Springer springer sep 1999 (392 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Criticizes attempts to 'biologize' consciousness by explaining its origin in evolutionary terms and identifying mental phenomena with brain processes, to 'computerize' it by identifying mind with the supposed computational activity of the brain, and to eliminate it by denying the reality of…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Stereotypical representations of the Mezzogiorno are a persistent feature of Italian culture at all levels. In Darkest Italy, John Dickie analyzes these stereotypes in the post-Unification period, when the Mezzogiorno was widely seen as barbaric, violent or irrational, an 'Africa' on the European…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Maps Introduction PART I: THEORETICAL REMARKS: THE NATURE OF CONFLICT AND PEACE The Paris Plan and its Failure Towards a New Explanation of the Collapse of the Paris Plan Peace in the Post-Cold War Order PART II: THE 1993 ELECTIONS: PEACE AS N…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Preface. Acknowledgements. Instead of introduction. 1. Texture, Structure, and Pairwise Interactions. 2. Markov and Non-Markov Gibbs Image Models. 3. Supervised MLE-Based Parameter Learning. 4. Supervised Conditional MLE-Based Learning. 5. Experiments in Simulating Natural Textures. 6. Experiments…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The late-medieval Portuguese who arrived in Africa were colonizers in the roman style, gold merchants on an imperial scale, conquistadores in the Hispanic tradition. Although their empire struggled to survive centuries of Dutch and English competition, it revived in the twentieth century on a tide…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the essential relationship between markets and morals. Smith, Burke and Marx, Durkheim, Polyani and Hayek - all sought to situate market exchange and property-based acquisitiveness in the broader context of human interaction and social value…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - What is meant by the concept of civil society Why do some equate it with liberal democracy, while others think it simply a guise for a market economy Who benefits from globalization and who loses out Can civil society prosper in an era of globalization Can global civil society restrain some of the…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The management of cultural diversity is a major challenge in many states. This book follows up the theoretical analysis of Ethnic Diversity and Public Policy with detailed case studies from leading international experts on Malaysia, Tanzania, Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago, Northern Ireland, Spain…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - One of the most basic themes in the philosophy of language is referential uptake, viz., the question of what counts as properly `understanding' a referring act in communication. In this inquiry, the particular line pursued goes back to Strawson's work on re-identification, but the immediate influe…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Parallel Numerical Computations with Applications contains selected edited papers presented at the 1998 Frontiers of Parallel Numerical Computations and Applications Workshop, along with invited papers from leading researchers around the world. These papers cover a broad spectrum of topics on para…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - An authoritative assessment of the reform efforts in African economies during the 1980s and early 1990s. The focus is on the reform process in the socialist countries which began from a position of pervasive state intervention. The impact of the subsequent economic liberalization and the changing…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - An authoritative assessment of the reform efforts in African economies during the 1980s and early 1990s, with the focus on economic liberalization in those socialist countries which began from a position of pervasive state intervention. A companion theoretical volume (0-333-66545-7) examines the c…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - An Aging Humankind: New Realities.- Menopause.- Does Menopause Increase the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease .- Chronic Low-Grade Metabolic Acidosis in Normal Adult Humans: Pathophysiology and Consequences.- The Menopause, Sex Hormones, and Rheumatic Disease.- Estrogen-Progestrogen Action.- Novel Me…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Cardiology is an area of great recent triumphs in pharmacological and surgical treatment, yet cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death and disability in the industrialized world. Coronary disease, heart failure, stroke and sudden arrhythmic cardiac death challenge both medical pra…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The phenomenon of international seaport administration is the subject of this book. As a Ph.D.-student at the Delft University of Technology (period 1993 - 1997) I had the opportunity to develop and exercise my hobby on a full time base. The result was a Ph.D.-dissertation which was defended in De…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book is a collection of invited papers that were presented at the Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, September 5-8, 1998, Boston, MA. These papers are meant to provide a global view of the emerging third-generation wireless networks in the…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Hermeneutics was elaborated as a specific art of understanding in humanities. The discovered paradigmatic, historical characteristics of scientific knowledge, and the role of rhetoric, interpretation and contextuality enabled us to use similar arguments in natural sciences too. In this way a new r…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The 7th Annual Working Conference of ISMSSS (lnformation Security Management and Small Systems Security), jointly presented by WG 11.1 and WG 11.2 of the International Federation for Information Processing {IFIP), focuses on various state-of-art concepts in the two relevant fields. The conference…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The 'Non-Sleeping Universe' was a conference conceived to commemorate the opening of the new building of the Centro de Astroffsica da U niversidade do Porto (CAUP). It seemed appropriate to include the two major areas of work at CAUP: Stellar Astrophysics and Cosmology. For the organizers the most…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This book reassesses the transformation of European diplomacy which took place at the beginning of the twentieth century. It focuses on the British and Russian diplomatic establishments during the years 1894-1917 in order to illustrate both the heterogeneity and complex nature of the 'Old Diplomac…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - All important aspects of thermophilic moulds such as systematics, ecology, physiology and biochemistry, production of extracellular and intracellular enzymes, their role in spoilage of stores products and solid and liquid waste management, and general and molecular genetics have been dealt with co…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Cardiac catheterization has long been a central diagnostic modality in the evaluation of children, adolescents, and adults with congenital heart disease, and in children with acquired heart disease. Over the past two decades, transcatheter interventions have become equally important in the treatme…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The area of virtual organizations, and industrial virtual enterprises in particular, is attracting a large and growing interest both in terms of the research and development and the implementation of new business practices. An ever-increasing number of international projects and national initiativ…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The field of DNA vaccines has undergone explosive growth in the last few years. As usual, some historical precursors of this approach can be d- cerned in the scientific literature of the last decades. However, the present state of affairs appears to date from observations made discreetly in 1988 b…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume contains a re-edition of Max Koecher's famous Minnesota Notes. The main objects are homogeneous, but not necessarily convex, cones. They are described in terms of Jordan algebras. The central point is a correspondence be…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is an introduction to the theory of shadowing of approximate trajectories in dynamical systems by exact ones. This is the first book completely devoted to the theory of shadowing. It shows the importance of shadowing theor…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The word 'rape' today denotes sexual appropriation; yet it originally signified the theft of a woman from her father or husband by abduction or elopement. In the early modern period, its meaning is in transition between these two se…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The introduction of the thesis consists of four parts: first, we motivate our chosen macroeconomic setting by looking at some real world phenomena. For a better understanding of these phenomena, we argue that the mutual dynamic inte…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Electronic Business will create changes similar to those brought about by the Industrial Revolution. It will change our business, society, and governance. It is happening now!Electronic Business is the integration of information technology…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book contains the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on TheoremProvinginHigherOrderLogics(TPHOLs 99),whichwasheldinNice at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, September 14{17, 1999. Thirty- ve papers were sub…