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A 93 Bischi et al., Nonlinear Oligopolies 25 Chriss/Ginzburg, Representation Theory and 1 Blair (Eds), Imaging of Gynecological Disor- Complex Geometry (Modern Birkhäuser 1 Athanasiou (Eds), Key Topics in Surgical ders in Infants and Children (Med. Radiol.) Classics) Research and Methodology 54 Bockhorn (Ed), Macro- and Micromixing 36 Coles/Luetkehoelter, Expert SQL Server 2008 44 Abraham (Eds), Computational Social (Heat/Mass Transfer) Encryption Network Analysis (Communicat./Networks) 55 Bohlinger, Planning Traffic Management 36 Collins, Beginning WF 44 Albers (Eds), Efficient Algorithms (LNCS 5760) 86 Boller (Eds), Fodder Crops and Amenity 80 Comiso, Polar Oceans from Space (Atmosph. 51 Albertos/Mareels, Feedback and Control for Grasses (Handbook of Plant Breeding 5) Oceanogr. Libr. 41) Everyone 16 Borea (Ed), A3 Adenosine Receptors from Cell 26 Constanda (Eds), Integral Methods in Science 44 Aldini (Eds), Foundations of Security Analysis Biology to Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Engineering, Volume 1 and Design V - FOSAD 2008/2009 35 Boreux/Parent, Pratique du calcul bayésien 26 Constanda (Eds), Integral Methods in Science (LNCS 5705) (Statistique et probabilités) and Engineering, Volume 2 36 Allen et al., Oracle SQL Recipes 24 Borovik/Borovik, Mirrors and Reflections 17 Current Topics in Microbiology and 51 Alonso et al., Geomechanics of Failures. (Universitext) Immunology 340 Advanced Topics 55 Bosio et al., Advanced Test Methods for 37 Czernicki, Next-Generation Business Intel- 24 Alonso Rodriguez/Valli, Time-harmonic eddy SRAMs ligence Software with Silverlight 3 current problems (MS&A 4) 45 Bove (Eds), Language Engineering and 85 Ammann, Sorghum Biology Rigourous Software Development - ALFA D 51 Annaratone, Engineering Heat Transfer Summer School 2008 (LNCS 5520) Brian, Comment tremble la main invisible 52 Ao (Eds), Intelligent Automation and 26 Dafermos, Hyberbolic Conservation Laws in 1 Bronner (Eds), Bone and Development Computer Engineering (Lecture Notes in Continuum Physics (Grundl. math. Wiss. 325) (Topics in Bone Biology, Vol. 6) Electrical Engineering 52) 3rd ed. 2 Brugada (Ed), Clinical Approach to Sudden 52 Apikyan (Eds), Nuclear Power and Energy 3 Dancygier, Clinical Hepatology
F 23 Gregerson (Ed), The Cinematic Mirror for I Psychology and Life Coaching 94 Falkenreck, Reputation Transfer to Enter New 69 Grieder, Extensive Air Showers 48 Ilich, Selected Problems in Physical B-to-B Markets (Management Sc.) 77 Groysman, Corrosion for Everybody Chemistry 82 Fatta-Kassinos (Eds), Xenobiotics in the 4 Gupta (Eds) Pediatric CNS Tumors Urban Water Cycle (Envir. Pollution 16) (Pediatric Oncology) 2nd ed. J 82 Filar/Haurie, Uncertainty and Environmental 109 Gurwitsch, The Collected Works of Aron Decision Making (ISORMS 138) Gurwitsch (1901-1973) 6 Jatoi (Eds), Management of Breast Diseases 4 Fine (Eds), Minimally Invasive Ophthalmic (Phaenomenologica 193) 58 Jespers, The gm/ID Design Methodology for Surgery
83 Kulakow (Ed), Application of Phytotechnolo- 71 Mahoney (Ed), Gazetteer and Atlas of 61 Nguyen (Eds), Intelligent Systems for gies for Cleanup of Industrial, Agricultural Astronomy
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75 Yamanouchi (Eds), Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science (Spr. Ser. Chem. Phys. 98) 67 Yan/Xu, Chemical Vapour Deposition (EMP) 43 Yang (Eds), Security Informatics (Annals of Information Systems 9) 34 Yin/Zhu, Hybrid Switching Diffusions (Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability 63)
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A 28 Bopp Pseudo-Differential Operators and 87 Drug-DNA Interaction Protocols Deformation Quantization 62 Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems 16 A3 Adenosine Receptors from Cell Biology to 99 Boundary Management 73 Dynamics of Gambling: Origins of Random- Pharmacology and Therapeutics 38 Build Your Own CNC Machine ness in Mechanical Systems 90 Abiotic Stress Adaptation in Plants 68 Dynamics of Small Solar System Bodies and 23 Adherence to Pediatric Medical Regimens C Exoplanets 55 Advanced Test Methods for SRAMs 59 Advances in Constitutive Relations Applied in 22 Calcium Measurement Methods E Computer Codes 61 Calculation of Roundabouts 63 Advances in Information and Intelligent 6 Central Auditory Pathway Disorders 21 Early, rapid and sensitive veterinary molec- Systems 105 Changing Cultures in Higher Education ular diagnostics - real time PCR applications 33 Advances in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics 70 Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for 97 Economists’ Mathematical Manual 76 Advances in Mathematical Modeling and Boron-11 44 Efficient Algorithms Experimental Methods for Materials and 67 Chemical Vapour Deposition 58 Efficient Test Methodologies for High-Speed Structures 111 Childbirth Across Cultures Serial Links 76 Advances in the Atomic-Scale Modeling of 23 The Cinematic Mirror for Psychology and Life 71 Einstein and the Changing Worldviews of Nanosystems and Nanostructured Materials Coaching Physics 108 Aftermath 2 Clinical Approach to Sudden Cardiac Death 49 Electrochemical Nanotechnologies 18 The Aging Auditory System Syndromes 94 Enabling Enterprise Transformation 10 Allergy Frontiers:Diagnosis and Health 3 Clinical Hepatology 84 Energy Efficiency Economics 25 Cohomology of Finite and Affine Type Artin 51 Engineering Heat Transfer 10 Allergy Frontiers:Therapy and Prevention Groups over Abelian Representation 84 Environmental Biotechnology 48 Analyses for Hormonal Substances in Food 109 The Collected Works of Aron Gurwitsch 49 Environment-Friendly Antiviral Agents for Producing Animals (1901-1973) Plants 27 Analysis and Algebra on Differentiable Mani- 110 The Collected Works of Aron Gurwitsch 87 Epithelial Transport Physiology folds: A Workbook for Students and Teachers (1901-1973) 59 Error Analysis with Applications in Engi- 9 Andrology 15 Coloproctology neering 7 Angiogenesis Inhibition 64 Computational and Experimental Mechanics 15 The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging 20 APC Proteins of Advanced Materials 53 ESL Models and their Application 83 Application of Phytotechnologies for 32 Computational Line Geometry 102 European Tort Law 2008 Cleanup of Industrial, Agricultural and Waste- 44 Computational Social Network Analysis 101 European Yearbook of International water Contamination 106 Computerized Adaptive Testing, Theory and Economic Law 2010 98 Applications of Fourier Transform to Smile Practice, Second Edition 72 Evaluating Measurement Accuracy Modeling 106 The Construction of New Mathematical 8 Evidence-Based Imaging in Pediatrics 62 Applications of Supervised and Unsupervised Knowledge in Classroom Interaction 36 Expert SQL Server 2008 Encryption Ensemble Methods 56 Constructive Neural Networks 69 Extensive Air Showers 68 Applied and Numerical Partial Differential 105 Continuing Higher Education and Lifelong Equations Learning F 102 Assisting Victims of Terrorism 12 Cornea and External Eye Disease 11 Atlas of Minimally Invasive Surgery in 77 Corrosion for Everybody 64 Factory Planning Manual Esophageal Carcinoma 30 A Course in Mathematical Logic for Math- 51 Feedback and Control for Everyone ematicians 30 50 Years of Integer Programming 1958-2008 94 Current Challenges for Corporate Finance B 34 The Finite Simple Groups 13 fMRI 41 Beginning Django E-Commerce D 86 Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses 40 Beginning GeoDjango 44 Foundations of Security Analysis and Design 40 Beginning iPhone 3 Development 100 Data Mining V 40 Beginning SimpleDB 86 Data Mining Techniques for the Life Sciences 91 Free Radicals and Antioxidant Protocols 38 Beginning T-SQL 2008 96 Decision-making in Committees 77 Free-Radical Retrograde-Precipitation Polym- 36 Beginning WF 29 Deformation Theory erization (FRRPP) 86 Berichte der Nationalen Referenzlaboratorien 99 The Delta Model 97 Frontiers in Entrepreneurship 2008 7 Dermatology in Clinical Practice 35 Frontiers in Statistical Quality Control 9 102 Beyond Right and Wrong 97 Designing an Efficient Management System 13 Frozen Section Library: Genitourinary Tract 92 Biocommunication and Natural Genome 90 Diel Vertical Migration of Zooplankton in Editing Lakes and Oceans G 61 Bio-Inspired Hybrid Intelligent Systems for 24 Differential Equations: Theory and Applica- Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition tions 74 Galileo and motion 46 Biomedical Imaging 27 Distributions 71 Gazetteer and Atlas of Astronomy 25 Blocks and Families for Cyclotomic Hecke 79 Domains in Ferroic Crystals and Thin Films 88 Genetic Modification of Plants Algebras 21 The Dopamine Receptors 89 The Genetics and Development of Scoliosis 1 Bone and Development 22 Drug Delivery 63 Geomechanics of Failures VIII Title Index Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
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Advanced Topics 49 Introduction to Corrosion Science 47 Modern Business Process Automation 31 Geometric Discrepancy 81 An Introduction to Soil Dynamics 6 Modern Infectious Disease Epidemiology 27 Geometry of Cuts and Metrics 37 iPhone Design Award Winning Projects 20 Molecular, Clinical and Environmental Toxi- 37 Getting StartED with Dojo JavaScript™ Toolkit 73 IUTAM Symposium on Progress in the Theory cology 42 Getting StartED with Netbooks and Numerics of Configurational Mechanics 85 Mosquitoes and Their Control 58 The gm/ID Methodology, a sizing tool for 18 Muscle Gene Therapy low-voltage analog CMOS Circuits J 63 My personal Adaptive Global NET (MAGNET) 111 Going Critical 16 G-Quadruplex DNA 68 The Jet Paradigm N 48 Green Metathesis Chemistry 69 Jets from Young Stars IV 83 Justice in Funding Adaptation under the 56 Natural Intelligence for Scheduling, Planning H International Climate Change Regime and Packing Problems 17 Natural Killer Cell Protocols 101 The Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs K 66 Neural Network-Based State Estimation of 2007 & 2008 Nonlinear Systems 79 Handbook of Adhesion Technology 62 New Challenges in Computational Collective 110 Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason 42 Handbook of Data Compression Intelligence 81 Karst Environments 65 Handbook of Information and Communica- 7 New Concepts in Diagnosis and Therapy of 1 Key Topics in Surgical Research and Method- tion Security Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma ology 50 Heat Capacities 12 New Liver Anatomy 88 Histology Protocols 37 Next-Generation Business Intelligence Soft- 66 Human and Nature Minding Automation L ware with Silverlight 3 34 Hybrid Switching Diffusions 34 Nexus Network Journal 11,3 26 Hyperbolic Conservation Laws in Continuum 93 The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlarge- 78 Non-Covalent Interactions Physics ment 93 Nonlinear Oligopolies 45 Language Engineering and Rigorous Soft- 28 Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations ware Development 53 Non-Standard Parameter Adaptation for I 41 Learn Mac Automation with Ruby Scripting Exploratory Data Analysis 29 Linear Optimization 32 Notes on Introductory Combinatorics 2 Illustrative Handbook of General Surgery 54 Logic Synthesis for FSM-Based Control Units 52 Nuclear Power and Energy Security 1 Imaging of Gynecological Disorders in Infants 14 Lumbar Spinal Imaging in Radicular Pain and 15 Nutrition Guide for Physicians and Children Related Conditions 17 Immune Synapses 13 Lung Cancer 82 The Impact of Climate Change on European O Lakes 65 Inductive Inference for Large Scale Text M 4 Oculoplastics and Orbit Classification 17 An Omics Perspective on Cancer Research 2 Infectious Disease Informatics 54 Macro- and Micromixing 96 Optimization for Decision Making 109 Infinite Regress Arguments 70 Magnetic Properties of Tectosilicates 36 Oracle SQL Recipes 100 Information Technology and Product Devel- 6 Management of Breast Diseases 77 Organic Electronics opment 19 Managing the Prenatal Environment to 100 Ingredient Branding Enhance Livestock Productivity P 5 Inherited Metabolic Diseases 95 Mathematical Formulas for Economists 66 Innovation in Electric Arc Furnaces 29 Mathematical Systems Theory I 71 Part A 9 85 Innovations as Key to the Green Revolution 96 Matheuristics 4 Pediatric CNS Tumors in Africa 31 Matrices and Matroids for Systems Analysis 8 Pediatric Ophthalmology, Neuro-Ophthal- 81 Innovations in European Rural Landscapes 33 Mean Curvature Flow and Isoperimetric mology, Genetics 54 Innovations in Neural Information Paradigms Inequalities 47 Peer-to-Peer Computing and Applications 20 Mechanosensitivity of the Heart 107 Permission to Shoot? 60 Innovations in Swarm Intelligence 5 Medical Retina 23 Persons: Understanding Psychological Self- 93 Innovative Quick Response Programs in 80 Megacities hood and Agency Logistics and Supply Chain Management 72 Methods in Modern Biophysics 19 Pharmaceutical Biotechnology 26 Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, 31 Metrics on the Phase Space and Non-Selfad- 18 Pharmacology and Abuse of Cocaine, Volume 1 joint Pseudo-Differential Operators Amphetamines, Ecstasy and Related 26 Integral Methods in Science and Engineering, 107 Mexican Solidarity Designer Drugs Volume 2 55 Microfluidics and Microfabrication 112 Phenomenology and Existentialism in the 52 Intelligent Automation and Computer 88 Mind the Gap Twentieth Century Engineering 4 Minimally Invasive Ophthalmic Surgery 111 Philosophical Reflections on Disability 56 Intelligent Collaborative e-Learning Systems 10 Minimally Invasive Surgery in Total Hip 38 PHP 6 for Absolute Beginners and Applications Arthroplasty 73 The Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma 61 Intelligent Systems for Knowledge 24 Mirrors and Reflections 3 Pitfalls in Cervical Spine Surgery Management 110 Models of Discovery and Creativity 55 Planning Traffic Management 39 Introducing .NET 4.0 95 Modern Actuarial Risk Theory 59 Pneumatic Conveying of Solids springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 AuthorTitle Index IX
80 Polar Oceans from Space 74 Special Relativity 89 Web-Based Applications in Healthcare and 78 Polymer Libraries 30 Spectral Methods for Uncertainty Quantifica- Biomedicine 33 Polynomials tion 90 Post-harvest Pathology 39 Spring Enterprise Recipes X 58 Power HVMOS Devices Compact Modeling 39 Spring Recipes 57 Power-Aware Testing and Test Strategies for 35 Statistical Analysis of Designed Experiments, 82 Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle Low Power Devices Third Edition 41 Practical Arduino 107 Staying Maasai? 43 Practical WPF Charts and Graphics 65 Structurally Constrained Controllers 14 The Practice of Radiology Education 16 Structure and Function of the Neural Cell 35 Pratique du calcul bayésien Adhesion Molecule NCAM 11 Principles of Diabetes Mellitus 79 Subwavelength and Nanometer Diameter 78 Printed Biomaterials Optical Fibers 42 Pro Azure Services Platform 12 Surgical English 95 Production and Inventory Management with 9 Surgical Intensive Care Medicine Substitutions 91 Sustainable Forest Management in a 72 Progress in Nano-Electro-Optics VII Changing World: a European Perspective 75 Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science 21 Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Heat Shock T Proteins in Infectious Disease
46 Test-Driven Development Q 3 Textbook of Clinical Pediatrics 28 Theory of Stochastic Processes 108 The Quality of Life in Confucian Asia 74 Thermal Nanosystems and Nanomaterials 112 Thinking Art R 104 Threats to Food and Water Chain Infrastruc- ture 24 Time-harmonic eddy current problems 11 Radiological Imaging of the Kidney 76 Titanate and Titania Nanotubes 103 A Real Mind. The Life and Work of Axel Häger- 5 Tobacco or Health? ström 70 1000 Solved Problems in Modern Physics 60 Recent Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics and 46 Transactions on Computational Systems Synchronization Biology 25 Representation Theory and Complex Geom- 19 Transgenic and Mutant Tools to Model Brain etry Disorders 94 Reputation Transfer to Enter New B-to-B 64 Trauma Biomechanics Markets 109 A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General 99 The Relationship Marketer Jurisprudence 87 Rhizosphere: Achievements and Challenges 9 Running Group Visits in Your Practice U S 82 Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making 69 Scattering of Photons by Many-Electron Systems 105 School Leadership - International Perspec- V tives 106 Schooling in Disadvantaged Communities 57 Variation Aware Analog and Mixed-Signal 43 Security Informatics Circuit Design in Emerging Multi-Gate CMOS 14 Seizures in Critical Care Technologies 48 Selected Problems in Physical Chemistry 53 Visual Perception for Manipulation and Imita- 45 Semantic Web Information Management tion in Humanoid Robots 47 Sematic Technologies for E-Government 60 VLSI Design for Video Coding 52 Shock Wave Science and Technology Refer- ence Library, Vol. 5 W 91 Signal Transduction: Pathways, Mechanisms and Diseases 83 Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions 8 Small Molecules in Oncology 84 Water Treatment Technologies for the 32 Sobolev Gradients and Differential Equations Removal of High-Toxity Pollutants 89 Soil and Culture 57 Wavelets 80 Soils, Plants and Clay Minerals 45 Web 2.0 & Semantic Web 85 Sorghum Biology ABCD springer.com
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T. Athanasiou, St. Mary’s Hospital, London, UK; J. Blair, A. Garden, G. Mann, Royal Liverpool F. Bronner, M. C. Farach-Carson, H. Roach (Eds.) H. Debas, UCSFGlobal Health Sciences, San Francisco, Children’s NHS Trust, Liverpool, UK (Eds.) CA, USA; A. Darzi, St. Mary’s Hospital, London, UK Bone and Development (Eds.) Imaging of Key Topics in Surgical Gynecological Disorders in Infants and Children This is a sixth volume in a series of reviews, Research and Methodology centered on a single major topic within the field of osteopathy. The book is an appropriate This textbook provides a comprehensive review mechanism for advancing knowledge in the field to Key Topics in Surgical Research and Methodology of gynecological imaging in infancy, childhood, researchers, clinicians and others involved in the represents a comprehensive reference text acces- and adolescence. Experts from the disciplines bone field. sible to the surgeon embarking on an academic of pediatric radiology, gynecology, surgery, and This work intends to look at the role bone develop- career. Key themes emphasize and summarize the endocrinology have come together to produce a ment within the field of pediatrics, covering all text. Four key elements are covered, i.e. Surgical textbook that, while written primarily from the problematic aspects from basic skeletal growth to Research, Research Methodology, Practical Prob- perspective of the radiologist, will be of value to all tooth mineralization. lems and Solutions on Research as well as Recent professionals involved in the management of these To understand tissue development requires Developments and Future Prospects in Surgical patients. The normal development of the female combining embryological and histological knowl- Research and Practice. reproductive tract is described in detail through edge with the increasing information becoming embryological development, normal childhood available from molecular and genetic studies. Features appearances, and puberty. Congenital abnormali- Development is characterized by the expres- Comprehensive textbook with CD on key issues ties are addressed in chapters reviewing struc- sion of genes, their subsequent silencing and the in surgical research and methodologyValuable tural abnormalities of the reproductive tract and expression of other genes. Disease, especially resource for surgeons at all levels embarking on an disorders of sex development. A symptoms-based disease progression, is equally characterized by academic career approach is followed in chapters devoted to the new gene expression that is then transmitted to assessment of the patient with gynecological pain daughter cells, with the silencing of other genes. From the contents and disorders of menstruation. Disorders of the In both instances these sequences are the result of The Role of Surgical Research.- Evidence Based breast and the imaging of patients with gynecolog- the interaction between the genome and the epig- Surgery.- The Role of the Academic Surgeon in ical neoplasia are considered in dedicated chapters. enome, i.e. between a very stable set of structures the Evaluation of Healthcare Assessment.- Study and rapidly changing environmental factors. Design, Statistical Inference and Literature Search Features in Surgical Research.- Randomised Controlled A comprehensive review of gynecological From the contents Trials: What the Surgeon Needs to Know.- Moni- imaging in infancy, childhood, and adolescence Genetic and Epigenetic Aspects of Bone Devel- toring Trial Effects.- How to Recruit Patients in The authors are acknowledged experts in the opment.- Tissue Interactions in Early Long Surgical Studies.- Diagnostic Tests and Diag- fields of radiology, gynecology, endocrinology, and Bone Development.- The Epiphyseal Growth nostic Accuracy in Surgery.- Research in Surgical surgeryWhile the book is written primarily Plate.- Hedgehog Signaling in Growth Plate and Education: A Primer.- Measurement of Surgical from the perspective of the radiologist, it will be Bone Development.- microRNA Role in Skeletal Performance for Delivery of a Competency-Based of great value to all professionals involved in the Development.- FGF/FGFR Signaling in Skel- Training. management of these patients etal Dysplasias.- The Role of Hypoxia-Induced Factors.- BMP Signaling in Skeletogenesis.- Wnt Fields of interest Fields of interest Signaling in Bone Development.- Development Surgery; Gastroenterology; Endocrinology Imaging / Radiology; Diagnostic Radiology; of the Cranio-Facial Complex.- Dentin and Bone: Pediatrics Similar Collagenous Mineralized Tissues.- Evolu- Target groups tion of Bone Proteins.- Osteogenesis Imperfecta. Surgeons at all levels embarking on an academic Target groups career Clinicians/professionals/practitioners in the fields Fields of interest pediatric radiology, pediatric gynecology, pediatric Medical Biochemistry; Orthopedics; Pediatrics Discount group surgery, pediatric urology, pediatric endocrinology MR Target groups Discount group Research scientists, clinicians, and scientist clini- MR cians, medical and dental residents and students, graduate students
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R. Brugada, Masonic Medical Research Laboratory, H. Chen, University of Wisconsin Medical School, H. Chen, D. Zeng, P. Ya n , University of Arizona, AZ, NY, USA (Ed.) Madison, WI, USA (Ed.) USA Clinical Approach to Sudden Illustrative Handbook Infectious Disease Informatics Cardiac Death Syndromes of General Surgery Syndromic Surveillance for Public Health and Bio-Defense Associate editors: J. Brugada, P. Brugada With the large number of surgical atlases in the market focusing on a variety of surgical proce- Computer-based infectious disease surveillance Clinical cardiologists are encountering an dures, it is almost impossible to find an area that is systems are capable of real-time or near real-time important challenge in the caring of families not comprehensively illustrated. However, almost detection of serious illnesses and potential bioter- with inherited cardiac diseases. The majority of all of these atlases are very large and serve to be rorism agent exposures and represent a major step the inherited cardiac diseases causing sudden ‘library reference’ books, which are commonly forward in disease surveillance. Infectious Disease death express themselves at variable ages in the displayed in the office and utilized in that manner. Informatics: Syndromic Surveillance for Public form of altered muscle function (i.e hypertro- There is no atlas which is easily transportable, yet Health and Bio-Defense is an in-depth monograph phic or dilated cardiomyopathy) or in the form one would imagine that every medical student and that analyzes and evaluates the outbreak modeling of arrhthymias (i.e. Brugada syndrome, long QT resident would potentially want a copy of such a and detection capabilities of existing surveillance syndrome). However, it is not uncommon that the title to carry on them at all times. systems under a unified framework, and presents first sign of the disease may actually be sudden The book aims to cover all facets of general surgery the first book-length coverage of the subject from cardiac death, even before the identification of and each chapter would have approximately five to an informatics-driven perspective. clear clinical abnormalities. In this last decade, ten photographs illustrating the basic anatomical Individual chapters consider the state of the art, with more than 50 new disease-associated genes context, as well as the various techniques specific including the facilitation of data collection, sharing identified, the possibility of genetic testing has to the operation. Each chapter author would also and transmission; a focus on various outbreak opened a new opportunity to disease diagnosis be responsible for providing a brief narrative detection methods; data visualization and informa- and prevention. Clinical and genetic research is describing what is going on during the operation, tion dissemination issues; and system assessment continuously on-going not only to identify those at and also outlining common pitfalls and personal and other policy issues. risk, but to better define their level or risk still with suggestions. limited success. Features Contents Examines the state of the art in disease Features Endocrine.- Breast.- Esophagus/Hiatus.- Stomach.- surveillance systemsFirst book to cover the Contributions from experts specialized in Small Bowel/Appendix.- Colon/rectum.- subject from an informatics-driven perspective inherited diseasesDiagnosis and prevention of Anoretal.- Hernia.- Liver/Spleen.- Gallbladder/ Authors are the most respected researchers in the disease aided by colour illustrations Billiary.- Pancreas. informatics
From the contents Fields of interest From the contents Part A: Familial diseases: (The following issues will Surgery; General Surgery; Minimally Invasive Infectious Disease Informatics.- Public Health be explained in each chapter): Clinical Description Surgery Syndromic Surveillance Systems.- Syndromic of the Disease.- Risk stratification parameters.- Surveillance Data Sources and Collection.- Data Therapeutic approach to the disease.- Genetic Target groups Analysis and Outbreak Detection.- Data Visualiza- basis.- Role of genetics in diagnosis and risk Medical students and residents, private practice tion, Information Dissemination and Alerting.- stratification. surgeons, hospital faculty in their early career System Assessment and Evaluation.- BioSense System. Fields of interest Discount group Cardiology; Internal Medicine; Emergency MR Fields of interest Medicine Health Informatics; Public Health; Information Systems Target groups Residents, fellows and practicing cardiologists and Target groups internal medicine physicians, emergency medicine Health and information systems academic and sports medicine physicians researchers, and practitioners
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H. Dancygier, University of Frankfurt, Offenbach, L. Denaro, D. D’Avella, University of Padua, Italy; A. Elzouki, F. Stapleton, R. Whitley, W. OH, H. Harfi, Germany V. Denaro, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, H. Nazer Italy (Eds.) Clinical Hepatology Textbook of Clinical Pediatrics Pitfalls in Cervical Principles and Practice of Hepatobiliary Diseases Spine Surgery Avoidance and Management of Features Complications This textbook has a problem based approach to Clinical Hepatology – Principles and Practice of pediatric diseases with a global appeal Hepatobiliary Diseases provides clear and compre- hensive coverage of the etiology, mechanisms of Spinal surgery is a unique area in the process of Fields of interest disease, diagnosis, and practical management of continuous development. New skills are applied Pediatrics; Internal Medicine; Nephrology the entire spectrum of liver and biliary disorders. daily in this delicate field by the spinal surgeon: It also affords an excellent, evidence-based review this professional can be either an orthopaedic Target groups of the rapidly expanding field of hepatobiliary surgeon or a neurosurgeon dedicated to the Physicians, residents and students from all pedi- diseases. treatment of spinal diseases. This book offers a atric subspecialties, health care providers whose comprehensive approach and reviews all of the practise includes the care of children Features possible errors encountered by spinal surgeons in Comprehensive and readablePractical and the clinical practice. It is mainly directed towards Discount group up to dateProvides a rational basis for the young surgeons approaching spinal surgery and MR practice of hepatologyFast and easy access also to experienced surgeons with regards to to common and rare problems encountered in complications related to the latest technologies practiceYour one-step resource for clinical in the spinal field. This approach of treating and hepatology understanding problems in cervical spine surgery is unique and will guide the reader towards an Fields of interest improved level of attention regarding pitfalls in Hepatology; Gastroenterology; Endocrinology cervical spine surgery, therefore fostering the ability of preventing major complications and Target groups medicolegal consequences. Hepatologists, gastroenterologists, internists, hepatobiliary surgeons, fellows in gastro- Features enterology/ hepatology, pathologists Hands-on guidance to the avoidance and management of complications in cervical spine Discount group surgerySpecial focus on medicolegal aspects, P informed consent and forensic aspects
From the contents General Surgical Complications (Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prophylaxis): Complications Related to Intraoperative Patient Position.- Errors of Diagnosis, Errors of Indications, Inadequate or Incomplete Surgical Technique, Errors of Level.- Postoperative Complications (Inadequate Medicine Immobilization or Rehabilitation). Complications of Surgical Approaches: Anterior Approaches. Due March 2011
Fields of interest Originally published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in Surgical Orthopedics; Neurosurgery; Forensic 2001 Medicine 2nd ed. 2011. Approx. 1800 p. 750 illus. (In 2 volumes, Target groups not available separately) Hardcover Spine surgeons at all levels of experience approx. $149.00 ISBN 978-3-642-02201-2 Discount group MR Originally published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in 2001
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I. H. Fine, Oregon Health & Science University, N. Gupta, A. Banerjee, D. Haas-Kogan, University of R. F. Guthoff, University of Rostock, Germany; Eugene, Oregon, USA; D. S. Mojon, Kantonsspital, California, San Francisco, CA, USA (Eds.) J. A. Katowitz, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, St. Gallen, Switzerland (Eds.) Philadelphia, PA, USA (Eds.) Pediatric CNS Tumors Minimally Invasive Oculoplastics and Orbit Ophthalmic Surgery Aesthetic and Functional Oculofacial Plastic Pediatric CNS Tumors is a detailed review of Problem-Solving in the 21st Century childhood brain tumors with a particular emphasis Many minimally invasive procedures have been on providing treatment algorithms for each tumor developed over the past decades, leading to a great type. Controversies and current therapeutic agents The 8 recurring volumes of the “Essentials in improvement in eye surgery. This unique textbook under development are also discussed. The second Ophthalmology” series cover the most recent and reference guide provides a complete up-to- edition includes expanded chapters on embryonal developments in one of eight subspecialties in date overview of minimally invasive surgical tech- tumors, rare tumor types, and supportive care for Ophthalmology. With four volumes published per niques in ophthalmology. Lavishly illustrated with patients with brain tumors. year, each subspecialty is newly visited every 24 superb illustrations and video clips, it presents the months, with a distinct focus on recent develop- state of the art of minimally invasive ophthalmic Features ments. By bridging the gap between original procedures. It serves as an invaluable resource for All brain tumors discussed in detail by patho- research and medical textbooks, the transfer of this all ophthalmic surgeons with widely varying levels logical typeCurrent therapeutic strategies developing knowledge into daily practice is greatly of experience, from the resident to the experienced for pediatric brain tumorsIncludes surgery, enhanced. surgeon. chemotherapy, and radiation therapyThor- oughly revised, updated and extended Features Features Bridges the gap between primary literature Is the first textbook providing a complete Contents and textbook knowledgeFocus on recent overview of minimally invasive surgical techniques 1. Low Grade Gliomas.- 2. High Grade Gliomas.- developments in subspecialtyIndispensable for in ophthalmologyPresents state of the art 3. Brainstem Gliomas.- 4. Ependymoma.- 5. continuous education and advanced training minimal procedures using many illustrations and Embryonal Tumors.- 6. Germ Cell and Pineal video-clipsServes as textbook and reference Region Tumors.- 7. Craniopharyngioma.- 8. From the contents guide to this rapidly growing sector of ophthalmic Neuronal Tumors.- 9. Choroid Plexus Tumors.- Ocular Adnexal Lymphoproliferative Disor- surgeryLavishly illustrated with superb colour 10. Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors.- 11. Rare ders.- Pearls in Cosmetic Oculofacialplastic illustrations and video-clipsWritten by inter- Tumors.- 12. Neurocutaneous Syndromes and Surgery.-Current Concepts in the Management nationally renowned experts of the field Associated CNS Tumors.- 13. Modern Imaging of of Idiopathic Orbital Inflammation.- Lacrimal CNS Tumors.- 14. Current Surgical Management.- Canalicular Inflammation and Occlusion: Diag- Contents 15. Chemotherapy.- 16. Advances in Radiation nosis and Management.- Orbitofacial Neurofi- Minimally Invasive Oculoplastic Surgery.- Mini- Therapy.- 17. Supportive and Palliative Care. bromatosis Type 1: Current Medical and Surgical mally Invasive Conjunctival Surgery.- Minimally Management.- Clinicopathologic Features of Invasive Lacrimal Surgery.- Minimally Invasive Fields of interest Lesions Affecting the Lacrimal Drainage System Ophthalmic Surgery.-Minimally Invasive Refrac- Oncology; Pediatrics; Neurology in External Dacryocystohinostomy.- Systemic tive Surgery.- Minimally Invasive Strabismus and Ophthalmological Anomalies in Congenital Surgery.- Minimally Invasive Iris Surgery.- Mini- Target groups Anophthalmic or Microophthalmic Patients.- mally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery.- Minimally Pediatric oncologists, pediatric neurologists, Brow Suspension in Complicated Unilateral Ptosis: Invasive Cataract Surgery.- Minimally Invasive pediatric neurosurgeons Frontalis Muscle Stimulation via Contralateral Vitreoretinal Surgery.- Index. Levator Recession.- Modern Concepts in Orbital Discount group Imaging. Fields of interest MR Ophthalmology Fields of interest Ophthalmology; Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Target groups Ophthalmic surgeons and all those interested in Target groups ophthalmic minimally invasive surgery Ophthalmologists as well as maxillary, facial surgeons and microsurgeons Discount group P Discount group MR
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2010. VIII, 234 p. 188 illus., 161 in color. With DVD. 2nd ed. 2010. VIII, 390 p. 85 illus., 23 in color. 2010. XII, 216 p. 176 illus., 141 in color. (Essentials in Hardcover (Pediatric Oncology) Hardcover Ophthalmology) Hardcover $189.00 $199.00 $219.00 ISBN 978-3-642-02601-0 ISBN 978-3-540-87976-3 ISBN 978-3-540-85541-5 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Medicine 5
K. Haustein, Institut für Nikotinforschung und G. F. Hoffmann, J. Zschocke, University of Heidel- F. G. Holz, University Clinik, Bonn, Germany; Raucherentwöhnung, Erfurt, Germany; berg, Germany; W. L. Nyhan, University of California, R. F. Spaide, Vitreous and Macula Consultant, D. Groneberg, Institut für Arbeitsmedizin, Charité, La Jolla, CA, USA (Eds.) New York, NY, USA (Eds.) Berlin, Germany Inherited Metabolic Diseases Medical Retina Tobacco or Health? A Clinical Approach Focus on Retinal Imaging Physiological and Social Damages Caused by Tobacco Smoking The explosion of insights in the field of metabolic The 8 recurring volumes of the “Essentials in disease has shed new light on diagnostic as well as Ophthalmology” series cover the most recent This book presents a summary of the consequences treatment options. ‘Inherited Metabolic Disease developments in one of eight subspecialties in that tobacco smoking has on health, taking into – A Clinical Approach’ is written with a reader- Ophthalmology. With four volumes published per account all organ systems affected, such as the friendly consistent structure. It helps the reader year, each subspecialty is newly visited every 24 respiratory tract, cardiovascular system, central to find the information in an easily accessible and months, with a distinct focus on recent develop- nervous system, and urinary tract, including rapid way when needed. Starting with an overview ments. By bridging the gap between original mineral metabolism, the pregnant woman, etc. It of the major groups of metabolic disorders it research and medical textbooks, the transfer of this also describes primary prevention measures as well includes algorithms with questions and answers as developing knowledge into daily practice is greatly as possible intervention modalities, established on well as numerous graphs, metabolic pathways, and enhanced. This volume focuses on retinal imaging, evidence-based medicine, to help individuals stop an expanded index. Clinical and diagnostic details a quickly evolving field with numerous advances smoking. The book is of a high scientific standard with a system and symptom based are given to like Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). and thus differs from many popular-science facilitate an efficient and yet complete diagnostic treatises. It helps inform the reader of all smoking- work-up of individual patients. Features related problems. Bridges the gap between primary literature Features and textbook knowledgeFocus on recent Features Provides a concise and user friendly guide to developments in subspecialtyTwo year interval Comprehensive, systematically and clearly the diagnosis and initial management of patients between complete updatesIndispensable for structuredThe only scientific-based book on with metabolic diseasesHelps physicians to continuous education and advanced training nicotine drug dependencyUp-to-date descrip- diagnose patients they may otherwise fail to diag- tion of the latest findings and the international nose and to reduce unnecessary referrals From the contents legislationDetailed discussion of all possibili- For metabolic and genetic specialists these Common Pitfalls in the Use of Optical Coherence ties of treatment indices will be helpful as a quick look when being Tomography for Macular Diseases.- Simultaneous called for advice SD-OCT and Confocal SLO-Imaging.- Fluorescein Contents Angiography.- Wide-Field Imaging and Angiog- History of tobacco. Epidemiology of tobacco From the contents raphy.- Autofluorescence Imaging.- Imaging the dependence. Tobacco constituents and additives. Introduction to Inborn Errors of Metabolism.- Macular Pigment.- Near-Infrared Autofluores- Pharmacology and pharmacokinetics of nicotine. Disorders of Intermediary Metabolism.- Disorders cence Imaging.- Nearinfrared Subretinal Imaging Smoking and lung disease. Cardiovascular disease, of the Biosynthesis and Breakdown of Complex in Choroidal Neovascularisation.- RetCam TM disturbances of blood coagulation and fibrinolysis. Molecules.- Neurotransmitter Defects and Related Imaging of Pediatric Intraocular Tumours.- Meta- Other organ systems. Smoking and pregnancy. Disorders.- Other Inborn Errors of Metabo- blic Mapping.- Assessing Diabetic Macular Edema Passive smoking. Non-drug treatments to promote lism.- Approach to the Patient with Metabolic with Optical Coherence Tomography. smoking cessation. Pharmacotherapy of nico- Disease.- Pathological Neonatal Screening tine dependence. Primary prevention. Tobacco Results.- Metabolic Emergencies.- Cardiovascular Fields of interest industry, advertising and advertising bans. Society, Abnormalities.- Hepatic Abnormalities. Ophthalmology; Imaging / Radiology politics and the tobacco industry. Fields of interest Target groups Fields of interest Pediatrics; Internal Medicine; General Practice / Ophthalmologists in clinical and private practice, General Practice / Family Medicine; Internal Family Medicine residents, ophthalmologists-in-training, and Medicine; Pneumology/Respiratory System optometrics Target groups Target groups Pediatricians, internists, neurologists, pathologists, Discount group General practitioners, pharmacists, policy makers and clinical genticists as well as general physicians MR
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Medicine Medicine Medicine Due December 2009 Due January 2010 Due November 2009 2010. Approx. 450 p. 58 illus., 25 in color. With CD-ROM. 2010. Approx. 240 p. 155 illus., 107 in color. (Essentials in 2nd ed. 2010. VIII, 472 p. 100 illus., 32 in color. Hardcover Hardcover Ophthalmology) Hardcover approx. $139.00 $139.00 approx. $219.00 ISBN 978-3-540-87576-5 ISBN 978-3-540-74722-2 ISBN 978-3-540-85539-2 6 Medicine Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
I. Jatoi, Breast Care Center, National Naval Medical K. Kaga, National Tokyo Medical Center, Japan A. Krämer, University of Bielefeld, Germany; Center, Bethesda, MD, USA; M. Kaufmann, Women’s M. Kretzschmar, University Medical Center, Utrecht, Hospital Frankfurt, Germany (Eds.) Central Auditory The Netherlands; K. Krickeberg, Manglieu, France (Eds.) Management of Pathway Disorders Breast Diseases Modern Infectious Disease Brain imaging and neurophysiological methods Epidemiology have been rapidly developed. The purpose of Concepts, Methods, Mathematical Models, This multi-authored and comprehensive work this book is to describe hearing problems which and Public Health provides a reference to the overall management of are caused by various kinds of brain diseases in diseases of the breast (both benign and malignant). central auditory pathway. Each topic is explained Pertinent controversies are discussed, and perspec- to use a lot of figures such as brain imaging and Hardly a day goes by without news headlines tives presented from both sides of the Atlantic. neurophysiological data comparing with neuro- concerning infectious disease threats. Currently This highly practical guide serves as a reference psychological tests. Readers will understand what the spectre of a pandemic of influenza A|H1N1 for the wide range of physicians and surgeons who happens in patients, when bilateral auditory nerve is raising its head, and heated debates are taking treat diseases of the breast. and auditory cortex are damaged in patients. Some place about the pro’s and con’s of vaccinating patients can hear but cannot discriminate mean- young girls against human papilloma virus. For an Features ings of speech, music and environmental sounds. evidence-based and responsible communication of Multi-authored highly practical guide on The author tries to explain why such a difference infectious disease topics to avoid misunderstand- overall management of benign and malignant occurs. ings and overreaction of the public, we need solid diseases of the breastInternational discussion scientific knowledge and an understanding of all of pertinent controversies and perspectives Features aspects of infectious diseases and their control. A valuabe reference and a must for all prac- The most important feature of this book is that The aim of our book is to present the reader ticing physicians and surgeons who treat benign anatomical data of CT, MRI, and neuropatholog- with the general picture and the main ideas of and malignant breast diseases ical and neurophysiological data of ABR and MEG the subject. The book introduces the reader to in patients are compared with neuropsychological methodological aspects of epidemiology that are From the contents data specific for infectious diseases and provides insight Anatomy and Physiology of the Breast.- Congen- into the epidemiology of some classes of infectious ital and Developmental Abnormalities of the Fields of interest diseases characterized by their main modes of Breast.- Nipple Discharge.- Mastalgia.- Manage- Otorhinolaryngology; Neurology; Neurosurgery transmission. ment of Common Lactation and Breast-feading Problems.- Evaluation of the Breast Mass.- Breast Discount group Features Cancer Epidemiology.- Breast Cancer Screening.- MR Expanded version in English of the book in Breast Imaging.- Premalignant and Malignant German on a slightly higher level: A. Krämer, R. Breast Pathology.- Lobular Carcinoma in Situ.- Reintjes (eds.): Infektionsepidemiologie. Springer, Ductal Carcinoma in Situ.- Surgical Consider- 2003The subject is modern epidemiologic ations in the Management of Primary Invasive methods for infectious dieseases, their origins Breast Cancer.- Management of the Axilla.- Breast and motiviations, and their role and aplications in Reconstructive Surgery.- The Role of Radiotherapy public health in Breast Cancer Management.- Adjuvant Systemic Therapy for Breast Cancer: An Overview.- Endo- Fields of interest crine Therapy.- Chemotherapeutic Agents.- HER-2 Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Targeted Therapy.- Inflammatory and Locally Sciences Advanced Breast Cancer. Target groups Fields of interest Researchers, graduate students, practitioners Surgery; Surgical Oncology; Gynecology Discount group Target groups P Practicing physicians and surgeons, surgical oncol- ogists and gynecologists at all levels of experience
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Mathematics Medicine Medicine Due December 2009 Due January 2010 Due October 2009 2010. VIII, 424 p. (Statistics for Biology and Health) 2010. Approx. 685 p. 48 illus. in color. Hardcover 2009. Approx. 160 p. Hardcover Hardcover approx. $349.00 $129.00 $89.95 ISBN 978-3-540-69742-8 ISBN 978-4-431-26654-9 ISBN 978-0-387-93834-9 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Medicine 7
A. Laghi, University of Rome, Latina, Italy (Ed.) S. W. Lanigan, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK; R. Liersch, W. E. Berdel, T. Kessler, University Z. Zaidi, Dow Medical College and Civil Hospital, Hospital Münster, Germany (Eds.) New Concepts in Diagnosis Karachi, Pakistan Angiogenesis Inhibition and Therapy of Pancreatic Dermatology in Adenocarcinoma Clinical Practice Angiogenesis is attracting increased scientific and clinical interest. The identification of novel This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach This book gives an insight into the common cuta- mediators and targeting molecules has led to to examine in detail a range of interesting new neous disorders, discussing the treatment in detail, significant progress in our understanding of tumor concepts in the diagnosis and therapy of pancreatic and giving a number of treatment options where angiogenesis and tumor vessel targeting. Impor- adenocarcinoma. It is divided into three parts. The required. More unusual diseases and syndromes tant advances in cancer treatment have already first part provides an epidemiological and clinical are only mentioned where necessary. The first line emerged, and in the future, blood vessel targeting overview of the disease, followed by an update on physician’s needs are kept in mind while writing will play a significant role within individualized pathological findings, including new discoveries each chapter, e.g. the chapter on cutaneous signs therapeutic strategies. This volume provides a in the area of molecular biology. The second part, of systemic disease is described in more detail in general overview of the latest developments in on diagnosis, offers detailed and comprehensive comparison to other short books on dermatology, angiogenesis inhibition in cancer. All aspects from information on the advantages and disadvan- because physicians in the front line of patient the bench to the bedside are considered, with tages of different imaging techniques, including management regularly deal with a vast number of detailed attention both to basic research and to its nuclear medicine and endoscopic ultrasound. The medical problems. translation into clinical practice. Individual chap- concluding part gives a panoramic overview of The book is designed to be short, clear and easy to ters are devoted to the roles of angiopoietins, HIF- the various therapeutic options, from surgery to read, with an emphasis on practical relevant infor- 1a, chemokines, PDGF and VEGF, and vascular chemotherapy and palliative approaches based on mation. It has been designed expressly to assist integrins. The latest results of clinical trials are interventional endoscopy and radiology. This book primary care physicians, residents and fellows in presented, and various advanced targeting strate- will be a valuable source of information for clini- dermatology, and emergency medicine and other gies are discussed. This book will be invaluable to cians involved in the management of pancreatic first line medical personnel. all who wish to learn of the most recent advances adenocarcinoma and for all who are interested in in this exciting field. updating their knowledge of the disease, including Features fellows and senior residents. Gives an insight into the common cutaneous Features disordersDiscusses treatment in detail, giving A general overview of the latest developments Features a number of treatment options where required in angiogenesis inhibition in cancerConsiders Adopts a multidisciplinary approach to The first line physician’s needs are kept in mind all aspects from the bench to the bedside, with pancreatic adenocarcinomaCovers the entire while writing each chapterHelps to demystify detailed attention both to basic research and to its spectrum of the disease, from clinical presen- the diagnosis and management of tropical skin translation into clinical practicePresents the tation to pathology, diagnosis, and treatment diseasesShort, clear and easy to read, with an latest results of clinical trialsDiscusses various Includes all the disciplines involved in the emphasis on practical relevant information advanced targeting strategies management of pancreatic adenocarcinoma Explains new discoveries in the area of molec- Fields of interest Fields of interest ular biologyAddresses the cost-effectiveness of Dermatology; General Practice / Family Medicine Oncology; Hematology; Cancer Research diagnostic strategies Target groups Target groups Fields of interest Residents and fellows specializing in dermatology, Clinicians and practitioners Imaging / Radiology; Diagnostic Radiology; primary care and family medicine practitioners Internal Medicine specializing in dermatology Discount group MR Target groups Discount group Clinicians/professionals/practitioners, scientists/ MR researchers, lecturers and students in the fields radiology, abdominal surgery, oncology
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Medicine Medicine Medicine Due October 2010 Due November 2009 Due November 2009 2009. X, 440 p. 500 illus. (Medical Radiology / Diagnostic 2010. XII, 200 p. (Recent Results in Cancer Research, Imaging) Hardcover 2010. Approx. 240 p. 240 illus. in color. Softcover Volume 180) Hardcover approx. $329.00 approx. $39.00 $189.00 ISBN 978-3-540-85380-0 ISBN 978-1-84882-861-2 ISBN 978-3-540-78280-3 8 Medicine Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
B. Lorenz, Uniklinikum Giessen, Germany; U. M. Martens, SLK-Kliniken Heilbronn, Germany L. S. Medina, Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL, M. C. Brodsky, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA (Eds.) (Ed.) USA; K. E. Applegate, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA; C. C. Blackmore, Univer- Pediatric Ophthalmology, Small Molecules in Oncology sity of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA (Eds.) Neuro-Ophthalmology, Evidence-Based Imaging in Genetics Pediatrics Strabismus – New Concepts in Extensive research into the molecular mecha- nisms of cancer disease has heralded a new age of Optimizing Imaging in Pediatric Patient Care Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment targeted therapy. In malignant cells, key proteins that are crucial to tumor growth and survival are now being targeted directly with rationally The 8 recurring volumes of the “Essentials in designed inhibitors. Apart from monoclonal This practical book is ideal for readers who want Ophthalmology” series cover the most recent antibodies, small molecule therapeutics such as to rapidly determine the appropriate imaging developments in one of eight subspecialties in oncogenic protein kinase inhibitors are attracting a for pediatric patients with particular diseases Ophthalmology. With four volumes published per vast amount of investigational attention. This text- and clinical symptoms and signs. Edited by Drs. year, each subspecialty is newly visited every 24 book, written by acknowledged experts, provides L. Santiago Medina, C. Craig Blackmore, and months, with a distinct focus on recent develop- a broad overview of the small molecules currently Kimberly Applegate, the text provides a concise ments. By bridging the gap between original used for the treatment of malignant diseases and and accessible summary of the literature on research and medical textbooks, the transfer of this discusses interesting novel compounds that are how and when to use imaging studies. Chapters developing knowledge into daily practice is greatly in the process of clinical development to combat address the essentials, such as cost-effectiveness, enhanced. cancer. and are written in collaboration by internationally renowned specialists in the fields of pediatrics and Features Features pediatric radiology. Topics cover common clinical Bridges the gap between primary literature Provides a broad overview of the small scenarios in neuroimaging and musculoskeletal, and textbook knowledgeFocus on recent molecules currently used for the treatment of chest, and abdominal imaging. Each particular developments in subspecialtyTwo year interval malignant diseasesDiscusses interesting novel imaging recommendation is presented along with between complete updatesIndispensable for compounds that are in the process of clinical an in-depth summary of the supporting data and continuous education and advanced training development to combat cancerWritten by the strength of the evidence. Helpful illustrations, acknowledged experts reference tables, and imaging flowcharts highlight From the contents the performance of the various tests and their Epidemiology of Pediatric Strabismus.- Tonus Contents optimal use. Mechanisms in Aquired Strabismus.- Dissoci- Protein kinase inhibitors: Imatinib. Erlotinib. ated Esotonus - The Etiological Basis of Infantile Axitinib. Lapatinib. Sorafenib. Sunitinib. Dasat- Features Esotropic?- Monofixation Syndrome: New Consid- inib. Nilotinib. Bosutinib.- Epigenetic modifiers: Chapters are co-authored by pediatricians and erations on Pathophysiology.- Visual Cortex Decitabine. 5-Aza.- Cell cycle inhibitors: Bort- pediatric radiologists for comprehensive coverage Mechanisms of Strabismus: Development and ezomib. Temsirolimus. PHA-739. Bl2536.- Other Reference tables and imaging flowcharts aid Maldevelopment.- Neuroanatomical Strabismus.- novel agents: Imetelstat. GDC-0449. with clinical decision-makingEvidence-based Congenital Cranial Dysinnervation Disorders approach is designed for rapid assessment of the - Facts and Perspectives to Understand Ocular Fields of interest patient’s needsAccompanying DVD offers Motility Disorders.- The Value of Screening for Oncology; Cancer Research handy access to text Amblyopia Revisited. Target groups Fields of interest Fields of interest Clinicians and practitioners Pediatrics; Primary Care Medicine; General Ophthalmology; Pediatrics; Neurology Practice / Family Medicine Discount group Target groups MR Target groups Ophthalmologists in clinical and private practice, Pediatricians, primary care physicians, family residents, ophthalmologists-in-training, pediatri- medicine physicians, pediatric radiologists, cians, and neurologists radiologists
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Medicine Medicine Medicine Due January 2010 Due December 2009 Due November 2009 2010. Approx. 230 p. (Essentials in Ophthalmology) 2010. XII, 238 p. 54 illus., 22 in color. (Recent Results in Hardcover Cancer Research, Volume 184) Hardcover 2010. Approx. 560 p. Softcover approx. $219.00 $189.00 approx. $69.95 ISBN 978-3-540-85850-8 ISBN 978-3-642-01221-1 ISBN 978-1-4419-0921-3 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Medicine 9
E. Nieschlag, University of Münster, Germany; E. B. Noffsinger, Harvard Vanguard Medical J. M. O’Donnell, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA, USA; H. M. Behre, University of Halle, Germany; Associates, Newton, MA, USA F. E. Nácul, Clinica Sao Vicente, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil S. Nieschlag, University of Münster, Germany (Eds.) (Eds.) Running Group Visits in Andrology Your Practice Surgical Intensive Care Male Reproductive Health and Dysfunction Medicine
The comprehensive text is designed to be the This is the 3rd, totally revised edition of a well- definitive work on group visits. This book and This second edition of the popular “Surgical Inten- known textbook that continues to represent DVD provides the reader with an authoritative sive Care Medicine” textbook has been specifically the gold standard in the literature on clinical reference for today’s major group visit models designed to be a practical reference for medical andrology. It examines in depth all aspects of (SMA’s, DIGMAs, and CHCC): what they are; their students and house officers to help manage the male reproductive health, encompassing the basic strengths and weaknesses; and how they can best critically ill surgical patient. The first section is physiology of male reproductive function and be used together and in combination with tradi- titled “Resuscitation” and exposes the reader to a wide range of disorders. Each of the chapters tional individual office visits. a condensed version of generic topics in primary is written by outstanding experts in the field. intensive care medicine. The sections that follow Among the topics covered are: Testicular function, Features have been categorized according to medical and sperm maturation and fertilization, diagnostic Dr. Noffsinger is the foremost expert on and surgical subspecialties and cover the most germane procedures, infertility, primary and secondary inventor of group visit modelsOnly compre- of problems encountered in a tertiary surgical hypogonadism, late-onset hypogonadism, erectile hensive reference and implementation guide on intensive care unit. For the second edition, the dysfunction, genetic disorders, environmental the market with regard to group visit models editors and authors have thoroughly revised every influences, psychology and sexual medicine, The group visit model is not only of interest chapter, with the same evidence-based orientation testosterone therapy, assisted reproduction: TESE to physicians: group vists may shape political and as the first edition. The chapter authors are experts and ICSI, cryopreservation, male contraception health care policy decisions in the near future from around the world, bringing the multi-disci- and ethics in andrology. plinary nature critical practice and the necessary This volume will serve as a textbook for the From the contents diversity of opinion and approach. This edition newcomer to andrology, while providing the expe- Part 1. Group Visits: The Next Step in Medical is more heavily illustrated to illucidate complex rienced physician with a valuable reference work. Care.- Introduction to group visits.- The Drop-In concepts–operative photos, imagaing, and clinical It will appeal to all who are concerned with male Group Medical Appointment model: a revolu- illustrations abound. reproductive health. tionary access solution for follow-up visits.- Drop- in group medical appointments: strengths, weak- Features Features nesses, and real-life examples.- The Cooperative The simple and logical content provides a THE reference book both for beginners and Health Care Clinic Model: following the same comprehensive yet readable resource for the experts Covers all aspects of the male reproduc- group of multi-morbid geriatric patients over surgical intensivist tive systems, including diseases and effects of aging time.- The Physicals Shared Medical Appoint- Up-to-date coverage of assisted reproduction ment model: a revolutionary access solution for Fields of interest and erectile dysfunction private physical examinations.- Physician buy-in: Intensive / Critical Care Medicine; General the key to successful shared medical appointment Surgery; Anesthesiology Fields of interest programs. Urology/Andrology; Reproductive Medicine; Target groups Endocrinology Fields of interest Practitioners in the surgical intensive care units General Practice / Family Medicine Target groups Discount group Clinicians and practitioners Target groups MR Family medicine physicians, primary care physi- Discount group cians, family medicine residents, internists, general MR or specialist physicians with private practices, health care policy administrators
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3rd, completely rev. and updated ed. 2010. XVI, 628 p. 1st ed. 2009. 2nd printing 2009. LXIII, 496 p. 73 illus. 2nd ed. 2010. Approx. 920 p. 194 illus., 62 in color. 204 illus., 157 in color. Hardcover With DVD. Hardcover Hardcover approx. $189.00 approx. $59.95 $199.00 ISBN 978-3-540-78354-1 ISBN 978-1-4419-1413-2 ISBN 978-0-387-77892-1 10 Medicine Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
R. Pawankar, S. T. Holgate, L. J. Rosenwasser (Eds.) R. Pawankar, S. T. Holgate, L. J. Rosenwasser (Eds.) J. Pfeil, Orthopädische Klinik, Wiesbaden, Germany; W. E. Siebert, Orthopädische Klinik, Kassel, Germany Allergy Frontiers: Diagnosis Allergy Frontiers: (Eds.) and Health Economics Therapy and Prevention Minimally Invasive Surgery in Total Hip Arthroplasty The prevalence of asthma and other allergic The prevalence of asthma and other allergic diseases is on the rise worldwide, with a marked diseases is on the rise worldwide, with a marked impact on quality of life and socioeconomics. impact on quality of life and socioeconomics. Recent years have witnessed a trend toward the Allergy Frontiers comprises six volumes, each Allergy Frontiers comprises six volumes, each use of minimally invasive techniques in all areas dedicated to a specific aspect of the disease to dedicated to a specific aspect of the disease to of orthopedic surgery, including hip replacement. reflect the multidisciplinary character of the field reflect the multidisciplinary character of the field This book aims to provide a comprehensive guide and its explosive growth. Included are reviews by and its explosive growth. Included are reviews by to the use of minimally invasive surgery in total world-renowned scientists from Europe, North world-renowned scientists from Europe, North hip arthroplasty. The four commonly employed and South America, Australia, Japan, other parts of and South America, Australia, Japan, other parts of approaches – anterior, anterolateral OCM, antero- Asia, and South Africa. Asia, and South Africa. lateral supine, and posterior – are described in The fourth volume is dedicated to the prac- The fifth volume is dedicated to therapy and detail with the aid of high-quality illustrations. For tical aspects of diagnosis and to the differential prevention of allergies, including pharmacotherapy each approach, clear guidance is offered on patient diagnosis of allergic diseases. It also describes and allergen-specific immunotherapy, with novel selection, patient positioning, surgical procedure, the educational programs available on asthma, aspects and special considerations for particular postsurgical care, and rehabilitation. Potential addressing, among others, health economics. This groups such as children, the elderly, and pregnant complications and the advantages and disadvan- book serves as a valuable tool for scientists and as women. This book serves as a valuable tool for tages of each option are carefully weighed up, and a practical guide for clinicians working in the fields scientists and as a practical guide for clinicians experts also present their personal experiences, of allergy, asthma, and immunology. working in the fields of allergy, asthma, and outcomes, and success rates with the different immunology. approaches. The book concludes by discussing Fields of interest future trends in hip arthroplasty. Allergology; Immunology; Internal Medicine Fields of interest Allergology; Immunology; Internal Medicine Features Target groups Provides a comprehensive guide to the use of Scientists, clinicians working in the field of allergy, Target groups minimally invasive surgery in total hip arthro- asthma and immunology Scientists, clinicians working in the field of allergy, plastyDescribes the commonly employed asthma, and immunology approaches in detail with the aid of high-quality Discount group illustrationsOffers clear guidance on patient MR Discount group selection, patient positioning, surgical procedure, MR postsurgical care, and rehabilitationIncludes the personal experiences of experts, with docu- mentation of success rates
Contents Introduction.- Anatomy of the Hip Joint.- Compli- cations.- Patient Selection.- Anterior Approach.- Antero-lateral Approach.- Antero-lateral Approach in supine position.- Posterior Approach.- Epilogue.
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Medicine Medicine Medicine Due October 2009 Due October 2009 Due January 2010 2009. XXII, 554 p. 9 illus. (Allergy Frontiers, Volume 4) 2009. Approx. 800 p. (Allergy Frontiers, Volume 5) Hardcover Hardcover 2010. XIV, 109 p. 54 illus. in color. Hardcover $259.00 $269.00 approx. $159.00 ISBN 978-4-431-98293-7 ISBN 978-4-431-99361-2 ISBN 978-3-642-00896-2 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Medicine 11
L. Poretsky, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, S. Puntambekar, Galaxy Laparoscopic Institute, E. Quaia, University of Trieste, Italy (Ed.) USA (Ed.) Pune, India; M. A. Cuesta, Vrije Universiteit Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Eds.) Radiological Imaging Principles of Diabetes Mellitus Atlas of Minimally Invasive of the Kidney Surgery in Esophageal “Principles of Diabetes Mellitus, Second Edition” Carcinoma This book provides a unique and comprehensive is an important update to the comprehensive text- analysis of the normal anatomy and pathology book first published in 2002 and reissued in 2004. of the kidney and upper urinary tract from the It is written for physicians of all specialties who, The main aim of this book is standardization of the modern diagnostic imaging point of view. The on a daily basis, deal with an illness which has procedure with stress on simplification and ease of first part is dedicated to the normal radiological reached epidemic proportions. The book is also performing the surgery. In oncology, the principles anatomy of the kidney and normal anatomic intended for medical students and investigators of and steps of an operative procedure should remain variants. The second part presents in detail all of all aspects of diabetes. the same; though the modality may change, be it the imaging modalities which can be employed to The last five years have witnessed major devel- either open surgery or laparoscopy. Thus, in this assess the kidney and the upper urinary tract, with opments in our understanding of diabetes and book the patient position and procedural steps are careful descriptions of patient preparation, investi- in therapeutic approaches to this disease. Thus, devised to mimic open surgery as far as possible. gation protocols, and principal fields of application in addition to updating all chapters, eight new This makes it easier for the oesophageal surgeon of each imaging modality. The entire spectrum of chapters have been added to the second edition. performing surgeries by the open technique to kidney pathologies is then presented with the aid “Principles of Diabetes Mellitus, Second Edition” get converted into a thoracoscopic laparoscopic of a large set of images, many of which are in color. covers diabetes in all of its aspects – genetics, surgeon. This atlas will be a step by step guide for The latest innovations in interventional radiology, epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifesta- a surgeon who wishes to perform laparoscopy with biopsy procedures, and parametric and molecular tions, therapy and prevention. more than 500 operative photographs. Additional imaging are also described. This book should be of value has been two DVD’s of the procedure and great interest to all radiologists, oncologists, and Contents added chapters such as anaesthesia, stapler, world urologists who are involved in the management of List of Contributors.- Preface.- Preface to the literature and tricks of laparoscopy, knotting and kidney pathologies in their daily clinical practice. First Edition.- I: The main events in the history suturing. of diabetes mellitus.- II: Physiology of glucose Features metabolism.- III: Diagnosis and epidemiology of Contents Provides a unique and comprehensive analysis diabetes.- IV: Genes and diabetes.- V: Diabetes Surgery for Cancer of the Esophagus: “The of the normal anatomy and pathology of the Syndromes.- VI: Complications of diabetes.- Continuing Evolution”.- Minimally Invasive kidney and upper urinary tract from the modern VII: Related disorders.- VIII:Therapy of diabetes Surgery in Esophageal Cancer: World Literature.- diagnostic imaging point of viewFully mellitus - general principles.- IX: Diabetes Preven- Staplers in Gasto-esophageal Cancer Surgery.- describes all imaging modalities which can be tion.- X: Resources for patients with diabetes.- Thoracoscopic and Laparoscopic Esophagectomy employed, with accurate descriptions of patient Index. with Two-Field Nodal Clearance.- Laparoscopic preparation and investigation protocols Transhiatal Esophagectomy.- Cancer in Prone Fields of interest Decubitus Position: Operative Technique.- Laparo- Fields of interest Endocrinology; Diabetes; Primary Care Medicine scopic Transhiatal Resection for Distal and Gastro- Imaging / Radiology; Diagnostic Radiology; Esophageal Junction Cancer: The Operative Urology/Andrology Target groups Technique.- Robot-Assisted Thoracolaparaoscopic Endocrinologists, primary care physicians, cardi- Esophagectomy. Target groups ologists, medical residents and medical students Clinicians, professionals, practitioners, scientists/ Fields of interest researchers, and students in the fields diagnostic Discount group Surgery; Surgical Oncology; Thoracic Surgery imaging incl. radiological and nuclear medicine MR imaging techniques, urology, molecular imaging Target groups Oncosurgeons interested in esophageal surgery, Discount group thoracoscopic and laparoscopic surgeons MR performing advanced procedures
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2nd ed. 2010. Approx. 650 p. 185 illus., 65 in color. 2010. Approx. 495 p. 194 illus., 184 in color. With DVD. 2010. X, 500 p. 800 illus. (Medical Radiology / Diagnostic Hardcover Hardcover Imaging) Hardcover $239.00 approx. $280.00 approx. $329.00 ISBN 978-0-387-09840-1 ISBN 978-1-84882-767-7 ISBN 978-3-540-87596-3 12 Medicine Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
T. Reinhard, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; R. Ribes, Hopital Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain; M. Ryu, A. Cho, Chiba Cancer Center, Chiba, Japan F. Larkin, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK (Eds.) P. J. Aranda, Hospital Universitario Carlos Haya, (Eds.) Málaga, Spain; J. Giba, Barcelona, Spain Cornea and New Liver Anatomy External Eye Disease Surgical English Portal Segmentation and the Drainage Vein Corneal Allotransplantation, Allergic Disease and Trachoma Surgeons around the world need a basic knowl- A new era for liver anatomy has dawned. edge of English to keep up to date with advances in With the development of multidetector row their field. Fluency in surgical English is important computed tomography (MDCT) in the 1990s, The 8 recurring volumes of the “Essentials in for your professional development enabling you to precise volume-rendered 3-D images could be Ophthalmology” series cover the most recent attend English-speaking patients with confidence, constructed, leading to new observations. Liver developments in one of eight subspecialties in to study (or work) in other hospitals, speak anatomy has since been reevaluated from the Ophthalmology. With four volumes published per confidently at international meetings, and to write standpoint of portal segmentation and drainage year, each subspecialty is newly visited every 24 articles for international journals, among other veins and includes a reclassification of the liver. months, with a distinct focus on recent develop- advantages. This book will provide you with the Better surgical results and fewer complications ments. By bridging the gap between original basic tools to handle day-to-day situations without have supported the rationale for the new liver research and medical textbooks, the transfer of this stress and will help you to improve your English, anatomy. Based on the work and spirit of Team developing knowledge into daily practice is greatly no matter what your level. To our knowledge, this Chiba from Chiba University, this publication is a enhanced. is the first English book written specifically by testament to the collaboration, perseverance, and surgeons for surgeons. We are sure that surgical innovation in the field of liver anatomy. With high Features specialists from all over the “non-English-speaking regard for the early pioneers in this field, Team Bridges the gap between primary literature world” (general surgeons, thoracic surgeons, Chiba can be credited with pioneering its own and textbook knowledgeFocus on recent vascular surgeons, neurosurgeons, gynecologists, antiviral treatment, percutaneous ethanol injection developments in subspecialtyIndispensable for plastic surgeons) will enjoy reading it. therapy, radiation therapy, and US-guided hepatic continuous education and advanced training resections. It is the team’s hope that the new liver Features anatomy will find acceptance worldwide and will Contents This book provides with the basic tools to contribute to the advancement of the health and Immune Priviledge of Corneal Allografts.- Mecha- handle day-to-day situations and is also useful to welfare of mankind. nisms of Corneal Allograft Rejection and the those with an excellent command of the English Development of New Therapies.- New Develop- language.First English book written specially Features ments in Topical Immunomodulation Following by surgeons for surgeons.It is invaluable for Clarifies the true liver anatomy and the differ- Penetrating Keratoplasty.- Cytokines Analysis of those who wish to practice or do a fellowship in ence between previous dissecting anatomy and the Aqueous Humor in the Context Penetrating a different country in a hospital with a language new anatomy to perform rational liver surgery Keratoplasty.- Limbal Stell Cell Transplantation: other than your own. without any complications Surgical Techniques and Results.- Cell Cycle Control and Replication in Corneal Endothelium.- From the contents Fields of interest Current State-of-the-Art of Fitting Gas-Permeable Methodological Approach to Surgical English.- Anatomy; Hepatology; Surgery Contact Lenses (GP).- Allergic Disease of the Surgical Grammar. American English vs. British Conjunctiva and Cornea.- Trachoma.- Keratopro- English.- Surgical Scientific Literature Writing an Target groups thesis.- Index. Article.- Letters to Editors of Surgical Journals.- Liver surgeons, liver physicians Attending and International Course in Surgery.- Fields of interest Presenting a unication.- Chairing a Session.- Discount group Ophthalmology Typical Mistakes that Surgeons Make when MR speaking and Writing English. Target groups Ophthalmologists in clinical and private practice, Fields of interest residents, ophthalmologists-in-training, and Medicine/Public Health, general; Surgery optometrists Target groups Discount group Surgeons, physicians, medical staff MR Discount group MR
Medicine Medicine Medicine Due December 2009 Due December 2009 Due October 2009 2010. X, 131 p. 32 illus., 27 in color. (Essentials in Ophthalmology) Hardcover 2010. XII, 260 p. Softcover 2009. X, 196 p. 226 illus. in color. Hardcover $219.00 approx. $39.95 $239.00 ISBN 978-3-540-85543-9 ISBN 978-3-642-02964-6 ISBN 978-4-431-95992-2 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Medicine 13
D. J. Stewart, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, L. D. Truong, S. S. Shen, J. Y. Ro S. Ulmer, O. Jansen, University Hospital of TX, USA (Ed.) Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany (Eds.) Frozen Section Library: Lung Cancer Genitourinary Tract fMRI Prevention, Management, and Emerging Basics and Clinical Applications Therapies Frozen sections are performed for the purpose of rapid diagnosis while a patient is undergoing Functional MRI (fMRI) and the basic method of This comprehensive resource provides authorita- surgery, usually under general anesthesia, as a BOLD imaging were introduced in 1993 by Seiji tive knowledge of the most up-to-date prevention basis for making immediate treatment decisions. Ogawa. From very basic experiments, fMRI has and treatment strategies for thoracic malignan- Therefore, frozen section diagnosis is often a evolved into a clinical application for daily routine cies. Established and investigational therapies are highly demanding situation for the pathologist brain imaging. There have been various improve- placed in the context of tumor biology for a full who must render a diagnosis quickly and a crucial ments in both the imaging technique as such as understanding of the pharmacogenetics, etiology, determination for the patient and surgeon. In well as in the statistical analysis. In this volume, and changing epidemiology of lung cancer. Expert addition to the need for rapid recall of differential experts in the field share their knowledge and clinicians detail the function of predictive and diagnoses, there are many pitfalls and artifacts point out possible technical barriers and problems prognostic factors in the utilization of chemo- that add to the risk of frozen section diagnosis explaining how to solve them. Starting from the radiotherapy, adjuvant and neoadjuvant treatment, that are not present with permanent sections of very basics on the origin of the BOLD signal, the and targeted agents. The promises and potential fully processed tissues that can be examined in a book covers technical issues, anatomical land- pitfalls of investigational strategies are evaluated more leisurely fashion. Most standard pathology marks, presurgical applications, and special issues with exceptional insight and clarity, with unique textbooks, both general and subspecialty, largely in various clinical fields. Other modalities for attention paid to the mechanisms of drug resis- ignore the topic of frozen section. Few textbooks brain mapping such as PET, TMS, and MEG are tance and targets for lung cancer treatment and have ever focused exclusively on frozen section also compared with fMRI. This book is intended prevention. diagnosis and those textbooks that have done so to give a state-of-the-art overview and to serve as Lung Cancer: Prevention, Management, and are now out-of-date and have limited numbers of a reference and guide for clinical applications of Emerging Therapies engages the entire spectrum black and white figures. None has emphasized the fMRI. of therapeutic modalities with focus on systemic education of the surgeon in terms of frozen section approaches. benefits, limitations or proper utilization. Features Only book on clinical applications of fMRI on Features Features the marketState-of-the-art, comprehensive Provides full coverage of established and Well IllustratedConcise Handbook overview of fMRI emerging therapies, including novel targeted Site Specific and antiangiogenic agentsEvaluates the From the contents mechanisms of drug resistance and the therapeutic Contents Background. Neuroanatomy and landmarks of potential of new targetsIntegrates molecular Preface.- Frozen section diagnosis of the kidney.- functional cortical areas. History of fMRI.- Tech- biology into strategies for prevention and treat- Frozen section diagnosis of the Urinary Bladder, nical Issues. Physical background. MR sequences ment of lung cancerPresents the most current Ureter, and Urethra.- Frozen section diagnosis of for fMRI . Fluctuations. Spatial resolution. The data on pharmacogenetics in prediction of disease the Penis.- Frozen section diagnosis of Prostate.- BOLD effect - first clinical applications.- Clinical and efficacy and toxicity of chemoradiotherapy Frozen section diagnosis of the Testis.- Index. Applications - Basics. Electrophysiological back- ground of fMRI. Impact on field strength in fMRI. Fields of interest Fields of interest Press-button solutions.- Clinical Applications Oncology; Pneumology/Respiratory System; Pathology; Urology/Andrology - Clinical Mapping: The motor hand area in preop- Radiotherapy erative mapping. From auditory cortex to language Target groups perception and speech production. Target groups Pathologists, pathology residents Researchers and professionals Fields of interest Discount group Neuroradiology; Neurosurgery; Neurology Discount group MR P Target groups Clinicians (neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, neurologists, neuropediatricians)
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Medicine Medicine Medicine Due December 2009 Due October 2009 Due November 2009 2010. Approx. 640 p. 14 illus. in color. (Current Clinical 2009. XII, 224 p. 174 illus. in color. (Frozen Section Oncology) Hardcover Library, Volume 2) Softcover 2010. VIII, 240 p. 69 illus., 52 in color. Hardcover $239.00 $79.95 approx. $139.00 ISBN 978-1-60761-523-1 ISBN 978-1-4419-0690-8 ISBN 978-3-540-68131-1 14 Medicine Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
T. Van Deven, K. Hibbert, R. K. Chhem, University of P. Varelas, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA (Ed.) J. Wilmink, University Hospital Maastricht, Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada (Eds.) The Netherlands Seizures in Critical Care The Practice of Radiology A Guide to Diagnosis and Therapeutics Lumbar Spinal Imaging in Education Radicular Pain and Related Challenges and Trends Conditions This fully revised second edition of Seizures in Understanding Diagnostic Images in a Critical Care: A Guide to Diagnosis and Thera- Clinical Context The role of medical imaging is increasingly integral peutics is an essential guide for ICU professionals to health care, drug discovery, biology, and other and neurologists. Incorporating the last five life sciences. The changes that are occurring call years of advances in the field, this invaluable title for innovation in the training of the medical keeps the same structure as the previous edition, A general consensus exists that lumbosacral nerve imaging experts of tomorrow. In their previous with sections on epidemiology, pathophysiology, root compression is the primary cause of sciatica book, Radiology Education: The Scholarship diagnostic evaluation and treatment options, but and neurogenic claudication. This book focuses of Teaching and Learning (2008), the editors includes an extra chapter on seizure monitoring on imaging the various ways in which nerve root addressed the philosophical and theoretical in the ICU. This edition also adds a number of compression can come about, and determining underpinnings of scholarship in radiology educa- new sections dedicated to new treatments, such as which anatomic features are reliably associated tion. Now, in The Practice of Radiology Education: neurostimulation, hypothermia or resection of the with the production of radicular pain. After a Challenges and Trends, they focus on the applica- refractory epileptic focus and antiepileptic drugs. discussion of the nature of radicular pain and tion of these concepts within educational programs In addition, readers will find extra flow charts related symptoms, spinal imaging techniques and for radiology residents and fellows. The contribu- and treatment algorithms with more specific drug options are reviewed, with emphasis on the role of tors are educators in radiology from around the doses. Further, more EEGs with better explanation MR myelography in assessing the intradural nerve world, providing a global perspective on the main and labeling for the non-expert intensivist have roots. A chapter on normal topographic, sectional, challenges facing medical imaging education and been added to each section. and functional radiologic anatomy is followed by the potential strategies required to meet these presentations on pathologic anatomy, addressing challenges. It is hoped that the book will assist in Features mechanisms of nerve root compression, and on attaining the ultimate goal of radiology education: Authoritative review of diagnostic and pre- and postoperative imaging. Features relevant to help patients. therapeutic issues of ICU seizuresUp-to-date to prediction of the natural history are discussed, evidence-based data and recommendations and a section is devoted to the performance and Features Numerous tables summarizing drug inter- reporting of a spinal imaging study. A CD-ROM is Considers the application of theoretical actionsExpert opinion where evidence is included, containing case studies from the author’s concepts within educational programs for radi- nonexistentNeuroimages revealing common teaching file, referenced to the main text. ology residents and fellowsProvides a global ICU seizure etiologiesDiscussion of the new perspective on the main challenges facing medical anti-epileptics and their interaction with other Features imaging education and the strategies required to ICU medications Focuses on specific imaging features in degen- meet these challengesEmphasises the impor- erative spinal disease as related to the presence tance of innovation in the training of medical Fields of interest or absence of signs and symptoms of nerve root imaging expertsContributors are leading Neurology; Neurosurgery; Emergency Medicine involvementReviews the role of different theorists, practitioners, scientists, and educators spinal imaging techniques, with special emphasis Target groups on MR myelographyExamines imaging in rela- Fields of interest Intensivists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, trauma tion to surgical therapyIncludes a CD-ROM Imaging / Radiology; Nuclear Medicine; Medical surgeons, residents, private practice epileptolo- containing case studies from the author’s teaching Education gists, and researchers file, referenced to the main text
Target groups Discount group Fields of interest Radiology/nuclear medicine doctors, physicists, MC Imaging / Radiology; Neuroradiology; Neurology medical schools and teaching hospital, professional society of radiology, medical imaging specialists, Target groups radiographers Radiologists, neurorradiologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, orthopedicians Discount group MR Discount group MR
Medicine Medicine Medicine Due December 2009 Due November 2009 Due November 2009 2nd ed. 2010. Approx. 495 p. 68 illus., 28 in color. 2010. VIII, 178 p. 75 illus., 12 in color. With CD-ROM. 2010. XXVI, 259 p. 17 illus., 6 in color. Hardcover (Current Clinical Neurology) Hardcover Hardcover $129.00 $189.00 $129.00 ISBN 978-3-642-03147-2 ISBN 978-1-60327-531-6 ISBN 978-3-540-93829-3 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Medicine 15
T. Wilson, G. A. Bray, N. J. Temple, M. Boyle Struble J. L. Zamorano, J. J. Bax, F. E. Rademakers, A. P. Zbar, University of New England, Tamworth, (Eds.) J. Knuuti (Eds.) NSW, Australia; S. D. Wexner, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA (Eds.) Nutrition Guide for Physicians The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging Coloproctology
Nutrition Guide for Physicians is a desktop refer- ence guide on nutrition and its clinical implica- “The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging” Coloproctology is a surgical specialty which tions for health and disease through the lifecycle. is a comprehensive guide to all forms of cardio- dynamically changes every few years. There is a Presented in a user-friendly style, it serves as a vascular imaging. A disease based approach is profusion of colorectal textbooks but specialty valuable resource of practical information on followed and the book is comprised of 8 sections. series on particularly complex topics as well as nutrition for physicians in their daily practice. Section 1 describes the imaging techniques avail- on the specialized management approach for Nutrition Guide for Physicians is divided into able and Sections 2-8 describe the imaging modali- trainees and training colorectal surgeons are three parts that cross the spectrum of nutritional ties used to visualise cardiovascular diseases in actually few. The aim of this text is a superior concerns for improving the practice of medicine. seven main areas. Each section is subdivided into quality colorectal book written by world experts Part One provides basic nutritional principles for 2-7 chapters. The book is edited by four European targeted at senior surgical and colorectal trainees physicians. Part Two covers nutrition through the opinion leaders in the fields of echocardiography, and young consultant coloproctologists in current lifecycle and optimal nutrition patterns through nuclear, CMR and CT imaging and has over 50 areas of subspecialty expertise. The structure of the all stages of development. Part Three covers diet contributors, mainly from Europe. chapters is current and is based on what does not and its role in prevention, cause and treatment The printed version is complemented by a basic appear and is not addressed in current colorectal of disease. All chapters include figures and tables online version, accessible by means of a password, textbooks. This series has proven useful in areas that provide useful descriptive and visual reviews. distributed with the book. The online version already represented, including Neurosurgery, “Key points” and succinct “conclusions” are also allows users to: download chapters for ease of use; Vascular Surgery, Transplantation Surgery, etc. provided for each topic. provide links from all references to PubMed; allow The text is aimed at being relatively didactic with searching of the text; and download figures and an algorithm approach to specialized areas within Features images for non-commercial use in PowerPoint coloproctology which could potentially be updated Written in a user-friendly styleIncludes key presentations. every 3 years or so with new topics to create a set points and conclusions for each topicFigures for didactic training in colorectal surgery. and tables providing descriptive and visual reviews Features Practical concise styleFully comprehensive, Features From the contents disease based clinical reference to cardiovascular Didactic text with an algorithm approach Fat: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.- Dietary imagingAdjacent online version allowing to specialized areas within coloproctology for Fiber: All Fibers are not Alike.- Sugar and quick text searches and figure download training in colorectal surgery Artificial Sweeteners: Seeking the Sweet Truth.- Vitamins and Minerals: How much do we Really From the contents From the contents Need?- Dietary Reference Intakes: Cutting through Echocardiography - basic principles.- New devel- Genetic Approaches to Familial Colorectal the Confusion.- Food Labels and Sources of opments in Echocardiography.- Nuclear cardiology Cancer.- Multivisceral Resection in Rectal Nutrients: Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff.- (PET and SPECT) - basic principles.- Hybrid Cancer.- Colonic Stenting.- Current Clinical Trials Vegetarian and Vegan Diets: Weighing the Claims. Imaging: PET-CT and SPECT-CT.- Cardiac CT- in Chemotherapy and Radiation in Colorectal basic principles.- CMR - basic principles.- Valvular Cancer.- Quality of Life Issues in Rectal Cancer.- Fields of interest Stenosis.- Valvular Regurgitation.- Valvular Managing Presacral Tumours.- Pouch Revisional Clinical Nutrition; Primary Care Medicine; Prostheses.- Endocarditis.- Echocardiography and Surgery.- Modern Management of Faecal Inconti- General Practice / Family Medicine detection of coronary artery disease. nence - Troubleshooting Sacral Neuromodulation.
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Medicine Medicine Medicine Due November 2009 Due December 2009 Due December 2009 2010. Approx. 400 p. 9 illus. (Nutrition and Health) 2010. Approx. 175 p. 56 illus., 24 in color. (Springer Hardcover 2010. Approx. 580 p. 872 illus. in color. Hardcover Specialist Surgery Series) Hardcover $89.95 $199.00 approx. $189.00 ISBN 978-1-60327-430-2 ISBN 978-1-84882-420-1 ISBN 978-1-84882-755-4 16 Biomedicine Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
P. Baumann, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, V. Berezin, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Ed.) P. A. Borea, Universita di Ferrara, Sezione di Farmaco- Kansas City, MO, USA (Ed.) logia, Italy (Ed.) Structure and Function G-Quadruplex DNA of the Neural Cell Adhesion A3 Adenosine Receptors from Methods and Protocols Molecule NCAM Cell Biology to Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Recent work has revealed that stabilizing This book contains review articles that produce G-quadruplexes in telomeric DNA inhibits a snapshot of recent developments in the field telomerase activity, providing impetus for the of the neural cell adhesion molecule NCAM. This Book “A3 Adenosine Receptors from Cell development of G-quartet-interacting drugs, while The chapters are grouped into sections reflecting Biology to Pharmacology and Therapeutics” G-quartet-containing oligonucleotides have been various aspects of NCAM structure and function. documents the present state of knowledge of the recognized as a potent class of aptamers effective The themes cover the structural basis of cell adhe- adenosine A3 receptor. Adenosine A3 receptors against STAT3 and other transcription factors sion mediated by NCAM and NCAM interaction are G protein-linked receptors that function in implicated in oncogenesis, proving these guanine- partners, NCAM-mediated signaling determinants physiology and intracellular signaling and are quartets to be a vital and rich area for future study. of NCAM function under physiological conditions involved in inflammatory responses and mediating In “G-Quadruplex DNA: Methods and Protocols”, and in disease, and the therapeutic potential of cell proliferation and cell death. experts in the field present a collection of detailed NCAM mimetics. The A3 receptor is increasingly being recognized techniques for studying G-quartet formation, for its biological roles throughout the body, and dynamics, and molecular recognition. Written Features many A3 receptor ligands have proven useful in in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Introduction to current knowledge of extracel- elucidating peripheral and central pathologies. Biology™ series format, chapters include brief lular and intracellular NCAM ligands and the This book covers a wide range of information introductions to their respective topics, lists of the structural basis of NCAM interactions with the including data from studies of theoretical, molec- necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptor ular and cellular pharmacology, signal transduc- readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and Chapters are grouped into sections reflecting tion, integrative physiology, new drug discoveries notes on troubleshooting and avoiding known various aspects of NCAM structure and function, and clinical applications. The book includes pitfalls. making for a straightforward approach to NCAM sections on: A3 Adenosine Receptor signal trans- Explores new therapeutic potential of NCAM duction, adenosine Receptor medicinal chemistry, Features mimetics effects and therapeutic applications of Adenosine Includes coverage of a wide range of meth- Receptors on tissues and organs, adenosine Recep- odologies to study G-quadruplex structures From the contents tors and inflammatory and auto-immune diseases, Provides detailed protocols which ensure Structure and Ligands of NCAM.Structural adenosine Receptors and cancer. successful re-recreation of experimental proce- Biology of NCAM.Extracellular Protein Interac- The chapters in this book cover both fundamental dures Supplies step-by-step instructions in tions Mediated by NCAM: Heterophilic Interac- science and relevant applications and provide an order to enable researchers to set up their own tions between NCAM and Cell Adhesion Mole- authoritative account of the current status of the high throughput screens for G-quadruplex ligands cules, Extracellular Matrix Proteins, and Viruses. field. “A3 Adenosine Receptors from Cell Biology Explores computational approaches for the detec- Intracellular Ligands of NCAM.NCAM and the to Pharmacology and Therapeutics” is an up to tion of G-quadruplex-forming structures FGF receptor.The Role of ATP in the Regulation date and scientifically excellent source of informa- of NCAM Function.- NCAM and Polysialic Acid. tion, attractive to basic and clinical scientists alike. Fields of interest Polysialylation of NCAM.Structural Basis for the Cell Biology; Human Genetics Polysialylation of NCAM.The Role of PSA-NCAM Fields of interest in Adult Neurogenesis.Use of PSA-NCAM in Pharmacology/Toxicology; Medicinal Chemistry; Target groups Repair of the Central Nervous System. Cardiology Geneticists, pharmaceutical scientists, molecular and cellular biologists, biochemists, and nanotech- Fields of interest Target groups nologists Neurosciences; Human Physiology; Neurobiology Scientists (basic and clinical) working in the field of adenosine and adenine nucleotides, pharma- Discount group Target groups ceutical companies which are interested to the P Neuroscientists, neurophysiologists development of new drugs in the field
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Biomedical and Life Sciences Springer Protocols Due October 2009 Biomedical and Life Sciences Due November 2009 2010. Approx. 500 p. 67 illus., 45 in color. (Advances Due October 2009 2010. Approx. 285 p. 65 illus., 2 in color. (Methods in in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Volume 663) Molecular Biology, Volume 608) Hardcover Hardcover 2009. Approx. 400 p. Hardcover $99.00 $189.00 approx. $189.00 ISBN 978-1-58829-950-5 ISBN 978-1-4419-1169-8 ISBN 978-90-481-3143-3 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Biomedicine 17
K. S. Campbell, Fox Chase Cancer Center, W. C. Cho (Ed.) Current Topics Philadelphia, PA, USA (Ed.) An Omics Perspective in Microbiology Natural Killer Cell Protocols of Cancer and Immunology Cellular and Molecular Methods Series editors: R. W. Compans, M. D. Cooper, T. Honjo, H. Koprowski, F. Melchers, M. Oldstone, Omics is an emerging and exciting area in the field S. Olsnes, P. K. Vogt, Y. Y. Gleba, B. Malissen, As the research has continued, it has become of science and medicine. Numerous promising H. W. Virgin increasingly clear that natural killer (NK) cells are developments have been elucidated using omics critical sentinels of the innate immune response, (including genomics, transcriptomics, epig- Volume 340 playing important roles in protecting the body enomics, proteomics, metabolomics, interac- from numerous pathogens and cancer in addi- tomics, cytomics and bioinformatics) in cancer T. Saito, RIKEN Research Ctr. for Allergy and Immu- tion to contributing to normal pregnancy and research. The development of high-throughput nology, Yokohama, Japan; F. D. Batista, London impacting the outcomes of transplantation. While technologies that permit the solution of deci- Research Institute, UK (Eds.) the first edition provided a valuable collection of phering cancer from higher dimensionality will classical cellular and in vivo techniques to study provide a knowledge base which that changes the Immune Synapses NK cell functions, the Second Edition of “Natural face of cancer understanding and therapeutics. Killer Cell Protocols: Cellular and Molecular This is the first book to provide such a comprehen- Methods” brings together more recently developed sive coverage of a rapidly evolving field written by methods, more refined techniques, and detailed leading experts in the field of omics. It complies While the importance of the immune synapse as protocols designed to study NK cells within and details cutting-edge cancer research that a dynamic cell junction that regulates intercel- specialized tissue sites in both mice and humans. covers the broad advances in the field and its lular communication and viral transmission is In this collection of methods, international leaders application from cancer-associated gene discovery universally recognized, many of quantitative and in the field cover topics ranging from the analysis to drug target validation. It also highlights the qualitative details remain unsettled. The plasticity of the various stages of NK cell development and potential of using integration approach for cancer of this cell junction has to accommodate many maturation to specialized techniques for the iden- research. very different binding partners and control the fate tification of ligands for NK cell receptors. of interacting cells. It is likely that developmental Features changes in the state of the T cells or the APCs can Features A unique book on ‘Omics’ on cancer which impact the structure of the synapse. It is hoped Remains the most comprehensive collection of representing signs of the timesGather unpar- that uncovering the ordered molecular rearrange- methods available for studying natural killer cells allel topics of interest in the ‘Omics’‘Omics’ is ment at the membrane will provide the long sought in both mice and humansExamines a wide a cutting-edge topic in the medical and scientific after clues for the remarkable functional sensitivity array of molecular and cellular techniques for fields of T lymphocytes. These dynamic molecular inter- manipulating and assaying NK cell functions both actions may eventually explain how engagement in vitro and in vivoIncludes techniques to From the contents of the same TCR can generate different outcomes assay NK cell phenotype, development, signaling, 1. ‘Omics’ approaches in cancer research, that resolve the immune challenges. The reviews in and functional responses to tumor cells, virus W. Cho; 2. Cancer genomics, B. Guan, T.-L. Wang, this issue present a broad slice of the many diverse infection, and malaria infection I.-M. Shih; 3. The epigenomics of cancer, topics that are currently intensely debated. J.A. Klomp, B.T. Teh, K.A. Furge; 4. Discovery of Fields of interest microRNAs and mRNA profiling by cancer tran- Fields of interest Immunology; Cell Culture scriptomics, I. Hatada; 5. Functional proteomics Immunology in oncology, M. Negrini, G. A. Calin. Target groups Target groups Immunologists, cancer researchers, cellular and Fields of interest Researchers and scientists in the fields of molecular biologists, tumor cell biologists, immu- Biomedicine general; Cancer Research; immunology and virology nopharmacologists, immunotoxicologists, and Human Genetics virologists Discount group Target groups P Discount group Cancer researchers, oncologists, pathologists, P biologists, clinical chemists, pharmacologists, pharmaceutical specialists, biostatisticians
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Springer Protocols Biomedical and Life Sciences Biomedical and Life Sciences Due November 2009 Due October 2009 Due January 2010 2010. Approx. 470 p. 66 illus., 3 in color. (Methods in Molecular Biology, Volume 612) Hardcover 2009. Approx. 300 p. Hardcover 2010. Approx. 180 p. 26 illus., 23 in color. Hardcover $110.00 approx. $159.00 $159.00 ISBN 978-1-60761-361-9 ISBN 978-90-481-2674-3 ISBN 978-3-642-03857-0 18 Biomedicine Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
D. Duan, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA E. Freye, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, S. Gordon-Salant, R. D. Frisina, A. N. Popper, (Ed.) Germany R. R. Fay (Eds.) Muscle Gene Therapy Pharmacology and Abuse The Aging Auditory System of Cocaine, Amphetamines, Ecstasy and Related Designer Muscle disease represents an important health Drugs This volume brings together noted scientists threat to the general population. There is essen- who study presbycusis from the perspective of tially no cure. Gene therapy holds great promise A comprehensive review on their mode of complementary disciplines, for a review of the to correct the genetic defects and eventually action, treatment of abuse and intoxication current state of knowledge on the aging auditory achieve full recovery in these diseases. Signifi- system. Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is one of cant progresses have been made in the field of In collaboration with: J. Levy the top three most common chronic health condi- muscle gene therapy over the last few years. The tions affecting individuals aged 65 years and older. development of novel gene delivery vectors has The high prevalence of age-related hearing loss substantially enhanced specificity and efficiency of Finally – a book that covers all aspects of the compels audiologists, otolaryngologists, and audi- muscle gene delivery. The new knowledge on the illicit use of cocaine, amphetamines, ecstasy tory neuroscientists alike to understand the neural, immune response to viral vectors has added new and/or designer drugs such as GHB, written by genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying insight in overcoming the immune obstacles. Most two experts in their field. The use of these drugs this disorder. A comprehensive understanding of importantly, the field has finally moved from small remains a continuous threat in health and medical these factors is needed so that effective prevention, experimental animal models to human patients. care delivery, and this book will be an essential intervention, and rehabilitative strategies can be This book will bring together the leaders in the asset to the physician who may have to face the developed to ameliorate the myriad of behavioral field of muscle gene transfer to provide an updated evaluation of patients whose use of these drugs manifestations. overview on the progress of muscle gene therapy. It compromises an effective treatment plan for other will also highlight important clinical applications health issues. Features of muscle gene therapy. The book has been conceived to fill the void The goal of The Aging Auditory System is to in existing physician reference materials, and provide a basic reference for graduate students, Features provides a comprehensive review of the theo- clinicians, and researchers on fundamental princi- First comprehensive volume on gene therapy retical knowledge and scope of pharmacotherapy ples of presbycusis, with a focus on recent discov- in muscles, and most of the existing titles that in individuals who are hooked on a psychoactive eries that have implications for altering prevention, touch on this or related subjects are published by substance. diagnosis and treatment of this disorder Springer and listed above While detailed scientific information is obtainable in other major articles, the book’s straighforward Contents Fields of interest format and style, along with its illustrations, Introduction and overview.- Auditory Periphery.- Human Genetics; Developmental Biology; will make for easy reading as emphasis is put on Central Auditory System.- Links Between Animal Immunology information specifically related to drugs that occur Models of Age-related Hearing Loss and Human most abused in today’s society. Presbycusis.- Behavioral studies with aging Target groups humans (psychoacoustics).- Binaural Processing Geneticists, developmental biologists, virology, Features and Auditory Asymmetrie. immunologists, myologists, cardiologists, clini- Comprehensive layoutUse as a text book cians, libraries, public and private funding agen- Quick reference guide in emergencyFrom Fields of interest cies (muscular dystrophy association, national symptom to diagnosticIdentify the drug Otorhinolaryngology; Neurosciences; Human institutes of health in particular NIAMS, NINDS, diverterHistory of drug abuse Physiology NHLBI, NICHD, parent project, fight SMA, jain foundation, etc.), industries (pharmaceutical and Fields of interest Target groups biotech companies interested in gene therapy), Pharmacology/Toxicology; Pharmaceutical Graduate students, researchers in audition, sensory patients and families Sciences/Technology; Pharmacy neuroscientists, researchers interested in the neurobiology of aging, clinicians (audiologists, Discount group Target groups medical doctors), and any professional who works P General physicians, clinicians working in the with the geriatric population ER, anesthesiologists, intensive care therapists, researchers in pharmacology, industry engaged in Discount group urine drug analysis, pharmacists, paramedics P
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P. L. Greenwood, A. W. Bell, P. E. Vercoe, G. J. Viljoen C. A. Guzmán, GBF -German Research Centre for A. V. Kalueff, Tulane University Medical School, New (Eds.) Biotechnology, Braunschweig, Germany; Orleans, LA, USA; C. L. Bergner, Georgetown Univer- G. Z. Feuerstein, Wyeth Research, Collegeville, PA, sity Medical School, Washington, DC, USA (Eds.) Managing the Prenatal USA (Eds.) Environment to Enhance Transgenic and Mutant Tools Pharmaceutical to Model Brain Disorders Livestock Productivity Biotechnology
As the presence of genetically modified animal Prenatal life is the period of maximal develop- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology is a unique compi- models in research laboratories has multiplied, ment in animals, and it is well recognised that lation of reviews addressing frontiers in biologicals the role of genetic factors in the pathogenesis of factors that alter development can have profound as a rich source for innovative medicines. This brain disorders has become particularly important. effects on the embryonic, fetal and postnatal book fulfills the needs of a broad community of The refinement of molecular genetic methods has animal. Scientists involved in research on livestock scientists interested in biologicals from diverse continued to broaden our understanding of the productivity have for decades studied postnatal perspectives – basic research, biotechnology, genetic factors associated with a variety of disor- consequences of fetal development on produc- protein engineering, protein delivery, medicines, ders. In “Transgenic and Mutant Tools to Model tivity. Recently, however, there has been a surge in pharmaceuticals and vaccinology. The diverse Brain Disorders”, leading scientists specializing in interest in how to manage prenatal development topics range from advanced biotechnologies aimed this field contribute a timely collection of recent to enhance livestock health and productivity. to introduce novel, potent engineered vaccines advances featuring a vast array of topics in order to This has occurred largely due to the studies that of unprecedented efficacy and safety for a wide contribute to the diverse approaches taken toward show human health in later life can be influenced scope of human diseases to natural products, small the evaluation of genetically modified models in by events during prenatal life, and establishment peptides and polypeptides engineered for discrete biomedical research. Opening with several chap- of the Fetal Origins and the Thrifty Phenotype prophylaxis and therapeutic purposes. ters covering general aspects of genetically modi- Hypotheses. This book, Managing the Prenatal fied animal models, the book then continues with Environment to Enhance Livestock Productivity From the contents detailed chapters on models of specific human reviews phenotypic consequences of prenatal Translational Medicine – a Paradigm Shift in brain disorders, including OCD, Rett Syndrome, development, and provides details of mechanisms Modern Drug Discoveryand Development: The anxiety disorders, depression, and schizophrenia. that underpin these effects in ruminants, pigs and Role of Biomarkers.- Natural Products in Drug As a volume in the successful Neuromethods™ poultry. Discovery: Present Status and Perspectives.- series, the chapters provide authoritative reviews Protein Pharmaceuticals: Discovery and Preclinical covering the most commonly used approaches in Features Development.- The Role of Nanobiotechnology the field. First livestock-specific book quantifying in drug discovery.- Conotoxin Venom Peptide consequences of fetal programmingFirst Therapeutics.- Shark novel antigen receptors – the Features livestock-specific book reviewing mechanisms of next generation of biologic therapeutics?- Immune Provides an easily accessible reference volume fetal programmingInternationally-recognised Interventions of Human Diseases through Toll- for animal models in behavioral neuroscience authors with direct research experience of fetal Like Receptors.- Genome-Based Vaccine Develop- researchDetails the process of turning a programming in major livestock species ment: A Short Cut for the Future. biological observation into a high-throughput screenCovers a wide range of species from Fields of interest Fields of interest zebrafish to ratsAddresses a wide spectrum Biomedicine general; Life Sciences, general Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology; of brain disorders, from anxiety to schizophrenia Biomedicine general Target groups Fields of interest The recipients will include current, past and future Target groups Neurosciences; Neurology; Animal Models TCP and CRP counterparts, laboratory managers Researchers and scientists and staff, fellows and training course participants Target groups at regional, inter-regional courses, and tertiary Discount group Basic and clinical neuroscientists, neurobiologists, training institutions in livestock production P molecular geneticists, biochemists, physiologists, clinical psychologists Discount group P Discount group P
Biomedical and Life Sciences Springer Protocols Biomedical and Life Sciences Due October 2009 Due November 2009 Due October 2009 2009. Approx 280 p. 31 illus., 9 in color. (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Volume 655) 2010. Approx. 250 p. 17 illus. (Neuromethods, 2009. V, 200 p. Hardcover Hardcover Volume 44) Hardcover approx. $159.00 $159.00 $159.00 ISBN 978-90-481-3134-1 ISBN 978-1-4419-1131-5 ISBN 978-1-60761-473-9 20 Biomedicine Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
A. Kamkin, I. Kiseleva (Eds.) A. Luch (Ed.) I. S. Näthke, University of Dundee, UK; B. M. McCarthney, Carnegie Mellon University, Mechanosensitivity Molecular, Clinical and Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Eds.) of the Heart Environmental Toxicology APC Proteins Volume 2: Clinical Toxicology
This book presents the latest findings in field of The initial identification of the Adenomatous research of mechanosensitivity of the heart. The Clinical Toxicology is the second volume of a polyposis coli (Apc) gene as the site of mutations Volume focuses on molecular mechanisms of three-volume set on Molecular, Clinical and in familial adenomatous polyposis (FA P) was mechanotransduction in cardiac cells. It contains Environmental Toxicology that offers a compre- described in 1992. A causal relationship between a detailed description of several stretch-induced hensive and in-depth response to the increasing Apc mutations and intestinal tract tumours was signaling cascades with multiple levels of crosstalk importance and abundance of chemicals in daily confirmed three years later with the establishment between different pathways. It highlights the role life. By providing intriguing insights far down to of the Min mouse model. These mice are hetero- of cardiac stretch-activated channels and their the molecular level, this 3-volume work covers the zygous for Apc and develop numerous intestinal contribution to cardiac performance. This book entire range of modern toxicology with special tumours that mimic FA P. Subsequently, Apc has provides justification of scientific significance and emphasis on recent developments and achieve- emerged as the most commonly mutated gene in potential for clinical applications of findings of ments. It is written for students and professionals colorectal cancer with reports varying between fundamental investigations in the field of mecha- in medicine, science, public health or engineering 50-80% of sporadic tumours carrying such muta- nosensitivity, which is stressed by description who are demanding reliable information on toxic tions. The search for how mutations in Apc initiate of reported increased sensitivity of cardiac cells or potentially harmful agents and their effects in and/or support progression of tumours in the to mechanical stress under various pathological the human body. intestinal tract has revealed that the Apc protein conditions. It contains new insights into mecha- is a multifunctional participant in a diverse array noelectrical feedback on the level of the whole Features of cellular functions. By collecting and assembling heart and results of experimental investigations of Explains mechanisms of toxicity at the the chapters in this book, we aimed to provide an electromechanical properties of cardiac tissue. molecular levelPresents milestones and recent overview of the diverse functions performed by achievements of toxicology the Apc protein. As summarised in a short final Features chapter by Trainer, heterozygosity of Apc leads to a First series of books that considers the problem Field of interest number of extracolonic manifestations that further of cell mechanosensitivity of organs and tissues at Pharmacology/Toxicology support this emerging picture of the Apc protein the molecular, biological, bio-physical, physi- as an active contributor to many different cellular ological and pharmocological levels and draws the Target groups functions. attention to the global problem of the mechano- Libraries, toxicologists, pharmacologists, sensitivity and its mechanismsIn addition, the medical students Contents problem of intracellular crosstalk (i.e. a network APC and ß-Catenin Degradation.- Nuclear of mechanically induced intracellular signaling Discount group APC.- APC in Cell Migration.- The APC-EB1 cascades) is discussed for the first time P Interaction.- The Role of APC in Mitosis and in Chromosome Instability.- Role of APC and its Fields of interest Binding Partners in Regulating Microtubules in Biomedicine general; Cell Biology; Medical Mitosis.- The Adenomatous Polyposis Coli Tumor Biochemistry Suppressor and Wnt Signaling in the Regulation of Apoptosis.- APC and Its Modifiers in Colon Target groups Cancer.- Tissue-Specific Tumour Suppression by Molecular biologists, bio-physics, physiologists, APC.- Extra-Colonic Manifestations of Familial pharmacologists and doctors Adenomatous Polyposis Coli.
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K. A. Neve, Oregon Health & Science University, E. A. Pestana, S. Belak, A. Diallo, J. R. Crowther, A. G. Pockley, S. K. Calderwood, M. G. Santoro (Eds.) Portland, OR, USA (Ed.) G. J. Viljoen Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic The Dopamine Receptors Early, rapid and sensitive Heat Shock Proteins in veterinary molecular Infectious Disease diagnostics – real time As sites of action for drugs used to treat schizo- PCR applications phrenia and Parkinson’s disease, dopamine recep- The book aims to explore the role of heat shock tors are among the most validated drug targets for proteins in infectious disease. In bacterial infec- neuropsychiatric disorders. Dopamine receptors tion, the host is encountered by the prokaryotic are also drug targets or potential targets for other This book gives a comprehensive account of heat shock proteins expressed by microorganisms. disorders such as substance abuse, depression, the practical aspects of Real time PCR and its These proteins tend to be made in large amounts Tourette’s syndrome, and attention deficit hyper- application to veterinary diagnostic laborato- as, pathogenic organisms suffer stresses such as activity disorder. Updated from the successful first ries. The optimisation of assays to help diagnose heat shock and oxidative stress on entering the edition, “The Dopamine Receptors” serves as a livestock diseases is stressed and exemplified organs of their mammalian hosts. Although these reference work on dopamine receptors while also through assembling standard operating proce- proteins permit survival of the pathogen, they highlighting the areas of research that are most dures from many laboratory sources. Theoretical also are recognized as dominant antigens by the active today. To achieve this goal, authors have aspects of PCR are dealt with as well as quality host which mounts an immune response largely written chapters that set a broad area of research in control features necessary to maintain an assured targeted to the pathogens Hsp60 and Hsp70. This its historical context, rather than focusing on the testing system. The book will be helpful to all entails a certain amount of risk as the hsp are research output of their own laboratories. scientists involved in diagnostic applications of highly conserved- for instance human hsp70 is molecular techniques, but is designed primarily 50% identical with the E. coli hsp70 called DNAK Features to offer developing country scientists a collection - autoimmunity is thus a ris. One of the themes Relies heavily on new knowledgeThe use of of working methods in a single source. The book of the book will be the contrasting effects of the knock-out mice and subtype-selective drugs merit is an adjunct to the Molecular Diagnostic PCR mammalian and non-mammalian hsp on the discussion in stand-alone chapters Handbook published in 2005. immune response. These conserved molecules have both shared and differing effects on dendritic From the contents Features cells, B cells and T lymphocytes. We will examine Historical Overview/Introduction to the Dopa- Unique for real time PCR applicationBasic in detail receptors for pro- and eukaryotic hsp and mine Receptors.- Gene and Promoter Structures principles explainedOperating procedures their immune and auto-immune response. These of the Dopamine Receptors.- Structural Basis of highlightedClear educational role contrasting effects of pro- and eukaryotic hsp Dopamine Receptor Activation and Function.- on immunity play a major role in auto-immune Dopamine Receptor Subtype-Selective Drugs: Fields of interest diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. Recent date D2-like Receptors.- Dopamine Receptor Subtype- Biological Techniques; Infectious Diseases; suggests that sequences in prokaryotic hsp60 are Selective Drugs: D1-like Receptors.- Dopamine Virology the important antigens in the development of RA. Receptor Signaling: Intracellular Pathways to By contrast this can be modulated by immuno- Behavior. Target groups regulatory effects of mammalian hsp60 and 70. The Laboratory diagnosticians, research workers, hsp are also important in viral infections in which Fields of interest teachers, students they require chaperone the large bursts of protein Neurosciences; Pharmacology/Toxicology; synthesis involved in viral replication and play ar Neurobiology Discount group ole in the effects on the viral promotors. Finally, P hsp and heat shock factors play a key role in the Target groups resolution of the inflammation and fever and Neuroscientists, behavioural neuroscientists, accompany infection. neurobiologists, physiologists, neuropsychiatrists, pharmacologists Field of interest Biomedicine general Discount group P Target groups Researchers
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Biomedical and Life Sciences Biomedical and Life Sciences Biomedical and Life Sciences Due October 2009 Due October 2009 Due October 2009 2nd ed. 2010. Approx. 460 p. 69 illus., 6 in color. 2009. Approx. 300 p. (Heat Shock Proteins, Volume 4) (The Receptors) Hardcover 2009. V, 295 p. Hardcover Hardcover $189.00 approx. $159.00 approx. $159.00 ISBN 978-1-60327-332-9 ISBN 978-90-481-3131-0 ISBN 978-90-481-2975-1 22 Biomedicine Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
M. Schäfer-Korting, Institut der Pharmazie der A. Verkhratsky, The University of Manchester, UK; Freien Universität Berlin, Germany (Ed.) O. H. Petersen, University of Liverpool, UK (Eds.) Drug Delivery Calcium Measurement Methods
In the view of most experts pharmacology is on drugs, targets, and actions. In the context the Since the introduction of fluorescent calcium drug as a rule is seen as an active pharmaceu- indicators and the subsequent development of tical ingredient and not as a complex mixture of capacities for real-time monitoring and imaging of chemical entities of a well defined structure. Today, calcium movements in the intact cells studied in we are becoming more and more aware of the fact isolation, in situ and in vivo, the complex and vital that delivery of the active compound to the target calcium signaling system has been illuminated, site is a key. The present volume gives a topical proving calcium signals to be excellent universal overview on various modern approaches to drug reporters of cellular activity. In “Calcium Measure- targeting covering today’s options for specific ment Methods”, a team of renowned experts in carrier systems allowing successful drug treatment the field contribute methods dedicated to calcium at various sites of the body difficult to address and imaging in neural cells with a balance between the allowing to increase the benefit-risk-ratio to the main principles of calcium imaging and specific optimum possible. applications of the technique to neural tissues. The book’s contents show how the combination of Contents different indicators and recently developed micro- Preface.- Part I: Fundamentals. Part II: Devices. scopic techniques lead to spectacular successes in Part III: Clinical and Preclinical Application of the imaging of neural cells in the living brain in Therapeutics for Systemic Use. Part IV: Clinical both physiological and pathophysiological models. and Preclinical Application of Therapeutics for As a volume in the successful Neuromethods™ Topical Use. series, the chapters provide authoritative reviews including up-to-date detailed protocols of the most Fields of interest commonly used approaches in the field. Pharmacology/Toxicology; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology; Oncology Features Provides a comprehensive overview of calcium Target groups imaging of the neural cellsPresents a detailed Libraries, scientists and researchers in the fields account of state-of the art calcium indicators of pharmacology, oncology, dermatology and including fluorescent, luminescent, and genetically neurology modified calcium probesOutlines wide array of techniques aimed at real-time calcium imaging Discount group of cellular organelles, subcellular compartments, P individual cells, and neural networks
Fields of interest Neurosciences; Neurochemistry
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2010. XIV, 480 p. (Handbook of Experimental 2010. Approx. 265 p. 75 illus., 24 in color. Pharmacology, Volume 197) Hardcover (Neuromethods, Volume 43) Hardcover $419.00 $159.00 ISBN 978-3-642-00476-6 ISBN 978-1-60761-475-3 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Psychology 23
M. B. Gregerson, The Family Therapy Institute of J. Martin, J. H. Sugarman, Simon Fraser University, M. A. Rapoff, University of Kansas Medical Center, Alexandria, Alexandria, VA, USA (Ed.) Burnaby, BC, Canada; S. Hickinbottom, Kwantlen Kansas City, KS, USA Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC, Canada The Cinematic Mirror for Adherence to Pediatric Psychology and Life Coaching Persons: Understanding Medical Regimens Psychological Selfhood 2nd Edition and Agency Cinema both reflects life and contours life – that is its psychological power. And for decades, clini- It used to be called noncompliance, and the cians and educators have recognized the value of At its core, psychology is about persons: their patients themselves referred to as difficult. But this power, using it to respectively heal in therapy thinking, their problems, the improvement of their regardless of the terminology, children’s reluc- and educate in the classroom. The Cinematic lives. The understanding of persons is crucial to tance or failure to commit to prescribed regimens Mirror for Psychology and Life Coaching mines the discipline. But according to this provocative reduces the effectiveness of treatment, often the illustrative value of cinema, offering therapists new book, between current essentialist theories leading to additional care, higher costs, and and life coaches access to ideas that can motivate that rely on biological models, and constructionist serious, even deadly, complications. and enlighten clients. approaches based on sociocultural experience, the Reflecting a single, authoritative voice, the Second Although many movie guides exist, this volume concept of the person has all but vanished from Edition of Adherence to Pediatric Medical Regi- complements the available literature by adding psychology. mens analyzes in comprehensive clinical detail the positive psychology, mental health, and wellness Persons: Understanding Psychological Selfhood factors that affect children’s and teens’ commit- perspectives to the clinical/educational/coaching and Agency recasts theories of mind, behavior, ment to treatment – from developmental issues to mix. The serious intent to cull from cinema its and self, synthesizing a range of psychologists and the influence of parents, peers, and others in their underlying psychological value has motivated philosophers to restore the centrality of person- orbit – and offers empirically sound guidelines for noted clinicians, life coaches, and cultural critics to hood – especially the ability to make choices and encouraging adherence. It cautions against viewing offer science-based analysis and intervention strat- decisions – to the discipline. The authors’ unique young clients as miniature grownups or scaling egies. Readers may add their own movie insights perspective de-emphasizes method and formula in down adult data, advocating instead for a more and professional expertise to this rich foundation. favor of moral agency and life experience, reveals nuanced understanding of the population and a frequently overlooked contributions of psychology collaborative relationship between practitioner and Field of interest to the study of individuals and groups, and traces client. Clinical Psychology traditions of selfhood and personhood theory. Features Target groups Features Only single authored, comprehensive treatment Clinical psychologists and counselors Examines underlying philosophical questions of the topic of adhering to pediatric medical regi- about human behaviorPlaces psychology mensFocuses on the current issues relevant to Discount group more firmly in a globalized worldSynthesis researchers and cliniciansProvides up-to-date P of various philosophical viewpointsPresents information on pediatric regimens written in a theory of human behavior as both experimental comprehensive format with the voice of a single and conceptual author, unlike other edited books that usually focus on specific diseases or on adults only Fields of interest Clinical Psychology; Developmental Psychology ; Fields of interest Personality and Social Psychology; Philosophy of Child and School Psychology; Pediatrics; Clinical the Social Sciences Psychology; Health Psychology; Psychiatry
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A. Alonso Rodriguez, A. Valli, University of Trento, D. Betounes A. V. Borovik, University of Manchester, UK; Povo, Italy A. Borovik Differential Equations: Time-harmonic eddy current Theory and Applications Mirrors and Reflections problems The Geometry of Finite Reflection Groups Theory and numerical approximation
From the reviews “Mirrors and Reflections” presents a systematic This book is intended to serve as a comprehensive and elementary introduction to the properties This book deals with the mathematical analysis introduction to the theory of differential equations of finite groups generated by reflections. The and the numerical approximation of eddy current ... . The material is organized so that is can be approach is based on fundamental geometric problems in the time-harmonic case. All the most also used in a wider setting within today’s modern considerations in Coxeter complexes, and empha- used formulations are taken into account, placing university and society. ... The book makes every sizes the intuitive geometric aspects of the theory the problem in a rigorous functional framework. attempt to blend together the traditional theoretical of reflection groups. The exposition is directed at Nodal or edge finite elements are used for approxi- material on differential equations and the new advanced undergraduates and first-year graduate mation. A detailed analysis of each formulation is techniques afforded by computer algebra systems ... . students, and features a large number of exercises presented, focusing on the well-posedness and on The CD-ROM contains all theelectronic material for at various levels of difficulty. the efficiency of numerical schemes. A particular mastering and enjoying the computer component of attention is devoted to the topology of the physical the book International Aerospace Abstracts, Features domain. Some specific applications to real-life Vol. 42 (5), 2002) Many important concepts in the proofs are problems are described. The reader will also find illustrated through simple drawings, which give a complete presentation of some recent and new Features easy access to the theoryIncludes numerous results on the subject. Large number of examples and figures exercises at various levels of difficulty as well as an Large number of applications from physics and appendix with hints for solving many of the more Fields of interest engineeringOne of the few graduate level DE difficult problemsProvides an introduction to Computational Mathematics and Numerical books that has a computer component the necessary elements of Euclidean geometry and Analysis; Partial Differential Equations; Math- the theory of convex polyhedra ematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics; Contents Mathematics, general Introduction.- Techniques, Concepts and From the contents Examples.- Existence and Uniqueness: The Flow Part I Geometric Background.- 1. Affine Euclidean Target groups Map.- Linear Systems.- Linearization and Trans- Space ARn.- 2 Isometries of ARn .- 3 Hyperplane Researchers formation.- Stability Theory.- Integrable Systems.- Arrangements.- 4 Polyhedral Cones.- 5 Mirrors Newtonian Mechanics.- Hamiltonian Systems.- and Reflections.- 6 Systems of Mirrors.- Discount group Appendix A: Elementary Analysis.- Appendix B: 7 Dihedral Groups.- 8 Root Systems.- 9 Root P Lipschitz Maps and Linearization.- Appendix C: Systems An¡1, BCn, Dn.- 10 Chambers.- Linear Algebra.- Appendix D: Electronic Contents. 11 Generation.- 12 Coxeter Complex.- 13 Resi- dues.- 14 Generalized Permutahedra.- Part IV Fields of interest Classification.- 15 Generators and Relations.- Ordinary Differential Equations; Numerical 16 Classification of Finite Reflection Groups.- Analysis; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory; 17 Construction of Root Systems.- 18 Orders of Mathematical Methods in Physics Reflection Groups.
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F. Callegaro, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy M. Chlouveraki, École Polytechnique Fédérale de N. Chriss, University of Chicago, IL, USA; V. Ginzburg, Lausanne, Switzerland University of Chicago, IL, USA Cohomology of Finite and Affine Type Artin Groups over Blocks and Families for Representation Theory and Abelian Representation Cyclotomic Hecke Algebras Complex Geometry
The definition of Rouquier for the families of Features The classical theory of braids is deeply connected characters introduced by Lusztig for Weyl groups An affordable softcover editoin of a classic book with the theory of reflection groups and there are in terms of blocks of the Hecke algebras has made Introduces recent advancements in representa- many relations between Artin groups and Coxeter possible the generalization of this notion to the tion theory from a geometric standpointKey groups. It turns out that the classifying spaces case of complex reflection groups. The aim of this ideas accessible to nonspecialists of Artin groups of finite type are affine varieties, book is to study the blocks and to determine the the complement of the singularities associated to families of characters for all cyclotomic Hecke Contents Coxeter groups. algebras associated to complex reflection groups. Preface.- Chapter 0. Introduction.- Chapter In order to study the topology of the Milnor fiber This volume offers a thorough study of symmetric 1. Symplectic Geometry.- Chapter 2. Mosaic.- of these non-isolated singularities together with algebras, covering topics such as block theory, Chapter 3. Complex Semisimple Groups.- Chapter the monodromy action it is useful to compute the representation theory and Clifford theory, and can 4. Springer Theory.- Chapter 5. Equivariant K- cohomology of the Artin groups with coefficients also serve as an introduction to the Hecke algebras Theory.- Chapter 6. Flag Varieties, K-Theory, and in an abelian representation. of complex reflection groups. Harmonic Polynomials.- Chapter 7. Hecke Alge- In this book a description of this cohomology for bras and K-Theory.- Chapter 8. Representations of Artin groups of type A and B and for affine Artin Contents Convolution Algebras.- Bibliography. groups of the same type is given. 1 On Commutative Algebra.- 2 On Blocks.- 3 On Essential Algebras.- 4 On Hecke Algebras.- 5 On Fields of interest Features the Determination of the Rouquier Blocks.- A Topological Groups, Lie Groups; Algebraic A resume of several results and costructions on Clifford Theory and Schur Elements for Generic Geometry; Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. braid cohomology is providedOriginal results Hecke Algebras. Diff.Topology); Mathematical and Computational with explicit cohomology descriptions are given Physics A useful bibliography on braid cohomology Field of interest Group Theory and Generalizations Target groups Contents Graduate students, mathematicians and 1. Coxeter groups and arrangement.- 2. Group Target groups researchers cohomology and local systems.- 3. Topology of Researchers and graduate students arrangements.- 4. The integral homology of the Discount group Milnor fiber for Artin groups of type A.- 5. The Discount group P integral homology of the Milnor fiber for Artin P groups of type B.- 6. Affine arrangements of type A.- 7. Affine arrangements of type B.
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C. Constanda, University of Tulsa, OK, USA; C. Constanda, University of Tulsa, OK, USA; C. M. Dafermos, Brown University, Providence, RI, M. E. Pérez, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, M. E. Pérez, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, USA España (Eds.) España (Eds.) Hyperbolic Conservation Laws Integral Methods in Science Integral Methods in Science in Continuum Physics and Engineering, Volume 1 and Engineering, Volume 2 Analytic Methods Computational Methods This is a masterly exposition and an encyclo- pedic presentation of the theory of hyperbolic Mathematical models, based on ordinary, partial Mathematical models, based on ordinary, partial conservation laws. It illustrates the essential role differential, integral, and integro-differential differential, integral, and integro-differential of continuum thermodynamics in providing equations, are the only viable tool for studying our equations, are the only viable tool for studying our motivation and direction for the development physical surroundings and their natural manifesta- physical surroundings and their natural manifesta- of the mathematical theory while also serving as tions. Therefore, it is important for practitioners tions. Therefore, it is important for practitioners the principal source of applications. The reader is to strive to find solutions to these models, either to strive to find solutions to these models, either expected to have a certain mathematical sophis- analytic or numerical. This two-volume set gathers analytic or numerical. This two-volume set gathers tication and to be familiar with (at least) the up-to-date research results that show how to set up-to-date research results that show how to set rudiments of analysis and the qualitative theory of up a very important class of such tools, and how up a very important class of such tools, and how partial differential equations, whereas prior expo- to use them in specific problems of science and to use them in specific problems of science and sure to continuum physics is not required. engineering. engineering. New to the 3rd edition is an account of the The two volumes contain 65 chapters, which are The two volumes contain 65 chapters, which are early history of the subject, spanning the period an outgrowth of talks presented by experienced an outgrowth of talks presented by experienced between 1800 to 1957. Also new is a chapter researchers from 24 countries on 5 continents at researchers from 24 countries on 5 continents at recounting the recent solution of open problems of the Tenth International Conference on Integral the Tenth International Conference on Integral long standing in classical aerodynamics. Methods in Science and Engineering held in Methods in Science and Engineering held in Santander, Spain, July 7–10, 2008. Santander, Spain, July 7–10, 2008. Features The author is unquestionably the greatest Features Features authority on the subject as well as a masterly writer Illustrates the application of integral methods Illustrates the application of integral methods The 3rd edition is thouroughly revised, up-to- to diverse problems in mathematics, physics, to diverse problems in mathematics, physics, date and includes new material on the early history biology, and engineeringChapters written by biology, and engineeringChapters written by of the subject, and a new chapter recounting recent scientists with established credentials in their fields scientists with established credentials in their fields solution of open problems of long standing in clas- Applications to a wide spectrum of subjects, Applications to a wide spectrum of subjects, sical aerodynamicsThe expanded bibliography ranging from deformable structures, to traffic flow, ranging from eutrophication of bodies of water, comprises now over fifteen hundred titles acoustic wave propagation, spectral computation, to pollutant dispersion, spinal cord movement, among others submarine avalanches, among others Fields of interest Partial Differential Equations; Thermodynamics; Fields of interest Fields of interest Mechanics; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics Integral Equations; Appl.Mathematics/Computa- Integral Equations; Appl. 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M. M. Deza, M. Laurent, Laboratoire d’Informatique J. J. Duistermaat, J. A. Kolk, Universiteit Utrecht, P. Gadea, J. Munoz Masqué de l’Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France The Netherlands Analysis and Algebra on Geometry of Cuts and Metrics Distributions Differentiable Manifolds: Theory and Applications A Workbook for Students Cuts and metrics are well-known objects that arise and Teachers – independently, but with many deep and fasci- nating connections – in diverse fields: in graph This text is a concise, application-oriented intro- theory, combinatorial optimization, geometry of duction to the theory of distributions. It presents numbers, combinatorial matrix theory, statistical distributions as a natural method of analysis This book is a collection of 375 completely solved physics, VLSI design etc. from both a mathematical and physical point exercises on differentiable manifolds, Lie groups, This book presents a wealth of results, from of view. Methods are developed to justify many fibre bundles, and Riemannian manifolds. The different mathematical disciplines, in a unified formal calculations that do not make sense in the exercises go from elementary computations to comprehensive manner, and establishes new classical framework. The discussion emphasizes rather sophisticated tools. It is the first book and old links, which cannot be found elsewhere. applications to the general study of linear partial consisting of completely solved problems on It provides a unique and invaluable source for differential equations. differentiable manifolds, and therefore will be a researchers and graduate students. The topics include an introduction to distributions, complement to the books on theory. A 42-page differentiation, convergence, and convolution formulary is included which will be useful as From the reviews of distributions, as well as Fourier transforma- an aide-mémoire, especially for teachers and This book is definitely a milestone in the litera- tions and spaces of distributions having special researchers on these topics. ture of integer programming and combinatorial properties. The applications relate the theory to The book includes 50 figures. A CD-ROM with optimization. It draws from the Interdisciplinarity of solutions of partial differential equations occur- Professor Angel Montesinos’s application, “Superfi- these fields […]. With knowledge about the relevant ring in physics, for instance, in mechanics, optics, cies”, is also included. terms, one can enjoy special subsections without quantum mechanics, quantum field theory and Audience: The book will be useful to advanced being entirely familiar with the rest of the chapter. signal analysis, which students may encounter undergraduate and graduate students of math- This makes it not only an interesting research book throughout their studies. ematics, theoretical physics, and some branches of but even a dictionary. […] The longer one works engineering. with it, the more beautiful it becomes Optima 56, Features 1997. Emphasizes applications to physical Contents phenomena such as optics, quantum mechanics, Differentiable manifolds.- Tensor Fields and Contents quantum field theory and partial differential equa- Differential Forms.- Integration on Manifolds.- Lie I. Outline of the Book.- 2. Basic Definitions.- tionsIncludes many exercises with detailed Groups.- Fibre Bundles.- Riemannian Geometry.- Part I Measure Aspects: l1-Embeddability and hints and solutionsApproaches the subject Some Definitions and Theorems.- Some Formulas Probability.- Part II Hypermetric Spaces: an from a unique, application-oriented point of view and Tables. Approach via Geometry of Numbers.- Part III Isometric Embeddings of Graphs.- Part IV Hyper- Fields of interest Fields of interest cube Embeddings and Designs.- Part V Facets of Approximations and Expansions; Applications Differential Geometry; Global Analysis and the Cut Cone and Polytope.- Bibliography.- Nota- of Mathematics; Partial Differential Equations; Analysis on Manifolds; Topological Groups, Lie tion Index.- Subject Index. Fourier Analysis; Ordinary Differential Equations Groups; Applications of Mathematics
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M. Giga, Y. Giga, University of Tokyo, Japan; M. A. Gosson, Universität Wien, Austria D. Gusak, A. Kukush, A. Kulik, Y. Mishura, J. Saal, University of Konstanz, Germany A. Pilipenko Bopp Pseudo-Differential Nonlinear Partial Differential Operators and Deformation Theory of Stochastic Equations Quantization Processes Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions and With Applications to Financial Mathematics Self-Similar Solutions and Risk Theory “Deformation quantization” is a mathematical theory which provides an alternative approach to quantum mechanics. It has ramifications in both This work will serve as an excellent first course in pure mathematics and physics. This book gives a This book is a collection of exercises covering all modern analysis. Key topics in nonlinear PDEs novel approach to the subject by using pseudo- the main topics in the modern theory of stochastic as well as several fundamental tools and methods differential methods (“Bopp quantization”) where processes and its applications, including finance, are presented; few prerequisites are required of the the theory of modulation spaces plays a central actuarial mathematics, queuing theory, and risk reader. Challenging exercises, examples, and illus- role. theory. trations help explain the rigorous analytic basis The aim of this book is to provide the reader with for the Navier–Stokes equations, mean curvature Features the theoretical and practical material necessary flow equations, and other important equations Deformation quantization is a “hot” topic in for deeper understanding of the main topics in the describing real phenomena. The main focus of pure mathematicsAbsolutely new approach theory of stochastic processes and its related fields. the text is on showing how self-similar solutions making use of well-established tools of time- The book is divided into chapters according to the are useful in studying the behavior of solutions frequency analysisProbably the first text in various topics. Each chapter contains problems, of nonlinear PDEs, especially those of parabolic mathematical physics using Feichtinger’s modula- hints, solutions, as well as a self-contained theoret- type. The exposition moves systematically from tion spaces ical part which gives all the necessary material for the basic to more sophisticated concepts, and in solving the problems. References to the literature the final chapters recent developments and several Fields of interest are also given. open problems are presented. An extensive index Operator Theory; Analysis; Mathematical Methods is provided. Written for graduate students and in Physics Features researchers by one of Japan’s leading analysts, Contains over 1000 high quality exercises this will be an excellent resource for self-study or Target groups on stochastic processesPresents a modern classroom use. Mathematicians working in partial differential approach to topics such as sample paths and equations, symplectic geometry, operator theory, optimal stoppingIdeal for professors who need Features mathematical physicists working in quantum exercises for exams, and graduate students wishing Challenges the reader with many exercises, mechanics to learn about stochastic processes examples and illustrationsIncludes recent developments and several open problems Discount group From the contents P Definition of stochastic process. Cylinder s Fields of interest -algebra, finitedimensional distributions, the Partial Differential Equations; Functional Analysis; Kolmogorov theorem.- Characteristics of a Analysis; Approximations and Expansions stochastic process. Mean and covariance functions. Characteristic functions.- Trajectories. Modifica- Target groups tions. Filtrations.- Continuity. Differentiability. Graduate students interested in partial differential Integrability.- Stochastic processes with indepen- equations dent increments. Wiener and Poisson processes.
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R. Hartshorne, University of California, Berkeley, CA, D. Hinrichsen, University of Bremen, Germany; G. H. Hurlbert, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA A. J. Pritchard, University of Warwick, UK USA Deformation Theory Mathematical Systems Linear Optimization Theory I The Simplex Workbook Modelling, State Space Analysis, Stability and The basic problem of deformation theory in alge- Robustness braic geometry involves watching a small deforma- This undergraduate textbook is written for a tion of one member of a family of objects, such as junior/senior level course on linear optimiza- varieties, or subschemes in a fixed space, or vector tion. Unlike other texts, the treatment follows the bundles on a fixed scheme. In this new book, This is the first volume of a book which presents “modified Moore method” approach in which Robin Hartshorne studies first what happens over the mathematical foundations of systems and examples and proof opportunities are worked into small infinitesimal deformations, and then gradu- control theory in a self-contained, comprehen- the text in order to encourage students to develop ally builds up to more global situations, using sive, detailed and mathematically rigorous way. some of the content through their own experi- methods pioneered by Kodaira and Spencer in the This volume is devoted to the state space analysis ments and arguments while they are reading the complex analytic case, and adapted and expanded of dynamical systems, whereas the 2nd volume text. Additionally, the focus is on the mathematics in algebraic geometry by Grothendieck. will be devoted to control. It combines features underlying the ideas of optimizing linear functions Topics include: deformations over the dual of a detailed introductory textbook with that of a under linear constraints and the algorithms used numbers, smoothness and the infinitesimal lifting reference source. Throughout the book there are to solve them. In particular, the author uses the property, Zariski tangent space and obstructions many examples and figures illustrating the text Simplex Algorithm to motivate these concepts. The to deformation problems, pro-representable func- which help to bring out the intuitive ideas behind text progresses at a gentle and inviting pace. The tors of Schlessinger, infinitesimal study of moduli the mathematical constructions. It is accessible to presentation is driven by examples and illustra- spaces such as the Hilbert scheme, Picard scheme, mathematics students after two years of math- tions. Ample exercises are provided at the end of moduli of curves, and moduli of stable vector ematics and graduate engineering students special- each chapter for mastering the material. bundles. izing in systems theory. The reader is gradually The instructor’s version of the text contains solu- brought to the frontiers of research and on the way tions embedded within the text, rather than in an Features the required mathematical background material is appendix. It also has extra material and sugges- First ever textbook on deformation theory developed with detailed proofs. tions for the teacher’s benefit. Bestselling Springer author, Robin Hartshorne Text contains plenty of motivation, enhanced Features Features with numerous exercises and examples Comprehensive coverage of an important field Uses the “modified Moore method” approach in applied mathematics in which examples and proof opportunities Contents are worked into the text in order to encourage Preface.- Getting Started.- Higher Order Deforma- Contents students to develop some of the content through tions.- Formal Moduli.- Global Questions.- Refer- Mathematical Models.- Introduction to State their own examples and arguments while they ences. Space Theory.- Stability Theory.- Perturbation are reading the textConcentrates on the Theory.- Uncertain Spaces.- Appendix: Linear mathematics underlying the ideas of optimizing Fields of interest Algebra.- Complex Analysis.- Convolutions and linear functions under linear constraints and the Algebraic Geometry Transforms.- Linear Operators. algorithms used to solve them
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M. Jünger, T. M. Liebling, D. Naddef, O. P. Le Maître, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France; Y. I. Manin, Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, G. L. Nemhauser, W. Pulleyblank; G. Reinelt, O. M. Knio, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Bonn, Germany; B. Zilber, Mathematical Institute, G. Rinaldi, L. A. Wolsey, (Eds) MD, USA University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 50 Years of Integer Spectral Methods for A Course in Mathematical Programming 1958-2008 Uncertainty Quantification Logic for Mathematicians The Early Years and State-of-the-Art Surveys With Applications to Computational Fluid Dynamics Translated by: N. Koblitz
In 1958, Ralph E. Gomory transformed the field of integer programming when he published a This book presents applications of spectral The book starts with an elementary introduction paper that described a cutting-plane algorithm methods to problems of uncertainty propagation to formal languages appealing to the intuition for pure integer programs and announced that and quantification in model-based computations, of working mathematicians and unencumbered the method could be refined to give a finite focusing on the computational and algorithmic by philosophical or normative prejudices such algorithm for integer programming. In 2008, to features of these methods most useful in dealing as those of constructivism or intuitionism. It commemorate the anniversary of this seminal with models based on partial differential equa- proceeds to the Proof Theory and presents several paper, a special workshop celebrating fifty years of tions, in particular models arising in simulations highlights of Mathematical Logic of 20th century: integer programming was held in Aussois, France, of fluid flows. The practical implementation of Gödel’s and Tarski’s Theorems, Cohen’s Theorem as part of the 12th Combinatorial Optimization these methods is demonstrated in applications to on the independence of Continuum Hypothesis. Workshop. elementary problems, as well as in more elabo- Unusual for books on logic is a section dedicated 50 Years of Integer Programming offers an account rate examples selected from the authors’ interests to quantum logic. of featured talks and a panel discussion at the in incompressible vortex-dominated flows and Then the exposition moves to the Computability Aussois workshop with six pioneers on a DVD compressible flows at low Mach numbers.Spectral Theory, based on the notion of recursive functions Video. It also contains reprints of key historical stochastic methods are probabilistic in nature, and and stressing number{theoretic connections. articles and written versions of survey lectures on are consequently rooted in the rich mathematical six of the hottest topics in the field by distin- foundations associated with probability and Features guished members of the integer programming measure spaces. Despite the authors’ fascination Contains a new chapter on categorical approach community. with these foundations, only those theoretical to theory of computations, quantum computations, aspects needed to set the stage for subsequent and P/NP problemNew chapter containing Features applications are discussed. basic results of model theory and its applications Lectures of the pioneers of integer to mainstream mathematicsPresents several programming Features highlights of mathematical logic of the 20th Application-oriented introduction into spectral century including Gödel’s and Tarski’s Theo- Fields of interest methods for uncertainty propagation and quan- rems, Cohen’s theorem on the independence of Combinatorics; Optimization; Discrete Mathe- tification in model-based computationsWith continuum hypothesis matics in Computer Science; Operation Research/ carefully selected examples on incompressible Decision Theory vortex-dominated flows and compressible flows Fields of interest at low Mach numbersOnly alludes to those Mathematical Logic and Foundations; Logic Target groups theoretical aspects needed to set the stage for Useful for anyone in mathematics, computer subsequent applications Target groups science and operations research Graduate students and students (mathematics Fields of interest majors), mathematicians interested in mathemat- Discount group Scientific Computing; Fluids; Numerical and ical logic, philosophy of mathematics, computer P Computational Methods; Partial Differential Equa- science tions; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science Discount group Target groups P Researchers or graduate students in computational mathematics, physics, or fluid dynamics with basic knowledge in spectral methods
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Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Due October 2009 Due December 2009 Due February 2010 2nd ed. 2009. XII, 384 p. 12 illus. (Graduate Texts in 2010. Approx. 800 p. With DVD. Hardcover 2010. Approx. 300 p. (Scientific Computation) Hardcover Mathematics, Volume 257) Hardcover approx. $109.00 approx. $99.00 approx. $69.95 ISBN 978-3-540-68274-5 ISBN 978-90-481-3519-6 ISBN 978-1-4419-0614-4 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Mathematics 31
N. Lerner, Université de Rennes, France J. Matousek, Charles University, Praha, Czech K. Murota, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Republic Metrics on the Phase Space Matrices and Matroids for and Non-Selfadjoint Pseudo- Geometric Discrepancy Systems Analysis Differential Operators An Illustrated Guide
A matroid is an abstract mathematical structure What is the “most uniform” way of distributing n that captures combinatorial properties of matrices. This book contains three chapters. The first one, points in the unit square? How big is the “irregu- This book offers a unique introduction to matroid Basic Notions of Phase Space Analysis is only larity” necessarily present in any such distribution? theory, emphasizing motivations from matrix introductory. The second chapter, Metrics on the Such questions are treated in geometric discrep- theory and applications to systems analysis. Phase Space, contains a thorough exposition of the ancy theory. The book is an accessible and lively This book serves also as a comprehensive Weyl calculus via a microlocalization procedure introduction to this area, with numerous exercises presentation of the theory and application of described by a metric on the phase space. The third and illustrations. In separate, more specialized mixed matrices, developed primarily by the chapter, Estimates for non-selfadjoint operators, is parts, it also provides a comprehensive guide present author in the 1990’s. A mixed matrix is a more involved and is devoted to a rather complete to recent research. Including a wide variety of convenient mathematical tool for systems analysis, discussion of operators of principal type with mathematical techniques (from harmonic analysis, compatible with the physical observation that complex-valued symbols. combinatorics, algebra etc.) in action on non- “fixed constants” and “system parameters” are to trivial examples, the book is suitable for a “special be distinguished in the description of engineering Features topic” course for early graduates in mathematics systems. A thorough exposition of pseudodifferential and computer science. Besides professional calculus defined by metrics on the phase space mathematicians, it will be of interest to specialists From the reviews Contains a proof of the Nirenberg-Treves in fields where a large collection of objects should …The book has been prepared very carefully, conjectureConstruction of counterexamples to be “uniformly” represented by a smaller sample contains a lot of interesting results and is highly “optimal” solvability under condition (psi) (such as high-dimensional numerical integration recommended for graduate and postgraduate in computational physics or financial mathematics, students András Recski, Mathematical Reviews Field of interest efficient divide-and-conquer algorithms in Clippings 2000m:93006 Analysis computer science, etc.). Features Target groups Features First comprehensive presentation of the theory Graduates, postgraduates and researchers in anal- Only up-to-date comprehensive guide to the and application of mixed matrices and a unique ysis and pde, graduate students willing to get infor- subject introduction to matroid theorySelf-contained mation on the Weyl calculus of pseudodifferential presentation of the theory and applications of operators and on the attached Sobolev spaces, Contents matroids, written in such a way that the reader can researchers and graduate students interested in a Introduction.- Low-Discrepancy Sets for Axis- acquire familiarity with matroids through matrices priori estimates for nonselfadjoint operators and Parallel Boxes.- Upper Bounds in the Lebesgue- and reach the stage of understanding the most its links with the study of pseudospectrum Measure Setting.- Combinatorial Discrep- recent results in matroid theory ancy.- VC-Dimension and Discrepancy.- Lower Discount group Bounds.- More Lower Bounds and the Fourier Fields of interest P Transform.- Tables of Selected Discrepancy Combinatorics; Linear and Multilinear Algebras, Bounds.- Bibliography.- Index.- Hints. Matrix Theory; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Industrial Chemistry/ Fields of interest Chemical Engineering; Algorithm Analysis and Geometry; Combinatorics Problem Complexity
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Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Due April 2010 Due December 2009 Due December 2009 2010. Approx. 350 p. (Pseudo-Differential Operators 1st ed. 2000, corr. 2nd printing 2010. XII, 483 p. 64 illus. Volume 4) Softcover 1st ed. 1999, 2nd printing 2010. XI, 288 p. Softcover Softcover approx. $94.95 approx. $89.95 approx. $89.95 ISBN 978-3-7643-8509-5 ISBN 978-3-642-03941-6 ISBN 978-3-642-03993-5 32 Mathematics Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
J. Neuberger, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, G. Pólya, Stanford University, CA, USA; R. E. Tarjan, H. Pottmann, J. Wallner, Technische Universität USA Princeton University, NJ, USA; D. R. Woods, Google Wien, Austria Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA Sobolev Gradients and Computational Line Geometry Differential Equations Notes on Introductory Combinatorics The geometry of lines occurs naturally in such A Sobolev gradient of a real-valued functional on a different areas as sculptured surface machining, Hilbert space is a gradient of that functional taken From the reviews computation of offsets and medial axes, surface relative to an underlying Sobolev norm. This book This is a delightful little paperback which presents reconstruction for reverse engineering, geomet- shows how descent methods using such gradients a day-by-day transcription of a course taught jointly rical optics, kinematics and motion design, and allow a unified treatment of a wide variety of prob- by Polya and Tarjan at Stanford University. Woods, modeling of developable surfaces. This book covers lems in differential equations. For discrete versions the teaching assistant for the class, did a very good line geometry from various viewpoints and aims of partial differential equations, corresponding job of merging class notes into an interesting mini- towards computation and visualization. Besides Sobolev gradients are seen to be vastly more textbook; he also included the exercises, homework, applications, it contains a tutorial on projective efficient than ordinary gradients. In fact, descent and tests assigned in the class (a very helpful addi- geometry and an introduction into the theory methods with these gradients generally scale tion for other instructors in the field). The notes are of smooth and algebraic manifolds of lines. It linearly with the number of grid points, in sharp very well illustrated throughout and Woods and the will be useful to researchers, graduate students, contrast with the use of ordinary gradients. Aside Birkhäuser publishers produced a very pleasant text and anyone interested either in the theory or in from the first edition of this work, this is the only Mathematical Reviews (Review of the original computational aspects in general, or in applica- known account of Sobolev gradients in book form. hardcover edition). tions in particular. Most of the applications in this book have emerged since the first edition was published some twelve Features From the reviews years ago. What remains of the first edition has An affordable new softcover edition of a classic The authors have combined results from the been extensively revised. There are a number of textComprehensive introductory overview classical parts of geometry with computational plots of results from calculations and a sample of combinatoricsHomework excerices and methods. This results in a unique and fascinating MatLab code is included for a simple problem. examinations included, making the book useful in blend... The contents of the book are visualized by a coursesResults serve as a basis for applications wealth of carefully chosen illustrations, making the From the contents in computer science book a sheer pleasure to read B.Jüttler, MATH. Several Gradients.- Comparison of Two Gradi- REVIEWS 2002 ents.- Continuous Steepest Descent in Hilbert From the contents Space: Linear Case.- Continuous Steepest Descent Combinations and Permutations.- Generating Features in Hilbert Space: Nonlinear Case.- Orthogonal Functions.- Principle of Inclusion and Exclusion.- For the first time studies line geometry from Projections, Adjoints and Laplacians.- Introducing Stirling Numbers.- Pólya’s Theory of Count- the viewpoint of scientific computationShows Boundary Conditions.- Newton’s Method in the ing.- Outlook.- Midterm Examination.- Ramsey the interplay between theory and numerous Context of Sobolev Gradients.- Finite Differ- Theory.- Matchings (Stable Marriages).- Matchings applications ence Setting: the Inner Product Case.- Sobolev (Maximum Matchings).- Network Flow.- Hamilto- Gradients for Weak Solutions: Function Space nian and Eulerian Paths. Fields of interest Case.- Sobolev Gradient in Non-inner Product Geometry; Computational Mathematics and Spaces: Introduction. Fields of interest Numerical Analysis; Visualization; Computer Combinatorics; Algorithms; Algorithm Analysis Graphics; Industrial and Production Engineering Fields of interest and Problem Complexity; Computational Partial Differential Equations; Numerical Analysis Mathematics and Numerical Analysis; Numeric Target groups Computing Mathematicians, computer scientists and Target groups engineers working in geometrical modelling and Researchers and graduate students in mathematics, Target groups visualization physics, chemistry, engineering and computer Undergraduate students, researchers, and practi- science tioners in mathematics and computer science Discount group P Discount group Discount group P P
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2nd.ed. 2010. XIII, 283 p. (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Reprint of the 1st ed. 1983. 2010. Approx. 205 p. 1st ed. 2001. 2nd printing 2010. IX, 563 p. 264 illus., Volume 1670) Softcover 125 illus. (Modern Birkhäuser Classics) Softcover 17 in color. (Mathematics and Visualization) Softcover $59.95 approx. $49.95 approx. $69.95 ISBN 978-3-642-04040-5 ISBN 978-0-8176-4952-4 ISBN 978-3-642-04017-7 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Mathematics 33
V. V. Prasolov, Independent University of Moscow, R. Rannacher, University of Heidelberg, Germany; M. Ritore, C. Sinestrari, V. Miquel, J. Porti (Eds) Russia A. Sequeira, Instituto Superior Técnico/UTL, Lisboa, Portugal (Eds) Mean Curvature Flow and Polynomials Advances in Mathematical Isoperimetric Inequalities Translated by: D. Leites Fluid Mechanics Dedicated to Giovanni Paolo Galdi on the Geometric flows have many applications in physics Occasion of his 60th Birthday and geometry. The mean curvature flow occurs in From the reviews the description of the interface evolution in certain ... Despite the appearance [..] in a series titled physical models. This is related to the property that Algorithms and Computation of Mathematics, This book is a unique collection of high-level such a flow is the gradient flow of the area func- computation occupies only a small part of the papers devoted to fundamental topics in math- tional and therefore appears naturally in problems monograph. It is best described as a useful refer- ematical fluid mechanics and their applications, where a surface energy is minimized. The mean ence for one’s personal collection and a text for a mostly in connection with the scientific work curvature flow also has many geometric applica- full-year course given to graduate or even senior of Giovanni Paolo Galdi. The contributions are tions, in analogy with the Ricci flow of metrics on undergraduate students. [..] the book under review mainly centered on the study of the basic proper- abstract riemannian manifolds. One can use this is worth purchasing for the library and possibly even ties of the Navier-Stokes equations, including flow as a tool to obtain classification results for for one’s own collection. The author’s interest in the existence, uniqueness, regularity, and stability of surfaces satisfying certain curvature conditions, as history and development of this area is evident, and solutions. Related models describing non-Newto- well as to construct minimal surfaces. Geometric we have pleasant glimpses of progress over the last nian flows, turbulence, and fluid-structure interac- flows, obtained from solutions of geometric para- three centuries [...] the reader gains a synopsis of tions are also addressed. The results are analytical, bolic equations, can be considered as an alternative and guide to the literature ... numerical and experimental in nature, making the tool to prove isoperimetric inequalities. On the E.Barbeau, SIAM Review 47:3, 2005 book particularly appealing to a vast readership other hand, isoperimetric inequalities can help in This is an exposition of polynomial theory and encompassing mathematicians, engineers and treating several aspects of convergence of these results, both classical and modern. [...] the volume physicists. The diversity of the topics, in addition flows. is packed with results and proofs that are well organ- to the different approaches, will provide readers a ised thematically [...] What is unusual is to have a global and up-to-date overview of both the latest Features text that embraces and intermingles both analytic findings on the subject and of the salient open Contains an expanded version of the lectures and algebraic aspects of the theory… S.D.Cohen, questions. delivered by the authors at the CRM Barcelona Math.Reviews 2005f in March 2008The first text serves as an Fields of interest introduction to the work of Huisken--Sinestrari Features Applications of Mathematics; Mechanics, Fluids, about the formation of singularities and surgery of Covers its topic in greater depth than the Thermodynamics; Computational Mathematics the mean curvatureThe second text presents typical standard books on polynomial algebra and Numerical Analysis; Numerical Analysis; recent developments on the field of isoperimetric Biomedical Engineering inequalities, mostly based on the use of geometric From the contents flows, as well as applications of isoperimetric Roots of Polynomials.- Irreducible Polynomials.- Target groups inequalities to hyperbolic geometry Polynomials of a Particular Form.- Certain Computational scienctists, physicists, numerical Properties of Polynomials.- Galois Theory.- Ideals analysts Fields of interest in Polynomial Rings. Differential Geometry; Global Analysis and Discount group Analysis on Manifolds Fields of interest P Algebra Target groups Graduate students and lecturers in differential Target groups geometry and analysis on manifolds Graduate students, lecturers and researchers in mathematics Discount group P Discount group P
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Original Russian edition published by Moscow Center for Mathematics Continuous Math. Education, 2001 Mathematics Due January 2010 1st ed. 2004, 2nd printing 2010. XIV, 302 p. 8 illus. (Algo- Due January 2010 rithms and Computation in Mathematics, 2010. Approx. 140 p. (Advanced Courses in Mathematics Volume 11) Softcover 2010. XII, 570 p. Hardcover - CRM Barcelona) Softcover approx. $59.95 $169.00 approx. $39.95 ISBN 978-3-642-03979-9 ISBN 978-3-642-04067-2 ISBN 978-3-0346-0212-9 34 Mathematics Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
K. Williams, Torino, Italy (Ed) R. Wilson, Queen Mary University of London, UK G. G. Yin, C. Zhu Nexus Network Journal 11,3 The Finite Simple Groups Hybrid Switching Diffusions Architecture and Mathematics An Introduction Properties and Applications
Baroque architect and mathematician Guarino The finite simple groups are the building blocks This book focuses on switching diffusion processes Guarini is the subject of this issue of the Nexus from which all the finite groups are made and involving both continuous dynamics and discrete Network Journal. A group of international scholars as such are objects of fundamental importance events. were invited to contribute papers that shed light throughout mathematics. They can be divided The first part, including three chapters, presents on the unanswered questions in several areas: into the alternating, sporadic and Lie type groups, basic properties such as Feller and strong Feller, Baroque architecture in general and Guarini’s the latter further subdivided into classical and recurrence, and ergodicity. With a brief review of architecture in particular; philosophy; history of exceptional, or into untwisted and twisted types. existence and uniqueness of solutions of switching structural mechanics; mathematics and history of This book is the first accessible introduction to all diffusions, basic properties such as recurrence, mathematics, cosmology. As always, the NNJ takes these families of finite simple groups at a level suit- Feller properties etc. are dealt with. an interdisciplinary approach to the broad range of able for final year undergraduate and beginning The second part of the book is devoted to numer- subjects that Guarini concerned himself with, thus graduate students. ical solutions of switching diffusions. the final results will add significantly to our under- The first five chapters provide a thorough Containing three chapters, the third part focuses standing of how Guarini’s actual practical and grounding in the theory of the alternating and on stability. Chapter seven and chapter eight technical processes were informed by knowledge classical groups, followed by an overview of the proceed with the stability analysis. The approach is of his multifaceted scientific and philosophical exceptional groups (treated as automorphism based on Liapunov function methods. interests. groups of multilinear forms) and the sporadic groups. These chapters form the basis of a final Features Features year undergraduate course bringing their under- Chapter summariesDetailed Illustrations This issue features a group of focussed research graduate studies to a fitting climax with seminal Many worked out examplesNumerical papers regarding architect and mathematician results from the late 20th century. SolutionsApplications to Finance Guarino GuariniEach research paper includes a bibliography for further readingContribu- Features Contents tors are from Italy, Belgium, United States, United Only book aiming to provide an introduction Preface.- Introduction and Motivation.- Switching Kingdom, Greece to all the finite simple groupsTreatment of Diffusion.- Recurrence.-Ergodicity.- Numerical exceptional groups via octonions rather than lie Approximation.-Numerical Approximation From the contents algebras makes the groups more accessible to Invariant Measures.- Stability.- Stability of A Structural Description of the Chapel of the Switching ODE.- Invariance Principles.- Posi- Holy Shroud in Torino.- Guarini et la structure de Contents tive Recurrence: Multi-ergodic-class of Switching l’Univers.- Unfolding San Lorenzo.- An Analysis of Introduction.- The alternating groups.- The Processes.- Stochastic Volatility Using Regime- Selected Sections of Guarini’s Euclides adauctus.- classical groups.- The exceptional groups.- The switching Diffusions.- Two-time-scale Switching Guarini and Universal Mathematics: The Sources sporadic groups. Jump-diffusions.- Appendix.-References. and Role of his Euclides adauctus. Fields of interest Fields of interest Fields of interest Group Theory and Generalizations; Topological Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Mathematics, general; Architectural History and Groups, Lie Groups Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Operations Theory Research/Decision Theory Target groups Target groups Beginning postgraduates in group theory, Target groups Teachers and students of architecture and math- researchers, 4th year undergraduates Researchers in mathematics, operations research, ematics, researchers in history of architecture and control theory and control engineering, opti- history of mathematics Discount group mization, financial mathematics and financial P engineering Discount group P Discount group P
Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics
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2010. Approx. 200 p. (Nexus Network Journal, 2010. Approx. 235 p. (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 2010. X, 390 p. (Stochastic Modelling and Applied Volume 11,3) Softcover Volume 251) Hardcover Probability, Volume 63) Hardcover $109.00 approx. $59.95 $119.00 ISBN 978-3-7643-8977-2 ISBN 978-1-84800-987-5 ISBN 978-1-4419-1104-9 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Statistics 35
C. Gaetan, Universitá Ca’ Foscari di Venezia Dipto., H. Lenz, P. Wilrich, FU Berlin, Inst. für Statistik und H. Toutenburg, University of Munich, Germany; Venezia, Italy; X. Guyon, Université Paris I Samos, Ökonometrie, Berlin, Germany; W. Schmid, Europa- Shalabh, Indian Institute of Tech., Kanpur, India Paris, France Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany (Eds) Statistical Analysis of Spatial Statistics and Frontiers in Statistical Quality Designed Experiments, Third Modeling Control 9 Edition
Spatial statistics are useful in subjects as diverse as The twenty-three papers in this volume are This textbook presents the design and analysis climatology, ecology, economics, environmental carefully selected, reviewed and revised for this of experiments that comprise the aspects of clas- and earth sciences, epidemiology, image analysis volume, and are divided into two parts: Part 1: sical theory for continuous response, modern and more. This book covers the best-known spatial “On-line Control” with subchapters 1.1 “Control procedures for categorical response, and especially models for three types of spatial data: geostatistical Charts” and 1.2 “Surveillance Sampling and for correlated categorical response. For any design data (stationarity, intrinsic models, variograms, Sampling Plans” and Part 2:”Off-line Control”. (independent and matched-pair response) the spatial regression and space-time models), areal parametric and nonparametric tests depending on data (Gibbs-Markov fields and spatial auto- Contents the data level are given. Complex designs, such as, regression) and point pattern data (Poisson, Cox, Part I - On-line Control: Control Charts.- Surveil- for example, cross-over and repeated measures, are Gibbs and Markov point processes). The level is lance Sampling and Sampling Plans.- Part II - Off- included at an introductory and advanced manner. relatively advanced, and the presentation concise line Control: 10 contribtuion chapters. The problem of missing data is also handled with but complete. care and procedures in approaching this problem The most important statistical methods and their Fields of interest are proposed. Thus, this is an important resource/ asymptotic properties are described, including Statistical Theory and Methods; Statistics for Busi- reference book for undergraduates and university estimation in geostatistics, autocorrelation and ness/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance; teachers, for statistical researchers in the pharma- second-order statistics, maximum likelihood Industrial and Production Engineering ceutical industry, or other industries, as well as for methods, approximate inference using the pseudo- clinical research in medicine and dentistry. likelihood or Monte-Carlo, statistics for point Target groups processes and Bayesian hierarchical models. A Scientists Features chapter is devoted to MCMC simulation (Gibbs The application of models are demonstrated sampler, Metropolis-Hastings algorithms and exact Discount group by figures and data analysisWell readable by simulation). P leaving out proofs within the textAdvanced modelling of repeated measures and cross-over Features design Clear and precise presentation of the most important spatial models, including their probabi- Contents listic properties and related statistical methods Introduction.- Comparison of two samples.- The Implements these models and studies their linear regression model.- Single-factor experi- statistics on a wide variety of real spatial data ments with fixed and random effects.- More coming from real-world applications restrictive designs.- Incomplete block designs.- Multifactor experiments.- Models for categorical Contents response variables.- Repeated measures model.- Second order spatial models and geostatistics.- Cross-over design. - Statistical analysis of incom- Gibbs-Markov random fields on networks.- Spatial plete data. point processes.- Simulation of spatial models.- Statistics for spatial models. Fields of interest Statistical Theory and Methods; Bioinformatics; Fields of interest Biostatistics; Probability Theory and Stochastic Statistical Theory and Methods; Probability Theory Processes; Econometrics; Psychometrics and Stochastic Processes; Math. Applications in Geosciences Target groups Researchers, graduate students, practitioners Target groups Senior undergraduate students with a solid math Discount group background and Ph.D. students in statistics P
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Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Due October 2009 Due December 2009 Due November 2009 3rd ed. 2009. XVI, 612 p. (Springer Texts in Statistics) 2010. XIV, 302 p. (Springer Series in Statistics) Hardcover 2010. Approx. 350 p. Softcover Hardcover $89.95 approx. $99.00 $99.95 ISBN 978-0-387-92256-0 ISBN 978-3-7908-2379-0 ISBN 978-1-4419-1147-6 36 Apress Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
G. Allen, B. Bryla, D. Kuhn M. Collins M. Coles, J. Luetkehoelter Oracle SQL Recipes Beginning WF Expert SQL Server 2008 A Problem-Solution Approach Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0 Encryption
Oracle SQL Recipes is a strong play into the Beginning WF demonstrates, in an eminently Expert SQL Server 2008 Encryption is a deep market for SQL books, and in particular for Oracle readable and accessible style, how Microsoft’s book on a single feature in SQL Server 2008 that SQL books. Edited by the same person as the SQL Workflow Foundation (WF) technology can be addresses two of today’s most prominent business Cookbook (14,992 units lifetime) and Mastering used in a wide variety of applications. This book problems: of keeping data secure and of preventing Oracle SQL (12,186 units across both editions), has lots of sample projects that demonstrate the its theft. SQL Server users in many industries are Oracle SQL Recipes combines the problem/solu- most useful design patterns, and is organized floundering after finding themselves suddenly tion approach of the Cookbook with the Oracle intuitively by feature so specific questions are confronted with the need to encrypt their data focus of the Mastering book. The result is a solid, easily answered. in response to government regulation, theft- solution-oriented book with no direct competition Rather than simply describing the technology, prevention demands from credit-card issuers, and that is sure to get noticed by a large audience of this book is project focused. Each chapter shows privacy-related demands from the health care Oracle developers and database administrators. the reader how to build an application and then industry. Those floundering users need a resource. explains each of the new concepts that were intro- They will buy Expert SQL Server 2008 Encryption, Features duced. So with each successive chapter, the reader because it is a high-quality book, and because it is Merges the approach of two, proven successful is creating themselves and experiencing the tech- the only book to cover the entire gamut of imple- books on SQL (the SQL Cookbook and Mastering nology. Each concept or feature is also indexed so menting encryption in SQL Server. Oracle SQL)Cowritten by one of Apress’s the reader can also use this as a hand-on reference. strongest, recipe-book authorsTakes a solu- Either way, the reader will easily learn to become Features tion-oriented approach that is sure to appeal to proficient in Workflow Foundation. Market for the book driven by government readers with problems to solve and little time to sit and industry regulation, by fear of data-theft and back and read Features privacy regulationsStands alone as the only Workflow is an area, with SharePoint and book to give useful coverage of encryption for SQL From the contents .NET, that has proven history of success in the Server administrators and developersWritten Part I: Foundations of Data Manipulation.- marketOur book is loaded with lots of simple by well-known author Michael Coles Chapter 1: The Basics.- Chapter 2: Summarizing yet demonstrative sample projectsThe most and Aggregating.- Chapter 3: Querying from hands-on book on WF at this level with practical From the contents Multiple Tables.- Chapter 4: Creating and Deriving and readable style Chapter 1: Introduction to Encryption.- Chapter Data.- Chapter 5: Common Query Patterns.- 2: Encryption Basics.- Chapter 3: Asymmetric Part II: Data Types and their Problems.- Chapter 6: Field of interest Encryption.- Chapter 4: Symmetric Encryption.- Datetime Values.- Chapter 7: Strings.- Chapter 8: Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters Chapter 5: Rotating Keys.- Chapter 6: One-Way Numbers.- Part III: Your Development Envi- Hashing.- Chapter 7: SQLCLR Integration.- ronment.- Chapter 9: Managing Transactions.- Target groups Chapter 8: Indexing Encrypted Content. Chapter 10: Data Dictionary for Developers.- Beginner to intermediate .NET developers or Part IV: Special Topics. anyone using or considering Microsoft’s Workflow Field of interest Foundation (WF) and developers interested in Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Field of interest seeing WF scenarios and solutions in action Theory Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory Discount group Target groups C Intermediate to advanced SQL Server DBAs, Target groups T-SQL developers,.NET Developers, developers Intermediate to advanced developers and database moving to SQL Server administrators Discount group Discount group C C
Computer Science Computer Science Computer Science
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B. Czernicki C. Dannen K. D. Hayes Next-Generation Business iPhone Design Award Winning Getting StartED with Dojo Intelligence Software with Projects JavaScript™ Toolkit Silverlight 3
iPhone Design Award Winning Projects is the Dojo is one of the top, leading JavaScript Toolkits Business Intelligence (BI) software aims to bring book all iPhone and iPod touch developers will and frameworks out there alongside jQuery. At together different pieces of a business into views want to own, digest fully, and savor. The keys to over 80,000 downloads a month and with corpo- that can make comprehending mountains of data application design success are revealed through rate support and backing from IBM, Zend, Oracle/ easier. Business intelligence is everywhere. Appli- interviews with the winners of this year’s Apple BEA, Sun, Google and more, Dojo is becoming the cations that include reports, analytics, statistics, Design Awards, including design secrets, coding industry standard pragmatic JavaScript solution. historical and predictive modeling are all examples tips, and implementation tricks. Getting StartED with Dojo can turn a Web of business intelligence applications. Currently, we designer into a Web developer by getting them are in the second generation of BI software called Features started with JavaScript and right into Dojo and BI 2.0. This generation is focused on writing BI Great apps, great examples, and great coding its toolset for building Web interfaces, effects, software that is predictive, adaptive, simple and tips from the most successful iPod and iPhone Widgets and more. interactive. touch app developersApple’s implicit stamp of As computers and software have evolved, more approval on every design award winnerUnique Features data can be presented to an end-user with increas- insights not collected anywhere else First or one of the first tutorial books on Dojo ingly visually rich techniques. Rich Internet JavaScript Toolkit/frameworkDojo is still one Applications (RIA) technologies such as Microsoft Field of interest of today’s hottest growing technologies and frame- Silverlight can be used to transform traditional Programming Techniques works, with over 80,000 to 120,000+ downloads UIs filled with boring data to fully interactive per monthOfficially endorsed by Dojo analytical applications to deliver insight from large Target groups data sets quickly. Beginning to advanced developer/programmer Contents JavaScript Fundamentals.- How does JavaScript Features Discount group fit in with HTML?- How do you write variables Gartner has concluded that BI will continue to C and strings?- How do you perform arithmetic?- grow and doesn’t see it affected by the economic How do you write a function and pass variables?- downturn as much as other technology areas What’s an array and why is it so important?- What This book is the only book on the market methods can you use to create arrays?- How do looking at new ways of delivering BI in the areas in you loop through an arrays elements?- Digging a which BI itself will be growing little deeper.- Manipulating the DOM.- How do you get a reference to a node(s) on the DOM?- Field of interest How do you change the style of a DOM element?- Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters How do you change the HTML content of an element?- Events.- What is a JavaScript event?- Target groups How do you attach an event listener? Intermediate to Advanced BI specialists and Silver- light or rich-Internet application developers Field of interest Programming Techniques Discount group P Target groups Beginner Web developers/JavaScript-Ajax
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2010. Approx. 350 p. Softcover 2010. Approx. 350 p. Softcover 2010. Approx. 350 p. Softcover approx. $64.99 approx. $39.99 approx. $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4302-2487-7 ISBN 978-1-4302-7235-9 ISBN 978-1-4302-2521-8 38 Apress Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
P. Hood-Daniel, J. F. Kelly K. Kellenberger J. Lengstorf Build Your Own CNC Machine Beginning T-SQL 2008 PHP 6 for Absolute Beginners
Build Your Own CNC Machine is a ground- Beginning T-SQL 2008 by Kathi Kellenberger PHP 6 for Absolute Beginners starts at the very breaking book targeted at the growing number introduces readers to the single, most fundamental beginning stages of web programming, showing of hobbyists wanting to fabricate wood and tool that they’ll need in working with SQL Server even the most inexperienced web developer, metal parts of their own design in their home 2008: T-SQL. Also known as Transact-SQL, T-SQL through examples, how to build a basic content workshops. Lead author Patrick Hood-Daniel is is the language through which one creates and management system. The book dives directly creator of buildyourcnc.com and is well-known manages a database. It is the language for getting into writing web applications with accompanying for his affordable, easy-to-build designs for home data into and out of the database. Proficiency in explanation rather than explaining elements of the CNC machines. His videos on CNC machines are T-SQL is especially essential for reporting, such as language and then showing examples. While PHP watched by tens of thousands of hobbyists. Each in conjunction with Reporting Services. Begin- 6 does not have a release date set yet, a develop- one of those viewers, and each of his website visi- ning T-SQL 2008 will have broad appeal across ment version is already available, and several other tors represents a potential sale of this book. the entire population of SQL Server users, and the books are already addressing PHP 6. The interest in hobbyist-level CNC machines book stands at the beginning of Apress’s mainline is real and growing. In addition to the author’s roadmap for SQL Server. Features own site, a Google search on “cnc for the home” Teaches PHP from scratch, assuming no will turn up many other sites dedicated to this Features previous programming experienceTeaches new market, including solsylva.com, homecnc. Written by high-profile, national user group via a practical blogging site example, something info, cnczone.com, hobbycnc.com, ktmarketing. member and winner of the professional associa- that even beginning programmers will be familiar com/CNC.html, and more. Articles about CNC tion for SQL Server’s 2008 PASSion award for her with, explaining terminology and concepts along for them home can be found on Make Magazine’s efforts towards peer-based learning and sharing the wayMany PHP 6 books jumped the gun on website (makezine.com), and at Engadget.com. knowledge in the communityBlissfully short the release of PHP 6. This book will publish much and to the point – unintimidating to beginners, closer to the actual release date, catching the PHP Features and only half the pages of the competing book 6 wave A strong play into the fast-growing market Opens the door to Apress’s roadmap to of creative hobbyists who want to fabricate parts mastering in SQL Server 2008 Contents of their own design using modern, computer Getting Started.- PHP Basics.- Passing information numerical controlled machining technology From the contents around.- Working with the database.- Creating Co-authored by a prominent leader in the Chapter 1: Getting Started (30 pages).- Chapter 2: an entry manager.- Supporting multiple pages.- home-CNC movement who knows how to cater to Writing Simple Queries (25 pages).- Sorting Data.- Updating entries.- Working with images.- Syndi- the average person with minimal skill and tools Chapter 3: Using Expressions (30 pages).- Chapter cating the blog.- Creating a comment system.- 4: Joining Tables (25 pages).- Chapter 5: Grouping Creating a login system.- Keeping things secure. Field of interest and Summarizing Data (25 pages).- Chapter 6: Programming Techniques Updating Data (25 pages).- Chapter 7 Working Field of interest with Transactions (10 pages).- Chapter 8 CLR Data Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters Target groups Types (15 pages).- Chapter 9: T-SQL Programming Beginner to intermediate hobbyists with a creative Logic (20 pages).- Chapter 10: Moving Logic to the Target groups bent who want the ability to fabricate metal and Database (35 pages). Beginning PHP programmers with little or no wood parts on demand, school shop classes, scout experience and Intermediate PHP coders looking packs, and other groups with a desire to work Field of interest to polish and extend their skill set together on an exciting project as a way to foster Data Structures, Cryptology and Information skills-development and teamwork Theory Discount group C Discount group Target groups C Beginner developers and database administrators
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Computer Science Computer Science Computer Science
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2010. Approx. 350 p. Softcover 2010. Approx. 300 p. Softcover 2010. Approx. 400 p. Softcover approx. $39.99 approx. $34.99 approx. $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4302-2489-1 ISBN 978-1-4302-2461-7 ISBN 978-1-4302-2473-0 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Apress 39
A. Mackey G. Mak, J. Long G. Mak, K. Sipe Introducing .NET 4.0 Spring Enterprise Recipes Spring Recipes With Visual Studio 2010 A Problem-Solution Approach A Problem-Solution Approach
The release of .NET 4.0 this year brings in a wide The Spring Framework is the de-facto leading The Spring Framework is the de-facto leading open range of changes to the .NET Framework across open source agile enterprise Java meta-framework source agile enterprise Java meta-framework and a broad front ranging from C# to Silverlight, and serves as an alternative to using J2EE/Java EE. serves as an alternative to using Java EE. With the from WPF to ‘Oslo’. Many familiar technologies With the release of Spring Framework 3.x, Spring release of Spring Framework 3, Spring continues are being over-hauled, best practices are being continues its phenomenal growth in adoption its phenomenal growth in adoption according to changed and developer methodologies altered. according to Evans Data below. For organizations Evans Data below. For organizations of all sizes, With so many new ideas appearing developers are of all sizes, 47% responded that they use Spring 47% responded that they use Spring today. 73% of finding it hard to keep track of the opportunities today. 73% of all organizations responded that they all organizations responded that they use Spring that are opening up. use Spring or plan to use Spring within two years. or plan to use Spring within two years. 83% of Introducing .NET 4.0 crystallizes their options 83% of organizations with 500 or more developers organizations with 500 or more developers are and provides them with a roadmap to the new are using Spring today. This is further confirmed using Spring today. This is further confirmed by releases. It clearly maps the whole range of by preliminary results from a 2008 Java Trends preliminary results from a 2008 Java Trends Survey changes, showing what’s new, what’s changed and Survey compiled by The ServerSide, which shows a compiled by The ServerSide, which shows a 78% what has stayed the same. Crucially, it provides 78% adoption of Spring. adoption of Spring. clear-cut examples of best practice and shows how Spring Enterprise Recipes lets readers get down Spring Web Recipes focuses on basic to even the technology can be put to work. This massively and dirty with the suite of tools, extensions, plug- complex Web-tier and services application devel- reduces the amount of time readers need to spend ins, modules and more that they will need for opment. This book offers practical code recipes in understanding how the new releases are going server-side, enterprise and even mission critical from the latest available Web application and Web to affect them and gives them a head-start towards Java-based transaction-based systems that can be services tools and techniques that Spring has to seizing the opportunities that are opening up. highly scalable and complex. offer, including Spring MVC, Web Flow, Groovy/ Grails, REST, Web Services, Cloud computing, Features Features dynamic Web scripting, and more. Will be one of the first .NET 4.0 books to One of the first (if not the first) books on the be published and fulfils an audience desire for latest Spring 3.x, and the first Spring code Recipes Features concise information that is already becoming well book focused on Spring Enterprise development One of the first (if not the first) books on the developedProvides a clear-cut roadmap to Continues on the success of Spring Recipes by latest Spring 3.x, and the first Spring code Recipes the new technologies, their implications, and the Gary MakSpring from the Source as it is tech book focused on Spring Web-tier development opportunities they offerGives highly accessible reviewed by SpringSource Continues on the success of Spring Recipes by tutorials to the key innovations so readers can Gary MakSpringSource endorsed as book will assimilate the new ideas quickly and begin putting Field of interest be tech reviewed by SpringSource engineers/devel- them to work immediately Programming Techniques opers
Field of interest Target groups Field of interest Programming Techniques Intermediate to advanced Java developers Programming Techniques
Target groups Discount group Target groups Intermediate to advanced .NET 3.5 developers C Intermediate to advanced Java developers upgrading to .NET 4.0 and non-.NET developers moving to the area Discount group C Discount group C
Computer Science Computer Science Computer Science
Due October 2009 Due October 2009 Due October 2009
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2010. Approx. 400 p. Softcover 2010. Approx. 400 p. Softcover 2nd ed. 2010. Approx. 600 p. Softcover approx. $39.99 approx. $44.99 approx. $44.99 ISBN 978-1-4302-2455-6 ISBN 978-1-4302-2497-6 ISBN 978-1-4302-2499-0 40 Apress Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
D. Mark, J. LaMarche S. Marsh K. Marshall, T. Frieling Beginning iPhone 3 Beginning GeoDjango Beginning SimpleDB Development Rich GIS Web Applications with Python Exploring the iPhone SDK This is the first book about SimpleDB, the centre This is the first book on GeoDjango, the extension piece of Amazon Web Services and Amazon The best-selling, most highly recommended, and to the Django web framework for making sites Elastic Cloud services. With MySQL under threat most complete guide to Apple’s iPhone SDK just with geographical content. With the explosion of due to Sun’s sellout to Oracle, Cloud storage got even better. It’s now updated with new code, use of the web on phones, sites with localized and is becoming more important than ever. With screenshots, and guidance to and for the new geographical content have become hugely impor- returning Apress author Kevin Marshall and features in iPhone OS 3.0. This continues to be the tant. This book shows developers how to make consultant Tyler Frieling writing this first book on one book every iPhone developer needs and wants. such sites using the only geographically aware SimpleDB, this first-to-market introduction will modern web development framework. tell us much about the cloud datastore competing Features with Google’s BigData. Covers all aspects of iPhone development Features Most complete and up-to-date coverage of The only book on GeoDjango, the exten- Features iPhone SDK 3.0The first edition is already sion to the Django web framework for sites with First book about SimpleDBShort, sharp considered a classic programming guide and refer- geographical dataInternet on mobile phones and to the point intro to SimpleDB for program- ence with rave reviews in nearly every developer has made geographically aware sites a huge growth mers in all major programming languages venue and on leading iPhone blogs areaDjango is the only modern web frame- Comparisons to all new data storage services: work with significant support for GIS, and this is CouchDB, Google’s BigData and Amazon’s S3 Contents the only book which deals with it 1. Welcome to the Jungle.- 2. Appeasing the Tiki Contents Gods.- 3. Handling Basic Interaction.- 4. More Contents 1. Introduction. What is SimpleDB?.- 2. SimpleDB User Interface Fun.- 5. Autorotation and Auto- Introduction.- A GIS Primer.- GeoDjango – an concepts and Design Decisions.- 3. Getting started sizing.- 6. Multiview Applications.- 7. Tab Bars and overview.- Creating your first project - “Contacts with SimpleDB.- 4. Your First Domain (basics Pickers.- 8. Introduction to Table Views.- 9. Navi- Application”.- GeoDjango and Google Map API.- of using SimpleDB via REST and SOAP).- 5. gation Controllers and Table Views.- 10. Applica- GeoDjango models and the database API.- IP Currently available SimpleDB libraries.- 6. tion Settings and User Defaults.- 11. Introduction based GeoLocation - GeoIP.- Using Polygonal Working with Domains.- 7. Working with Items.- to Core Data.- 12. Basic Data Persistence—Beyond Geometries.- Creating GeoRSS feeds.- Appendix Working with Attributes.- Working with Values10. SQLite.- 13. Drawing with Quartz and OpenGL.- – GeoDjango installation. Integrating your Amazon SimpleDB power with 14. Taps, Touches, and Gestures.- 15. Where Am Amazon S3 data objects11. Porting a simple I? Finding Your Way with Core Location.- 16. Field of interest relational database to SimpleDB12. Questions and Whee!.- 17. iPhone Camera and Photo Library.- Programming Techniques Answers13. Where to go for more information. 18. Application Localization.- 19. Where to Next? Target groups Field of interest Field of interest Intermediate web developers Software Engineering/Programming and Oper- Data Structures, Cryptology and Information ating Systems Theory Discount group P Target groups Target groups Beginning to intermediate programmers, cloud Beginner to intermediate iPhone developers application architects and DBAs coming from all levels of experience with a need to start from scratch and learn it all, mobile game Discount group developers, iPod Touch developers P
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Computer Science Computer Science Computer Science
Due October 2009 Due November 2009 Due November 2009
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2009. Approx. 585 p. Softcover 2010. Approx. 300 p. Softcover 2010. Approx. 300 p. Softcover $39.99 approx. $49.99 approx. $44.99 ISBN 978-1-4302-2459-4 ISBN 978-1-4302-2531-7 ISBN 978-1-4302-2533-1 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Apress 41
J. McGaw M. Neuberg J. Oxer, H. Blemings Beginning Django Learn Mac Automation with Practical Arduino E-Commerce Ruby Scripting Cool Projects for Open Source Hardware
Beginning Django E-Commerce is the first book Learn Mac Automation with Ruby Scripting repre- The Arduino is growing in popularity. As a fast, to guide web developers through producing an sents the cutting edge of Mac OS X automation low-cost, open source platform with an active e-commerce site using Django, the most popular and scripting and what is soon likely to become a development community, it is quickly surpassing Python web development framework. It covers standard. Ruby continues to gain popularity, espe- the Basic Stamp as the platform of choice for everything you need to know to make your own e- cially among the most innovative Mac developers physical computing enthusiasts. This book includes commerce site, including how to make a shopping and scripters. Apple supports Ruby directly and a broad range of intermediate to advanced projects cart, a checkout, and a payment processor, how there’s an active and rapidly growing community specifically for the Arduino using the easy-to- to make the most of Ajax, as well as search engine behind the Apple Event extension library for Ruby. learn Arduino language (based on the Processing optimization best practices. It’s a market ready to explode with the next release programming language). Other works currently of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard. on the market target the beginner to intermediate Features levels, and may cover other boards rather than the The only book describing everything you Features Arduino. need to build an e-Commerce site using Django The only book on the quickly emerging Ruby/ Django is the most popular python web Mac OS X automation marketEqually suited Features development framework, and has been endorsed for AppleScript users, Ruby users, and beginners The Arduino is outselling other microcon- by Python creator Guido van RossumIncludes Clear, rigorous, and concise; “just enough trollers, including the basic stamp. electronics topics such as how to make a shopping cart, a Ruby” to become productive vendors are frequently sold out due to demand checkout, and a payment processor The Arduino programming language and Contents development environment are open source and Contents 1. Getting Started.- 2. Just Enough Ruby.- easy to learnThe book provides tested recipes Introduction.- Chapter 1 Best Laid Plans.- Chapter 3. Apple Events.- 4. The Application Object.- for both new and experienced Arduino and gadget 2 Creating a Django Site.- Chapter 3 Models For 5. Properties and Elements.- 6. Commands.- enthusiasts Sale.- Chapter 4 The Shopping Cart.- Chapter 7. Datatypes.- 8. Dictionaries.- 9. Scripting 5 Site Checkout & Order Creation.- Chapter 6 Additions.- 10. Examples. Contents Creating User Accounts.- Chapter 7 Product Practical Arduino.- Skills and Tools.- Simple Images.- Chapter 8 Implementing Product Search.- Fields of interest Projects.- Intermediate Projects.- Challenging Chapter 9 Intelligent Cross-Selling.- Chapter Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Projects.- Resources.- Language Reference (H). 10 AJAX.- Chapter 11 Getting In with Google.- Theory Chapter 12 Web Security Overview.- Chapter 13 Field of interest Scaling the Site.- Chapter 14 Testing Our Code.- Target groups Computer Hardware Chapter 15 Deployment.- Chapter 16 Hello Google Beginner to Intermediate Mac automation market, App Engine. including existing Ruby and AppleScript users Target groups Intermediate to advanced Arduino users who wish Field of interest Discount group to go beyond the simple “flashing LED” examples Programming Techniques C and learn more about how Arduino works and how it can be applied to more complex proj- Target groups ects, robotics enthusiasts and embedded device Beginner to intermediate web developers and programmers who are interested in a new platform python programmers Discount group Discount group C P
Computer Science Computer Science Computer Science
Due November 2009 Due October 2009 Due October 2009
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2010. Approx. 300 p. Softcover 2010. Approx. 350 p. Softcover 2010. Approx. 500 p. Softcover approx. $44.99 approx. $39.99 approx. $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4302-2535-5 ISBN 978-1-4302-2493-8 ISBN 978-1-4302-2477-8 42 Apress Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
K. Offermann, N. Nicolaisen T. Redkar D. Salomon, California State University, Northridge, CA, USA; G. Motta, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, USA Getting StartED with Pro Azure Services Platform Netbooks Handbook of Data Compression The Azure Services Platform, widely known simply Getting StartED with Netbooks broadly targets as ‘Azure’, is Microsoft’s eagerly anticipated cloud With contributions by: D. Bryant consumers at a pivotal moment in the explosive operating system. It has been in development for growth of the MID/Netbook/UMPC market. We the last two years and its release date has now intend to create value for this group by providing been confirmed for November 2009. Usage data Data compression is one of the most important an indispensable, “Consumer Reports Meets for other cloud operating systems, produced by fields and tools in modern computing. From Whole Earth Catalog” sort of information aggrega- Google and Amazon, shows that demand for this archiving data, to CD-ROMs, and from coding tion. type of service can be very high. theory to image analysis, many facets of modern For this project, timing and tone matters. Here’s Pro Azure provides a complete A-Z guide for computing rely upon data compression. This book why: Even given a weak global economy and a transferring developer’s existing .NET program- provides a comprehensive reference for the many lengthening economic recession, analyst forecasts ming skills across to the Azure cloud environment. different types and methods of compression. call for the MID/Netbook/SCC device market It combines architectural overviews of the plat- Included are a detailed and helpful taxonomy, reach $29 billion and 200 million shipped units form’s key components with nuts-and-bolts code analysis of most common methods, and discus- by 2010. examples and fully worked application templates sions on the use and comparative benefits of that guide developers through the design, develop- methods and description of “how to” use them. Features ment and deployment sequence to create fully Detailed descriptions and explanations of the most One of the first books on Netbooks, if not the working Azure services. well-known and frequently used compression firstThe authors are known from their days After reading this book developers will have all the methods are covered in a self-contained fashion, with Ziff Davis and their various PC and Mac information they need to build high quality Azure with an accessible style and technical level for computing contacts among vendorsNetbooks services of their own. specialists and non-specialists. and low cost computing market is getting very very hot, with potential for continued growth in the Features Features next few years at least Covers all the architectural, code and Fully comprehensive, this book can serve as an templating ideas that developers need to know to encyclopedia of the topicWebsite maintained From the contents create high-quality Azure servicesPresents a and updated by author, providing errata and Part 1: Getting Started With the Right Netbook.- fully working Azure service and walks through its auxiliary material Intro: Meet the Fastest Growing Technology Niche design, development and deployment to provide a In the Global Market.- Chapter 1: Getting Best best-practice roadmap for service construction Contents Fit and Best Value.- Chapter 2: Hands-On Power Basic Techniques.- Basic VL Codes.- Advanced VL Shopping: Look, Feel, Performance and Price for From the contents Codes.- Robust VL Codes.- Statistical Methods.- Today’s Best of Breed Netbooks.- Chapter 3: Quick Introducing Azure.- Understanding the Cloud Dictionary Methods.- Image Compression.- Start: Pictorial Guide to Basics of Netbook Produc- Platform.- Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Wavelet Methods.- Video Compression.- Audio tivity Apps.- Part 2: Netbook Communities: Saving Services.- Azure Services.- The Windows Azure Compression.- Other Methods. Money, Having Fun, Joining the Mobile/Global OS.- .NET Services.- SQL Server Services. Culture. Fields of interest Field of interest Data Storage Representation; Signal Processing; Field of interest Programming Techniques Coding and Information Theory; Data Encryption; Programming Techniques Image Processing and Computer Vision Target groups Target groups Intermediate to Advanced .NET developers and Target groups Beginner consumer users and consumer shoppers Non .NET developers investigating the Microsoft Computing professionals, students in computer services platform science and electrical engineering Discount group C Discount group Discount group C P
Computer Science Computer Science
Due October 2009 Due October 2009
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2010. Approx. 500 p. Softcover 2010. Approx. 450 p. Softcover 2010. Approx. 1385 p. 510 illus., 6 in color. Hardcover approx. $29.99 approx. $44.99 approx. $99.95 ISBN 978-1-4302-2501-0 ISBN 978-1-4302-2479-2 ISBN 978-1-84882-902-2 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Apress 43
J. Xu C. C. Yang, M. C. Chau, J. Wang, H. Chen (Eds) Practical WPF Charts and Security Informatics Graphics
Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) is A graph aids in the understanding of almost any defined as the study of the development and use of data set. Whether it depicts mathematical, physical advanced information systems and technologies or economic conditions it provides an excellent aid for national, international, and societal secu- to clarity of understanding. Unsurprisingly, this rity-related applications. With the rise of global makes it one of the most common pieces of func- terrorism, the field has been given an increasing tionality that a developer is tasked with producing. amount of attention from academic researchers, Practical WPF Charts and Graphics provides the law enforcement, intelligent experts, information ultimate reference for developing charting func- technology consultants and practitioners. tionality on the .NET Framework. By harnessing SECURITY INFORMATICS is global in scope the power of the Windows Presentation Founda- and perspective. Leading experts will be invited as tion (WPF) it demonstrates how to build sophis- contributing authors from the US, UK, Denmark, ticated charting interfaces incorporating both 2D Israel, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Europe, etc. and 3D graphics together with documents, media It is the first systematic, archival volume treatment and animations within a single clean interface. It of the field and will cover the very latest advances is a reference worthy of a place on any developer’s in ISI research and practice. It is organized in four bookshelf. major subject areas: (1) Information and Systems Security, (2) Information Sharing and Analysis in Features Security Informatics, (3) Infrastructure Protec- In depth coverage of the types of charts that can tion and Emergency Responses, and (4) National be developed in WPF and how the Foundation can Security and Terrorism Informatics. be used to maximum effect in their development Coverage goes beyond simple 2D and 3D charts Features to cover the multi-media applications, embedded SECURITY INFORMATICS outlines the foun- documents and animations now commonly found dations and parameters of the field of Intelligence in many cutting-edge applications and Security Informatics (ISIS)While ISI is a relatively new field, it is expanding in a variety of From the contents directions with, at this point, very few authorita- Introduction.- Chapter 1 Overview of WPF.- tive, archival resources, editing volumes, or books Chapter 2 WPF Graphics in 2D.- Chapter 3 2D to assist its development; this is an authoritative transformations.- Chapter 4 Colors and Brushes.- volume by leading experts in ISI Chapter 5 2D Line Charts.- Chapter 6 Specialized 2D Charts.- Chapter 7 Stock Charts.- Chapter Fields of interest 8 Interactive 2D Charts.- Chapter 9 2D Chart Systems and Data Security; Information Systems; User Controls.- Chapter 10 Data Interpolations.- e-Commerce/e-business; Operation Research/ Chapter 11 Curve Fitting. Decision Theory
Field of interest Target groups Programming Techniques Practitioners, academic researchers from a number of disciplines and students Target groups Intermediate to advanced .NET developers Discount group P Discount group C
Computer Science
Due October 2009
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A. Abraham, MIR Labs, Auburn, WA, USA; S. Albers, Universität Freiburg, Germany; H. Alt, Freie A. Aldini, G. Barthe, R. Gorrieri (Eds) A. Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt; V. Snášel, Universität Berlin, Germany; S. Näher, Universität Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic (Eds) Trier, Germany (Eds) Foundations of Security Computational Social Efficient Algorithms Analysis and Design V FOSAD 2008/2009 Tutorial Lectures Network Analysis Essays Dedicated to Kurt Mehlhorn on the Trends, Tools and Research Advances Occasion of His 60th Birthday FOSAD has been one of the foremost educational events established with the goal of disseminating Social networks provide a powerful abstraction This Festschrift volume, published in honor knowledge in the critical area of security in of the structure and dynamics of diverse kinds of of Kurt Mehlhorn on the occasion of his 60th computer systems and networks. Offering a good people or people-to-technology interaction. Web birthday, contains 28 papers written by his former spectrum of current research in foundations of 2.0 has enabled a new generation of web-based Ph.D. students and colleagues as well as by his security, FOSAD also proposes panels dedicated communities, social networks, and folksonomies former Ph.D. advisor, Bob Constable. to topical open problems, and giving presentations to facilitate collaboration among different commu- The volume’s title is a translation of the title of Kurt about ongoing work in the field, in order to favour nities. Mehlhorn’s first book, “Effiziente Algorithmen”, discussions and novel scientific collaborations. This unique text/reference compares and contrasts published by Teubner-Verlag in 1977. This Fest- This book presents thoroughly revised versions of the ethological approach to social behavior in schrift demonstrates how the field of algorithmics ten tutorial lectures given by leading researchers animals with web-based evidence of social interac- has developed and matured in the decades since during three International Schools on Founda- tion, perceptual learning, information granulation, then. tions of Security Analysis and Design, FOSAD the behavior of humans and affinities between The papers included in this volume are organized 2007/2008/2009, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in web-based social networks. An international team in topical sections on models of computation and September 2007, August 2008, and August/ of leading experts present the latest advances of complexity, sorting and searching, combinatorial September 2009. The topics covered in this book various topics in intelligent-social-networks and optimization with applications, computational include cryptographic protocol analysis, program illustrates how organizations can gain competi- geometry and geometric graphs; and algorithm and resource certification, identity management tive advantages by applying the different emergent engineering, exactness and robustness. and electronic voting, access and authoriza- techniques in real-world scenarios. The work tion control, wireless security, mobile code and incorporates experience reports, survey articles, Fields of interest communications security. and intelligence techniques and theories with Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; specific network technology problems. Math Applications in Computer Science; Numeric Fields of interest Computing; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Systems and Data Security; Data Encryption; Features Science; Software Engineering Computer Communication Networks; Manage- This essential reference features the latest ment of Computing and Information Systems; advances of research in intelligent social networks Target groups Logics and Meanings of Programs; Programming and includes applications of different techniques in Researchers and professionals Languages, Compilers, Interpreters real-world scenarios, providing the reader with a deeper understanding of the topic Discount group Target groups P Researchers and professionals Fields of interest Computer Communication Networks; Data- Discount group base Management; User Interfaces and Human P Computer Interaction; Computers and Society
Target groups Researchers, practitioners, advanced students in social network mining, social networks and social intelligence, web site clustering, link topology and site hierarchy
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Computer Science Computer Science Computer Science Due October 2009 Due December 2009 Due October 2009 2009. XI, 439 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / 2010. Approx. 505 p. 203 illus. (Computer Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, 2009. VIII, 339 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Communications and Networks) Hardcover Volume 5760) Softcover Security and Cryptology, Volume 5705) Softcover $159.00 $95.00 $69.95 ISBN 978-1-84882-228-3 ISBN 978-3-642-03455-8 ISBN 978-3-642-03828-0 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Computer Science 45
A. Bove, L. S. Barbosa, A. Pardo, J. S. Pinto (Eds) V. Devedžic, University of Belgrade, Serbia; R. De Virgilio, Università di Roma Tre, Italy; D. Gaševic, Athabasca University, Canada (Eds) F. Giunchiglia, Università di Trento, Italy; Language Engineering L. Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Eds) Web 2.0 & Semantic Web and Rigorous Software Semantic Web Development Information Management International LerNet ALFA Summer School Web 2.0 describes the trend in Web technology A Model-Based Perspective 2008, Piriapolis, Uruguay, and design that aims to enhance creativity, February 24 - March 1, 2008, information sharing, and, especially, collaboration Revised, Selected Papers among users. Semantic Web refers to the intel- Databases have been designed to store large ligent interaction among systems and applications volumes of data and to provide efficient query on the Web by deploying ontologies, semantic interfaces. Semantic Web formats are geared annotation of Web content, and reasoning. Its towards capturing domain knowledge, interlinking This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed ultimate goal is to make data understandable to annotations, and offering a high-level, machine- revised tutorial lectures of the International LerNet computers, and thus open to far greater utility and processable view of information. However, the ALFA Summer School on Language Engineering manipulation. gigantic amount of such useful information makes and Rigorous Software Development, held in This special issue of AoIS presents cutting-edge efficient management of it increasingly difficult, Piriapolis, Uruguay, in February/March 2008. research on both of these often opposed trends in undermining the possibility of transforming it into The volume presents three courses on type theory: computing and will support discussion on both useful knowledge. an introductory tutorial, a course on type-based the synergies and controversies inherent in the two The research presented by De Virgilio, Giunchi- termination, and a practical introduction to technologies, while also considering what other glia and Tanca tries to bridge the two worlds in dependent types. A case study of a static analyzer technologies can contribute to both. Dramatic order to leverage the efficiency and scalability based on abstract interpretation, a tutorial on advances in service-oriented architectures, model- of database-oriented technologies to support an combinator parsing, and a study of extended static driven engineering, and Web mining technolo- ontological high-level view of data and metadata. checking using a point-free transform completes gies are but a few of the developments that might The contributions present and analyze techniques the volume. have a considerable impact on both Web 2.0 and for semantic information management, by taking Together these contributions will be an invaluable Semantic Web, and they will all be covered in this advantage of the synergies between the logical tool for graduate students and researchers looking volume. basis of the Semantic Web and the logical founda- forward to keeping up to date with the latest tions of data management. developments in rigorous approaches to software Features development. Presents the latest research on both Semantic Contents Web and Web 2.0The first consideration of Data and Metadata Management - Semantic Fields of interest using other technologies to further Web 2.0 and Web Languages.- Part I: Semantic Web Data Software Engineering; Programming Languages, Semantic Web growthThe first volume to look Storage.- Relational Technologies, Metadata Compilers, Interpreters; Simulation and Modeling at matching Semantic Web technology to existing and RDF - A Metamodel Approach to Semantic Web 2.0 applications Web Data Management - Managing Terabytes of Target groups Web Semantics Data.- Part II: Reasoning in the Researchers and professionals Fields of interest Semantic Web.- Reasoning in Semantic Web-Based Computer Systems Organization and Commu- Systems - Modular Knowledge Representation Discount group nication Networks; Information Systems and and Reasoning in the Semantic Web - Semantic P Communication Service; Information Systems Matching with S-Match - Preserving Semantics Applications (incl.Internet) in Automatically Created Ontology Alignments - tOWL: Integrating Time in OWL. Target groups Researchers in semantic web and Web 2.0 Fields of interest development; researchers in model-driven and Database Management; Artificial Intelligence (incl. ontology-driven architectures, computer scientists Robotics); Information Storage and Retrieval in network development, graduate-level students in these areas Target groups Researchers and libraries Discount group P Discount group P
Computer Science Computer Science Due October 2009 Computer Science Due November 2009 2009. IX, 301 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Due January 2010 Programming and Software Engineering, Volume 5520) 2010. XX, 206 p. 52 illus. (Annals of Information Systems, Softcover Volume 6) Softcover 2010. X, 500 p. Hardcover $72.00 approx. $119.00 $129.00 ISBN 978-3-642-03152-6 ISBN 978-1-4419-1218-3 ISBN 978-3-642-04328-4 46 Computer Science Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
F. Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singa- L. Madeyski, Wroclaw University of Technology, C. Priami, Microsoft Research, University of Trento, pore; M. Olivo, National University of Singapore, Poland Italy (Ed. in chief); R. Back, I. Petre, Abo Akademi Singapore; S. Kung, Princeton University, Princeton, University, Turku, Finland (Guest ed.) NJ, USA (Eds) Test-Driven Development An Empirical Evaluation of Agile Practice Transactions on Biomedical Imaging Computational Systems Biology Edited by some of the most experienced authors in Agile methods are gaining more and more interest Computational Models for Cell Processes the field, Biomedical Imaging provides compre- both in industry and in research. Many indus- hensive coverage on medical and biological tries are transforming their way of working from imaging. Original research and critical reviews on traditional waterfall projects with long duration to software and hardware technologies for medical more incremental, iterative and agile practices. At The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational and biological imaging tasks are presented in the the same time, the need to evaluate and to obtain Systems Biology is devoted to inter- and multidis- book, along with data processing in all imaging evidence for different processes, methods and tools ciplinary research in the fields of computer science modalities for molecular, cellular, anatomical and has been emphasized. and life sciences and supports a paradigmatic shift functional imaging. Lech Madeyski offers the first in-depth evaluation in the techniques from computer and informa- Research topics include image acquisition, regis- of agile methods. He presents in detail the results tion science to cope with the new challenges tration, reconstruction, multimodality methods, of three different experiments, including concrete arising from the systems oriented point of view of noise filtering and image enhancement, segmenta- examples of how to conduct statistical analysis biological phenomena. tion, classification and feature detection, model with meta analysis or the SPSS package, using as This special issue on Computational Models for and atlas based imaging, as well as system develop- evaluation indicators the number of acceptance Cell Processes is based on a workshop with the ment and acceleration technologies. tests passed (overall and per hour) and design same name that took place in Turku, Finland, on Biomedical Imaging is comprised of 40 contrib- complexity metrics. May 27, 2008. The accepted papers, which have uted chapters, which are organized in such a way passed through a separate peer-review process, that researchers, engineers, clinical practitioners Contents span an interesting mix of approaches to systems and graduate students can easily follow up with 1) Introduction - 2) Related Work - 3) Research biology, ranging from quantitative to qualitative relevant topics, and will benefit from reading the Goals, Conceptual Model and Variable Selection - techniques, from continuous to discrete math- views of the domain experts in their fields. 4) Experiments Planning, Execution, and Analy- ematics, from deterministic to stochastic methods, sis Procedure - 5) Effect on the Percentage and from computational models for biology to From the contents of Acceptance Tests Passed - 6) Effect on the computing paradigms inspired by biology. Guest Editors’ Comments.- Miniaturized CMOS Number of Acceptance Tests Passed per Hour - Imaging Module with Real-time DSP Technology 7) Effect on Internal Quality Indicators - 8) Effects Fields of interest for Endoscope and Laryngoscope Applications.- on Unit Tests - 9) Meta-Analysis - 10) Discussions, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Simulation Resolution Improvement of Scanning Acoustic Conclusions, and Future Work. and Modeling; Computation by Abstract Devices Microscopy Using Sparse Signal Representation.- Time Efficient DT-MRI Acquisition Parameters Fields of interest Target groups for Robust Estimation of Fiber Tracts.- Non-rigid Software Engineering; Management of Computing Researchers and professionals Ultrasound Image Registration Based on Intensity and Information Systems and Local Phase Information. Discount group Target groups P Fields of interest Researchers and professionals in agile software Biomedical Engineering; Signal Processing; Image development and/or empirical software engi- Processing neering
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Due October 2009 Computer Science Only available in print Computer Science Due October 2009 Reprinted from JOURNAL OF SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS, Vol. 54 & 55 No. 1-3 Due January 2010 2009. VIII, 335 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Transactions on Computational Systems Biology, 5750) 2009. X, 534 p. Hardcover 2010. Approx. 230 p. Hardcover Softcover approx. $199.00 $99.00 $113.00 ISBN 978-1-4419-1165-0 ISBN 978-3-642-04287-4 ISBN 978-3-642-04185-3 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Computer Science 47
A. H. ter Hofstede, W. M. van der Aalst, M. Adams, T. Vitvar, University of Innsbruck, Austria; Q. H. Vu, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), N. Russell (Eds) V. Peristeras, National University of Ireland, Singapore; M. Lupu, Information Retrieval Facility, Galway, Ireland; K. Tarabanis, University of Vienna, Austria; B. C. Ooi, National University of Modern Business Process Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece (Eds) Singapore Automation Sematic Technologies Peer-to-Peer Computing YAWL and its Support Environment for E-Government Principles and Applications
Topics covered include: The fundamentals of E-government faces huge challenges in achieving Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, or peer computing, business process modeling, including work- interoperability and integration, taking into is a paradigm that is viewed as a potential tech- flow patterns, an in-depth treatment of process account differences in laws, regulations, services, nology for redesigning distributed architectures flexibility, including approaches to dealing with administrative processes and languages across and, consequently, distributed processing. Yet the on-the-fly changes, unexpected exceptions, and regions and countries. On the other hand, issues scale and dynamism that characterize P2P systems constraint-based processes, Technological aspects like service, data and process´integration have demand that we reexamine traditional distrib- of a modern BPM environment, including its been researched by the Semantic Web commu- uted technologies. A paradigm shift that includes architecture, process design environment, process nity for several years now, and in the last two to self-reorganization, adaptation and resilience engine, resource handler and other support three years we have witnessed the first applica- is called for. On the other hand, the increased services, a comparative insight into current tions of semantic technologies in real, operational computational power of such networks opens up approaches to business process modeling and e-government systems in both Europe and the US completely new applications, such as in digital execution such as BPMN, EPCs, BPEL, jBPM, which address exactly these challenges. content sharing, scientific computation, gaming, or OpenWFE, and Enhydra Shark, process mining, With this book, the editors present the latest collaborative work environments. verification, integration and configuration; and research results on how to use semantic technolo- In this book, Vu, Lupu and Ooi present the tech- case studies in health care and screen business. gies in order to improve or even revolutionize the nical challenges offered by P2P systems, and the use of ICT in public administration systems. The means that have been proposed to address them. Features contributions are organized into three parts: archi- The book is the first book to provide a compre- tectures and process integration, ontologies and Contents hensive overview of YAWL and its support envi- interoperability, and portals and user interactions. 1) Introduction - 2) Architecture of P2P Systems - ronmentEmerging areas such as declarative 3) Routing in P2P Systems - 4) Data-Centric workflow specification and process configuration From the contents Applications - 5) Load Balancing and Replica- are exposed to a wider audience for the first time Semantic Technologies for eGovernment - An tion - 6) Security in P2P Networks - 7) Trust and in textbook formThe book provides a sound Overview.- Part I: Architectures and Process Reputation - 8) P2P Programing Tools - 9) Systems basis for workflow concepts on the one hand and a Integration.- Pan-European eGovernment Service and Applications - 10) Conclusions. detailed discussion of their technical realisation on Architecture; Employing Semantic Technolo- the other hand gies for Orchestration of Government Services; Fields of interest Modeling Knowledge-Intensive Processes using Computer Communication Networks; Information Fields of interest Semantics; eGovernment goes Semantic Web.- Part Storage and Retrieval; Operating Systems Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); II: Ontologies and Interoperability. Information Systems; Computer Appl. in Adminis- Target groups trative Data Processing Fields of interest Researchers and graduate students Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Target groups Information Systems; Artificial Intelligence Discount group Students and professionals (incl. Robotics) P
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V. Dragutan, A. Demonceau, I. Dragutan, P. Ilich, College of Saint Mary, Omaha, NE, USA J. F. Kay, Veterinary Medicines Directorate, E. S. Finkelshtein (Eds.) Addlestone, UK (Ed.) Selected Problems Green Metathesis Chemistry in Physical Chemistry Analyses for Great Challenges in Synthesis, Catalysis and Hormonal Substances in Nanotechnology Food Producing Animals Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study This book is a collection of 50 original prob- Institute on Green Metathesis Chemistry: lems in physical chemistry including several Great Challenges in Synthesis, Catalysis living systems. Each problem is accompanied This unique and definitive reference on hormone and Nanotechnology by a detailed step-by-step solution, organized as abuse in food producing animals is for scientists, Bucharest, Rumania strategy, assumptions, approximations, numerical regulators and consumers. It contains the results 21 July - 2 August 2008. calculation and interpretation. Solutions to of a meeting held in November 2006 to discuss the the key problems (e.g. thermal equilibration, progress made by the Veterinary Medicines Direc- ligand-receptor interaction, aminoacid zwitter- torate (VMD) supported programme on steroid ions, HOMO-LUMO gap) are accompanied by abuse detection. An outstanding international scientific event in simple introductory explanations. In addition, When the “hormone ban” first arose in the EU, the field of metathesis chemistry, the NATO ASI informal notes are provided on difficult concepts, there were only 15 Member States. There are now “Green Metathesis Chemistry: Great Challenges for example: entropy, reaction activation barrier, 27 and some newer members lack the background in Synthesis, Catalysis and Nanotechnology” has wave mechanics. Schemes, diagrams and structural knowledge of this issue. This book sets out to been recently organized in Bucharest, Romania formulas accompany most solutions and explana- summarize the history and show the significant (July 21- August 2, 2008). tions. progress that has been, and continues to be, made Thus, this textbook may serve as a self-tutorial in this area. It is the only comprehensive review Features for undergraduate students in physical chemistry, of this subject available and contains input from This is the first book to be published in the field biophysics, biochemistry, and medicinal chemistry. leading researchers from around the world. of green metathesis chemistry with highlights on highly efficient organic and polymer syntheses, Features Features organometallic catalysis and nanotechnology User-friendly, easy to read and understand Offers an insight into the risk management of The emphasis of the book is on Method and an important food related issue and how current Fields of interest Procedure rather than on Subject and Formalism analytical analyses can assist evidence-based risk Organic Chemistry; Organometallic Chemistry ; in solving a physical chemistry problemFor a assessmentsProvides comprehensive coverage Polymer Sciences non-physical, non-mathematical studentThere of all past and current issues relating to growth is no comparable - and competing - book of this promoting hormone abuse in animals Target groups type on the Western markets Graduate and undergraduate students, teaching From the contents staff interested in current developments in catalysis Contents Historical overview of the use of hormonal mediated by transition metals, nanotechnology Introduction.- Dedication.- Mechanical work.- substances in food production and their toxi- and materials science, chemical engineers and Thermodynamic functions and laws.- Kinetics.- cology.- National and international programmes practitioners in the fields of petrochemistry, phar- Atomic properties of matter - principles of for the detection of hormone residues.- Current maceuticals, biology and medicine and specialists quantum mechanics. analytical methods used for the detection of appplying advanced materials inoptics, microelec- hormone residues. tronics, computer science, telecommunications, Fields of interest mechanics, constructions, sports and agriculture Physical Chemistry; Biophysics/Biomedical Fields of interest Physics; Biochemistry, general Food Science; Analytical Chemistry; Agriculture Discount group P Target groups Target groups Students in chemistry, biochemistry, biophysics Scientists working in this area, regulators and and physics at 4-year colleges and other 4-year consumers undergraduate academic institutions Discount group Discount group P P
Chemistry and Materials Science Due January 2010 Due December 2009 Only available in print 2010. XI, 448 p. (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology) Hardcover Chemistry and Materials Science Distribution rights outside North and South America: $229.00 Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK ISBN 978-90-481-3431-1 Due February 2010 2010. Approx. 230 p. (RSC Food Analysis Monographs) Also available as softcover 2010. Approx. 160 p. Softcover Hardcover $119.00 approx. $39.00 $189.00 ISBN 978-90-481-3432-8 ISBN 978-3-642-04326-0 ISBN 978-0-85404-198-5 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Chemistry 49
E. McCafferty, George Washington University, T. Osaka, Waseda University, Japan; M. Datta, Cooligy B. Song, S. Yang, L. Jin, P. S. Bhadury, Guizhou Washington, D.C., VA, USA Inc., Emerson Network Power, Mountain View, CA, University, Guiyang, China USA; Y. Shacham-Diamand, Tel Aviv University, Israel Introduction to (Eds.) Environment-Friendly Corrosion Science Electrochemical Antiviral Agents for Plants Nanotechnologies The text emphasizes basic principles of corrosion Plant virus disease is a worldwide threat to agri- science which underpin extensions to practice. The culture. Environment-Friendly Antiviral Agents emphasis here is on corrosion in aqueous environ- In this book, the term “electrochemical nanotech- for Plants systematically describes the basic theory, ments, although a chapter on high temperature nology” is defined as nanoprocessing by means new ideas, and new methods to discover novel oxidation has been included. The overall effort of electrochemical techniques. This introductory antiviral agents through research on plant immune has been to provide a brief but rigorous introduc- book reviews the application of electrochemical activation. The cutting-edge research method- tion to corrosion science without getting mired in nanotechnologies with the aim of understanding ology, technology and progress on novel antiviral extensive individual case histories, specific engi- their wider applicability in evolving nanoindus- agent innovation are systematically described. neering applications, or complications of practical tries. These advances have impacted microelec- With abundant illustrations and figures, the book corrosion data. tronics, sensors, materials science, and corrosion is intended for researchers and practitioners in the science, generting new fields of research that fields of pesticide science, plant protection, organic Features promote interaction between biology, medicine, chemistry, fine chemicals, applied chemistry, envi- Text emphasizes basic principles of corrosion and microelectronics. ronment chemistry and agriculture science. science which underpin extensions to practice This volume reviews nanotechnology applications Dr. Baoan Song and Dr. Song Yang are professors Provides a brief but rigorous introduction in selected high technology areas with particular at the Center for R&D of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou to corrosion scienceMost chapters contain emphasis on advances in such areas. Chapters are University, China; Mr. Linhong Jin and Dr. Pinaki a problem set, which corresponds and comple- classified under four different headings: Nano- S. Bhadury are associate professors there. ments lessons in the textThe textbook will technology for energy devices - Nanotechnology arouse interest of a wide audience of students and for magnetic storage devices - Nanotechnology Features engineers interested in chemistry, chemical engi- for bio-chip applications - Nanotechnology for Describes innovative methods for activating neering and materials science MEMS/Packaging. antiviral mechanism for plant immunity Details research into novel environment- From the contents Features friendly chemicals blocking plant virus Societal Aspects of Corrosion.- Getting Started on First on electrochemical nanotechnogy to Explains the application of proteomics in the Basics.- Charged Interfaces.- A Brief Review of center on industrial applicationsNo other antiviral agent research Thermodynamics.- Thermodynamics of Corro- book has treated energy storage, magnetic storage, sion: Electrochemical Cells and Galvanic Corro- bio-chips, and electronic packaging at the micro- Fields of interest sion.- Thermodynamics of Corrosion: Pourbaix and nano-scale Organic Chemistry; Plant Pathology; Environ- Diagrams.- Kinetics of Corrosion.- Concentration mental Chemistry Polarization and Diffusion. Fields of interest Nanotechnology; Electrochemistry; Power Engi- Target groups Fields of interest neering Researchers and practitioners in the field of pesti- Electrochemistry; Materials Science, general; cide science, plant protection, organic chemistry, Structural Materials Target groups fine chemicals, applied chemistry, environment Scientists, engineers, and graduate students in chemistry and agriculture science Target groups electrochemistry, nanotechnology, microelec- Corrosion science students at the graduate or tronics, sensors, materials science, and corrosion Discount group advanced undergraduate level, graduate students science P in chemistry, materials science, and engineering, practicing corrosion engineers or materials engi- Discount group neers who wish to enhance their understanding of P the fundamental principles of corrosion science
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Due November 2009 Chemistry and Materials Science Chemistry and Materials Science Distribution rights in China: Chemical Industry Press. Due December 2009 Due December 2009 Jointly published with Chemical Industry Press. 2010. Approx. 290 p. 206 illus., 6 in color. (Nanostructure 2010. X, 302 p. 501 illus., 1 in color. Hardcover Science and Technology) Hardcover 2010. Approx. 305 p. 110 illus. Hardcover approx. $129.00 $159.00 $179.00 ISBN 978-1-4419-0454-6 ISBN 978-1-4419-1423-1 ISBN 978-3-642-03691-0 50 Chemistry Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
E. Wilhelm, University of Wien, Austria; T. Letcher, KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa (Eds.) Heat Capacities Liquids, Solutions and Vapours
The book contains the very latest information on all aspects of heat capacities related to liquids and vapours. The chapters, all written by knowledge- able experts in their respective fields, cover theory, experimental methods, and techniques (including speed of sound, photothermal techniques, bril- louin scattering, scanning transitiometry, high resolution adiabatic scanning calorimetry), results on solutions, liquids, vapours, mixtures, electro- lytes, critical regions, proteins, liquid crystals, polymers, reactions, effects of high pressure and phase changes.
Features Covers a wide range of topicsKey point of reference for anyone working in the field or related areas
From the contents Heat Capacities: Introduction, Concepts and Selected Applications.- Calorimetric Methods for Measuring Heat Capacities of Liquids and Liquid Solutions.- An Exact Analysis of Conductive Heat Losses in a Flow Calorimeter for Heat capacity Measurement.- Excess Heat Capacities and Related Properties of Liquid mixtures.- Heat Capacity of Non-Electrolyte Solutions.- Heat Capacities and Related Properties of Vapours and Vapour Mixtures.- Heat Capacity of Electrolyte Solutions.- Scanning Transitiometry and its Use to Determine Heat Capacities of Liquids at High Pressures.- Speed of Sound Measurements and Heat Capaci- ties of Liquid Systems at High Pressure.- Heat Capacities and Brillouin Scattering in Liquids.
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P. Albertos, Technical University of Valencia, Spain; E. Alonso, N. Pinyol, UPC, Barcelona, Spain; D. Annaratone I. Mareels, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, A. M. Puzrin, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Australia Engineering Heat Transfer Geomechanics of Failures Feedback and Control Advanced Topics for Everyone This book is a generalist textbook; it is designed for anybody interested in heat transmission, including Geotechnical failures, specially the catastrophic scholars, designers and students. This well structured, intriguing and motivating ones, are a stimulus to improve current under- Two criteria constitute the foundation of Annara- book presents the basic ideas and understanding of standing of phenomena and procedures and tools tone’s books, including the present one. control, signals and systems for readers interested for analysis and prediction. The first one consists of indispensable scientific in engineering and science. Through a series of This unconventional approach to geomechanics is rigour without theoretical exasperation. The examples that are regularly revisited from different the essence of this book. In general, soil mechanics inclusion in the book of some theoretical studies, perspectives, the book explores both the theory and geotechnical textbooks describe first the even if admirable for their scientific rigor, would and the practice of control.”Feedback and Control concepts and theoretical developments and then have strengthened the scientific foundation of this for Everyone” is indeed intended for everyone, but apply them to interpret or solve a particular appli- publication, yet without providing the reader with more specifically everyone interested in getting a cations. This book follows a different course. The further applicable know-how. The second criterion feel for the role control and feedback play in our case (a failure) is first described and then an expla- is to deliver practical solution to operational environment. Control and feedback are pervasive nation is sought. This requires a set of steps which problems. This criterion is fulfilled through equa- and are literally found everywhere in our engi- can be summarized as follows: Identify the nature tions based on scientific rigor, as well as a series neered or biological environment. of the problem, develop a dedicated and specific of approximated equations, leading to convenient The book focuses on the main ideas and opens the formulation of the case, based on established basic and practically acceptable solutions, and through scientific mind to feedback, control and systems concepts. In general, no single existing theory or diagrams and tables. When a practical case is close dynamics. The exposition of ideas does not assume procedure is available to solve the case at hand, to a well defined theoretical solution, corrective any mathematical knowledge beyond what typi- provide a solution within an acceptable degree of factors are shown to offer simple and correct solu- cally is taught at an intermediate mathematics level complexity, extract the fundamental aspects of the tions to the problem. at high school. problem and highlight its relevance. Features Features Features Concise reference for the fast solution of Well structured, intriguing and motivating Ideal textbook combining well-known practical problemsWell structured and easy book for everybody interested in engineering and appealing cases with problems and solutions in a to understandLimited to the equations and sciencePresents the basic ideas and under- structural approach aspects important for Engineering solutions so key standing of control, signals and systems matreial very quick and easy to find Opens the scientific mind to control and From the contents systems dynamics Part I . Landslides.- Chapter 1 A Constrained Contents Creeping Landslide: Brattas, St. Moritz.- Landslide. Introduction To Heat Transfer.- Steady Conduc- Fields of interest Switzerland.- Chapter 2 Catastrophic Slide: Vaiont tion.- Transient Conduction.- Dimensional Anal- Control; Popular Science in Mathematics/Natural Landslide, Italy.- I1 . Embankments and Dams.- ysis.- Convection.- Radiation.- Heat Exchangers Science/Technology; Systems Theory, Control Chapter 3 Collapse of Compacted Soil: Girona And Tube Banks.- Pressure Drops. Road Embankments, Spain.- Chapter 4 Earth Dam Target groups Sliding Failure: Aznalc61lar Dam. Spain. 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S. Ao, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; S. Apikyan, D. J. Diamond, Brookhaven National B. Asay, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA O. Castillo, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Tijuana, Laboratory, Upton, NY, U.S.A. (Eds.) (Ed) Mexico; X. Huang, University of Canberra, Australia (Eds) Nuclear Power and Energy Shock Wave Science and Intelligent Automation and Security Technology Reference Library, Computer Engineering Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Vol. 5 Workshop on Nuclear Power and Energy Non-Shock Initiation of Explosives Security Yerevan, Armenia A large international conference in Intelligent 8-12 December 2008 Automation and Computer Engineering was held The sensitivity of an explosive is not a well defined in Hong Kong, March 18-20, 2009, under the property of the material but rather a complex auspices of the International MultiConference of pattern of behavior. Unlike the response to strong, Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2009). World energy consumption has grown dramati- planar shocks which is for the most part predict- The IMECS is organized by the International Asso- cally over the past few decades. This growth in able and reproducible, explosives’ response to ciation of Engineers (IAENG). Intelligent Auto- energy demand will be driven by large increases multidimensional and weaker stimuli is much mation and Computer Engineering contains 37 in both economic growth and world population more complicated. revised and extended research articles written by coupled with rising living standards in rapidly The present volume is the first compendium prominent researchers participating in the confer- growing countries. The last years, we routinely to assemble in a single text our present knowl- ence. Topics covered include artificial intelligence, hear about a “renaissance” of nuclear energy. The edge about the vast range of non-shock ignition decision supporting systems, automated planning, recognition that nuclear power is vital to global mechanisms and responses, where initiation is not automation systems, control engineering, systems energy security in the 21st century has been prompt, and involves a series of steps that may or identification, modelling and simulation, commu- growing for some time. may not lead to a steady detonation. nication systems, signal processing, and industrial applications. Features Features You will find discussions of issues related to the Edited and authored by a group of leading Features building of nuclear power plants in countries with international experts, this volume is the first Offers the state of the art of tremendous few or no existing plantsYou will find motiva- compendium to assemble in a single text our advances in intelligent automation and computer tions for using nuclear power in those countries present knowledge about the vast range of non- engineeringServes as an excellent reference and to explore the advantages and disadvantages of shock ignition mechanisms of gas, liquid and solid text for researchers and graduate students, working such action explosives, where initiation is not prompt, and on intelligent automation and computer engi- involves a series of steps that may or may not lead neeringContains sixteen revised and extended Fields of interest to a steady detonation research articles written by prominent researchers Nuclear Engineering; Effects of Radiation/Radia- tion Protection; Particle Acceleration and Detec- Fields of interest Fields of interest tion, Beam Physics Mechanical Engineering; Industrial Chemistry/ Numerical and Computational Methods in Engi- Chemical Engineering; Safety in Chemistry, neering; Software Engineering/Programming and Target groups Dangerous Goods Operating Systems; Electronics and Microelec- National Laboratories, universities, nuclear power tronics, Instrumentation plants, national and international nuclear regula- Target groups tory organizations, national and international Researchers and scientists in academic and indus- Target groups security organizations trial R & D Offers the state of the art of tremendous advances in intelligent automation and computer engi- Discount group Discount group neering and also serves as an excellent reference P P text for researchers and graduate students, working on intelligent automation and computer engi- neering
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P. Azad, University of Karlsruhe, Germany B. Bailey, Brian Bailey Consulting; G. Martin, Tensilica W. A. Barbakh, Islamic University of Gaza, Palastina; Inc. Y. Wu, Beijing, China; C. Fyfe, University of the West Visual Perception for of Scotland, Paisley, UK ESL Models and Manipulation and Imitation Non-Standard Parameter in Humanoid Robots their Application Electronic System Level Design and Adaptation for Exploratory Verification in Practice Data Analysis
The development of humanoid robots is one of the most challenging research fields within robotics. Exploratory data analysis, also known as data One of the crucial capabilities of such a humanoid This book arises from experience the authors have mining or knowledge discovery from databases, is the ability to visually perceive its environment. gained from years of work as industry practitio- is typically based on the optimisation of a specific The present monograph deals with visual percep- ners in the field of Electronic System Level design function of a dataset. Such optimisation is often tion for the intended applications manipulation (ESL). At the heart of all things related to Elec- performed with gradient descent or variations and imitation, supporting higher-level cognition. tronic Design Automation (EDA), the core issue is thereof. In this book, we first lay the groundwork In particular, stereo-based methods and systems one of models: what are the models used for, what by reviewing some standard clustering algorithms for object recognition and 6 DoF pose estimation should the models contain, and how should they and projection algorithms before presenting as well as for markerless human motion capture be written and distributed. Issues such as interop- various non-standard criteria for clustering. The are presented. After an extensive presentation of erability and tool transportability become central family of algorithms developed are shown to the state of the art in these areas, three real-time factors that may decide which ones are successful perform better than the standard clustering algo- systems that have been developed by the author are and those that cannot get sufficient traction in the rithms on a variety of datasets. presented in great detail: object recognition and industry to survive. We then consider extensions of the basic mappings pose estimation for textured and for single-colored Through a set of real examples taken from recent which maintain some topology of the original data objects, and a markerless human motion capture industry experience, this book will distill the state space. Finally we show how reinforcement learning system. of the art in terms of System-Level Design models can be used as a clustering mechanism before and provide practical guidance to readers that can turning to projection methods. Features be put into use. This book is an invaluable tool that Recent research in Visual Perception for will aid readers in their own designs, reduce risk in Features Manipulation and Imitation in Humanoid Robots development projects, expand the scope of design Presents novel methods of parameter adapta- projects, and improve developmental processes tion in machine learningValuable contribution Contents and project planning. to create a true artificial intelligence Recent Introduction.- State of the Art in Object Recog- research in Reinforcement learning, cross entropy nition and Pose Estimation.- State of the Art in Features and artificial immune systems for exploratory data Human Motion Capture.- Fundamentals of Image Provides insight to all phases of ESL model analysis Processing.- Guiding Principles.- Stereo-based design and flow for novices, students, researchers, Object Recognition and Pose Estimation System.- managers, and experienced hardware and software From the contents Stereo-based Markerless Human Motion Capture designersIncludes extensive, realistic examples Review of Clustering Algorithms.- Review of System.- Software and Interfaces.- Evaluation.- from industrial ESL design flowsA must-have Linear Projection Methods.- Non-standard Clus- Conclusion. for anyone needing to understand the essentials of tering Criteria.- Topographic Mappings and Kernel system-level design models: their purpose, their Clustering.- Online Clustering Algorithms and Fields of interest contents, and how they should be created and Reinforcement learning.- Connectivity Graphs and Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Numerical distributed Clustering with Similarity Functions. and Computational Methods in Engineering; Computer Imaging, Graphics and Computer Fields of interest Fields of interest Vision Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided Engi- Appl. Mathematics/Computational Methods of neering (CAD, CAE) and Design Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Target groups Researchers, engineers, graduate students in Target groups Target groups cognitive systems , robotics, visual perception Practicing design engineers and researchers in Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in embedded systems, electronic design automa- computational intelligence and computer science Discount group tion concerned with system level design and high P performance SoC design Discount group P Discount group P
Engineering Engineering Engineering Due November 2009 Due November 2009 Due January 2010 2010. Approx. 275 p. (Cognitive Systems Monographs, 2010. Approx. 230 p. (Studies in Computational Volume 4) Hardcover 2010. X, 390 p. 177 illus. (Embedded Systems) Hardcover Intelligence, Volume 249) Hardcover $109.00 approx. $79.95 $129.00 ISBN 978-3-642-04228-7 ISBN 978-1-4419-0964-0 ISBN 978-3-642-04004-7 54 Engineering Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
A. Barkalov, L. Titarenko, University of Zielona Gora, M. Bianchini, M. Maggini, F. Scarselli, University of H. Bockhorn, TH Karlsruhe, Germany (Ed.) Poland Siena, Italy; L. C. Jain, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia (Eds) Macro- and Micromixing Logic Synthesis for FSM-Based Control Units Innovations in Neural Coeditors: D. Mewes, W. Peukert, H. Warnecke Information Paradigms and Applications The homogenization of single phase gases or The control unit is one of the most important parts liquids with chemical reactive components by of any digital system responsible for interplay of mixing belongs to one of the oldest basic opera- other system blocks. Very often, the model of a This research book presents some of the most tions applied in chemical engineering. The design finite state machine (FSM) is used to represent the recent advances in neural information processing of equipment for mixing processes is still derived behaviour of a control unit. Modern computer- models including both theoretical concepts and from measurements of the mixing time which is aided design tools include a lot of optimal solu- practical applications. The contributions include: related to the applied methods of measurement tions (library cells) for implementation of such Advances in neural information processing para- and the special design of the test equipment itself. regular blocks of digital systems as decoders, digms - Self organizing structures - Unsupervised This book was stimulated by improved modern multiplexers, parallel multibit adders and so on. and supervised learning of graph domains - Neural methods for experimental research and visualiza- But as a rule, control units have an irregular struc- grammar networks - Model complexity in neural tion, for simulations and numerical calculations of ture which makes impossible to design their logic network learning - Regularization and suboptimal mixing and chemical reactions in micro and macro circuits using the standard library cells. To use solutions in neural learning - Neural networks for scale of time and local coordinates. It is aimed to these cells, an FSM can be represented by a multi- the classification of vectors, sequences and graphs improve the prediction of efficiencies and selectivi- level model based on the principle of structural - Metric learning for prototype-based classification ties of chemical reactions in macroscopic scale. decomposition. In multilevel models, for example, - Ensembles of neural networks - Fraud detection The results should give an understanding of the multiplexers are used to replace logical conditions, using machine learning - Computational modeling influence of the construction of different mixing decoders are used to implement microoperations, of neural multimodal integration. equipment on to the momentum, heat and mass and different memory blocks are used to transform This book is directed to the researchers, graduate transfer as well as reaction processes running on object codes. students, professors and practitioner interested in microscopic scales of time and local coordinates. recent advances in neural information processing Features paradigms and applications. Features Present the hardware implementation of Contains new modelling approaches for mixing control algorithms represented by graph-schemes Features Import field for many industrial and design of algorithm Contains the latest research in the area of applicationsPresents Result of an excellent neural information systems and their applications research program Fields of interest Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumenta- Fields of interest Contents tion; Control Structures and Microprogramming; Appl. Mathematics/Computational Methods of Quality of mixing.- Experimental methods for Circuits and Systems Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) visualization and measurements in macro- and microscale dimensions of mixing.- Theoretical Target groups Target groups methods for modelling and numerical calculations Engineers, researchers and students in electrical Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in of mixing processes.- Macro- and micro-mixing in engineering and informatics working with digital computational intelligence and computer science micro channel flow. automata, embedded systems, or field program- mable logic devices Discount group Fields of interest P Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Industrial Chem- Discount group istry/Chemical Engineering; Mechanics, Fluids, P Thermodynamics
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M. Bohlinger, Gelnhausen, Germany A. Bosio, L. Dilillo, P. Girard, S. Pravossoudovitch, S. Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology, A. Virazel, LIRMM - Laboratoire d’Informatique de Kharagpur, India (Ed.) Planning Traffic Management Robotique de Microélectronique de Montpellier, France Basics, Methods and Applications Microfluidics and Advanced Test Methods Microfabrication
A systematic approach to traffic management for SRAMs requires structured planning. The author describes Effective Solutions for Dynamic Fault Microfluidics and Microfabrication discusses the methods for traffic modeling and their application Detection in Nanoscaled Technologies interconnectioin between microfluidics, micro- in practice, based on his own practical and scien- fabrication, and the life sciences. Specifically, this tific background in road traffic planning. The work includes fundamental aspects of fluid mechanics describes in depth methods for evaluation of real in micro-scale and nano-scale confinements and life situations and related traffic models. Modern electronics depend on nanoscaled tech- microfabrication. Material is also presented that nologies that present new challenges in terms of discusses micro-textured engineered surfaces, Features testing and diagnostics. Memories are particularly high-performance AFM probe-based, micro- Comprehensive discussion of basic methods prone to defects since they exploit the technology grooving processes, fabrication with metals and used for traffic modeling and planningEvalua- limits to get the highest density. This book is an polymers in bio-micromanipulation and microflu- tion of models applicable for traffic modeling invaluable guide to the testing and diagnostics of idic applications. the latest generation of SRAM, one of the most Contents widely applied types of memory. Classical methods Features Introduction.- Bases.- Conception of traffic for testing memory are designed to handle the so- Coverage of fundamentals of microfluidics in a management planning.- Traffic management plan- called “static faults,” but these test solutions are not level accessible to multi-disciplinary researchers; ning: Methodology.- Result and view.- Annex.- sufficient for faults that are emerging in the latest with a balance of mathematical details and Sources.- Subject index. Very Deep Sub-Micron (VDSM) technologies. physical principlesCoverage of life sciences These new fault models, referred to as “dynamic and chemistry for use in emerging applications Fields of interest faults”, are not covered by classical test solutions related to microfluidics of soft mattersCovers Civil Engineering; Automotive and Aerospace and require the dedicated test sequences presented the explicit interconnection between microflu- Engineering; Urbanism in this book. iodics and microfabrication, from an application viewpoint Target groups Features Scientists and engineers in research and engi- First book to present complete, state-of-the-art From the contents neering, in traffic sciences and civil engineering coverage of dynamic fault memory testing Microfluidics: overview and outlook.- Physics and Presents content using a “bottom-up” approach, mathematics of micro and nano fluidics.- Funda- Discount group from the electrical causes of malfunction up to mentals of microfabrication.- Mechanical micro- P the generation of smart test strategiesIncludes manufacturing: an overview.- Micro-textured case studies covering all memory components engineered surfaces.- High-performance AFM (core-cells, address decoders, write drivers, sense probe-based micro-grooving processes.- Fabrica- amplifiers, etc.)Includes Spice simulation files tion with metals and polymers in bio-microma- and an SRAM logic fault simulator nipulation.- Bio-inspired structural adhesion and adhesives.- Bio-microfluidics: overview.- Localized Fields of interest molecular delivery and genetic analysis within a Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided Engi- single living cell. neering (CAD, CAE) and Design Fields of interest Target groups Nanotechnology and Microengineering; Elec- Researchers and practitioners in embedded tronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation; systems, electronic design automation concerned Fluids with memory testing Target groups Discount group Research scientists and second/third graduate P students
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2010. VI, 170 p. 80 illus. Hardcover 2010. X, 290 p. 123 illus. Hardcover 2010. Approx. 450 p. Hardcover $129.00 approx. $139.00 approx. $129.00 ISBN 978-3-540-75643-9 ISBN 978-1-4419-0937-4 ISBN 978-1-4419-1542-9 56 Engineering Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
R. Chiong, S. Dhakal, Swinburne University of T. Daradoumis, S. Caballé, J. M. Marquès, Open L. Franco, University of Malaga, Spain; Technology, Sarawak, Malaysia (Eds) University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain; F. Xhafa, D. A. Elizondo, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK; Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain J. M. Jerez, University of Malaga, Spain (Eds) Natural Intelligence for (Eds) Constructive Neural Networks Scheduling, Planning and Intelligent Collaborative Packing Problems e-Learning Systems and Applications The book is a collection of invited papers on Scheduling, planning and packing are ubiquitous Constructive methods for Neural networks. Most problems that can be found in a wide range of of the chapters are extended versions of works real-world settings. These problems transpire in a Intelligent Collaborative e-Learning Systems and presented on the special session on constructive large variety of forms, and have enormous socio- Applications is a major research theme in CSCL neural network algorithms of the 18th Interna- economic impact. For many years, significant work and CSCW research community. It comprises a tional Conference on Artificial Neural Networks has been devoted to automating the processes of variety of research topics that focus on developing (ICANN 2008) held September 3-6, 2008 in scheduling, planning and packing using different systems that are more powerful and flexible and Prague, Czech Republic. kinds of methods. However, poor scaling and also more adaptable to the learning process and The book is devoted to constructive neural the lack of flexibility of many of the conventional thus provide better answers to the paradigmatic networks and other incremental learning algo- methods coupled with the fact that most of the principles of on-line collaborative learning and rithms that constitute an alternative to standard real-world problems across the application areas of work. The chapters collected in this book provide trial and error methods for searching adequate scheduling, planning and packing nowadays tend new insights, findings and approaches both on the architectures. It is made of 15 articles which to be of large scale, dynamic and full of complex analysis and the development of more powerful provide an overview of the most recent advances dependencies have made it necessary to tackle e-collaboration settings. Researchers will find in on the techniques being developed for constructive them in unconventional ways. this book the latest trends in these research topics. neural networks and their applications. It will be of On the other hand, academics will find practical interest to researchers in industry and academics Features insights on how to use conceptual and experi- and to post-graduate students interested in the Recent research in Natural Intelligence for mental approaches in their daily tasks. Finally, latest advances and developments in the field of Scheduling, Planning and Packing Problems developers from CSCL community can be inspired artificial neural networks. and put in practice the proposed models and From the contents evaluate them for the specific purposes of their Features Global Optimization in Supply Chain Operations.- own work and context. Presents the state of the art of Constructive Solving Real-World Vehicle Routing Problems Algorithms for Neural Networks with Evolutionary Algorithms.- A Genetic Algo- Features rithm with Priority Rules for Solving Job-Shop Latest research on Intelligent Collaborative From the contents Scheduling Problems.- An Estimation of Distribu- e-Learning Systems and Applications Constructive Neural Network Algorithms for tion Algorithm for Flowshop Scheduling with Feedforward Architectures Suitable for Classifica- Limited Buffers.- Solving Hierarchically Decom- Fields of interest tion Tasks.- Efficient Constructive Techniques for posable Problems with the Evolutionary Transition Appl. Mathematics/Computational Methods of Training Switching Neural Networks.- Construc- Algorithm.- Electrical Load Forecasting using Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); tive Neural Networks Algorithms that Solve Highly a Neural-Fuzzy Approach.- Quantised Problem Computers and Education Non-Separable Problems.- On Constructing Spaces and the Particle Swarm Algorithm. threshold Networks for Pattern Classification.- Target groups Self-Optimizing neural Networks. Fields of interest Researchers, engineers, graduate students in Appl. Mathematics/Computational Methods of computational intelligence, e-learning Fields of interest Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Appl. Mathematics/Computational Methods of Production/Logistics Discount group Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) P Target groups Target groups Researchers, practitioners and graduate students Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in working in computational intelligence, optimisa- computational intelligence and computer science tion, operations research Discount group Discount group P P
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2010. Approx. 350 p. (Studies in Computational 2010. Approx. 200 p. (Studies in Computational 2010. Approx. 300 p. (Studies in Computational Intelligence, Volume 250) Hardcover Intelligence, Volume 246) Hardcover Intelligence, Volume 258) Hardcover $169.00 $129.00 $129.00 ISBN 978-3-642-04038-2 ISBN 978-3-642-04000-9 ISBN 978-3-642-04511-0 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Engineering 57
M. Fulde, Infineon Technologies Austria AG, Villach, R. X. Gao, R. Yan, University of Massachusetts- P. Girard, LIRMM, Montpellier, France; N. Nicolici, Austria Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; X. Wen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Variation Aware Analog and Wavelets Fukuoka, Japan (Eds) Mixed-Signal Circuit Design Theory and Applications for Manufacturing Power-Aware Testing in Emerging Multi-Gate CMOS and Test Strategies for Technologies This book presents a systematic description of Low Power Devices the fundamentals on wavelet transform and its applications to the condition monitoring and Since scaling of CMOS is reaching the nanometer health diagnosis of rotating machine compo- Managing the power consumption of circuits and area serious limitations enforce the introduc- nents and systems, such as bearings, spindles, systems is now considered one of the most impor- tion of novel materials, device architectures and and gearboxes. Given the widespread utilization tant challenges for the semiconductor industry. device concepts. Multi-gate devices employing of rotating machines in modern manufacturing Elaborate power management strategies, such as high-k gate dielectrics are considered as promising and the increasing need for condition-based dynamic voltage scaling, clock gating or power solution overcoming these scaling limitations (instead of fix-interval), intelligent maintenance to gating techniques, are used today to control the of conventional planar bulk CMOS. Variation minimize machine down time and ensure reliable power dissipation during functional operation. The Aware Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design production, it is of critical importance to advance usage of these strategies has various implications in Emerging Multi-Gate CMOS Technologies the science base of signal processing in manufac- on manufacturing test, and power-aware test is provides a technology oriented assessment of turing. Focusing on wavelet transform as a tool therefore increasingly becoming a major consid- analog and mixed-signal circuits in emerging specifically applied and designed for applications eration during design-for-test and test preparation high-k and multi-gate CMOS technologies. in manufacturing the material presented will be for low power devices. This book explores existing appropriate for both academic researchers and solutions for power-aware test and design-for-test Features practicing engineers working in the field of manu- of conventional circuits and systems, and surveys First book that covers high-k related design facturing. test strategies and EDA solutions for testing low aspects regarding analog/mixed-signal circuits power devices. First hardware based analog/mixed-signal Features circuit assessment in multi-gate CMOSClose Provides a comprehensive literature survey Features link to device and technology Covers tunnel on wavelets specifically related to problems Is the only comprehensive book on power- devices as outlook beyond CMOS encountered in manufacturingDiscusses the aware test for (low power) circuits and systems similarity and differences between wavelet trans- Instructs readers how low-power devices can be Contents form and other analytical techniques (e.g. Fourier tested safely without affecting yield and reliability Summary. 1 Introduction. 2 Analog Properties of transform) commonly used on the factory floor for Includes necessary background information on Multi-Gate MOSFETs. 3 High-k Related Design signal processing design for test and low-power designIncorpo- Issues. 4 Multi-Gate Related Design Aspects. 5 rates detailed coverage of all levels of abstraction Multi-Gate Tunneling FETs. 6 Conclusions and Contents for power-aware testing of (low-power) circuits Outlook. Bibliography. List of Symbols. aknowl- Why wavelets.- From fourier transform to wavelet and systems edgement. transform.- Wavelet integrated with fourier transform: a spectral post-processing technique.- Fields of interest Fields of interest Wavelet-based multi-sensor data fusion.- Integra- Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided Engi- Circuits and Systems; Optical and Electronic tion of wavelet with fuzzy logic for machine defect neering (CAD, CAE) and Design Materials severity classification. Target groups Target groups Fields of interest Researchers and practitioners in embedded Electrical engineers working in semiconductor Signal Processing; Control, Robotics, Mecha- systems, and electronic design automation who industry, circuit designers focused on analog, tronics; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools are concerned with power-aware testing/testing of rf and mixed-signal circuits, people working on low-power devices semiconductor device and/or cmos technology/ Target groups process development Researchers and practicing engineers in the field Discount group of manufacturing, who are interested in applying P Discount group wavelet filtering P Discount group P
Engineering Engineering Engineering Due January 2010 Due December 2009 Due October 2009 2010. Approx. 150 p. (Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics, Volume 28) Hardcover 2010. Approx. 450 p. Hardcover 2010. X, 390 p. 222 illus. Hardcover $129.00 approx. $129.00 approx. $139.00 ISBN 978-90-481-3279-9 ISBN 978-1-4419-1544-3 ISBN 978-1-4419-0927-5 58 Engineering Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
W. Grabinski, GMC Suisse, Switzerland; D. Hong, Broadcom, Irvine, CA, USA; K. Cheng, P. G. Jespers, Université Catholique Louvain-la-Neuf, T. Gneiting, AdMOS, Germany (Eds) University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Belgium Power HVMOS Devices Efficient Test Methodologies The gm/ID Methodology, a Compact Modeling for High-Speed Serial Links sizing tool for low-voltage analog CMOS Circuits The semi-empirical and compact model Semiconductor power electronics plays a dominant Efficient Test Methodologies for High-Speed approaches role due its increased efficiency and high reliability Serial Links describes in detail several new and in various domains including the medium and promising techniques for cost-effectively testing high electrical drives, automotive and aircraft high-speed interfaces with a high test coverage. applications, electrical power conversion, etc. One primary focus of Efficient Test Methodologies In “The gm/ID Methodology, a Sizing Tool Power HV MOS Devices Compact Modeling will for High-Speed Serial Links is on efficient testing for Low-Voltage Analog CMOS Circuits”, we cover very extensive range of topics related to the methods for jitter and bit-error-rate (BER), which compare the semi-empirical to the compact development and characterization power/high are widely used for quantifying the quality of a model approach. Small numbers of parameters voltage (HV) semiconductor technologies as well communication system. Various analysis as well as make the compact model attractive for the model as modeling and simulations of the power/HV experimental results are presented to demonstrate paves the way towards analytic expressions unaf- devices and smart power integrated circuits (ICs). the validity of the presented techniques. fordable otherwise. The E.K.V model is a good Emphasis is placed on the practical applications of candidate, but when it comes to short channel the advanced semiconductor technologies and the Features devices, compact models are either inaccurate or device level compact/spice modeling. This book Overview of the state-of-the-art testing tech- loose straightforwardness. Because sizing requires is intended to provide reference information by niques for high-speed serial linksAnalysis basically a reliable large signal representation of selected, leading authorities in their domain of of clock and data recovery circuits’ characteristics MOS transistors, we investigate the potential of the expertise. They are representing both academia and their effects on system performance E.K.V model when its parameters are supposed and industry. All of them have been chosen Analysis of jitter characteristics and its to be bias dependent. The model-driven and because of their intimate knowledge of their measurement techniques semi-empirical methods are compared considering subjects as well as their ability to present them in the Intrinsic Gain Stage and a few more complex an easily understandable manner. Contents circuits. A series of MATLAB files contained in the Chapter 1 Intorduction.- Chapter 2 An Efficient CD-ROM allow redoing the tests. Features Jitter Measurement Technique.- Chapter 3 BER Highlights of practical details of the HVMOS Estimation for Linear Clock and Data Recovery Features transistors and power devices physicsReview Circuit.- Chapter 4 BER Estimation for Non- Sizing methodology for analog CMOS circuits of leading compact HVMOS models Details of Linear Clock and Data Recovery Circuit.- Chapter Low-voltage low-power circuitsLarge extensive numerical and spice level simulations 5 Gaps in Timing Margining Test.- Chapter 6 An signal compact modelling of submicron transistors Well balanced topics related to the HVMOS Accurate Jitter Estimation Technique.- Chapter 7 Parameter acquisitionOptimization technology, modelling and designsContribu- A Two-Tone Test Method for Continuous-Time tions of the world-class academic and industrial Adaptive Equalizers.- Chapter 8 Conclusions.- Fields of interest experts Appendix A. References. Circuits and Systems; Processor Architectures; Solid State Physics and Spectroscopy Fields of interest Fields of interest Circuits and Systems; Simulation and Modeling; Circuits and Systems; Register-Transfer-Level Target groups Optical and Electronic Materials Implementation Scientists, professionals, professors, design houses, academia (lecturers in microelectronics, design, Target groups Target groups circuits, modelling), PhD (same areas), graduates Graduate level students, researchers and profes- High-speed IO test engineer/researcher, analog (same areas), industry (design houses, IC firms) sionals active in semiconductor devices and mixed signal test engineer/researcher, high-speed modeling areas as well as circuit design IO design engineer/researcher, analog mixed signal Discount group design engineer/researcher, graduate students and P Discount group faculty in analog/mixed-signal design and test P Discount group P
Engineering Engineering Engineering Due January 2010 Due December 2009 Due January 2010 2010. Approx. 150 p. (Lecture Notes in Electrical 2010. Approx. 225 p. With CD-ROM. (Analog Circuits and 2010. Approx. 300 p. Hardcover Engineering, Volume 51) Hardcover Signal Processing) Hardcover approx. $119.00 $129.00 approx. $95.00 ISBN 978-90-481-3045-0 ISBN 978-90-481-3442-7 ISBN 978-0-387-47100-6 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Engineering 59
J. R. Klepaczko, Universite de Metz, France; G. Klinzing, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Z. Kotulski, W. Szczepinski, Polish Academy of T. Lodygowski, Poznan University of Technology, F. Rizk, BASF-AG, Ludwigshafen, Germany Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Poznan, Poland (Eds) Pneumatic Conveying Error Analysis with Advances in Constitutive of Solids Applications in Engineering Relations Applied in A theoretical and practical approach Computer Codes This book aims to present in the simplest possible manner those branches of error analysis which The book summaries the well established as well as Pneumatic conveying is one of the most popular find direct applications in solving various prob- the newest constitutive formulations that describe methods of handling bulk powdered and granular lems in engineering. The main reason for writing the variety of possible loadings beginning with materials in mining, chemical and agricultural this text was the lack of such an approach in quasi-static to impact. The rate dependence is industries. This 3rd edition of this successful book existing books dealing with error calculus. crucial in the description. The implementation of covers both theoretical and practical aspects of the discussed phenomenological physical laws into subject. It is unique in its blending of academic Features the environment of numerical codes is in focus materials and good industrial design techniques. Error analysis for two and three dimensional of presentation. Numerical examples proof the Each topic is covered in depth, with emphasis vector functions of random variables, application importance of using the new constitutive proper- placed on the latest techniques, hardware systems to robot manipulator positioning ties in design. and design and research methodology. Its compre- hensive worked examples and tables ensure that Fields of interest Contents the reader need not consult any other reference Structural Mechanics; Machinery and Machine Prefaces.- Janusz R. Klepaczko: Constitutive material. In this 3rd edition new chapters on simu- Elements; Probability Theory and Stochastic Relations in Dynamic Plasticity, Pure Metals and lation and modelling will be added, while the use Processes Alloys.- A. Luis Dorfmann: Modeling of Rubber- of tomography as a tool for monitoring pneumatic like Materials.- George Mejak: Imperfect Bonding conveying is also covered. Target groups with Nonpenetration Condition.- Tomasz Lody- Graduate and post-graduate students, researchers gowski: Selected Constitutive Relations in Practical Features working in mechanical engineering, mechatronics Computations. The book is unique in its blending of and geophysics academic and good industrial design techniques Fields of interest Comprehensive worked examplesTables Discount group Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; Engineering ensure that the reader need not consult any other P Design; Automotive and Aerospace Engineering reference materialIn the third edition of this successful title additional chapters on simulation Target groups and modelling and tomography are added Researchers Fields of interest Discount group Engineering Fluid Dynamics; Mechanical Engi- P neering; Engineering Design
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K. Kyamakya, W. A. Halang, H. Unger, J. C. Chedjou, C. P. Lim, L. C. Jain, University of South Australia, Y. S. Lin, C. Kao, H. Kuo, J. Chen, National Tsing Hua N. F. Rulkov, Z. Li (Eds) Adelaide, Australia; S. Dehuri, Yonsei University, University, HsinChu, Taiwan Seoul, Korea (Eds) Recent Advances in VLSI Design for Video Coding Nonlinear Dynamics and Innovations in Swarm H.264/AVC Encoding from Standard Synchronization Intelligence Specification to Chip Theory and Applications Over the past two decades, swarm intelligence High definition video requires substantial has emerged as a powerful approach to solving compression in order to be transmitted or stored The selected contributions of this book shed optimization as well as other complex problems. economically. Advances in video coding standards light on a series of interesting aspects related to Swarm intelligence models are inspired by social from MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 to H.264/AVC nonlinear dynamics and synchronization with the behaviours of simple agents interacting among have provided ever increasing coding efficiency, aim of demonstrating some of their interesting themselves as well as with the environment, e.g., at the expense of great computational complexity applications in a series of selected disciplines. flocking of birds, schooling of fish, foraging of bees which can only be delivered through massively This book contains thirteenth chapters which are and ants. The collective behaviours that emerge out parallel processing. organized around five main parts. The first part of the interactions at the colony level are useful in This book will present VLSI architectural design (containing five chapters) does focus on theoretical achieving complex goals. and chip implementation for high definition aspects and recent trends of nonlinear dynamics The main aim of this research book is to present a H.264/AVC video encoding, using a state-of-the- and synchronization. The second part (two sample of recent innovations and advances in tech- art video application, with complete VLSI proto- chapters) presents some modeling and simulation niques and applications of swarm intelligence. type, via FPGA/ASIC. It will serve as an invaluable issues through concrete application examples. The reference for anyone interested in VLSI design and third part (two chapters) is focused on the applica- Features high-level (EDA) synthesis for video. tion of nonlinear dynamics and synchronization Latest research on the theory and applications in transportation. The fourth part (two chapters) of swarm intelligence for the design of knowledge- Features presents some applications of synchronization in based systems Presents state-of-the-art VLSI architectural security-related system concepts. The fifth part design and chip implementation for high defini- (two chapters) considers further applications From the contents tion H.264/AVC video encodingEmploys areas, i.e. pattern recognition and communication Advances in Swarm Intelligence.- A Review of massively parallel processing to deliver up to 33 engineering. Particle Swarm Optimization Methods used for million pixels, with efficient design that can be Multimodal Optimization.- Bee Colony Optimiza- prototyped via FPGAEvery subsystem is Features tion (BCO).- Glowworm Swarm Optimization presented from standard specification, algorithmic Recent research on nonlinear Dynamics and for Searching Higher Dimensional Spaces.- Agent description, design considerations, timing plan- Synchronization Specialization in Complex Social Swarms.- ning, block diagram to test-bench verification Computational Complexity of Ant Colony Optimi- From the contents zation and its Hybridization with Local Search.- A Contents Part 1: Theoretical aspects and recent trends.- Multi-Resolution GA-PSO Layered Encoding Introduction to Video Coding with Emphasis on Part 2: Some modeling and simulation examples.- Cascade Optimization Model.- Integrating Swarm H.264/AVC.-Intra Prediction.-Integer Motion Part 3: Applications in transportation.- Part 4: Intelligent Algorithms for Translation Initiation Estimation.-Fractional Motion Estimation.-Motion Applications in security related system concepts. Sites Prediction.- Particle Swarm Optimization for Compensation.-Transform Coding.-Deblocking Optimal Operational Planning of Energy Plants. Filter.-CABAC Encoder.-System Integration. Fields of interest Numerical and Computational Methods in Engi- Fields of interest Fields of interest neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Circuits and Systems; Computer-Aided Engi- Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) neering (CAD, CAE) and Design Target groups Researchers, engineers, graduate students in Target groups Target groups computational intelligence, complexity, computer Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in Researchers and professionals science computational intelligence and computer science Discount group Discount group Discount group P P P
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R. Mauro P. Melin, Tijuana Institute of Technology, Chula N. T. Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Technology, Vista, CA, USA; J. Kacprzyk, PAN Warszawa, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Poland; E. Szczerbicki, The University of Calculation of Roundabouts Poland; W. Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia (Eds) Canada (Eds) Capacity, Waiting Phenomena and Reliability Intelligent Systems for Bio-Inspired Hybrid Knowledge Management Roundabouts have become one of the most Intelligent Systems for significant traffic control measures because they Image Analysis and are generally statistically safer and more efficient Pattern Recognition New approaches are needed that could move us than traditional at grade intersections. This book is towards developing effective systems for problem dedicated to the evaluation of the operating condi- solving and decision making, systems that can deal tions of roundabouts. In five parts, it thoroughly with complex and ill-structured situations, systems illustrates the calculation of the capacity,including Bio-Inspired Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Image that can function in information rich environ- reliability, and waiting phenomena parameters, Analysis and Pattern Recognition” comprises ments, systems that can cope with imprecise such as the times spent in the system and queue papers on diverse aspects of bio-inspired models, information, systems that can rely on their knowl- lengths. Fully worked examples are included soft computing and hybrid intelligent systems. The edge and learn from experience - i.e. intelligent throughout the chapters, with detailed explana- articles are divided in four main parts. The first systems. One of the main efforts in intelligent tions. one consists of papers that propose new fuzzy and systems development is focused on knowledge bio-inspired models to solve general problems. The and information management which is regarded Features second part deals with the main theme of modular as the crucial issue in smart decision making Detailed manual how to calculate the traffic on neural networks in pattern recognition, which are support. The 13 Chapters of this book represent a roundaboutsDemonstrates the calculation of basically papers using bio-inspired techniques. The sample of such effort. The overall aim of this book the capacity, waiting phenomena, the waiting times third part contains papers that apply hybrid intelli- is to provide guidelines to develop tools for smart and queue lengthsHelps to design the correct gent systems to the problem of time series analysis processing of knowledge and information. Still, the roundabout for a specific Traffic Problem and prediction, while the fourth one shows papers guide does not presume to give ultimate answers. dealing with bio-inspired models in optimiza- Rather, it poses ideas and case studies to explore Contents tion and robotics applications. An edited book and the complexities and challenges of modern Calculation of Roundabouts: Setting the Problem.- where both theoretical and application aspects are knowledge management issues. Capacity Evaluation.- Waiting Phenomena under covered. Stationary and Non-stationary Conditions.- Calcu- Features lation of Waiting Times, Queue Lengths and Levels Features Presents latest results on intelligent systems for of Service. Recent results in Bio-inspired hybrid intelligent knowledge management systems for Image Analysis and Pattern Recogni- Fields of interest tion From the contents Civil Engineering; Landscape/Regional and Urban Learning Automata-based Solutions to Stochastic Planning; Urbanism Fields of interest Nonlinear Resource Allocation Problems.- Neural Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Networks in Model Predictive Control.- Applica- Target groups Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); tion of a Multi-domain Knowledge Structure: Road and traffic designers, urban planners Signal Processing The Decisional DNA.- Intelligent-based Mobility Models for Data Management in Wireless Sensor Discount group Target groups Networks. P Researchers, engineers, graduate students in computational intelligence, ímage analyis, pattern Fields of interest recognition Appl. Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Database Management; Artificial Discount group Intelligence (incl. Robotics) P Target groups Researchers, engineers, graduate students in computational intelligence and computer science
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N. T. Nguyen, R. Katarzyniak, A. Janiak, Wroclaw O. Okun, University of Oulu, Finland; G. Valentini, M. Platzner, University of Paderborn, Germany; University Technology, Wroclaw, Poland (Eds) Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy (Eds) J. Teich, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; N. Wehn, Kaiserslautern University, New Challenges in Applications of Supervised Germany (Eds) Computational Collective and Unsupervised Ensemble Dynamically Reconfigurable Intelligence Methods Systems Architectures, Design Methods and The book consists of 29 chapters which have This book contains the extended papers presented Applications been selected and invited from the submissions at the 2nd Workshop on Supervised and Unsuper- to the 1st International Conference on Collec- vised Ensemble Methods and their Applications tive Intelligence - Semantic Web, Social Networks (SUEMA) held on 21-22 July, 2008 in Patras, Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems is the first Multiagent Systems (ICCCI 2009). All chapters in Greece, in conjunction with the 18th European ever to focus on the emerging field of Dynami- the book discuss various examples of applications Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI’2008). cally Reconfigurable Computing Systems. While of computational collective intelligence and related This workshop was a successor of the smaller programmable logic and design-time configu- technologies to such fields as semantic web, infor- event held in 2007 in conjunctionwith 3rd Iberian rability are well elaborated and covered by various mation systems ontologies, social networks, agent Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image texts, this book presents a unique overview over and muliagent systems. Analysis, Girona, Spain. The success of that event the state of the art and recent results for dynamic The editors hope that the book can be useful for as well as the publication of workshop papers in and run-time reconfigurable computing systems. graduate and Ph.D. students in Computer Science, the edited book “Supervised and Unsupervised Reconfigurable hardware is not only of utmost in particular participants to courses on Soft Ensemble Methods and their Applications”, importance for large manufacturers and vendors Computing, Multi-Agent Systems and Robotics. published by Springer-Verlag in Studies in Compu- of microelectronic devices and systems, but This book can also be useful for researchers tational Intelligence Series in volume 126, encour- also a very attractive technology for smaller and working on the concept of computational collec- aged us to continue a good tradition. medium-sized companies. Hence, Dynamically tive intelligence in artificial populations. It is the The purpose of this book is to support practitio- Reconfigurable Systems also addresses researchers hope of the editors that readers of this volume can ners in various branches of science and techology and engineers actively working in the field and find many inspiring ideas and use them to create to adopt the ensemble approach for their daily provides them with information on the newest new cases intelligent collectives. research work. developments and trends in dynamic and run-time reconfigurable systems. Features Features Latest research and new Challenges in Compu- Presents recent developments of Supervised Features tational Collective Intelligence and Unsupervised Ensemble Methods and Their The first ever to focus on the emerging field of ApplicationsExtended contributions from dynamically reconfigurable computingUnique From the contents SUEMA 2008 workshop and more overview on state-of-the-art and recent research Part 1: Semantic web.- Part 2: Ontology manage- resultsCovers all aspects: architectures, design ment and applications.- Part 3: Social networks.- From the contents methods and applications Part 4: Agent and multiagent systems.- Part 5: An Ensemble Pruning Primer.- Evade Hard Other applications. Multiple Classifier Systems.- A Personal Antispam Fields of interest System Based on a Behaviour-Knowledge Space Circuits and Systems; Programming Languages, Fields of interest Approach.- Weighted Decoding ECOC for Facial Compilers, Interpreters; Processor Architectures Numerical and Computational Methods in Engi- Action Unit Classification.- Prediction of Gene neering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Function Using Ensembles of SVMs and Heteroge- Target groups neous Data Sources. Graduate students in computer engineering, Target groups computer science and electrical engineering, Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in Fields of interest researchers, engineers computational intelligence and computer science Appl. Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Discount group Discount group P P Target groups Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in computational intelligence and computer science
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R. Prasad, CTIF, Aalborg University, Denmark (Ed) A. M. Puzrin, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; E. Alonso, Z. W. Ras, W. Ribarsky, University of North Carolina, N. Pinyol, UPC, Barcelona, Spain Charlotte, NC, USA (Eds) My personal Adaptive Global NET (MAGNET) Geomechanics of Failures Advances in Information and Intelligent Systems
The innovative concept of Personal Network (PN), The main goal of this introductory course is to which was introduced and developed in MAGNET, demonstrate how basic concepts in soil mechanics This volume gives an overview of research done finds in this book the first confirmation of the can be used as a “forensic” tool in the investigation by CCI faculty in the area of Information and success that the future of wireless communica- of geotechnical failures. This, in turn, provides a Intelligent Systems. Presented papers focus on tions is bound to achieve. The importance of this good opportunity to show how to use available recent advances in four major directions: Complex book is not only related to being the first work on procedures in the formulation of useful simple Systems, Knowledge Management, Knowledge PNs, it also gives an overview of operation of a big geotechnical models. Geotechnical failure is Discovery, and Visualization. A major reason for project, like MAGNET, and in fact the organisa- understood here in a broad sense as the failure of a producing this book was to demonstrate a new, tion of the book reflects how the project itself has structure to function properly due to a geotech- important thrust in academic research where been structured. My personal Adaptive Global nical reason. college-wide interdisciplinary efforts are brought NET (MAGNET) summarize all the steps taken Some of the geotechnical failures selected are to bear on large, general, and important problems. from the introduction of a user-centric perspective well known for their impact on the geotechnical As shown in the research described here, these until the implementation of PN-Fs (Federation of community. Others are closer to the authors’ efforts need not be formally organized joint under- Personal Networks), outlining the applications and experience. They have been organized into three takings (through parts could be) but are rather commercialisations of the new concepts carried main topics: Settlement, Bearing Capacity and a convergence of interests around grand themes. out of the project. Excavations. They cover a significant proportion Taken together, the sections and chapters in this of every day activities of professional geotechnical book reveal a variety of methods and tools that Features engineers. No attempt has been made to create a can be applied to quite diverse types of data and First book on personal networksOverview comprehensive handbook of failures. analysis problems but where each produces knowl- on existing and new communication standards edge and features that can be combined, organized, Describe the structure of an EU project Features explored, understood, and used in common ways Ideal textbook combining well-known (for example, through interactive visualization From the contents appealing cases with problems and solutions in a interfaces). List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. List of structural approach Partners in MAGNET and MAGNET Beyond. Features About the Editor. Acknowledgements. Abbrevia- From the contents Overview over the latest research in Informa- tions. Chapter 1. 1.1 The Concept of Personal Part I . Settlements.- Chapter 1 Interaction tion and Intelligent Systems by leading experts Networks. 1.2 The Concept of the PN-Federation. between neighboring structures: Mexico City.- 1.3 Optimised Air Interfaces for PAN, PN and Chapter 2 Unexpected Excessive Settlements: Contents PN-F Communications. 1.4 Security, Privacy and Kansai International Airport. Japan.- Chapter Part I: Complex Systems.- Part II: Knowledge Trust. 1.5 PN Platforms 1.6 Preview of This Book. 3 Leaning Instability: The Leaning Tower of Discovery.- Part III: Knowledge Management.- References. Chapter 2. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 User Pisa, Italy.- Part 11 . Bearing capacity.- Chapter4 Part IV: Visualization. Requirements. 2.3 User Profiles Profile Manage- Bearing Capacity Failure: Transcona Grain ment. 2.4 Implementation of GUIs, General Elevator, Canada. Fields of interest Services and Pilot services. 2.5 Evaluation. Appl. Mathematics/Computational Methods of Fields of interest Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Fields of interest Geotechnical Engineering; Applied Geosciences; Communications Engineering, Networks; Math. Applications in Geosciences Target groups Computer Systems Organization and Communica- Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in tion Networks Target groups computational intelligence and computer science University students at graduate and postgraduate Target groups level as well as lecturers in civil engineering (ce)/ Discount group Researchers and professionals in the area of wire- geotechnical engineering/geological engineering P less networks and wireless communications (ge), professional engineers in the field of geotech- nical, civil and geological engineering Discount group P Discount group P
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M. Schenk, Otto-von-Guericke-University of K. Schmitt, P. F. Niederer, M. H. Muser, F. Walz, V. V. Silberschmidt, Loughborough University, UK Magdeburg; S. Wirth, E. Müller, Chemnitz ETH Zürich, Switzerland (Ed) University of Technology Trauma Biomechanics Computational and Factory Planning Manual Accidental injury in traffic and sports Experimental Mechanics of Situation-Driven Production Facility Planning Advanced Materials
Trauma biomechanics uses the principles of This book describes the factory planning process mechanics to study the response and toler- Advanced materials play a crucial role in modern with its manifold practical characteristics. Previous ance level of biological tissues under extreme engineering applications where they are often planning approaches only emanate from the loading conditions. Through an understanding of exposed to complex loading and environmental product model. Future plannings need to allow mechanical factors that influence the function and conditions. In many cases, new approaches are for dissimilarity of an individual factory more structure of human tissues, countermeasures can needed to characterise these materials and to strongly, i.e. the factory will feature even more be developed to alleviate or even eliminate such model their behaviour. Such approaches should be individual characteristics according to its position injuries. Trauma Biomechanics surveys a wide calibrated and validated by specific experimental in the value-added chain. With the methodology variety of topics in injury biomechanics including techniques, quantifying both microstructural presented in the book new factory types can be injury classification, injury mechanisms and features and respective mechanisms at various realized according to the respective requirements. injury criteria. Both injuries sustained in automo- length scales. The book provides an overview The described methodology has been developed tive accidents and in sports are addressed. The of modern modelling tools and experimental by the authors. Being an extendible concept, it is interdisciplinary approach necessary in trauma methods that can be employed to analyse and very useful for the permanent excess planning, biomechanics is stressed by showing the span from estimate properties and performance of advanced rescheduling and replanning of factories. anatomy for each body region to engineering solu- materials. A special feature of the book is the tions for protection against injury. Injury toler- analysis of case studies used to demonstrate the Features ance values are listed, either currently in use or strategies of solving the real-life problems, in A practical guide with case studies and check proposed by both the U.S. and European countries. which the microstructure of materials directly lists Although the book is meant as a first introduction affects their response to loading and/or environ- for engineers and medical doctors, sufficient refer- mental conditions. The reader will benefit from Contents ences for scientific research are provided also. a detailed analysis of various methods as well as Introduction.- Systematic and Situation-Driven their implementation for dealing with various Planning Methods.- The 0+5+X Planning Model.- Features advanced materials. Material Flow and Logistics.- Situation-Driven Essential text, providing both an introduction Solutions Case Studies.- Appendices.- Index. and overview of injury biomechanics including From the contents sport injuriesTried and tested material arises P. D. Ruiz, V. V. Silberschmidt: Experimental Anal- Fields of interest from a course that is held similarly at several Euro- ysis of Mechanical Behaviour of Advanced Mate- Manufacturing, Machines, Tools; Engineering pean and American UniversitiesNo previous rials.- G. S. Mishuris, A. B. Movchan, L. I. Slepyan: Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing knowledge in biomechanics requiredThird Localization and Dynamic Defects in Lattice revised edition gives many worked examples and Structures.- M. Jabareen, M. B. Rubin: A 3-D Brick Target groups problems for home work exercises Cosserat Point Element (CPE) for Nonlinear Elas- Engineers in industry and planning, rationaliza- ticity.- E. Busso: Multiscale Approaches: From the tion, technical management in production and Fields of interest Nanomechanics to the Micromechanics. logistics, and in construction, civil engineers Biomedical Engineering; Structural Mechanics; in planning facilities, students of (technical) Forensic Medicine Fields of interest universities and colleges and universities of applied Appl. Mathematics/Computational Methods sciences Target groups of Engineering; Continuum Mechanics and Students and beginners in biomedical and automo- Mechanics of Materials; Mechanics Discount group tive engineering, doctors and lawyers P Target groups Discount group Researchers, practicing R & D engineers P Discount group P
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C. Silva, B. Ribeiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal S. Sojoudi, J. Lavaei, A. G. Aghdam, California P. Stavroulakis, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA Greece; M. Stamp, San Jose State University, San Inductive Inference for Large Jose, CA, USA (Eds) Structurally Constrained Scale Text Classification Handbook of Information and Kernel Approaches and Techniques Controllers Analysis and Synthesis Communication Security
Text classification is becoming a crucial task to Structurally Constrained Controllers: Analysis and The Handbook of Information and Commu- analysts in different areas. In the last few decades, Synthesis studies the control of interconnected nication Security provides I C professionals, the production of textual documents in digital systems with a particular application in network, researchers as well as students with quickly form has increased exponentially. Their applica- power systems, flight formations, etc. It introduces retrievable information on relevant security tions range from web pages to scientific docu- four important problems regarding the control of topics. Its main parts are written from a general ments, including emails, news and books. Despite such systems and then proposes proper techniques technological perspective and are applicable to the widespread use of digital texts, handling them for solving them. most computer network and telecommunication is inherently difficult - the large amount of data systems. This presentation is complemented by an necessary to represent them and the subjectivity of Features extensive description of applications in real imple- classification complicate matters. Explains and investigates recent cutting edge mentations as well as legal and political aspects. This book gives a concise view on how to use applications including such topics as formation The combination of the two editors ensures a kernel approaches for inductive inference in large flyingComplete coverage of robust control in well-balanced mix of American and European, scale text classification; it presents a series of structurally constrained controllersDiscusses electrical engineering and computer science views. new techniques to enhance, scale and distribute the performance evaluation of decentralized text classification tasks. It is not intended to be a controllersExplains how to use new LMI Features comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art of method to solve traditional constrained control Comprehensive handbook on all practically the whole field of text classification. Its purpose is problems relevant I C security topicsCovers computers, less ambitious and more practical: to explain and computer networks, and telecommunications illustrate some of the important methods used Contents Contains an extensive applications part in this field, in particular kernel approaches and Introduction.- Optimal information exchange Mostly technical, but deals also with legal and techniques. in overlapping control systems.- Characterizing political aspects all classes of LTI stabilizing overlapping control- Features lers.- Robust control of LTI systems by means of Contents Presents recent research in inductive inference structurally constrained controllers.- Performance Part A Fundamentals and Cryptography.- for Large Scale Text Classification evaluation of decentralized controllers. Part B Intrusion Detection and Access Control.- Part C Networking.- Part D Optical Networking.- Fields of interest Fields of interest Part E Wireless Networking.- Part F Software.- Appl. Mathematics/Computational Methods of Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Systems Part G Forensics and Legal Issues.- Subject Index. Engineering; Document Preparation and Text Theory, Control; Calculus of Variations and Processing; Computational Linguistics Optimal Control Fields of interest Communications Engineering, Networks; Data Target groups Target groups Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Researchers, engineers, graduate students in Graduate students and researchers interested in Systems and Data Security computational intelligence and computer science the area of control systems Target groups Discount group Discount group Electrical Engineers and computer experts in P P information communications, researchers and students in EE and computer science
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H. A. Talebi, F. Abdollahi, R. V. Patel, K. Khorasani Y. N. Toulouevski, Holland Landing, Canada; S. Tzafestas, School of Electrical & Computer I. Y. Zinurov, Chelyabinsk, Russia Engineering (SECE)/Institute of Communication & Neural Network-Based State Computer Systems (ICCS), Athens, Greece Estimation of Nonlinear Innovation in Electric Arc Furnaces Human and Nature Minding Systems Automation Application to Fault Detection and Isolation Scientific Basis for Selection An Overview of Concepts, Methods, Tools and Applications Electric Arc Furnaces are being greatly improved “Neural Network-Based State Estimation of at a fast pace. This book equips a reader with Nonlinear Systems” presents efficient, easy to knowledge necessary for critical analysis of these This book examines the “symbiosis” of automa- implement neural network schemes for state esti- innovations and helps to select the most effective tion and technology with the human and the mation, system identification, and fault detection ones and for their successful implementation. nature towards the ultimate goal of assuring global and Isolation with mathematical proof of stability, The book also covers general issues related to sustainability. Throughout the years a variety of experimental evaluation, and Robustness against history of development, current state and pros- approaches, technologies and practices have been unmolded dynamics, external disturbances, and pects of steelmaking in Electric Arc Furnaces. produced in the direction of achieving human-and measurement noises. Therefore, it can be useful for everybody who nature-minding automation and industrial activity. studies metallurgy, including students of colleges In this book an attempt is made, for the first time, Features and universities. to present in a cohesive and consolidated way an Presents both the Linear-in-Parameter The modern concepts of mechanisms of Arc overview of all these issues together, and show Neural Network based observer and the Furnace processes are presented by numerous how they combine to provide human-and nature- Nonlinear-in-Parameter Neural Network based journal articles and conference proceedings. These minding (green) systems. observer approaches to nonlinear systems materials are difficult of access for a practicing Human-minding automation is possible by Discusses the neural network structure for engineer or metallurgist. employing concepts and techniques from the fault detection actuators using an application human factors and ergonomics fields, including to satellite attitude control systems and robotic Features job satisfaction, human-friendly interfaces, and manipulatorsDiscusses robust sensor and Provides the knowledge to critically assess the human values, whereas nature-minding industrial actuator fault detection and estimation furnace innovationsDiscusses concepts at activity and human development can be achieved the level sufficient to solve practical problems by considering as a whole the human, economic, Contents Allows the reader to perform required calcula- natural and cultural resources in the short and Introduction.- Observation (LPNN and NPNN).- tions without any difficulties long term. Identification (LPNN and NPNN).- Actuator Fault Detection and Isolation: Experiments in From the contents Features Robotic Manipulators.- A Robust Actuator Gain History of Development and Prospects of Steel- This book presents a compehensive survey of Fault Detection and Isolation Scheme.- A Robust making in Electric Arc Furnaces.- Technology the fundamental humanistic and environmental Sensor and Actuator Fault Detection and Estima- and Power Engineering of Modern Furnaces.- Arc concepts in a consolidated way, and shows how tion: Application to a Satellite’s Attitude Control Furnace as Thermal Unit.- Fundamental Laws and they combine to provide human and nature Subsystem.- Preliminary Definitions.- Neural Calculation Formulae of Heat Transfer Processes.- minding automation systemsThe depth of Network Learning Rules for Theorem 6.1.- Stability Energy (Heat) Balances of Furnaces.- Criteria presentation is suitable for human automation and Conditions of Theorem 6.1-Part 2. of Energy Effectiveness.- Preheating of Scrap by environmentally conscious courses as an introduc- Burners and Off Gases.- Replacement of Electric tory text, and also for independent study Fields of interest Arcs with Burners.- Basic Physical Chemistry Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Systems Processes in the Liquid Bath: Process Mechanisms. 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X. Yan, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK; Y. Xu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China Chemical Vapour Deposition An Integrated Engineering Design for Advanced Materials
“Chemical Vapour Deposition: An Integrated Engineering Design for Advanced Materials” focuses on the application of this technology to engineering coatings and, in particular, to the manufacture of high performance materials, such as fibre reinforced ceramic composite materials, for structural applications at high temperatures. This book aims to provide a thorough explora- tion of the design and applications of advanced materials, and their manufacture in engineering. From physical fundamentals and principles, to optimization of processing parameters and other current practices, this book is designed to guide readers through the development of both high performance materials and the design of CVD systems to manufacture such materials. “Chemical Vapour Deposition: An Integrated Engineering Design for Advanced Materials” introduces integrated design and manufacture of advanced materials to researchers, industrial prac- titioners, postgraduates and senior undergraduate students.
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T. Belloni, INAF, Merate, Italy (Ed) R. Dvorak, University of Vienna, Austria; W. Fitzgibbon, Y. Kuznetsov, University of Houston, J. J. Souchay, Observatoire de Paris, France (Eds) TX, USA; P. Neittaanmäki, J. Périaux, University of The Jet Paradigm Jyvaskyla, Finland; O. Pironneau, UPMC, Paris, France (Eds) From Microquasars to Quasars Dynamics of Small Solar System Bodies and Exoplanets Applied and Numerical Partial
These Lecture Notes focus on the physics of rela- Differential Equations tivistic jet sources in the universe, from galactic This book offers an up-to-date overview of current Scientific Computing in Simulation, microquasars to active galactic nuclei (AGN). The research on Dynamics of Small Solar System Optimization and Control in a early 21st century is an epoch in which a large Bodies and Exoplanets. In course-tested extensive Multidisciplinary Context number of high-energy astronomical missions are chapters the authors cover topics of theoretical underway (RossiXTE, Chandra, XMM-Newton, celestial mechanics, physics and dynamics of aster- INTEGRAL, Swift, Suzaku). The wealth of X-ray oids, comets, stability of exoplanets and numerical and gamma-ray data, coupled with ground-based integration codes applied in dynamical astronomy. The book brings together state of the art papers in observations in the optical/IR/radio bands, nonlinear PDEs with applications to: dynamical provides an increasing amount of information Contents systems, CFD, computational mechanics, bio on microquasars, allowing the investigation of Resonances: Models and Captures.- The engineering, bio mathematics, medical applica- the physical processes for the formation and the Lyapounov Characteristic Exponents and Their tions, reduction models, optimal control, and evolution of relativistic jets, as well as their relation computation.- Asteroid Families.- The Dynamics mathematical finances. to the accretion process. The information obtained of the Troyan Asteroids.- The GAIA Mission: from galactic relativistic jet systems is particu- Expected Results for Asteroid Studies.- The Physics Features larly important in that it can be compared with of Asteroids and Their Junction With Dynamics.- State of the art in advanced mathematical that from active galactic nuclei. The comparative Comet Dynamics.- Dyanmical Features of modelling and simulation methodsDomain study of these two classes of objects allows us to the Oort Cloud Comets.- An Introduction to specific innovations in acoustics, computational overcome their separate intrinsic limitations and is Common Numerical Integration Codes Used in mechanics, electromagnetics, mathematical the only way to arrive at a comprehensive under- Dynamical Astronomy.- Dynamic Stability of finance, biomedical engineering, and population standing of the accretion/ejection phenomenon. Extra-Solar Planets. biologyA multidisciplinary approach
Contents Fields of interest Fields of interest Microquasars: Summary and Outlook.- X-ray Astrophysics; Mathematical Methods in Physics; Mathematical and Computational Physics; Emission From Black-Hole Binaries.- States and Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences Numerical and Computational Methods; Partial Transitions in Black-Hole Binaries.- Radio Emis- Differential Equations sion and Jets From Microquasars.- “Disc-jet” Target groups Coupling in Black Hole X-ray Binaries and Active Graduate students, lecturers, researchers Target groups Galactic Nuclei.- From Multiwavelength to Mass Applied mathematicians, computer scientists, Scaling: Accretion and Ejection in Microquasars Discount group computational engineers, graduate students and AGN.- Jets in Active Galactiv Nuclei.- X-ray P Variability of AGN and Relationship to Galactic Discount group Black Hole Binary Systems.- Theory of Magneti- P cally Powered Jets.- General Relativistic MHD Jets.- Index.
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P. Garcia, Centro de Astrofisica da Universidada do P. K. Grieder, University of Bern, Switzerland A. N. Hopersky, V. A. Yavna, Rostov State University Porto Rua das estrelas, Porto, Portugal; J. Ferreira, of Transport Communication, Rostov-on-Don, Russia Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto Rua Extensive Air Showers das estrelas, Porto, Portugal (Eds) High Energy Phenomena and Astrophysical Scattering of Photons by Jets from Young Stars IV Aspects - A Tutorial, Reference Manual and Many-Electron Systems Data Book From Models to Observations and Experiments This book deals with quantum physical calcula- Extensive air showers are a very unique phenom- tions of anomalous scattering of photons by bound enon. In the more than six decades since their electrons. The main attention is paid to studies Research on astronomical jets has largely been discovery by Auger and collaborators we have of the process of photon scattering in the energy conducted within the domain of astronomical learned a lot about these extremely energetic range of deep levels of such many-electron systems observations and astrophysical modeling and events and gained deep insight into high-energy as atoms, atomic ions and simple molecules. numerical simulations. However, the recent advent phenomena, particle physics and astrophysics. The book is written for scientists and graduate of high-energy density facilities has added experi- In this Tutorial, Reference Manual and Data students, working in the field of atomic and mental control to jet studies. Book Peter K. F. Grieder provides the reader with molecular spectroscopy, physics of plasmas, lasers, Testing models for jet launching and collimation a comprehensive view of the phenomenology solid state, ionizing radiation and astrophysics. requires a highly interdisciplinary approach and and facts of the various types of interactions and It can also be used as additional textbook for a sophistication. Indeed, closing the circle between cascades, theoretical background, experimental special topic of quantum mechanics. pure magnetohydrodynamics, thermo-chemical methods, data evaluation and interpretation and evolution, high angular resolution spectro-imaging air shower simulation. He discusses astrophysical Features and laboratory experiments is not trivial. This aspects of the primary radiation and addresses Only book on theoretical studies of the role of volume seeks to bridge these gaps by providing remaining puzzling questions that cannot yet be many-particle effects in the process of anomalous a series of lectures linking the foundations of the answered. They remain as a challenge for present elastic scattering of x-ray photons by deep electron discipline. and future research in the field. shells of atoms, atomic ions and molecules
Contents Features Contents Laboratory Astrophysics and Scaling.- Laboratory Comprehensive Tutorial, Reference Manual Results of the studies of the anomalous elastic Studies of Astrophysical Jets.- Output From MHD and Data Book giving a thorough overview of scattering of an X-ray photon by a many-electron models.- Coronal Heating.- Flows in Molecular phenomonolgy, facts, experiments of cosmic ray system.- Many-particle processes in anomalous Media.- The Ionisation and Excitation State of triggered extensive air showers and shows the elastic scattering of an.- The effect of the Auger Stellar Outflows.- Deriving Physical Dyagnostics history of the fieldExtensive up-to-date refer- decay of a deep vacancy in anomalous elastic From Observations. ence lists at the end of each chapterThe book scattering ofan X-ray photon by an atom.- Many- reflects the author’s breadth of comprehension particle and orientation effects in anomalous Fields of interest and his high engagement as active researcher in elastic scattering of an X-ray photon by a linear Astronomy; Astrophysics; Extraterrestrial Physics, the field molecule.- Conclusion. Space Sciences Fields of interest Fields of interest Target groups Elementary Particles and Nuclei; Extraterrestrial Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices; Graduate students, lecturers, researchers Physics, Space Sciences; Astrophysics Quantum Physics
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A. A. Kamal, Murphy, TX, USA Landolt-Börnstein Landolt-Börnstein 1000 Solved Problems in Numerical Data and Functional Relationships Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology – New Series in Science and Technology – New Series Modern Physics Editor-in-chief: W. Martienssen Editor-in-chief: W. Martienssen
This book basically caters to the needs of under- graduates and graduates physics students in the Group 3 Group 3 area of modern physics, specially particle and nuclear physics. Lecturers/tutors may use it as a Condensed Matter Condensed Matter resource book. The contents of the book are based on the syllabi currently used in the undergraduate courses in USA, U.K., and other countries. The Volume 27 Volume 40 book is divided into 10 chapters, each chapter beginning with a brief but adequate summary Magnetic Properties of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and necessary formulas, tables and line diagrams followed by a variety of typical problems useful Non-Metallic Inorganic Data for assignments and exams. Detailed solutions are Compounds Based on (Supplement to III/35) provided at the end of each chapter. Transition Elements R. R. Gupta, V. Gupta, M. D. Lechner (Ed.) Features Excercise book for physics studentsCovers H. Wijn (Ed.) Subvolume A a large part of physics lectures except optics Well chosen and didactically solved prob- Subvolume I R. Pardasani, P. Pardasani, Jaipur, M. D. Lechner, lems to physics courses in the US, GB and other Osnabrück; V. Gupta, Jaipur (Eds) countriesUseful to students to deepen their H. Wijn (Ed.) knowledge Chemical Shifts and Coupling Part 6 Contents Constants for Boron-11 Preface.- Mathematical Physics.- Quantum E. Burzo, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; H. P. Wijn, Mechanics I.- Quantum Mechanics II.- Ther- Waalre, The Netherlands (Eds) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is based modynamics and Statistical Physics.- Solid State on the fact that certain nuclei exhibit a magnetic Physics.- Special Theory of Relativity.- Nuclear Magnetic Properties of moment, oriented by a magnetic field, and absorb Physics I.- Nuclear PhysicsII.- Particle Physics I.- characteristic frequencies in the radiofrequency Particle Physics II. Tectosilicates part of the spectrum. The spectral lines of the nuclei are highly influenced by the chemical Fields of interest Features environment, i.e. the structure and interaction of Physics, general; Elementary Particles and Nuclei; Standard reference book with selected and the molecules. NMR is now the leading technique Atoms, Molecules, Clusters and Plasmas easily retrievable data from the fields of physics and a powerful tool for the investigation of the and chemistry C structure and interaction of molecules. Target groups Advanced students, academic libraries Contents Fields of interest Magnetic and related properties of silicates and Solid State Physics and Spectroscopy Discount group phosphates.- Six chapters for different types of P Tectosilicates.- Figures, tables and references for Target groups each chapter. Scientists and engineers in the fields of physics, chemistry, and physical chemistry who intend to Fields of interest use NMR to study the structure and the binding of Electromagnetism, Optics and Lasers molecules
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Landolt-Börnstein C. Lehner, J. Renn, M. Schemmel, Max Planck T. Mahoney, IAC, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain (Ed) Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany Numerical Data and Functional Relationships (Eds) Gazetteer and Atlas of in Science and Technology – New Series Einstein and the Changing Astronomy Editor-in-chief: W. Martienssen Worldviews of Physics A Compendium of Astronomical Nomenclature
Group 3 Features Contributions form notable experts offer both This combined gazetteer and atlas lists, defines and Condensed Matter new and historical insights on relativity, gravity, illustrates, for the first time, every named object quantum theoryfield theory and the history of in the sky within a single reference work for use Volume 43 physicsTopics give detailed mathematical by the general reader, writers and editors dealing discussions of relativityExplores recent devel- with astronomical themes, and those astrono- Crystal Structures of Inorganic opments and applications in the general theory of mers concerned with any aspect of astronomical Compounds relativity nomenclature. From the contents Fields of interest P. Villars, K. Cenzual (Ed.) Editor’s Introduction.- At the Limits of the Clas- Astronomy; Planetology; Astrophysics sical Worldview.- Theories of Gravitation in the Subvolume A Twilight of Classical Physics.- The Newtonian Target groups Theory of Light Propagation.- Mach and Einstein, Researchers in astronomy and planetology, cartog- Structure Types or, Clearing Troubled Waters in the History of raphers, linguists; all those who write professional Science.- Contexts of the Relativity Revolution.- astronomical literature in english and want to P. Villars, K. Cenzual (Ed.) Tilling the Seedbed of Einstein’s Politics: A pre- know how a name of any object in the sky is used, 1905 Harbinger?- The Early Reception of Einstein’s pronounced in english, and where it stems from Part 9 Relativity Among British Philosophers.- Repercus- sions of Einstein’s Visit in the South American Discount group P. Villars (Ed) Countries.- The Reception of Einstein’s Relativity P Theories in Literature and the arts (1920–1950).- Part A 9 The Emergence of the Relativistic Worldview.- Hilbert’s Axiomatic Method and his “Foundations Features of Physics”: Reconciling Causality with the Axiom Standard reference book with selected and of General Invariance. easily retrievable data from the fields of physics and chemistry collected by acknowledged interna- Fields of interest tional scientistsAlso available online in www. History of Physics; Relativity and Cosmology; springerLink.comhttp://www.landolt-boern- Philosophy of Science stein.com Target groups Fields of interest Science historians, math physicists, grad students, Condensed Matter and Material Sciences; Crystal- cosmologists lography Discount group Target groups P Researchers and professionals
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M. Ohtsu, The University of Tokyo, Japan (Ed) B. Nölting, Prussian Private Institute of Technology at S. G. Rabinovich, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, NJ, USA Berlin, Germany Progress in Evaluating Measurement Nano-Electro-Optics VII Methods in Modern Accuracy Chemical, Biological, and Nanophotonic Biophysics A Practical Approach Technologies for Nano-Optical Devices and Systems Incorporating recent dramatic advances, this “Evaluating Measurement Accuracy” is intended textbook presents a fresh and timely introduction for anyone who is concerned with measurements to modern biophysical methods. An array of new, in any field of science or technology. It reflects the This book focuses on chemical and nanopho- faster and higher-power biophysical methods now latest developments in metrology and offers new tonic technology to be used to develop novel enables scientists to examine the mysteries of life results, but is designed to be accessible to readers nano-optical devices and systems. It begins with at a molecular level. This innovative text surveys at different levels: meteorologists, engineers and temperature- and photo-induced phase transition and explains the ten key biophysical methods, experimental scientists who use measurements as of ferromagnetic materials. Further topics include: including those related to biophysical nano- tools in their professions, graduate and under- energy transfer in artificial photosynthesis, technology, scanning probe microscopy, X-ray graduate students in the natural sciences and homoepitaxial multiple quantum wells in ZnO, crystallography, ion mobility spectrometry, mass engineering, and technicians performing complex near-field photochemical etching and nanopho- spectrometry, proteomics, and protein folding and measurements in industry, quality control, and tonic devices based on a nonadiabatic process and structure. Incorporating much information previ- trade. optical near-field energy transfer, respectively and ously unavailable in tutorial form, Nölting employs The material of the book is presented from the polarization control in the optical near-field for worked examples and about 270 illustrations to practical perspective and offers solutions and optical information security. Taken as a whole, this fully detail the techniques and their underlying recommendations for problems that arise in overview will be a valuable resource for engineers mechanisms. conducting real-life measurements. This inclu- and scientists working in the field of nano-electro- sion is a notable and unique aspect of this title optics. Features as complex measurements done in industry and Presents novel information which cannot be trade are often neglected in metrological literature, Features found in other textbooks and monographs leaving the practitioners of these measurements to Presents the current state of the art in nano- Provides one of the most up to date presenta- devise their own ad-hoc techniques. optics and near field techniquesDisplays the tions of current biophysicsOnly book which applications of nanooptics in chemical, biological, covers all of the 10 currently most important Features and nanosciences useful reference to researchers biophysical methodsDetails exciting recent The only comprehensive reference for measure- and graduate students discoveries and developments in the fields of ment data processingProposes methods for biophysical nanotechnology, scanning probe including the effects of the instruments metro- Contents microscopy ion mobility spectrometry, mass spec- logical characteristics in the evaluation of the Photo-induced phase transition in RbMnFe trometry and proteomics accuracy of measurementsBrings the analysis Prussion blue analog-based magnet.- Photo- of the problems of measurement data processing induced energy transfer in artificial photosynthetic Fields of interest to the level of practical recommendations easily systems.- Electro-magneto-optics in polarity- Biophysics/Biomedical Physics; Biotechnology; applied by practitioners controlled quantum structures on ZnO.- Nonadia- Biochemistry, general batic near-field optical polishing and energy Fields of interest transfers in spherical quantum dots.- Shaped-engi- Target groups Measurement Science, Instrumentation; Char- neered nanostructures for polarization control in 4th year undergraduate students, graduate acterization and Evaluation of Materials; Quality optical near- and far-fields. students, postdocs, lecturers, and researchers in Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk biophysics, biochemistry, general biology and Fields of interest structural biology, molecular biology, physics, Target groups Nanotechnology; Optical Spectroscopy, Ultrafast medical physics, medicine, biotechnology, physical Experimental research scientists in the natural Optics; Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Optical chemistry, bioinformatics, environmental tech- sciences as well as in engineering fields where Devices nology and pharmacy; researchers and librarians measurements are used as a tool in pharmaceutical companies and environmental Target groups technology companies Discount group Scientists, optical engineers and graduate students P Discount group Discount group P P
Materials Science Physics and Astronomy Physics and Astronomy Due December 2009 Due October 2009 Due December 2009 2010. Approx. 180 p. 100 illus. (Springer Series in Optical Sciences, Volume 155) Hardcover 3rd.ed. 2009. I, 300 p. Softcover 2010. Approx. 270 p. 17 illus. Hardcover $129.00 $69.95 $129.00 ISBN 978-3-642-03950-8 ISBN 978-3-642-03021-5 ISBN 978-1-4419-1455-2 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Physics/Astronomy 73
S. Sarkar, Variable Energy Cyclotron Center, Kolkata, P. Steinmann, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, J. Strzalko, J. Grabski, P. Perlikowski, A. Stefanski, India; H. Satz, Universität Bielefeld, Germany; Erlangen, Germany (Ed) T. Kapitaniak, Technical University of Lódz, Poland B. Sinha, Variable Energy Cyclotron Center, Kolkata, India (Eds) IUTAM Symposium on Dynamics of Gambling: The Physics of the Quark- Progress in the Theory and Origins of Randomness in Gluon Plasma Numerics of Configurational Mechanical Systems Mechanics Introductory Lectures Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in This monograph presents a concise discussion of Erlangen, Germany, October 20-24, 2008 the dynamics of mechanical randomizers (coin The aim of this book is to offer to the next genera- tossing, die throwing and roulette). The authors tion of young researchers a broad and largely self- derive the equations of motion, also describing contained introduction to the physics of heavy ion Proceedings of IUTAM Symposium on Progress collisions and body contacts. It is shown and collisions and the quark-gluon plasma, providing in the Theory and Numerics of Configurational emphasized that, from the dynamical point of material beyond that normally found in the avail- Forces. view, outcomes are predictable, i.e. if an expe- able textbooks. rienced player can reproduce initial conditions For each of the main aspects - QCD thermody- Features with a small finite uncertainty, there is a good namics and global features of the QGP, collision IUTAM symposia collect the state of the art in chance that the desired final state will be obtained. hydrodynamics, electromagnetic probes, jet and the topic by the leading experts in the field Finally, readers learn why mechanical randomizers quarkonium production, color glass condensate, can approximate random processes and benefit and the gravity connection - the present volume Fields of interest from a discussion of the nature of randomness in provides extensive and pedagogical lectures, Numerical and Computational Methods; mechanical systems. In summary, the book not surveying the present status of both theory and Mechanics; Thermodynamics only provides a general analysis of random effects experiment. in mechanical (engineering) systems, but addresses A particular feature of this volume is that all Target groups deep questions concerning the nature of random- lectures have been written with the active assis- Scientists in the area of continuum mechanics and ness, and gives potentially useful tips for gamblers tance of selected students present at the course in computational mechanics and the gaming industry. order to ensure the adequate level and coverage for the intended readership. Discount group Features P Detailed and revealing information for Contents gamblers and the gaming industryAddresses The Thermodynamics of Quarks and Gluons.- deep questions concerning the nature of random- Global Properties of Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions.- nessUseful for the general analysis of random Two Introductory Lectures on High Energy QCD effects in mechanical (engineering) systems and Heavy Ion Collisions.- Hydrodynamics and Flow.- An Introduction to the Spectral Analysis of From the contents the QGP.- Quarkonium Production and Absorp- Introduction.- Predictability in deterministic tion in Proton-Nucleus Collisions.- Electromag- and random dynamical systems.- Mechanical netic Probes.- Measuring Dimuons Produced in randomizers - history, type of games, how fair they Proton-Nucleus Collisions With the NA 60 Experi- are.- Dynamical models.- Simulation results.- Why ment at the SPS.- High-pt Hadron Suppression are mechanical randomizers predictable? and Jet Quenching.- In Search of the QCD-Gravity Correspondence. Fields of interest Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Fields of interest Mechanics; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons; Elementary Theory Particles, Quantum Field Theory; Physics beyond the Standard Model Target groups Engineers in academia and industry, scientists, Target groups advanced students, libraries Graduate students, lecturers, researchers Discount group Discount group P P
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M. Tsamparlis, University of Athens, Zografos, Greece R. Vergara Caffarelli, University of Pisa, Italy S. Volz, Ecole Centrale Paris, Châtenay Malabry, France (Ed) Special Relativity Galileo and motion An Introduction with 500 Problems and A history of Galileo’s ideas and discoveries Thermal Nanosystems and Solutions Nanomaterials
The theory of Special Relativity, although a century Among the many books on Galileo Galilei only Heat transfer laws for conduction, radiation and old, it is still a theory which has yet a long way very few deal directly and in depth with his scien- convection change when the dimensions of the to go. Special Relativity is the ground on which tific accomplishments proper. This is one of them systems in question shrink. The altered behav- Particle Physics and General Relativity are based and among the correspondingly sparse literature iours can be used efficiently in energy conver- and constitutes an everyday laboratory practice. the author of this work distinguishes himself sion, respectively bio- and high-performance It is therefore important that the new physicist by focusing on mechanics, in particular on the materials to control microelectronic devices. To will understand it properly and deeply, while at fundamental concept of motion and percussion understand and model those thermal mechanisms, the same time will be able to use it effectively as a - having performed crucial original experiments specific metrologies have to be established. This working tool. and in Galileo´s spirit. Indeed, while the author book provides an overview of actual devices and The first part of this book develops the necessary lets Galilei speak for himself when he explains his materials involving micro-nanoscale heat transfer mathematics with emphasis on tensor analysis and experiments and findings, he also makes full use of mechanisms. These are clearly explained and differential geometry on the flat Minkowski space, our present day knowledge of physics to make the exemplified by a large spectrum of relevant phys- and contains useful material that can serve as a reader better understand the perspective. ical models, while the most advanced nanoscale quick reference tool as well. The result of this very fine understanding is an thermal metrologies are presented. unsurpassingly authoritative account on some of Features the foundations of preclassical mechanics as laid Features Presents the relativistic collisions in a new down by the great Pisan scientist, widely regarded Deals with the problem of temperature increase geometric way and prepares the student for the as the first experimental physicist in the modern in nano- and microelectronic devicesProvides next steps into Quantum Mechanics and General sense. a careful description of the specifics of tempera- RelativityProvides a full overview of the math- ture-related effects in nano- and microelectronic ematics needed to understand special relativity Features devicesDetailed explanation of the measuring Consolidated unit of math, physics and This is one of the very few books on Galilei and controlling temperature in such devicesA application examples500 carefully selected which deal in detail with his scientific accomplish- valuable reference to researchers but also useful to and worked out problems with solutions available ments in the field of preclassical mechanicsThe graduate students online author has performed many of the crucial, original experiments by himself and this work provides Contents From the contents the reader with an unsurpassingly authoritative Nanomaterials: Nanostrucutres.- Introduc- Mathematical Part.- The Structure of the Theories account on his findings about the foundations of tion.- Nanostructures.- Nanocontacts and of Physics.- Newtonian Physics.- The Foundation experimental physics as laid down by Galilei junctions.- Nanocomposites.- Introduction.- of Special Relativity.- The Physics of the Position Conduction.- Radiation.- Colloïds.- Nanosystems: Four-Vector.- Relativistic Kinematics.- Four-Accel- Fields of interest Energy conversion.- Biosystems.- MicroSondes.- eration.- Paradoxes.- Mass-Four-Momentum.- History of Physics; History of Science; Mechanics Microelectronics.- Advanced Metrology: Optical Relativistic Reactions.- Four-Force.- Irreducible Methods.-Photothermal Methods.- Pump-probe Decompositions.- The Electromagnetic Field.- Target groups techniques.- Microscopy by UV and Near IR Relativistic Angular Momentum. Scientists interested in the history and foundation camera.- Local probes.- IR SNOM.- Fluorescent of physics Nanocristals.- Low temperature devices. System requirements For PC. For the complete system requirements see: Discount group Fields of interest springer.com P Physics, general
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K. Yamanouchi, University of Tokyo, Japan; A. Giulietti, Intense Laser Irradation Laboratory, IPCF, Pisa, Italy; K. Ledingham, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (Eds) Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science Volume V
The PUILS series delivers up-to-date reviews of progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science, a newly emerging interdisciplinary research field spanning atomic and molecular physics, molecular science, and optical science, which has been stimulated by the recent developments in ultrafast laser technologies. Each volume compiles peer-reviewed articles authored by researchers at the fore- front of each their own subfields of UILS. Every chapter opens with an overview of the topics to be discussed, so that researchers unfamiliar to the subfield, as well as graduate students, can grasp the importance and attractions of the research topic at hand; these are followed by reports of cutting- edge discoveries. This fifth volume covers a broad range of topics from this interdisciplinary research field, focusing on coherent responses of gaseous and condensed matter to ultrashort intense laser pulses, propagation of intense laser pulses, and laser-plasma interaction and its applications.
Features State of the art report of short time Laser physicsCovers current application fields of intense Lasers in the attosecond technique Summarizes the coherent responses of gaseous and condensed matter to ultrashort intense laser pulses and the propagation of intense laser pulses Useful reference to researchers and graduate students alike
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D. V. Bavykin, F. C. Walsh, University of R. Gilat, Ariel University Centre of Samaria, Ariel, C. Massobrio, H. Bulou, C. Goyhenex, Université Southampton, UK Israel; L. Banks-Sills, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Strasbourg, France (Eds.) Aviv,Israel (Eds.) Titanate and Titania Advances in the Atomic-Scale Nanotubes Advances in Mathematical Modeling of Nanosystems and Synthesis, Properties and Applications Modeling and Experimental Nanostructured Materials Methods for Materials and Structures This exciting new book is a unique compila- The Jacob Aboudi Volume The book covers a variety of applications of tion of data from a wide range of chemical and modern atomic-scale modelling of materials in the spectroscopic instrumentation and the integration area of nanoscience and nanostructured systems. of nanostructure characterisation drawn from This work presents a collection of papers, written By highlighting the most recent achievements physical, chemical, electrochemical, spectroscopic by leading authors in honor of Professor Jacob obtained within a single institute, at the forefront and electron microscopic measurements. It docu- Aboudi. of material science studies, the authors are able ments the latest research from scientific journals Jacob Aboudi served as Head of the Department of to provide a thorough description of nanoscale and patent literature to provide a concise yet Solid Mechanics, Materials and Structures, as Dean materials properties. The areas covered are balanced and integrated treatment of an interesting of the Faculty of Engineering and as Incumbent of structural determination, excitation properties, topic: titanium oxide nanostructures within the the Diane and Arthur Belfer Chair of Mechanics cluster on surface morphology, spintronics and emerging area of nanomaterials. and Biomechanics. Aboudi has published more disordered materials based on constitutive units. than 200 papers, 2 books and is a leading authority For each application, the basics of methodology Contents in the field of composite materials. are provided, allowing for a sound presentation of Introduction and Scope; Chapter 2: Synthesis The papers in this volume cover a wide spectrum approaches as density functional theory of funda- Techniques and Mechanism of Growth.- Structural of topics in the forefront of research in experi- mental and excited states, electronic transport and Physical Properties of Elongated TiO2 and mental methods and mathematical modeling of theory and molecular dynamics in its classical and Titanate Nanostructures.- Chemical Properties, materials and structures. Subjects treated include first-principles forms. The book is a timely collec- Transformation and Functionalization of Elon- developments in materials science, theoretical and tion of theoretical nanoscience contributions fully gated Titanium Oxide Nanostructures.- Potential applied mechanics, applied mathematics, applied in line with current experimental advances. Applications.- Summary. physics, computational methods in engineering, mechanical and civil engineering. Both theoretical Features Fields of interest and experimental approaches are presented. As Covers computational physics applications to Nanotechnology; Nanochemistry this book reflects the state of the art, possible engi- nanophysics and nanomaterialsIntegrates neering applications and future research directions physical basics, computational methods and nano- Target groups are suggested. sciencesBoth a reference work for researchers Professionals, postgraduates and industrial and a study text for graduate students research workers in nanomaterials Features Brings together a unique collection of papers Contents Discount group reflecting the importance and influence of Jacob Introduction.- Cluster and Molecules: Dynamics P Aboudi’s work in current engineering. and Excitations.- Supported Nanostructures: Structural and Electronic Properties.- Spintronic Fields of interest Materials: Electronic and Magnetic Properties.- Materials Science, general; Mechanics; Appl.Math- Liquid Crystals and Disordered Systems. ematics/Computational Methods of Engineering Fields of interest Target groups Nanotechnology; Condensed Matter and Mate- Scholars, engineers and graduate students of rial Sciences; Appl.Mathematics/Computational civil, mechanical, aerospace and aeronautical Methods of Engineering engineering, applied mathematics, and applied mechanics Target groups Scientists and graduate students Discount group P Discount group P
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Only available in print Chemistry and Materials Science Chemistry and Materials Science Distribution rights outside North and South America: Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK Due October 2009 Due February 2010
2010. Approx. 145 p. (RSC Nanoscience and 2009. IV, 296 p. (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 2010. Approx. 400 p. 100 illus. (Lecture Notes in Physics, Nanotechnology) Hardcover Volume 168) Hardcover Volume 795) Hardcover approx. $149.00 $129.00 approx. $109.00 ISBN 978-1-84755-910-4 ISBN 978-90-481-3466-3 ISBN 978-3-642-04649-0 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Materials Science 77
G. Caneba, Michigan Technological University, T. Grasser, G. Meller, L. Li (Eds.) A. Groysman, ORT Braude College of Engineering, Houghton, MI, USA Karmiel, Israel Organic Electronics Free-Radical Retrograde- Corrosion for Everybody Precipitation Polymerization (FRRPP) Features Novel Concept, Processes, Materials, and Highest Impact Factor of all publications People seldom enjoy corrosion. They usually ranked by ISI within Polymer ScienceShort perceive it as a nasty phenomenon with which Energy Aspects and concise reports on physics and chemistry of they must cope. Yet many people, far from the polymers, each written by the world renowned corrosion field, come across it because of their expertsStill valid and useful after 5 or 10 professional duty. Lawyers, historians, doctors, The book pertains to unique phenomenological yearsThe electronic version is available free of architects, philosophers, artists, and archeologists, features of a potentially runaway polymerization charge for standing order customers at: springer. to name a few, may want or need to understand the reaction process that is apparently brought under com/series/12/ principles of corrosion. control through a mass and energy confining This volume explains this important topic in a mechanism. It integrates the combination of From the contents lucid, interesting, and popular form to everybody: various concepts in order to explain a collection H. Bässler and E.V. Emelianova: Steady-State to students and young engineers who are only of experimental observations, which includes Photoconduction in Amorphous Organic Solids.- beginning their studies, to scientists and engineers entrapment of reactive intermediates as well as P.J. Jadhav, B.N. Limketkai, and M.A. Baldo: who have dealt with corrosion for many years, and their energy contents, nucleated thermal hot spots Effective Temperature Models for the Electric Field to non-specialists involved in corrosion problems. beyond adiabatic rise temperatures, and nanoscale Dependence of Charge Carrier Mobility in Tris(8- The book uses a fresh writing style, with some new confinement behavior that has been used for fine hydroxyquinoline) Aluminum.- S.D. Baranovskii, explanations relating to thermodynamics of oxida- patterning of polymers. Toward the end, the author O. Rubel, F. Jansson, and R. Österbacka: Descrip- tion of iron and mild steels in water, reversible and of the book will try to use whatever understanding tion of Charge Transport in Disordered Organic irreversible potential, solubility of oxygen in water that has been formulated about the Free-Radical Materials.- D. Basu and A. Dodabalapur: Drift and aqueous solutions of electrolytes, corrosion of Retrograde-Precipitation Polymerization (FRRPP) Velocity and Drift Mobility Measurement in metals in fuels, corrosion of storage tanks for fuels process to relate it to other types of materials and Organic Semiconductors Using Pulse Voltage.- G. and their corrosion control. energetic systems. Horowitz: Interfaces in Organic Field-Effect Tran- sistors.- S. Scheinert, G. Paasch, I. Hörselmann,and Features Features A. Herasimovich: Low-Cost Submicrometer Corrosion principles are shown by simple Summarizes for the first time the topic in one Organic Field-Effect Transistors.- T. Birendra and interesting mannerMany corrosion book Singh, N. Serdar Sariciftci, and J. G. Grote: Bio- phenomena examples occurring in industry are Organic Optoelectronic Devices Using DNA.- C. givenSome topics are given the first time, or Fields of interest Melzer and H. von Seggern: Organic Field-Effect non-traditional way Polymer Sciences; Renewable Energy Sources; Transistors for CMOS Devices.- A. Troisi: Theories Physical Chemistry of the Charge Transport Mechanism in Ordered Fields of interest Organic Semiconductors. Tribology, Corrosion and Coatings; Materials Target groups Science, general; Metallic Materials Graduate and post-graduate students, indus- Fields of interest trial, governmental and academic researchers Polymer Sciences; Optical and Electronic Mate- Target groups in polymers, chemical engineering, mechanical rials; Solid State Physics and Spectroscopy Engineers and students whose interests involve engineering, materials engineering, bioengi- mechanical engineering, corrosion, materials neering, energy engineering, chemistry, physics, Target groups science, chemical engineering; chemists, histo- astrophysics, mathematics Academic and industrial researchers, libraries in rians, philosophers, and artists polymer science, material science and solid state Discount group physics Discount group P P Discount group P
Chemistry and Materials Science Chemistry and Materials Science Chemistry and Materials Science
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2010. Approx. 200 p. 65 illus. Hardcover 2010. Approx. 320 p. Hardcover 2010. XIV, 364 p. Hardcover approx. $129.00 $339.00 $169.00 ISBN 978-3-642-03024-6 ISBN 978-3-642-04537-0 ISBN 978-90-481-3476-2 78 Materials Science Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
P. Hobza, Institute of Organic Chemistry M. A. Meier, D. C. Webster (Eds.) R. Narayan, University of North Carolina at Chapel and Biochemistry, Prague, Czech Republic; Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; T. Boland, Clemson Univer- K. Müller-Dethlefs, The Photon Science Institute, Polymer Libraries sity, Clemson, SC, USA; Y. Lee, North Carolina State Manchester, UK University, Raleigh, NC, USA (Eds.) Non-Covalent Interactions Printed Biomaterials Features Theory and Experiment Highest Impact Factor of all publications Novel Processing and Modeling Techniques ranked by ISI within Polymer ScienceShort for Medicine and Surgery and concise reports on physics and chemistry of This book aims to understand the main aspects polymers, each written by the world renowned of non-covalent chemistry (mainly in the gas expertsStill valid and useful after 5 or 10 Recent studies have shown that novel processing phase) and specifically compares the experimental yearsThe electronic version is available free of and modeling techniques may be used to create and theoretical data available for non-covalent charge for standing order customers at: springer. patient-specific prostheses, artificial tissues, and complexes and subsequent problems associated com/series/12/ other implants using data obtained from magnetic with this comparison. resonance imaging, computed tomography, or The book is authored by an experimentalist (KMD) Contents other imaging techniques. For example, custom- and theorist (PH), and their main philosophy in Meier/Webster: General Aspects of Polymer ized prostheses may be fabricated that possess suit- writing together is that any book on non-covalent Libraries.- Schubert: Polyoxazoline Libraries able features, including geometry, size, and weight, interactions cannot be limited either to theory and/or the General.- Fasolka: Gradient Methods for a given medical condition. Many advances have or experiment. Both approaches are nowadays so for Polymer Libraries, Including their Microflu- been made in the development of patient-specific closely connected that one cannot exist without the idic Polymerization Methods.- Becker: Bioactive implants in the past decade, yet this information other and vice versa and their mutual connection Libraries.- Adams: The Computer-Aided Design is not readily available to scientists and students. provides the consistent description of non-cova- of Polymers. Printed Biomaterials: Novel Processing and lent processes in our world. Modeling Techniques for Medicine and Surgery Fields of interest provides the biomaterials scientist and engineer, Contents Polymer Sciences; Medicinal Chemistry; Pharmacy as well as advanced undergraduate or graduate Introduction.- Characteristics of Non-covalent students, with a comprehensive discussion of Complexes and Their Determination by Experi- Target groups contemporary medical implant research and mental and Theoretical Techniques.- Potential Academic and industrial researchers, libraries in development. Energy and Free Energy Surfaces.- Classification polymer science, material science and solid state of Non-covalent Complexes.- Interpretation of physics Features Experimental Results and Types of Molecular Provides students and researchers with a Clusters.- Extended Molecular Clusters in Chem- Discount group concise description of the materials and technolo- istry, the Atmosphere and Stereospecific Molecular P gies used in rapid prototypingProvides engi- Recognition.- Subject Index. neers and physicians with an update and handy reference on current topics in the field of rapid Fields of interest prototypingSeveral case studies will be used to Theoretical and Computational Chemistry; demonstrate the medical device fabrication process Physical Chemistry Fields of interest Target groups Biomaterials; Biomedical Engineering; Surfaces Researchers and professionals and Interfaces, Thin Films
Discount group Target groups P Biomaterials scientists and engineers in academia and industry, physicians and surgeons, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in biomaterials and biomedical engineering
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Only available in print Chemistry and Materials Science Distribution rights outside North and South America: Chemistry and Materials Science Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK Due December 2009 Due October 2009 2010. Approx. 300 p. (RSC Theoretical and Computa- 2010. XII, 150 p. 76 illus., 63 in color. (Biological and tional Chemistry Series, Volume 2) Hardcover 2009. Approx. 250 p. Hardcover Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering) Hardcover $159.00 approx. $289.00 approx. $129.00 ISBN 978-1-84755-853-4 ISBN 978-3-642-00169-7 ISBN 978-1-4419-1394-4 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Materials Science 79
A. Oechsner, Technical Universtity of Malaysia, A. K. Tagantsev, L. E. Cross, J. Fousek L. Tong, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Skudai, Johor, Malaysia; L. F. Silva, University of M. Sumetsky, OFS Laboratories, Somerset, NJ, USA Porto, Portugal; R. Adams, University Walk, Clifton, Domains in Ferroic Crystals Bristol, UK (Eds.) and Thin Films Subwavelength and Handbook of Adhesion Nanometer Diameter Optical Fibers Technology At present, the marketplace for professionals, researchers, and graduate students in solid-state physics and materials science lacks a book that Subwavelength and Nanometer Diameter Optical Adhesives have been used for thousands of years, presents a comprehensive discussion of ferro- Fibers provides a comprehensive and up-to-date but until 100 years ago, the vast majority was from electrics and related materials in a form that is coverage of research on nanoscale optical fibers natural products such as bones, skins, fish, milk, suitable for experimentalists and engineers. This including the basic physics and engineering and plants. Since about 1900, adhesives based on book proposes to present a wide coverage of aspects of the fabrication, properties and applica- synthetic polymers have been introduced, and domain-related issues concerning these materials. tions. The book discusses optical micro/nanofibers today, there are many industrial uses of adhesives This coverage includes selected theoretical topics that represent a perfect fusion of optical fibers and sealants. It is difficult to imagine a product (which are covered in the existing literature) in and nanotechnology on subwavelength scale and – in the home, in industry, in transportation, or addition to a plethora of experimental data which covers a broad range of topics in modern optical anywhere else for that matter – that does not use occupies over half of the book. engineering, photonics and nanotechnology span- adhesives or sealants in some manner. The book presents experimental findings and theo- ning from fiber optics, near-field optics, nonlinear retical understanding of ferroic (non-magnetic) optics, atom optics to nanofabrication and micro- Fields of interest domains developed during the past 60 years. It photonic components/devices. It is intended for Operating Procedures, Materials Treatment; Mate- addresses the situation by looking specifically at researchers and graduate students in the fields of rials Science, general; Polymer Sciences bulk crystals and thin films, with a particular focus photonics, nanotechnology, optical engineering on recently-developed microelectronic applica- and materials science. Target groups tions and methods for observations of domains Dr. Limin Tong is a professor at Department of Professional process developers, researchers and with techniques such as scanning force micros- Optical Engineering and State Key Laboratory engineers copy, polarized light microscopy, scanning optical of Modern Optical Instrumentation of Zhejiang and microscopy. University, China; Dr. Michael Sumetsky is a Discount group researcher at OFS Laboratories, USA. P Features Offers readers a plethora of visual examples of Features the material, including hundreds of pages of tables, One of the first books dedicated to optical illustrations and graphsFocuses on domain- nanofibersA perfect fusion of optical fibers related phenomena in non-magnetic ferroics, and nanotechnology on a subwavelength scale which are not the focus of existing texts in solid- Covers a broad range of topics in modern state physicsPresents extensive research in optical engineering and nanotechnology thin films through the specific focus of microelec- tronic applications Fields of interest Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering; Nano- Fields of interest technology; Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Magnetism, Magnetic Materials; Surfaces and Optical Devices Interfaces, Thin Films; Characterization and Evalu- ation of Materials Target groups Students and researchers in optical engineering, Target groups nanotechnology, photonics and materials Professionals, researchers, and graduate students in solid-state physics, materials science, and Discount group engineering, especially those with a focus on P magnetism, ferroelectrics and ferroelectricity
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2011. Approx. 1300 p. (In 2 volumes, not available seperately) Hardcover Engineering approx. $679.00 ISBN 978-3-642-01168-9 Due October 2009
2011. eReference Distribution rights in China: Zhejiang University Press approx. $679.00 Physics and Astronomy ISBN 978-3-642-01169-6 Jointly published with Zhejiang University Press Due January 2010 2011. Approx 1300 p. (In 2 volumes, not available 2010. Approx. 240 p. 180 illus. (Advanced Topics in separately) Print + eReference 2010. Approx. 760 p. Hardcover Science and Technology in China) Hardcover approx. $849.00 approx. $209.00 approx. $239.00 ISBN 978-3-642-01170-2 ISBN 978-1-4419-1416-3 ISBN 978-3-642-03361-2 80 Earth Sciences/Geography Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
J. Comiso, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, F. Kraas, Universität Köln, Germany (Ed.) P. Velde, CNRS, Laboratoire de Géologie, Paris, Greenbelt, MD, USA France; P. Barré, Laboratoire d’Ecologie, Ecole Megacities Normale Supérieure, Paris, France (Eds.) Polar Oceans from Space Our Global Urban Future Soils, Plants and Clay Minerals The book presents a wealth of material about the As urbanization continues, and even accelerates, Mineral and Biologic Interactions polar oceans, more specifically the ice-covered scientists estimate that by 2015 the world will areas and peripheral seas. It provides a detailed have up to 60 ‘megacities’ – urban areas with more history of the changing climate of the polar oceans than five million inhabitants. With the irresistible as observed by satellite sensors in the last three economic attractions of urban centers, particu- This book considers the inter-relations between decades. The satellite research data show spatial larly in developing countries, making the influx plants and minerals in an entirely new way, in distributions of surface temperature, sea ice, of citizens unstoppable, many of humankind’s that it introduces the notion of eco-engineering: albedo, chlorophyll concentration, clouds, ocean coming social, economic and political dramas will i.e. the manipulation of the mineral world by the color and sea level pressure. be played out in megacities. This book shows how living world to the ends of the living world. These The book discusses remote sensing techniques geographers and Earth scientists are contributing inter-relations are the basis for traditional agricul- and algorithms used to transform digital data to to a better understanding of megacities. ture and should be the basis for new, ecologically geophysical parameters, to process and analyze The contributors analyze the impact of socio- oriented land management disciplines, including the data, the limitations of these data and the economic and political activities on environmental agriculture itself. These relations also have an enormous potential in the use of this data. The change and vice versa, and identify solutions to the impact on surface geochemistry and determine main goal of the book is the presentation of results worst problems. They propose ways of improving pollution problems. A better understanding of this from studies of the time evolution of polar surfaces the management of megacities and achieving a concept will lead to a renewed consideration of as observed by satellite sensors and their relevance greater degree of sustainability in their devel- surface environmental problems. to the study of cryospheric and ocean processes opment. The goals, of wise use of human and and climate change. The book contains about 150 natural resources, risk reduction (both social and Contents satellite images of surface parameters. environmental) and quality of life enhancement, The Soil Profile and its Mineralogy.- Structure of are agreed upon. Soil Profile.- Origins of Soil Profile Formation.- Features Soil Classification as a function of Age, Climate, Presents unique information on polar oceans Features Rock type.- Identification of Clay Minerals.- derived from satellite data for predictive purposes The book identifies and promotes examples of Clay Mineral Properties.- Organic Matter, Clay Discusses the changes of ice-covered oceans balanced and safe urban management, through Minerals and Soil Aggregation.- Physical Factors over the last 25 years and how these changes may contrasting megacities worldwide Reviews Affecting Soil Profiles.- Movement of Clay Mate- be related to observed environmental changes planning and management systems to assess their rial.- Stability of Clay Minerals in the Profiles.- ability to support sustainable megacities and to Plants and Soils.- Chemical Action of Plants on From the contents make more balanced use of resourcesResearch Soil Fertility.- Manipulation of Soil Chemistry by 1. Background.- 2. Fundamental Characteristics of on how megacities can become more competitive, Plants to ensure Group Supremacy.- Predicting the Polar Oceans and their Sea Ice Cover.- 3. Satel- creative and attractive human environments, as Soil Plant Interaction.- Role of Human Activity.- lite Remote Sensing Techniques.- 4. Geophysical well as safer places for people to live History of Agriculture in Northern Europe.- Parameters and Algorithms for High Latitude Kinetics of Clay Mineral Transitions.- Ecosystem Applications.- 5. Variability of Surface Pressure, Fields of interest Approach to Soils. Winds and Clouds. Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Geophysics/Geodesy; Sustainable Development Fields of interest Fields of interest Biogeosciences; Soil Science & Conservation; Oceanography; Meteorology/Climatology; Target groups Ecology Climate Change Geographers, earth, environmental and social scientists, decision-makers and all professionals Target groups Target groups involved in the process of city planning and devel- Libraries, institutes, scientists, researchers, Undergraduate students as well as graduates and opment, including national or local administrators, graduate students researchers in the field investors, non-governmental institutions Discount group Discount group Discount group P P P
Earth and Environmental Science Earth and Environmental Science Due November 2009 Earth and Environmental Science Due January 2010 2010. Approx. 435 p. 267 illus., 171 in color. Due November 2009 (Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, 2010. X, 250 p. (International Year of Planet Earth) Volume 41) Hardcover Hardcover 2010. X, 240 p. Hardcover approx. $155.00 approx. $139.00 approx. $159.00 ISBN 978-0-387-36628-9 ISBN 978-90-481-3416-8 ISBN 978-3-642-03498-5 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Earth Sciences/Geography 81
M. Veress, University of West Hungary, Szombathely, A. Verruijt, Delft University of Technology, H. Wiggering, A. Knierim, M. Pintar, H. Ende (Eds.) Hungary The Netherlands Innovations in Karst Environments An Introduction to European Rural Landscapes Karren Formation in High Mountains Soil Dynamics
Rural regions in Europe are evolving under With a focus on karren formation in high moun- This book presents the basic principles of soil powerful boundary conditions such as globalisa- tains, and specifically in the European Alps, this dynamics, and a variety of solutions of practical tion, socio-cultural transformations and climate text summarizes the scientific results of systematic interest for geotechnical engineering, geophysics change, which in turn increases natural hazards. observations made during field trips, as well as the and earthquake engineering. Emphasis is on The regional land use and the evolvement of land- interpretation, using modern analytical methods, analytical solutions, often including the full deriva- scapes is increasingly shaped trends and drivers of the data collected. Márton Veress, who has been tion of the solution, and giving the main parts of like infrastructural, energy or housing needs, working in different types of karren landscapes for computer programs that can be used to calculate globalised agricultural markets, and consumption more than fifteen years, presents the conditions numerical data. Reference is also made to a website habits. To face these challenges and to balance and processes of high mountain karren formation from which complete computer programs can be competitiveness with social cohesion, the “Inno- as well as the properties of karren features. The downloaded. Soil behaviour is usually assumed Land research and development network” induces book analyzes karren phenomena, their develop- to be linear elastic, but in many cases the effect and accompanies promising land use innova- ment, and their formation under different environ- of viscous damping or hysteretic damping, due to tions at the landscape scale in 10 European rural mental conditions. plastic deformations, is also considered. Special regions. Based on a common conceptual approach Introductory chapters provide an overview of features are: the analysis of wave propagation in among the InnoLand partners, the development karren formations, in addition to charting the saturated compressible porous media, approximate and implementation of new competitive strategies history of research into karst environments at high analysis of the generation of Rayleigh waves, the is conducted as a science-practice dialogue with altitude. The author then provides details of the analysis of the response of soil layers to earth- strong commitment to the regional policy design sampling sites and the localities he has studied, quakes in the deep rock. for rural development. and experimental procedures undertaken. Features Features Features Detailed derivations of solutionsListings of Case studies from 10 European rural region Describes the processes of high mountain main parts of computer programsComputer Science-practice dialogue karstificationInvestigates changes in vegeta- programs available on websiteIncludes tion and soil erosionDiscusses the impacts of dynamics of porous media Fields of interest global change, such as the shift in karst formation Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Regional and the transformation of karst features From the contents Science; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis 1. Vibrating systems.- 2. Waves in piles.- 3. Earth- Contents quakes in soft layers.- 4. Theory of consolidation.- Target groups 1. Introduction.- 2.Major Characteristics of High 5. Plane waves in porous media.- 6. Cylindrical Libraries, institutes, researchers, scientists Mountain Karstification.- 3. Karren Features.- waves.- 7. Spherical waves.- 8. Elastostatics of a 4. Karren Assemblages.- 5.Local Karren Belts.- half space.- 9. Elastodynamics of a half space.- 10. Discount group 6. Coalescing of Karren Forms.- 7. Karren Cells. Confined elastodynamics.- 11. Line load on elastic P half space.- 12. Strip load on elastic half space. Fields of interest Geology; Geoecology/Natural Processes; Fields of interest Physical Geography Geotechnical Engineering; Math. Applications in Geosciences; Computer Applications in Geosci- Target groups ences Geologists, geomorphologists, pedologists, forestry engineers, environmentalists and landscape ecolo- Target groups gists, students of karst geomorphology Students and staff in soil dynamics at civil engi- neering, geophysics and earthquake engineering Discount group departments P Discount group P
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth and Environmental Science Due February 2010 Earth and Environmental Science
Due November 2009 2010. X, 356 p. 195 illus. With DVD. (Theory and Due December 2009 Applications of Transport in Porous Media, Volume 24) 2010. Approx. 215 p. 127 illus., 64 in color. Hardcover Hardcover 2010. X, 250 p. 45 illus., 30 in color. Hardcover approx. $159.00 approx. $99.00 $129.00 ISBN 978-90-481-3549-3 ISBN 978-90-481-3440-3 ISBN 978-3-642-04171-6 82 Environmental Sciences Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
D. Fatta-Kassinos, K. Bester; K. Kümmerer (Eds.) J. A. Filar, University of South Australia, Mawson G. George, University of Aberystwyth, UK (Ed.) Lakes, SA, Australia; A. Haurie, ORDECSYS / C-ORDEE, Xenobiotics in the Urban Chene-Bougeries, Switzerland (Eds.) The Impact of Climate Change Water Cycle Uncertainty and on European Lakes Mass Flows, Environmental Processes, Environmental Decision Mitigation and Treatment Strategies Making In this book, scientists from eleven countries A Handbook of Research and Best Practice summarize the results of an EU project (CLIME) that explored; the effects of observed and projected The presence of xenobiotics in the aquatic environ- changes in the climate on the dynamics of lakes in ment is seen as one of the biggest challenges for a Northern, Western and Central Europe. Historical sustainable water future. Thus, there is a need to Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making: measurements from eighteen sites; were used to understand, in an integrated manner, the sources, A Handbook of Research and Best Practice compare the seasonal dynamics of the lakes and to flow paths, fate and effects of xenobiotics in the presents the state of the art in applying opera- assess their sensitivity to local, regional and global- urban water cycle. tions research and management science (OR/MS) scale changes in the weather. Simulations using a This book is an authoritative and comprehensive techniques to a broad range of environmental common set of water quality models, perturbed reference source covering: occurrence, sources and decision making (EDM) challenges. Drawing by six climate-change scenarios, were then fluxes of xenobiotics in urban waters, processes on leading researchers in the field, it provides used to assess the uncertainties associated with concerning the fate and transport of xenobiotics, a guided tour of selected methods and tools to the projected changes in the climate. The book mass flows and transformation products, mitiga- help deal with issues as climate change, depleting includes chapters on the phenology and modelling tion, treatment methods and systems for the biodiversity and biocapacity, and more general of lake ice, the supply and recycling of nitrogen removal of xenobiotics, risk assessment methodol- atmospheric, water and soil pollution problems. and phosphorus, the flux of dissolved organic ogies and risk management, information on source Individual peer-reviewed chapters look at applying carbon and the growth and the seasonal succes- control and mitigation measures. stochastic reasoning on difficult issues arising in sion of phytoplankton. There are also chapters on The book contains a wealth of information on EDM under uncertainty; applying stochastic or the coherent responses of lakes to changes in the some of the compounds most frequently found robust programming methods to techno-economic circulation of the atmosphere, the development of in urban water systems, and of special interest modeling of energy/environment interactions; a web-based Decision Support System. will be the chapters dealing with compounds that important consequences of uncertainty inherent have only recently been investigated, such as illicit in weather patterns, the El Nino phenomenon Features drugs, scents, and toxins. and anticipated climate change; exploiting tools of The first book to compare the climatic decision analysis. responses of lakes located in Northern, Western Features and Central EuropeThe first book to use the Includes discussion on compounds that have Features outputs from Regional Climate Models to drive a only recently been investigated, such as illicit Presents the state of the art in a critically common set of lake and catchment models drugsStimulates the discussion on the causes important area – Environmental Decision Making and solutions to the problemIncludes 25 chap- Gathers the work of leading researchers in Fields of interest ters by international experts applying OR/MS techniques to EDMFilar and Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Freshwater & Haurie are leaders in the field; Filar is Editor-in- Marine Ecology; Climate Change Fields of interest Chief of Springer journal Environmental Modeling Environment, general; Waste Water Technology / and Assessment Target groups Water Pollution Control / Water Management / All those with an interest in the impacts of climate Aquatic Pollution; Ecotoxicology Fields of interest change on the ecology of lakes, their seasonal Environmental Monitoring/Analysis; Operations dynimics and the management of the surrounding Target groups Research/Decision Theory; Math. Appl. in Envi- cathcments, these include postgraduate students Researchers, practitioners, municipal authorities, ronmental Science and staff in earth science and biology departments, and international policy-makers water supply managers and regulators responsible Target groups for the implementation and development of the Discount group Academic researchers, students and practitioners water framework directive P Discount group Discount group P P
Earth and Environmental Science Earth and Environmental Science Earth and Environmental Science Due October 2009 Due December 2009 Due October 2009 2009. XIX, 338 p. 82 illus. (International Series in Opera- 2010. X, 480 p. (Environmental Pollution, Volume 16) tions Research & Management Science, Volume 138) 2009. Approx. 450 p. (Aquatic Ecology Series, Volume 4) Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover $199.00 approx. $139.00 approx. $179.00 ISBN 978-90-481-3508-0 ISBN 978-1-4419-1128-5 ISBN 978-90-481-2944-7 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Environmental Sciences 83
M. Grasso, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, P. A. Kulakow, Kansas State University, Manhattan, G. Schneier-Madanes, CNRS, Paris, France; Italy KS, USA; V. V. Pidlisnyuk, Kremenchug Technical M. Courel, EPHE, Paris, France (Eds.) University, Kremenchug, Ukraine (Eds.) Justice in Funding Adaptation Water and Sustainability in under the International Application of Arid Regions Climate Change Regime Phytotechnologies for Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Cleanup of Industrial, Social Sciences Agricultural and Wastewater Covering the ethical dimensions of international- level adaptation funding, a subject of growing Contamination interest in the climate change debate, this book Proceedings of the NATO Advanced International voices fill the pages of Water and provides a theoretical analysis of the ethical Research Workshop on Application of Sustainability in Arid Regions, forming an original foundations of the UNFCCC regime on adapta- Phytotechnologies for Cleanup of Industrial, scientific exploration of current water research and tion funding, one that culminates in the definition management issues. Agricultural and Wastewater Contamination of a framework of justice. The text features an In arid regions, agriculture that is ill-adapted interpretative analysis of the ethical contents of to Enhance Environmental and Food Security to the environment, accelerated urbanization, the UNFCCC funding architecture by applying the Kamenetz-Podilsky, Ukraine, 4–7 June 2007 poverty, and increasing pollution challenge access framework of justice proposed to different areas of to and uses of water. Understanding these issues empirical investigation. requires incorporating findings from both the The book offers scholars working on climate As government and community leaders, private physical and social sciences at different temporal change, international relations, and environ- companies, citizens, and applied scientists search and spatial scales. mental politics an analysis characterized by both for low-cost methods to cleanup environmental theoretical soundness and empirical richness. The pollution, phytotechnologies can contribute to the Features comprehensiveness of the book’s approach should solution by utilizing natural processes to reduce Unlike many other works that analyze human make it possible to plan and implement interna- environmental risk. and social dimensions only after physical and tional adaptation funding more effectively, and natural research has been conducted and from eventually to define more just funding policies and Features an “impact” or “implications” standpoint, this practices. Presents current state of the science and appli- book compiles international research – which cation of phytotechnologiesReviews progress seldom is presented together – that seamlessly Features to use vegetation for management of persistent illuminates different aspects of water scarcity and Advancing negotiations on adaptation funding organic pollutants (POPs) sustainability through physical, natural, and social Fair negotiations processesResponsibility analyses for climate impacts as the basis for raising adapta- Fields of interest tion fundsSocial vulnerability to climate Environmental Management; Environmental Contents impacts as the benchmark for allocating adapta- Engineering/Biotechnology; Ecotoxicology Preface.- acknowledgements.- list of contribu- tion fundsEthical evaluation of the current tors.- section I. contemporary issues.- section II. and prospective adaptation funding regime Target groups learning from history.- section III. management Researchers in environmental science and for sustainability.- glossary of units of measure- Fields of interest hazardous waste remediation, applied environ- ment and chemical formulas.- subject index. Climate Change; Political Philosophy; Political mental scientists and engineers, governmental Science officials and environmental policy analysts Fields of interest Geosciences, general; Sustainable Development; Target groups Discount group Environment, general Academic libraries, the academic world, practitio- P ners in the field of climate and development policy, Target groups decision-makers such as negotiators Natural, physical, and social scientists, professors, students, environmental specialists, water policy Discount group managers, water and environment managers and P urban planners
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2010. X, 200 p. Hardcover Also available as Softcover 2010. Approx. 300 p. 18 illus. in color. Hardcover approx. $139.00 $89.95 approx. $179.00 ISBN 978-90-481-3438-0 ISBN 978-90-481-3591-2 ISBN 978-90-481-2775-7 84 Environmental Sciences Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
L. Solmes, LAS & Associates Inc, Mill Valley, CA, USA M. Václavíková, K. Vitale, G. P. Gallios, L. Ivanicová L. K. Wang, Lenox Institute of Water Technology, (Eds.) Lenox, MA, USA; V. Ivanov, J. Tay, Nanyang Energy Efficiency: Technological University, Singapore; Y. Hung, Cleveland State University, OH, USA (Eds.) Real Time Energy Infrastructure Investment Water Treatment Technologies and Risk Management for the Removal of High- Environmental Biotechnology Toxity Pollutants Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research “Energy Efficiency” uses an applied scientific Workshop on Water Treatment Technologies methodology and case studies to demonstrate Volume 10: Environmental Biotechnology in the and support: The need for the U.S. and the world for the Removal of High-Toxity Pollutants Handbook of Environmental Engineering series to commit to energy and resource efficiency as Kosice, Slovak Republic presents the theories and principles of various the central goal in investing in electric, heat, 13–17 September 2008 environmental biotechnologies. This outstanding and cooling infrastructure, the huge economic collection of science information is designed as a opportunity for using the inefficiency built into basic Environmental Biotechnology textbook as 20th century energy supply systems, especially, This book is the outcome of the NATO Advanced well as a reference book for scientists, researchers, electric, to pay for the upgrades, replacements, Research Workshop on “Water Treatment Tech- educators, and engineers. The book’s expert panel and new production and distribution systems of nologies for the Removal of High-Toxicity Pollut- of authors provides an introduction at a wide the 21st century, the importance of adopting a ants” which was held on 13-16th September 2008 range of topics, including sanitary microbiology, standard, web-based energy infrastructure invest- in Kosice, Slovakia. It contains a variety of invited microbial systematics, ecology, microbial metabo- ment decision-making and risk management tool contributions by highly experienced educators and lism, life support systems, solid-state processes that will serve as a communication medium for scientists, and is structured to cover important and reactors, value-added biotechnology products, all stakeholders to evaluate and compare energy aspects of the field of water treatment from funda- anaerobic processes, membrane bioreactors, space infrastructure investment options and manage mental principles to modelling and policy making. life support systems, biospherics, natural environ- investment risks, expansions of the U.S. ‘smart’ mental systems, aerobic and anoxic biotechnolo- grid investment to include evaluation and risk Features gies, sequencing batch reactors, and flotation management of energy systems infrastructure Considerable value as a secondary text for biological systems. Volume 10: Environmental investments not just electricity operations, the universities currently offering courses in water Biotechnology and its sister book – Volume 11: need to adopt a ‘framework’ for utilities, energy treatment and environmental technologies Environmental Bioengineering. service companies. Constitutes a valuable source of information on high-toxicity pollutants in the environment, their Features Fields of interest health effect to human beings, speciation of toxic Written by a distinguished panel of experts in Economics/Management Science, general; Engi- species in aqueous systems, removal techniques, the field of biotechnologyOffers theories and neering, general; Environment, general legislation and maximum contaminant limits principles that are crucial for solving pollution problems in the modern eraEmphasizes theo- Target groups Fields of interest ries and principles of environmental microbiology Universities, professional and industry orga- Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; and biotechnology nizations focusing on energy and cost control, Materials Science, general especially, ACORE, AEE, ACEEE, CHPA, and Fields of interest other associations listed in the book abbreviations. Target groups Biotechnology; Environment, general; Environ- Also, electric utilities and their regulatory bodies, University libraries, researchers in chemical and mental Engineering/Biotechnology investment houses, engineers, DOE, EPA, State, environmental technologies, water treatment insti- federal, and local government policy-makers and tutions, researcher in materials sciences, industries Target groups their energy agencies all information technology involved in water treatment technologies Environmental engineers, biospheric researchers, companies involved in development, manufacture, designers of water and wastewater treatment services, and other functions related to energy, Discount group systems, advanced undergraduate and graduate environment, investment, operation, maintenance, P students, scientists, and researchers finance, engineering analysis and design, construc- tion and utilities management, and other commu- Discount group nication, operation, and management functions P
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2010. Approx. 325 p. (NATO Science for Peace and Chemistry and Materials Science Business and Economics Security Series C: Environmental Security) Hardcover $229.00 Due December 2009 Due October 2009 ISBN 978-90-481-3495-3 2010. Approx. 805 p. 318 illus. (Handbook of 2009. X, 250 p. Hardcover Also available as Softcover Environmental Engineering, Volume 10) Hardcover approx. $139.00 $119.00 approx. $165.00 ISBN 978-90-481-3320-8 ISBN 978-90-481-3496-0 ISBN 978-1-58829-166-0 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Life Sciences 85
K. Ammann, Neuchâtel, Switzerland A. Bationo, B. S. Waswa, J. M. Okeyo, F. Maina (Eds.) N. Becker, D. Petric, M. Zgomba, C. Boase, M. Madon, C. Dahl Sorghum Biology Innovations as Key to the Green Revolution in Africa Mosquitoes and Their Control Sorghum is Africa‘s contribution to the world‘s Exploring the Scientific Facts top crops and belongs to the elite handful of plants that collectively provide more than 85 percent of Mosquitoes and Their Control presents a wealth all human energy. Today, it is the dietary staple The African Network for Soil Biology and Fertility of information on the bionomics, systematics, of more than 500 million people in more than 30 (AfNet) organized an International Symposium ecology, research techniques and control of both countries. Only rice, wheat, maize, and potatoes on ‘Innovations as Key to the Green Revolution in nuisance and disease vector mosquitoes in an surpass it in feeding the human race. Nevertheless Africa: Exploring the Scientific Facts’ in Arusha, easily readable style, providing practical guidelines Sorghum receives merely a fraction of the atten- Tanzania, 17-21 September 2007. The overall goal and important information for professionals and tion it warrants and produces merely a fraction of of this symposium was to bring together scientists, laymen alike. what it could. agricultural extension staff, NGOs and policy Ninety-two European species and more than 100 A growing number of researchers already see that makers from all over Africa to explore the scien- globally important vector and nuisance species are a new and enlightened Sorghum era is just around tific facts and share knowledge and experiences included in the book. Most of them, including all the corner. Accorded research support at a level on the role of innovation in soil fertility replenish- European species, are described in the fully illus- comparable to that devoted worldwide to wheat or ment as a key to the Green Revolution in Africa. trated identification keys, followed by a detailed rice or maize, Sorghum could contribute a great This book presents the outcome of the symposium description of the morphology, biology, distribu- deal more to food supplies than it does at present. and outlines the challenges and opportunities for tion and medical importance of each species, And it would contribute most to those regions and improving agricultural growth in Africa. including over 700 detailed drawings. peoples in greatest need. Mosquitoes and Their Control includes: system- The book presented should help to synthesize the Features atics and biology, medical significance, research literature and achievements in the research on Relevant to African contextPresents techniques, illustrated identification keys for larval the biology of Sorghum in the wake of the 21st practical research results from AfricaAims to and adult mosquito general, morphology, ecology, century. identify opportunities and challenges for achieving and distribution of the species identified in the the African Green RevolutionRepresents case keys, biological, chemical, physical and genetic Contents studies from different agro-ecological zones control of mosquitoes. Taxonomy and Genomics of Sorghum.- Biogeog- raphy of Sorghum.- Reproduction of Sorghum.- Contents Fields of interest Sorghum breeding in relation to its biology.- THEME 1 – Constraints and Opportunities for the Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Evolution and gene flow of Sorghum. African Green Revolution.- THEME 2 – Poten- Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Public Health tial and Feasibility of use of external input and Fields of interest improved soil and crop management to achieve the Target groups Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Plant African Green Revolution.- THEME 3 - Factors Vector ecologists, entomologists, all those involved Breeding/Biotechnology; Plant Ecology that limit access to and adoption of innovations by with mosquito control, biology, ecology and poor farmers.- THEME 4 - Innovation approaches systematics worldwide, students, scientists, profes- Target groups and their scaling up/out in Africa. sionals Researchers in botany, plant ecology and agricul- ture; agricultural, governmental and regulatory Fields of interest Discount group institutions involved with crop improvement; Agriculture; Life Sciences, general P scientific libraries Target groups Discount group Agricultural researchers, development practitio- P ners and students
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Biomedical and Life Sciences Biomedical and Life Sciences Biomedical and Life Sciences Due October 2009 Due April 2010 Due November 2010 2009. Approx. 1850 p. (In 2 volumes, not available 2010. Approx. 350 p. Hardcover separately) Hardcover 2nd ed. 2010. XX, 655 p. 554 illus., 2 in color. Hardcover approx. $169.00 approx. $599.00 $229.00 ISBN 978-3-0346-0191-7 ISBN 978-90-481-2541-8 ISBN 978-3-540-92873-7 86 Life Sciences Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
B. Boller, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon; Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz, BVL, Berlin (Ed.) O. Carugo, Vienna University, Austria; F. Eisenhaber, U. K. Posselt, Universität Hohenheim Inst.; Agency for Science, Technology, Singapore (Eds.) F. Veronesi, Univ. Perugia Dpto. di Biologia (Eds.) Berichte der Nationalen Referenzlaboratorien 2008 Data Mining Techniques for Fodder Crops and Amenity the Life Sciences Grasses Editorial coordination: P. Brandt Whereas getting exact data about living systems and sophisticated experimental procedures have The main role of grasses, clovers and alfalfa in The European Community Reference Labora- primarily absorbed the minds of researchers temperate agriculture is still to provide forage tory for residues of beta-agonists, anticoccidials previously, the development of high-throughput for ruminant animals but, in the last decades, the including nitroimidazoles, anthelmintics and technologies has caused the weight to increasingly importance of amenity grasses increased markedly non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) shift to the problem of interpreting accumulated and, in the near future, new developments in the at the BVL (Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz data in terms of biological function and biomolec- areas of energy and biomass use can be envisaged. und Lebensmittelsicherheit) is part of Group 5 ular mechanisms. In “Data Mining Techniques for Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses, fifth volume “Analyses”. The CRL is represented by unit 502 the Life Sciences”, experts in the field contribute in the series, Handbook of Plant Breeding, covers which is also the NRL for the substance groups the valuable information about the sources of informa- all these aspects. CRL is responsible for. The analytical activities of tion and the techniques used for “mining” new Most fodder crops and amenity grasses are peren- the CRL Berlin are pursued by two specialised sub- insights out of databases. Beginning with a section nials and many of them are natural or induced units, one being responsible for GC and GC-MS, covering the concepts and structures of important polyploids. Thus, breeding procedures and strate- one for HPLC and LC-MS. They are supplemented groups of databases for biomolecular mechanism gies differ greatly from breeding annual field crops. by a third sub-unit in charge of the preparation research, the book then continues with sections on Breeding objectives are more difficult to define in of incurred test materials to be used as in-house formal methods for analyzing biomolecular data forage crops because direct measurement of the reference samples and for proficiency testing. and reviews of concepts for analyzing biomolecular efficiency of animal production during breeding The activities listed in this report correspond to sequence data in context with other experimental and variety assessment is impractical. As a result, the duties and operating conditions of CRLs as laid results that can be mapped onto genomes. a large number of selection criteria have been down in Annex V, Chapter 2 of Council Directive developed for the particular crops. 96/23/EC of 29 April 1996. Features An easily accessible reference book for compu- Contents tational data mining, ranging from databases, to From the contents 1. General Tasks.- 2. Development and Valida- computational details, and to modern applica- Preface.- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Role of tion of Analytical Methods.- 3.Quality Assurance tionsCovers a wide range of biological systems forage crops in multi-functional agriculture.- and Quality Control including the Development and in silico approachesPresents the exciting Chapter 2: Genetic resources.- Chapter 3: Breeding of Incurred Test Material and the Organisation interface between computational and experimental methods in cross-pollinating species.- of a Proficiency Test.- 4. Technical and Scientific approaches of molecular biology Chapter 4: Molecular tools and biotechnology.- Support to Member States and the Commission Chapter 5: Breeding objectives in forages.- including Arbitration and Training Activities.- 5. Target groups Chapter 6: Breeding objectives in amenity grasses.- Breakdown of Personel and Financial Capacities. Molecular and cellular biologists, biochemists, Chapter 7: Breeding for seed yield.- geneticists, protein scientists, and all others in the Chapter 8: Release and distribution of cultivars.- Fields of interest life sciences Chapter 9: Future developments and uses.- Crop Laboratory Medicine; Food Science; Public Health Specific Chapters.- Chapter 10: Ryegrasses.- Discount group Chapter 11: Fescues.- Chapter 12: Festulolium.- Target groups P Chapter 13: Cocksfoot. Food and feed industry; biotechnological and agri- cultural institutions; federal offices; journalists Fields of interest Plant Sciences; Plant Genetics & Genomics; Plant Discount group Breeding/Biotechnology P
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Biomedical and Life Sciences Springer Protocols Biomedical and Life Sciences Due December 2009 Due November 2009 Due November 2009 2010. XX, 460 p. (Handbook of Plant Breeding, 2010. Approx. 395 p. 89 illus. (Methods in Molecular Volume 5) Hardcover 2010. Approx. 40 p. (BVL-Reporte, Volume 4,7) Softcover Biology, Volume 609) Hardcover $199.00 approx. $39.95 $110.00 ISBN 978-1-4419-0759-2 ISBN 978-3-0346-0234-1 ISBN 978-1-60327-240-7 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Life Sciences 87
Y. Dessaux, CNRS, Gif/Yvette, France; P. Hinsinger, K. R. Fox, University of Southampton, UK (Ed.) G. A. Gerencser, University of Florida Medical School, INRA, Montpellier, France; P. Lemanceau, INRA, Gainesville, FL, USA (Ed.) Dijon, France (Eds.) Drug-DNA Interaction Protocols Epithelial Transport Rhizosphere: Achievements Physiology and Challenges The last few years have witnessed the creation of new generations of sequence reading compounds, The scope of this book was preempted and Described by Hiltner over a century ago (1904), which have incredible potential for targeting precipitated by the pioneering studies of Ussing the rhizosphere is defined as the fraction of soil specific DNA sequences. In “Drug-DNA Interac- and co-workers. The first phase of the phenom- influenced by plant root activities. This dynamic, tion Protocols, Second Edition”, expert researchers enological description of the cell as a black box has complex interface where soil, plant roots and explore these compounds, revealing how a deeper been followed by studies of cellular mechanisms, microbes interact is a major hotspot of micro- understanding of the structure of DNA, along with the interplay of the different transport compo- bial activity, where numerous subtle molecular an improved ability to manipulate it, has led to nents, and the mechanisms of regulation which processes, as well as multiple feedback events take much progress in recent years. Chapters describe will be covered in the individual chapters. For the place, Rhizosphere investigations at the micro- a new arsenal of techniques for probing the individual epithelia transport schemes that have scopic scale have driven spectacular academic interactions between drugs and DNA, including been proposed, I think it is appropriate to take advances in the fields of soil sciences or plant- various biophysical techniques for quantifying pause and search for elements common to several microbe interactions. They bear promises in terms these interactions and for describing them in epithelia. This aspect triggered the common of environmentally-friendly procedures such as molecular and atomic detail, and they compre- theme idea for this book, and in fact the various bioremediation or ecological engineering. The long hensively consider both molecular and cellular chapters emphasize that the functional transporter recognized role of rhizosphere processes in plant approaches. Composed in the highly successful components, expressed in the various epithelia, are nutrition and health, and more generally in plant Methods in Molecular Biology™ series format, each not infinite in number, but they occur in epithelia adaptation to stress conditions, is now becoming chapter contains a brief introduction, step-by-step which are separated in evolution by several central for designing sustainable management methods, a list of necessary materials, and a Notes hundred million years. practices of agricultural and forest ecosystems. section which shares tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Features Features The diversity of organisms from invertebrate to Provides a holistic view of the rhizosphere, Features vertebrate telescopes possible evolutionary trends keeping in mind its unique functioning that Fully updated from the first edition to include in a given transport processThe diversity of implies numerous, strong and complex interac- up-to-date methods for studying drug-DNA transporters in various animal epithelia inductively tions between plant roots, soil constituents and interactionsWritten by experts with hands- traces the adaptive response of the specific animal microorganisms on experience of the techniquesCombines a in regards to its environmental pressures wide range of approaches for analyzing drug-DNA Speculation as to how epithelial transporters Fields of interest interactions, from the cellular to the structural came to exist after the “Big Bang” created our Soil Science & Conservation; Plant Sciences; Includes a collection of useful molecular universe Agriculture techniques for exploring the interaction between ligands and DNA Fields of interest Target groups Animal Physiology; Biochemistry, general; Cell Scientists, professors, students and professionals in Fields of interest Biology Academic and Research Institutions especially in Pharmacology/Toxicology; Human Genetics the academic fields of ecology (microbial ecology, Target groups plant ecology, forest ecology), biogeochemistry, Target groups Physiologists, pharmacologists, cell biologists, soil sciences, plant biology and ecophysiology and Molecular biologists, cellular biologists, biochem- biochemists in the applied domains of agricultural sciences, ists, and post-graduates, post-doctoral workers bioremediation, ecological engineering, plant and established scientists, working in drug-DNA Discount group nutrition and plant health interactions P
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Earth and Environmental Science Springer Protocols Biomedical and Life Sciences Due October 2009 Due December 2009 Due November 2009 2009. Approx. 450 p. (Developments in Plant and Soil 2nd ed. 2010. Approx. 315 p. 103 illus., 1 in color. Sciences, Volume 104) Hardcover (Methods in Molecular Biology, Volume 613) Hardcover 2010. Approx. 780 p. 108 illus., 31 in color. Hardcover approx. $209.00 $139.00 $269.00 ISBN 978-90-481-2855-6 ISBN 978-1-60327-417-3 ISBN 978-1-60327-228-5 88 Life Sciences Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
T. D. Hewitson, University of Melbourne, Australia; P. M. Kappeler, German Primate Center, Göttingen, F. Kempken, C. Jung, University of Kiel, Germany I. A. Darby, RMIT University, Bundoora, VIC, Australia Germany; J. B. Silk, University of California, (Eds.) (Eds.) Los Angeles, CA, USA (Eds.) Genetic Modification of Plants Histology Protocols Mind the Gap Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry Tracing the Origins of Human Universals With much of what we know about the pathogen- esis of disease coming from the systematic and Today’s agriculture faces new challenges. With careful study of histological material, histology has What makes us human? What made us become the annual yield increases on the decline, genetic proven to be an incredibly valuable area of study. way we are? One way to answer these questions is improvement of crops will have to make up In “Histology Protocols”, expert researchers in the to identify the traits that all humans share, traits the shortfall. Getting straight to the facts over field contribute detailed methods involving the that are universal features of all human societies. genetically modified (GM) crops, this volume preparation of tissue, providing an overview of Another way to do so is to ask how humans differ features the thoughts of 30 specialists in the field fixation, embedding, and processing, along with from other species, particularly from our closest of transgenic plants. It covers their generation and the required techniques for the retrieval of RNA relatives, the nonhuman primates. The contribu- detection as well as their genetic traits. The book from histological sections, followed by sections on tors to this book pursue both approaches, in an looks at a range of crops, ornamental plants and routine and specialist histological staining tech- effort to understand how evolution has shaped tree species subject to genetic modifications, and niques, including immuno-, lectin, and hybridiza- modern human behavior and societies. assesses the risks involved in genetic modifica- tion histochemistry, histological staining, as well tion as well as the benefits of potential applica- as specific methods for the in situ identification of Features tions. The book’s cross-referenced structure gives hypoxia and apoptosis, and details on the advances Explicit attempt to examine the evolutionary readers quick access to whatever they are looking in imaging and image analysis. origins of traits that are found in all human soci- for, whether that is data on particular species of eties (human universals)Helps to identify the ornamentals, or coverage of the socioeconomic Features traits that we share with other primates as well as implications of GM technology. With an increasing Provides an easily accessible reference volume the traits that distinguish us from other primates demand for bioenergy, and required higher yields for histological techniques written by leading so that we gain a deeper insight into what it means relying on wider genetic variation, this volume researchers in the fieldDetails the techniques to be human supplies all the technical details required to move for investigating the expression of many different forward to a new era in agriculture. types of targets in a variety of tissue and samples Fields of interest from sections and cells to electron microscopy Behavioural Sciences; Evolutionary Biology Features Covers a wide range of techniques from Covers all aspects of transgenic plants including classical histochemistry to detection of mRNA, Target groups possible applications and risk assessment apoptosis, and hypoxia Libraries, institutes, scientists Fields of interest Fields of interest Discount group Plant Breeding/Biotechnology; Plant Genetics & Cell Biology; Laboratory Medicine P Genomics; Genetic Engineering
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Springer Protocols Biomedical and Life Sciences Biomedical and Life Sciences Due November 2009 Due February 2010 Due November 2009 2010. Approx. 225 p. 71 illus. (Methods in Molecular 2010. XX, 600 p. 34 illus., 10 in color. (Biotechnology in Biology, Volume 611) Hardcover 2010. XV, 512 p. 27 illus., 3 in color. Softcover Agriculture and Forestry, Volume 64) Hardcover $99.00 $99.00 $339.00 ISBN 978-1-60327-344-2 ISBN 978-3-642-02724-6 ISBN 978-3-642-02390-3 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Life Sciences 89
K. Kusumi, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; E. R. Landa, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, USA; A. Lazakidou, University of Peloponnese, Sparta, S. L. Dunwoodie, St. Vincent’s Hospital, New South C. Feller, Institut de Recherche pour le Greece (Ed.) Wales, Austrailia (Eds.) Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France (Eds.) Web-Based Applications in The Genetics and Soil and Culture Healthcare and Biomedicine Development of Scoliosis Soil and Culture explores the perception of soil in ancient, traditional, and modern societies. It looks This proposed Special Issue in AoIS will present Developmental genetic studies of the spine and at the visual arts (painting, textiles, sculpture, studies from leading researchers and practitioners linkage and family-based association studies architecture, film, comics and stamps), prose & focusing on current challenges, directions, trends, have led to recent advances in understanding the poetry, religion, philosophy, anthropology, archae- and opportunities associated with healthcare orga- genetic etiology of idiopathic, neuromuscular, and ology, wine production, health & diet, and disease nizations and their strategic use of Web-enabled congenital forms of scoliosis. The book is written & warfare. technologies. Healthcare and biomedical organiza- by leaders in genetic and developmental research Soil and Culture explores high culture and popular tions are undergoing major transformations to on scoliosis and developmental studies of the culture – from the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch meet the demand for improved access and quality spine. to the films of Steve McQueen. It looks at ancient of service, and modern information technologies societies and contemporary artists. Contributors are helping to process and manage the growing Features from a variety of disciplines delve into the mind of wealth of data involved. Web-based applications Written by leaders in genetic and develop- Carl Jung and the bellies of soil eaters, and explore offer a sharp increase in data access and manage- mental research on scoliosis and developmental Chinese paintings, African mud cloths, Mayan ment, and they are at the forefront of the broad studies of the spineRecent developments in rituals, Japanese films, French comic strips, and field of medical informatics. clinical and molecular genetic studies of these Russian poetry. Topics to be covered will include semantic web disorders are also discussed applications; workflow and process management; Features content management and portal technology; data Fields of interest Explores the link between science and art on an and web mining, warehousing, and information Human Genetics; Developmental Biology; Human earth and environmental science level collection, curation, and analysis; web-based Physiology Soil science is expanding its reach to a broader learning environments; access control and audience and using the non-traditional mate- security; transaction management; and tools for Target groups rial contained in this book to serve as a bridge to implementation. Genetics: medical geneticist, genetic counselors, potential new audiences human geneticists, human genome and mouse Features genetics researchers, developmental biology: From the contents Presents the cutting-edge technologies and developmental biologists, researchers focusing Preface: Philippe Descola.- roduction: examines their utility in healthcareExplores on the development of muscle, bone, and the Edward R. Landa, Christian Feller Part 1. Soil and the latest breakthroughs in web-based informa- spine, medicine: Orthopaedic surgeons, nurses, the Visual Arts.- 1 The representation of soil in the tion systems, including semantic web applications, physical therapists, pediatricians, family physi- Western Art: from Genesis to Pedogenesis: Chris- data and web mining, and workflow and process cians, primary care physicians, osteopathic tian Feller, Lydie Chapuis-Lardy, Fiorenzo Ugolini; managementEditor has become one of the physicians, chiropractic practitioners, libraries: 1.2 Deforestation and erosion captured in histor- most respected names in the field medical schools, nursing schools, PhD programs ical art of the Pearl River Delta region, China: in genetics or developmental biology, orthopaedic Walter E. Parham. Fields of interest device companies, health insurance companies, Bioinformatics; Health Informatics patients & families of children with idio- Fields of interest pathic, neuromuscular and congenital scoliosis Agriculture; Soil Science & Conservation; Geosci- Target groups ences, general Researchers and practitioners in medical- and Discount group bioinformatics, computer scientists/software engi- P Target groups neers designing web-based applications, graduate This is a non traditional volume which will students in these fields serve the soil science community well while also reaching a broader earth science community such Discount group as geologists and geographers, as well as in the arts P and social science communitites
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Biomedical and Life Sciences Biomedical and Life Sciences Biomedical and Life Sciences Due November 2009 Due December 2009 Due October 2009 2009. Approx. 360 p. 62 illus. (Annals of Information 2010. X, 250 p. 33 illus. Hardcover 2009. Approx. 500 p. Hardcover Systems, Volume 7) Softcover $159.00 approx. $209.00 approx. $179.00 ISBN 978-1-4419-1405-7 ISBN 978-90-481-2959-1 ISBN 978-1-4419-1273-2 90 Life Sciences Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
A. Pareek, S. K. Sopory, H. J. Bohnert, Govindjee D. Prusky, Agricultural Research Organization, J. Ringelberg (Eds.) Bet-Dagan, Israel; M. L. Gullino (Eds.) Diel Vertical Migration of Abiotic Stress Adaptation in Post-harvest Pathology Zooplankton in Lakes and Plants Oceans Physiological, Molecular and Genomic As a collection of papers that includes material causal explanations and adaptive presented at the 2008 International Congress for Foundation significances Plant Pathology, this text features research right at the leading edge of the field. The latest findings are Environmental insults such as extremes of particularly crucial in their implications for fruit temperature, extremes of water status as well as production; an important market sector where in The book deals with Diel Vertical Migration deteriorating soil conditions pose major threats to some areas up to 50 per cent of the crop can be lost (DVM) of zooplankton in oceans and lakes and is agriculture and food security. Employing contem- after harvest. While post-harvest fruit treatments the first critical discussion of the literature in 100 porary tools and techniques from all branches of with fungicides are the most effective means to years of research. The accent is on photo-response science, attempts are being made worldwide to reduce decay, rising concerns about toxicity have experiments that revealed the physiological understand how plants respond to abiotic stresses led to the development of alternative approaches to fundament unifying migration behaviour in both with the aim to help manipulate plant perfor- disease control, including biological methods, the biotopes. Accelerations in relative changes in light mance that will be better suited to withstand these subject of three chapters of this book. With several intensity of dawn and dusk are the stimuli that stresses. The present book on abiotic stress is an new techniques requiring modification of current trigger a PhotoBehaviour Mechanisms (PBM) attempt to search for possible answers to several post-harvest practices, it is more important than evolved to realise predator evasion and starvation basic questions related to plant responses towards ever to stay abreast of the latest information. prevention. Physiology and behaviour are tuned to abiotic stresses. This book presents a holistic view these adaptive goals. A “set of ecological factors” is of the general principles of stress perception, Features necessary and an algorithm shows the operation of signal transduction and regulation of gene expres- Presents the best and latests reports on post- the “set”. However, not only the kinetic component sion. Further, chapters in this book analyze not harvest scienceContains a combination of of behaviour is based on light, also orientation only model systems but extrapolate interpretations basic and applied data for post-harvest handling but now the angular light distribution is respon- obtained from models to crops. Lastly, discusses Contains reports of the best post-harvest sible. Contrast orientation as in Daphnia may also how stress-tolerant crop or model plants have been science researchersContains up-to-date hold for other animals, for example, Euphausia. or are being raised through plant breeding and approaches for disease control of post-harvest The application of the PBM in lakes and oceans is genetic engineering approaches. diseases demonstrated amongst other for the vertical move- ments of Sound Scattering Layers. Features Fields of interest Presents a holistic view of the general principles Plant Pathology; Plant Sciences; Agriculture Features of stress perception, signal transduction and regu- The first book on Diel Vertical Migration after lation of gene expressionProvides a current Target groups 100 years of researchA critical discussion of an view of the problems related to the degeneration Students, scientists and post-harvest related important aspect of zooplankton life in the marine of agro-ecological environments and an appar- growers and freshwater environmentDiscusses the ently changing climateEmphasizes how plant cause of a unified migration behaviour species cope with environmental insults Discount group Discusses of the effect of migration on popula- Discusses mechanisms and strategies for P tion dynamics adapting crop species to environmental stresses. Fields of interest Fields of interest Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Animal Ecology; Plant Sciences; Plant Biochemistry; Plant Physi- Invertebrates ology Target groups Target groups Limnologists, aquatic ecologists, marine biologists, Advanced undergraduate students, graduate ecologists, graduate students in biology students and beginning researchers in the area of stress biology, plant molecular biology, plant Discount group physiology, agriculture, biochemistry and environ- P mental biology
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Biomedical and Life Sciences Biomedical and Life Sciences Biomedical and Life Sciences Due December 2009 Due October 2009 Due October 2009 2009. Approx. 250 p. (Plant Pathology in the 21st 2009. Approx. 600 p. 25 illus. in color. Hardcover Century, Volume 2) Hardcover 2009. Approx. 250 p. Hardcover approx. $279.00 approx. $159.00 approx. $179.00 ISBN 978-90-481-3111-2 ISBN 978-1-4020-8929-9 ISBN 978-90-481-3092-4 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Life Sciences 91
A. Sitaramayya, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, P. Spathelf (Ed.) R. M. Uppu, S. N. Murthy, W. A. Pryor, USA (Ed.) N. L. Parinandi (Eds.) Sustainable Forest Manage- Signal Transduction: ment in a Changing World: Free Radicals and Antioxidant Pathways, Mechanisms and a European Perspective Protocols Diseases
With its 250-year history, Sustainable Forest Features The book was adapted from graduate courses on Management (SFM) is now viewed as a model Comprised of twenty-seven chapters contrib- signal transduction taught by the editor, where the for managing forests worldwide. Yet despite the uted by world-renowned experts in the field need for a good overview of recent developments frequent use of the term there remain many ques- Fully updated from the first edition to offer became apparent. Given the wide range of research tions concerning its meanings, criteria as well as its cutting-edge methods for the rapid detection of topics in signaling, a selection was made that not practical application. RONs and redox stressIncludes in-depth only reflects the current research interest, but also This book explores the current potential of SFM analysis of natural and synthetic antioxidants, and anticipates those areas that will continue to be of within the context of the rapid changes occur- also of DNA oxidation, oxidative lipidomics, and interest over the next several years. ring in our natural and social environment, and biomarkers The health-relatedness of research was a major examines the broad range issues – climate change, criterion for selection, as can be seen in the list of finance, governance, policy, certification, reduced- Contents topics covered, such as G protein coupled recep- impact logging, non-timber products and services In Vivo Imaging of Free Radicals and Oxygen.- tors, growth factors, nuclear receptors, reactive and stakeholder participation in land-use decisions In Vivo Measurement of Tissue Oxygen using oxygen and nitrogen species, the cell cycle and – within the context of forest use, functions and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy cancer. The emphasis is on areas of signaling conservation. with Oxygen-sensitive Paramagnetic Particle, research with direct clinical significance. Another Lithium Phthalocyanine.- Measurement of Plasma field covered, one rarely highlighted in signal Features Nitrite by Chemiluminescence.- Determination transduction books, is that of signaling platforms, Introduces new approaches to some of the key of Glutathione, Mitochondrial Transmembrane which has been emerging as a significant research issues in SFM, including technical developments Potential, and Cytotoxicity in H9c2 Cardiomyo- area relevant to cellular metabolism, cell prolifera- and participatory processesTimely blasts Exposed to Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen tion, differentiation, apoptosis, neurodegenerative Draws together a range of issues facing SFM Species.- Phenolic Acids and Flavonoids: Ocur- diseases, and cancer. from biological, social and economic perspectives rence and Analytical Methods.- Design, Synthesis, and Action of Antiatherogenic Antioxidants.- Features Fields of interest Preparation of Drug-Loaded Polymeric Nanopar- Adapted from graduate courses on signal Forestry Management; Climate Change; Renew- ticles and Evaluation of the Antioxidant Activity transduction taught by the editorOffers an able Energy Sources against Lipid Peroxidation.- Nanoparticle and Iron overview of recent research developments with Chelators as a Potential Novel Alzheimer Therapy.- emphasis ;on areas with direct clinical significance Target groups Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer Nano- The authors are experts and active contributors Researchers and advanced students working in carriers for the Targeted Delivery of Therapeutic to research in their specific areas of signaling a number of fields, including forestry, forest and Enzymes.- Assessment of Antioxidant Activity of natural resource management, forest and environ- Eugenol In Vitro and In Vivo. Fields of interest mental policy, international relations, and partici- Cell Biology; Molecular Medicine patory and extension research in rural landuse and Fields of interest development Biochemistry, general; Analytical Chemistry Target groups Researchers, undergraduate and graduate students Discount group Target groups in cell biology, biochemistry and biomedicine P Biochemists, molecular biologists, pathologists, pharmacologists, toxicologists, and researchers in Discount group the field of oxidative stress P Discount group P
Biomedical and Life Sciences Springer Protocols Biomedical and Life Sciences Due October 2009 Due November 2009 Due November 2009 2009. Approx. 250 p. (Managing Forest Ecosystems, 2010. Approx. 415 p. 115 illus., 11 in color. (Methods in 2010. X, 500 p. Hardcover Volume 19) Hardcover Molecular Biology, Volume 610) Hardcover approx. $209.00 approx. $179.00 $139.00 ISBN 978-3-642-02111-4 ISBN 978-90-481-3300-0 ISBN 978-1-58829-710-5 92 Life Sciences Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
G. Witzany Biocommunication and Natural Genome Editing
This is the first uniform description of all key levels of communication in the organismic kingdoms of plants, fungi, animals and bacteria based on the most recent empirical data. Biocommunica- tion occurs on three levels (A) intraorganismic, i.e. intra- and intercellular, (B) interorganismic, between the same or related species and (C) transorganismic, between organisms which are not related. The biocommunicative approach demon- strates both that cells, tissues, organs and organ- isms coordinate and organize by communication processes and genetic nucleotide sequence order in cellular and non-cellular genomes is structured language-like, i.e. follow combinatorial (syntactic), context-sensitive (pragmatic) and content-specific (semantic) rules. Without sign-mediated interac- tions no vital functions within and between organisms can be coordinated. Exactly this feature is absent in non-living matter.
Features First uniform description of all key levels of communication in the organismic kingdoms of plants, fungi, animals (bees and corals), bacteria and additionally the natural genome editing competences of viruses based on the most recent empirical dataThe biocommunica- tive approach presented is based on the results of the philosophy of science discourse concerning coherent definitions of ‘language’ and ‘communica- tion’
Fields of interest Plant Sciences; Zoology
Target groups Readers interested in botany, zoology, mycology, bacteriology, virology, genetics, epigenetics, cell biology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, biolinguistics, biosemiotics, bioinformatics, philos- ophy of science, history of science and philosophy of nature
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2009. Approx. 230 p. Hardcover approx. $179.00 ISBN 978-90-481-3318-5 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Business/Economics 93
G. Bischi, University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Italy; F. E. Caroleo, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy; T. C. Cheng, T. Choi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic C. Chiarella, University of Techonology, Sidney, F. Pastore, Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy (Eds.) University, Hong Kong SAR (Eds.) Australia; M. Kopel, University of Graz, Austria; F. Szidarovszky, University of Arizona, Tucson, The Labour Market Impact of Innovative Quick Response A.Z, USA the EU Enlargement Programs in Logistics and Nonlinear Oligopolies A New Regional Geography of Europe? Supply Chain Management Stability and Bifurcations Quick Response (QR) policy is a market-driven Until recently, regional labour market imbalances business strategy in which supply chain members The book focuses on the dynamics of nonlinear were considered transitory phenomena caused work together to react quickly to volatile market oligopoly models. It discusses the classical Cournot by state failure in yielding distorted investment demand. Nowadays, with advances in information model with a large variety of demand and cost incentives and by labour market rigidities. Labour technologies (such as RFID and ERP systems), new functions that illustrate the many different types mobility and wage flexibility were at the core of the challenges and opportunities arise for the applica- of possible best response functions and shows debate over the causes of and cures for regional tion of QR. This handbook explores QR extensively the existence of unique and multiple equilibria. imbalances. This book bears witness to the with a view to discovering innovative QR measures Particular emphasis is placed on the influence of changed perspective of research. For instance, in that can help tackle the observed and emerging nonnegativity and capacity constraints. Dynamics the recent literature, internal migration is depicted challenges. The book is organized into four parts, are introduced under various assumptions for as a cause of further geographical divergence. which include chapters on analytical modeling the adjustment process and the analysis of global The book contributes to the debate by presenting and analyses, information technologies, cases, dynamics is given through some specific examples. important new findings on: a) the reasons why reviews, and applications. This handbook provides The book considers a range of oligopolies and structural change in some sectors causes a slump new analytical and empirical results with valuable gives conditions for the local asymptotic stability in some regions; b) the extent to which poverty insights, which will not only help supply chain of their equilibria; the impact of constraints is traps explain spatial imbalances; c) the degree of agents to better understand the latest applications also discussed. The book contains a number of convergence across EU countries and regions; d) of QR in business, but also help practitioners and technical appendices that summarize techniques of the role of labour mobility in Central and Eastern researchers to know how to improve the effective- global dynamics not easily accessible elsewhere. Europe; e) and the role of pro-active employment ness of QR using innovative methods. schemes and child care facilities in alleviating the Features hardship of the weakest segments of the popula- Features Presents latest trends, methods and results tion. Gives a state-of-the-art knowledge on quick in nonlinear dynamics with a special focus on response related topics, with a focus on innovative oligopolies Contents methods and solutions with real-world applica- Part I: An Overview of the Main Issues and the tionsProvides new analytical and empirical Contents Role of Structural Change.- Part II: New Evidence results with valuable insights which helps supply The Classical Cournot Model.- Concave Oligopo- on Spatial Convergence.- Part III: Is Migration chain agents to better understand the latest appli- lies.- General Oligopolies.- Modified and Extended Reinforcing Regional Unemployment Differences?- cations of QR in business as well as practitioners Oligopolies.- Misspecified and Uncertain Price Part IV: Some Policy Tools. and researchers to know how to improve effective- Functions.- Overview and Directions for Future ness of QR using innovative methods Research.- Elements of Lyapunov Theory.- Local Fields of interest Linearization.- Noninvertible Maps and Critical Labor Economics; Regional Science; Economic Fields of interest Sets.- Continuously Distributed Time Lags.- Systems Production/Logistics; Management of Computing A Determinantal Identity.- Stable Quadratic and Information Systems; Information Systems Polynomials. Target groups Scientists, policy makers at regional level Target groups Fields of interest Researchers, practitioners Economic Theory/Mathematical Methods; Game Discount group Theory/Mathematical Methods; Game Theory, P Discount group Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences P
Target groups Researchers in economic theory, game theory and nonlinear dynamics
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Business and Economics Business and Economics Business and Economics Due February 2010 Due June 2010 Due December 2009 2010. Approx. 310 p. (AIEL Series in Labour Economics) 2010. Approx. 575 p. (International Handbooks on Infor- 2010. Approx. 370 p. Hardcover Hardcover mation Systems) Hardcover approx. $139.00 $139.00 approx. $219.00 ISBN 978-3-642-02105-3 ISBN 978-3-7908-2163-5 ISBN 978-3-642-04312-3 94 Business/Economics Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
G. Eilenberger, S. Haghani, A. Kötzle, K. Reding, C. Falkenreck, SMA Solar Technology AG, Niestetal, N. K. Hanna, University of Maryland, Bethesda, K. Spremann (Eds.) Germany MD, USA Current Challenges for Reputation Transfer to Enter Enabling Enterprise Corporate Finance New B-to-B Markets Transformation A Strategic Perspective Measuring and Modelling Approaches Business and Grassroots Innovation for the Knowledge Economy
Strategic corporate finance? This sounds like a This book focuses on the development and paradox at first. After all, corporate finance means cross-cultural testing of a construct of reputation Private enterprises in advanced economies have responding to the financial markets. Strategy, rooted in resource-based theories. No study has been learning to use information and communica- on the other hand, aims to change and shape the ever asked organizational customers to rate the tion technology (ICT) to innovate and transform environment in the long term. Lately, though, importance of a supplier’s positive reputation on their processes, products, services and business more and more managers and investors appear their buying decision. The results of the survey models, significantly improving productivity and to be breaking the laws of the capital market. At contribute substantially to our understanding of competitiveness. Moreover, the ICT industry the same time, corporations are discovering new reputation measuring and managing. This book itself has become a major source of job creation ways to not just react to the capital markets, but is the first to highlight the cross-link between and a contributor to economic growth and busi- to actively shape them. The authors show that reputation, reputation transfer and culture, and ness transformation. A key question today is these violations are not isolated occurrences, but argues that to develop one cross-culturally valid whether and how developing countries can learn part of a paradigm shift. If companies want to construct of reputation, which can be used in both to benefit from the ICT revolution, and what stay successful in changing markets, they have to B-to-B and B-to-C contexts is neither useful nor roles the government and private sector can play. take a strategic approach to corporate finance. The appropriate. Already, a number of developing countries have authors use practical examples to demonstrate been inspired by the example of India and China, how this can be achieved. This book is intended From the contents and are now seeking to jump on the outsourcing not only for corporate finance experts, but also for Definition of Research Problem. bandwagon. students interested in the latest developments on Inroduction;Structure of Work; Objective Targets the financial markets. of Thesis.- Theoretical Framework.- Commitment- Features Trust Theory and the Nature of Commitment; Integrates analytical insights, practical applica- Features Resource-Based and Knowledge-Based View; tion, and policymaking across the fields of devel- For the first time, it presents an exhaustive Reputation as a Resource, an Intangible Asset and opment economics, management, and information analysis of how mergers and acquisitions, strategic a Barrier.- Perspectives on Corporate Reputation and communication technology; demonstrates corporate communication, entrepreneurial finance, and Reputation Transfer.- Perspectives of Relation- how ICT can be implemented to support organiza- corporate social responsibility and the emergence ship Marketing; Defining Corporate Reputation tional innovation and economic development. of new investors interrelate and affect develop- in B-to-B Relationships; A Standard Construct of ments on the financial marketThe authors Reputation–Useful and Appropriate? The Concept Fields of interest submit that these different phenomena all have a of Reputation Transfer; The Relevance of Direct Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Organiza- common root: the far-reaching changes that are Marketing Media to Build CR; Defining and Quan- tion/Planning rewriting the rules which govern the financial tifying Culture.- Development of Constructs and markets. Related Hypotheses.- The C-OAR-SE Procedure Target groups for Scale Development; Formative versus Reflective Researchers, educators, and their students, in From the contents Measurement Models; Moderating and Mediating management, economics, and technology manage- Introduction.- Old and New Financial Paradigms.- Effects in Causal Models; Applying the Bonferroni- ment, Public decision makers in government Mergers and Acquisitions.- Corporate Commu- Holm’s Procedure. agencies and ministries, NGOs, and aid organiza- nication.- New Forms of Funding in Strategic tions, Senior IT leaders and program managers Corporate Finance: Entrepreneurial Finance, Fields of interest contributing to governance reforms, national Venture Capital, Private Equity and Hedge Funds. Marketing; e-Commerce/e-business stimulus and long term growth programs, Business decision makers in the ICT industry, consulting Fields of interest Target groups firms, and investors who are interested in the Finance /Banking; Management Scientists, researchers emerging markets for ICT businesses, products and services, General readers interested in role Target groups Discount group of ICT, knowledge and innovation in advancing Practitioners, esp. in finance and consulting P global development
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Business and Economics Business and Economics Business and Economics Due November 2009 Due December 2009 Due October 2009 2010. IV, 250 p. 43 illus., 3 in color. (Contributions to 2010. Approx. 250 p. 25 illus. (Innovation, Technology, 2009. VIII, 124 p. Hardcover Management Science) Hardcover and Knowledge Management) Hardcover $59.95 $119.00 $119.00 ISBN 978-3-642-04112-9 ISBN 978-3-7908-2356-1 ISBN 978-1-4419-1507-8 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Business/Economics 95
R. Kaas, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; M. Goovaerts, J. C. Lang, Darmstadt University of Technology, B. Luderer, Technische Universität Chemnitz, J. Dhaene, University of Amsterdam, Leuven, Germany Germany; V. Nollau, K. Vetters, Technische Univer- Belgium; M. Denuit, Université Catholique de sität Dresden, Germany Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Production and Inventory Mathematical Formulas for Modern Actuarial Risk Theory Management with Substitutions Economists Using R
This book addresses production and inventory The present collection of formulas has been Modern Actuarial Risk Theory contains what every management problems where products can be composed for students of economics or manage- actuary needs to know about non-life insurance replaced by specified substitutes. Depending on ment science at universities, colleges and trade mathematics. It starts with the standard mate- the considered application, substitutions can schools. It contains basic knowledge in math- rial like utility theory, individual and collective potentially improve the service level, reduce ematics, financial mathematics and statistics in a model and basic ruin theory. Other topics are risk required safety stocks and total setup costs and compact and clearly arranged form. This volume measures and premium principles, bonus-malus times, utilize cost variations of input products, and is meant to be a reference work to be used by systems, ordering of risks and credibility theory. reduce the amount of wastage. The main focus is students of undergraduate courses together with a It also contains some chapters about Generalized the development of graphical modeling approaches textbook, and by researchers in need of exact state- Linear Models, applied to rating and IBNR prob- for substitution options and of production plan- ments of mathematical results. People dealing with lems. As to the level of the mathematics, the book ning models based on these approaches using practical or applied problems will also find this would fit in a bachelors or masters program in mathematical programming. In addition to single- collection to be an efficient and easy-to-use work quantitative economics or mathematical statistics. level dynamic lot-sizing models with substitutions, of reference.This carefully revised and enlarged This second and much expanded edition empha- models for multi-level production systems with edition also presents methods of rank statistics and sizes the implementation of these techniques flexible bills-of-materials and recipes are devised. the analysis of variance (ANOVA) and covariance. through the use of R. This free but incredibly Also, a simulation-based optimization approach powerful software is rapidly developing into the de for a multi-location inventory system with substi- Features facto standard for statistical computation, not just tutions is developed. Most important formulas, statements and in academic circles but also in practice. With R, algorithms in mathematics and statistics for one can do simulations, find maximum likelihood Contents economistsEasy-to-use reference, compact estimators, compute distributions by inverting Introduction.- Production and Operations and clearly arranged, enables quick finding transforms, and much more. Management: Models and Algorithms.- Graphical Modeling of Substitutions and Flexible Bills- Contents Features of-Materials.- Literature Review.- Efficient Mathematical Symbols and Constants.- Sets and Reflects the state of the art in actuarial risk Reformulations for Uncapacitated and Capaci- Propositions.- Number Systems and Their Arith- theoryUses R, the de facto standard for tated Lot-Sizing with Substitutions and Initital metic.- Combinatorial Analysis.- Sequences and statistical computation, for the illustration of the Inventories.- MIP-Based Heuristics for Capaci- Series.- Mathematics of Finance.- Functions of one techniques appliedPresents practical para- tated Lot-Sizing with Sequence-Dependent Setups Independent Variable.- Functions of one Variable: digms in insurance as well as numerous exercises and Substitutions.- Multi-Level Lot-Sizing with Differential Calculus.- Functions of one Variable: with solutions Flexible Bills-of-Materials.- Blood Bank Inventory Integral Calculus.- Differential Equations.- Differ- Control with Transshipments and Substitutions.- ence Equations.- Differential Calculus for Func- Fields of interest Conclusions and Future Reseach. tions of Several Variables.- Linear Algebra.- Linear Finance /Banking; Quantitative Finance; Statistics Programming. Transportation Problem.- Descrip- for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/ Fields of interest tive Statistics.- Calculus of Probability.- Inductive Insurance Production/Logistics; Operations Research/Deci- Statistics.- Tables. sion Theory; Operations Research, Mathematical Target groups Programming Fields of interest Researchers in actuarial science, risk managers in Game Theory/Mathematical Methods; Opera- insurance companies Target groups tions Research/Decision Theory; Game Theory, Scientists Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences Discount group P Discount group Target groups P Students, teachers and researchers in the fields of economics, sociology and management science
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Business and Economics Business and Economics Due December 2009 Business and Economics Due October 2009 2010. Approx. 330 p. 56 illus. (Lecture Notes in Due October 2009 2nd ed.2008. Corr. 2nd printing 2009. XVIII, 381 p. 28 Economics and Mathematical Systems, Volume 636) illus. Hardcover Softcover 4th ed. 2009. X, 199 p. Softcover $229.00 $99.00 $31.95 ISBN 978-3-540-70992-3 ISBN 978-3-642-04246-1 ISBN 978-3-642-04078-8 96 Business/Economics Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
N. F. Maaser, University of Bayreuth, Germany V. Maniezzo, University of Bologna, Italy; T. Stützle, K. G. Murty, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, IRIDIA, Bruxelles, Belgium; S. Voß, Universität MI, USA Decision-making in Hamburg, Germany (Eds.) Optimization for Decision Committees Matheuristics Game-theoretic Analysis Making Hybridizing Metaheuristics and Linear and Quadratic Models Mathematical Programming Political and economic institutions are typically governed by committees that face the challenge to Linear programming (LP), modeling, and optimi- reconcile the preferences of their members. How Metaheuristics support managers in decision- zation are very much the fundamentals of OR, and should decision rules be designed to generate making with robust tools that provide high-quality no academic program is complete without them. fair and sustainable agreements, for example if solutions to important applications in business, No matter how highly developed one’s LP skills committee members represent groups of different engineering, economics, and science in reasonable are, however, if a fine appreciation for modeling sizes? This book uses game-theoretic concepts time frames, but finding exact solutions in these isn’t developed to make the best use of those skills, and models to address the issue of political deci- applications still poses a real challenge. However, then the truly ‘best solutions’ are often not real- sion-making processes. In addition to providing because of advances in the fields of mathematical ized, and efforts go wasted. a survey on basic game-theoretic tools in the optimization and metaheuristics, major efforts Katta Murty studied LP with George Dantzig, the analysis of political decisions, the author looks at have been made on their interface regarding effi- father of linear programming, and has written specific issues such as two-tiered voting systems or cient hybridization. the graduate-level solution to that problem. the influence of lobbyists on legislative commit- This edited book will provide a survey of the While maintaining the rigorous LP instruction tees, and shows how the models can be applied state of the art in this field by providing some required, Murty’s new book is unique in his focus to real-world contexts such as the EU decision- invited reviews by well-known specialists as well on developing modeling skills to support valid making institutions. as refereed papers from the second Matheuristics decision making for complex real world problems. workshop to be held in Bertinoro, Italy, June 2008. He describes the approach as ‘intelligent modeling Contents Papers will explore mathematical programming and decision making’ to emphasize the importance Introduction - Games and Political Decisions techniques in metaheuristics frameworks, and of employing the best expression of actual prob- - Committees as Representative Institutions especially focus on the latest developments in lems and then applying the most computationally - Robust Equal Representation - Committees and Mixed Integer Programming in solving real-world effective and efficient solution technique for that Lobby Coalition Formation. problems. model.
Fields of interest Features Features Game Theory/Mathematical Methods; Political Presents the latest research on using mathe- Presents advanced linear programming with Science; European Integration matical programming in metaheuristics frame- a unique focus on modeling techniquesTwo worksRepresents a major advance in complex chapters on entirely new algorithms and their Target groups problem-solving methodologiesPresents resultsAuthor website with additional exer- Scientists breakthroughs in using Mixed Integer Program- cises and mathematical results of new algorithms ming to solve real-world problems covered in book Discount group P Fields of interest Fields of interest Operations Research/Decision Theory; Infor- Operations Research/Decision Theory; Operations mation Systems; Game Theory/Mathematical Research, Mathematical Programming; Optimiza- Methods tion
Target groups Target groups Practitioners and researchers in operations, math- Graduate-level OR or industrial engineering ematical models, decision theory and game theory; students in advanced linear programming, opti- graduate-level students in these areas mization, or modeling classes; researchers and practitioners exploring new algorithms and their Discount group practical applications P Discount group P
Business and Economics Business and Economics Business and Economics Due November 2009 Due February 2010 Due October 2009 2010. XXIII, 670 p. 47 illus. (International Series in Opera- 2010. Approx. 150 p. (Lecture Notes in Economics and 2009. Approx. 285 p. 19 illus. (Annals of Information tions Research & Management Science, Volume 137) Mathematical Systems, Volume 635) Softcover Systems, Volume 10) Softcover Hardcover $89.95 approx. $139.00 $119.00 ISBN 978-3-642-04152-5 ISBN 978-1-4419-1305-0 ISBN 978-1-4419-1290-9 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Business/Economics 97
T. Raoprasert, Mahasarakham, Thailand; K. Sydsæter, A. Strøm, University of Oslo, Norway; B. Urban, University of Witwatersrand, Johannes- S. M. Islam, Melbourne, Australia P. B e r c k , University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA burg, South Africa (Ed.) Designing an Efficient Economists’ Mathematical Frontiers in Entrepreneurship Management System Manual Modelling of Convergence Factors This book aims to provide an insight into how Exemplified by the Case of Japanese entrepreneurship has evolved and emerged as an Businesses in Thailand This volume presents mathematical formulas independent field of research. The authors base and theorems commonly used in economics. It their discussion on articles which are considered to includes both formulas like Roy`s identity that are be seminal works in the field, and present a blend This book makes a significant and valuable contri- peculiar to economics and formulas like Leibniz’s of theoretical and empirical evidence. Conse- bution to the literature in the fields of organisa- rule that are common to many areas of applied quently, each chapter provides a solid knowledge- tional behaviour and design, performance analysis mathematics. The volume is meant to be a refer- based and structured overview of the selected and structural equation modelling. The subject of ence work, to be used by students in conjunction theme and demonstrates the scope of conflicting this book is the development of an efficient and with a textbook and by researchers in need of exact and complementary theories. The topics have been effective management system in the globalised statements of mathematical results. The volume is selected to create a systematic approach to the world in order to improve overall organizational the first grouping of this material for a specifically various aspects of entrepreneurship and include performance to achieve good corporate gover- economist audience. historical thinking on entrepreneurship, entrepre- nance by reducing agency costs in a cross-cultural neurship as an academic discipline, the importance environment. Based on an empirical case study Features of the environmental and institutional framework, of Japanese management practices in Thailand, Most successful mathematical manual for corporate intrapreneurship and value creation, and it examines factors that help to adapt manage- economists innovation through social entrepreneurship. ment practices to the work culture of the host country and motivate local employees to adapt and From the ontents Features implement unfamiliar management practices. The Set Theory. Relations. Functions.- Equations. Traces the evolution of entrepreneurship as an book provides a new methodological approach Functions of one variable. Complex numbers.- independent field of researchCoherent over- by applying structural equation modeling to Limits. Continuity. Differentiation (one variable).- view of key areas in entrepreneurshipPresents psychosocial and motivational constructs of Partial derivatives.- Elasticities. Elasticities of a blend of theoretical and empirical evidence organizational performance, and thus presents an substitution.- Systems of equations.- Inequalities.- innovative behavioral framework of organizations Series. Taylor`s formula.- Integration.- Difference Contents in a contemporary cross-cultural setting. equations.- Differential equations.- Topology Early Thinking and the Emergence of Entre- in Euclidean space.- Convexity.- Classical preneurship - Entrepreneurship as a Discipline Contents optimization.- Linear and nonlinear program- and Field of Study - Economic Perspectives of Introduction.- Literature review.-Theoretical ming.- Calculus of variations and optimal control Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship in the Field framework.- Methodology, research process, and theory.- Discrete dynamic optimization.- Vectors of Development Economics - Creating Value and computer programs.- Preliminary data analysis in Rn. Abstract spaces.- Matrices.- Determinants.- Innovation Through Social Entrepreneurship - and results: Descriptive statistics and reliability Eigenvalues. Quadratic forms.- Special matrices. The Entrepreneurship Organisation - Theoretical tests.- Structural equation modelling: Results and Leontief systems.- Kronecker products and the vec Perspectives on Culture and Entrepreneurship. analysis.- Discussion and implications.- Summary, operator. Differentiation of vectors and matrices.- findings, and conclusion. Comparative statics.- Properties of cost and profit Field of interest functions.- Consumer theory.- Topics from trade Entrepreneurship Fields of interest theory.- Topics from finance and growth theory.- Organization/Planning; Personnel Management Risk and risk aversion theory.- Finance and Target groups stochastic calculus.- Non-cooperative game. Scientists, students Target groups Scientists Fields of interest Discount group Economics general; Game Theory, Economics, P Discount group Social and Behav. Sciences P Target groups Students, researchers
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Business and Economics
Due February 2010 Business and Economics Business and Economics Distribution rights outside Africa Due January 2010 Due October 2009 Worldwide for ebook 2010. Approx. 300 p. (Contributions to Management 4th ed. Corr. 2nd printing 2010. XII, 225 p. 66 illus. Science) Hardcover Hardcover 2010. Approx. 200 p. Hardcover $139.00 $49.95 $119.00 ISBN 978-3-7908-2371-4 ISBN 978-3-540-26088-2 ISBN 978-3-642-04501-1 98 Business/Economics Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
J. Zhu, Lucht Probst Associates GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Applications of Fourier Transform to Smile Modeling Theory and Implementation
The sound modeling of the smile effect is an important issue in quantitative finance as, for more than a decade, the Fourier transform has estab- lished itself as the most efficient tool for deriving closed-form option pricing formulas in various model classes. This book describes the applications of the Fourier transform to the modeling of vola- tility smile, followed by a comprehensive treat- ment of option valuation in a unified framework, covering stochastic volatilities and interest rates, Poisson and Levy jumps, including various asset classes such as equity, FX and interest rates, as well as various numberical examples and prototype programming codes. Readers will benefit from this book not only by gaining an overview of the advanced theory and the vast range of literature on these topics, but also by receiving first-hand feed- back on the practical applications and implementa- tions of the theory. The book is aimed at financial engineers, risk managers, graduate students and researchers.
Features Offers a comprehensive treatment of applica- tions of Fourier transform in different areas Contains numerical examples and prototype programming codes
From the contents Option Valuation and the Volatility Smile.- Char- acteristic Functions in Option Pricing.- Stochastic Volatility Models.- Numerical Issues of Stochastic Volatility Models.- Simulating Stochastic Volatility Models.- Stochastic Interest Models.- Poisson Jumps.- Lévy Jumps.- Integrating Various Stochastic Factors.
Fields of interest Finance /Banking; Quantitative Finance
Target groups Researchers, graduate students
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Business and Economics
Due October 2009
Originally published as volume 493 in the series Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems
2nd ed. 2009. XVI, 330 p. (Springer Finance) Hardcover $139.00 ISBN 978-3-642-01807-7 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Management 99
A. C. Hax, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S. Hougaard, M. Bjerre, Copenhagen Business M. Kodama, Nihon University, Tokyo Cambridge, MA, USA School, Denmark Boundary Management The Delta Model The Relationship Marketer Developing Business Architectures for Reinventing Your Business Strategy Rethinking Strategic Relationship Marketing Innovation
Strategy is the most central issue in manage- In “The Relationship Marketer”, Søren Hougaard “Business architecture” is a concept for optimizing ment. It has to do with defining the purpose of and Mogens Bjerre explain how the concept of the corporate boundaries aimed at realizing targeted an organization, understanding the market in dyad (i.e., mutuality, or “you and me”) is quickly business models and corporate system design which it operates and the capabilities the firm becoming a fundamental principle in marketing. involving stakeholders. To optimize the corporate possesses, and putting together a winning plan. The authors suggest that understanding customer boundaries, companies must partially and wholly There are many influential frameworks to help relationships, value co-creation, and customised optimize the individual management elements managers undertake a systematic reflection on business models in which effectiveness is evaluated (strategy, organization, strategy, operation, and this issue. The most dominant approaches are on an individualised basis leads to outstanding leadership) comprising the corporate system that Michael Porter’s “Competitive Strategy” and the business performance. Based on these principles has achieved congruence with the environment. “Resource-Based View of the Firm,” popularized the authors present a concrete and practically The management to optimize these corporate by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad. Arnoldo Hax manageable framework for implementation. boundaries and the corporate systems comprising argues there are fundamental drawbacks in the Readers will find surprising, useful, and applicable individual management elements is referred to in underlying hypotheses of these approaches in that marketing models, typologies and tools, as well this book as “boundary management.” The concept they define strategy as a way to achieve sustain- as guides to the systematic generation of strategic of “boundaries congruence” inside and outside able competitive advantage. This line of thinking opportunities. the corporate system, and the building of optimal could be extremely dangerous because it puts the “The Relationship Marketer” will be valuable architecture concerned with environmental change competitor at the center and therefore anchors you reading for students and professionals in sales and and with management elements such as strategy, in the past, establishes success as a way of beating marketing, as well as anyone seeking insights into organization, strategy, operation, and leadership your competitors, and this obsession often leads dyadic market forces, which are moving industry are key to realizing dynamic strategic manage- toward imitation and congruency. beyond the outdated perspective of treating all ment. customers equally. Features Features Presents a fundamentally new approach to Features The key to new knowledge creation and corporate strategy, focused on the customer, not Focuses on the concept of dyadic, i.e. mutual, innovation is an exceptional leader as a boundary competitorsCombines a conceptual frame- thinking as a fundamental principal in marketing architect with the company with the heart of an in- work with practical toolsIllustrated through Presents a complete framework for analysis and house enterprise intrapreneuring promoter, who dozens of international examples across a wide strategy development in customer relationships uses his/or her “boundary leadership” to create spectrum of industriesApplies to small and Innovative, useful and hands-on models, boundary networks, both within and outside medium-sized businesses and non-profits, as well typologies and tools the company, and to promote strategic business as traditional large businesses communities Fields of interest Fields of interest Management; Marketing Fields of interest Management; Organization/Planning Organization/Planning; Economics/Management Target groups Science, general; Management Target groups Students, practitioners Business leaders, owners, entrepreneurs, and Target groups senior managers responsible for corporate strategy Discount group Senior executives, strategist, MBA/TOT students, and performance, corporate controllers and P executive course students, and practitioners in the management consultants, professors, researchers IT, telecommunications, electronics, automobile, and students of strategic management, competi- health care and medical industries tion, performance measurement and management, organizational behavior Discount group P Discount group P
Business and Economics
Due November 2009 Business and Economics Business and Economics Originally published with the title: Strategic Relationship Due December 2009 Marketing Due December 2009
2010. Approx. 240 p. 70 illus. Hardcover 2nd ed. 2010. Approx. 230 p. Hardcover 2010. Approx. 210 p. Hardcover approx. $39.95 $69.95 $119.00 ISBN 978-1-4419-1479-8 ISBN 978-3-642-03242-4 ISBN 978-3-642-03788-7 100 Management Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
P. Kotler, Northwestern University Evanston, IL, USA; R. Stahlbock, S. F. Crone, S. Lessmann (Eds) S. Nambisan, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, W. Pfoertsch, China Europe International Business NY, USA (Ed) School, Shanghai, China Data Mining Information Technology and Ingredient Branding Special Issue in Annals of Information Systems Product Development Making the Invisible Visible
Over the course of the last twenty years, there has Information Technology and Product Develop- An Ingredient Brand is exactly what the name been an increased interest in data mining. Specifi- ment: A Research Agenda presents important new implies: an ingredient or component of a product cally, this area is of used in relation to computer research from varied disciplines aimed at devel- that has its own brand identity. This is the first science, statistics, operations research, and oping new theoretical concepts and insights on the comprehensive book that explains how Ingredient information systems/management science. Data application of IT in product and service innova- Branding works and how brand managers can mining has applications in corporate planning, tion. Drawing on the work of researchers in such successfully improve the performance of compo- medical decision making, bioinformatics, web- varied management areas as information services, nent marketing. usage mining, text and image recognition, direct technology management, marketing, operations, The authors have examined more than one marketing, and credit scoring. business strategy and organizational behavior, hundred examples, analyzed four industries and This special issue of AoIS contains selected, rigor- the book redefines the role of IT in product and developed nine detailed case studies to demon- ously peer-reviewed papers from the 2007 Inter- service development and the organizational and strate the viability of this marketing innova- national Conference on Data Mining (DMIN’07), management issues underlying the successful tion. The new concepts and principles can easily which occurred June 25-28 in Las Vegas, NV. The deployment of IT in innovation contexts, and be applied by professionals. In the light of the issue brings together topics on both information provides a foundation for future research on success stories of Intel, GoreTex, Dolby, TetraPak, systems and data mining, and gives the reader a the diverse types of IT applications in product Shimano, and Teflon it can be expected that current snapshot of the research and practice in development and their potential impact on both component suppliers will increasingly use Ingre- data mining. product and service innovation. dient Branding strategies in the future. Features Features Features Provides a state-of-art, up-to-the moment, view Offers an in-depth theoretical analysis of the First English-language book on Ingredient of the evolving field of dataminingSpecial wide range of organizational and management Branding, a major instrument of component publication of the 2007 International Conference issues associated with the application of IT in marketingExplains the principles, concepts, on Data Mining (DMIN 07)Features a combi- product development and innovationServes and success factors of existing Ingredient Brands nation of rigorously peer-reviewed theoretical as a reference source for researchers from different such as Intel, GoreTex, Dolby, TetraPak, Shimano, research papers, as well as industrial reports, and fields (including information systems, marketing, and TeflonOffers a detailed industry analysis case studies on applications operations, and organizational behavior) who are with case studies, best practices, and strategic currently pursuing (or plan to pursue) research in directions for implementation Fields of interest this area Operations Research/Decision Theory; Busi- From the contents ness/Management Science, general; Information From the contents Branding Ingredients.- Basics of Ingredient Systems Applications (incl. Internet) The Role of Information Technology in Product Branding.- Intel Inside - the Ingredient Branding Development.- Deriving Business Value from IT Success Story.- Implementation of InBranding Target groups Applications in Product Development.- Informa- Within a Company.- Success Stories of Ingredient Data mining researchers, practitioners in tion Technology based Knowledge Management Branding.- Detailed Examples of Successful Ingre- consulting organizations, and graduate students in Systems to Support the Design of Product Devel- dient Brands. information systems opment Processes.- Information Technology based Tools to Support New Product Design. Fields of interest Discount group Marketing; Management P Fields of interest Information Systems; Marketing; Operations Target groups Research/Decision Theory Executives, marketing managers, management consultants interested in brand management Target groups Graduate students, researchers Discount group P Discount group P
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J. Basedow, U. Magnus, R. Wolfrum (Eds) C. Herrmann, University of Passau, Germany; New Series J. P. Terhechte, University of Hamburg, Germany The Hamburg Lectures on (Eds) Maritime Affairs 2007 & 2008 European Yearbook of European Yearbook of International Economic In 2007, the International Max Planck Research Law 2010 School for Maritime Affairs and the Interna- International Economic Law tional Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), both based in Hamburg, decided to establish an Series editors: C. Herrmann, J. P. Terhechte The first volume of the new Yearbook tries to catch annual lecture series, the “Hamburg Lectures on the broadness of comtemporary International Maritime Affairs” – giving distinguished scholars Economic Law. In part I, it brings together articles and practitioners the opportunity to present and The European Yearbook of International Economic on a variety of subjects, reaching from exchange discuss recent developments in the field of mari- (EYIEL) Law is a new Springer-publication in rate manipulation and financial market supervi- time affairs. The present volume collects seven of the field of International Economic Law (IEL), a sion over international investment law including the lectures held in 2007 and 2008 by Thomas A. field increasingly emancipating itself from Public the growing investment protectionism to recent Mensah, Krijn Haak, Sergio M. Carbone, Lorenzo International Law scholarship and evolving into a developments of the external economic constitu- Schiano di Pepe, Erik Røsæg, Frank Smeele, Carlos fully-fledged academic discipline in its own right. tion of the European Union and the relation- Esplugues Mota and Lucius Caflisch. With the new yearbook, editors and publisher ship between climate change and International want to make a significant contribution to the Economic Law. Part II tries to cover the major Contents development of this “new” discipline and provide regional economic integration developments The Hamburg Lectures 2007: T.A. Mensah: The an international source of reference of the highest around the globe, analysed in different articles Civil Liability and Compensation for Environ- possible quality. covering the different regions. Part III informs mental Damage in the 1982 Convention on the The EYIEL covers all areas of IEL, in particular about recent activities in some of the major global Law of the Sea.- K. Haak: New Developments WTO Law, External Trade Law of major trading economic institutions. in the Field of Transport of Dangerous Goods: countries, important Regional Economic Integra- Presence and Prospects of the CRTD Convention.- tion agreements, International Competition Law, Features S.M. Carbone, L. Schiano di Pepe: Uniform Law International Investment Regulation, International International source of reference and Conflicts in Private Enforcement of Environ- Monetary Law, International Intellectual Property mental Law: the Maritime Sector and Beyond.- Protection and International Tax Law. The year- Contents The Hamburg Lectures 2008: E. Rosag: The Athens book will consist of four major parts: (1) Part one From the contents: Topics.- Regional Integra- Convention on Passenger Liability and the EU.- F. will bring together topical articles dealing with tion.- International Economic Institutions.- Book Smeele: International Civil Litigation and the current legal problems in the different areas of IEL Reviews. Pollution of the Marine Environment.- C.E. Mota: as described above, part two will provide analytical Some Current Developments in International reports on the development of regional economic Fields of interest Maritime Arbitration.- L. Caflisch: The Peaceful integration around the globe, part three will cover European Law/Public International Law Settlement of Disputes on Maritime Deliminations. the developments inside the major international institutions engaged with IEL (WTO, IMF, World- Target groups Fields of interest bank, G8 etc.), and part four will contain book Law libraries (universities and large law firms), European Law/Public International Law; Interna- reviews and documentation. The first volume will international organizations, NGO’s tional & Foreign Law/Comparative Law; Environ- be published in early 2009. mental Law/Policy/Ecojustice The editors are both Assistant Professors for Discount group European and International Economic Law at two P Target groups leading German Universities and have published Libraries, institutes for maritime law, international extensively in the field of IEL and European Law organizations alike. The Editors will be supported by an inter- national Advisory Board consisting of established Discount group scholars of the highest reputation. Springer is one P of the leading German publishing houses and has long-lasting experience in the publication of English works. The EYIEL will be published annually as a hardbound-hardcopy and as part of the Springer eBook-package to which many leading university libraries around the globe have subscribed.
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2009. XI, 196 p. (Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs, 2010. Approx. 450 p. (European Yearbook of Interna- Volume 16) Softcover tional Economic Law, Volume 1) Hardcover $119.00 approx. $229.00 ISBN 978-3-642-04063-4 ISBN 978-3-540-78882-9 102 Law Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
R. Kiser, DecisionSet®, Palo Alto, CA, USA H. Koziol, B. C. Steininger, Institut für Europäisches R. Letschert, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Schadenersatzrecht, Wien, Austria (Eds) A. Pemberton, I. Staiger, Tilburg University, Beyond Right and Wrong The Netherlands (Eds) European Tort Law 2008 The Power of Effective Decision Making for Assisting Victims of Terrorism Attorneys and Clients Towards a European Standard of Justice The European Tort Law Yearbook provides a This book guides attorneys and clients through comprehensive overview of the latest develop- legal decision making. It analyzes 11,306 attorney- ments in tort law in Europe. It contains reports The large-scale terrorist attacks on 9/11 resulted client decisions in actual cases and summarizes on most EU Member States, including the new in more attention being devoted to victims of decades of research regarding judge, jury, litigant Member States. Furthermore, the Yearbook terrorist acts. Discussions took place on how their and attorney decision making. To explain why provides contributions from Norway and Switzer- needs could be best accommodated. The Madrid many litigation outcomes are suboptimal, the land as well as an overview of the developments bombings in March 2004 gave further impetus book describes the psychological and institutional in the field of EU law. In conclusion, a compara- to this process. This development is also part of factors that impede sound decision making. The tive summary reviews the essential aspects of all a recent trend towards general victim of crime roles of attorneys and clients in legal decision reports, which are written by scholars from the policies that branch out into specialized policies making and the legal malpractice and disciplinary respective jurisdictions. Focusing on the year 2008, devised to meet the needs of particular groups of consequences of ineffective legal representation the authors critically report on important court victims such as victims of trafficking, victims of also are discussed. To rapidly promote better decisions, present new legislation and provide a sexual violence and abuse or victims of traffic acci- financial outcomes in civil litigation and to assist literature overview. In addition to the national dents. However, although a movement of national attorneys and clients in becoming expert decision reports, the European Tort Law 2008 Yearbook and international solidarity relating to addressing makers, the book presents more than 65 ideas, contains the opening lecture of the 8th Annual the needs of victims of terrorism has developed, methods and systems for improving personal and Conference on European Tort Law as well as three political consensus is still fragile. group decision making. essays on questions of burden of proof. This book provides a thorough analysis of the specific needs of victims of terrorism (using both Fields of interest Fields of interest legal and psycho-social studies), compared to Law Theory/Law Philosophy; Civil Procedure Law; Civil Law; International & Foreign Law/Compara- victims of other forms of crime. Operations Research/Decision Theory tive Law Features Target groups Target groups This is the first book dealing with specific Attorneys, clients, mediators, in-house counsel, Lawyers, judges, insurance companies, researchers assistance to victims of terrorismAn interdis- law students, insurers ciplinary title where legal science and psychology Discount group Uniquely applies restorative justice theory to Discount group P terrorism victims P From the contents I. Introduction and Definitions.- 1. The Aim of the Study. 2. Methodology. 3. Contemporary Terrorism. 4. Defining Terrorism. 5. Defining Victims of Terrorism. 6. Defining Restorative Justice. 7. Concluding Observations. Bibliography.
Fields of interest International & Foreign Law/Comparative Law; Psychology and Law; European Law/Public Inter- national Law
Target groups Academics and policy makers of legal, crimi- nology, victimology and psycho-social studies
Discount group P
Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Humanities, Social Sciences and Law Due November 2009 Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Due December 2009 2010. Approx. 700 p. (Tort and Insurance Law / Tort Due October 2009 and Insurance Law - Yearbooks, Annual volumes 2008) 2010. Approx. 550 p. Hardcover Hardcover 2009. X, 394 p. Hardcover approx. $219.00 approx. $289.00 $189.00 ISBN 978-3-642-03813-6 ISBN 978-3-211-92797-7 ISBN 978-90-481-3024-5 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 10/2009 Law 103
P. Mindus, University of Turin, Italy A Real Mind. The Life and Work of Axel Hägerström
This comprehensive presentation of Axel Häger- ström (1868-1939) fills a void in nearly a century of literature, providing both the legal and political scholar and the non-expert reader with a proper introduction to the father of Scandinavian realism. Based on his complete work, including unpub- lished material and personal correspondence selected exclusively from the Uppsala archives, A Real Mind follows the chronological evolution of Hägerström’s intellectual enterprise and offers a full account of his thought. The book summarizes Hägerström’s main arguments while enabling further critical assessment, and tries to answer such questions as: If norms are neither true nor false, how can they be adequately understood on the basis of Hägerström’s theory of knowledge? Did the founder of the Uppsala school uphold emotivism in moral philosophy? What conse- quences does such a standpoint have in practical philosophy? Is he really the inspiration behind Scandinavian state absolutism?
Features Offers the first comprehensive account on the founder of the Uppsala school, including the only chronology and full-length bibliography in english Depicts and discusses the putative father of the swedish legal and welfare modelOffers a panoramic history of a thinker who played a leading role in this age, including detailed infor- mation on the Uppsala School
Fields of interest Philosophy of Law; Law Theory/Law Philosophy; Political Philosophy
Target groups This work will appeal to legal and political scholars and reserachers interested in legal realism, scandinavian realism, philosophy of law and its history as well as those interested in 20th century scandinavia
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Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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2009. XX, 220 p. 1 illus. (Law and Philosophy Library, Volume 87) Hardcover approx. $139.00 ISBN 978-90-481-2894-5 104 General Science Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
V. Koukouliou, M. Ujevic, O. Premstaller (Eds) Threats to Food and Water Chain Infrastructure Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Threats to Food and Water Chain Infrastrusture, Vienna, Austria, 3–5 December 2008
The malicious contamination of food and water supplies for terrorist purposes is a real and current threat: deliberate contamination at one location could have severe global public health, trade and consumer confidence implications. The NATO Advanced Research Workshop responded to increasing concern in many countries that chemical, biological or radionuclear agents might be used intentionally to harm civilian populations and that food and water might be used a vehicle for disseminating such agents. Throughout human history drinking water and food supplies of civilians have been the target of attacks and sabotage. Initially these targets were attacked as a part of military campaign but more recently, drinking water and food have been attacked by terrorists in order to generate fear and panic in the civilian population, to create economic disruption or to undermine the people’s confidence in their government and political systems.
Fields of interest Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Chemistry/Food Science, general; Public Health
Target groups Food safety specialists, food security advisers, radiation safety specialists, health and food inspectors, safety and security specialists and crisis management planners, governmental agencies
Discount group P
Engineering
Due January 2010
2010. XI, 150 p. (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security) Hardcover $189.00 ISBN 978-90-481-3544-8
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U. Ehlers, U Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA; S. G. Huber, Institute for the Management and M. Knust, A. Hanft, University of Oldenburg, D. Schneckenberg, ESC Rennes, France (Eds) Economics of Education, University of Teacher Germany (Eds) Education Central Switzerland, Zug, Switzerland (Ed) Changing Cultures in Higher Continuing Higher Education Education School Leadership – and Lifelong Learning Moving Ahead to Future Learning International Perspectives An international comparative study on structures, organisation and provisions
More and more educational scenarios and learning Recent research into school effectiveness has landscapes are developed using blogs, wikis, corroborated the theory that the school leader This comparative survey was conducted in 2006 podcasts and e-portfolios. Web 2.0 tools give plays a pivotal role making their school a and shows the structure, organisation and types of learners more control, by allowing them to easily successful institution, and is most often cited as provisions of continuing higher education in six create, share or reuse their own learning mate- the key factor in a school’s development. countries (in alphabetical order): Austria, Finland, rials, and these tools also enable social learning Reflecting the importance it is given in the today’s France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the networks that bridge the border between formal education landscape, this book explores the latest United States of America. In addition to that, other and informal learning. However, practices of stra- trends in school leadership from both theoretical “important players” in the field of lifelong learning tegic innovation of universities, faculty develop- and practical perspectives. Each chapter provides are included, such as corporate universities and ment, assessment, evaluation and quality assurance insight into an aspect of current research, with research associations. All country studies analyse have not fully accommodated these changes in detailed case studies coming from as far afield as the functions and restraints of continuing higher technology and teaching. Hong Kong and Canada. education. This is done by analysing a) the relevant Ehlers and Schneckenberg present strategic In the context of the ever-increasing burden of framework conditions in each country, b) the approaches for innovation in universities. The responsibility placed on education management management (organisational structures, finan- contributions explore new models for developing to safeguard and enhance the quality of educa- cial management, marketing, quality assurance, and engaging faculty in technology-enhanced tion they provide, school leadership is now a programme portfolios, learn settings etc.) and c) education, and they detail underlying reasons for core concern of policy makers. In addition, most the types of provisions (face-to-face lessons, online why quality assessment and evaluation in new countries are undertaking fundamental education learning, blended-learning; admission to courses; – and often informal – learning scenarios have to reforms that will have a major influence on the accreditation of prior learning; credit points etc.). change. nature of school leadership. Features Features Features Unique survey of lifelong learning in six Details strategic approaches for innovation Vividly reflects the ideas and experiences different countriesShows best practices in in higher educationPresents numerous case regarding current issues and trends in school different fields of higher education management, studies showing how web 2.0 technologies affect leadership and leadership development from e.g. in quality assurance, recognition of prior and change e-learningShows many examples both research and practice perspectivesGives learning, marketing, management of finan- of successful education innovation in universi- valuable new insights from recent research find- cial resources, learn settings etc.Helps to tiesDelivers step-by-step guidance for quality ings and their consequences for the leadership of understand why there are so many differences in assurance in E-learning 2.0 schoolsDraws special attention to the growing the management of lifelong learningBrings importance of activities to “professionalize” school together the European discussion on lifelong Fields of interest leadersIndispensable work for those who wish learning from the points of view of each country Computers and Education; Testing and Evaluation; to be up-to-date on school leadership development study Educational Technology Fields of interest Fields of interest Target groups Educational Administration; Educational Policy; Higher Education; Educational Policy; Educational Researchers and professionals in the areas of Comparative Education Administration distance learning, eLearning, distributed learning environments, and pedagogy, lecturers in higher Target groups Target groups education and university leaders, government Researchers working in the fields of school effec- Researchers in continuing higher education, adult officials and policy makers in higher education tiveness, school improvement, school manage- education and/or lifelong learning ment, educational administration, management Discount group and leadership, school leaders and principals, Discount group P educational policymakers P
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C. Mills, The University of Southern Queensland, H. Steinbring, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, W. J. van der Linden, CTB/McGraw-Hill, Montery, CA, Springfield, Australia; T. Gale, University of South Germany USA; C. A. Glas, University of Twente, Enschede, Australia, Adelaide, Australia The Netherlands (Eds) The Construction of New Schooling in Disadvantaged Mathematical Knowledge in Computerized Adaptive Communities Classroom Interaction Testing, Theory and Practice, Playing the Game from the Back of the Field An Epistemological Perspective Second Edition
Based on a study of one secondary school located This book is a completely revised and expanded in a disadvantaged community in Australia, this The Construction of New Mathematical Knowl- edition of Computerized Adaptive Testing: Theory book provides a different perspective on what it edge in Classroom Interaction deals with the very and Practice. It contains updates of a selection means to ‘play the game’ of schooling. Drawing on specific characteristics of mathematical commu- of the previous chapters in the first edition and the perspectives of teachers, parents and students, nication in the classroom. The general research several new chapters dealing with developments in this book is a window through which to explore question of this book is: How can everyday adaptive testing. the possibilities of schooling in disadvantaged mathematics teaching be described, understood communities. The authors contend that teachers, and developed as a teaching and learning environ- Features parents and students themselves are all involved ment in which the students gain mathematical Completely revised and expanded edition of in the game of reproducing disadvantage in insights and increasing mathematical competence Computerized Adaptive Testing: Theory and Prac- schooling, but similarly, they can play a part in by means of the teacher’s initiatives, offers and tice (published by Kluwer Academic Publishers) opening up opportunities for change to enhance challenges? How can the ‘quality’ of mathematics learning for marginalised students. Rather than teaching be realized and appropriately described? From the contents only attempting to transform students, teachers And the following more specific research question Item selection and ability estimation in adap- should be also be concerned to transform is investigated: How is new mathematical knowl- tive testing (Wim J. van der Linden and Peter schooling; to provide educational opportunities edge interactively constructed in a typical instruc- J. PashIey).- Constrained adaptive testing with that transform the life experiences of and open tional communication among students together shadow tests (Wim J. van der Linden).- Principles up opportunities for all young people, especially with the teacher? In order to answer this question, of multidimensional adaptive testing (Daniel O. those disadvantaged by poverty and marginalised an attempt is made to enter as in-depth as possible Segall).- Multidimensional adaptive testing with by difference. under the surface of the visible phenomena of the Kullback-Liebler information item selection (Wim observable everyday teaching events. J. van der Linden and Joris Mulder).- Sequencing Features an adaptive test battery (Wim J. van der Linden).- Provides a different perspective on what it Features Item parameter estimation and item fit analysis means to ‘play the game’ of schooling in disadvan- The careful analysis of several episodes of math- (Cees A.W. GIas).- Adaptive tests for measuring taged communitiesBased on a study of one ematics teaching in primary school is based on an anxiety and depression (Otto B. Walter).- secondary school located in a highly disadvan- epistemologically oriented analysis Steinbring has MATHCAT: A flexible testing system in math- taged community within australiaThe school developed and applied to mathematics teaching of ematics education for adults (Alfred J. Verschoor provides a window through which the possibilities different grades and Gerard J. J. M. Straetmans).- Implementing of schooling in disadvantaged communities are the Graduate Management admission test comput- exploredDesigned to stimulate understanding Fields of interest erized adaptive test (Lawrence M. Rudner).- of the work of bourdieu and a bourdieuian Epistemology; Mathematics Education Designing and implementing a multistage adaptive approach to researchIncludes the voices of test: The uniform CPA exam (Gerald J. Melican, three significant groups in education: teachers, Target groups Krista Breithaupt, and Yanwei Zhang). parents and students Researchers and students in mathematics educa- tion, educators, psychologists, and students in Fields of interest Fields of interest classroom interaction, mathematics teachers, Statistics for Social Science, Education, Public Sociology of Education; Educational Policy; mathematics teacher students Policy, and Law Teacher Education Discount group Target groups Target groups P Researchers, graduate students Academics and researchers in sociology of educa- tion and social justice Discount group P Discount group P
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J. Belur, Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, J. Butcher, Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía K. Homewood, P. Kristjanson, P. Chenevix Trench University College London, London, UK (CEMEFI), Mexico D.F., Mexico (Ed) (Eds) Permission to Shoot? Mexican Solidarity Staying Maasai? Police Use of Deadly Force in Democracies Citizen Participation and Volunteering Livelihoods, Conservation and Development in East African Rangelands
Extrajudicial executions have blighted parts of the This book offers a new look at Mexican civil world for generations, but criminological coverage society, through a rigorous quantitative and The area of eastern Africa, which includes has been superficial and selective, in that it has qualitative analysis of volunteering in Mexico. Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, concentrated on South America giving the impres- The findings of this study, with new methodolo- wildlife and tribal peoples. Alongside these iconic sion that this is a problem specific to that part of gies specifically tailored to the unique nature of images lie concerns about environmental degrada- the world and associated with military rule, dicta- Mexican volunteerism contradict previous studies tion, declining wildlife populations, and about torial regimes and colonial heritage. Permission to that considered Mexico’s Third Sector one of the worsening poverty of pastoral peoples. East Africa Shoot?: Police Use of Deadly Force in Democracies smallest and least developed worldwide. presents in microcosm the paradox so widely brings a new dimension to the problem of police American or European models of studying the seen across sub Saharan Africa, where the world’s abuse of deadly force by concentrating on India Third Sector do not accurately translate to the poorest and most vulnerable populations live and the United States, both large democracies and study of Mexico, and the author of this key alongside some of the world’s most outstanding vibrant superpowers. volume has developed a new and import model biodiversity resources. of study. The results of this study will provide Over the last decade or so, community conserva- Features key insight about the growing Third Sector in tion has emerged as a way out of poverty and One of the few books on the topic of police use Mexico, including: the concept of volunteering in environmental problems for these rural popula- of force based on primary ethnographic research Mexico, case studies of Non-Profit Organizations tions, focusing on the sustainable use of wildlife (interviews with police officers)First book to in Mexico, findings, Challenges, and Implications to generate income that could underpin equally focus on the problem of police violence in India as of this Study, detailed outline of the Methodology, sustainable development. Given the enduring well as other major countries technological Support for Information Gathering. interest in East African wildlife, and the very large tourist income it generates, these communities and Contents Features ecosystems seem a natural case for green develop- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Theoretical Framework.- Case studies from Mexico with important ment based on community conservation. Chapter 2: Case Studies: The City of Mumbai and implications world-wideEnglish-language its Police and the Sean Bell Case.- Chapter 3: Offi- translation provides first hand research on Mexico Features cers’ Perceptions of Encounters Involving the Use from the original Spanish-language version First to look at community-based conservation of Force.- Chapter 4: Public Opinion and the Role Methodology has applications for nonprofit efforts in eastern AfricaCross-border compar- of the Police in Society.- Chapter 5: Justifications studies in other countries and other sectors of ison aids in determining proven methods that for Deadly Encounters: Denial Theory.- Chapter society work and don’t workBased on three decades of 6: A Permissive Culture: ‘Claimsmakers’ and the the community conservation effort and reported Passive Acceptance of Encounters.- Chapter 7: Contents by an international group of contributors Implications for Policing in Democratic Societies.- Conceptual Framework for Volunteer Action Appendix: Methods and Methodological Issues.- and Acts of Solidarity.-Analysis of the National Fields of interest Bibliography. Survey on Solidarity and Volunteer Action.- How Anthropology; Nature Conservation; Landscape to Become a Volunteer.- The Concept of Giving Ecology Fields of interest in Mexico.- Non-Profit Organizations in Mexico: Criminology & Criminal Justice; Political Science Case studies.- Findings, Challenges, and Implica- Target groups tions. - Appendices.- Index. Researchers and professionals in the fields of Target groups conservation and development as it relates Researchers in criminology and criminal justice, Fields of interest to anthropology, researchers in geography, policing practitioners and policy-makers Sociology; Social Policy; Regional and Cultural economics, environmental studies, development Studies studies, and a African studies Discount group P Target groups Discount group Researchers studying the third sector or volun- P teerism, specifically in latin america
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J. Schofield, English Heritage, Swindon, UK D. C. Shin, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA; T. Inoguchi, University of Niigata Prefecture, Aftermath Japan (Eds) Readings in the Archaeology of Recent The Quality of Life in Conflict Confucian Asia From Physical Welfare to Subjective Well- Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology is a growing Being and important field in archaeology, with impli- cations on the state of the world today: how humanity has prepared for, reacted to, and dealt For the past three decades, Confucian Asia has with the consequences of conflict at a national and been known as a region of wonders. More success- international level. As the field grows, there is an fully than any other region in the world, it has increasing need for research and development in expanded its national economies, and integrated this area.Written by one of the most prominent those into the global economy. To the rest of scholars in this field of growing interest, “After- the world, this region offers the lesson that poor math”, offers a clear and important overview to countries, even with limited natural resources, research in the field. It will become an essential can achieve rapid economic development and source of information for scholars already involved social modernization. To this day, policymakers in conflict archaeology as well as those just starting and scholars have focused on the question of why to explore the field. It offers access to previously Confucian Asia has prospered, while other regions hard-to-find but important research. have not. Consequently, little is known about how such economic expansion and globalization have Features affected the quality of citizens’ lives in the region. Conflict and battlefield archaeology is a new This volume, with quality of life in Confucian Asia and growing area of archaeological research as its main theme, is the first of its kind seeking to Establishes the full scope of conflict and battle- unravel the dynamics and sources of citizen well- field archaeology by bringing together a spectrum being, and to analyze the problems of building of approaches to the subjectOffers an explora- nations of well-being in this region. tion of potential future developments for the field Features Contents The first book appraising subjective well-being Introduction: considering Virilio’s (1994) Bunker and ill-being in the entire region of confucian asia Archeology.- Conserving recent military remains.- The book is offering a comprehensive account Jessie’s Cats and other stories.- Monuments and the of lifestyles and value priorities among east asians memories of war.- Views of the Berlin Wall: Allied perspectives.- Peace Camp, Nevada.- Twyford Fields of interest Down.- Greenham Common Airbase.- Strait Quality of Life Research; Social Policy Street.- The Home Front, 1914-2001.- The Battle of Britain.- D-Day preparatory sites in England.- Le Target groups Carré landscapes.- New urban frontiers and the Scholars conducting research on the quality of life will to belong.- Constructing place.- Afterword. and policy analysts - References.- Index. Discount group Fields of interest P Archaeology; History; Cultural Heritage
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D. Canale, P. Grossi, H. Hofmann, P. Riley (Eds) C. Gratton, University of Toronto, CA, USA A. Gurwitsch, F. Kersten (Ed) A Treatise of Legal Philosophy Infinite Regress Arguments The Collected Works of Aron and General Jurisprudence Gurwitsch (1901–1973) Vol. 9: A History of the Philosophy of Law in Volume II: Studies in Phenomenology and the Civil Law World, 1600–1900 Infinite regress arguments are part of a philoso- Psychology Vol. 10: The Philosophers’ Philosophy of Law pher’s tool kit of argumentation. But how sharp or from the Seventeenth Century to our Days strong is this tool? How effectively is it used? The typical presentation of infinite regress arguments Editor-in-chief: E. Pattaro throughout history is so succinct and has so many The second of a planned six volume of Gurwitsch’s gaps that it is often unclear how an infinite regress writings, this volume is a corrected version of a is derived, and why an infinite regress is logically collection he published in 1966. It was intended A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Juris- problematic, and as a result, it is often difficult to complement the English edition of The Field prudence is the first ever multivolume treatment to evaluate infinite regress arguments. These of Consciousness (1964), which is the third of the issues in legal philosophy and general juris- consequences of our customary way of using this volume of these Works in English. It contains his prudence, from both a theoretical and a historical tool indicate that there is a need for a theory to own introduction addressing his motivation as a perspective. The work is aimed at jurists as well re-orient our practice. phenomenologist and the situation at the time of as legal and practical philosophers. Edited by the publication. Included are English translations of renowned theorist Enrico Pattaro and his team this Features his doctoral thesis, Phenomenology of Thematics book is a classical reference work that would be of The first book publication to contribute to a and the Pure Ego (1929) and the substantial study great interest to legal and practical philosophers, theory of infinite regress argumentsUncovers based on his first Sorbonne lecture course, “Some as well as jurists and Philosophy of Law-scholar at different kinds of infinite regresses used as Aspects and Developments of Gestalt Psychology” all levels. premisesIdentifies different kinds of infinite (1936), which made his name in Paris when he regress argumentsSuggests ways of improving fled there from Germany after the rise of National Features our construction or evaluation of infinite regress Socialism. First ever multi-volume treatment of all impor- arguments tant issues in the legal philosophy-fieldA clas- Features sical reference workEdited by the renowned Contents This is work documents Gurwitsch’s thought theorist Enrico Pattaro and his team Introduction. Chapter 1 What is an infinite regress at the height of his development in the USA argument?- Chapter 2 Formal and nonformal logic Crucial for a full understanding Gurwisch’s Fields of interest of infinite concatenating regresses.- Chapter 3 thoughtShows especially Gurwitsch’s use Philosophy of Law; Philosophy; Roman Law/Law Viciousness.- Chapter 4.- Circular definitions and of psychology for phenomenological purposes, History/Canon Law circular explanations.- Chapter 5 Infinite regresses including the theory of science of recurring questions.- Chapter 6 Infinite Target groups regresses of recurring problems and responses.- Fields of interest Philosophy of law-scholars at all levels, general Summary.- Endnotes.- Appendix.- Glossary.- Phenomenology; Epistemology; History of philosophers References. Philosophy
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A. Gurwitsch, R. M. Zaner (Ed) O. Höffe, University of Tübingen, Germany J. Meheus, Wijsbegeerte Universiteit, Gent, Belgium; T. Nickles, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA (Eds) The Collected Works of Aron Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason Gurwitsch (1901–1973) The Foundation of Modern Philosophy Models of Discovery and Volume III: The Field of Consciousness: Creativity Theme, Thematic Field, and Margin Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason” is so outstanding among modern philosophical works, that it can be Since the origin of the modern sciences, our termed “the” foundation of modern philosophy. views on discovery and creativity had a remark- This volume of the Collected Works edition Schopenhauer termed it “the most important book able history. Originally, discovery was seen as contains Gurwitsch’s magnum opus, which empha- ever to have been written in Europe.” Otfried Höffe an integral part of methodology and the logic of sizes how items in the thematic field are relevant to guides the reader through the “Critique” one step discovery as algorithmic or nearly algorithmic. the theme. It is introduced by his student Richard at a time, expounding Kant’s thoughts, submitting During the nineteenth century, conceptions in line Zaner. This volume also includes the posthumous them to an interpretation and drawing a summary with romanticism led to the famous opposition text, “Marginal Consciousness,” the contents of conclusion, placing the work and its topics within between the context of discovery and the context which were merely summarized in The Field of the context of its modern successors. A “critical” of justification, culminating in a view that banned Consciousness. It presents his positions on the interpretation of Kant’s text reveals that he had discovery from methodology. The revival of the body and on ego-less consciousness in detail. something to say on many discussions that are said methodological investigation of discovery, which Gurwitsch’s student, Lester Embree, introduces it. to have originated after his death. Reducing his started some thirty years ago, derived its major For the full appreciation of their significance, all argumentation to its central tenets, it can be made impetus from historical and sociological studies earlier and later writings by Gurwitsch must be stronger and applicable to current problems. Kant’s of the sciences and from developments within related to the contents of this volume. eventual concern, however, even when writing cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence. theoretical philosophy, lay with the practical. Today, a large majority of philosophers of science Features Elaborating this concern and its connection to agrees that the classical conception as well as the The Field of Consciousnesss contains Kant’s theoretical philosophy is a prime tenet of romantic conception are mistaken. Against the Gurwitsch’s magnum opus, discussing problems this book. classical conception, it is generally accepted that of organization in consciousness, principles of truly novel discoveries are not the result of simply Gestalt Theory, fundamental concepts of constitu- Features applying some standardized procedure. tive phenomenology and phenomenological theory Comprehensive treatment of the complete first of perceptionThis volume also includes the critique of KantConcentration on the moral Features posthumous text Marginal Consciousness primacy in Kant’s philosophyBrings Kant’s The book contains contributions from both With Introductions by Gurwitsch’s students treatment of current philosophical problems into historians and philosophers of scienceAll of Lester Embree and Richard Zaner perspectiveStrong emphasis on readability them, however, are methodological in the contem- while retaining professional level porary sense of the termThe central values From the contents of this methodology are empirical accurateness, The Field of Consciousness.- Editorial Introduc- Fields of interest clarity and precision, and rationality tion; Richard M. Zaner.- Author’s Preface.- Philosophy; History of Philosophy; Epistemology Part I. General Problems of Organization in From the contents Consciousness.- 1. The Problem of Dimensional Target groups Preface .- Unexpected discoveries, Graded Struc- Differences Between Conjunctions of Phases of Philosophy students, graduates, teachers, tures, and the Difference between Acceptance Experience.- 2. Origin of Organization.- “Layman” readers of philosophy, people interested and Neglect.- Hanne Andersen.- Conceptual 3. Grouping and Organization of Sense-Data.- in philosophy Comparison and Conceptual Innovation.- Harold Part II. Some Principles of Gestalt Theory. I. Brown.- Discovering Mechanisms in Molecular Discount group Biology.- Finding and Fixing Incompleteness and Fields of interest P Incorrectness.- Lindley Darden. 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D. C. Ralston, J. Ho, Rice University, Houston, TX, H. Selin, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA (Ed) J. Stachel, Boston University, MA, USA USA (Eds) Childbirth Across Cultures Going Critical Philosophical Reflections on Ideas and Practices of Pregnancy, Childbirth Volume One: The Challenge of Practice Disability and the Postpartum
Advisory editor: P. K. Stone Rather than defining himself by an occupation, This project draws together the diverse strands John Stachel follows the Emersonsonian tradi- of the debate regarding disability in a way never tion and defines himself as “a man doing political before combined in a single volume. After This book will explore the childbirth process organizing, union organizing, theoretical physics, providing a representative sampling of competing through globally diverse perspectives in order history of science, philosophy of science, and philosophical approaches to the conceptualization to offer a broader context with which to think Einstein editing”, to name some of the things he of disability as such, the volume goes on to address about birth. We will address multiple rituals and has done in the course of his life. Academically, his such themes as the complex interplay between management models surrounding the labor and goal has been to take a problem that puzzles him disability and quality of life, questions of social birth process from communities across the globe. and follow this problem wherever it leads him, justice as it relates to disability, and the personal Labor and birth are biocultural events that are regardless of disciplinary boundaries. dimensions of the disability experience. managed in countless ways. We are particularly This two-volume collection of published and By explicitly locating the discussion of various interested in the notion of power. Who controls unpublished papers span an academic career of applied ethical questions within the broader theo- the pregnancy and the birth? Is it the hospital, over forty years. An introductory essay explains retical context of how disability is best conceptual- the doctor, or the in-laws, and in which cultures his credo and in particular the unity behind the ized, the volume seeks to bridge the gap between does the mother have the control? These decisions, apparent diversity of his interests. abstract philosophical musings about the nature regarding place of birth, position, who receives the of disease, illness and disability found in much baby and even how the mother may or may not Contents of the philosophy of medicine literature, on the behave during the actual delivery, are all part of Preface: My Berlin talk. Introductory Survey. one hand, and the comparatively concrete but less the different ways that birth is conducted. Papers: Methodology: A Note on Scientific philosophical discourse frequently encountered in Practice; R.S. Cohen, et al., eds. The Manifold much of the disability studies literature. Features of Possibilities: Comments on Norton; J. Leplin, Unique in bringing together experiences of ed. Scientific Discoveries as Historical Artifacts; Features birth and pregnancy from more than 20 cultures K. Gavroglu, et al, eds. Quantum Mechanics: Completely new material, written by prominent around the worldBrings a unifying theme: Bohr and the Photon; Unpublished. The Logic of scholars in philosophy of medicine, disability Power – who makes the decisions about birth Quantum Logic; R.S. Cohen, et al. eds. Do Quanta studies, moral theory, and bioethics and the conduct of the mother during labour? Need a New Logic? R. Colodny, ed. Feynman Paths Shows how birth process is connected to the and Quantum Entanglement: Is there any More Contents culture and illustrates why birth is a biocultural to the Mystery? R.S. Cohen, et al. eds. Marxism: Acknowledgements.- List of contributors.- event Marx’s Critical Concept of Science. Marx on Introduction.- Part I Concepts and Theories of Science and Capitalism; K. Gavroglu, et al. eds. Disability.- Part II Disability, Quality of Life, and Fields of interest Contradiction, Contrariety and Colletti; Unpub- Bioethics.- Part III Disability, Social Justice, and Anthropology; Regional and Cultural Studies; lished. History of Science, factual and Counterfac- Public Policy.- Part IV Personal Voices.- Index. Gynecology tual: The Optics and Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies;M. Janssen. If Maxwell had Worked Fields of interest Target groups between Ampère and Faraday; M. Jammer. Philosophy of Medicine; Theory of Medicine/ Academics in anthropology and medicine, Reviews: Marxist Critique? Bioethics; Political Philosophy educated laypeople Fields of interest Target groups Discount group Philosophy of Science; Quantum Physics; History Scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of P moral theory, biomedical ethics, and disability Target groups studies, as well as policy makers interested in the Researchers and professionals philosophical and ethical foundations of laws and policies impacting various disabled populations Discount group P Discount group P
Humanities, Social Sciences and Law Humanities, Social Sciences and Law Humanities, Social Sciences and Law Due October 2009 Due November 2009 Due October 2009 2009. Approx. 330 p. 33 illus. in color. (Science Across 2010. Approx. 260 p. (Philosophy and Medicine, Cultures: the History of Non-Western Science, Volume 5) 2009. Approx. 405 p. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy Volume 104) Hardcover Hardcover of Science, Volume 201) Dustjacket $139.00 $189.00 approx. $189.00 ISBN 978-90-481-2476-3 ISBN 978-90-481-2598-2 ISBN 978-1-4020-1308-9 112 Arts/Design Springer News 10/2009 springer.com/booksellers
A. Tymieniecka, The World Phenomenology Institute, A. Tymieniecka, The World Phenomenology Institute, A. Van den Braembussche, Free University of Hanover, NH, USA (Ed) Hanover, NH, USA (Ed) Brussels, Belgium Phenomenology and Phenomenology and Thinking Art Existentialism in the Existentialism in the Twentieth Century Twentieth Century Book I. New Waves of Philosophical Book II. Fruition – Cross-Pollination – In the twentieth century, avant-garde movements have pushed the concept of art far beyond its Inspirations Dissemination traditional boundaries. In this dynamical process of constant renewal the prestige of thinking about art as a legitimizing practice has come to the fore. Phenomenology and existentialism transformed Our world’s cultural circles are permeated by So it is hardly surprising that the past decades understanding and experience of the Twentieth the philosophical influences of existentialism have been characterized by a revival or even Century to their core. They had strikingly different and phenomenology. Two contemporary quests breakthrough of philosophy of art as a discipline. inspirations and yet the two waves of thought to elucidate rationality – took their inspirations However, the majority of books on aesthetics fail became merged as both movements flourished. from Kierkegaard’s existentialism plumbing the to combine a systematical philosophical discourse The present collection of research devoted to these subterranean source of subjective experience with a real exploration of art practice. movements and their unfolding interaction is now and Husserl’s phenomenology focusing on the Thinking Art attempts to deal with this tradi- especially revealing. The studies in this first volume constitutive aspect of rationality. Yet, both contrary tional shortcoming. It is indeed not only an easily to be followed by two succeeding ones, range from directions mingled readily in common vindication accessible and systematic account of the classical, the predecessors of existentialism – Kierkegaard/ of full reality. modern and postmodern theories of art, but also Jean Wahl, Nietzsche, to the work of its adherents In the inquisitive minds (Scheler, Heidegger, concludes each chapter with an artist’s studio in – Shestov, Berdyaev, Unamuno, Blondel, Blumen- Sartre, Stein, Merleau-Ponty, et al.), a fruitful which the practical relevance of the discussed berg, Heidegger and Mamardashvili, Dufrenne and cross-pollination of insights, ideas, approaches, theory is amply demonstrated by concrete exam- Merleau-Ponty to existentialism’s congruence with fused in one powerful wave disseminating ples. Moreover, each chapter ends with a section Christianity or with atheism. throughout all domains of thought. on further reading, in which all relevant literature Among the leading Husserlian insights are treated Existentialist rejection of ratiocination and is discussed in detail. essence and experience, the place of questioning, speculation together with Husserl’s shift to the ethics and intentionality, temporality and passivity genesis of rapproches philosophy and literature Features and the life world. (Wahl, Marcel, Berdyaev, Wojtyla, Tischner, etc.), One of the most systematic and comprehensive while the foundational underpinnings of language introductions to philosophy of art existing to-day Features (Wittengenstein, Derrida, etc.) opened the (classical, modern and post-modern theories of art Devoted to phenomenology and existen- “hidden” behind the “veils” (Sezgin and Domin- are discussed at length)One of the most read- tialism and to their interactionIllustrates how guez-Rey). able introductions to philosophy of art: an ideal phenomenology and existentialism transformed book to teach philosophy of art and to be read by human understanding and experience of the Features the general public twentieth centuryGives insight in the relation Shows a fresh view upon the origins and between existentialism and Christian faith and development of phenomenology and existentialism Fields of interest atheism as the main intellectual force of the Twentieth Arts; Fine Arts; Aesthetics CenturyThrough an insight into their cross- Fields of interest pollination, phenomenology and existentialism Target groups History of Philosophy; Phenomenology; Modern open a full panorama of human reality Graduate (and postgraduate students) in philos- Philosophy ophy, history of art, cultural studies, sociology of Fields of interest art, art studies, media studies, cultural economics Target groups History of Philosophy; Phenomenology; Modern and so on, students at art academies, art critics, Philosophers, phenomenologists, history of Philosophy artists, museum directors, cultural managers and philosophy scholars, anthropologists, philosophers so on of mind, spiritual and religious scholars Target groups Philosophers, historians, scholars in general, Discount group Discount group graduate and undergraduate students P P Discount group P
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