relationship there is between these cellular and cognitive processes. This volume is meant to serve as a comprehensive introduction towards that goal. Readers will be informed, for example, of how plasticity of prefrontal neurons is regulated, how it is involved in certain cognitive processes in rodents, and how the rodent models can apply to the primates.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Speech and language technologies continue to grow in importance as they are used to create natural and efficient interfaces between people and machines, and to automatically transcribe, extract, analyze, and route information from high-volume streams of spoken and written information.The workshops on Mathematical Foundations of Speech Processing and Natural Language Modeling were held in the Fall of 2000 at the University of Minnesota's NSF-sponsored Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, as part of a 'Mathematics in Multimedia' year-long program. Each workshop brought together researchers in the respective technologies on the one hand, and mathematicians and statisticians on the other hand, for an intensive week of cross-fertilization. There is a long history of benefit from introducing mathematical techniques and ideas to speech and language technologies. Examples include the source-channel paradigm, hidden Markov models, decision trees, exponential models and formal languages theory. It is likely that new mathematical techniques, or novel applications of existing techniques, will once again prove pivotal for moving the field forward.This volume consists of original contributions presented by participants during the two workshops. Topics include language modeling, prosody, acoustic-phonetic modeling, and statistical methodology.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Although some decades have passed, there are still worldwide controversies about a concept of human death on neurological grounds. There are also disagreements on the diagnostic criteria for brain death, whether clinical alone or clinical plus ancillary tests. Moreover, some scholars who were strong defenders of a brain-based standard of death are now favoring a circulatory-respiratory standard. The study of coma is extremely important because lesions of the brain are responsible for quality of life in patients or cause of death. The main goal of Brain Death and Disorders of Consciousness is to provide a suitable scientific platform to discuss all topics related to human death and coma. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Dieser zweite Band Analysis, der nunmehr in fünfter, korrigierter Auflage vorliegt, behandelt die Differential- und Integralrechnung im Rn sowie Differentialgleichungen und Elemente der Funktionentheorie. Zu seinen Besonderheiten gehören eine neue, einfache Einführung des Lebesgueintegrals und eine Version des Gaußschen Integralsatzes, die Integrationsbereiche in großer Allgemeinheit zugrunde legt. Ein umfangreiches Kapitel ist dem Kalkül der Differentialformen samt Satz von Stokes gewidmet und als Einstieg in die Theorie der differenzierbaren Mannigfaltigkeiten konzipiert. Historische und biographische Anmerkungen bereichern den Text. Zahlreiche Abbildungen und Beispiele unterstützen das Verständnis. Zu jedem Kapitel wird eine Reihe von Aufgaben bereitgestellt. Insgesamt ein Lehrbuch, das sich als Begleittext zu einer Vorlesung wie auch zum Selbststudium hervorragend eignet. 460 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Dieser zweite Band Analysis, der nunmehr in fünfter, korrigierter Auflage vorliegt, behandelt die Differential- und Integralrechnung im Rn sowie Differentialgleichungen und Elemente der Funktionentheorie. Zu seinen Besonderheiten gehören eine neue, einfache Einführung des Lebesgueintegrals und eine Version des Gaußschen Integralsatzes, die Integrationsbereiche in großer Allgemeinheit zugrunde legt. Ein umfangreiches Kapitel ist dem Kalkül der Differentialformen samt Satz von Stokes gewidmet und als Einstieg in die Theorie der differenzierbaren Mannigfaltigkeiten konzipiert. Historische und biographische Anmerkungen bereichern den Text. Zahlreiche Abbildungen und Beispiele unterstützen das Verständnis. Zu jedem Kapitel wird eine Reihe von Aufgaben bereitgestellt. Insgesamt ein Lehrbuch, das sich als Begleittext zu einer Vorlesung wie auch zum Selbststudium hervorragend eignet. 460 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Diese Einführung besticht durch zwei ungewöhnliche Aspekte: Sie gibt einen Einblick in die Mathematik als Bestandteil unserer Kultur, und sie vermittelt die Hintergründe der Mathematik vom Schulstoff ausgehend bis zum Niveau von Mathematikvorlesungen im ersten Studienjahr. Die Stoffdarstellung geht vom Aufbau der natürlichen Zahlen aus; der Schwerpunkt liegt aber in den exakten Begründungen der Zahlenbegriffe, der Geometrie der Ebene und der Funktionen einer Veränderlichen. Dabei werden alle Sätze bis hin zum Hauptsatz der Algebra vollständig bewiesen. Der klare Aufbau des Buches mit Stichwortregister wichtiger Begriffe erleichtert das systematische Lernen und Nachschlagen. Die zweite Auflageenthält teilweise ausführliche Darstellungen für die Lösungen der zahlreichen Übungsaufgaben.Da viele Aspekte zur Sprache kommen, die so weder im Unterricht noch im Studium behandelt werden, ergänzt die Einführung ideal den Vorlesungsstoff für Lehramtskandidaten und Diplomstudenten. 405 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Diese Einführung besticht durch zwei ungewöhnliche Aspekte: Sie gibt einen Einblick in die Mathematik als Bestandteil unserer Kultur, und sie vermittelt die Hintergründe der Mathematik vom Schulstoff ausgehend bis zum Niveau von Mathematikvorlesungen im ersten Studienjahr. Die Stoffdarstellung geht vom Aufbau der natürlichen Zahlen aus; der Schwerpunkt liegt aber in den exakten Begründungen der Zahlenbegriffe, der Geometrie der Ebene und der Funktionen einer Veränderlichen. Dabei werden alle Sätze bis hin zum Hauptsatz der Algebra vollständig bewiesen. Der klare Aufbau des Buches mit Stichwortregister wichtiger Begriffe erleichtert das systematische Lernen und Nachschlagen. Die zweite Auflage enthält teilweise ausführliche Darstellungen für die Lösungen der zahlreichen Übungsaufgaben.Da viele Aspekte zur Sprache kommen, die so weder im Unterricht noch im Studium behandelt werden, ergänzt die Einführung ideal den Vorlesungsstoff für Lehramtskandidaten und Diplomstudenten.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Der zweite Band des erfolgreichen Werkes behandelt die Differential- und Integralrechnung im Rn, Mannigfaltigkeiten, Lebesgue-Integral, Fourieranalysis, Kurvenintegrale und vieles mehr. Beispiele, Diagramme und Übungsaufgaben erleichtern das Lernen. 'Diesem klar geschriebenen Lehrbuch ist zu wünschen, dass es in möglichst viele Hände von Mathematik- und Physikstudenten gelangt.'Internationale Mathematische Nachrichten ÖsterreichSpringer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH, Europaplatz 3,69115 Heidelberg, Germany, Heidelberg 460 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Dieser zweite Band Analysis, der nunmehr in fünfter, korrigierter Auflage vorliegt, behandelt die Differential- und Integralrechnung im Rn sowie Differentialgleichungen und Elemente der Funktionentheorie. Zu seinen Besonderheiten gehören eine neue, einfache Einführung des Lebesgueintegrals und eine Version des Gaußschen Integralsatzes, die Integrationsbereiche in großer Allgemeinheit zugrunde legt. Ein umfangreiches Kapitel ist dem Kalkül der Differentialformen samt Satz von Stokes gewidmet und als Einstieg in die Theorie der differenzierbaren Mannigfaltigkeiten konzipiert. Historische und biographische Anmerkungen bereichern den Text. Zahlreiche Abbildungen und Beispiele unterstützen das Verständnis. Zu jedem Kapitel wird eine Reihe von Aufgaben bereitgestellt. Insgesamt ein Lehrbuch, das sich als Begleittext zu einer Vorlesung wie auch zum Selbststudium hervorragend eignet.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Diese Einführung besticht durch zwei ungewöhnliche Aspekte: Sie gibt einen Einblick in die Mathematik als Bestandteil unserer Kultur, und sie vermittelt die Hintergründe der Mathematik vom Schulstoff ausgehend bis zum Niveau von Mathematikvorlesungen im ersten Studienjahr. Die Stoffdarstellung geht vom Aufbau der natürlichen Zahlen aus; der Schwerpunkt liegt aber in den exakten Begründungen der Zahlenbegriffe, der Geometrie der Ebene und der Funktionen einer Veränderlichen. Dabei werden alle Sätze bis hin zum Hauptsatz der Algebra vollständig bewiesen. Der klare Aufbau des Buches mit Stichwortregister wichtiger Begriffe erleichtert das systematische Lernen und Nachschlagen. Die zweite Auflage enthält teilweise ausführliche Darstellungen für die Lösungen der zahlreichen Übungsaufgaben.Da viele Aspekte zur Sprache kommen, die so weder im Unterricht noch im Studium behandelt werden, ergänzt die Einführung ideal den Vorlesungsstoff für Lehramtskandidaten und Diplomstudenten.Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 405 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Most people experience some difficulty with writing formal or technical papers. Students, in particular, can experience problems with the requirements of writing papers in psychology. This book is a comprehensive companion to the entire writing process, covering: thinking analytically and critically taking notes organizing information and ideas preparing and planning writing drafts and editingIt emphasizes the principles and logic underlying the thinking and writing process, so that these may be applied to a range of essays, literature reviews and research reports.The book also includes advice and guidance on the reporting of statistics, and on the design, preparation, and use of figures and tables to illustrate research results. It also includes reference material on grammar, punctuation, spelling, abbreviations, and on typing and presentation.For ease of finding relevant material it is organized into parts that relate to various aspects of writing and types of papers, and includes internal cross-references, a checklist of the writing process and examples of good and bad research reports.The Principles of Writing in Psychology is suitable for use at all levels of study and beyond. It is consistent with the 5th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association but also covers deviations from this and includes material not included in the manual.T.R. SMYTH held academic appointments at many of Australia's foremost universities, including Charles Sturt University, the University of Adelaide, Flinders University and the University of Canberra. He also authoredThe Psychology Thesis: Research and CourseworkandWriting in Psychology: A Student Guide. 392 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -DILS 2004 (Data Integration in the Life Sciences) is a new bioinformatics wo- shop focusing on topics related to data management and integration. It was motivated by the observation that new advances in life sciences, e. g. , molecular biology, biodiversity, drug discovery and medical research, increasingly depend on bioinformatics methods to manage and analyze vast amounts of highly - verse data. Relevant data is typically distributed across many data sources on the Web and is often structured only to a limited extent. Despite new inter- erability technologies such as XML and web services, integration of data is a highly di cult and still largely manual task, especially due to the high degree of semantic heterogeneity and varying data quality as well as speci c application requirements. The call for papers attracted many submissions on the workshop topics. - ter a carefulreviewing processthe internationalprogramcommittee accepted 13 long and 2 short papers which are included in this volume. They cover a wide spectrum of theoretical and practical issues including scienti c/clinical wo- ows, ontologies, tools/systems, and integration techniques. DILS 2004 also f- tured two keynote presentations, by Dr. Thure Etzold (architect of the leading integration platform SRS, and president of Lion Bioscience, Cambridge, UK) and Prof. Dr. Svante Pa abo (Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig). The workshop took place during March 25 26, 2004, in Leipzig, Germany, and was organized by the Interdisciplinary Bioinformatics Center (IZBI) of the Universityof Leipzig. 236 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Quantum probability and the theory of operator algebras are both concerned with the study of noncommutative dynamics. Focusing on stationary processes with discrete-time parameter, this book presents (without many prerequisites) some basic problems of interest to both fields, on topics including extensions and dilations of completely positive maps, Markov property and adaptedness, endomorphisms of operator algebras and the applications arising from the interplay of these themes. Much of the material is new, but many interesting questions are accessible even to the reader equipped only with basic knowledge of quantum probability and operator algebras.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 180 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Constructible and perverse sheaves are the algebraic counterpart of the decomposition of a singular space into smooth manifolds, a great geometrical idea due to R. Thom and H. Whitney. These sheaves, generalizing the local systems that are so ubiquitous in mathematics, have powerful applications to the topology of such singular spaces (mainly algebraic and analytic complex varieties).This introduction to the subject can be regarded as a textbook on modern algebraic topology, treating the cohomology of spaces with sheaf (as opposed to constant)coefficients.The first 5 chapters introduce derived categories, direct and inverse images of sheaf complexes, Verdier duality, constructible and perverse sheaves, vanishing and characteristic cycles. They also discuss relations to D-modules and intersection cohomology. Later chapters apply this powerful tool to the study of the topology of singularities, polynomial functions and hyperplane arrangements.Some fundamental results, for which excellent sources exist, are not proved but just stated and illustrated by examples and corollaries. In this way, the reader is guided rather quickly from the basic theory to current research questions, supported in this by examples and exercises. 260 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Theseproceedingscontaintherefereedfulltechnicalpaperspresentedatthe26th Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2004). ECIR is theannualconferenceoftheBritishComputerSociety¿sspecialistgroupinInf- mation Retrieval. This year the conference was held at the School of Computing and Technology at the University of Sunderland. ECIR began life as the - nual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research. The colloquium was held in the UK each year until 1998 when the event was held in Grenoble, France. Since then the conference venue has alternated between the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, and the event was renamed the European Conference on Information Retrieval. In recent years, ECIR has continued to grow and has become the major European forum for the discussion of research in the eld of Information Retrieval. To mark this metamorphosis from a small informal c- loquium to a major event in the IR research calendar, the BCS-IRSG decided to rename the event to the European Conference on Information Retrieval. ECIR2004received88fullpapersubmissions,fromacrossEuropeandfurther a eldincludingNorthAmerica,ChinaandAustralia,atestamenttothegrowing popularity and reputation of the conference. Out of the 88 submitted papers, 28 were accepted for presentation. All papers were reviewed by at least three reviewers. Among the accepted papers 11 have a student as the primary author, illustrating that the traditional student focus of the original colloquium is alive today.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 440 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This is not a science book, nor even a book about science, although most of the contributors are scientists. It is a book of personal stories about Walter Kohn, a theoretical physicist and winner of half of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Walter Kohn originated and/or refined a number of very important theoretical approaches and concepts in solid-state physics. He is known in particular for Density-Functional Theory. This book represents a kind of 'oral history' about him, gathered - in anticipation of his 80th birthday - from former students, collaborators, fellow-scientists, and friends.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 328 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Diagrams in the Mind and in the World: Relations between Internal and External Visualizations.- Can Diagrams Have Epistemic Value The Case of Euclid.- Inferential and Expressive Capacities of Graphical Representations: Survey and Some Generalizations.- On Frege's Logical Diagrams.- Psychological Foundations for Concept Modeling.- On Differences between the Real and Physical Plane.- Query Graphs with Cuts: Mathematical Foundations.- Towards aDefault Reading for Constraint Diagrams.- Drawing Graphs in Euler Diagrams.- Diagrams and Non-monotonicity in Puzzles.- Peirce's Diagrammatic Logic in IF Perspective.- What Can Spider Diagrams Say .- Ensuring the Drawability of Extended Euler Diagrams for up to 8 Sets.- On Extending Venn Diagram by Augmenting Names of Individuals.- Reasoning with Projected Contours.- An Architecture for Problem Solving with Diagrams.- Generating Readable Proofs: A Heuristic Approach to Theorem Proving With Spider Diagrams.- Automated Model Transformation and Its Validation Using AToM3 and AGG.- Inter-diagrammatic Reasoning and Digital Geometry.- A Prototype Inference Engine for Rule-Based Geometric Reasoning.- Automatic Proofs for Scalecharts.- Diagram Schemas: What, Why, How.- Roles of Diagrammatic Information for the Discovery of Geometrical Theorems.- Interpreting Imprecise Diagrams.- Why Diagrams Are (Sometimes) Six Times Easier than Words: Benefits beyond Locational Indexing.- Incorporating Perceptual Task Effort into the Recognition of Intention in Information Graphics.- Individual Differences in Graphical Reasoning.- Co-ordinating Conventions in Graphical Dialogue: Effects of Repetition and Interaction.- Predictors of Success in Diagrammatic Problem Solving.- Speech and Graphical Interaction in Multimodal Communication.- Generating NewResearch Hypotheses from aResult Diagram of Qualitative Research.- Interpreting Lines in Graphs: Do Graph Users Construe Fictive Motion .- Learning with Diagrams: Effects on Inferences and the Integration of Information.- Making TRACS: The Diagrammatic Design of a Double-Sided Deck.- A Cognitive Processing Perspective on Student Programmers' 'Graphicacy'.- Using Graphics to Communicate Across Cultures.- The Effect of Knowledge-of-External-Representations upon Performance and Representational Choice in aDatabase Query Task.- User-Controllable Animated Diagrams: The Solution for Learning Dynamic Content .- Processing Animation: Integrating Information from Animated Diagrams.- A Training Program to be Perceptually Sensitive and Conceptually Productive through Meta-cognition: A Case Study.- Can Object (Instance) Diagrams Help First Year Students Understand Program Behaviour .- Spatial Transformations in Graph Comprehension.- Constructing Diagrams Representing Group Motions.- Bar-Gain Boxes: An Informative Illustration of the Pairing Problem.- Bayesian Boxes: A Colored Calculator for Picturing Posteriors.- Representing Rosters: Conceptual Integration Counteracts Visual Complexity.- Visualization Techniques for Product Change and Product Modelling in Complex Design.- Geographic Projection of Cluster Composites.- Decision Diagrams in Machine Learning: An Empirical Study on Real-Life Credit-Risk Data.- Feature Diagrams in Phonology.- Using Color Component Overlays for Result Visualization in aClassification by Sketch System.- Teaching Children Brackets by Manipulating Trees: Is Easier Harder .- Cider: AComponent-Based Toolkit for Creating Smart Diagram Environments.- Diagrammatic Spreadsheet: An Overview.- Perceptual Support of Diagram Creation and Editing.-ScanScribe: Perceptually Supported Diagram Image Editing.- An Experimental Comparison of Diagrammatic and Algebraic Logics.- Automatic Generation of the Behavior Definition of Distributed Design Tools from Task Method Diagrams and Method Flux Diagrams by Diagram Composition.- Selected Aspects of Customization of Cognitive Dimensions for Evaluation of Visual Modeling Languages.- Notations for Software EngSpringer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 472 pp. Englisch.…