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52 Dasgupta, A Roadmap for Formal Property F (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Verification Research)
11 Jacobson (Eds), Handbook of Intellectual and L 40 Morisio (Ed), Reuse of Off-the-Shelf Developmental Disabilities Components (Issues Clin . Child Psych ). 55 Lamballais (Eds), Direct and Large-Eddy (LNCS 4039) 65 Jaeger, Quantum Information Simulation VI 93 Mortimer (Eds), Handbook of the Life Course 71 Jain et al ., Hydrology and Water Resources of (ERCOFTAC Series 10) (Handbooks of Sociology and Social India 66 Lambropoulos/Petrosyan, Quantum Optics Research)
(LNCS 4006) 90 Schomburg (Eds), Higher Education and 5 Tavernier (Eds), Radiation Detectors for 94 Pontell (Eds), International Handbook of Graduate Employment in Europe Medical Applications White-Collar and Corporate Crime (Higher Educat . Dynam . 15) (NATO Security B)
80 Weick, Owls (Strigiformes) - Annotated and Illustrated Checklist 96 Weisburd/Britt, Statistics in Criminal Justice . 3rd ed . 86 Westlund, Social Capital in the Knowledge Economy (Adv . Spatial Sc .) 75 Westrich (Eds), Sediment Dynamics and Pollutant Mobility in Rivers (Environ . Sc .) 75 Wetzel et al ., Bioproducts From Canada’s Forests 6 Woo et al ., Pediatric Rheumatology in Clinical Practice 44 Wright, Introduction to Scientific Visualization y 25 Yadava, The Berkeley DB Book 17 Yan (Eds), Stochastic Processes, Optimization, and Control Theory (ISORMS 94) 45 Yli-Jyrä (Eds), Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing (LNAI 4002) 45 Yu (Eds), Advances in Web-Age Information Management (LNCS 4016) 59 Yuan, CMOS Current-Mode Circuits for Data Communications (Analog Circuits and Signal Processing)
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A 16 College Geometry Using The Geometer’s 49 Emergent Properties in Natural and Artificial Sketchpad® Dynamical Systems 7 Abeta Peptide and Alzheimer’s Disease 41 Combinatorial Image Analysis 83 The Emerging Digital Economy 12 Adaptive Atmospheric Modeling 39 Combinatorial Pattern Matching 40 Emerging Trends in Information and Commu- 43 Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive 69 Combustion nication Security Web-Based Systems 30 Communications and Networking: 33 Enabling Semantic Web Services 53 Ad-Hoc Networking Towards Seamless An Introduction 47 Endoglycosidases - Biochemistry, Communications 54 Complex-Valued Neural Networks Biotechnology, Application 32 Advanced Information Systems Engineering 59 Computational Mechanics 31 Engineering Societies in the Agents World VI 70 Advanced Materials Characterization for 19 Computational Genome Analysis 72 Environmental Bioremediation Technologies Corrosion Products Formed on the Steel 57 Computational Intelligence, Theory and 79 Enzyme Technology Surface Applications 7 Examining the Science Behind 26 Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence 79 Computer Applications in Sustainable Forest Nutraceuticals 38 Advances in Artificial Intelligence Management 26 Experimental Algorithms 57 Advances in Robot Kinematics 60 Computer Simulations in Condensed Matter 13 Extending the Frontiers of Mathematics 45 Advances in Web-Age Information Systems - Vol . 1 26 Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Management 61 Computer Simulations in Condensed Matter Software Engineering 34 Advances in XML Information Retrieval and Systems - Vol . 2 Evaluation 16 Computing the Electrical Activity in the Heart 73 Air Pollution Modeling and its Application 30 Coordination Models and Languages F XVII 28 Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems 35 Algebra, Meaning, and Computation 60 Fast Simulation of Electro-Thermal MEMS 84 Coping with Uncertainty 29 Algorithmic Aspects in Information and 53 Feature Extraction 82 Corporate Governance in Japan Management 56 Feedforward Amplifiers for Wideband 62 Cosmic Ray Interactions, Propagation, and 21 All of Nonparametric Statistics Communication Systems Acceleration in Space Plasmas 79 Alternative Splicing and Disease 68 Feynman Integral Calculus 58 Cryptographic Algorithms on 21 Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution 45 Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Reconfigurable Hardware with R Processing 3 Current Review of Complementary Medicine 45 Applied Cryptography and Network Security 39 Flexible Query Answering Systems 11 The Cycle of Deviant Behavior 92 Archaeology Under Dictatorship 13 Fluid-Structure Interaction 40 Artificial Intelligence Applications and 36 Formal Approaches to Software Testing Innovations 36 Formal Methods and Stochastic Models for 2 Assessing Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in D Performance Evaluation Health 35 Formal Methods for Open Object-Based 5 Atlas of Clinical Urology 38 Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce and Distributed Systems Services 24 Foundations of WF 19 Data Science and Classification 55 Fracture and Failure of Natural Building B 3 Deadly Dermatologic Diseases Stones 48 Dendrimer Catalysis 82 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) 87 The Basel II Risk Parameters 52 Design and Optimization of Passive UHF RFID 95 Frontiers of Globalization Research 23 Beginning ASP .NET 2 .0 Web Services in C# Systems 49 Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical 24 Beginning Microsoft Word Business 36 Developments in Language Theory Systems Documents 68 Dictionary of Minor Planet Names 74 The Future of Sustainability 23 Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce 55 Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation VI 25 The Berkeley DB Book 33 Distributed Applications and Interoperable 76 Biophotonics and Coherent Systems in Systems G Biology 35 Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems 15 Dynamical Entropy in Operator Algebras 75 Bioproducts From Canada’s Forests 17 Galerkin Finite Element Methods for 68 Dynamics of Complex Interconnected Parabolic Problems Systems: Networks and Bioprocesses 64 Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era C 72 Geomagnetics for Aeronatical Safety 73 Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems 61 Celestial Mechanics E 39 Graphics Recognition . TenYears Review and 77 Cell Cycle Regulation Future Perspectives 48 Chemicals as Intentional and Accidental 83 The Economics and Regulation of Financial Global Environmental Threats Privacy 4 Chronic Disease Management 93 The Education Systems of Europe H 15 Cinderella .2 Documentation 69 Einstein’s Enigma or Black Holes in my Bubblebath 48 Class 2 Transferases IV 7 Handbook of Bioterrorism and Disaster 77 Electrolytes, Acid-Base Balance and Blood 59 CMOS Current-Mode Circuits for Data Medicine Gases Communications 91 Handbook of Community Movements and 29 Cognitive Vision Systems Local Organizations springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 7/2006 AuthorTitle Index IX
94 Handbook of Disaster Research L 9 The Nidoviruses 95 Handbook of Drug Abuse Prevention 46 Nucleic Acids in Chemistry and Biology 11 Handbook of Intellectual and Developmental 42 Learning Theory Disabilities 2 The Lacrimal System: Diagnosis, 83 Handbook of Production Scheduling Management & Surgery O 92 Handbook of Social Psychology 63 Lectures in Astrobiology 96 Handbook of Sociological Theory 94 Lithic Analysis 52 Offshore Wind Energy 90 Handbook of Teacher Education 78 Living Rivers: Trends and Challenges in 29 Ontologies in Software Engineering and 93 Handbook of the Life Course Science and Management Software Technology 92 Handbook of the Sociology of Education 28 Logical Approaches to Computational 30 Open Source Systems 95 Handbook of the Sociology of Gender Barriers 46 Optical Chemical Sensors 91 Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health 63 Lonely Minds in the Universe 84 Optimal Risk-Return Trade-Offs of 91 Handbook of the Sociology of the Military 10 Lymphocyte Signal Transduction Commercial Banks 1 Healthcare Knowledge Management 62 Origins 9 Hepatic Encephalopathy and Nitrogen 80 Owls (Strigiformes) - Annotated and Metabolism Illustrated Checklist 8 Hepatitis Delta Virus M 90 Higher Education and Graduate Employment in Europe 25 Mac OS X Dashboard Widget Recipes 65 High-Frequency Seafloor Acoustics 53 Maintenance of Process Instrumentation in P 78 Human Nucleotide Expansion Disorders Nuclear Power Plants 67 Hydrogen in Matter 1 Management of Erectile Dysfunction in 5 Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders 71 Hydrology and Water Resources of India Clinical Practice 6 Pediatric Rheumatology in Clinical Practice 67 Mathematical Analysis and Applications 27 Perception and Interactive Technologies 13 Mathematical Modeling of Complex 42 Performability Has its Price Biological Systems 84 Perspectives in Modern Project Scheduling I 67 Mathematical Modelling of Wave 4 PET Phenomena 31 Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency 24 Illustrated C# 2005 14 Mathematics and Culture IV - ICATPN 2006 85 The Impact of FDI on Economic Growth 12 Measure Theory and Probability Theory 71 Physical Geodesy 22 In Search of Stupidity 55 Measuring, Monitoring and Modeling 64 Physics of Surfaces and Interfaces 27 Information Security and Privacy Concrete Properties 76 Plant-Associated Bacteria 87 Information Systems Outsourcing 81 Metaheuristic Procedures for Training Neural 50 Platform Based Design at the Electronic 34 Information Systems Reengineering and Networks System Level Integration 63 Microgravity Two-phase Flow and Heat 89 Policy, Experience and Change: Cross Cultural 56 Innovations in Design & Decision Support Transfer Reflections on Inclusive Education Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning 19 Model-based Geostatistics 12 Positive Operators 73 Institutional Dynamics in Environmental 21 Modeling Financial Time Series with S-PLUS® 51 Positive Systems Governance 10 Molecular Mechanisms of Basal Cell and 85 Posted Price Offers in Internet Auction 37 Intelligent Tutoring Systems Squamous Cell Carcinomas Markets 94 International Handbook of White-Collar and 2 MRI and CT of the Female Pelvis 82 Poverty and Equity Corporate Crime 54 Multifield Problems in Solid and Fluid 9 Prevention and Treatment of Age-related 8 Intracellular Mechanisms for Neuritogenesis Mechanics Diseases 20 An Introduction to Bayesian Analysis 57 Multimedia Database Retrieval 74 A Primer on Environmental Decision-Making 44 Introduction to Scientific Visualization 58 Multiscaling in Molecular and Continuum 31 Privacy Enhancing Technologies 85 Introduction to Stochastic Calculus for Finance Mechanics: Interaction of Time and Size from 22 Pro BizTalk 2006 81 Inventory Control Macro to Nano 22 Pro WordPress Development 81 Investment Management and 41 Product-Focused Software Process Improve- Mismanagement: ment 51 IQ Calibration Techniques for CMOS Radio 89 Professional Development for Leaders and Tranceivers N Managers of Self-Governing Schools 97 Islamic Bioethics: Problems and Perspectives 27 Public Key Infrastructure 50 IUTAM Symposium on Computational 37 Natural Language Processing and 71 P-Vector Inverse Method Approaches to Multiphase Flow Information Systems 66 Natural Products 93 Neanderthals Revisited 64 Neutron Stars 1 Q K 76 New and Evolving Infections of the 21st Century 16 Quantitative Reasoning 8 Kaposi Sarcoma Herpesvirus: 44 New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 47 Quantum Dynamics of Complex Molecular New Perspectives 4 New Perspectives in Magnesium Research Systems 1 Key Clinical Trials in Erectile Dysfunction 33 Next Generation Information Technologies 18 Quantum Field Theory I: Basics in 44 Knowledge Enterprise: Intelligent and Systems Mathematics and Physics Strategies in Product Design, Manufacturing, 38 Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/ 65 Quantum Imaging and Management Wireless Advanced Networking Title Index Springer News 7/2006 springer.com/booksellers
65 Quantum Information T 66 Quantum Optics and Quantum Information 20 Testing Statistical Hypotheses 32 The Transfer and Diffusion of Information R Technology for Organizational Resilience 14 Triangulations and Applications 5 Radiation Detectors for Medical Applications 78 Tropical Homegardens 46 Radioionidation Reactions for Pharmaceuticals 87 Realising Systems Thinking U 88 Recent Trends in German and European Constitutional Law 32 Unifying Theories of Programming 86 Regional Economic Development 88 The Unity of the European Constitution 41 Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 61 Universality of Nonclassical Nonlinearity 2006 86 The Urban Mosaic of Post-Socialist Europe 74 Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere for 75 User Behavior and Technology Development Environmental Security 43 Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems 51 Re-Use Based Methodologies and Tools V in the Design of Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits 17 Vacation Queueing Models 40 Reuse of Off-the-Shelf Components 10 The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and 3 Review of Surgery Bioethics 58 RF Power Amplifiers for Mobile Communications 77 Ringtailed Lemur Biology W 52 A Roadmap for Formal Property Verification 28 RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX 69 Water Dynamics 50 Wind Turbine Control Systems
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R. Bali, BIOCORE, UK; A. Dwivedi, University of Hull, C. C. Carson, University of North Carolina at Chapel C. C. Carson, University of North Carolina at Chapel UK (Eds .) Hill, NC, USA; J. Dean, Salisbury Clinic, Plymouth, UK Hill, NC, USA Healthcare Knowledge Management of Erectile Key Clinical Trials in Erectile Management Dysfunction in Clinical Dysfunction Issues, Advances and Successes Practice
This book represents a critical appraisal of the Healthcare practitioners and managers increas- Management of Erectile Dysfunction in Clinical major clinical trials that have had a significant ingly find themselves in clinical situations where Practice is a short guide to erectile dysfunc- impact on clinical research and practice during they have to think fast and process myriad diag- tion (ED) and its management covering normal the last decade. Each trial follows a strict format, nostic test results, medications and past treatment function and dysfunction, assessment, treatment starting with reference to the original source of responses in order to make decisions. Effective options and interventions. ED is a symptom, not publication, details on the key investigators and problem solving in the clinical environment or a disease and will have underlying causes such as their methods of research. The strengths and classroom simulated lab depends on a healthcare hypertension, coronary artery disease, diabetes, weaknesses of each trial are discussed as well as professional’s immediate access to fresh informa- chronic renal impairment, chronic arthritis, their influence on clinical practice. Articles are tion. Unable to consult a library for information, chronic alcoholism, multiple sclerosis. This book complemented by a diagrammatic summary of the the healthcare practitioner must learn to effectively will be an essential reference for family practitio- trial design and the key findings. It is estimated manage knowledge while thinking on their toes. ners and residents in urology. that over 20 million men in Europe alone suffer at Knowledge Management (KM) holds the key some time in their life from erectile dysfunction to this dilemma in the healthcare environment. Features (ED). This is the first book to bring together in KM places value on the tacit knowledge that 7 Concise guide to erectile dysfunction and its a single volume a critical review of all the major individuals hold within an institution and often management for family practitioners and residents trials in ED. makes use of IT to free up the collective wisdom of individuals within an organization. Healthcare Contents Features Knowledge Management: Issues, Advances and Introduction.- Normal erectile and sexual func- 7 The first book to bring together in a single Successes will explore the nature of KM within tion.- Erectile dysfunction aetiology and risk volume a critical review of all the major trials in contemporary healthcare institutions and associ- factors.- Assessment of erectile dysfunction.- erectile dysfunction ated organizations. Treatment planning.- First line intervention.- Second line and further interventions. Contents Features Yohimbine: first oral pharmacotherapy.- Phenoxy- 7 Relative newness of Healthcare Knowledge Field of interest benzamine: an early intracavernosal agent.- Intra- Management means the academic schools and Urology/Andrology cavernosal therapy: potential of vasorelaxant practitioners are reliant on journal papers and agents.- Intracavernosal therapy: confirmation isolated book chapters; this book would be among Target groups of response.- Yohimbine: modest effects as an the first to deal exclusively with this topic Family practitioners, residents in urology oral monotherapy.- Intracavernosal alprostadil: 7 Gets at the theory of Knowledge Management rationale for use.- Intracavernosal alprostadil: through real-life situations, and is therefore ideal Discount group long-term efficacy safety.- Intracavernosal therapy: for the practicing healthcare professional MR combination of vasoactive agents.- Intraurethral alprostadil.- Alprostadil: intracavernosal versus Field of interest intraurethral.- Sildenafil: pilot study of first Health Informatics effective oral agent.- Sildenafil: utility confirmed.- Apomorphine SL: pilot study of an alternative Target groups oral agent.- Apomorphine SL: a viable alterna- Practicing professionals and students in medical tive oral agent.- Phentolamine: a potential oral informatics, hospital administration, and Knowl- agent.- Testosterone therapy in androgen defficient edge Management men.- Psychotherapy.- Vacuum device.- Penile prostheses. Discount group MR Field of interest Urology/Andrology
Target groups Clinicians and research workers in urology, sexual dysfunction and related disorders
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2006 . Approx . 350 p . 33 illus . Hardcover 2007 . Approx . 95 p . Softcover 2007 . Approx . 95 p . Softcover ISBN 0-387-33540-4 7 $74.95 ISBN 1-84628-398-1 7 $49.95 ISBN 1-84628-427-9 7 $49.95 Medicine Springer News 7/2006 springer.com/booksellers
A. J. Cohen, Elmhurst Hospital, Elmhurst, IL, USA; B. Hamm, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, S. Loue, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, M. Mercandetti, Ophthalmic Consultants, Sarasota, Germany; R. Forstner, Salzburger Landeskliniken, OH, USA FL, USA; B. G. Brazzo, Weill Medical College of Salzburg, Austria (Eds .) Cornell, New York, NY, USA (Eds .) Assessing Race, Ethnicity, and MRI and CT of the Female Gender in Health The Lacrimal System: Pelvis Diagnosis, Management & Surgery Where there are patients, clients, or study MRI and CT exquisitely depict the anatomy of participants, there are data. And when data involve the female pelvis and offer fascinating diagnostic personal variables of race, ethnicity, gender, Lacrimal surgery is not a part of every ophthalmol- possibilities in women with pelvic disorders. This and/or sexual orientation, questions of relevance ogist’s daily practice, but every eye care provider volume provides a comprehensive account of the and marginalization often arise. Assessing Race, refers patients to the occuloplastic specialist who use of these cross-sectional imaging techniques to Ethnicity, and Gender in Health Research brings do these procedures. There have been exciting identify and characterize developmental anoma- needed clarity to the debate by identifying the advances in recent years, including the advent lies and acquired diseases of the female genital ethical issues as well as the technical challenges of balloon assisted procedures. But, the increase tract. Both benign and malignant diseases are inherent in measuring these elusive concepts. in lasik procedures have lead to dry eye as a considered in depth, and detailed attention is also Sana Loue expands on her work begun in Gender, common complication. This book is designed to paid to normal anatomical findings and variants. Ethnicity, and Health Research by paralleling the help Lacrimal surgeons not only avoid their own Further individual chapters focus on the patient evolution of racial and sexual categories with the mistakes, but correct the complications of patients with pelvic pain and the use of MRI for pelvimetry development of health research. Her review of the referred to them. during pregnancy and the evaluation of fertility. literature clearly explains when and why the use of Throughout, emphasis is placed on the most recent classification systems may be both clinically and Features diagnostic and technical advances, and the text is morally appropriate. In addition, Loue provides a 7 Designed to help lacrimal surgeons not only complemented by many detailed and informative salient guide to assessment tools currently used in avoid their own mistakes, but correct the compli- illustrations. All of the authors are acknowledged measuring racial and sexual constructs, identity, cations of patients referred to them experts in diagnostic imaging of the female pelvis, and experience. 7 This surgical “how to” book shows the general and the volume will prove an invaluable aid to ophthalmologist and occuloplastic specialist how everyone with an interest in this field. Features to effectively treat the range of lacrimal disorders 7 Deals specifically with the historical basis for Features use of terms in race, gender, ethnicity, sex and From the contents 7 Provides a comprehensive account of the sexual orientation 1 Anatomy of the Lacrimal System.- 2 Gender diagnostic use of CT and MRI in patients with and Racial Variation of the Lacrimal System.- 3 developmental anomalies and acquired diseases of Contents Histology and Pathology of the Lacrimal System.- the female genital tract 7 Documents the normal Part I. Foundations: Constructing Categories: 4 Nasal Anatomy and Evaluation.- Section Two anatomical findings and variants exquisitely Context and Consequences.- Methodological Diagnosis.- Introduction.- 5 Congenital Etiologies displayed by these techniques 7 Places special Considerations.- Part II. Constructs: Their of Lacrimal System Obstructions.- 6 Acquired emphasis on the most recent diagnostic and Definition and Use: Defining Race, Ethnicity and Etiologies of Lacrimal System Obstructions.- 7 technical advances 7 Written by acknowledged Related Constructs.- Defining Sex, Gender, and Evaluation of the Tearing Patient.- 8 Imaging and experts 7 Contains many detailed and informa- Related Constructs.- Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual Clinical Evaluation of The Lacrimal Drainage tive illustrations Orientation in Health.- Part III. Assessing Gender, System.- Section Three Management and Surgical Ethnicity, and Related Constructs: Measures of Technique.- Introduction.- 9 The Tear Deficient Field of interest Ethnicity, Ethnic Identification, and Accultura- Patient.- 10 Surgery of the Punctum and Canalic- Imaging / Radiology tion.- Measures of Sex, Gender, Gender Role, and ulus.- 11 Lacrimal Trauma.- 12 Primary External Sexual Orientation. Dacryocystorhinostomy.- 13 Primary Endonasal Target groups Dacryocystorhinostomy.- 14 Transcanalicular Practitioners/professionals and clinicians in the Field of interest Dacryocystorhinostomy.- 15 Conjunctivodacryo- fields diagnostic imaging, gynecology, surgery Public Health cystorhinostomy.- 16 Endonasal Conjunctivodac- (abdominal), and pediatrics ryocystorhinostomy.- 17 Pediatric Balloon Assisted Target groups Lacrimal Dacryoplasty.- 18 Balloon Assisted Discount group Researchers in public health and health psychology Lacrimal Dacryoplasty in Adults. MR as well as graduate students in research method- ology courses Field of interest Ophthalmology Discount group P Target groups Ophthalmologists, ophthalmology residents
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Due September 2006 2006 . Approx . 370 p . 323 figs . in 715 sep . illus ., 18 in Due July 2006 color, 21 tabs . (Medical Radiology / Diagnostic Imaging) 2006 . Approx . 304 p . 150 illus . Hardcover Hardcover 2006 . Approx . 355 p . Hardcover ISBN 0-387-25385-8 7 $149.00 ISBN 3-540-22289-8 7 $219.00 ISBN 0-387-32461-5 7 $69.95 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 7/2006 Medicine
M. S. Micozzi, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, M. Morgan, James Haley Veteran’s Hospital, Tampa, G. Mostafa, L. Cathey, F. Greene, Carolinas Medical PA, USA (Ed .) FL, USA; B. R. Smoller, College of Medicine, Little Center, Charlotte, NC, USA Rock, AK, USA; S. C. Somach, Case Western Reserve Current Review of University, Cleveland, OH, USA Review of Surgery Complementary Medicine Deadly Dermatologic Diseases Basic Science and Clinical Topics for ABSITE Clinicopathologic Atlas and Text This publication is the most up-to-date review of The American Board of Surgery In-Training the most dynamic and controversial aspects of Examination (ABSITE) is taken annually by more alternative medicine. Dr. Micozzi has assembled 19 The central theme of Deadly Dermatologic than 7000 general surgery residents nationwide of America’s leading authorities - mostly MDs but Diseases book entails disorders capable of directly to ensure that specific learning objectives are also top chiropractors and acupuncturists - review or indirectly causing death of the patient. The book being met in their training. Recent exams have the state of each therapy and provide expert pro will be organized around four sections dealing emphasized basic science and Review of Surgery: and con opinions. with dermatologic diseases involving serious Basic Science & Clinical Topics for ABSITE is cutaneous malignancies including melanoma; life- written with that in mind. Each chapter is a short Features threatening and/or emerging infectious pathogens summary of a basic science or clinical topic and 7 Hundreds of high quality images in step with including anthrax and smallpox; endocrinologic includes hundreds of related questions like those the latest developments in medicine 7 World- disorders such as myxedema or calciphylaxis; found on ABSITE. The book is targeted to trainees renowned authors from a variety of medical disci- autoimmune disorders and inborn errors of at various levels and also can be used to prepare for plines 7 Hand-drawn illustrations 7 In-depth metabolism such as scleroderma and hemochro- the qualifying (written) and certifying (oral) exams explanation for each image matosis. The sections are organized alphabetically given by the American Board of Surgery upon and color-coded for easy reference. Approximately completion of training. (This book will also serve Contents 40 disease states are discussed with accompanying as a supplemental review for non-U.S. trained Creating an herbal formulary for clinical practice.- full-color clinical and microscopic photography. surgeons seeking U.S. credentials to practice.) Ten most common herbs in clinical practice.- Each entity contains a single clinical photograph Herbs in women’s health care.- St John’s wort and accompanied by three photomicrographs detailing Features depression.- Food allergy: myths and realities.- the diagnostic features of each case. 7 An invaluable study aid for all general surgery Integrative treatment of fibromyalgia and chronic residents preparing for the American Board of fatigue/immune dysfunctin syndrome.- Acupunc- Features Surgery In-Training Examination (ABSITE) ture.- Spinal adjustment for low back pain.- 7 The pedagogical value of Deadly Dermatologic 7 Concisely written overviews of each topic Current controversies in therapeutic touch.- Chela- Diseases is the unique presentation of a variety of covered on the exam combined with the self-test tion therapy: cardiovascular cure or heavy metal dermatologic entities capable of directly leading to format offer a new and innovative approach hype?- Intensive lifestyle intervention for coronary or are associated with serious medical conse- 7 Can also be used to prepare for the qualifying artery disease: alternative medicine or common quences, including death (written) and certifying (oral) exams given by the sense?- Complementary therapy in HIV disease: American Board of Surgery living long and living well.- Insurance coverage for Field of interest alternative therapies.- Business aspects of building Dermatology Field of interest an integrative medical practice.- Designing a Surgery healing clinical office environment: creating Target groups healing spaces.- Continuing educational oppor- Dermatologists in practice, dermatology residents Target groups tunities in complementary medicine.- Surveys of General surgery residents complementary and alternative medicine.- Herbs Discount group or homeopathy: what’s the difference? MC Discount group MC Field of interest Complementary & Alternative Medicine
Target groups Physicians in practice, nurses, physician assistants and medical students
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Due September 2006 Due July 2006 Due July 2006 2006 . Approx . 290 p . 167 illus . in color . With CD-ROM . 1999 . 184 p . Hardcover Hardcover 2006 . Approx . 400 p . Softcover ISBN 1-57340-129-3 7 $79.95 ISBN 0-387-25442-0 7 $125.00 ISBN 0-387-29080-X 7 $44.95 Medicine Springer News 7/2006 springer.com/booksellers
Y. Nishizawa, H. Morii, Osaka City University, Osaka, J. Nuovo, UC Davis Health System, Sacramento, CA, M. E. Phelps, University of California, Los Angeles, Japan; D. Jean, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, USA CA, USA (Ed .) France (Eds .) Chronic Disease Management PET New Perspectives in Physics, Instrumentation, and Scanners Magnesium Research Primary care physicians and allied health profes- Nutrition and Health sionals must learn how to efficiently and effectively provide care for patients with chronic diseases. This book is designed to give the reader a solid That is why the focus of this book is on opti- understanding of the physics and instrumenta- A definitive review in the field of magnesium mizing management and outcomes rather than tion aspects of PET, including how PET data research, this book brings together the proceedings on routine diagnosis. The reader learns proven are collected and formed into an image. Topics of the 11th International Magnesium Symposium methods for treating the most common chronic include basic physics, detector technology used in in Osaka, Japan from October 22-26, 2006. Written conditions that they see in daily practice. Chapters modern PET scanners, data acquisition, and 3D by authorities in the area, the book provides a are structured to help physicians quickly adopt reconstruction. A variety of modern PET imaging thorough overview of progress in the area of evidence-based management techniques specific systems are also discussed, including those magnesium research. “New Perspectives in Magne- for each condition, such as the implementation designed for clinical services and research, as well sium Research” is essential reading for researchers of medication regimens. Of particular benefit are as small-animal imaging. Methods for evaluating in magnesium and calcium field, nutrition, and office visit templates for providers. The templates the performance of these systems are also outlined. specialists in many areas (cardiologists, neurolo- show what patient data should be collected and gists, orthopaedic specialists etc.). measured during each office visit. Other innova- Features tive approaches, including registry development, 7 Edited by Michael E. Phelps, PhD, innovator in Features group visits, and shared medical appointments, are PET 7 Written by Simon R. Cherry, PhD, world 7 A definitive review in the field of magnesium detailed as well. Special emphasis is placed on the authority on small-animal scanners, and Magnus research 7 Contains the whole area of magne- use of action plans and educational resources for Dahlbom, PhD 7 Presents fundamentals of PET sium research as a review book, in addition to promoting patient self-management. physics and instrumentation forming the proceedings of the 11th International Magnesium Symposium (held every 4 years) Features Contents 7 Designed for primary care clinicians and allied Physics, Instrumentation and Scanners, by Drs. From the contents health professionals 7 Each chapter focuses on Cherry and Dahlbom Overview.- Magnesium homeostasis.- Nutrition.- the most common conditions seen in the office Epidemiology.- Exercise.- Metabolic syndrome.- setting 7 Emphasizes the management and moni- Field of interest Cardiovascular disease.- Skeletal diseases and toring of chronic diseases Nuclear Medicine calcium metabolism.- Kidney.- Neurology.- Magnesium in dental medicine.- Magnesium in Contents Target groups neurology and psychiatry.- Veterinary medicine. Section 1, Background: Overview of Chronic Nuclear medicine students, nuclear medicine Disease Managaement.- Self-Management in physicians, technologists Field of interest Chronic Illness.- The Use of Group Visits in the Internal Medicine Treatment of the Chronically Ill.- Chronic Disease Discount group Care: Creating Practice Change.- Medication MC Target groups Management in Chronic Diseases.- Leveraging Internal medicine specialists, endocrinolo- Cultural Expectations in Disease Management gists, rheumatologists, physicians/nephrologists, Programs: Diabetes Mellitus.- Section 2, Manage- researchers in magnesium and calcium field ment of Specific Conditions: Type 2 Diabetes.- Asthma.- Heart Failure.- Osteoarthritis.- Obesity.- Discount group Depression.- Chronic Pain. MR Field of interest Primary Care Medicine
Target groups Primary care physicians, family medicine physi- cians, family medicine residents, physician assis- tants, nurse practitioners, pediatricians
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2007 . Approx . 368 p . Hardcover 2007 . Approx . 415 p . 23 illus . Softcover 2006 . VI, 130 p . 73 illus . Hardcover ISBN 1-84628-388-4 7 $219.00 ISBN 0-387-32927-7 7 $59.95 ISBN 0-387-32302-3 7 $59.95 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 7/2006 Medicine
P. Riederer, Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und S. Tavernier, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; E. D. Vaughan, A. P. Perlmutter, New York Presbyte- Psychotherapie, Würzburg, Germany; H. Reichmann, A. Gektin, B. Grinyov, Institute for Scintillation rian Hospital, New York, NY, USA; T. F. Lue, University Universitätsklinikum der TU Dresden, Deutschland; Materials, Kharkov, Ukraine; W. W. Moses, Lawrence of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; M. Goldstein, M. Youdim, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA Israel; M. Gerlach, Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie USA (Eds .) (Eds .) und Psychotherapie, Würzburg, Germany (Eds .) Radiation Detectors for Atlas of Clinical Urology Parkinson’s Disease and Medical Applications Impotence and Infertility Related Disorders Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Radiation Detectors for Medical Applications, Alushta, Crimea, Ukraine, This series captures today’s entire state of knowl- Traditionally the International Congress of 19-23 September 2005 edge about urology in detailed, pictorial form. Parkinson’s Disease and Related disorders (ICPD) More than 100 prominent urologists bring you is reflected in publishing its proceedings. This images of exceptional quality that exemplify is to (1) sum up the current knowledge in this The use of scintillating materials in the detection contemporary science and practice. Each volume particular spectrum disorder and (2) to remind of ionising radiation for medical imaging is the explores a particular aspect of the field. Over clinicians and basic researchers on the develop- main topic of this book. It starts with an overview 3000 vivid line drawings, clinical photographs, ment and progress made overtime with respect to of the state of the art in using radiation detec- diagrams, charts and tables illustrate every facet etiology, pathology, genetics, endogenous vulner- tors for medical imaging, followed by an in depth of the principles and practices of clinical urology. ability factors, models, drug treatment strate- discussion of all aspects of the use of scintillating Together with detailed legends and extensive refer- gies, eg. levodopa, neuroprotective drugs, new materials for this application. Possibilities to ence listings, these illustrations deliver insightful developments in neurotherapeutics, neurosurgery, improve the performance of existing scintillating guidance to help you meet a full range of clinical plasticity of nerve cell structures and clinical issues materials and completely new ideas on how to use challenges. (eg. staging, early diagnosis, differential diagnostic scintillating materials are discussed in detail. The aspects, clinico-pathological correlations, new first 4 chapters contain a general overview of the Features scales etc.). All these topics that have been brought applications of radiation detectors in medicine 7 Thousands of high quality images in step with forward at the 16. ICPD congress 2005, Berlin, are and present a closer look at the 3 most important the latest developments in medicine 7 Over 100 now available in a subsumed version in supple- subfields, X-ray imaging, gamma ray imaging and prominent urologists as contributors 7 Hand- mentum 70 of Journal Neural Transmission. PET. One chapter is devoted to semiconductor drawn illustrations 7 In-depth explanation for detectors, a promising new area, and two chapters each image Field of interest are devoted to recent technical advances in PET. Neurology The remaining 5 chapters deal with scintillating Contents materials and their use in medical imaging. Pathophysiology of erectile dysfunction.- Office Target groups diagnostic testing.- Vascular assessment of erectile Researchers Features dysfunction.- Non-surgical treatments: oral, 7 Good introduction to the use of radiation topical, intracavernous and vacuum devices.- Penis Discount group detectors in medical imaging 7 A must for prostheses.- Surgical treatments of infertility.- MR anyone interested in the use of scintillating mate- Priapism.- Peyronie’s disease.- Evaluation of the rials in medical imaging 7 In-depth discussion infertile male.- Imaging of the male reproductive of the possibilities for further developments in tract.- Varicocele.- Microsurgical vasovasostomy.- scintillating materials Microsurgical vasoepididymostomy.- Sperm retrieval for assisted reproduction.- Genetics of Field of interest male infertility. Imaging / Radiology Field of interest Target groups Urology/Andrology Physicists and engineers active in the development of detectors for medical imaging Target groups Urologists Discount group MR Discount group MR
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P. Woo, University College London, UK; R. M. Laxer, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; D. D. Sherry, Children’s Hospital Philadelphia, PA, USA Pediatric Rheumatology in Clinical Practice
“Pediatric Rheumatology in Clinical Practice” is authored by a trio of experts from the UK, USA and Canada, the book is well illustrated in colour, with key points and summary boxes helping to make the book a quick reference guide, across the different symptoms that will present in the pediatric rheumatology clinic or with the primary care physician.
Features 7 Well illustrated in colour, with key points and summary boxes helping to make the book a quick reference guide
Contents I. Introduction: General Presentation of Muscu- loskeletal Problems in Childhood.- General Principles of Management.- II. Inflammatory Rheumatologic Diseases: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.- Juve- nile Dermatomyositis.- Scleroderma.- Overlap Syndromes.- Vasculitis.- Lyme .- Recurrent Fever Syndromes.- Acute Rheumatic Fever and Post Streptococcal Arthritis.- III. Non-Inflammatory Rheumatologic Diseases: Mechanical/Orthopaedic Conditions.- Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain.- Hereditary Conditions of Bone and Cartilage.
Field of interest Rheumatology
Target groups Rheumatologists in practice, residents on rotation through the rheumatology clinic, primary care physicians, hospital doctors, senior nursing staff
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R. Antosia, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA; L. Augsburger (Ed .) C. J. Barrow, Ocean Nutrition Canada, Halifax, NS, J. Cahill, Rhodes Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA Canada; D. H. Small, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, (Eds .) Examining the Science Behind Australia (Eds .) Handbook of Bioterrorism Nutraceuticals Abeta Peptide and and Disaster Medicine Proceedings of the AAPS Dietary Alzheimer‘s Disease Supplements Forum Celebrating a Century of Research
This practical, comprehensive text will feature More than half of the adult population in the U.S. concise chapters pertinent to bioterrorism, infec- includes some sort of dietary supplement in their Recent advances in genetics and brain biochem- tious disease, microbiology, virology, public health, diet. A number of factors are responsible for this. istry point to the Abeta peptide as the major epidemiology, disaster medicine and will serve as These include health consciousness of Americans culprit in causing neurodegeneration in Alzheim- a practical guide for situation-specific disasters and the tendency to take greater responsibility for er’s Disease (AD). Abeta Peptide and Alzheimer’s (whether natural or man-made); recognize what making health-care decisions. This is sometimes Disease is specifically targeted at summarizing injuries or illnesses to expect; provide proactive related to dissatisfaction with traditional medicine. current knowledge of the Abeta peptide and its guidelines to define specific diseases; and give a In addition, consumers generally perceive that role in AD. Written by leaders in the industrial and guide of appropriate personnel protective equip- supplements are safe and cannot hurt. However, academic world specializing in this rapidly moving ment during these large-scale emergencies. It there are significant scientific and regulatory area, the book covers fundamental biochemical would be an essential companion to any individual issues to consider that impact on product quality studies on this peptide, the genetic impact on who is either interested or currently working in and performance and public health. Examining Abeta expression and processing, and various AD any of the aforementioned fields. the Science Behind Nutraceuticals is intended to therapeutic strategies that target Abeta. Although provide the reader with a better understanding of specifically focusing on the Abeta peptide and Features the terms used in the industry, regulatory implica- AD, there is also some discussion on the similarity 7 Essential portable handbook on bioterrorism tions, pharmacoeconomics, health benefits and and differences of this peptide and AD with other and disaster medicine 7 Includes planning and risks, databases of physiochemical properities, amyloidogenic diseases, such as prion disease, response procedures to help mitigate the impact of risks, and benefits, challenges of educating the Parkinsons and Huntingtons. This book will disasters 7 Features concise chapters on all essen- consumer. primarily be of interest to AD researchers and tial aspects of bioterrorism and disaster medicine clinicians but also to researchers of other amyloid 7 Contains abundant web-based references Features diseases. 7 Provides the reader with a better understanding From the contents of the science and quality issues of dietary supple- Features I: General Concepts.- II: Natural Disasters.- ments 7 Explains terms regarding supple- 7 Targeted specifically at summarizing current III: Manmade Disasters.- IV: Biological Manage- ments, regulatory implications and standards of knowledge of the Abeta peptide and its role in ment of Bioterror Related Injuries and Disease.- botanical extracts 7 Provides background on the Alzheimer’s disease V: Bioteror Management: Psychological Aspects supplement industry and pharmacoeconomics of and Implications.- VI. Education, Training and supplements 7 Identifies health benefits and risks Field of interest Resourses.- Index. to the user and challenges of educating health care Neurology professionals and the public Field of interest Target groups Biomedicine general Field of interest Researchers and clinicians in neurology, neuro- Pharmacology/Toxicology surgery, medical biochemistry, neurosciences, Target groups molecular medicine and human genetics; research Researchers and professionals in the fields of Target groups laboratories; pharmaceutical companies bioterrorism, infectious disease, microbiology, Pharmaceutical sciences, medicinal chemistry, and virology, public health, epidemiology, disaster toxicology Discount group medicine MR Discount group Discount group P MR
Due July 2006 Due July 2006 Due December 2006 2006 . X, 380 p . (Biotechnology: Pharmaceutical Aspects) 2006 . XVIII, 494 p . With CD-ROM . Spiral binding Hardcover 2007 . Approx . 312 p . 60 illus . Hardcover ISBN 0-387-24369-0 7 $89.95 ISBN 0-9711767-0-1 7 $179.00 ISBN 1-85233-961-6 7 $129.00 Biomedicine Springer News 7/2006 springer.com/booksellers
Current Topics in Microbiology I. de Curtis, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, H. Handa, Y. Yamaguchi, Tokyo Institute of Tech- and Immunology Italy (Ed .) nology, Yokohama, Japan Intracellular Mechanisms for Hepatitis Delta Virus Series editors: R. Compans, M. Cooper, T. Honjo, H. Koprowski, F. Melchers, M. Oldstone, S. Olsnes, Neuritogenesis P. Vogt, H. Wagner Hepatitis Delta Virus is an up-to-date guide to hepatitis D virus (HDV), a human virus with a Volume 312 A major issue of modern neurobiology is to number of distinctive features. Each chapter of this understand how neurons extend their neurites to book describes one of the broad aspects of HDV C. Boshoff, R. Weiss, University College London, UK form a functional network. While a large amount from virology to molecular biology, and from (Eds .) of information is available on the extracellular diagnosis to therapy. mechanisms driving neuritogenesis, the study Kaposi Sarcoma Herpesvirus: of the intricate molecular machinery underlying Features the intracellular mechanisms has only recently 7 Includes up-to-date information on the hepa- New Perspectives been addressed. The purpose of this book is to titis D virus (HDV) 7 Provides a broad overview present novel, distinct, but highly related aspects as well as chapters that include more detailed Contents of the intracellular mechanisms required for the research Modern Evolutionary History of the Human formation of a functional neurite, which include KSHV Genome.- Rhesus Monkey Rhadinovirus: cytoskeletal organization, membrane traffic, and Contents A Model for the Study of KSHV.- The Rta/Orf50 signal transduction. In particular, the proposed Genotype of Hepatitis Delta Virus.- Hepatitis Delta Transactivator Proteins of the Gamma-Herpes- authors would address the importance of the Virus: HDV-HBV Interactions.- Structure and viridae.- Structure and Function of Latency integration among distinct aspects of the cell Replication of Hepatitis Delta Virus RNA.- Hepa- Associated Nuclear Antigen (LANA).- The biology of developing neurons involved in neurite titis Delta Antigen:Biochemical Properties and KSHV and Other Human Herpesviral G Protein- extension. The aim of the book is to present this Functional Roles in HDV Replication.- Hepatitis Coupled Receptors.- Regulation of KSHV Lytic topic to the general readership of neurobiologists Delta Virus RNA Editing.- Hepatitis Delta Antigen Gene Expression.- Kaposi’s Sarcoma Herpesvirus and molecular and cellular biologists to further and RNA Polymerase II.- Clinical Features of Encoded Interferon Regulator Factors.- Endothe- stimulate the interest into this exciting section of Hepatitis Delta Virus.- Diagnosis of Hepatitis D lial Cell- and Lymphocyte-Based in vitro System neurobiology. Virus Infection. for Understanding KSHV Biology.- KSHV After an Organ Transplant: Should We Screen?- Kaposi’s Features Field of interest Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV) and 7 Presents novel, distinct, but highly related Virology Lymphomagenesis.- The Use of Antiviral Drugs in aspects of the intracellular mechanisms required the Prevention and Treatment of Kaposi Sarcoma, for the formation of a functional neurite, which Target groups Multicentric Castleman Disease and Primary Effu- include cytoskeletal organization, membrane Graduate students, researchers, and doctors who sion Lymphoma.- Interactions Between HIV-1 Tat traffic, and signal transduction are interested in the study of HDV and its-associ- and KSHV.- Subject Index. ated diseases Field of interest Field of interest Neurosciences Discount group Virology MR Target groups Target groups Cell biologists, neurobiologists, molecular biolo- Researchers and scientists in the fields of virology gists and geneticists and oncology Discount group Discount group P P
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2006 . Approx 280 p . 27 illus ., 14 in color . Hardcover 2006 . Approx . 645 p . 48 illus ., 35 in color . Hardcover 2006 . VII, 94 p . (Medical Intelligence Unit) Hardcover ISBN 3-540-34343-1 7 $139.00 ISBN 0-387-33128-X 7 $149.00 ISBN 0-387-32230-2 7 $139.00 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 7/2006 Biomedicine
D. Häussinger, G. Kirchels, F. Schless, Heinrich- S. Perlman, University of Iowa, IA, USA; K. Holmes, S. Rattan, University of Aarhus, Denmark; Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany (Eds .) University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA (Eds .) M. Kassem, University Hospital of Odense, Denmark (Eds .) Hepatic Encephalopathy and The Nidoviruses Nitrogen Metabolism Towards Control of SARS and other Nidovirus Prevention and Treatment of Diseases Age-related Diseases
Features 7 Interdisciplinary symposium bringing together This volume is based on the 10th International Biogerontologists are now in a position to basic science and clinical applications 7 Up-to- Nidovirus Symposium: Towards Control of SARS construct general principles of aging, and genuine date research findings at the highest scientific level and other Nidovirus Diseases. The volume includes attempts are being made to test and develop articles by all of the major contributors to this effective means of intervention, prevention Contents burgeoning area of research which summarize the and treatment of age-related diseases, and for Preface.- Foundation of the „International Society work that was presented at the meeting. Topics achieving healthy old age. This book takes status of Hepatic Encephalopathy and Nitrogen Meta- covered include RNA synthesis; protein synthesis, of the molecular, cellular, hormonal, nutritional blolism“ (ISHEN).- I. Physiology and pathophysi- structure and processing; viral assembly and and lifestyle strategies being tested and applied. ology of astrocytes.- II. Pathogenesis of HE.- III. release; viral entry 1 and 2; pathogenesis of non- It comprises inter-dependent chapters written in Brain imaging in HE research.- IV. New aspects of human coronaviruses; pathogenesis of arterivi- the form of critical reviews by the world’s leading nitrogen metabolism.- V. Clinical assessment of ruses and toroviruses; pathogenesis of human researchers and practitioners in their respective HE.- VI. Treatment.- Group picture.- Index. coronaviruses; and vaccines, anti-viral drugs and fields. The format of the articles is a semi-academic diagnostics. style in which research data from various experi- Field of interest mental systems is presented while focusing on Biomedicine general Features their applications in human beings with respect 7 Summarizes all of the most current research to the prevention and treatment of age-related Target groups in the field 7 The only comprehensive book impairments. Clinicians, researchers, graduate students, covering in the field in the last 5 years academics Features Contents 7 Critical evaluation of latest research Discount group Preface.- Protein Synthesis, Structure, and 7 Distinction between hype and reality P Processing.- Viral Assembly and Release.- Viral 7 Clinically applicable methods Entry 1 and 2.- Pathogenesis of Non-Human 7 New anti-aging strategies Coronaviruses.- Pathogenesis of Arteriviruses and Toroviruses.- Pathogenesis of Human Coronavi- Field of interest ruses.- Vaccines, Anti-Viral Drugs, and Diagnos- Biomedicine general tics.- Index. Target groups Field of interest Graduate and post-graduate students in biology, Immunology biotechnology and medical sciences, physicians, clinicians, nutritionists and geriatricians, phar- Target groups maceutical, nutricitical and cosmetics industry, Researchers, professionals, and graduate students science educators and journalists in immunology, infectious disease, microbiology, molecular biology, epidemiology, virology and Discount group pathology P
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Due July 2006 Due July 2006 Due July 2006 2006 . Approx . 591 p . 221 illus . (Advances in Experimental 2006 . XV, 616 p . Hardcover Medicine and Biology, Volume 581) Hardcover 2006 . Approx . 350 p . Hardcover ISBN 1-4020-4455-0 7 $249.00 ISBN 0-387-26202-4 7 $179.00 ISBN 1-4020-4884-X 7 $159.00 10 Biomedicine Springer News 7/2006 springer.com/booksellers
M. C. Rawlinson, State University of New York at J. Reichrath, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, C. Tsoukas, San Diego State University, San Diego, Stony Brook, NY, USA; S. Lundeen, University of Germany (Ed .) CA, USA (Ed .) Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA (Eds .) Molecular Mechanisms of Lymphocyte Signal The Voice of Breast Cancer in Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Transduction Medicine and Bioethics Carcinomas
Signal transduction through lymphocyte receptors Few diseases have made more difference to our This book provides a comprehensive, highly read- involves a variety of signaling molecules including understanding of illness, the relation of the patient able overview of our current knowledge of the kinases and phosphatases, adapter proteins, small to the physician and other health care profes- molecular pathology of basal cell and squamous GTPases and GTP exchange factors, as well as sionals, and the social context of disease than cell carcinomas. The chapters present the newest membrane phospholipids. Such signaling events breast cancer. Breast cancer activism has provided findings in epidemiology, photocarcinogenesis, may lead to cellular differentiation and growth, a model of public policy advocacy for women, as genetics, immunology and molecular pathology of effector cell functions, and/or apoptotic cell death. well as for sufferers from other diseases, and even these epithelial skin tumours. Topics include the This is the third workshop on this topic that will in causes unrelated to health. In many ways it has importance of the hedgehog/patched/smoothened/ take place in Crete from May 27 to June 1, 2005. become emblematic of issues in women’s health. GLI, p53, PDGF, or TGF-b signalling pathways as Similar to the two previous workshops, held in This volume offers a discursive analysis of breast well as the relevance of papilloma virus infections, Santorini October 2000 and 2002 respectively, cancer. From multiple perspectives − historical, apoptosis, DNA-repair and telomerase. the purpose of this workshop is to bring together philosophical, psychological, socio-political − scientists from allover the world to discuss their these essays explore the competing narratives Features latest findings on the various aspects of lympho- that have made breast cancer a contested site. 7 Written by leading researchers in the field cyte signal transduction. This limited participa- It addresses debates about the autonomy of the tion workshop will take place in a venue where patient in relation to the authority of the physician, Contents the surroundings are most conducive to scientific as well as the importance of patient narratives in Epidemiology of basal cell and squamous cell interchange through lecture presentations, poster understanding disease. ncer. carcinomas.- Histology of epithelial skin tumors.- sessions, and informal discussions. UV-damage and DNA repair in basal cell and Features squamous cell carcinomas.- Viral infections and Features 7 Unlike any other volume focusing on women’s cancerogenesis of basal cell and squamous cell 7 Brings together individuals with common inter- health issues, this collection brings together a carcinomas.- The immune system and cancero- ests to examine the emerging and most advanced wealth of cross-disciplinary perspectives to bear on genesis of epithelial skin tumors.- Cytogenetics aspects of their particular field 7 International the intersection of breasts and medicine of basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas.- mix of participants that represent academia, 7 among other works on similar subject matters, Hedgehog/patched/smoothened/GLI signalling industry, foundation and governmental laborato- the academic versatility of this volume is unparal- pathway and cancerogenesis of basal cell and ries 7 Result of international conferences that leled: this collection can serve as a textbook in a squamous cell carcinomas.- p53 protein and has become a gathering of 80-100 top investigators wide range of courses cancerogenesis of basal cell and squamous cell from all over the world carcinomas.- TGF-b pathway and cancerogenesis Field of interest of epithelial skin tumors.- PDGF pathways and Field of interest Philosophy of Medicine growth of basal cell and squamous cell carci- Immunology nomas.- Apoptosis and cancerogenesis of basal Target groups cell and squamous cell carcinomas.- The role of Target groups Bioethicists who participate in the International telomerase for cancerogenesis of basal cell and Immunologists, allergologists, biochemists, protein Association of Bioethics, The Hastings Center, the squamous cell carcinomas. scienctists, cell biologists Kennedy Center, and other centers and groups focused on the history and philosophy of medi- Field of interest Discount group cine; scholars in feminist bioethics, feminist and Cancer Research P gender studies, health sciences, cultural studies, history of medicine, philosophy, and health policy; Target groups breast cancer activists and survivors Researchers or clinicians interested in the carcino- genesis and biology of basal cell or squamous cell Discount group carcinomas P Discount group P
Due July 2006 Due July 2006 Due July 2006 2006 . XIX, 207 p . (Philosophy and Medicine, Volume 88) 2006 . Approx . 330 p . 49 illus . (Advances in Experimental Hardcover 2006 . XV, 137 p . (Medical Intelligence Unit) Hardcover Medicine and Biology, Volume 584) Hardcover ISBN 1-4020-4508-5 7 $124.00 ISBN 0-387-26046-3 7 $139.00 ISBN 0-387-31335-4 7 $159.00 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 7/2006 Psychology 11
J. W. Jacobson, J. A. Mulick, The Ohio State Univer- H. B. Kaplan, G. C. Tolle Jr., Texas A&M University, sity, Columbus, OH, USA; J. Rojahn, George Mason College Station, TX, USA University, Fairfax, VA, USA (Eds .) The Cycle of Deviant Behavior Handbook of Intellectual and Investigating Intergenerational Parallelism Developmental Disabilities
To conduct the study on criminal and antiso- Changes within the interdisciplinary field of intel- cial behavior at the center of this volume, the lectual and developmental disabilities are evolving authors devoted years to collecting data from at a rapid pace. Clinicians, academics, adminis- a large community sample of first-generation trators, and a variety of mental health providers subjects. Data were garnered throughout their alike need easy-to-access, reliable information early adolescence, twenties, and thirties as well that enables them to stay abreast of the numerous as from these first-generation subjects’ biological advances in research, assessment, treatment, and children during their own early adolescence. The service delivery within a real-world sociopo- results of these studies have profound implications litical framework. To that end, the Handbook of for future research and methodology on deviant Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is an behavior. Within the succinct, information-packed essential resource for any professional who works seven chapters of The Cycle of Deviant Behavior: with this vulnerable population. This volume Investigating Intergenerational Parallelism, the examines in detail the numerous advances in the authors: - Present an integrative theory of deviant field, summarizing major domains and emerging behavior, synthesizing social stress, social control, subspecialties into one eminently useful reference. societal labeling, and other perspectives - Describe Its contributors comprise a panel of the leading the intergenerational cycle of deviant behavior scientist-clinicians, who offer much-needed - Identify the relationship between deviance and its insight and guidance into ongoing improvements significant correlates (e.g., self-rejection) in theory and practice as well as intervention and prevention. Features 7 Describes the cycle of intergenerational Features continuity of deviant behavior and its corre- 7 Provides easy-to-access, reliable, up-to- lates 7 Presents analyses guided by a widely date information on the numerous advances respected integrative theory of deviant behavior in research, assessment, treatment, and service 7 Uses data from a prospective multigeneration delivery for clinicians, academics, administrators longitudinal study 7 Collects data from reports and other mental health professionals 7 Exam- of parents and biological children at the same ines issues surrounding intellectual and develop- developmental stage (early adolescence) mental disabilities in a real-world sociopolitical framework Field of interest Child & School Psychology Field of interest Child & School Psychology Target groups Sociologists, particularly those specializing in Target groups crime and deviance, and the life course, psycholo- Psychologists, special educators, allied education gists, particularly those specializing in develop- professionals and graduate students mental psychology, social psychology, abnormal psychology, and school psychology, criminologists, Discount group particularly the members of the American Society P of Criminology
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Due August 2006 Due November 2006 2006 . Approx . 224 p . 40 illus . (Longitudinal Research in XII, 648 p . 2006 . Approx . 660 p . (Issues in Clinical Child the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Psychology) Hardcover Series) Hardcover ISBN 0-387-32930-7 7 $89.95 ISBN 0-387-32643-X 7 $69.95 12 Mathematics Springer News 7/2006 springer.com/booksellers
C. Aliprantis, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, K. B. Athreya, S. N. Lahiri, Iowa State University, J. Behrens, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and USA; O. Burkinshaw, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN, USA Ames, IA, USA Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany Positive Operators Measure Theory and Adaptive Atmospheric Probability Theory Modeling Reprinted by popular demand, this monograph Key Techniques in Grid Generation, Data presents a comprehensive study of positive opera- Structures, and Numerical Operations with tors between Riesz spaces and Banach lattices. This is a graduate level textbook on measure Applications Since the first publication of this book, (Academic theory and probability theory. The book can be Press, 1985), the subject of positive operators used as a text for a two semester sequence of and Riesz spaces has found many applications in courses in measure theory and probability theory, This book gives an overview and guidance in the several disciplines, including social sciences and with an option to include supplemental material development of adaptive techniques for atmo- engineering. on stochastic processes and special topics. It is spheric modeling. Written in an educational It is well known that many linear operators intended primarily for first year Ph.D. students style and featuring an exhaustive list of refer- between Banach spaces arising in classical analysis in mathematics and statistics although math- ences, it is a starting point for everyone who is are in fact positive operators. Therefore we study ematically advanced students from engineering interested in adaptive modeling, not restricted here positive operators in the setting of Riesz and economics would also find the book useful. to atmospheric sciences. It covers paradigms of spaces and Banach lattices and from both the Prerequisites are kept to the minimal level of an adaptive techniques, such as error estimation and algebraic and topological points of view. Special understanding of basic real analysis concepts such adaptation criteria. Mesh generation methods are emphasis is given to the compactness properties of as limits, continuity, differentiability, Riemann presented for triangular/tetrahedral and quadri- positive operators and their relations to the order integration, and convergence of sequences and lateral/hexahedral meshes, with a special section structures of the spaces the operators are acting series. A review of this material is included in the on initial meshes for the sphere. Efficiency issues upon. appendix. are discussed including techniques for acceler- In order to make the book as self-sufficient as The book starts with an informal introduction that ating unstructured mesh computations as well as possible, some basic results from the theory of provides some heuristics into the abstract concepts parallelization. Considering applications, the book Riesz spaces and Banach lattices are included with of measure and integration theory, which are then demonstrates several techniques for discretizing proofs where necessary. rigorously developed. relevant conservation laws from atmospheric modeling. Finite volume, discontinuous Galerkin Features Features and conservative Semi-Lagrangian methods are 7 The only book that includes, besides the general 7 Presents the main concepts and results in introduced and applied in simplified real life simu- theory of positive operators, a comprehensive measure theory and probability theory in a simple lations. It is the author’s intention to motivate the study of the various compactness properties of and easy-to-understand way 7 Provides heuristic reader to become involved with adaptive modeling positive operators 7 The material is presented explanations behind the theory to help students techniques. in an easy reader-friendly manner 7 Most of the see the big picture material does not exist in the textbook literature Field of interest Contents Scientific Computing Contents Measures and Integration: an Informal Introduc- Dedication. Foreword. Historical Foreword. tion.- Measures.- Integration.- LP Spaces.- Differ- Target groups Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Special entiation.- Product Measures, Convolutions, and For computational scientists Symbols.- 1. The Order Structure of Positive Transforms.- Probability Spaces.- Independence.- Operators.- 2. Components, Homomorphisms, and Laws of Large Numbers.- Convergence in Distribu- Discount group Orthomorphisms.- 3. Topological Considerations.- tion.- Characteristic Functions.- Central Limit P 4. Banach Lattices.- 5. Compactness Properties of Theorems.- Conditional Expectation and Condi- Positive Operators.- Bibliography. Monographs.- tional Probability.- Discrete Parameter Martin- Index. gales.- Markov Chains and MCMC.- Stochastic Processes.- Limit Theorems for Dependent Field of interest Processes.- The Bootstrap.- Branching Process. Mathematics of Computing Field of interest Target groups Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes Mathematicians, engineers, physicians, social scientists and business Target groups Graduate students, researchers Discount group P Discount group P
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A. Bellouquid, University Cadi Ayad, Ecole Nationale H. Bungartz, Technical University Munich, Germany; E. B. Burger, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, des Sciences Appliquées, Safi, Morocco; M. Delitala, M. Schäfer, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany USA Politecnico di Torino, Italy (Eds .) Extending the Frontiers of Mathematical Modeling of Fluid-Structure Interaction Mathematics Complex Biological Systems Modelling, Simulation, Optimisation Inquiries into argumentation and proof A Kinetic Theory Approach
Fluid-structure interactions (FSI), that is interac- In the real world of research mathematics, math- This book describes the evolution of several socio- tions of some movable or deformable structure ematicians do not know in advance if their asser- biological systems using mathematical kinetic with an internal or surrounding fluid flow, are tions are true or false. Extending the Frontiers of theory. Specifically, it deals with modeling and among the most important and, with respect to Mathematics: Inquiries into proof and argumenta- simulations of biological systems − comprised both modelling and computational issues, the most tion requires students to develop a mature process of large populations of interacting cells − whose challenging multi-physics problems. The variety of that will serve them throughout their professional dynamics follow the rules of mechanics as well FSI occurrences is abundant and ranges from tent- careers, either inside or outside of mathematics. as rules governed by their own ability to organize roofs to micropumps, from parachutes via airbags Its inquiry-based approach to the foundations movement and biological functions. The authors to blood flow in arteries. This volume of LNCSE of mathematics promotes exploring proofs and propose a new biological model for the analysis contains a collection of papers presented at the other advanced mathematical ideas through these of competition between cells of an aggressive host International Workshop on FSI held in October features: and cells of a corresponding immune system. 2005 in Hohenwart and organized by DFG’s - Puzzles and patterns introduce the pedagogy. Because the microscopic description of a biological Research Unit 493 “FSI: Modelling, Simulation, These precursors to proofs generate creativity and system is far more complex than that of a physical and Optimization”. The papers address partitioned imagination that the author builds on later system of inert matter, a higher level of analysis is and monolithic coupling approaches, methodical - Prove and extend or disprove and salvage, a needed to deal with such complexity. Mathematical issues and applications, and discuss FSI from the consistent format of the text, provides a framework models using kinetic theory may represent a way mathematical, informatical, and engineering point for approaching problems and creating math- to deal with such complexity, allowing for an of view. ematical proofs understanding of phenomena of nonequilibrium - Mathematical challenges are presented which statistical mechanics not described by the tradi- Field of interest build upon each other, motivate analytical skills, tional macroscopic approach. Scientific Computing and foster interesting discussion
Features Target groups Features 7 One of the first books to apply mathematical Computational scientists 7 The short length gives it flexibility; it can be kinetic theory to biological systems used as either a core text or a supplementary text 7 Proposes a new biological model focused on the Discount group 7 Its inquiry-based, investigative in nature leads analysis of competition between cells of an aggres- P but doesn’t show 7 The text features puzzles and sive host and cells of a corresponding immune patterns situated at the beginning as precursors to system 7 Applications to collective social proofs 7 The “prove and extend or disprove and behavior, immunology, and epidemiology salvage” instruction is repeated, thus providing a consistent framework for approaching the Field of interest problems Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Math- ematics Field of interest Mathematical Logic and Foundations Target groups Graduate students, researchers and practitioners Target groups in applied mathematics, engineering, biomedicine, Undergraduate mathematics professors who teach and biological sciences introduction to logic and proofs
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P. Calter, Vermont Technical College, Randolph M. Emmer, Universita degli Studi “La Sapienza”, Ø. Hjelle, Simula Research Laboratory, Lysaker, Center, VT, USA Roma, Italy (Ed .) Norway; M. Dæhlen, University of Oslo, Norway Squaring the Circle Mathematics and Culture IV Triangulations and
Geometry in Art and Architecture Translated from the Italian by: G. Marletta, Applications J. Palumbo
This truly unique new title should appeal to both This book is entirely about triangulations. With mathematicians and mathematics educators. It This book from 2004 concerns comics and what emphasis on computational issues, the basic theory should also find a small market among professional was, in 2003, a developing tradition of Disney-style necessary to construct and manipulate triangula- and reference book buyers: mathematical profes- comic-strips. It also deals with the Dutch graphic tions is presented. In particular, a tour through sionals with interest in travel, art, architecture. artist Maurits Cornelis Escher. Indeed, several of the theory behind the Delaunay triangulation, The title is intended for math students who are his images can be seen in animated form. It talks including algorithms and software issues is given. interested in art, or art students with an interest about a man’s dream, about Gaudi, and about Various data structures used for the representation (or requirement) in mathematics, or professionals his great ambition of climbing skywards with of triangulations are discussed. Throughout the with interest in mathematics and art. Geometry Barcelona’s cathedral and of how this dream is still book, the theory is related to selected applications, concepts are introduced by analyzing well known being realised. in particular surface construction, meshing and buildings and works of art. The book is packaged Of course, it also talks of theatre and cinema too. visualization. with an access code which allows the reader into a Luca Viganò’s curious theatrical spectacle in Genoa protected site, which will contain most of the fine about Evariste Galois. The America’s Cup too, and Features art from the book in full color as well as teaching how some mathematicians contributed to the Swiss 7 Applications-oriented 7 Well-written text- resources. The text appeals both to mathematicians boat’s victory in the world’s most important sailing book on triangulations and to artists and will generally be used in courses adventure. that bridge the two subjects. It talks about war and peace, themes which never Contents date. All this and a tribute to the mathematician 1 Triangles and Triangulations.- 2 Graphs and Features Ennio De Giorgi, who ought to have been the first Data Structures.- 3 Delaunay Triangulations and 7 Contains numerous exercises and projects speaker at the first conference on “Mathematics Voronoi Diagrams.- 4 Algorithms for Delaunay 7 Includes exercises and constructions and Culture”. In short, an ongoing mathematical Triangulation.- 5 Data Dependent Triangulations.- 7 Over 300 full-color image reproductions beau- adventure... 6 Constrained Delaunay Triangulation.- tifully integrated throughout the text. Fully worked 7 Delaunay Refinement Mesh Generation.- examples and accompanying practice exercises for Features 8 Least Squares Approximation of Scattered Data.- each chapter profiles of historical figures in math- 7 Mathematics highlight of general interest 9 Programming Triangulations: The Triangulation ematics and in art and architecture Template Library (TTL).- References.- Index. Field of interest Contents Mathematics, general Field of interest Music of the Spheres.- The Golden Ratio.- The Visualization Triangle.- Ad Quadratum and the Sacred Cut.- Target groups Polygons, Tilings, and Sacred Geometry.- The Mathematicians of all Kinds, mathematics Target groups Circle.- Circular Designs in Architecture.- teachers, lay people interested in mathematics Graduate students and researchers in triangulation, Squaring the Circle.- The Ellipse and the Spiral.- surface modeling, mesh generation, computational The Solids.- The Sphere and Celestial Themes in Discount group geometry and computer graphics Art & Architecture.- Brunelleschi’s Peepshow and P the Origins of Perspective.- Fractals.- Appendices.- Discount group General Index. P
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U. Kortenkamp, Pädagogische Hochschule, S. Neshveyev, E. Størmer, University of Oslo, Norway A. Quarteroni, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany; J. Richter-Gebert, Lausanne, Switzerland; F. Saleri, Politecnico di Technische Universität, München, Germany Dynamical Entropy in Milano, Italy Cinderella.2 Documentation Operator Algebras Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Octave Cinderella.2, the new version of the well-known During the last 30 years there have been several interactive geometry software Cinderella, has attempts at extending the notion of entropy to become an even more versatile tool than its noncommutative dynamical systems. The authors This textbook is an introduction to Scientific predecessor. The geometry part extends the func- present in the book the two most successful Computing, in which several numerical methods tionality to such spectacular objects as dynamic approaches to the extensions of measure entropy for the computer solution of certain classes of fractals, and the software includes two major and topological entropy to the noncommutative mathematical problems are illustrated. The authors new components: physical simulation such as of setting and analyze in detail the main models in show how to compute the zeros or the integrals mechanical objects, virtual electronic devices, and the theory. of continuous functions, solve linear systems, electromagnetic properties. The other new compo- The book addresses mathematicians and physicists, approximate functions by polynomials and nents feature algorithms via a specially developed including graduate students, who are interested in construct accurate approximations for the solution scripting language, which interacts smoothly with quantum dynamical systems and applications of of ordinary and partial differential equations. To the geometry and physics components. Cinder- operator algebras and ergodic theory. Although make the presentation concrete and appealing, the ella.2 is Math in Motion all the way. the authors assume a basic knowledge of operator programming environments Matlab and Octave, algebras, they give precise definitions of the which is freely distributed, are adopted as faithful Features notions and in most cases complete proofs of the companions. The book contains the solutions to 7 Best geometry and physics simulation and results which are used. several problems posed in exercises and examples, teaching software available often originating from specific applications. A Features specific section is devoted to subjects which Field of interest 7 Only monograph on this topic. were not addressed in the book and contains the Geometry bibliographical references for a more compre- Contents hensive treatment of the material. The second Target groups Part I. General Theory.- 1 Classical Dynamical edition features many new problems and examples, Students in mathematics, physics and computer Systems.- 2 Relative Entropy.- 3 Dynamical as well as more numerical methods for linear science Entropy.- 4 Maximality of Entropy and Commuta- and nonlinear systems and ordinary and partial tivity.- 5 Dynamical Abelian Models.- 6 Topolog- differential equations. This book is presently Discount group ical Entropy.- 7 Dynamics on the State Space.- being translated or has appeared in the following P 8 Crossed Products.- 9 Variational Principle.- Part languages: Italian, German, French, Chinese and II. Special Topics.- 10 Relative Entropy and Subfac- Spanish. tors.- 11 Systems of Algebraic Origin.- 12 Binary Shifts.- 13 Bogoliubov Automorphisms.- Features 14 Free Products.- A Completely Positive Maps.- 7 Easy introduction to scientific computing B Operator Inequalities.- C Direct Integrals.- 7 Very suitable for the scientific computing References.- List of Symbols.- Index part of the everywhere growing CSE courses 7 Eminently suitable for physicists, chemists, Field of interest engineers and other scientists who have to upgrade Operator Theory their knowledge on numerical methods 7 Very successful book, was adopted for the basic scien- Target groups tific computing course at KTH Stockholm Graduate students and researchers in mathematics and mathematical physics Field of interest Scientific Computing Discount group P Target groups Undergraduate and graduate students in computa- tional science, mathematics and sciences
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B. E. Reynolds, W. E. Fenton A. Sevilla, K. Somers, Moravian College, Bethlehem, J. Sundnes, G. T. Lines, X. Cai, B. F. Nielsen, PA, USA K. Mardal, A. Tveito, Simula Research Laboratory, College Geometry Using The Lysaker, Norway Geometer’s Sketchpad® Quantitative Reasoning Tools for Today’s Informed Citizen Computing the Electrical Activity in the Heart College Geometry Using The Geometer’s Sketchpad(R) is unique in its truly discovery based This text is unique in that it takes an activity-based approach to learning geometry with complete approach and fully integrates the use of tech- This book describes mathematical models and integration of Sketchpad. Through explorations of nology. The authors make technology an essential numerical techniques for simulating the electrical topics ranging from triangles and circles to trans- component of the course using the argument that activity in the heart. The book gives an introduc- formational, taxicab, and hyperbolic geometries, significant and more realistic problems can be tion to the most important models of the field, students hone their understanding of geometry investigated using technology, and with tech- followed by a detailed description of numerical and their ability to write rigorous mathematical nology, students can concentrate on ideas rather techniques for the models. Particular focus is on proofs. It is an ideal text for students planning than computational details. efficient numerical methods for large scale simula- to teach at the middle or secondary level. Each tions on both scalar and parallel computers. The chapter follows the same format to best promote Features results presented in the book will be of particular active learning: 7 The authors developed this course with a grant interest to researchers in bioengineering and - Activities open each chapter allowing students from the National Science Foundation 7 Each computational biology, who face the challenge of the opportunity to explore topics and make conjec- topic contains a number of worked-out examples solving these complex mathematical models effi- tures using Sketchpad and concludes with a set of explorations or short ciently. The book will also serve as a valuable intro- - Discussions cover important theorems and problems for students to investigate 7 The duction to a new and exciting field for computa- concepts that solidify the conjectures made in the authors provide Excel and calculator instructions tional scientists and applied mathematicians. activities with each activity 7 Nearly all of the examples, - Exercises reinforce the discussions and advance explorations, and activities use real data from print Field of interest student expertise with Sketchpad and electronic sources Scientific Computing - Each new copy of the book is packaged with a valuable CD-ROM with Sketchpad documents that Contents Target groups relate directly to the material in the text Numerical Reasoning: Organizing information For comuptational scientists, applied mathema- - These multi-page documents provide a starting pictorially using charts and graphs.- Bivariate ticians, and researchers in bioengineering and point for every activity and provide dynamic inter- data.- Graphs of functions.- Multiple variable func- computational biology active versions of all the figures in the text tions.- Proportional, linear, and piecewise linear functions.- Modeling with linear and exponential Discount group Features functions.- Logarithms and scientific notation.- P 7 Full integration of Sketchpad, and a true Indexes and ratings.- Personal finances.- Intro- discovery-based approach to the subject 7 The duction to problem solving.- Logical Reasoning: authors are strong believers in technology, collab- Decision making.- Inductive reasoning.-Deductive orative learning, and activities 7 Activities open reasoning.- Apportionment.- More on problem each chapter. Students learn GSP and geometry at solving.- Statistical Reasoning: Averages and five- the same time 7 Detailed Discussions solidify number summary.- Standard deviation, z-score student conjectures made in the activities and normal distributions.- Basics of probability.- 7 Exercise sets at the end of each chapter rein- Conditional probability and tables.- Sampling and force the topics 7 Chapter summaries conclude surveys.- More on decision making. the chapter Field of interest Field of interest Mathematics, general Geometry Target groups Target groups Mathematics professors teaching Quantitative Students and future secondary teachers, Reasoning, Statistics, Liberal Arts Math practitioners Discount group Discount group P P
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V. Thomée, Chalmers University of Technology, N. Tian, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China; H. Yan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China; Göteborg, Sweden Z. G. Zhang, Western Washington University, G. Yin, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA; Bellingham, WA, USA Q. Zhang, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Galerkin Finite Element (Eds .) Methods for Parabolic Vacation Queueing Models Theory and Applications Stochastic Processes, Problems Optimization, and Control Theory This book provides insight in the mathematics A classical queueing model consists of three Applications in Financial Engineering, of Galerkin finite element method as applied parts - arrival process, service process, and queue Queueing Networks, and Manufacturing to parabolic equations. The approach is based discipline. However, a vacation queueing model Systems/ A Volume in Honor of Suresh Sethi on first discretizing in the spatial variables by has an additional part - the vacation process which Galerkin’s method, using piecewise polynomial is governed by a vacation policy - that can be trial functions, and then applying some single step characterized by three aspects: 1) vacation start-up or multistep time stepping method. The concern rule; 2) vacation termination rule, and 3) vacation This edited volume contains 16 research articles is stability and error analysis of approximate duration distribution. Hence, vacation queueing and presents recent and pressing issues in solutions in various norms, and under various models are an extension of classical queueing stochastic processes, control theory, differential regularity assumptions on the exact solution. The theory. games, optimization, and their applications in book gives an excellent insight in the present ideas Vacation Queueing Models: Theory and Applica- finance, manufacturing, queueing networks, and and methods of analysis. The second edition has tions discusses systematically and in detail the climate control. One of the salient features is that been influenced by recent progress in application many variations of vacation policy. By allowing the book is highly multi-disciplinary. Another of semigroup theory to stability and error analysis, servers to take vacations makes the queueing distinct characteristic of the book is that all papers particulatly in maximum-norm. Two new chapters models more realistic and flexible in studying are motivated by applications in which optimiza- have also been added, dealing with problems in real-world waiting line systems. Integrated in the tion, control, and stochastics are inseparable. This polygonal, particularly noncovex, spatial domains, book’s discussion are a variety of typical vacation book will be a timely addition to the literature and and with time discretization based on using model applications that include call centers with will be of interest to people working in the afore- Laplace transformation and quadrature. multi-task employees, customized manufacturing, mentioned fields. telecommunication networks, maintenance activi- Most importantly, this volume is dedicated to Field of interest ties, etc. Professor Suresh Sethi on the occasion of his 60th Numerical Analysis birthday, in view of his distinguished career, his Features contributions and achievements, and his influence Target groups 7 Comprehensive update of all kinds of vaca- on the areas of control theory and applications, Graduate students and researchers in numerical tion models. Moreover, it’s the first time G1/M/1 operations research, and management science, as analysis and computational science multi-server vacation models, both continuous well as his dedication to the scientific community. and discrete, and the optimization and control Discount group issues are presented in a book 7 Updates results Features P for MAP arrival vacation models, the finite buffer 7 Contributing authors of the volume are models, and bulk queue or batch service vacations, many of the leading researchers in the applica- all of which are discussed in a systematic treatment tion and optimization of Control Theory in the 7 Stochastic decomposition theorems are estab- Applied Sciences 7 Examines the introduction lished as the core of the vacation queueing theory of stochastic analysis and stochastic control tech- 7 The presentation style is unique compared with niques leading to the revolution in manufacturing the books published in the same field – a “theorem and financial industries and how these control and proof“ format is used theory mechanisms and techniques continue to exert influence on the financial and manufacturing Field of interest industries Operations Research/Decision Theory Field of interest Target groups Production/Logistics Researchers, graduate students, and practitioners of Stochastic Processes and Queueing Theory Target groups Professors, students, applied mathematicians, Discount group engineers P Discount group P
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E. Zeidler, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Leipzig, Germany Quantum Field Theory I: Basics in Mathematics and Physics A Bridge between Mathematicians and Physicists With contributions by: D. Zagier
This is the first volume of a modern introduc- tion to quantum field theory which addresses both mathematicians and physicists ranging from advanced undergraduate students to professional scientists. The book tries to bridge the existing gap between the different languages used by mathema- ticians and physicists. For students of mathematics it is shown that detailed knowledge of the physical background helps to motivate the mathematical subjects and to discover interesting interrelation- ships between quite different mathematical topics. For students of physics, fairly advanced math- ematics is presented, which is beyond the usual curriculum in physics. It is the author’s goal to present the state of the art of realizing Einstein’s dream of a unified theory for the four fundamental forces in the universe (gravitational, electromag- netic, strong, and weak interaction).
Features 7 Excellent book for graduate students intending to learn the mathematics required for modern theoretical physics
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V. Batagelj, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; R. C. Deonier, S. Tavaré, M. S. Waterman, University P. J. Diggle, University of Lancaster, UK; P. J. Ribeiro, H. Bock, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil A. Ferligoj, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; A. Žiberna, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Eds .) Computational Genome Model-based Geostatistics Data Science and Analysis An Introduction Geostatistics is concerned with estimation and Classification prediction problems for spatially continuous phenomena, using data obtained at a limited Computational Genome Analysis: An Introduc- number of spatial locations. The name reflects its This volume provides new methodological tion presents the foundations of key problems in origins in mineral exploration, but the methods developments in data analysis and classification. computational molecular biology and bioinfor- are now used in a wide range of settings including A wide range of topics is covered that includes matics. It focuses on computational and statistical public health and the physical and environmental the measurement of similarity and dissimilarity, principles applied to genomes, and introduces sciences. Model-based geostatistics refers to the methods for classification and clustering, network the mathematics and statistics that are crucial for application of general statistical principles of and graph analyses, analysis of symbolic data, and understanding these applications. The book is modeling and inference to geostatistical problems. web mining. Apart from structural and theoretical appropriate for a one-semester course for advanced This volume is the first book-length treatment results the book shows how to apply the proposed undergraduate or beginning graduate students, of model-based geostatistics. The authors have to a variety of problems, for example in medicine, and it can also introduce computational biology to written an expository text, emphasizing statis- microarray analysis, social network structures, and computer scientists, mathematicians, or biologists tical methods and applications rather than the music. The combination of new methodological who are extending their interests into this exciting underlying mathematical theory. Analyses of advances with the wide range of real applications field. This book features: - Topics organized around datasets from a range of scientific contexts feature collected in this volume is of special value for biological problems, such as sequence alignment prominently, and simulations are used to illustrate researchers when choosing the appropriate among and assembly, DNA signals, analysis of gene theoretical results. newly developed analytical tools for their research expression, and human genetic variation - Presen- problems in classification and data analysis. tation of fundamentals of probability, statistics, Features and algorithms - Implementation of computational 7 The first book-length treatment of model-based Contents methods with numerous examples based upon the geostatistics Similarity and Dissimilarity.- Classification and R statistics package Clustering.- Network and Graph Analysis.- Anal- Contents ysis of Symbolic Data.- General Data Analysis Features Introduction.- An Overview of Model-Based Methods.- Data and Web Mining.- Analysis of 7 Describes the basic mathematics and statistics Geostatistics.- Gaussian Models for Geostatistical Music Data.- Gene and Microarray Analysis. underlying computational genomics 7 Features Data.- Generalized Linear Models for Geosta- free download of R software statistics package tistical Data.- Classical Parameter Estimation.- Field of interest 7 Provides great crossover material that is Spatial Prediction.- Bayesian Inference.- Geostatis- Statistical Theory and Methods interesting and accessible to students in biology, tical Design. mathematics, statistics and computer science Target groups 7 Subject matter is regarded as one of the hot Field of interest Researchers in the fields of Statistics, Information topics in statistics Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Economics, Management Science, Social Science, Chemistry and Geosciences Sciences, Biology, and Musicology Field of interest Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Target groups Discount group Sciences Researchers, graduate students P Target groups Discount group Advanced undergraduate and graduate students P
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J. K. Ghosh, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India; J. E. Kolassa, Rutgers University, NJ, USA E. Lehmann, University of California, Berkeley, CA, M. Delampady, Indian Statistical Institute, Banga- USA; J. P. Romano, Stanford University, Stanford, lore, India; T. Samanta, Indian Statistical Institute, Series Approximation CA, USA Kolkata, India Methods in Statistics Testing Statistical Hypotheses An Introduction to Bayesian
Analysis This book presents theoretical results relevant to The third edition of Testing Statistical Hypotheses Theory and Methods Edgeworth and saddlepoint expansions to densities updates and expands upon the classic graduate and distribution functions. It provides examples text, emphasizing optimality theory for hypothesis of their application in some simple and a few testing and confidence sets. The principal addi- This book is a contemporary introduction to complicated settings, along with numerical, as tions include a rigorous treatment of large sample theory, methods and computation in Bayesian well as asymptotic, assessments of their accuracy. optimality, together with the requisite tools. In Analysis. It focuses on topics that have stood the Variants on these expansions, including much addition, an introduction to the theory of resam- test of time and emerging areas such as reference of modern likelihood theory, are discussed and pling methods such as the bootstrap is developed. priors, objective Bayes testing, Bayesian model applications to lattice distribtuions are exten- The sections on multiple testing and goodness of fit selection and wavelets. No other such book is sively treated. This book is intended primarily for testing are expanded. available in the market. advanced graduate students and researchers in the field needing a collection of core results in a 7 This new edition of the classic and fundamental Features uniform notation, with bibliographical references text on the theory of testing hypotheses is an essen- 7 No other such book is available in the market to further examples and applications. It assumes tial addition to the bookshelf of mathematical statis- familiarity with real analysis, vector calculus, ticians 7 Short Book Reviews of the International Contents and complex analysis. This third edition features Statistical Institute December 2005 Statistical Preliminaries.- Bayesian Inference and an expansion of the material on the Blackwell Decision Theory.- Utility, Prior and Bayesian approximation and an expansion of the discussions 7 What I like much about this book is its illustra- Robustness.- Large Sample Methods.- Choice of on saddlepoint approximation. John E. Kolassa is tive language and the numerous examples that Priors for Low-Dimensional Parameters.- Hypoth- Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at the University make it easier to understand the complex matter esis Testing and Model Selection.- Bayesian of Rochester. presented. The comprehensible notation and the Computations.- Some Common Problems In excellent structure further add to the readability of Inference.- High-Dimensional Problems.- Some Features this book 7 Biometrics, March 2006 Applications. 7 The third edition of this reference book for statistical researchers and advanced graduate Features Field of interest students provides an introduction to Edgeworth 7 Summarizes developments in the field of Statistical Theory and Methods and saddlepoint expansion limit theorys and a hypotheses testing 7 Optimality considerations survey of recent developments in the field continue to provide the organizing principle, but Target groups are now tempered by a much stronger emphasis on Researchers, graduate students Contents the robustness properties of the resulting proce- Asymptotics in General.-. Characteristic Func- dures 7 An essential reference for any graduate Discount group tions and the Berry-Esseen Theorem.- Edgeworth student in statistics P Series.- Saddlepoint Series for Densities.- Saddle- point Series for Distribution Functions.- Multi- Contents variate Expansions.- Conditional Distribution The General Decision Problem.- The Probability Approximations.- Applications to Likelihood Background.- Uniformly Most Powerful Tests.- Ratio and Maximum Likelihood Statistics.- Other Unbiasedness: Theory and First Applications.- Topics.- Computational Aids. Unbiasedness: Applications to Normal Distribu- tions.- Invariance.- Linear Hypotheses.- The Field of interest Minimax Principle.- Multiple Testing and Simul- Statistical Theory and Methods taneous Inference.- Conditional Inference.- Basic Large Sample Theory.- Quadratic Mean Differen- Target groups tiable Families.- Large Sample Optimality.- Testing Researchers, graduate students Goodness of Fit.- General Large Sample Methods.
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E. Paradis, Université Montpellier II, France L. Wasserman, Carnegie-Mellon University, E. Zivot, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Pittsburgh, PA, USA J. Wang, Ronin Capital LLC, Chicago, IL, USA Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution with R All of Nonparametric Statistics Modeling Financial Time Series with S-PLUS® The goal of this text is to provide the reader with a The increasing availability of molecular and genetic single book where they can find a brief account of databases coupled with the growing power of many, modern topics in nonparametric inference. The field of financial econometrics has exploded computers gives biologists opportunities to address The book is aimed at Master‘s level or Ph.D. level over the last decade. This book represents an new issues, such as the patterns of molecular students in statistics, computer science, and engi- integration of theory, methods, and examples evolution, and re-assess old ones, such as the role neering. It is also suitable for researchers who want using the S-PLUS statistical modeling language of adaptation in species diversification. This book to get up to speed quickly on modern nonpara- and the S+FinMetrics module to facilitate the integrates a wide variety of data analysis methods metric methods. This text covers a wide range practice of financial econometrics. This is the into a single and flexible interface: the R language. of topics including: the bootstrap, the nonpara- first book to show the power of S-PLUS for This open source language is available for a wide metric delta method, nonparametric regression, the analysis of time series data. It is written for range of computer systems and has been adopted density estimation, orthogonal function methods, researchers and practitioners in the finance as a computational environment by many authors minimax estimation, nonparametric confidence industry, academic researchers in economics of statistical software. Adopting R as a main tool sets, and wavelets. The book has a mixture of and finance, and advanced MBA and graduate for phylogenetic analyses will ease the workflow in methods and theory. students in economics and finance. Readers are biologists‘ data analyses, ensure greater scientific assumed to have a basic knowledge of S-PLUS repeatability, and enhance the exchange of ideas Features and a solid grounding in basic statistics and time and methodological developments. Graduate 7 There are many books on various aspects of series concepts. This second edition is updated to students and researchers in evolutionary biology nonparametric inference but no other book covers cover S+FinMetrics 2.0 and includes new chapters can use this book as a reference for data analyses, all the topics in one place 7 Offers a brief account on copulas, nonlinear regime switching models, whereas researchers in bioinformatics interested in of the modern topics in nonparametric inference continuous-time financial models, generalized evolutionary analyses will learn how to implement method of moments, semi-nonparametric condi- these methods in R. Contents tional density models, and the efficient method of Introduction.- Estimating the CDF and Statistical moments. Features Functions.- The Bootstrap and the Jackknife.- 7 Differentiates itself from competitors because Smoothing: General Concepts.- Nonparametric Features it‘s not one more software for phylogeny, rather it Regression.- Density Estimation.- Normal Means 7 The second edition of a popular Springer book gives examples from real biological problems with and Minimax Theory.- Nonparametric Inference an emphasis on how things work in an R package Using Orthogonal Functions.- Wavelets and Other From the contents 7 Since R is a very powerful and complete envi- Adaptive Means. S and S-PLUS.- Time Series Specification, Manipu- ronment for statistics and visual display, it means lation and Visualization in S-PLUS.- Time Series that researchers can customize the outputs to fit Field of interest Concepts.- Unit Root Tests.- Modeling Extreme exactly what they want Statistical Theory and Methods Values.- Time Series Regression Modeling.- Univariate GARCH Modeling.- Long Memory Contents Target groups Time Series Modeling.- Rolling Analysis of Time Introduction.- First Steps in R for Phyloge- Students, researchers Series.- Systems of Regression Equations.- Vector neticists.- Phylogenetic Data in R.- Plotting Autoregressive Models for Multivariate Time Phylogenies.- Phylogeny Estimation.- Analysis of Discount group Series.- Cointegration.- Multivariate GARCH Macroevolution with Phylogenies.- Developing P Modeling.- State Space Models.- Factor Models for and Implementing Phylogenetic Methods in R. Asset Returns.- Term Structure of Interest Rates.- Robust Change Detection.- Nonlinear Time Series Field of interest Models.- Copulas.- Continuous-Time Models for Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Financial Time Series. Sciences Field of interest Target groups Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Biologists, researchers Finance/Insurance
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M. R. Chapman, Killingworth, CT, USA C. J. Davis, Nicholasville, KY, USA G. Dunphy, A. Metwally, Ontario, Canada In Search of Stupidity Pro WordPress Development Pro BizTalk 2006 Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters WordPress has become on of the de facto stan- BizTalk automates and manages business dards for personal publishing on the web. In Pro processes. Pro BizTalk 2006 is based on feedback WordPress Development, you’ll learn how to take from the BizTalk developer community. We asked This second edition of In Search of Stupidity your WordPress powered site to the ‘next level’ by developers what other books lacked and addressed includes new chapters on Google, Knowing How learning about own custom themes and plug-ins. those topics. For example, why BizTalk works the to Avoid Stupidity, and other topics, plus extensive You’ll learn the anatomy of each and then work way it does is not always intuitive and this can analyses of all chapters in the first edition. This through an existing real world theme and plug-in cause serious problems when it‘s implemented in book is National Lampoon meets Peter Drucker. before digging in to create your own. So not only the workplace. The book begins with a detailed It‘s a funny and well-written business book will you learn to create your own themes and plug- explanation of how BizTalk works and why. It also that takes a look at some of the most influential ins, but you will be equipped with the knowledge covers performance tuning and includes scripts marketing and business philosophies of the last to modify existing ones to your liking. If you find and code that have been used in real business 20 years and, through the dark glass of hindsight, that you want to go just a bit further than custom settings. provides an educational and vastly entertaining theme and plug-in creation, the last section of examination of why they didn‘t work for many of this book is for you! In it you will learn how the Features the countries largest and best-known high-tech actual code base of WordPress is laid out and how 7 Written by a Microsoft Certified Systems Engi- companies. Make no mistake: most of them did to directly edit it to suit your needs. All in all, if neer and a Certified Solutions Developer 7 Based not work. you are a casual blogger just looking to spruce on the needs of the BizTalk developer community up your blog or a seasoned web developer doing 7 Includes examples of real-world implementa- Features custom WordPress installs, this book is your guide tions 7 Includes new chapters and a “What have we to getting the most out of the fantastic blogging learned?” analysis of all original chapters software WordPress Contents 7 Offers practical advice on avoiding PR disaster BizTalk in the Enterprise.- Running a BizTalk 7 Includes a new foreword by Eric Sink Features Development Team.- The BizTalk Developer API.- 7 A companion site (http://www.chrisjdavis. Advanced Pipeline coding.- Creating Custom Contents org/pro-wordpress/) for the book allows you to Adapters.- Message Broker Scenario.- Legacy Introduction.- First Movers, First Mistakes: IBM, interact with the concepts explained in the book Application Interface Scenarios.- UI Control Digital Research, Apple, and Microsoft.- A Rather 7 Serves as a guide to creating your own themes Logic Scenarios.- Interfacing with Disconnected Nutty Tale: IBM and the PC Junior.- Positioning and plug-ins 7 An in depth overview of the inner Systems.- Extract, Transform, Load Scenarios Puzzlers: MicroPro and Microsoft.- We Hate workings of WordPress 7 Concise, to the point – Parsing and Transforming Huge Files.- Trouble- You, We Really Really Hate You: Ed Esber and real world examples 7 Practical techniques to shooting High CPU usage.- Tuning and Trouble- Ashton-Tate.- The Idiot Piper: OS/2 and IBM.- solve complex problems shooting Advanced Adapter settings.- Trouble- Frenchman Eats Frog, Chokes to Death: Borland shooting and fixing Out of Memory errors.- Tools and Philippe Kahn.- Brands for the Burning: Intel Field of interest that no one knows how to use but that everyone and Motorola.- From Godzilla to Gecko: The Programming Techniques should.- Advanced Administration and Scripting.- Long, Slow Decline of Novell.- Ripping PR Yarns: Using the BizTalk WMI interface.- Using the Microsoft and Netscape.- Purple Haze All Through Target groups BizTalk OM object Model.- Advanced Binding My Brain: The Internet and ASP Busts.- Afterword: Intermediate and Pro individuals who are Files. Stupid Development Tricks. currently running WordPress and are looking to go to the ‘next level’ by creating their own themes Field of interest Field of interest and plugins, those who want to hack the code that Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems Computing Milieux powers WordPress will find content as well Target groups Target groups Discount group Intermediate to advanced programmers, and All business people in technology and business P system architects people in general Discount group Discount group C C
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C. Hellsten, Sanda Interactive Ltd, Finland; J. Laine, S. Iannuzzi, Palmyra, NJ, USA; A. Jones, A. Freeman R. Kruetzfeld, Compugen Inc ., Canada Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 Web SMS 2003 Field Guide Beginning Ruby on Rails Services in C# E-Commerce From Novice to Professional Microsoft’s Systems Management Server (SMS) From Novice to Professional allows network administrators to provide software updates to users quickly and cost-effectively from Web Services are the ideal technology for anyone a single machine. The administrator can update Ruby on Rails is the hottest new open source tech- who wants to deploy and consume services and everyone in the company at once, or else select nology around. It offers developers the opportunity functionality over the web, in a secure, platform individuals − and all from the administrator’s to create fully-featured web applications in double- independent manner, for example, stock reports, computer. He or she needn’t go around to quick time. Rails and e-commerce are a match timetable data, banking credentials, etc. This everyone’s computer and make the changes, as in made in heaven and Beginning Ruby on Rails book covers the latest Microsoft technologies for days of old. The increasing complexity of Microsoft E-Commerce is the first book to directly target developing web services (the .NET 2.0 platform, networks makes knowledge of SMS mandatory. this market. This book explains to readers, via C# language, and Visual Studio 2005 develop- There are constant security patches that need to real-life scenarios, how to use Rails to create every ment environment,) with an emphasis on security, be installed (users tend to be lazy about this) and, aspect of an online store – from creating a product probably the most important consideration for with SMS, every user in the company can be fixed catalog, to building a shopping cart system, all developers wanting to make their web services at once. Employees who need special versions of the way through to adding cool features such as practical and useful. Previous knowledge of these applications can be singled out and upgraded. Our customer feedback forums. In addition, the book technologies is recommended, but not essential. SMS Field Guide is based on the consulting experi- explains how to interface with vital third-party The book is in a classic tutorial-based style. ences of the author. He addresses problems and software applications, such as those provided by solutions that have actually occurred. He knows online payment systems. Because of this breadth of Features where network administrators make mistakes, focus, Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce is the 7 Totally up-to-date − covers .NET 2.0, C#, and where they’re confused, and where they need help. book that all Rails developers are crying out for. Visual Studio 2005 7 Security is very important for web services − this is given special treatment Features Features 7 Little direct competition from other books - no 7 Practical knowledge for the experienced admin- 7 This book is a natural successor to the best- dedicated .NET 2.0 web services books istrator new to SMS 7 Provides resources beyond selling Pragmatic Programmer title Agile Web the book for additional help and tools 7 Written Development with Rails (097669400X), as that Field of interest by a hands-on, SMS consultant book only touches on the topic 7 If any web Programming Techniques developer is considering building an e-commerce Contents application, there’s absolutely no doubt that Ruby Target groups Introduction.- Overview of SMS.- Planning.- on Rails will be at the top of their list of technolo- Beginner and Intermediate developers with some Installation.- Resource Management.- Patch gies, and Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce is prior .NET experience who need a solid introduc- Management.- Reporting.- SMS Feature Packs.- the only title that fulfills this need tion to Web Services The SMS Community.- Moving Operations Forward. Field of interest Discount group Programming Techniques C Field of interest Computer Communication Networks Target groups Beginner/Intermediate website developers and Target groups application developers Intermediate network administrators, and IT managers Discount group C Discount group C
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J. J. Marshall, Phoenix, AZ, USA B. Myers, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA D. Solis, Campbell, CA, USA Beginning Microsoft Word Foundations of WF Illustrated C# 2005 Business Documents An Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation C# is the most influential language on the .NET platform. As Microsoft’s preferred language it has Competent Words users are often frustrated when established a solid user base over recent versions trying to create specialized documents such as Windows Workflow Foundation is an addition to and is drawing in developers from older technolo- newsletters, brochures, grants and proposals, etc. the WinFx SDK designed to allow any application gies at an ever increasing rate. With the recent There are plenty of templates available on the to add workflow functionality. Similar in design to release of .NET 2.0 this migration has never been Internet to help them, but they rarely come with WCF, Windows Workflow Foundation is the infra- faster. This book caters to that migrating audience. instructions or show how to modify the template structure for creating workflows. Workflows are Developers already familiar with the basic concepts to suit particular needs. Beginning Business Docu- defined either graphically using the new Workflow of a programming language (any programming ments in Microsoft Word walks the reader through Designer, or in code. Microsoft expects workflow language) often find the traditional compendium- the creation of new business documents and the to be one of the next hottest topics within applica- based ‘beginner’s guides’ heavy and difficult to read modification of existing templates. Samples of tion design and development. This book helps as they spend a lot of time explaining concepts the business documents (such as a business plan) are audiences just beginning their workflow design reader already understands from their previous included so that the reader can get some idea of efforts with WF. All code samples will be shown technology. Illustrated C# is an antidote to this. It where to start, what to include, why charts are in both VB.NET and C# using Visual Studio packs the essentials of the C# language into just helpful (and how to create them), and the careful 2005. This includes a sample ASP.NET applica- 350 pages, using an array of visual styles to provide use of fonts to show clear organization. Knowledge tion written in VB.NET that uses workflow and a clear, fast, reference to the core of the technology. of Word is assumed, but the reader is not expected the Windows Workflow Foundation along with a It’s a book migrating developers can read in a day to know how to create, for example, a folding windows application written in C# that uses the and grasp enough of the language to find their feet brochure or newsletter. same workflow. and move confidently onto the .NET platform.
Features Features Features 7 Shows Word users how to create specialized 7 One of the first books written about the 7 Clear, crisp style packs in the information business documents 7 Includes samples of busi- Windows Workflow Foundation 7 Coalesces 7 Unique visual style aids learning 7 Targeted ness documents to help guide the reader 7 Shows with our strategy of being first to market with at the large number of experienced developers how to create and modify templates for specific workflow books and offering a comprehensive line- moving to .NET 2.0 business purposes up 7 Appeals to both VB and C# developers Contents Contents Field of interest C# and the .NET Framework.- Overview of C# Business Plans.- Marketing Brochures and News- Programming Techniques Programming.- Introduction to C# Data.- Intro- letters.- Surveys, Questionnaires and other Forms.- duction to Classes and Structs.- Types.- Vari- Legal Documents.- Data Sheets.- Organization Target groups ables.- Operators.- Statements.- Namespaces and Charts.- Grants and Proposals.- Automating Docu- Beginning and Intermediate VB/C# developers Assemblies.- More on Classes.- Methods.- Structs.- ment Creation.- Working with Large Documents. looking to create workflow solutions and .NET Enums.- Conversions.- Arrays.- Delegates.- Inter- developers faces.- Exceptions.- Generics.- Collections and Field of interest Iterators. Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems Discount group C Field of interest Target groups Programming Techniques Intermediate Word users, Word users and Business people Target groups Beginning .NET 2.0 developers and migrating Discount group .NET 1.1 developers (from VB.NET 1.1) C Discount group C
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M. Tsoukalos, Greece H. Yadava, Sunnyvale, CA, USA Mac OS X Dashboard Widget The Berkeley DB Book Recipes A Problem-Solution Approach The Berkeley DB Book is intended to be a practical guide to the intricacies of Berkeley DB; an in- depth analysis of the complex design issues which Analogous to Applets in Java, Dashboard Widgets are often covered in terse footnotes in the dense are essentially mini-applications that let you Berkeley DB reference manual. It explains the perform common tasks and provide you with fast technology at a higher level and also covers the access to information. With a single click, Dash- internals with generous code and design examples. board appears, complete with widgets that bring Berkeley DB is becoming the database of choice for you a world of information, including real-time appliance makers and for in memory cache of large weather, stock tickers, sports scores, flight infor- scale applications like search engines and high mation and more. Mac OS X Dashboard Widget traffic web sites. As a tool for developers, Berkeley Recipes lets the reader create Apple Dashboard DB is so flexible that it is difficult to understand Widgets using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, C and the implications of different design choices. In this PHP. It also presents some existing widgets and book you will get to see a developer’s perspective how to use them. The book lets the reader create on various intriguing design issues in Berkeley DB Apple Dashboard Widgets using HTML, CSS, based applications and you will understand those JavaScript, Perl, C and PHP. It also presents some design options and be able to decide which ones to existing widgets and how to use them. choose under which condition.
Features Features 7 Only Recipes or code cookbook type book 7 Will be a complete reference for Berkeley DB covering latest on Apple’s Mac OS X-based Dash- 7 Explain through extensive code examples the board Widgets 7 Describes existing widgets, and various design issues that the developers come lets the reader create and customize new Widgets. across while using Berkeley DB 7 Explain how 7 Presents examples in many key open source Berkeley DB is different from RDBMS and under programming languages including Ajax. what circumstances it will be more effective than RDBMS 7 Discuss the use of Berkeley DB in Field of interest appliance frameworks, where Berkeley DB is Programming Techniques increasingly gaining acceptance
Target groups Field of interest Intermediate Mac and Open Source Developers Data Storage Representation
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P. Abrahamsson, VTT Technical Research Centre of M. Ali, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA; C. Àlvarez, M. Serna, Universitat Politècnica de Finland, Oulu, Finland; M. Marchesi, University of R. Dapoigny, Université de Savoie, Annecy , France Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain (Eds .) Cagliari, Italy; G. Succi, Free University of Bozen, Italy (Eds .) (Eds .) Experimental Algorithms Advances in Applied Artificial Extreme Programming and 5th International Workshop, WEA 2006, Cala Intelligence Galdana, Menorca, Spain, May 24-27, 2006, Agile Processes in Software 19th International Conference on Industrial, Proceedings Engineering Engineering and Other Applications of 7th International Conference, XP 2006, Oulu, Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE Finland, June 17-22, 2006, Proceedings 2006, Annecy, France, June 27-30, 2006, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Proceedings the 5th International Workshop on Experimental and Efficient Algorithms, WEA 2006, held in This book constitutes the refereed proceedings Cala Galdana, Menorca, Spain in May 2006. The of the 7th International Conference on Extreme This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 26 revised full papers presented together with 3 Programming and Agile Processes in Software the 19th International Conference on Industrial invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected Engineering, XP 2006, held in Oulu, Finland, in and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intel- from 92 submissions. The book is devoted to the June 2006. The 16 revised full papers presented ligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2006, held in design, analysis, implementation, experimental together with 6 experience papers, 12 poster Annecy, France, in June 2006. The 134 revised full evaluation, and engineering of efficient algorithms. papers and panel summaries were carefully papers presented together with 3 invited contribu- Among the application areas addressed are most reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The tions were carefully reviewed and selected from fields applying advanced algorithmic techniques, papers are organized in topical sections on founda- over 330 submissions. The papers are organized such as combinatorial optimization, approxima- tion and rationale for agile methods, effects of pair in topical sections on multi-agent systems, deci- tion, graph theory, discrete mathematics, sched- programming, quality in agile software develop- sion-support, genetic algorithms, heuristic search, uling, searching, sorting, string matching, coding, ment, issues in large scale agile development, data-mining and knowledge discovery, planning networking, etc. new practices for agile software development, and scheduling, fuzzy logic, computer vision, experience papers, posters and demonstrations, case-based reasoning, knowledge engineering, Field of interest and panels. machine learning, model-based reasoning, speech Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity recognition, and systems for real life applications. Field of interest There are 6 special sessions held in parallel with Target groups Software Engineering the general conference that focus on bioinfor- Researchers and professionals matics, ontology and text, data for discovery in Target groups engineering, intelligent control systems, intelligent Discount group Researchers and professionals systems for industry, and applications of data P mining. Discount group P Field of interest Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
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Due July 2006 Due July 2006 Due July 2006 2006 . XXIII, 1353 p . Also available online . (Lecture Notes 2006 . XII, 230 p . Also available online . (Lecture Notes in in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intel- 2006 . XI, 329 p . Also available online . (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4044) Softcover ligence, Volume 4031) Softcover Computer Science, Volume 4007) Softcover ISBN 3-540-35094-2 7 $63.00 ISBN 3-540-35453-0 7 $149.00 ISBN 3-540-34597-3 7 $67.00 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 7/2006 Computer Science 27
E. André, University of Augsburg, Germany; A. S. Atzeni, A. Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (Eds .) L. Batten, R. Safavi-Naini, Deakin University, L. Dybkjær, University of Southern Denmark, Burwood, Australia (Eds .) Odense, Denmark; W. Minker, H. Neumann, Public Key Infrastructure M. Weber, University of Ulm, Germany (Eds .) Third European PKI Workshop: Theory and Information Security and Perception and Interactive Practice, EuroPKI 2006, Turin, Italy, Privacy Technologies June 19-20, 2006, Proceedings 11th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2006, Melbourne, Australia, July 3-5, 2006 International Tutorial and Research Proceedings Workshop, Kloster Irsee, PIT 2006, Germany, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings June 19-21, 2006 of the Third European Public Key Infrastructure Workshop: Theory and Practice, EuroPKI 2006, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings held in Torino, Italy, in June 2006. The 18 revised of the 11th Australasian Conference on Informa- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of full papers and 4 short papers presented were care- tion Security and Privacy, ACISP 2006, held in the International Tutorial and Research Workshop fully reviewed and selected from about 50 submis- Melbourne, Australia in July 2006. The 35 revised on Perception and Interactive Technologies, PIT sions. The papers are organized in topical sections full papers presented together with 1 invited paper 2006, held at Kloster Irsee, Germany in June 2006. on PKI management, authentication, cryptography, were carefully reviewed and selected from 133 The 16 revised full papers presented together applications, and short contributions. submissions. The papers are organized in topical with 4 revised poster papers and 6 system sections on stream ciphers, symmetric key ciphers, demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and Field of interest network security, cryptographic applications, selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are Data Encryption secure implementation, signatures, theory, security organized in topical sections on head pose and applications, provable security, protocols, as well as eye gaze tracking, modeling and simulation of Target groups hashing and message authentication. perception, integrating information from multiple Researchers and professionals channels, visual and auditory display driven by Field of interest perceptive principles, spoken dialogue systems, Discount group Data Encryption multimodal and situated dialogue systems, and P integration of perceptive technologies and anima- Target groups tion. Researchers and professionals
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Due July 2006 Due July 2006 Due July 2006 2006 . XI, 217 p . Also available online . (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intel- 2006 . XI, 261 p . Also available online . (Lecture Notes in 2006 . XII, 446 p . Also available online . (Lecture Notes in ligence, Volume 4021) Softcover Computer Science, Volume 4043) Softcover Computer Science, Volume 4058) Softcover ISBN 3-540-34743-7 7 $58.00 ISBN 3-540-35151-5 7 $63.00 ISBN 3-540-35458-1 7 $84.00 28 Computer Science Springer News 7/2006 springer.com/booksellers
A. Beckmann, U. Berger, University of Wales, O. Boissier, J. Padget, V. Dignum, G. Lindemann, A. Bredenfeld, A. Jacoff, I. Noda, Y. Takahashi Swansea, UK; B. Löwe, Universiteit van Amsterdam, E. Matson, S. Ossowski, J. Sichman, (Eds .) The Netherlands; J. V. Tucker, University of Wales, J. Vázquez-Salceda (Eds .) Swansea, UK (Eds .) RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer Coordination, Organizations, World Cup IX Logical Approaches to Institutions, and Norms in Computational Barriers Multi-Agent Systems Second Conference on Computability in AAMAS 2005 International Workshops This book constitutes the ninth official archival Europe, CiE 2006, Swansea, UK, on Agents, Norms, and Institutions for publication devoted to RoboCup. It documents the achievements presented at the RoboCup 2005 June 30-July 5, 2006, Proceedings Regulated Multiagent Systems, ANIREM International Symposium, held in Osaka, Japan 2005 and on Organizations in Multi-Agent in July 2005 in conjunction with the RoboCup This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Systems, OOOP 2005, Utrecht, Competition. The 34 revised full papers and 38 the Second International Conference on Comput- The Netherlands, July 25-26, 2005, revised short papers presented together with 2 ability in Europe, CiE 2006, held in Swansea, Revised Selected Papers award-winning papers from 21 countries went UK, in June/July 2006. The 31 revised full papers through two rounds of reviewing and improve- presented together with 30 invited papers were ments and were selected from 131 submissions. carefully reviewed and selected from about 80 This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed The book is a valuable source of reference and submissions. Among them are papers corre- post-proceedings of the International Workshop inspiration for R and D professionals active or sponding to 8 plenary talks and papers of 6 special on Agents, Norms and Institutions for Regu- interested in robotics or distributed intelligence, sessions entitled proofs and computation, comput- lated Multiagent Systems, ANIREM 2005, and and is a mandatory reading for the rapidly growing able analysis, challenges in complexity, founda- the International Workshop on Organizations RoboCup community. tions of programming, mathematical models in Multi-Agent Systems, OOOP 2005, held in of computers and hypercomputers, and Gödel Utrecht, The Netherlands in July 2005 as an associ- Field of interest centenary: Gödel’s legacy for computability. ated event of AAMAS 2005. This volume is the first Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) in a series focussing on issues in Coordination, Field of interest Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN) in Target groups Theory of Computation multi-agent systems. The 17 papers in this volume Researchers and professionals are extended, revised versions of the best papers Target groups presented at the ANIREM and the OOOP work- Discount group Researchers and professionals shops at AAMAS 2005 that were carefully selected P during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. Discount group The papers from the two workshops have been re- P grouped around the following themes: modelling, analyzing and programming organizations, model- ling and analyzing institutions, modelling norma- tive designs, as well as evaluation and regulation.
Field of interest Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
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C. Calero, F. Ruiz, M. Piattini, UCLM, Ciudad Real, S. Cheng, Hong Kong University of Science and H. I. Christensen, Royal Institute of Technology, Spain (Eds .) Technology, Hong Kong, China; C. K. Poon, City Stockholm, Sweden; H. Nagel, University of University Hong Kong, China (Eds .) Karlsruhe, Germany (Eds .) Ontologies in Software Engineering and Software Algorithmic Aspects in Cognitive Vision Systems Technology Information and Management Sampling the Spectrum of Approaches Second International Conference, AAIM 2006, Hong Kong, China, June 20-22, 2006, Communication is one of the main activities Proceedings During the last decade of the twentieth century, in software projects, many such projects fail or computer vision made considerable progress encounter serious problems because the stake- towards the consolidation of its fundaments, in holders involved have different understandings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of particular regarding the treatment of geometry for of the problem domain and/or they use different the Second International Conference on Algo- the evaluation of stereo image pairs and of multi- terminologies. Ontologies can help to mitigate rithmic Aspects in Information and Management, view image recordings. Scientists thus began to these communication problems. Calero and AAIM 2006, held in Hong Kong, China in June look at basic computer vision solutions - irrespec- her coeditors mainly cover two applications of 2006. The 34 revised full papers presented together tive of the well-perceived need to perfection these ontologies in software engineering and software with abstracts of 2 invited talks were carefully further - as components which should be explored techonology: sharing knowledge of the problem reviewed and selected from 263 submissions. The in a larger context. This volume is a post-event domain and using a common terminology among papers cover topics from areas such as online proceedings volume and contains selected papers all stakeholders; and filtering the knowledge when scheduling, game and finance, data structures and based on the presentations given, and the lively defining models and metamodels. algorithms, computational geometry, optimization, discussions that ensued, during a seminar held graph, and string. in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in October 2003. Contents Co-sponsored by ECVision, the cognitive vision 1. Ontological Engineering - 2. Using Ontolo- Field of interest network of excellence, it was organized to further gies in Software Engineering and Technology - 3. Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity strengthen cooperation between research groups Engineering the Ontology for the SWEBOK - 4. from different countries, and scientists active in An Ontology for Software Development Method- Target groups related areas were invited from around the world. ologies and Endeavours - 5. Software Maintenance Researchers and professionals Ontology - 6. An Ontology for Software Measure- Field of interest ment - 7. An Ontological Approach to SQL:2003 Discount group Computer Imaging, Graphics and Computer - 8. The Object Management Group Ontology P Vision Definition Metamodel - 9. Ontologies, Meta- Models, and the Model-Driven Paradigm - 10. Use Target groups of Ontologies in Software Development Environ- Researchers and professionals ments - 11. Semantic Upgrade and Publication of Legacy Data. Discount group P Field of interest Software Engineering
Target groups Researchers in academia and industry
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P. Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy; J. Cowley, Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, UK E. Damiani, University of Milan, Italy; B. Fitzgerald, H. Wiklicky, Imperial College, London, UK (Eds .) CSIS, University of Limerick, Ireland; W. Scacchi, Communications and University of California, United States; M. Scotto, Coordination Models and Networking: An Introduction Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy (Eds .) Languages Open Source Systems 8th International Conference, COORDINATION IFIP Working Group 2.13 Foundation 2006, Bologna, Italy, “Communications and Networking” provides a Conference on Open Source Software, June June 14-16, 2006, Proceedings clear and easy to follow treatment of the subject, written specifically for undergraduates who 8-10, 2006, Como, Italy have no previous experience in the field. The This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of author takes a step by step approach, with many the 8th International Conference on Coordination examples and exercises designed to give the reader Early research studies on open source software Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2006, experience and increase confidence by using and development often betrayed a mild surprise that held in Bologna, Italy in June 2006. The 17 revised designing communications systems. Written by loosely coordinated networks of volunteers could full papers presented were carefully reviewed and a lecturer with many years’ experience teaching manage the design and implementation of highly selected from 50 submissions. Among the topics undergraduate programmes, the text takes the comple software products. In the past few years, a addressed are component connectors, negotiation reader through the essentials of networking and wider research community has become increas- in service-oriented computing, process algebraic provides a comprehensive, reliable and thorough ingly aware of the tremendous contribution specification, workflow patterns, reactive XML, treatment of the subject. The author’s website that open source development is making to the ubiquitous coordination, type systems, ad-hoc provides further material in the form of solutions, software industry, business and society in general. network coordination, choreography, communi- further examples and other relevant subject matter. Software engineering researchers are exploring cation coordination, and distributed embedded OSS specifically with respect to development tools systems. Features and methodologies, while organizational scientists 7 Introductory textbook in this area, sufficient and economists are keen on understanding how Field of interest for undergraduates but also accessible for business open sources have brought large communities of Software Engineering professionals 7 Supported by downloadable people to help each other effectively. examples 7 Focussed towards students Target groups Features Researchers and professionals Contents 7 Most up-to-date research on open source Introduction.- Communications Technolo- systems Discount group gies.- Networking Models and Standards.- Local P Area Networks.- Wide Area Networks.- Network From the contents Protocols.- Internet Application Layer Protocols.- On the Weickian Model in the Context of Open Network Security.- Network Management.- Wire- Source Software Development.- Evolution of Open less Networks.- Appendix A: TCP/IP packet format Source Communities.- Beyond Low-Hanging illustrations.- Appendix B: Glossary Fruit: Seeking the Next Generation in FLOSS Data Mining.- Towards an Ontology for Open Source Field of interest Software Development.- A Robust Open Source Computer Systems Organization and Communica- Exchange for Open Source Software Develop- tion Networks ment.- Networks of Open Source Health Care Action.- Licensing Services: An „Open“ Perspec- Target groups tive.- Exploring the Potential of OSS in Air Traffic Undergraduates Management.- Life Cycle of Defects in Open Source Software Projects.- A Tool to Support the Discount group Introduction of GNU/Linux Desktop System in P a Professional Environment.- Communication Networks in an Open Source Software Project.- Producing and Interpreting Debug Texts.-
Field of interest Operating Systems
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G. Danezis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; O. Dikenelli, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey; S. Donatelli, Università di Torino, Italy; D. Martin, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, M. Gleizes, IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse P. Thiagarajan, National University of Singapore USA (Eds .) Cedex, France; A. Ricci, DEIS, Università di Bologna, (Eds .) Cesena, Italy (Eds .) Privacy Enhancing Petri Nets and Other Models Technologies Engineering Societies in the of Concurrency - ICATPN 2006 5th International Workshop, PET 2005, Agents World VI 27th International Conference on Cavtat, Croatia, May 30 - June 1, 2005, 6th International Workshop, ESAW 2005, Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Revised Selected Papers Kusadasi, Turkey, October 26-28, 2005, Other Models of Concurrency, Turku, Finland, Revised Selected and Invited Papers June 26-30, 2006, Proceedings
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- proceedings of the 5th International Workshop This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, PET 2006, proceedings of the 6th International Workshop of the 27th International Conference on Applica- held in Cavtat, Croatia, in May/June 2005. The on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, tions and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models 17 revised full papers presented were carefully ESAW 2005, held in Kusadasi, Turkey, in October of Concurrency, ICATPN 2006, held in Turku, selected from 74 submissions during two rounds 2005. The 15 revised full papers presented together Finland in June 2006. The 16 revised full papers of reviewing and improvement. The papers address with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and and 6 revised tool papers presented together with most current privacy enhancing technologies in selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are 4 invited papers were carefully reviewed and various application context. organized in topical sections on agent oriented selected from a total of 93 submissions. All current system development, methodologies for agent soci- issues on research and development in the area Field of interest eties, deliberative agents and social aspect, agent of Petri nets and modeling of concurrent systems Data Encryption oriented simulation, adaptive systems, coordina- are addressed, in particular UML and Petri nets tion, negotiation, protocols, and agents, networks in software development, networking, workflow Target groups and ambient intelligence. management, biochemical network analysis, Researchers and professionals systems modeling, process semantics probabilistic Field of interest modeling, embedded systems, software services, Discount group Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) performance analysis and simulation. P Target groups Field of interest Researchers and professionals Theory of Computation
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B. Donnellan, National University of Ireland, Galway, E. Dubois, Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, S. Dunne, B. Stoddart, University of Teesside, Ireland; T. Larsen, Norwegian School of Manage- Luxemburg; K. Pohl, University of Limerick, Ireland Middlesbrough, UK (Eds .) ment, Oslo, Norway; L. Levine, Carnegie Mellon (Eds .) University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; J. DeGross, Univer- Unifying Theories of sity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA (Eds .) Advanced Information Programming Systems Engineering The Transfer and Diffusion of First International Symposium, UTP 2006, Information Technology for 18th International Conference, CAiSE 2006, Walworth Castle, County Durham, UK, Luxenbourg, Luxemburg, June 5-9, 2006, February 5-7, 2006, Revised Selected Papers Organizational Resilience Proceedings IFIP TC8 WG 8.6 International Working Conference, June 7-10, 2006, Galway, Ireland This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of proceedings of the First International Symposium the 18th International Conference on Advanced on Unifying Theories of Programming, UTP The Transfer and Diffusion of Information Tech- Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2006, 2006, held at Walworth Castle, County Durham, nology for Organizational Reilience addresses the held in Luxembourg, Luxembourg in June 2006. UK, in February 2006. The 14 revised full papers challenges faced by many organizations today as The 33 revised full papers presented together presented, including those by the six invited they strive to be resilient in a turbulent economic with 3 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and speakers, were carefully reviewed and selected for and political environment. Resilience is considered selected from 189 submissions. The papers are presentation at the symposium and went through in the context of the ideas provided by Everett organized in topical sections on security, concep- a second round of improvement after the meeting. Rogers in his textbook Diffusion of Innovations, tual modelling, queries, document conceptualiza- Based on the pioneering work on unifying theories where he provided a framework for evaluating tion, service composition, workflow, business of programming by Tony Haare and Jifeng He, the transfer and diffusion of IT. The topics in this modelling, configuration and separation, business UTP 2006 reaffirmed the relevance of the ongoing new book include: - Improvisation and agility - IT process modelling, agent orientation, and require- UTP project and advanced it by focusing on the Support for nurturing core competencies - Onto- ments management. most significant results and by raising awareness logical/definitional issues relating to resilience - of the benefits of unifying theoretical frameworks Multi-level studies of resilience - Barriers/enablers Field of interest among the wider computer science and software to resilience - Resilience in federated/distributed/ Database Management engineering communities. virtual organizations Target groups Field of interest Features Researchers and professionals Computation by Abstract Devices 7 Presents the most current research in IT diffu- sion for organizational resilience Discount group Target groups P Researchers and professionals Field of interest Computer Systems Organization and Communica- Discount group tion Networks P
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F. Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway; O. Etzion, IBM Haifa Labs, Israel; T. Kuflik, University D. Fensel, H. Lausen, DERI, Innsbruck, Austria; A. Montresor, University of Trento, Italy (Eds .) of Haifa, Israel; A. Motro, George Mason University, A. Polleres, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, VA, USA (Eds .) Spain; J. de Bruijn, M. Stollberg, D. Roman, DERI, Distributed Applications and Innsbruck, Austria; J. Domingue, The Open Univer- Interoperable Systems Next Generation Information sity, Milton Keynes, UK Technologies and Systems 6th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, Enabling Semantic Web DAIS 2006, Athens, Greece, June 14-16, 2006 6th International Workshop, NGITS 2006, Services Kebbutz Sehfayim, Israel, July 4-6, 2006, Proceedings The Web Service Modeling Ontology This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Service-oriented computing has become one of the Systems, DAIS 2006, held in Bologna, Italy in June the 6th International Workshop on Next Genera- predominant factors in current IT research and 2006. The DAIS conference was held as a joint tion Information Technologies and Systems, development. Web services seem to be the middle- event in federation with the 8th IFIP WG 6.1 Inter- NGITS 2006, held in Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel in ware solution of the future for highly interoperable national Conference on Formal Methods for Open July 2006. The 28 revised full papers and 4 revised distributed software solutions. In parallel, research Object-Based Distributed Systems (FMOODS short papers presented together with 3 invited on the Semantic Web provides the results required 2006) and the 8th International Conference on papers were carefully reviewed and selected from to exploit distributed machine-processable data. To Coordination Models and Languages (Coordina- 138 submissions. The papers are organized in combine these two research lines into industrial- tion 2006). The 21 regular and 5 work-in-progress topical sections on information integration, next strength applications, a number of research proj- papers presented were carefully reviewed and generations applications, information systems ects have been set up by organizations like W3C selected from 99 submissions. development, security and privacy, semi struc- and the EU. Dieter Fensel and his coauthors deliver tured data, frameworks, models and taxonomies, a profound introduction into one of the most Field of interest simulation and incremental computing, distributed promising approaches – the Web Service Modeling Software Engineering systems, user oriented design, and data mining and Ontology (WSMO). After a brief presentation of agent oriented computing. the underlying basic technologies and standards of Target groups the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web, and Web Researchers and professionals Field of interest Services, they detail all the elements of WSMO Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet) from basic concepts to possible applications in e- Discount group commerce, e-government and e-banking, and they P Target groups also describe its relation to other approaches like Researchers and professionals OWL-S or WSDL-S.
Discount group Features P 7 Comprehensive overview how to enable semantic web services 7 In-depth presentation of WSMO standard 7 Exciting stimulus for numerous real-world applications
Contents Part I - Foundations.- 1) The World Wide Web - 2) Semantic Web - 3) Web Services.- Part II - The Web Services Modeling Ontology.- 4) Introduction to WSMO - 5) Concepts of WSMO - 6) WSML - A Language for WSMO - 7) Related Work in the Area of Semantic Web Service Frameworks.- Part III - Tools and Applications.- 8) Semantic Web Service Usage Tasks in WSMO - 9) Tools - 10) Applica- tions of WSMO
Field of interest Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Target groups Researchers in academia and industry, and web service developers
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P. Flocchini, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada; J. Fong, City University of Hong Kong, China N. Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; L. Gasieniec, University of Liverpool, UK (Eds .) M. Lalmas, Queen Mary University of London, UK; Information Systems S. Malik, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; Structural Information and Reengineering and G. Kazai, Queen Mary University of London, UK (Eds .) Communication Complexity Integration Advances in XML Information 13th International Colloquium, SIROCCO Retrieval and Evaluation 2006, Chester, UK, July 2-5, 2006, Proceedings Reengineering involves the re-design of an existing 4th International Workshop of the Initiative Information System, whilst utilising as much of for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX the existing system as possible. This text takes 2005, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of a practical approach to re-engineering existing November 28-30, 2005. the 13th International Colloquium on Structural systems and looks at data integration, and focuses Revised and Selected Papers Information and Communication Complexity, on proven methods and tools for: - the conversion SIROCCO 2006, held in Chester, UK, in July 2006. of hierarchical or network database systems into The 24 revised full papers presented together relational database technology, or from relational This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and to object-oriented and XML databases - the inte- proceedings of the 4th International Workshop of selected from 68 submissions. The papers address gration of database systems and expert systems to the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, issues such as topics in distributed and parallel produce MIS and EIS systems Taking a very prac- INEX 2005, held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, computing, information dissemination, communi- tical approach, the book describes in detail data- in November 2005. The 41 revised full papers cation complexity, interconnection networks, high base conversion techniques, reverse engineering presented were carefully selected for presentation speed networks, wireless and sensor networks, and forward engineering, and re-engineering at the workshop and went through a subse- mobile computing, optical computing, autono- methodology for information systems, offering quent round of careful reviewing and revision. mous robots, and related areas. The papers are a systematic software engineering approach for The papers are organized in topical sections on organized in topical sections on robots, routing, reusing existing database systems built with „old“ methodology, multiple retrieval, ad-hoc retrieval, distributed algorithms, fault tolerance, radio technology. Many examples, illustrations and case relevance feedback, natural language queries, networks, and self-stabilizing alorgithms. studies are used, making the methodology easy heterogeneous retrieval, interactive retrieval, docu- to follow, and a CD-ROM is included containing ment mining, and multimedia retrieval. Field of interest solutions to problems. Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity Field of interest Features Information Storage and Retrieval Target groups 7 Revised and updated 7 Includes advanced Researchers and professionals XML technology 7 Includes extensive coverage Target groups of information systems integration Researchers and professionals Discount group P Contents Discount group Preface.- Information Systems Reengineering P and Integration.- Database and Expert System Technology.- Schema Translation.- Data Conver- sion.- Database Program Translation.- Database Conversion Methodology.- Heterogenerous Data- base Integration.- Database and Expert Systems Integration.- Conclusion.- Subject Index.
Field of interest Information Systems and Communication Service
Target groups Undergraduates/graduates of Information Systems and Knowledge Engineering
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K. Futatsugi, JAIST, Ishikawa, Japan; J. Jouannaud, P. Gibbons, Intel Research, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; R. Gorrieri, Universitá di Bologna, Italy; Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France; J. Meseguer, T. Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana Cham- H. Wehrheim, Universtät Paderborn, Germany (Eds .) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA paign, IL, USA; J. Aspnes, Yale University, Newhaven, (Eds .) CT, USA; R. Rao, University of California at San Diego, Formal Methods for Open La Jolla, CA, USA (Eds .) Algebra, Meaning, and Object-Based Distributed Computation Distributed Computing in Systems 8th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, Essays dedicated to Joseph A. Goguen on the Sensor Systems FMOODS 2006, Bologna, Italy, Occasion of His 65th Birthday Second IEEE International Conference, DCOSS June 14-16, 2006, Proceedings 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 18-20, 2006, Proceedings Joseph Goguen is one of the most prominent computer scientists worldwide. His numerous This book constitutes the refereed proceedings research contributions span many topics and have The book constitutes the refereed proceedings of of the 8th IFIP WG 6.1 International Confer- changed the way we think about many concepts. the Second International Conference on Distrib- ence on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Our views about data types, programming uted Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2006, Distributed Systems, FMOODS 2006, held in languages, software specification and verifica- held in San Francisco, California, USA in June Bologna, Italy in June 2006. The 16 revised full tion, computational behavior, logics in computer 2006. The 33 revised full papers presented were papers presented together with an invited paper science, semiotics, interface design, multimedia, carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submis- and abstracts of 2 invited talks were carefully and consciousness, to mention just some of the sions. The papers focus on distributed computing reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. areas, have all been enriched in fundamental ways issues in large-scale networked sensor systems, Among the topcis addressed are component- and by his ideas. This Festschrift volume - published including systematic design techniques and tools; model-based design, service-oriented computing, to honor Joseph Goguen on his 65th Birthday on they cover topics such as distributed algorithms software quality, modeling languages implementa- June 28, 2006 - includes 32 refereed papers by and applications, programming support and tion, formal specification, verification, validation, leading researchers in the different areas spanned middleware, data aggregation and dissemination, testing, and service-oriented systems. by Joseph Goguen’s work. The papers address a security, information fusion, lifetime maximiza- broad variety of topics from meaning, meta-logic, tion, and localization. Field of interest specification and composition, behavior and Computer Communication Networks formal languages, as well as models, deduction, Field of interest and computation. Computer Communication Networks Target groups Researchers and professionals Field of interest Target groups Logics and Meanings of Programs Researchers and professionals Discount group P Target groups Discount group Researchers and professionals P
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W. Grieskamp, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, A. Horváth, University of Torino, Italy; M. Telek, Tech- O. H. Ibarra, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; C. Weise, Ericsson Deutschlang GmbH, Herzo- nical University of Budapest, Hungary (Eds .) CA, USA; Z. Dang, Washington State University, genrath, Germany (Eds .) Pullman, WA, USA (Eds .) Formal Methods and Formal Approaches to Stochastic Models for Developments in Language Software Testing Performance Evaluation Theory 5th International Workshop, FATES 2005, Third European Performance Engineering 10th International Conference, DLT 2006, Edinburgh, UK, July 11, 2005, Workshop, EPEW 2006, Budapest, Hungary, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, June 26-29, 2006, Revised Selected Papers June 21-22, 2006, Proceedings Proceedings
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of post-proceedings of the 5th International This book constitutes the refereed proceedings the 10th International Conference on Develop- Workshop on Formal Approaches to Software of the Third European Performance Engineering ments in Language Theory, DLT 2006, held in Testing, FATES 2005, held in Edinburgh, UK, Workshop, EPEW 2006, held in Budapest, Santa Barbara, CA, USA in June 2006. The 36 in July 2005 in conjunction with CAV 2005. The Hungary in June 2006. The 16 revised full papers revised full papers presented together with 4 13 revised full papers presented together with 1 presented were carefully reviewed and selected invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected work-in-progress paper were carefully selected from 40 submissions. The papers are organized from 63 submissions. All important issues in from 38 initial submissions. The papers address in topical sections on stochastic process algebra, language theory are addressed including gram- formal approaches to testing and use techniques workloads and benchmarks, theory of stochastic mars, acceptors and transducers for strings, trees, from areas like theorem proving, model checking, processes, formal dependability and performance graphs, arrays; efficient text algorithms; algebraic constraint resolution, program analysis, abstract evaluation, as well as queues, theory and practice. theories for automata and languages; combinatorial interpretation, Markov chains, and various others. and algebraic properties of words and languages; These techniques are combined with traditional Field of interest variable-length codes; symbolic dynamics; decision approaches to testing. Software Engineering problems; relations to complexity theory and logic; picture description and analysis; polyominoes and Field of interest Target groups bidimensional patterns; cryptography; concur- Software Engineering Researchers and professionals rency; bio-inspired computing; and quantum computing. Target groups Discount group Researchers and professionals P Field of interest Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages Discount group P Target groups Researchers and professionals
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M. Ikeda, JAIST, Ishikawa, Japan; K. Ashlay, T. Chan A. Keller, IBM T .J . Watson Research Center, Yorktown C. Kop, G. Fliedl, H. C. Mayr, Alpen-Adria Universität (Eds .) Heights, NY, USA; J. Martin-Flatin, Laboratoire de Klagenfurt, Austria; E. Métais, CNAM, Paris, France Téléinformatique, Montréal, Canada (Eds .) (Eds .) Intelligent Tutoring Systems 8th International Conference, ITS 2006 Self-Managed Networks, Natural Language Processing Jhongli, Taiwan, June 26-30, 2006 Systems, and Services and Information Systems Proceedings Second IEEE International Workshops, 11th International Conference on SelfMan 2006, Dublin, Ireland, June 16, 2006, Applications of Natural Language to Proceedings Information Systems, NLDB 2006, Klagenfurt, This book constitutes the refereed proceed- Austria, May 31 - June 2, 2006, Proceedings ings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2006, held in This book constitutes the refered proceedings Jhongli, Taiwan in June 2006. The 67 revised full of the Second IEEE International Workshop on This book constitutes the refereed proceedings papers and 40 poster papers presented together Self-Managed Networks, Systems, and Services, of the 11th International Conference on Appli- with abstracts of 6 keynote talks were carefully SelfMan 2006, held in Dublin, Ireland in June cations of Natural Language to Information reviewed and selected from over 200 submissions. 2006. The 12 revised full papers presented together Systems, NLDB 2006, held in Klagenfurt, Austria The papers are organized in topical sections on with 3 work-in-progress papers were carefully in May/June 2006 as part of UNISCON 2006. The assessment, authoring tools, bayesian reasoning reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. The 17 revised full papers and 5 revised short papers and decision-theoretic approaches, case-based and papers are organized in topical sections on middle- presented were carefully reviewed and selected analogical reasoning, cognitive models, collabora- ware and infrastructure for self-management, from 53 submissions. The papers are organized tive learning, elearning and web-based intelligent peer-to-peer and overlay networks, self-adaption, in topical sections on concepts extraction and tutoring systems, error detection and handling, self-managed mobile systems, and networking. ontology, ontologies and task repository utiliza- feedback, gaming behavior, learner models, moti- tion, query processing, information retrieval and vation, natural language techniques for intelligent Field of interest dialog processing, and NLP techniques. tutoring systems, scaffolding, simulation, as well as Computer Communication Networks tutorial dialogue and narrative. Field of interest Target groups Database Management Field of interest Researchers and professionals Computers and Education Target groups Discount group Researchers and professionals Target groups P Researchers and professionals Discount group P Discount group P
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Y. Koucheryavy, J. Harju, Tampere University of L. Lamontagne, M. Marchand, Université Laval, QC, J. Lee, IBM Research, USA; J. Shim, Sookmyung Technology, Finland; V. B. Iversen, Technical Univer- Canada (Eds .) Women’s University, Korea; S. Lee, Seoul National sity of Denmark (Eds .) University, Korea; C. Bussler, Cisco Systems, Inc ., San Advances in Artificial Jose, CA, USA; S. Shim, San Jose State University, CA, Next Generation Teletraffic Intelligence USA (Eds .) and Wired/Wireless Advanced 19th Conference of the Canadian Society Data Engineering Issues in Networking for Computational Studies of Intelligence, E-Commerce and Services 6th International Conference, NEW1AN 2006, Canadian AI 2006, Quebec City, Quebec, Second International Workshop, DEECS 2006, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 29-June 2, 2006, Canada, June 7-9, Proceedings San Francisco, CA, USA, June 26, 2006 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Canadian Society for This book constitutes the refereed proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian of the Second International Workshop on Data the 6th International Conference on Next Genera- AI 2006, held in Québec City, Québec, Canada in Engineering Issues in E-Commerce and Services, tion Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced June 2006. The 47 revised full papers presented DEECS 2006 held in San Francisco, California, Networking, NEW2AN 2006, held in St. Peters- were carefully reviewed and selected from 220 USA in June 2006. The 15 revised full papers and burg, Russia in May/June 2006. The 49 revised full submissions. The papers are organized in topical 8 revised short papers presented were carefully papers presented together with 2 keynote talks sections on agents, bioinformatics, constraint reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. were carefully reviewed and selected from a total satisfaction and distributed search, knowledge They address issues such as service engineering, of 137 submissions. The papers are organized in representation and reasoning, natural language, service-oriented architecture, data and knowl- topical sections on teletraffic, traffic characteriza- reinforcement learning and, supervised and unsu- edge engineering, business models and analysis, tion and modeling, 3G/UMTS, sensor networks, pervised learning. system and tool implementation, and applications WLAN, QoS, MANETs, lower layer techniques, to service practices. The papers are organized in PAN technologies, and TCP. Field of interest topical sections on e-commerce services, busi- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) ness processes and services, data and knowledge Field of interest engineering, business models and analysis, Web Computer Communication Networks Target groups services, and e-commerce systems. Researchers and professionals Target groups Field of interest Researchers and professionals Discount group Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet) P Discount group Target groups P Researchers and professionals
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H. Legind Larsen, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, M. Lewenstein, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, W. Liu, City University Hong Kong, China; J. Lladós, Denmark; G. Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca, Israel; G. Valiente, Technical University of Catalonia, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain (Eds .) Milano,Italy; D. Ortiz-Arroyo, Aalborg University, Barcelona, Spain (Eds .) Esbjerg, Denmark; T. Andreasen, H. Christiansen, Graphics Recognition. Roskilde University, Denmark (Eds .) Combinatorial Pattern TenYears Review and Future Flexible Query Answering Matching Perspectives Systems 17th Annual Symposium, CPM 2006, 6th International Workshop, GREC 2005, Barcelona, Spain, July 5-7, 2006 Hong Kong, China, August 25-26, 2005, 7th International Conference, FQAS 2006, Proceedings Revised Selected Papers Milan, Italy, June 7-10, 2006
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of This book constitutes the refereed proceeding the 17th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- of the 7th International Conference on Flexible Pattern Matching, CPM 2006, held in Barcelona, proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2006, held Spain in July 2006. The 33 revised full papers Graphics Recognition, GREC 2005, held in Hong in Milan, Italy in June 2006. The 60 revised full presented together with 3 invited talks were care- Kong, China in August 2005. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and fully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. papers presented together with a panel discussion selected from numerous submissions. The papers The papers are organized in topical sections on report were carefully selected and improved during are organized in topical sections on flexibility in data structures, indexing data structures, proba- two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers database management and quering, vagueness bilistic and algebraic techniques, applications in are organized in topical sections on engineering and uncertainty in XML quering and retrieval, molecular biology, string matching, data compres- drawings vectorization and recognition, symbol information retrieval and filtering, multimedia sion, and dynamic programming. recognition, graphic image analysis, structural information access, user modeling and personal- document analysis, sketching and online graphics ization, knowledge and data extraction, intelligent Field of interest recognition, curves and shape processing, and information extraction from text, and knowledge Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity graphics recognition contest results. representation and reasoning. Target groups Field of interest Field of interest Researchers and professionals Image Processing Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Discount group Target groups Target groups P Researchers and professionals Researchers and Professionals Discount group Discount group P P
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I. Maglogiannis, University of Aegean, Greece; M. Morisio, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (Ed .) G. Müller, University of Freiburg, Germany (Ed .) K. Karpouzis, ICCS/NTUA, Greece; M. Bramer, University of Plymouth, UK (Eds .) Reuse of Off-the-Shelf Emerging Trends Artificial Intelligence Components in Information and Applications and Innovations 9th International Conference on Software Communication Security Reuse, ICSR 2006 International Conference, ETRICS 2006, 3rd IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Torino, Italy, June 12-15, 2006, Proceedings Freiburg, Germany, June 6-9, 2006. Applications and Innovations (AIAI), 2006 Proceedings This book constitutes the refered proceedings Artificial Intelligence applications build on a rich of the 9th International Conference on Software and proven theoretical background to provide Reuse, ICSR 2006, held in Torino, Italy, in This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of solutions to a wide range of real life problems. The June 2006. The 27 revised full papers and 13 the International Conference on Emerging Trends ever expanding abundance of information and revised short papers presented were carefully in Information and Communication Security, computing power enables researchers and users reviewed and selected from noumerous submis- ETRICS 2006, held in Freiburg, Germany, in June to tackle higly interesting issues for the first time, sions. The papers are organized in topical sections 2006. The 36 revised full papers presented were such as applications providing personalized access on COTS selection and integration; product lines, carefully reviewed and selected from around and interactivity to multimodal information based domain analysis, and variability; reengineering 180 submissions. The papers are organized in on preferences and semantic concepts or human- maintenance; programming languages and topical sections on multilateral security; security machine interface systems utilizing information retrieval; aspect-oriented software development; in service-oriented computing, secure mobile on the affective state of the user. The purpose of approaches and models; and components. applications; enterprise privacy; privacy, identity, the 3rd IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence and anonymity; security engineering; security poli- Applications and Innovations (AIAI) is to bring Field of interest cies; security protocols; intrusion detection; and together researchers, engineers, and practitioners Software Engineering cryptographic security. interested in the technical advances and business and industrial applications of intelligent systems. Target groups Field of interest AIAI 2006 is focused on providing insights on how Researchers and pofessionals Data Encryption AI can be implemented in real world applications. Discount group Target groups Features P Researchers and professionals 7 Most up-to-date research on Artificial Intel- ligence applications and innovations Discount group P Field of interest Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
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J. Münch, Fraunhofer Institute, Kaiserslautern, L. M. Pinho, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal; R. Reulke, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; Germany; M. Vierimaa, VTT Electronics, Oulu, M. González Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, U. Eckardt, Universität Hamburg, Germany; Finland (Eds .) Santander, Spain (Eds .) B. Flach, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; U. Knauer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; Product-Focused Software Reliable Software K. Polthier, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (Eds .) Process Improvement Technologies - Combinatorial Image Analysis 7th International Conference, PROFES 2006, Ada-Europe 2006 11th International Workshop, IWCIA Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 11th Ada-Europe International Conference 2006, Berlin, Germany, June 19-21, 2006, June 12-14, 2006, Proceedings on Reliable Software Technologies, Porto, Proceedings Portugal, June 5-9, 2006, Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Product- This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Combi- 2006, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in of the 11th International Conference on Reliable natorial Image Analysis, IWCIA 2006, held in June 2006. The 26 revised full papers and 12 Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2006, held Berlin, Germany, in June 2006. The 34 revised full revised short papers presented together with 6 in Porto, Portugal, in June 2006. The 19 revised papers presented together with two invited papers reports on workshops and tutorials were carefully full papers presented were carefully reviewed and were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The selected from numerous submissions. The papers submissions. The topics covered include combi- papers constitute a balanced mix of academic and are organized in topical sections on real-time natorial image analysis; grammars and models for industrial aspects; they are organized in topical systems, static analysis, verification, applications, analysis and recognition of scenes and images; sections on decision support, embedded software reliability, compilers, and distributed systems. combinatorial topology and geometry for images; and system development, measurement, industrial digital geometry of curves and surfaces; algebraic experience, process improvement, agile develop- Field of interest approaches to image processing; image, point ment practices, and product line engineering. Software Engineering clouds or surface registration, as well as fuzzy and probabilistic image analysis. Field of interest Target groups Software Engineering Researchers and professionals Field of interest Image Processing Target groups Discount group Researchers and professionals P Target groups Researchers and professionals Discount group P Discount group P
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H. U. Simon, Ruhr Universtät Bochum, Germany; B. Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland; P. Reichl, Y. Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany; G. Lugosi, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Forschungszentrum Wien, Austria; B. Tuffin, IRISIA/ J. Domingue, The Open University, Milton Keynes, Spain (Eds .) INRIA, Rennes, France (Eds .) UK (Eds .) Learning Theory Performability Has its Price The Semantic Web: Research 19th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, 5th International Workshop on Internet and Applications COLT 2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Charging and QoS Technologies, 3rd European Semantic Web Conference, June 22-25, 2006, Proceedings ICQT 2006, St. Malo, France, June 27, 2006 ESWC 2006 Proceedings Budva, Montenegro, June 11-14, 2006, Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings COLT 2006, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA of the 5th International Workshop on Internet This book constitutes the refereed proceedings in June 2006. The 43 revised full papers presented Charging and QoS Technologies, ICQT 2006, held of the 3rd European Semantic Web Confer- together with 2 articles on open problems and in St. Malo, France, in June 2006 as an associated ence, ESWC 2006, held in Budva, Montenegro in 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and workshop of ACM Sigmetrics / IFIP Performance June 2006. The 48 revised full papers presented selected from a total of 102 submissions. The 2006. The 8 revised full papers presented together together with abstracts of 3 invited talks were papers cover a wide range of topics including clus- with a keynote paper were carefully reviewed and carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 181 tering, un- and semisupervised learning, statistical selected from a total of 27 submissions. The papers submitted papers. The papers are organized in learning theory, regularized learning and kernel are organized in topical sections on economy- topical sections on ontology alignment, engi- methods, query learning and teaching, inductive driven modeling, auctions, peer-to-peer, and neering, evaluation, evolution and learning, rules inference, learning algorithms and limitations on secure billing, thus addressing a highly interesting and reasoning, searching and quering, semantic learning, online aggregation, online prediction and facet of networking research and business model- annotation, semantic web minig and personalisa- reinforcement learning. ling. tion, semantic web services, semantic wiki and blogging, as well as trus and policies. Field of interest Field of interest Computation by Abstract Devices Computer Communication Networks Field of interest Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet) Target groups Target groups Researchers and professionals Researchers and professionals Target groups Researchers and Professionals Discount group Discount group P P Discount group P
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A. M. Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, E. Trauth, Pennsylvania State University, University V. Wade, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; H. Ashman, Austria; L. Xu, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Park, PA, USA; D. Howcroft, University of Manchester, University of Nottingham, UK; B. Smyth, University USA; S. Chaudhry, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, UK; T. Butler, University College Cork, Ireland; College Dublin, Ireland (Eds .) USA (Eds .) B. Fitzgerald, University of Limerick, Ireland; J. DeGross, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Adaptive Hypermedia and Research and Practical Issues MN, USA (Eds .) Adaptive Web-Based Systems of Enterprise Information Social Inclusion: Societal and 4th International Conference, AH 2006, Systems Organizational Implications Dublin, Ireland, June 21-23, 2006, IFIP TC 8 International Conference on for Information Systems Proceedings Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS 2006) IFIP TC8 WG 8.2 International Working Conference, July 12-15, 2006, Limerick, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings April 24-26, 2006, Vienna, Austria of the 4th International Conference on Adaptive Ireland Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2006, held in Dublin, Ireland in June 2006. The The goal of this conference is to build an IFIP 22 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers forum among the different Information Systems Changes in society resulting from the pervasive- presented together with abstracts of 3 keynotes, 12 Communities of the IFIP TC 8 dealing with the ness of information technology have produced poster papers, and 14 doctoral consortium posters increasingly important area of Enterprise Informa- positive and negative, intended and unintended were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 tion Systems. The papers in this volume were consequences. Key among them is the exclusion papers submitted. The papers focus on pioneering selected from a pool of 180 papers from over 30 of individuals − who lack access to technological theories, techniques, and innovative technologies countries. Each paper was thouroughly reviewed resources − from various societal processes and to provide dynamic personalization, adaptation, by at least two qualified reviewers before being services. The theme of this book, social inclusion, and contextualization of hypermedia resources and accepted. As an additional feature of CONFENIS explores the many dimensions of this exclusion. services. the conference organizers invited distinguished This issue has been the focus of much debate scholars to present and discuss special aspects within the social sciences, yet has largely been Field of interest relevant for future applications and research. Such underresearched in the Information Systems field, Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet) special presentations include: Dr. Prof. Gottfried despite our concerns with the social and organi- Vossen (University of Münster, Germany) the zational aspects of technology. To the extent that Target groups director of the European Research Center for contemporary debates have identified access to Researchers and professionals Information Systems’s presentation on service- information as a key component of poverty, digital oriented architecture and Dr. Thomas Li, Director exclusion is seen as the problem. Thus, ICTs are Discount group of IBM China Research Laboratory’s keynote portrayed as either exacerbating exclusion or are P speech on continual business transformation presented as the solution for greater inclusion. technology. Features Features 7 Most current research on the negative and posi- 7 Most current research on Enterprise Informa- tive consequences of the pervasiveness of informa- tion Systems tion technology in society
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K. Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Tech- T. Washio, University of Osaka, Japan; A. Sakurai, H. Wright, University of Hull, UK nology, Trondheim, Norway; G. Kovacs, Technical Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan; K. Nakajima, University of Budapest, Hungary; M. Wozny, Tokyo Denki University, Japan; H. Takeda, National Introduction to Scientific Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA; Institute of Informatics, Toyko, Japan; S. Tojo, Japan M. Fang, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China (Eds .) Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Visualization Ishikawa, Japan; M. Yokoo, Kyushuu University, Knowledge Enterprise: Fukuoka, Japan (Eds .) Intelligent Strategies This is a ‘how to’ book for scientific visualization. New Frontiers in Artificial An introduction on the philosophy of the subject in Product Design, Intelligence sets the scene, showing why visualization works Manufacturing, and and what to aim for when presenting scientific data Joint JSAI 2005 Workshop Post-Proceedings visually - different software architectures for visu- Management alization are covered briefly. The theory of colour Proceedings of PROLAMAT 2006, IFIP TC5, perception and its value and use for conveying International Conference, June 15-17 2006, This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint information about data is introduced. Next, using Shanghai, China post-proceedings of five international workshops Brodlie’s taxonomy to underpin its core chapters, it organized by the Japanese Society for Artificial is shown how to classify data, choose a technique Intelligence, held in Kitakyushu City, Japan, in that’s appropriate for its visualization, and alerts This volume contains the edited version of the June 2005, during the 19th Annual Conference the reader to some of the pitfalls. Worked examples technical presentations of PROLMAT 2006, the JSAI 2005. The volume starts with 5 award winning are given throughout the text and there are prac- IFIP TC5 international conference held on June papers of the JSAI 2005 main conference that are tical ‘sidebars’ - virtual laboratory classes for those 15-17, 2006 at the Shanghai University in China. presented along with the 40 revised full workshop readers with access to the IRIS Explorer software Profitability is no longer only a function of price, papers, carefully reviewed and selected from the who can try out the demonstrations on an accom- cost, and adequate quality. The way sustained five co-located international workshops for inclu- panying website. The book concludes with a ’taster’ competitive advantage relates to a firm is distinc- sion in the volume. The workshop papers cover of ongoing research, including the move towards tive and it is difficult to replicate competencies. The topics from areas such as logic and engineering large-scale displays, visualization for computa- basis for a firm’s core competencies is its repository of natural language semantics (LENLS 2005), tional steering and collaborative visualization. of organizational knowledge. This is highly-valued learning with logics and logics for learning (LLLL knowledge that provides opportunities for adding 2005), agent network dynamics and intelligence Features exclusive value to products and services of an (ANDI 2005), conversational informatics (CI 7 SciViz has not been covered in an approach- enterprise. Knowledge strategy will be related to 2005) and risk management systems with intel- able form (other than in compilations of research innovation, learning, and agility. ligent data analysis (RMSIDA 2005). papers) since Brodlie’s seminal work „Scientific Visualization: Techniques and Applications“ in Features Field of interest 1992 7 This book does not treat the subject as a 7 Most up-to-date research on strategies for Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) subset of information visualisation, but rather as a product design, manufacturing, and management subject in its own right Target groups Field of interest Researchers and professionals Contents Computer Hardware Introduction.- Potential and Pitfalls.- Models Discount group and Software.- Colour in Scientific Visualiza- Target groups P tion.- Choosing Techniques.- Visualizing Researchers and practitioners in product design, Scalars.- Visualizing Vectors.- Bibliography and manufacturing, and management Further Reading.- References.- Solutions.- Useful Information Discount group P Field of interest Computer Graphics
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A. Yli-Jyrä, University of Helsinke, Finland; J. X. Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China; J. Zhou, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; L. Kattunen, Stanford University, CA, USA; M. Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan; M. Yung, Columbia University, NY, USA; F. Bao, Insti- J. Karhumäki, University of Turku, Finland (Eds .) H. V. Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China tute for Infocomm Research, Singapore (Eds .) (Eds .) Finite-State Methods and Applied Cryptography and Natural Language Processing Advances in Web-Age Network Security 5th International Workshop, FSMNLP 2005, Information Management 4th International Conference, ACNS 2006, Helsinki, Finland, September 1-2, 2005, 7th International Conference, WAIM 2006, Singapore, June 6-9, 2006, Proceedings Revised Papers Hong Kong, China, June 17-19, 2006, Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post- of the 4th International Conference on Applied proceedings of the 5th International Workshop This book constitutes the refereed proceedings Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2006, on Finite-State Methods in Natural Language of the 7th International Conference on Web-Age held in Singapore in June 2006. The 33 revised Processing, FSMNLP 2005, held in Helsinki, Information Management, WAIM 2006, held in full papers presented were carefully reviewed and Finland in September 2005. The 24 revised full Hong Kong, China in June 2006. The 50 revised selected from 218 submissions. The papers are papers and 7 revised poster papers presented full papers presented were carefully reviewed organized in topical sections on intrusion detec- together with 2 invited contributions and the and selected from 290 submissions. The papers tion and avoidance, cryptographic applications, abstracts of 6 software demos were selected from are organized in topical sections on, indexing, DoS attacks and countermeasures, key manage- 50 submissions and have gone through two rounds XML query processing, information retrieval, ment, cryptanalysis, security of limited devices, of reviewing and improvement. The papers address sensor networks and grid computing, peer-to-peer cryptography, authentication and Web security, various topics in morphology, optimality theory, systems, Web services, Web searching, caching ad-hoc and sensor network security, cryptographic some special FSM families, weighted FSM algo- and moving objects, temporal database, clus- constructions, and security and privacy. rithms, FSM representations, exploration, ordered tering, clustering and classification, data mining, structures, and surface parsing. data stream processing, XML and semistructured Field of interest data, data distribution and query processing, and Data Encryption Field of interest advanced applications. Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) Target groups Field of interest Researchers and professionals Target groups Database Management Researchers and professionals Discount group Target groups P Discount group Researchers and professionals P Discount group P
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M. Endo, Hirosaki University, Japan; K. Yamamoto, H. Jhoti, Astex Therapeutics, Cambridge, UK; D. Micha, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA; Kyoto University, Japan; K. Takagaki, Hirosaki A. Leach, GlaxoSmithKline, UK (Eds .) I. Burghardt, École Normale Superieure, Paris, France University, Japan; S. Hase, Osaka University, Japan (Eds .) (Eds .) Structure-based Drug Discovery Quantum Dynamics of Endoglycosidases – Complex Molecular Systems Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Application Structure-based drug discovery methods have been transformed in the last 5-10 years and are now Quantum phenomena are ubiquitous in complex having a major impact on the discovery of new molecular systems - as revealed by many This reference book features the characteization drugs. Some of the most exciting developments experimental observations based upon ultrafast and application of endoglycosidases. Endogly- in the field, such as Fragment-based methods, spectroscopic techniques - and yet remain a chal- cosidases are highly convenient enzymes and are described in this book. The book describes lenge for theoretical analysis. The present volume indispensable tools in the field of glycotechnology the latest developments in technologies that can examines and reviews the state-of-the-art in the as they can separate both intact oligosaccharide be used to obtain the 3-D structures including development of new theoretical and computational chains and proteins or lipids from glycoconjugates the high profile structural genomics approaches methods to interpret the observed phenomena. under mild conditions without causing damage, being utilised worldwide. The use of 3-D protein Emphasis is on complex molecular processes and as they can synthesize oligosaccharides and structures in new, Fragment-based, approaches to involving surfaces, clusters, solute-solvent systems, neoglycoconjugates by their specific activities. The drug discovery are described in some detail. This materials, and biological systems. Due to the monograph, which covers most of the endogly- book includes experimental approaches using X- many facets of dynamical behaviors, ranging from cosidases that act on glycoconjugates, is authored ray crystallography and NMR for Fragment-based coherent quantum phenomena to nonequilib- mainly by those researchers who discovered them. screening as well as other biophysical methods for rium evolution of the environment, the quantum To assist students in obtaining a better under- studying protein/ligand interactions. In addition, dynamics of molecular systems has become standing of the enzymes, the book also provides a developments in computational chemistry meth- one of the most challenging and active areas of general introduction to sugars and enzymes as well odology are covered together with an assessment molecular science. The research summarized in as the stories of their discovery. of practical applications. this book shows that much can be done to explain phenomena in systems excited by light or through Field of interest Features atomic interactions, extending from the molecular Organic Chemistry 7 Key authors 7 Describes some of the most scale to nanoscales and even to macroscopic exciting developments for the discovery of new dimensions. Target groups drugs, such as Fragment-based methods Researchers and graduate students in organic From the contents chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacy, medicinal Contents I. Complex Molecular Phenomena.- I.1 Condensed chemitry, food technology molecular medicine and Five Years of Increasing Structural Biology Matter and Surface Phenomena.- Photoexcitation agrobusiness Throughput.- A Retrospective Analysis.- Protein Dynamics on the Nanoscale: O. Prezhdo, W.R. Production For Structural Genomics.- Strategies Duncan, C.F. Craig, S.V. Kilina, and B.F. Haben- Discount group for the Next Phase.- Introduction to Fragment icht.- Ultrafast Exciton Dynamics in Molecular P Screening.- Fragment-based NMR Screening in Systems: B. Bruggemann, D. Tsivlin, and V. Lead Discovery.- Fragment-based Screening by May.- Exciton and Charge Transfer Dynamics in X-Ray Crystallography.- Scaffold-based Drug Polymer Semiconductors: E.R. Bittner and J.G.S. Discovery.- Biophysical Methods.- Illustration Ramon.- Dynamics of Resonant Electron Transfer of Current Challenges in Molecular Docking.- in the Interaction Between an Atom and a Metallic Scoring Functions. Surface: J.P. Gauyacq and A.G. Borisov.- I.2 From Multidimensional Dynamics to Dissipative Field of interest Phenomena.- Nonadiabatic Quantum Dynamics Medicinal Chemistry at Symmetry-Allowed Conical Intersections: H. Koeppel.- Non-Markovian Dynamics at a Conical Target groups Intersection: Ultrafast Excited-State Processes in Medicinal chemists in industry, Computational the Presence of an Environment: I. Burghardt chemists, Drug discovery scientists, Postgraduates in chemistry or structural biology Field of interest Physical Chemistry Discount group P Target groups Researchers
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Chemicals as Intentional D. Schomburg, I. Schomburg (Eds .) Series editors: J. M. Brown, P. Dixneuf, A. Fürstner, L. S. Hegedus, P. Hofmann, P. Knochel, G. v. Koten, and Accidental Global Volume 31 S. Murai, M. Reetz Environmental Threats Volume 20 Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study D. Schomburg, I. Schomburg, Universität zu Köln, Germany (Eds .) Institute on Chemicals as Intentional and L. H. Gade (Ed .) Accidental Global Environmental Threats, Class 2 Transferases IV held in Borovetz, Bulgaria, Dendrimer Catalysis 16-27 November 2005 EC 2.4.1.1 - 2.4.1.89 Coeditor: A. Chang Since the first application of dendrimers in The main aim of the book is to perform a critical catalysis in the mid 1990s, this field has advanced assessment of the existing knowledge of chemical The objective of the Springer Handbook of rapidly. As a consequence, catalytically active threats to environmental security with special Enzymes is to provide in concise form data on dendrimers have emerged as a class of molecular reference to the prevention of chemical releases, enzymes sufficiently well characterized. Data catalysts that has substantially enriched the field rapid detection, risk assessment and effective sheets are arranged in their EC-Number sequence. of homogeneous (and in part heterogeneous) management of emergency situations and long- The volumes are arranged according to enzyme catalysis. A general survey of transition metal term consequences of chemical releases. The tech- classes. Considerable progress has been made dendrimer catalysts and the way they have nologies that are evaluated concern prevention and in enzymology since the publication of the first developed is followed by in-depth discussions management of both intentional and accidental edition (published as “Enzyme Handbook”): many of dendritic transition metal catalysis based on releases of chemicals in the environment. The enzymes are newly classified or reclassified. In the non-covalent catalyst-support interaction and an participation of contributors from different scien- 2nd edition each entry is correlated with references overview of the rapidly growing field of stereose- tific fields and young scientists allows for a multi- and one or more source organisms. New datafields lective dendrimer catalysis. The development of media focus covering threats to food, air, water are created: “application” and “engineering” (for dendrimer-encapsulated bimetallic nanoparticles and soil. The experience of renowned authors and the properties of enzymes where the sequence has has provided the interface with heterogeneous young scientists‘ ideas in this field contribute to been changed). Altogether the amount of data colloid catalysis. As cheaper and readily accessible the finding answers to critical questions and to the has doubled so that the 2nd edition will consist alternatives to regular dendrimers, hyperbranched identification of the future research needs and new of approx. 42 volumes. This collection is an indis- polymers are increasingly being used as catalyst approaches in management and structuring of the pensable source of information for researchers platforms. These topics are complemented by a preventive systems and methodologies. in biochemistry, biotechnology, organic and review of metallodendritic exoreptors for the redox analytical chemistry, and food sciences. recognition of oxo-anions and halides. Features 7 Presents the experience of 63 experts in chem- Features Features istry and environmental studies from 17 countries 7 Concise and complete description of about 7 Provides the broad scientific readership with and 4 continents 7 Topics include: 7 Problems 3,700 enzymes sufficiently well characterized for comprehensive summary and critical overview of of global chemical pollution application in analytical, synthetic and biotech- a topic in organometallic chemistry 7 Research nology processes as well as in food industry in this rapidly developing transdisciplinary field is Field of interest 7 Second edition is totally new 7 Content has having profound influence on other areas of scien- Safety in Chemistry, Dangerous Goods doubled 7 Academic researchers will prefer the tific investigation, ranging from catalytic organic print version synthesis to biology, medicine and material science Target groups Chemists, environmental specialists, public health, Field of interest Field of interest epidemiology, security and prevention specialists, Biochemistry, general Organometallic Chemistry students in chemistry and chemical engineering and technology Target groups Target groups Industrial and academic research Academic and industrial researchers in organo- Discount group metallics, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, P Discount group pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry P Discount group P
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A. Abraham, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea; J. Angeles, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada M. Aziz-Alaoui, C. Bertelle, University of Le Havre, C. Grosan, Babes-Bolyai University, Napoca, Romania; France (Eds .) V. Ramos, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Fundamentals of Robotic (Eds .) Mechanical Systems Emergent Properties in Natural and Artificial Stigmergic Optimization Theory, Methods, and Algorithms Dynamical Systems
Biologists studied the behavior of social insects for Modern robotics dates from the late 1960s, when a long time. After millions of years of evolution progress in the development of microprocessors An important part of the science of complexity is all these species have developed incredible solu- made possible the computer control of a multiaxial the study of emergent properties arising through tions for a wide range of problems. The intelligent manipulator. Since then, robotics has evolved to dynamical processes in various types of natural solutions to problems naturally emerge from the connect with many branches of science and engi- and artificial systems. This is the aim of this book, self-organization and indirect communication neering, and to encompass such diverse fields as which is the outcome of a discussion meeting of these individuals. Indirect interactions occur computer vision, artificial intelligence, and speech within the first European conference on complex between two individuals when one of them modi- recognition. This book deals with robots - such systems. It presents multidisciplinary approaches fies the environment and the other responds to the as remote manipulators, multifingered hands, for getting representations of complex systems new environment at a later time. Such an interac- walking machines, flight simulators, and machine and using different methods to extract emergent tion is an example of ‘stigmergy’. This book deals tools - that rely on mechanical systems to perform structures. This carefully edited book studies with the application of stigmergy for a variety of their tasks. It aims to establish the foundations emergent features such as self organization, optimization problems. This volume comprises 12 on which the design, control and implementa- synchronization, opening on stability and robust- chapters including an introductory chapter giving tion of the underlying mechanical systems are ness properties. Invariant techniques are presented the fundamental definitions, inspirations and some based. The treatment assumes familiarity with which can express global emergent properties in research challenges. some calculus, linear algebra, and elementary dynamical and in temporal evolution systems. This mechanics; however, the elements of rigid-body book demonstrates how artificial systems such as Features mechanics and of linear transformations are a distributed platform can be used for simulation 7 Reports recent research results on Stigmergic reviewed in the first chapters, making the presenta- used to search emergent placement during simula- Organization tion self-contained. An extensive set of exercises is tion execution. included. Field of interest Features Appl. Mathematics/Computational Methods of Features 7 Devoted to emergent properties arising through Engineering 7 Addresses a broad spectrum of robots - walking dynamical processes in various types of natural machines, flight simulators, machine tools and and artificial systems 7 Presents multidisci- Target groups more – that rely on mechanical systems 7 Covers plinary approaches for getting representations of Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in trajectory planning; determination of angular complex systems and using different methods to Computational Intelligence velocity and angular acceleration from point data; extract emergent structures 7 Special attention inverse and direct kinematics manipulators; kine- is paid to bio-complexity where global emergent Discount group matics and dynamics of rolling robots, and more properties can be detected P Contents Field of interest An Overview of Robotic Mechanical Systems.- Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control Mathematical Background.- Fundamentals of Rigid-Body Mechanics.- Geometry of Decoupled Target groups Serial Robots.- Kinetostatics of Serial Robots.- Scientists and researchers in Complex Systems/ Trajectory Planning: Pick-and-Place Operations.- Nonlinear Dynamics Dynamics of Serial Robotic Manipulators.- Special Topics in Rigid-Body Kinematics.- Geometry of Discount group General Serial Robots.- Kinematics of Alternative P Robotic Mechanical Systems.- Trajectory Plan- ning: Continuous-Path Operations.- Dynamics of Comples Robotic Mechanical Systems.
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S. Balachandar, University of Florida, Gainesville, F. D. Bianchi, H. De Battista, R. J. Mantz, Univer- M. Burton, GreenSocs Ltd ., France; A. Morawiec, USA; A. Prosperetti, The Johns Hopkins University, sidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina ECSI, Grenoble, France (Eds .) Baltimore, MD, USA (Eds .) Wind Turbine Control Systems Platform Based Design at the IUTAM Symposium on Principles, Modelling and Gain Scheduling Electronic System Level Computational Approaches to Design Industry Perspectives and Experiences Multiphase Flow Proceedings of an IUTAM Symposium held at Argonne National Laboratory, October 4-7, The higher complexity of variable-speed variable- “Platform Based Design at the Electronic System pitch turbines is offset by the benefits of control Level” presents a multi-faceted view of the set of 2004 flexibility: higher conversion efficiency, better problems that the electronic industry currently power quality, longer useful life; because of the faces in the development and integration of immediate impact of control on the cost of wind complex heterogeneous systems (including both The book provides a broad overview of the full energy, reliable high-performance controllers are hardware and software components). It analyses spectrum of state-of-the-art computational activi- essential in making wind technology competitive. and proposes solutions related to the provision ties in multiphase flow as presented by top practi- In “Wind Turbine Control Systems” the application of integration platforms by SoC and IP providers tioners in the field. Starting with well-established of linear parameter varying (LPV) gain scheduling in light of the needs and requirements expressed approaches (point-particle models, volume-of- techniques to the control of wind energy conver- by the system companies: they are the users of fluid, level set, and front capturing for free-surface sion systems is emphasised. This reformulation such platforms which they apply to develop their flows) it builds up to newer methods for large-eddy of the classical gain scheduling problem allows next generation products. Further, the book tries simulations, extended particles in Navier-Stokes a straightforward design procedure and simple to draw a comprehensive picture of the current flows, the lattice-Boltzmann method, molecular controller implementation. The monograph “interfaces” between the platform providers and dynamics techniques and compressible flows with includes coverage of: - an overview of the prin- users, defined by technical requirements, current shock waves. These methods are illustrated with ciples of wind energy conversion; - the control- design methodology and flows, standards, and applications to a broad spectrum of problems oriented modelling of wind turbines; - an in-depth finally by the business context and relationships involving particle dispersion and deposition, analysis of the most common control strategies; (which should not to be underestimated). turbulence modulation, environmental flows, - the design of LPV gain-scheduled controllers for fluidized beds, bubbly flows, and many others. both fixed- and variable-pitch, variable-speed wind Features turbines. 7 The first academic / industrial book published Features on ESL 7 Unique view on the stat-of-the-art 7 Computational approaches from atomistic to Features platform modelling and provision 7 System environmental scale discussed 7 State-of-the- 7 Details control of variable-pitch turbines for developer, platform provider and EDA perspec- art in computational multiphase flow methods as increased cost efficiency, better power quality and tives discussed described by many of the world’s top practitioners longer life 7 Takes advantage of gain scheduling 7 Lattice Boltzmann and molecular dynamics techniques to linearise and simplify control design Contents simulations for multiphase flows 7 Wide range of 7 Use of widely available control algorithms Foreword: Enabling Platform-Based Design; G. applications makes the practical control of wind turbines Martin.- The need for Standards; M. Burton, A. straightforward Morawiec.- Programmable Platform Characteriza- Field of interest tion for System Level Performance Analysis; D. Engineering Fluid Dynamics Field of interest Densmore, A. Donlin, A. Sangiovanni-Vincen- Control Engineering telli.-Use of SystemC Modelling in Creation and Target groups Use of an SOC Platform: Experiences and Lessons Academic and industrial researchers in chemical, Target groups Learnt from OMAP-2; J. Aldis.- What’s next for energy (conventional and nuclear), civil, mechan- Academics and graduate students researching Transaction Level Models: The standardization and ical, aeronautical and environmental engineering, renewable energy systems; control researchers deployment era; L. Maillet-Contoz.- The configu- with a main interest in multiphase flow (solid-fluid looking to expand their knowledge of turbines in rable processor view of platform provision; Grant and gas-liquid processes); graduate students in general and wind power in particular; prac- Martin.- Peripheral Modeling for Platform Driven these and related disciplines; technical, industrial tising engineers working in the electricity supply ESL Design; T. Kogel.- Quantitative Embedded and university libraries industry; libraries System Architecture and Performance Analysis; G.R. Hellestrand. Discount group Discount group P Field of interest P Circuits and Systems
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R. Castro-López, F. Fernández, O. Guerra-Vinuesa, S. Chen, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; C. Commault, N. Marchand, Laboratoire Á. Rodríguez-Vázquez, University of Seville, Spain Y. Hsieh, Muchip, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan d‘Automatique de Grenoble, Saint-Martin d‘Heres, France (Eds .) Re-Use Based Methodologies IQ Calibration Techniques for and Tools in the Design of CMOS Radio Tranceivers Positive Systems Analog and Mixed-Signal Proceedings of the second Multidisciplinary Integrated Circuits International Symposium on Positive In the market of wireless communication, high Systems: Theory and Applications (POSTA 06) data-rate transmission and high spectral effi- Grenoble, France, Aug. 30-31, Sept. 1, 2006 ciency have been the trend. The IEEE 802.11 a/g Aiming at the core of the problem, Re-Use Based standards working at 5GHz/2.4GHz ISM bands Methodologies and Tools in the Design of Analog can support data rate up to 54Mbits/s using Positive Systems are dynamic systems in which and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits presents OFDM modulation. The newly proposed 802.11n the relevant variables assume nonnegative values. a framework for the reuse-based design of AMS technology now uses 64-QAM to achieve higher These systems are quite common in applications circuits. The framework is founded on three key spectral efficiency. The DVB and many other where variables represent positive quantities such elements: (1) a CAD-supported hierarchical design systems will also use QAM for its data transmis- as populations, consumption of goods, densi- flow that facilitates the incorporation of AMS sion. The cost of achieving this higher spectral ties of chemical species, probabilities etc. The reusable blocks, reduces the overall design time, efficiency using higher order QAM is that the development of theoretical models which take and expedites the management of increasing AMS transmitter and receiver requires a higher signal to into account this positivity requirement has been design complexity; (2) a complete, clear definition noise ratio (SNR) with the same level of error rate a very active field of research for a long time. This of the AMS reusable block, structured into three performance (relative to a baseline BPSK, QPSK volume contains the contributions for The Second separate facets or views: the behavioral, struc- and other systems). One of the dominant vectors Multidisciplinary Symposium on Positive Systems: tural, and layout facets, the first two for top-down on SNR degradation is I/Q image rejection (I/Q Theory and Applications (POSTA06) held in electrical synthesis and bottom-up verification, the gains and phases imbalance). Grenoble, France, August 30-31 and September latter used during bottom-up physical synthesis; 1, 2006. Theses contributions cover several (3) the design for reusability set of tools, methods, Features theoretical issues (stability, control properties, ...) and guidelines that, relying on intensive param- 7 Describes a fully-analog compensation tech- concerning the models of positive systems as well eterization as well as on design knowledge capture nique on I/Q mismatches 7 A detailed descrip- as many application papers in the fields of biology, and encapsulation, allows to produce fully reusable tion on 802.11g transceiver design 7 Circuits communication systems, etc. AMS blocks. re-use on RX/TX to reduce the chip area Features Features From the contents 7 Contains the contributions for The Second 7 Thorough analysis of the design gap problem, List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Abbreviations. Multidisciplinary Symposium on Positive Systems: the current status of analog and mixed-signal Preface. Acknowledgments.- 1. Introduction.- Theory and Applications (POSTA06) held in design methodologies, and the reasons backing up 2. Transceiver Architecture Design.- 3. I/Q Modu- Grenoble, France, August 30-31 and September 1, a paradigm shift 7 Complete coverage of analog lator And Demodulator Design.- 4. An Auto-I/Q 2006 and mixed-signal design automation, incorpo- Calibrated Modulator.- 5. An Auto-I/Q Calibrated rating the concept of reuse-based design in a flow Demodulator.- 6. System Measurement Result.- Field of interest aiming at bridging of the design gap 7. Conclusion.- References. Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control
From the contents Field of interest Target groups Preface.- 1: Introduction.- 2: A Reuse-Based Circuits and Systems Researchers and control engineers working in Design Framework For Analog Ics.- 3: The Analog multidisciplinary fields such as Telecommuni- Reusable Block: Behavioral Facet.- 4: The Analog Target groups cations, Biomedicine, Economy, Chemistry or Reusable Block: Structural Facet.- 5: The Analog RF transceiver designers, RF IC designers, RF Physics Reusable Block: Layout Facet.- 6: Design Examples system designers, analog IC designers, and And Silicon Prototype.- 7: Layout-Aware Circuit graduate level students in analog / RF degree Discount group Sizing.- Appendix A: Analog And Mixed-Signal P Layout Rules.- References. Discount group P Field of interest Circuits and Systems
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J. Curty, M. Declercq, C. Dehollain, N. Joehl, École P. Dasgupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland Kharagpur, India Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) (Ed .) Design and Optimization of A Roadmap for Formal Offshore Wind Energy Passive UHF RFID Systems Property Verification Research on Environmental Impacts
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is an Integrating formal property verification (FPV) into The accompanying ecological research for using automatic identification method, relying on storing an existing design process raises several interesting wind energy in the German North and Baltic and remotely retrieving data using devices called questions. Have I written enough properties? Seas as a part of series of research projects in the RFID tags or transponders. An RFID tag is a small Have I written a consistent set of properties? What German Government’s Investment Programme for object that can be attached to or incorporated into should I do when the FPV tool runs into capacity the Future has brought out multiplicity of results a product, animal or person. RFID tag contains issues? This book develops the answers to these over possible effects of the marine environment. antenna to enable it to receive and respond to questions and fits them into a roadmap for formal This book provides an overview of the state of the Radio-Frequency (RF) queries from an RFID property verification – a roadmap that shows accompanying ecological research in Germany. The reader or interrogator. Passive tags require no how to glue FPV technology into the traditional main objective of the book is to show the relevance internal power source, whereas active tags require validation flow. A Roadmap for Formal Property of the new results and realizations of the research a power source. As of today (2005), the ubiquitous Verification explores the key issues in this powerful projects for the planning and permission process computing and ambient intelligence ideas are technology through simple examples – you do not for offshore wind energy plants. making their way. In order for these to become a need any background on formal methods to read reality, a number of key technologies are required. most parts of this book. Features Briey, these technologies need to be sensitive, 7 Only compendium of the research efforts of the responsive, interconnected, contextualised, trans- Features German Federal Republic for the development of parent and intelligent. RFID is such a technology 7 FPV methods - presented conceptually offshore wind energy that summarizes the main and more particularly passive RFID tags. But, in 7 Architecting assertion suites with System findings of German accompanying research order to deliver the necessary characteristics that Verilog Assertions 7 Formal verification could trigger ambient intelligence, there are some coverage 7 Consistency issues in formal specifi- From the contents challenges that need to be addressed. cations 7 Design Intent Coverage 7 Intelligent Expanding Offshore Wind Energy Use in test generation from formal specifications Germany: Offshore Wind Energy Use.- Strategy Features of the German Government.- Legal Framework 7 Proposes a linear two-port model for an N- From the contents Conditions for the Licensing of Offshore Wind stage modified-Greinacher full wave rectifier 1. Introduction.- 2. Languages for Temporal Prop- Farms.- Protection of the Marine Nature and 7 Two-port parameters values are computed for erties.- 3. How does the property checker work?- Environment.- Ecological Research Initiated by particular input voltages and output currents for 4. Is my specification consistent?- 5. Have I written the German Federal Government in the North the complete N-stage rectifier circuit using only enough properties?- 6. Design Intent Coverage.- and Baltic Seas.- Research on Marine Mammals: the measured I-V and C-V characteristics of a 7. Test Generation Games.- 8. A Roadmap for Background.- Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena single diode 7 Presents an experimental proce- Formal Property Verification.- 9. References. phocoena): Investigation of Density, Distribu- dure to measure how the impedance modulation at tion Patterns, Habitat Use and Acoustics in the the tag side affects the signal at the reader Field of interest German North and Baltic Seas.- Distribution of Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Harbour Seals in the German Bight in Relation Contents Design to Offshore Wind Power Plants.- Research on Introduction.- Wireless Power Transmission.- Marine Mammals - Summary and Discussion of Analysis of the Modified-Greinacher Rectifier.- Target groups Research Results.- Research on Bird Migration: Introduction to RFID.- Backscattering architecture Design verification engineers responsible for Background.- Bird Migration and Offshore Wind and modulation type choice.- Backscattering complex chip and system designs: CPRs, DSPs, Turbines.- Research on Resting and Breeding modulation analysis.- RFID Tag design.- High network processors, graphic processors and Birds: Background.- Possible Conflicts between frequency interrogator architecture and analysis.- the SoCs that use them and Electronic Design Offshore Wind Farms and Seabirds in the German Conclusion.- Appendix.- Bibliography. Automation (EDA) companies developing the Sectors of North Sea and Baltic Sea. next generation of CAD tools for formal design Field of interest verification Field of interest Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering Renewable Energy Sources Discount group Target groups P Target groups Researchers in the RF and circuits field Libraries, institutes, researchers, scientists, graduate students Discount group P Discount group P
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L. Gavrilovska, University Sts . Kiril and Metodij, I. Guyon, S. Gunn, M. Nikravesh, L. A. Zadeh (Eds .) H. Hashemian, AMS, Knoxville, TN, USA Skopje, Macedonia; R. Prasad, CTIF, Aalborg Univer- sity, Denmark Feature Extraction Maintenance of Process Ad-Hoc Networking Towards Foundations and Applications Instrumentation in Nuclear Seamless Communications Power Plants This book is both a reference for engineers and scientists and a teaching resource, featuring The resurgence of the nuclear power industry at a Ad-Hoc Networking Towards Seamless Communi- tutorial chapters and research papers on feature time when the nuclear plant I and C workforce is cations is dedicated to an area that attracts growing extraction. Its CD-ROM includes the data of the diminishing due to aging and retirements has been interest in academia and industry and concentrates NIPS 2003 Feature Selection Challenge and sample the motivation for writing this book. This book on wireless ad hoc networking paradigm. The Matlab® code. compiles 30 years of practical knowledge gained persistent efforts to acquire the ability to establish 7 This book compiles some very promising tech- by the author and his staff in testing the I and C dynamic wireless connections from anywhere niques, coming from an extremely smart collec- systems of nuclear power plants around the world. to anyone with any device without prerequisite tion of researchers, delivering their best ideas in It focuses on process temperature and pressure imbedded infrastructure move the communi- a competitive environment 7 Trevor Hastie, sensors and the verification of these sensors’ cations boundaries towards ad-hoc networks. Stanford University calibration and response time. In spite of great Recently, ad hoc networking has attracted growing 7 Feature selection is a key technology for making advances in electronics, computers, and measure- interest due to advances in wireless communica- sense of the high dimensional data. Isabelle Guyon ment technologies, important process parame- tions, and developed framework for running et al. have done a splendid job in designing a ters such as temperature and pressure are still IP based protocols. The expected degree of challenging competition, and collecting the lessons measured with conventional sensing techniques penetration of these networks will depend on the learned 7 Bernhard Schoelkopf, Max Planck found in RTDs, thermocouples, and conventional successful resolution of key features and problems. Institute pressure and differential pressure sensors. Further- more, no improved technology providing compa- Features Features rable performance is currently on the horizon. 7 Addresses many complex and open problems 7 Features the results of the NIPS 2003 workshop Therefore, it is important to understand how these for researchers in the field of ad hoc networks on feature extraction sensors function and the testing techniques for 7 Reveals the state-of-the-art in wireless ad hic verifying their performance. networking 7 Discusses some of the key research Contents topics that are expected to promote and accelerate Part I: Fundamentals in feature extraction.- Features the commercial application of these networks General introduction.- Learning machines.- 7 Training course for I and C/ maintenance 7 Presents “killer applications” Assessment methods.- Filter methods.- Search engineers in power, process, chemical, and other strategies for wrapper methods.- Embedded industries 7 Summarizes all the scattered literature From the contents methods.- Information theoretic methods.- in this field 7 Written by an experienced industrial 1: Introduction.- 2: Basic Concepts.- 3: Multiple Bayesian and ensemble methods.- Feature expert Access And Routing.- 4: Cross-Layer Opti- construction.- Learning theory of feature mization.- 5: Quality Of Services.- 6: Service selection.- Part II: Advances in feature selection Contents Discovery.- 7: Mobility.- 8: Security In Ad Hoc and applications.- Part III: Advances in feature Introduction.- Origins of this Book.- Maintenance Networks.- 9: Towards Seamless Communications. construction and applications.- Part IV: Other of Nuclear Plant Instrumentation.- Nuclear Plant related topics. Temperature Instrumentation.- Cross-Calibration Field of interest Techniques.- Response-Time Testing of RTDs and Electronic and Computer Engineering Field of interest Thermocouples.- Nuclear Plant Pressure Transmit- Appl. Mathematics/Computational Methods of ters.- Characteristics of Pressure Sensing Lines.- Target groups Engineering Measurement of Pressure Sonsor and Sensing-Line Master students, Ph.D. candidates, researchers Dynamics.- On-Line Detection of Sensing Line from academia and industries, educators and key Target groups Problems. technocrats Graduate students, researchers in Computer Science, Business, Engineering Field of interest Discount group Power Engineering P Discount group P Target groups Engineers and operators of powerplants
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R. Helmig, B. I. Wohlmuth, University of Stuttgart, A. Hirose, The University of Tokyo, Japan M. V. Iordache, LeTourneau University, Longview, Germany (Eds .) TX, USA; P. J. Antsaklis, University of Notre Dame, Complex-Valued Neural IN, USA Multifield Problems in Solid Networks and Fluid Mechanics Supervisory Control of Concurrent Systems This book is the first monograph ever on complex- A Petri Net Structural Approach Features valued neural networks, which lends itself to 7 Gives an overview of the research projects graduate and undergraduate courses in electrical within the SFB 404 „Mehrfeldprobleme in der engineering, informatics, control engineering, Increasing complexity in engineering projects Kontinuumsmechanik“ mechanics, robotics, bioengineering, and other raises difficult challenges in industry and requires relevant fields. It is useful for those beginning their effective tools for correct-by-construction design Field of interest studies, for instance, adaptive signal processing or design verification. This book addresses the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics for highly functional sensing and imaging, control design of such tools for correct-by-construction in unknown and changing environment, brain- synthesis of supervisors for systems and specifica- Target groups like information processing, robotics inspired tions represented in the discrete-event frame- Researchers and graduate students in applied by human neural systems, and interdisciplinary work. The approach employed uses Petri nets as mechanics and civil engineering studies to realize comfortable society. It is also discrete-event models and structural methods helpful to those who carry out research and for the synthesis of supervisors, and may lead to Discount group development regarding new products and services significant computational benefits. Highlighting P at companies. recent progress in the design of supervisors by structural methods, the book represents a novel Features contribution to the field. One of the main features 7 First monograph ever on complex-valued of the presentation is the demonstration that struc- neural networks tural methods can address a variety of supervisor specifications under diverse supervision settings. From the contents Part I Basic Ideas and Fundamentals: Why are Features complex-valued neural networks inevitable?- 7 Highlighting recent progress in the design of Complex-valued neural networks fertilize supervisors by structural methods, the book repre- electronics.- Neural networks: The characteristic sents a novel contribution to the field viewpoints.- Complex-valued neural networks: 7 A focus on both theory and practice: formal Distinctive features.- Constructions and dynamics proofs are provided in a sound mathematical of neural networks.- Part II Applications: How setting to guarantee performance and correctness; wide are the application fields?- Land-surface at the same time, the authors have worked out the classification with unevenness and reflectance relevant details to ensure the methods are ready to taken into consideration.- Adaptive radar system implement in software to visualize antipersonnel plastic landmines.- Removal of phase singular points to create digital From the contents elevation map.- Lightwave associative memory Preface.- Symbols.- Introduction.- An Introduc- that memorizes and recalls information depending tion to Petri Nets.- The Supervision of Petri Nets.- on optical-carrier frequency.- Adaptive optical- Enforcing General Specifications.- Decentralized phase equalizer.- Developmental learning with Supervision of Petri Nets.- Deadlock and Liveness behavioral-mode tuning by carrier-frequency Properties of Petri Nets. modulation.- Field of interest Field of interest Control Engineering Appl. Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering Target groups Graduate students, control, design, electrical and Target groups computer engineers, applied mathematicians Engineers, researchers, and graduate students in Computational Intelligence Discount group P Discount group P
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M. S. Konsta-Gdoutos, Democritus University of S. K. Kourkoulis, National Technical University of E. Lamballais, R. Friedrich, B. J. Geurts, O. Métais Thrace, Xanthi, Greece (Ed .) Athens, Zografou, Greece (Ed .) (Eds .) Measuring, Monitoring and Fracture and Failure of Direct and Large-Eddy Modeling Concrete Properties Natural Building Stones Simulation VI An International Symposium dedicated to Applications in the Restoration of Ancient Proceedings of the sixth international Professor Surendra P. Shah, Northwestern Monuments ERCOFTAC Workshop on direct and large- University, USA eddy simulation, held at the University of Poitiers, September 12-14, 2005 The restoration and conservation of stone monu- This state-of-the-art volume covers the latest ments is a complicated multi-disciplinary task and and future trends in measuring, monitoring and the decisions finally reached must be based on a The sixth ERCOFTAC Workshop on ‘Direct and modeling the properties of cement based mate- firm and detailed knowledge of the mechanical Large-Eddy Simulation’ (DLES-6) was held at the rials including computational and experimental behaviour of both the authentic materials and University of Poitiers from September 12-14, 2005. micro-mechanical modeling of high-performance the substitute stones. In this volume scientists Following the tradition of previous workshops in cementitious composites (HPFRCs), mechanical from different disciplines (Structural Engineers, the DLES-series, this edition has reflected the state behavior and fracture of conventional and new Archaeologists, Architects, Chemical Engineers, of the art of numerical simulation of transitional cement based composites, advanced methods for Geologists) present their experience and their and turbulent flows and provided an active forum crack detection in concrete, realistic assessment scientific work in progress concerning the proper- for discussion of recent developments in simula- and modeling for mechanical behavior of early age ties of a series of stones that have been used for tion techniques and understanding of flow physics. concrete, autogenous shrinkage and microcracking the erection of some of the most important stone At a fundamental level this workshop addressed in heterogeneous systems, quantitative image monuments of the international cultural heritage numerous theoretical and physical aspects of analysis for microstructural characterization of and are used today for substitution of missing transitional and turbulent flows. At an applied concrete, development of innovative cementitious parts or completion of damaged ones level it contributed to the solution of problems materials, composition of concretes with special related to energy production, transportation and rheological properties, new concepts for the Features the environment. processing of repair and rehabilitation measures of 7 Unique book on a topic of increasing concrete structures and historic building materials, importance Features bond characteristics and structural behavior of 7 State-of-the-art research which will in turn fiber reinforced plastics and hybrid fabrics, and Field of interest promote new developments and research in the modeling of textile reinforced concrete. Building Materials near future
Features Target groups Field of interest 7 Includes the latest research work and future Researchers in the fields of Fracture Mechanics, Engineering, general trends on mesauring, monitoring and modelling Rock Mechanics, Damage, Building Materials, 7 Serves as a survey of the up-to-date research in Archaelogy; libraries of Technical Universities, Target groups the field Technical Chambers Engineers, physicists, mathematicians
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J. Lawry, University Bristol, UK (Ed .) J. P. Leeuwen, van, H. J. Timmermans, Eindhoven J. Legarda, C .E .I .T ., San Sebastian, Spain University of Technology, The Netherlands (Eds .) Soft Methods for Integrated Feedforward Amplifiers for Uncertainty Modelling Innovations in Design & Wideband Communication Decision Support Systems Systems in Architecture and Urban This edited volume is the proceedings of the 2006 Planning International Conference on Soft Methods in Feedforward Amplifiers for Wideband Commu- Probability and Statistics (SMPS 2006) hosted by nication Systems has been possible thanks to the the Artificial Intelligence Group at the University research carried out throughout several years in of Bristol, between 5-7 September 2006. This is the Traditionally, the DDSS conferences aim to be the field of the linearization techniques applied third of a series of biennial conferences orga- a platform for both starting and experienced to digital communication systems, particularly nized in 2002 by the Systems Research Institute researchers who focus on the development and to those with high spectral efficient modulation from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, application of computer support in the areas of techniques. The wireless telecommunications are and in 2004 by the Department of Statistics and urban planning and architectural design. This more and more demanded for the Information Operational Research at the University of Oviedo results in an interesting mix of well-established Society. Such requirements are reflected as a great in Spain. These conferences provide a forum for research projects and first explorations. It also many of communication standards with specific discussion and research into the fusion of soft leads to a very valuable cross-over of theories, coverage applications and, above all, with higher methods with probability and statistics, with the methods, and technologies for support systems and higher data transmission rates. The electro- ultimate goal of integrated uncertainty modelling in the two different areas, architecture and urban magnetic spectrum, nevertheless, is a scarce asset in complex systems involving human factors. In planning.This volume contains 31 peer reviewed that can not be spread and despite the increasingly addition to probabilistic factors such as measure- papers from this year’s conference that are organ- tendency to transmit in higher frequencies, the ment error and other random effects, the model- ised into seven sections: - Land Use Simulation bandwidths assigned to each application are always ling process often requires us to make qualitative and Visualisation - Multi-Agent Models for Move- exploited to the limit. and subject judgments that cannot easily be ment Simulation - Multi-Agent Models for Urban translated into precise probability values. Development - Managing and Deploying Design Features Knowledge - Urban Decision-Making - Design 7 Some guidelines are proposed for the imple- Features Interactivity and Design Automation - Virtual mentation of Feedforward amplifiers 7 Basic 7 Proceedings of the 3rd International Confer- Environments and Augmented Reality measurement techniques are recommended for the ence on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics, characterization of high linear devices 7 Some Bristol UK Sept. 5.-7. 2006 7 Recent develop- Features design rules are provided to develop a distortion ments in Soft Computing and Statistics 7 State of the art in research on: 7 Multi-agent monitoring system for the adaptive control system technology in urban planning 7 Decision- of a Feedforward amplifier Field of interest making support tools 7 Design support tools Appl. Mathematics/Computational Methods of 7 Cellular automata applications Field of interest Engineering Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering Field of interest Target groups Engineering Design Target groups Researchers, engineers, graduate students in Soft Scientists, practitioners, students, all system design Computing and Statistics Target groups engineers that are starting to focus their research Academics and research organisations related to on the Feedforward linearization technique, a Discount group architecture, construction, and urban planning starting point for hardware developers that try to P achieve the desired trade-off between the efficiency Discount group and linearity parameters in base station and P repeater transmitters
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J. Lenarcic, J . Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia; P. Muneesawang, United Arab Emirates University, B. Reusch, University of Dortmund, Germany (Ed .) B. Roth (Eds .) Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates; L. Guan, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada Computational Intelligence, Advances in Robot Kinematics Theory and Applications Mechanisms and Motion Multimedia Database Retrieval International Conference 9th Fuzzy Days in Dortmund, Germany, Sept. 18-20, 2006 A Human-Centered Approach Proceedings This book presents the most recent research advances in the theory, design, control and application of robotic systems, which are intended This book deals with adaptive content-based This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of for a variety of purposes such as manipulation, retrieval systems and techniques in image and the 9th Dortmund Fuzzy Days, held in Dortmund, manufacturing, automation, surgery, locomotion video database applications. It discusses key Germany, 2006. The Fuzzy Days conference has and biomechanics. The issues addressed are funda- considerations in the development of these established itself as an international forum for the mentally kinematic in nature, including synthesis, methods, and demonstrates their performance. It discussion of new results in the field of Computa- calibration, redundancy, force control, dexterity, first introduces a perceptually inspired non-linear tional Intelligence. All the papers had to undergo a inverse and forward kinematics, kinematic paradigm in user-controlled interactive retrieval thorough review guaranteeing a solid quality of the singularities, as well as over-constrained systems. (UCIR), providing an effective tool to bridge the programme. The papers are devoted to foundati- Methods used include line geometry, quaternion perceptual gap between high-level semantics onal and practical issues in fuzzy systems, neural algebra, screw algebra, and linear algebra. These in human vision and low-level features used by networks, evolutionary algorithms, and machine methods are applied to both parallel and serial computers. Then, a novel machine-controlled learning and thus cover the whole range of compu- multi-degree-of-freedom systems. interactive retrieval (MCIR) method is presented tational intelligence. to optimize image search in distributed digital Features libraries over Internet, by minimizing bandwidth Features 7 State of the art in robotics requirement in retrieval and reducing human 7 Recent research results in Computational Intel- subjective errors. The adaptive methodologies and ligence 7 Field of interest techniques are then generalized to content analysis Automation and Robotics and retrieval of video data with time-varying Contents nature, which provide multiple-level access to a Invited Session: Fuzzy Multiperson and Multicri- Target groups large quantity of digital videos. teria Decisions Modelling Session Organiser: Researchers, teachers and students in engineering Mario Fedrizzi.- Neural Nets.- Invited Session: and mathematics related to robot theory, robot Features Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Nets kinematics, robot mechanics, robot control, theo- 7 Presents state of the art in visual media retrieval I Session Organiser: Krassimir T. Atanassov.- retical mechanics, design, control and application 7 Coverage of adaptive content-based retrieval Invited Session: Soft Computing Techniques for systems and techniques in image and video data- Reputation and Trust I Session Organiser: Ernesto Discount group base applications 7 Includes a novel machine- Damiani.- Invited Session: Intuitionistic Fuzzy P controlled interactive retrieval (MCIR) method Sets and Generalized Nets II Session Organiser: that optimizes image search in distributed digital Krassimir T. Atanassov.- Invited Session: Soft libraries over the Internet Computing Techniques for Reputation and Trust II Session Organiser: Ernesto Damiani.- Invited Contents Session: Looking at Language with Fuzzy Logic Introduction.- Interactive Content-Based Image Session Organiser: Enric Trillas.- Invited Session: Retrieval.- High Performance Retrieval: A Complex-Valued Neural Networks Session Orga- New Machine Learning Approach.- Automatic niser: Igor Aizenberg.- Invited Session: Intelligent Relevance Feedback.- Automatic Retrieval on Data Mining Session Organiser: Arkady Borisov.- P2P Network and Knowledge-Based Databases.- Invited Session: Preferences and Decisions Session Adaptive Video Indexing and Retrieval.- Movie Organiser: Janos Fodor.- Evolutionary Algo- Retrieval Using Audio-Visual Fusion. rithms.- Invited Session: Fuzzy Sets - 40 years after Session Organiser: Irina Perlieva, Vilem Novak. Field of interest Multimedia Information Systems Field of interest Appl. 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P. Reynaert, M. Steyaert, KU Leuven, Belgium F. Rodriguez-Henriquez, N. Saqib, A. Díaz Pérez, G. Sih, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA (Ed .) C. K. Koc RF Power Amplifiers for Multiscaling in Molecular Mobile Communications Cryptographic Algorithms on and Continuum Mechanics: Reconfigurable Hardware Interaction of Time and Size from Macro to Nano RF Power Amplifiers for Mobile Communica- tions fits in the quest for fully integrated CMOS Cryptographic solutions using software methods Application to biology, physics, material transceivers. The book tackles both high efficiency can be used for those security applications where science, mechanics, structural and processing and high linearity PA design in low-voltage CMOS, data traffic is not too large and low encryption rate engineering and has a strong emphasis on theory, design and is tolerable. On the other hand, hardware methods implementation. The book is conceived as a design offer high-speed solutions making them highly guide for those actively involved in the design of suitable for applications where data traffic is fast The recent trend of miniaturization of devices CMOS wireless transceivers. RF Power Amplifiers and large data is required to be encrypted in real and mechanics components has demanded a for Mobile Communications starts from the basic time. VLSI (also known as ASIC), and FPGAs better understanding of how macroscopic data theory of power amplification from the viewpoint (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are two alterna- are related to those at the microscopic scale or of CMOS integration. The design of switching tives for implementing cryptographic algorithms smaller. The concept of multiscaling is to handle RF power amplifiers in CMOS is explored and in hardware. FPGAs offer several benefits for cryp- inhomogeneity that arises when material is viewed CMOS PA design at low supply voltage using tographic algorithm implementations over VLSI as microscopically. A scale invariant concept that can parallel amplification is discussed. Combining they offer high flexibility. Due to its reconfigurable quantify the degree of inhomogeneity is applied to both efficiency and linearity is one of the major property, keys can be changed rapidly. Moreover, overcome the difficulty such that the methodology issues in CMOS PA design for wireless and mobile basic primitives in most cryptographic algorithms can be kept at a level that the practicing engineer communications and is subsequently tackled. can efficiently be implemented in FPGAs. can grasp and use. The model works much like a Different linearization techniques and approaches microscope that can magnify the results from the are discussed and polar modulation is clarified in Features atomic to the micro, then to the meso and to the greater detail. Finally, two CMOS PA implementa- 7 Presents a comprehensive methodology for effi- macro in an analytical fashion. This provides a tions are thoroughly covered. cient implementation of cryptographic algorithms means for translating the experience in designing on reconfigurable hardware devices 7 Special macroscopic size components to those at the lower Features emphasis on the practical aspects of reconfigurable scales 7 Both theoretical analysis and practical imple- hardware design and a comprehensive description mentations are covered 7 Strong emphasis on of state-of-the-art implementation techniques Features CMOS 7 Strong emphasis on fully integrated 7 For the first time, a book is being edited to solutions Contents address how results from one scale can be shifted Introduction.- Mathematical Background.- Hash or related to another scale, say from macro to From the contents Function Implementation.- General Guidelines for micro or vice versa 7 New topic that is not well Preface.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Mobile Communica- Implementing Block Ciphers in FPGAs.- Architec- known up to now 7 The disciplines in classical tion Systems And Power Amplification.- tural Designs for Advanced Encryption Standard.- mechanics and physics rarely consider relating 3. Analysis And Design Of The Class E Power Elliptic Curve Cryptography. the results at the different scales such as macro to Amplifier In CMOS.- 4. Impedance Transfor- micro or to atomic mation And Power Combination.- 5. Polar Field of interest Modulation.- 6. A CMOS Power Amplifier For Communications Engineering, Networks Field of interest GSM-Edge.- 7. A CMOS Power Amplifier For Structural Mechanics Bluetooth.- 8. Conclusions.- List of Abbreviations Target groups and Symbols. References.- Index. Professionals in technical areas related to Target groups Computer Engineering and networks in network Researchers, libraries and practicing engineers Field of interest security, graduate students in Computer Engi- Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering neering and Communications Discount group P Target groups Discount group RF and Microwave design engineers and P researchers, wireless system developers
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C. M. Soares, J. Martins, H. Rodrigues, F. Yuan, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada J. A. Ambrósio, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal (Eds .) CMOS Current-Mode Circuits Computational Mechanics for Data Communications Solids, Structures and Coupled Problems This book deals with the analysis and design of CMOS current-mode circuits for data commu- Computational Mechanics in solids, structures and nications. CMOS current-mode sampled-data coupled problems in engineering is today a mature networks, i.e. switched-current circuits, are science with applications to major industrial excluded. Major subjects covered in the book designs. This book reflects the state of art and it is include: voltage-mode and current-mode circuits written by some of the world leading authorities – a critical comparison, the building blocks of in this field, addressing such topics as: design and current-mode circuits, design techniques for topology optimisation, inverse engineering, multi- CMOS current-mode circuits, modeling of wire body dynamics, non-linear and railway dynamics, channels, electrical signaling for Gbps data non-linear and textile composites, sandwich communications, current-mode transmitters, structures, uncertainty and reliability of structures, current-mode receivers, delay-locked and phase- micromechanics of biological materials, compu- locked loops, switching noise and grounding of tational geometry, multiscale strategies, discrete mixed-mode circuits, and ESD Protection for and mesh free elements, hybrid crack element, current-mode circuits. adaptive mesh generation, neural networks, structural model validation, vibro-acoustics, active Features aeroelastic structures, shells with incompressible 7 Coverage includes a critical comparison of flows, fluid-structure interaction, aeroelasticity, voltage-mode and current-mode circuits; the fluid-saturated and damage porous media and building blocks of current-mode circuits: design ceramics, high porosity solids, multiphase viscous techniques; modeling of wire channels, electrical porous material and masonry. signaling for Gbps data communications; ESD protection for current-mode circuits and more Features 7 Provides an in-depth treatment of the design 7 State-of-the-art overview of a very wide ranging principles of CMOS current-mode circuits and area of engineering their applications in data communications
Field of interest Contents Structural Mechanics Voltage-Mode and Current-Mode – A Critical Comparison.- Building Blocks of Current- Target groups Mode Circuits.- Design Techniques for CMOS Researchers and design engineers Current-Mode Circuits.- Modeling of Wire Channels.- Electrical Signaling for Gbps Data Discount group Communications.- Current-Mode Transmit- P ters.- Current-Mode Receivers.- Delay-Locked and Phase-Locked Loops.- Switching Noise and Grounding of Mixed-Mode Circuits.- ESD Protec- tion for Current-Mode Circuits.
Field of interest Circuits and Systems
Target groups Integrated circuits design engineers, hardware system engineers
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U. Bastolla, M. Porto, H. E. Roman, M. Vendruscolo T. Bechtold, E. B. Rudnyi, J. G. Korvink, Albert- K. Binder, University of Mainz, Germany; G. Ciccotti, (Eds .) Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany University of Rome, Italy; M. Ferrario, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy (Eds .) Structural Approaches to Fast Simulation of Electro- Sequence Evolution Thermal MEMS Computer Simulations in Molecules, Networks, Populations Efficient Dynamic Compact Models Condensed Matter Systems – Vol. 1 Fundamental Techniques and Approaches Structural requirements constrain the evolution Fast Simulation of Electro-Thermal MEMS of biological entities at all levels, from macromol- provides the reader with a complete methodology ecules to their networks and up through popula- and software environment for creating efficient tions of biological organisms. Classical models of dynamic compact models for electro-thermal This extensive and comprehensive collection of molecular evolution, however, are focused at the MEMS devices. It supplies the basic knowledge lectures by world-leading experts in the field intro- level of the symbols - the biological sequence - and understanding for using model order reduc- duces and reviews all relevant computer simula- rather than of their resulting structure. Now recent tion at the engineering level. Emphasis is placed on tion methods and their applications in condensed advances in understanding the thermodynamics of the application of the Arnoldi method for effective matter systems. Volume 1 is an in-depth intro- macromolecules, the topological properties of gene order reduction of thermal systems. This tutorial is duction to a vast spectrum of computational networks, the organization and mutation capabili- written for MEMS engineers and is enriched with techniques for statistical mechanical systems of ties of genomes, and the structure of populations many case studies which equip readers with the condensed matter. It will enable the graduate make it possible to incorporate these key elements know-how to facilitate the simulation of a specific student and both the specialist and nonspecialist into a broader and deeply interdisciplinary view of problem. researcher to get acquainted with the tools neces- molecular evolution. This book gives an account sary to carry out numerical simulations at an of such a new approach, through clear tutorial Features advanced level. Volume 2 published as LNP 704 contributions by leading scientists specializing in 7 Provides the knowledge required to design (ISBN 3-540-35283-X) is a collection of state-of- the different fields involved. electro-thermal MEMS on a simulation basis the-art surveys on numerical experiments carried out for a great number of systems, ranging from Features From the contents materials sciences to chemical biology. 7 Interdisciplinary view of molecular evolution Introduction.- Dynamic Electro-Thermal Simula- 7 Clear tutorial contributions by leading scientists tion of Microsystems.- Overview of Linear Model Field of interest Order Reduction.- Software.- Application of Model Condensed Matter and Material Sciences From the contents Reduction to Electro-Thermal MEMS.- Advanced 1. Modelling Conformational Flexibility and Development. Target groups Evolution of Structure: RNA as an Example.- Graduate students, lecturers, researchers 2. Gene3D and Understanding Proteome Field of interest Evolution.- 3. The Evolution of the Globins: We Circuits and Systems Discount group Thought We Understood it.- 4. The Structurally P Constrained Neutral Model of Protein Evolution.- Target groups 5. Towards Unifying Protein Evolution Theory.- Scientists 6. A 21st Century View of Evolution: Genome System Architecture, Repetitive DNA, and Natural Discount group Genetic Engineering.- 7. Genomic Changes in P Bacteria: From Free-Living to Endosymbiotic Life.- 8. Molecular Phylogenetics: Mathematical Framework and Unsolved Problems.- 9. Phyloge- netics and Computational Biology of Multigene Families.- 10. SeqinR 1.0-2: A Contributed Package to the R Project for Statistical Computing Devoted to Biological Sequences Retrieval and Analysis.
Field of interest Biophysics/Biomedical Physics
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K. Binder, University of Mainz, Germany; G. Ciccotti, A. Celletti, E. Perozzi, University of Rome, Italy P. P. Delsanto, Instituto Nazionale per la Fisica della University of Rome, Italy; M. Ferrario, University of Politecnico di Torino, Italy (Ed .) Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy (Eds .) Celestial Mechanics The Waltz of the Planets Universality of Nonclassical Computer Simulations in Nonlinearity Condensed Matter Systems – Applications to Non-Destructive Evaluations Vol. 2 The common perception of Celestial Mechanics and Ultrasonics Applications From Materials to is that of a discipline which needs advanced Chemical Biology mathematics and astronomy to be understood. Yet modern Celestial Mechanics has a rather different This book comes as a result of the research work taste and a truly interdisciplinary nature. The developed in the framework of two large interna- number of celestial objects known to mankind has tional projects: the European Science Foundation This extensive and comprehensive collection of dramatically increased, the long-awaited presence (ESF) supported program NATEMIS (Nonlinear lectures by world-leading experts in the field intro- of extrasolar planets has been eventually detected Acoustic Techniques for Micro-Scale Damage duces and reviews all relevant computer simula- around other stars, spaceflight dynamics has Diagnostics) (of which Professor Delsanto was tion methods and their applications in condensed brought new applications encompassing rocked the European coordinator, 2000-2004) and a Los matter systems. Volume 1, published as LNP 703 dynamics, the place-in-orbit of artificial satellites Almos-based newtork headed by Dr. P.A. Johnson. (ISBN 3-540-35270-8) is an in-depth introduction and interplanetary mission design. Solar System The main topic of both programs and of this book to a vast spectrum of computational techniques exploration has grown as a long term strategy for is the description of the phenomenology, theory for statistical mechanical systems of condensed the construction of a permanent base on the Moon and applications of nonclassical Nonlinearity matter. It will enable the graduate student and and a manned mission to Mars. The aim of the (NCNL). In fact NCNL techniques have been both the specialist and nonspecialist researcher book is to show to the people at large, as well as found in recent years to be extremely powerful to get acquainted with the tools necessary to to a more skilled audience, the many fascinating (up to more than 1000 times with respect to the carry out numerical simulations at an advanced aspects of modern celestial mechanics. corresponding linear techniques) in a wide range level. The present volume is a state-of-the-art of applications, including Elasticity, Material Char- survey on numerical experiments carried out for a Features acterization, Ultrasonics, Geophysics to Mainte- great number of systems, ranging from materials 7 Reinforces public awareness as a key issue for nance and Restoration of artifacts (paintings, stone sciences to chemical biology, such as supercooled appreciating and exploiting the wealth of astro- buildings, etc.). liquids, spin glasses, colloids, polymers, liquid nomical data and images gathered during the space crystals, biological membranes and folding age 7 Explains celestial mechanics without the Features proteins. use of mathematics 7 Authors provide an inter- 7 Presents the results of two major international disciplinary cross section of all celestial mechanics research projects on phenomenology, theory Field of interest and applications of Nonclassical Nonlinearity Condensed Matter and Material Sciences Contents 7 Conveys concepts, experimental techniques Around and Around.- Three Bodies and No and applications which were previously found in Target groups Solution.- Waltz of the Planets.- Cosmic Spinning specialized journals 7 Allows for an interdisci- Graduate students, lecturers, researchers Tops.- Our Chaotic Solar System.- Of Moon and plinary audience to better understand the range of Man.- Rock Around the Planets.- The Edge of the practical applications, and is timely and interesting Discount group Solar System and Beyond. to both researchers and professionals P Field of interest Field of interest Astronomy Quantum Optics, Quantum Electronics, Nonlinear Optics Target groups Popular Science enthusiasts; academic libraries Target groups For its fundamental science contents, to physicists Discount group and mathematicians; for the description of the T various experimental techniques and applica- tions to NDE and materials science, to engineers in various fields; for its prospected applications to other fields, such as biology, medicine and economics, to the researchers in those fields
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L. Dorman, Tel Aviv University, Israel S. Eales, University of Cardiff, UK T. Encrenaz, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, France Cosmic Ray Interactions, Origins Searching for Water in the Propagation, and Acceleration How the Planets, Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe in Space Plasmas Universe Began
In The Search for Water in the Solar System and Chapter 1 briefly describes the main properties of In the last decade, there has been a revolution in Beyond, Thérèse Encrenaz takes the reader on a space plasmas and their interactions with different observational astronomy, which has meant that journey through the Universe in search of water. types of CR interactions. Chapter 2 considers we are very close to answering three of the four She begins by introducing the most well-known the problem of CR propagation in space plasmas big ‘origin questions’, of how the planets, stars, of molecule H2O, its physical and chemical described by the kinetic equation and different galaxies, and the universe itself were formed. As characteristics and its cosmic formation and types of diffusion Approx.imations (diffusion recently as 1995 we knew of only one planetary abundance. She examines the methods by which in momentum space and in pitch-angle space, system: our own. Now we know of over a hundred, the presence of water is detected, both within the anisotropic diffusion, anomaly CR diffusion and and this knowledge has helped to reveal how plan- solar system and beyond. One by one she visits compound diffusion, the influence of magnetic etary systems form. In this same decade, new types a diversity of locations in the cosmos, from the clouds on CR propagation, non-diffusive CR of telescope have allowed us to penetrate through nearest planets to the furthest galaxies, where particle pulse transport). Chapter 3 is devoted to clouds of interstellar dust to see the first moments water has been discovered. In the formation of the CR non-linear effects in space plasmas caused by in the life of a star, and also to see directly (not solar system, she explains how the water molecule CR pressure and CR kinetic stream instabilities infer) what galaxies looked like thirteen billion played a major part, with the so-called ‘ice frontier’ with the generation of Alfvèn turbulence (these years ago, only a billion years after the Big Bang. determining the natures of the terrestrial and giant effects are important in galaxies, in the Helio- Because of this new knowledge, we now have planets. sphere, in CR and gamma-ray sources and in the provisional answers to the second and third origin processes of CR acceleration). question. Features 7 Demonstrates clearly why water has been an Features Features essential factor in the emergence and continu- 7 Extended review on energetic particles inter- 7 Looks at answers to the biggest questions in ation of life on earth 7 Describes in simple actions, propagation and acceleration in space astronomy – the Origin Questions – the questions terms the properties of water and how we detect plasmas 7 Key problems in CR Astrophysics of how the planets, stars, galaxies and the universe its presence throughout the universe 7 Spans a and CR Geophysics 7 Analytical calculations, were formed 7 Over the last decade, a revolution variety of scientific disciplines, from observational nonlinear physics, computer simulations in observational astronomy has produced possible astronomy to astrobiology 7 Explains concepts in 7 Described in discussions and conclusions answers to three of these questions. This book, such a way that no prior understanding of science 7 Formulates a lot of unsolved problems written in an accessible way by a scientist working is needed beyond a high school education in this field, describes this revolution Contents Contents Preface. Acknowledgments. Frequently used Contents Introduction: Why Water?- A Very Simple Abbreviations and Notations.- 1. Cosmic Ray Introduction.- Origins Part 1: Planets.- Chapter Molecule.- The Quest for Cosmic Water.- The Ice Interactions in Space Plasmas.- 2. Cosmic Ray 1: Rocks.- Chapter 2: Exoplanets.- Chapter 3: The Frontier and the Birth of the Planets.- Comets and Propagation in Space Plasmas.- 3. Cosmic Ray Day the Solar System Lost a Planet.- Origins Part Water.- Water in the Outer Solar System.- At the Nonlinear Effects in Space Plasmas.- 4. Cosmic 2: Stars.- Chapter 4: Ends.- Chapter 5: Beginnings.- Ice Frontier: the Asteroids.- Water and the Terres- Ray Acceleration in Space Plasmas.- Conclusion Origins Part 3: Galaxies.- Chapter 6: Silent Movie.- trial Planets.- The Search for Other Earths.- Glos- and Problems.- References. Object Index. Author Chapter 7: The History of Galaxies.- Origins Part sary.- Bibliography.- Index. Index. 4: The Universe.- Chapter 8: Watching the Big Bang on Television.- Chapter 9: What Happened Field of interest Field of interest Before the Big Bang?- Further Reading. Popular Science in Astronomy Astronomy Field of interest Target groups Target groups Popular Science in Astronomy Practical astronomers and science enthusiasts Academic libraries, scientists, researchers Target groups Discount group Discount group Amateur astronomers and popular science enthu- T P siasts
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K. Gabriel, University of Ontario, Oshawa, ON, M. Gargaud, H. Martin, P. Claeys (Eds .) G. Genta, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Canada Lectures in Astrobiology Lonely Minds in the Universe Microgravity Two-phase Flow Volume 2 The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Heat Transfer
Based on material delivered at several summer The possibility that humans are not alone in the Multiphase thermal systems (involving more than schools, this book is the first comprehensive text- Universe and might in the future come in close one phase or one component) have numerous book at the graduate level encompassing all aspects contact with other intelligences is one of the applications in aerospace, heat-exchanger, trans- associated with the emerging field of astrobiology. most intriguing questions of human history and port of contaminants in environmental systems, Volume II gathers another set of extensive lectures has deep implications for our understanding and energy transport and energy conversion covering topics so diverse as the formation and of the Universe and ourselves. In this book the systems. Advances in understanding the behaviour the distribution of elements in the universe, the subject is dealt with in an interdisciplinary way, of multiphase thermal systems could lead to higher concept of habitability from both the planetolo- giving the scientific and technological implica- efficiency energy production systems, improved gists’ and the biologists’ point of view and artificial tions, discussing the philosophical and religious heat-exchanger design, and safer and enhanced life. The contributions are held together by the connotations and rebuffing the pseudo-scientific treatment of hazardous waste. But such advances common goal to understand better the origin of statements. Based on our current scientific under- have been greatly hindered by the strong effect of life, its evolution and possible existence outside the standing of the Universe, the possibility of extra- gravitational acceleration on the flow. Depending Earth’s realm. terrestrial life is discussed, summarizing cosmic, on the flow orientation and the phase velocities, chemical and biological evolution. What we now gravitational forces could significantly alter the Features know of the Universe suggests that life is common flow regime, and hence the pressure-drop and 7 First comprehensive, beginning level book on and extraterrestrial intelligent life is a possibility. heat-transfer coefficients associated with the flow. the emergent science of astrobiology Features Features Contents 7 Discusses the possibility that other intel- 7 Contains very specific information that is not Nucleosynthesis.- Astrochemistry.- Molecules ligent beings exist in the Universe whom we can available anywhere else in Space.- Martian Atmosphere, Hydrosphere contact through either radio communications or and Climate.- Mars Habitats.- Europa.- Titan.- space travel 7 Looks at mankind’s perspective Contents Exoplanets.- Biosignatures.- Laboratory Experi- of its place in the Universe 7 In addition to the Contributors. Acknowledgements. Preface. ments. scientific and technical implications, looks at the Nomenclature.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Classifica- philosophical and religious implications of extra- tion of Gas-Liquid Flow Patterns.- 3. Flow Pattern Field of interest terrestrial intelligence Transition Models.- 4. Gas-Liquid Flow Pressure Biogeosciences Drop.- 5. Void Fraction.- 6. Gas-Liquid Flow Heat Contents Transfer.- 7. Modelling Periodic Slug Flows Using Target groups The historical and philosophical perspectives.- a Volume of Fluid Method.- 8. Summary and Advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate The religious perspective.- The bio-astronomical Conclusion.- References.- Appendix A: Tabulated students, nonspecialist and specialist researchers perspective.- The search for extraterrestrial intel- Results. Appendix B: Flow Pattern Images.- Index. ligence.- The search for extraterrestrial stupidity.- Discount group The possibility of contact.- Epilogue.- Appendix. Field of interest P Astrophysics Field of interest Popular Science in Astronomy Target groups Researchers in the field of two-phase flow Target groups Space and popular science enthusiasts Discount group P Discount group T
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P. Haensel, Copernicus Astronomical Center, S. S. Holt, N. Gehrels, J. A. Nouse (Eds .) H. Ibach, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany Warszawa, Poland; A. Potekhin, D. Yakovlev, Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, St . Petersburg, Russia Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Physics of Surfaces and Neutron Stars 1 Swift Era Interfaces Sixteenth Maryland Astrophysics Conference, Equation of State and Structure Washington, DC, 29 November-2 December 2005 This graduate-level textbook covers the major developments in surface sciences of recent The book gives an extended review of theoretical decades, from experimental tricks and basic and observational aspects of neutron star physics. This is the sixteenth conference of the current techniques to the latest experimental methods With masses comparable to that of the Sun and series of annual October Astrophysics Conferences and theoretical understanding. It is unique in its radii of about ten kilometres, neutron stars are the in Maryland. It was devoted to the discussion attempt to treat the physics of surfaces, thin films densest stars in the Universe. This book describes of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explo- and interfaces, surface chemistry, thermody- all layers of neutron stars, from the surface to sions since the Big Bang. Results from the newly namics, statistical physics and the physics of the the core, with the emphasis on their structure launched Swift mission and other observatories solid/electrolyte interface in an integral manner, and equation of state. Theories of dense matter are solving the mysteries of the origin of the rather than in separate compartments. The Physics are reviewed, and used to construct neutron star bursts. Over 250 scientists from the international of Surfaces and Interfaces is designed as a hand- models. Hypothetical strange quark stars and astronomical community gathered to debate the book for the researcher as well as a study-text for possible exotic phases in neutron star cores are meaning of the recent discoveries. graduate students in physics or chemistry with also discussed. Also covered are the effects of special interest in the surface sciences, material strong magnetic fields in neutron star envelopes Field of interest science, or the nanosciences. The experienced and a comparison on neutron star models with Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology researcher, professional or academic teacher will observations. appreciate the opportunity to share many insights Target groups and ideas that have grown out of the author‘s long Contents Researchers and graduate students in astronomy experience. Readers will likewise appreciate the Overview.- Equilibrium Plasma Properties Outer and astrophysics, particularly high energy astro- wide range of topics treated, each supported by Envelopes.- Structure and EOS of Neutron Star physics extensive references. Crusts.- Envelopes with Strong Magnetic Fields.- Neutron Star Cores: Nucleons and Hyperons.- Discount group Features Neutron Star Structure.- Neutron Stars with Exotic P 7 Covers the major developments in surfaces Cores.- Strange Matter and Strange Stars.- Theory sciences of the last decades, from experimental Versus Observations.- Appendices.- Bibliography.- tricks and basic techniques to the latest develop- List of Symbols.- List of Abbreviations.- Subject ments in experimental methods and theoretical Index. understanding. 7 Uniquely integrates the physics of surfaces, thin films and interfaces, surface Field of interest chemistry, thermodynamics, statistical physics and Astrophysics the physics of the solid/electrolyte interfaces in an integral approach Target groups Astronomy libraries, astronomers, graduate Field of interest students in Astronomy Condensed Matter and Material Sciences
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D. Jackson, University of Washington, Seattle, G. Jaeger, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA M. I. Kolobov, Université de Lille I, France WA,USA; M. Richardson, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, USA Quantum Information Quantum Imaging High-Frequency Seafloor An Overview Quantum Imaging is a newly born branch of Acoustics quantum optics that investigates the ultimate This book gives an overview for practitioners and performance limits of optical imaging allowed students of quantum physics and information by the laws of quantum mechanics. Using the This book is a research monograph on high- science. It is designed to provide ready access to methods and techniques from quantum optics, Frequency Seafloor Acoustics. It will provide a crit- essential information on quantum information quantum imaging addresses the questions of ical evaluation of the data and models pertaining processing and communication, such as defini- image formation, processing and detection with to high-frequency acoustic interaction with the tions, protocols and algorithms. Quantum infor- sensitivity and resolution exceeding the limits of seafloor, which will be of interest to researchers mation science is a rapidly expanding area of tech- classical imaging. This book contains the most in underwater acoustics and to developers of nology and research containing a diverse spectrum important theoretical and experimental results commercial and military sonars. Models and data of mathematical tools rarely found in clear and achieved by the researchers of the Quantum are presented so as to be readily usable, backed concise form. This book brings together this infor- Imaging network, a research programme of the up by extensive explanation. Much of the data is mation from its various sources, allows researchers European Community. new, and the discussion in on two levels: concise and students in a broad range of areas including descriptions in the main text backed up by exten- physics, photonics, solid-state electronics, nuclear Features sive technical appendices. This monograph will magnetic resonance and information technology, 7 Gives an overview of the latest progress in provide ready access to data and current models in their applied and theoretical branches, to have the domain of quantum imaging which has been and a clear path through a somewhat confusing this vital material directly at hand when needed. achieved during 3.5 years of research carried out literature. There is an extensive bibliography, This is made possible throught a concise, thorough by the leading specialists in the area within the and the main text points towards the essential format. Quantum Imaging network, a research programme literature. of the European Community Features Features 7 Unlike other books in quantum information Contents 7 First book in a new series sponsored by the and computing, this book is intended to be concise Quantum Imaging with continuous variables.- Office of Naval Research on the latest research in and to the point making it useful in practical Spatial entanglement in optical parametric underwater acoustics 7 Provides ready access context of reading journal articles, performing down-conversion.- Quantum Imaging in the to data and models in high-frequency seafloor research calculations or problems in graduate continuous-wave regime using degenerate optical acoustics 7 Concise presentation of data and courses in physics and engineering cavities.- Quantum Imaging by synthesis of multi- models will be of interest to sonar engineers and mode quantum light.- Ghost imaging.- Quantum researchers working in underwater acoustics Contents limits of optical super-resolution.- Noiseless Foreword.- Qubits.- Measurements and quantum amplification of optical images.- Optical image Contents operations.- Quantum non-locality and interfer- processing in second-harmonic generation.- Introduction.- Basic concepts and defini- ometry.- Classical information and communica- Transverse distribution of quantum fluctuations in tions.- Seafloor scattering experiments.- Seafloor tion.- Quantum information.- Quantum entangle- free-space spatial solitons.- Quantum fluctuations physical properties.- Seafloor roughness.- Seafloor ment.- Entangled multipartite systems.- Quantum in cavity solutions.- Quantum holographic telepor- heterogeneity.- Fluid theories for sound waves in state and process estimation.- Quantum communi- tation and dense coding of optical images.- Orbital sediments.- Theories including shear.- Porelastic cation.- Quantum decoherence and its mitigation.- angular momentum of light.- Index. theories.- Roughness scattering models.- Volume Quantum broadcasting, copying and deleting.- scattering models.- Statistics of backscattered Quantum key distribution.- Classical and quantum Field of interest pressure.- Technical appendices (roughly, 12 in computing.- Quantum algorithms.- Mathematical Quantum Optics, Quantum Electronics, Nonlinear number). elements.- The quantum postulates. 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P. Lambropoulos, D. Petrosyan, IESL FORTH, Landolt-Börnstein J. Longuski, Purdue University, Purdue, IN, USA Heraklion, Greece Numerical Data and Functional Relationships The Seven Secrets of How to in Science and Technology - New Series Quantum Optics and Quantum Think Like a Rocket Scientist Information Editor-in-chief: W. Martienssen An Introduction Group 3 Explains the methods that rocket scientists use – expressed in a way that could be applied in This book is an introduction to the two closely Condensed Matter everyday life. The book illustrates the methods related subjects of quantum optics and quantum (the 7 secrets) with anecdotes, quotations and Volume 35 information. Essentially, the physical aspects of biographical sketches of famous scientists, ideas quantum information processing have now become from sci-fi, personal stories and insights, and occa- an integral part of quantum optics. The book gives Nuclear Magnetic Resonance sionally a bit of space history. The author reveals a simple, self-contained introduction to both that rocket science is just common sense applied subjects, while illustrating the physical principles Data to the extraordinarily uncommon environment of of quantum information processing using quantum outer space and that rocket scientists are people, optical systems. It thus has an interdisciplinary Series editor: M. Lechner, R. Gupta too. character. For the benefit of a wider audience and to make the subject matter of the book accessible Subvolume D Features to those with backgrounds other than physics, the 7 How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist is written authors also include a brief review of quantum NMR Data for Carbon-13 by a rocket scientist 7 It translates “thinking like mechanics. Although much of the material used a rocket scientist” into every day thinking, so it Part 4 here can also be found in other books, discussed at can be used by anyone 7 It is conversational and various depths, the particular combination of the R. R. Gupta, M. Dhobal humorous in its style 7 It is well organized: 7 topics covered in this book is unique. Furthermore, parts reveal the 7 secrets; 50 chapters give specific, some aspects of quantum information, for example Natural Products useful advice beginning with their titles those pertaining to recent experiments on cavity 7 It’s short and snappy! QED and quantum dots, are described here for the Contents first time in book form. Magnetic properties of nuclei.- Spinning nuclei Contents in magnetic fields.- Theory of nuclear resonance.- Dream.- Judge.- Ask.- Simplify.- Optimize.- Do.- Features Chemical shift.- Coupling constant.- Organization Epilogue.- Recommended Viewing: The Greatest 7 Clear introductory sections make this forefront of Data.- Carbon-13 NMR of natural products.- Sci-Fi Films of the 20th Century.- Recommended topic accessible to non-specialists 7 Brings Introduction.- Chemical shifts and coupling Reading and Bibliography.- About the Author. together for the first time the important and constants.- References. mutually dependent fields of Quantum Optics and Field of interest Quantum Information 7 Provides a comprehen- System requirements Popular Science in Astronomy sive overview suitable for both newcomers and For PC and MAC. For the complete system seasoned quantum physicists requirements see: springeronline.com Target groups General “rmchair” scientists; those interested in Contents Field of interest popular psychology, space history, and science Quantum Mechanical Background.- Quantum Solid State Physics and Spectroscopy fiction films Optics.- Quantum Theory of Radiation.- Atom- Field Interaction.- System-Reservoir Interaction.- Target groups Discount group Cavity QED.- Quantum Information.- Elements Science and engineers in the fields of physics, T of Classical Computation.- Fundamentals of chemistry and physical chemistry who intend to Quantum Computation.- Physical Implementa- use NMR to study the structure and the binding of tions of Quantum Computation. molecules
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2006 . Approx . 350 p . 95 illus . Hardcover 2006 . VIII, 417 p . 1925 illus . With CD-ROM . Hardcover 2006 . Approx . 170 p . Hardcover ISBN 3-540-34571-X 7 $79.95 ISBN 3-540-29732-4 7 $6000.00 ISBN 0-387-30876-8 7 approx. $25.00 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 7/2006 Physics/Astronomy 67
G. R. Myneni, Jefferson Laboratory, Newport News, B. Nilsson, Växjö University, Växjö, Sweden; V. D. Radulescu, C. P. Niculescu, University of VA, USA; B. Hjörvarsson, Uppsala University, L. Fishman, MDF International, Slidell, LA, USA (Eds .) Craiova, Romania (Eds .) Uppsala, Sweden (Eds .) Mathematical Modelling of Mathematical Analysis and Hydrogen in Matter Wave Phenomena Applications A Collection from the Papers Presented at the 2nd Conference on Mathematical Modeling International Conference on Mathematical 2nd International Symposium on Hydrogen of Wave Phenomena, Växjö, Sweden, Analysis and Applications, Craiova, Romania, in Matter; ISOHIM, Uppsala, Sweden, 14-19 August 2005 23-24 September 2005 13-17 June 2005
This conference series intends to illuminate the The papers in these proceedings were peer- Hydrogen plays a key role in materials, beneficial relationship between different types of waves. This reviewed. The topics of these papers are at the in some cases, problematic in others. In all such second conference focused primarily on classical interface between mathematical physics, numerical systems a detailed understanding of the hydrogen- wave modeling of acoustic waves in solids and analysis, optimal control, and calculus of varia- based interactions is necessary for control, fluids, electromagnetic waves, as well as elastic tions. They include nonlinear analysis and partial improvements, and possible new applications. wave modeling, and both direct and inverse differential equations as well as classical math- The proceedings of the International Symposium problems are addressed. Topics included are: ematical analysis and dynamical systems. on Hydrogen in Matter (ISOHIM) incorporates (1) Classical linear wave propagation modeling, contributions from communities focused on analysis and computation: general, electromagnetic Field of interest semiconductors, normal conductors (metals), applications, acoustics of fluids, acoustics of solids; Mathematical and Computational Physics superconductors, and vacuum systems who deal (2) classical nonlinear wave propagation modeling, with hydrogen-matter issues. The technical areas analysis, and computation; (3) inverse scattering Target groups covered in these proceedings include hydrogen in modeling: gneral and electromagnetic imaging, Researchers in applied mathematics, nonlinear materials, hydrogen in semiconductors, hydrogen wood imaging, seismic imaging; (4) quantum and analysis, and mathematical physics, as well as adsorption-storage-generation and distribu- statistical mechanics; (5) signal processing and graduate students in mathematics and physics tion, hydrogen in niobium, hydrogen in vacuum analysis. systems, superconducting niobium accelerator Discount group structures, and liquid hydrogen storage containers Field of interest P for hydrogen powered cars. Mathematical Methods in Physics
Field of interest Target groups Condensed Matter and Material Sciences Theoretical and computational scientists working primarily in classical wave phenomena in math- Target groups ematics, physics, and engineering Scientists, engineers, and graduate students who are involved with new technologies for the Discount group hydrogen economy, nuclear energy production, P semiconductor devices, and/or particle accelera- tors
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2006 . Approx . 295 p . (AIP Conference Proceedings / 2006 . Approx . 400 p . (AIP Conference Proceedings / 2006 . Approx . 175 p . (AIP Conference Proceedings / Materials Physics and Applications, Volume 837) Mathematical and Statistical Phsyics, Volume 834) Mathematical and Statistical Phsyics, Volume 835) Hardcover Hardcover Hardcover ISBN 0-7354-0329-5 7 $133.00 ISBN 0-7354-0325-2 7 $150.00 ISBN 0-7354-0328-7 7 $123.00 68 Physics/Astronomy Springer News 7/2006 springer.com/booksellers
L. D. Schmadel, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, A. T. Skjeltorp, Institute for Energy Technology, V. A. Smirnov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Heidelberg, Germany Kjeller, Norway; A. V. Belushkin, Frank Laboratory of Russia Neutron Physics, Dubna, Russia (Eds .) Dictionary of Minor Planet Feynman Integral Calculus Names Dynamics of Complex Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003 - 2005 Interconnected Systems: The problem of evaluating Feynman integrals over Networks and Bioprocesses loop momenta has existed from the early days of Prepared on Behalf of Commission 20 Proceedings of the NATO Advanced perturbative quantum field theory. The goal of the Under the Auspices of the International Study Institute on Dynamics of Complex book is to summarize those methods for evaluating Feynman integrals that have been developed Astronomical Union Interconnected Biosensor Systems Networks over a span of more than fifty years. ‘Feynman and Bioprocesses, Geilo, Norway, Integral Calculus’ characterizes the most powerful 11-21 April 2005 methods, in particular those used for recent, quite This Addendum to the Dictionary of Minor Planet sophisticated calculations, and then illustrates Names, fifth edition, which is the official refer- them with numerous examples, starting from very ence for the field of the IAU, contains all newly The book reviews the synergism between various simple ones and progressing to nontrivial examples published names from the period 2003-2005 as fields of research that are confronted with This book characterizes methods of evaluation of well as corrections and amendments to earlier networks, such as genetic and metabolic networks, Feynman integrals in a systematic way. It concen- editions. In total the Dictionary of Minor Planet social networks, the Internet and ecological trates on the methods that have been employed Names now covers some 12000 named minor systems. In many cases, the interacting networks recently for most sophisticated calculations. planets. It provides authoritative information manifest so-called emergent properties that are not about the basis for the rich and colorful variety of possessed by any of the individual components. Features ingenious names, from heavenly goddesses to more This means that the detailed knowledge of the 7 Problems and separate solutions 7 Compre- prosaic constructions. components is insufficient to describe the whole hensive review of all tools to calculate and inter- system. Recent work has indicated that networks in prete Feynman Integrals Features nature have so-called scale-free characteristics, and 7 Published under the auspices of the IAU as the associated dynamic network modelling shows Contents official reference on named minor planets unexpected results such as an amazing robustness Introduction.- Feynman Integrals: Basic Defi- 7 Adds more than 2000 names to fith edition of against accidental failures. Modelling the signal nitions and Tools.- Evaluating by Alpha and the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names transduction networks in bioprocesses as in living Feynman Parameters.- Evaluating by MB Repre- 7 Authoritative information about basis for the cells is a challenging interdisciplinary research sentation.- IBP and Reduction to Master Inte- names of minor planets area. It is now realized that the many features of grals.- Reduction to Master Integrals by Baikov‘s molecular interaction networks within a cell are Method.- Evaluating by Differential Equations.- Field of interest shared to a large degree by the other complex Appendix A: Tables.- Appendix B: Some Special Astronomy systems mentioned above, such as the Internet, Functions.- Appendix C: Summation Formulae.- computer chips and society. Appendix D: Table of MB integrals.- Appendix E: Target groups Analysis of Convergence and Sector Decomposi- Astronomers including amateurs and historians of Features tions.- Appendix F: A brief Review of some other science 7 Complexity and Networks 7 Organiza- Methods.- Appendix G: Applying Gröbner Bases to tion and Networks of Living Matter 7 Social Solve IBP Relations.- Solutions. Discount group Networks 7 Internet Network 7 Synergies P between Networks Field of interest Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory Field of interest Nonlinear Dynamics, Complex Systems, Chaos, Target groups Neural Networks Graduate students
Target groups Discount group Theoretical physicists, soft condensed matter P researchers, biological physicists, molecular biolo- gists, social scientists
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2006 . IX, 211 p . (NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Volume 232) Hardcover Due August 2006 ISBN 1-4020-5028-3 7 $139.00 Due September 2006
2006 . Approx . 400 p . Hardcover Also available as softcover 2006 . Approx . 300 p . 50 illus . Hardcover ISBN 3-540-34360-1 7 $129.00 ISBN 1-4020-5029-1 7 $69.95 ISBN 3-540-30610-2 7 $79.95 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 7/2006 Physics/Astronomy 69
K. Tohji, N. Tsuchiya, B. Jeyadevan, Tohoku Univer- C. Vishveshwara J. Warnatz, University of Heidelberg, Germany; sity, Sendai, Japan (Eds .) U. Maas, University of Stuttgart, Germany; Einstein‘s Enigma or Black R. W. Dibble, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Water Dynamics Holes in my Bubblebath USA 3rd International Workshop on Water Combustion Dynamics, Sendai, Japan, Physical and Chemical Fundamentals, 16-17 November 2005 It is only after a long and tortuous journey through time that the black hole has come to be univer- Modeling and Simulation, Experiments, sally accepted. Once, in the early days of general Pollutant Formation Water is the essential constituent for life and this relativity, it was looked upon with abhorrence proceedings covers the role of water in materials, as an unwanted offspring of spacetime by some earth science and geo/biosphere. It assesses the of the pioneers of the theory including Einstein Combustion is an old technology, which at present role of water in a range of earth processes and himself. Even after its mode of formation had been provides about 90% of our worldwide energy considers environmentally friendly approaches demonstrated theoretically, there was widespread support. Combustion research in the past used to preserving water environments for present scepticism regarding its possible existence. But, fluid mechanics with global heat release by chem- and future generations. Included are transport now, the black hole has firmly established itself in ical reactions described with thermodynamics, phenomena and chemical reactivity, origin of the realm of physical reality. In fact, astronomers assuming infinitely fast reactions. This approach geofluids, fluid-rock interactions, water as a trigger have discovered that we are surrounded by black was useful for stationary combustion processes, for earthquake and volcanic eruptions, and the holes, ghosts of stars that exhausted their energy but it is not sufficient for transient processes like global circulation of water in the Earth‘s interior and collapsed. More over, many galaxies, including ignition and quenching or for pollutant forma- (crust, mantle and core), as well as the cause-and- our own Milky Way, are believed to harbour tion. Yet pollutant formation during combustion effect relationship between water, ecology and life supermassive black holes that are millions of times of fossil fuels is a central topic and will continue to in various environments. heavier than the sun. What is a black hole? be so in the future. This book provides a detailed and rigorous treatment of the coupling of chemical Field of interest Features reactions and fluid flow. Also, combustion-specific Condensed Matter and Material Sciences 7 A facinating, highly enjoyable popular science topics of chemistry and fluid mechanics are book on gravity and black holes with high literary considered and tools described for the simulation Target groups qualities 7 A fascinating account on the history of combustion processes. Chemists, materials scientists, geoscientists, of research on the universe and gravity from environmentalists, and biologists Artistotle via Copernicus via Newton to Einstein Features 7 Written by a celebrated relativist who was there 7 Advanced textbook treating fundamentals and Discount group and then when black hole physics began modern experimental and particularly numerical P methods 7 Based upon recent research results of From the Contents physics, chemistry, and fluid dynamics Chapter 1. The Bathtub.- Chapter 2. The Stellar 7 Important applications like engine knocking BED.- Chapter 3. The Casanova Connection.- and the formation of pollutants are presented Chapter 4. Footprints of the Giants.- Chapter 5. bustion 7 Processes on the Atmosphere Cosmic Framework.- Chapter 6. Moving Experi- ence.- Chapter 7. Fabric of Spacetime.- Chapter 8. Field of interest Grappling with Gravity.- Chapter 9. Beetles on a Engineering Thermodynamics, Transport Branch.- Chapter 10. Tub Talk.- Chapter 11. The Phenomena First Solution and the Last Statement.- Chapter 12. Sphere of Darkness.- Chapter 13. The Voracious Target groups Whirlpool.- Chapter 14. Dynamics of the Unique.- Students and researchers in mechanical and Chapter 15. A Date with Dante. chemical engineering
Field of interest Discount group Popular Science in Astronomy P
Target groups All readers who are interested in science in general and gravitation / black holes in particular, students of natural science, scientists
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Y. Waseda, S. Suzuki, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan (Eds .) Advanced Materials Characterization for Corrosion Products Formed on the Steel Surface
It is well known that corrosion products, i.e. rust, on iron and steel surfaces cannot be assigned a typical crystallographic structure with long-range order. In fact, the structure of rust is considered to be very complicated, and some forms of rust are assigned to the amorphous state for this reason. Accurate information about the atomic-scale struc- ture of rust is important to shed light on corrosion mechanisms of metallic materials. And, since life of steel structures is often dominated by environ- mental degradation or corrosion of the surface, the structure of the rust formed on iron and steel surfaces during prolonged exposure to air is of great interest. This book describes the fundamental aspects of materials characterization for the ferric oxyhydroxides formed on steel surfaces. Selected examples, from both the basic science and the applied engineering points of view, are presented.
Features 7 Describes the fundamental aspects of materials characterization for the ferric oxyhydroxided formed on steel surfaces 7 Provides selected examples from both the basic science and applied engineering points of view
Field of interest Metallic Materials
Target groups Scientists
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2006 . Approx . 320 p . 205 illus . (Advances in Materials Research, Volume 7) Hardcover ISBN 3-540-35177-9 7 $119.00 springer.com/librarybooks Springer News 7/2006 Geosciences/Geography 71
P. C. Chu, Monterey, CA, USA B. Hofmann-Wellenhof, H. Moritz, Technische S. K. Jain, P. K. Agarwal, National Institute of Universität Graz, Austria Hydrology, Roorkee, India; V. P. Singh, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LS, USA P-Vector Inverse Method Physical Geodesy Hydrology and Water A major task for physical oceanographers is to determine the movement of oceanic water from “Physical Geodesy” by Heiskanen and Moritz, Resources of India observations. This book introduces a simple, effi- published in 1967, has for a long time been consid- cient inverse method, the P-vector method, with a ered as the standard introduction to its field. The two-step determination of the velocity from hydro- enormous progress since then, however, required India is endowed with varied topographical graphic data. A DVD with software, hydrographic a complete reworking. While basic material could features, such as high mountains, extensive data and inverted velocity data is included for be retained other parts required a complete update. plateaus, and wide plains traversed by mighty practical use. Both the book and the DVD provide This concerns, above all, the adaptation to the fact rivers. Water is an important input in socio- insights into the basics of the P-vector inverse that the geometry can now be precisely determined economic development of a nation. In India, method and the features of the inverted global and by methods such as GPS, and that new satellite this dependence is even more apparent, as 70% regional ocean circulations. Upper undergraduate methods, combined with terrestrial methods, of her population is dependent on agriculture. and graduate students as well as oceanographers, also make a detailed determination of the earth‘s Divided into four sections the book provides a marine biologists and other environmental scien- gravitational field a possibility and a necessity. comprehensive overview of water resources of tists will find this book of great value as a tool for Highlights include: emphasis on global integration India. Beginning with a general description of the their continuing studies. of geometry and gravity, a simplified approach to country, major hydrologic features, such as climate Molodensky‘s theory without integral equations, (precipitation, temperature, radiation, etc.), Features and a general combination of all geodetic data by streamflow, groundwater, soil, etc. are discussed. 7 Simple and efficient description of the topic least-squares collocation. In the second edition A detailed treatment of all major river basins is 7 Contains DVD for practical use with exercises, minor mistakes have been corrected. provided, which includes description of catch- questions and answers ments, tributaries, surface water and ground water, Features and important water resources projects. Contents 7 Based on “Heiskanen/Moritz” which served Hydrographic Data.- Coordinate Systems.- Basic for 25 years as a standard reference 7 Physical Features Physical Characteristics.- P-Vector.- Variational geodesy treated encyclopedically 7 Seamless 7 First of its kind overview of water resources of P-Vector Method.- Volume Transport Streamfunc- welding of new ideas and methods (GPS, satellites, India 7 Up-to-date information on Indian river tion.- Inverted Global Velocity Data.- Inverted collocation) basins 7 Comprehensive discussion on water General Circulations of the Southern Ocean.- related problems and institutions working in this Inverted Circulation for the Pacific Basin.- Contents field Inverted Circulation for the Atlantic Basin.- Motivation.- Fundamentals of potential theory.- Inverted Circulation for the Indian Ocean. The gravity field of the earth.- Gravity reduction.- Field of interest Heights.- The geometry of the earth.- Gravity field Hydrogeology Field of interest outside the earth.- Space methods.- Modern views Oceanography on the determination of the figure of the earth- Target groups Statistical methods in physical geodesy.- Least- Water resources professionals, particulary those Target groups squares collocation.- Computational methods.- with an interest in India, graduate students, Undergraduate and graduate students of oceanog- References.- Subject index. researchers, teachers, professionals, planners, raphy, marine sciences as well as environmental policy makers scientists Field of interest Geophysics/Geodesy Discount group Discount group P P Target groups Geodesists, geophycisists, satellite navigation community, civil engineers, geographers
Due July 2006 Due November 2006 Due September 2006 2nd corr . ed . 2006 . Approx . 420 p . 111 illus . 2006 . Approx . 650 p . (Water Science and Technology 2006 . Approx . 500 p . With 2 DVDs . Hardcover Softcover Library, Volume 57) Hardcover ISBN 3-540-33384-3 7 $119.00 ISBN 3-211-33544-7 7 approx. $79.95 ISBN 1-4020-5179-4 7 $199.00 72 Geosciences/Geography Springer News 7/2006 springer.com/booksellers
J. L. Rasson, Royal Meteorological Institute, Centre S. Singh; R. Tripathi, National Botanical Research de Physique du Globe, Dourbes, Belgium; Institute Lucknow, India (Eds .) T. Delipetrov, Faculty of Mining and Geology, Stip, Republic of Macedonia (Eds .) Environmental Geomagnetics for Bioremediation Technologies Aeronautical Safety A Case Study in and around the Balkans The rapid expansion and increasing sophistica- tion of various industries in the past century has Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research remarkably increased the amount and complexity Workshop on New Data for the Magnetic of toxic waste effluents, which may be bioremedi- Field in the former Yugoslav Republic of ated by suitable plants microbes, either natural Macedonia for Enhanced Flying and Airport occurring or tailor-made for the specific purpose. This technology is termed as bioremediation. Safety, Ohrid, the former Yugoslav Republic Bioremediation is an eco- friendly, cost-effective of Macedonia 16-20 May 2005 and natural technology targeted to remove heavy metals, radionuclides, xenobiotic compounds, organic waste, pesticides etc. from contaminated Flying safely in aircraft implies the use of naviga- sites or industrial discharges through biological tion instruments. Among them, the magnetic means. Since this technology is used in in-situ compass is still a first choice for orientation and conditions, it does not physically disturb the site it is compulsory in all aircraft. In our increasingly unlike conventional methods i.e. chemical or sophisticated but fragile world of global naviga- mechanical methods. In this technology, higher tion systems and gyroscopic sensors, the compass plants or microbes are used alone or in combina- is especially useful as a back-up: it is highly tion for phytoextraction of heavy metals from reliable and likely to survive in harsh electromag- metal contaminated sites. Through microbial netic aggressions or when all power supplies fail. interventions, either the metals are immobilized or This book examines in detail how the science of mobilized through redox conversions at contami- geomagnetism is able to promote correct use of the nated sites. magnetic compass for navigation. A selected group of specialists met in Ohrid, Macedonia to expose Field of interest their approaches to the question. Biogeosciences
Features Target groups 7 Probably the first book published on the subject Libraries, institutes, researchers, scientists 7 A wealth of hard-to-find practical information on magnetic navigation 7 Unique information on Discount group the magnetic field in the Balkans and around P
Field of interest Geographical Information Systems/Cartography
Target groups Airport managers, airport safety and security personnel, airport construction and development firms, civil and military aeronautical organizations (i.e. National Airforces; Eurocontrol, ICAO Belgo- control), mapping and topographical services, aircraft pilots, magnetic observatories, geomag- netic field surveyors, maritime agencies
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2006 . X, 369 p . (NATO Security through Science Series / NATO Security through Science Series C: Environmental Security) Hardcover ISBN 1-4020-5023-2 7 $189.00 Due October 2006
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B. Arts, Wageningen University, The Netherlands; C. Borrego, University of Aveiro, Portugal; J. J. Canadell, Earth Observation Center, Canberra, P. Leroy, Nijmegen University, The Netherlands (Eds .) A. Norman, University of Calgary, AB, Canada (Eds .) ACT, Australia; D. E. Pataki, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA; L. F. Pitelka, University of Maryland Institutional Dynamics in Air Pollution Modeling and its Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, Environmental Governance Application XVII USA (Eds .) Global Change and Terrestrial
Environmental policy in its broadest context This volume seeks to cover the latest scientific Ecosystems has been significantly revitalized and renewed developments in the field of air pollution model- during the last two decades. That observation is ling. It contains papers and posters presented at the nothing new, attested to by the number of publica- Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh NATO/CCMS Over 100 authors present 25 contributions on the tions, conferences and both private and public International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution impacts of global change on terrestrial ecosys- projects that have been initiated. However, our Modelling and Its Application, November 2004. tems including: - critical impacts on processes of understanding of the dynamics of this renewal the earth system such as the effects of increasing has generally been informed by studies on single Features CO2 on the net carbon uptake, and changes in policies and projects, leaving us with a limited 7 Contains contributions from a wide range of functional biodiversity, - impacts on ecosystem understanding of what the ‘newness’ consists of leading Air Pollution Modeling specialists services such as wheat production and carbon in terms of an integrated perspective. This book storage in croplands, and - impacts on the most presents fresh analyses of a number of well-known From the contents sensitive regions in the world including the high cases, but does so from one comprehensive view, Role of Atmospheric Models in Air Pollution latitudes and Southeast Asia.Finally, the book the so-called policy arrangement approach. Cases Policy and Abatement Strategies.- Integrated explores fundamental new research developments discussed range over organic farming, inte- Regional Modeling.- Effects of Climate Change on such as identifying spatial thresholds and nonlin- grated water management, nature policy, cultural Air Quality.- Aerosols as Atmospheric Contami- earities, the key role of urban developmaent in heritage policy, integrated region-oriented policy, nants.- New Developments.- Model Assessment global biogeochemical processes, and the need for corporate environmental management and target and Verification. stronger integration of natural and human dimen- group policy, always in search of the commonality sions in addressing the challenge of global change. of experience and conclusions to be drawn in Field of interest understanding the past and in formulating future Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Features perspectives. Pollution 7 Brings the latest science on impacts of global change on a number of critical components of the Features Target groups terrestrial biosphere-human environment such as 7 Theoretically comprehensive, because all case Libraries; reseachers the carbon cycle, urban systems, and wheat-rice studies are analysed from one comprehensive crop systems among others 7 Emphasis is placed policy science perspective (namely the policy Discount group on impacts of atmospheric, climate and land use arrangement approach) 7 Theoretically innova- P change 7 Discusses in various chapters the future tive, since the policy arrangement approach does challenges and the scientific frameworks to address justice to both institutional and discourse analyses them on the one hand and to both structural and agency-oriented approaches on the other Field of interest Biogeosciences Field of interest Environmental Management Target groups Scientists, researchers, libraries, lecturers Target groups (Master and PhD) students of environmental, Discount group social, political and policy sciences and of public P administration; (environmental) policy makers and journalists interested in environmental (policy) issues
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Due August 2006 Due September 2006 Due September 2006 2006 . Approx . 300 p . (Environment & Policy, Volume 47) 2006 . Approx . 310 p . 100 illus . (Global Change - The IGBP Hardcover 2006 . Approx . 800 p . 200 illus . Hardcover Series) Hardcover ISBN 1-4020-5078-X 7 $79.95 ISBN 0-387-28255-6 7 $249.00 ISBN 3-540-32729-0 7 $99.00 74 Environmental Sciences Springer News 7/2006 springer.com/booksellers
M. Keiner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH A. Perrin, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes K. L. Seip, Oslo University College, Norway; Zurich, Switzerland (Ed .) Atmosphériques, Créteil, France; N. Ben Sari-Zizi, F. Wenstøp, BI Norwegian School of Management, Université Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco; Oslo, Norway The Future of Sustainability J. Demaison, Université des Sciences et Technologi es de Lille, Villeneuve d‘Ascq, France (Eds .) A Primer on Environmental Decision-Making At the beginning of the 21st century, outstanding Remote Sensing of visionary thinkers and scientists make a timely An Integrative Quantitative Approach assessment as to the future prospects of mankind: the Atmosphere for In what direction are we heading? How can the Environmental Security world become more just and equitable, and how Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research This book integrates decision-making and envi- can future development be sustained to adequately Workshop on Remote Sensing of the ronmental science. For ecologists it will bridge the address economic, social, and – perhaps most gap to economics. For practitioners in environ- Atmosphere for Environmental Security, important – environmental issues? This book mental economics and management it will be a provides a broad discussion on sustainable devel- Rabat, Morocco, 16-19 November 2005. major reference book. It probably contains the opment, rethinking and improving its effectiveness largest collection available of expressions and basic as a paradigm of today and tomorrow. Commu- equations that are used in environmental sciences. nities, states, and transnational corporations Recent ecological disasters make human beings Applying these expressions as „rules-of-thumb“ must take steps to transform engrained practices aware of changes in the Earth’s climate. At the will give participants in a decision-making process and priorities. If they fail to do so, sustainable present time anthropogenic activities lead to the a common platform for discussion and arbitration. development will remain an abstract concept or a emission of greenhouse gases, pollutants, aerosols To make the text comfortable to read, the book superficial catchword and will not become reality. and ozone depleting substances and the scientific is organized in disciplines, but it also includes 13 This publication is of special interest for university community in general feels responsible for under- applications that draw on all subjects in the book, researchers and students, international experts and standing how changes in atmospheric chemistry and where cross-references are extensively used. organizations in the field of Sustainable Develop- can affect the Earth’s climate. The first part of these The applications that range from siting of paper ment, but also for decision-makers of enterprises proceedings describes the current capabilities of mills to wilderness management show how a range and the public sector worldwide. various satellite experiments which are performing of topics in economics, social sciences and ecology measurements of the Earth’s atmosphere, as for are interrelated when decisions have to be made. Features example some of the results obtained recently 7 Brings together the visions and contributions by three experiments onboard the Environment Features of highly esteemed thinkers on this subject (such Satellite (ENVISAT), namely, the Global Ozone 7 Bridges the gap between environmental as Herman E. Daly, Ernst-Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Monitoring Experiment (GOME), the SCanning management and economics. Both themes are Mikhail Gorbachev, Dennis Meadows and others) Imaging Absorption for Atmospheric CHar- treated with equal concern and insight, since all 7 Fundamentally rethinks sustainability in the tographY (SCIAMACHY) and the Michelson chapters are written in tandem by an ecologist and context of rapid global change 7 Criticise and Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding an economist 7 Supports problem based learning questions the concept of sustainability 7 Offers (MIPAS). For the analysis of spectra recorded by and is excellent for project work 7 It is easy to New Dimensions of understanding sustainable these instruments it is necessary to make good use follow the main steps in a formal decision analysis, development of efficient radiative transfer codes. and easy to find the material that is needed to support the analyses Field of interest Features Environmental Management 7 Performances of the operational retrieval codes From the contents 7 Capabilities and performances “Michelson Preface.- Part 1 Environmental Decision- Target groups Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding” Making.- Part 2 The Subjective Experience.- Part Libraries of universities, international organiza- (MIPAS) 7 “SCanning Imaging Absorption 3 Ecological Principles and Processes.- Part 4 The tions working on the issue of sustainable devel- Spectrometer for Atmospheric ChartographY” Natural Environment.- Index. opment, Entrepreneurial and policy Decision- (SCIAMACHY) ENVISAT satellite 7 Remote makers, university teachers and research institutes, sensing of trace species in the atmosphere Field of interest national and international NGOs; university under Environmental Management graduate, graduate and post graduate courses in Field of interest sustainable development, economics, environ- Environmental Physics Target groups mental ethics, spatial planning and management Students in ecology/ biology who want to under- and development studies; broadly interested Target groups stand how their skills can be used in environ- public, grass-root groups, environmental lobbyists Meteorologists, geologists, astronomers, scientists mental management, managers and consultants working in the field of climatology involved in environmental decisions, students in Discount group business administration, in interdisciplinary envi- P Discount group ronmental, management and building courses at P universities and tertiary institutions internationally
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2006 . VII, 353 p . (NATO Security through Science Series / NATO Security through Science Series C: Environmental Security) Hardcover Due July 2006 ISBN 1-4020-5088-7 7 $179.00 Due September 2006
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P. Verbeek, University of Twente, Enschede, The B. Westrich, Universität Stuttgart, Germany; S. Wetzel, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Netherlands; A. Slob, TNO Built Environment and U. Förstner, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Forest Service, Sault Ste . Marie, ON, Canada; Geosciences, Delft, The Netherlands (Eds .) Germany (Eds .) L. C. Duchesne, Forest Bioproducts Inc ., Sault Ste . Marie, Canada; M. F. Laporte, Natural Resources User Behavior and Technology Sediment Dynamics and Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Sault Ste . Marie, Development Pollutant Mobility in Rivers ON, Canada Shaping Sustainable Relations Between An Interdisciplinary Approach Bioproducts From Canada‘s Consumers and Technologies Forests This is the first interdisciplinary book on the mobi- New Partnerships in the Bioeconomy Environmental policy has long been determined lization of nutrients and pollutants in the water by a dichotomy between technology and behavior. phase due to hydrodynamic processes. Special Some approaches stress the importance of study targets are the formation of aggregates in For the first time, this opportune book provides a technology and technological innovation, while turbulent water, flocks and biofilms from organic comprehensive treatment of the many innovative, others focus on behavioral change. Each approach reactions, and the formation of new surfaces for non-timber bioproducts that may be derived from has its limitations, however, since technology re-adsorption of dissolved pollutants.The degrada- Canada’s vast forests, including their potential and behavior often appear so closely intertwined. tion of organic matter is of the greatest importance economic, social and environmental impacts. It Human behavior results not only from intentions as it affects both hydrodynamic processes and also offers a balanced discussion of the techno- and deliberate decisions, but also from its interac- geochemical redox cycles providing driving forces , logical, policy and regulatory issues surrounding tion with technological artifacts. In the area of e.g. for metal mobilization. the emerging global bioeconomy. This book traffic safety, for instance, people’s driving behavior These papers result from an International will not only be of interest to Canadian forestry is determined as much by curves, speed bumps and Symposium on Sediment Dynamics and Pollutant professionals and entrepreneurs, but also to those the power of their motors as by considerations of Mobility in River Basins, held in Hamburg, March interested in the contribution of forestry to the safety and responsibility. How can we best describe 26 to 29, 2006. bioeconomy worldwide. and understand these interactions between behavior and technology? What conceptual frame- Features Features works and empirical studies are available, and how 7 First interdisciplinary book on the mobilization 7 Brings together much of the diverse informa- can they be integrated? And how can we bring of nutrients and pollutants into the water phase tion available at the national level and aims at these interactions to bear on product design and due to hydrodynamic processes suggesting progressive steps to maximize the forest policy making? legacy 7 Useful for forestry professionals and Field of interest entrepreneurs worldwide Features Hydrogeology 7 The first volume that explicitly deals with the Contents interactions between technology and behavior Target groups Preface. Acknowledgments.- Forests as a Source of 7 Offers a systematic and integrative overview of Environmental engineers, Hydraulic engineers, Bioproducts.- Biofuels and Bioenergy.- Biochemi- state of the art research of technology – behavior microbiologists, Environmental chemists, ecotoxi- cals.- Agroforestry.- Foods from the Forest.- interactions 7 An interdisciplinary study, in cologists Nutraceuticals from the Forest.- Pharmaceuticals which all disciplines relevant to the study of tech- from the Forest.- Decorative and Aesthetic nology-behavior interactions are brought together Discount group Products.- Recreation and Other Forest Values.- 7 Provides a basis for policy-making 7 Provides P Protecting Forest Biomass from Pests: Current a basis for product design Challenges.- Other Innovative Products and Tech- nologies.- Carbon Credits.- The Way Forward.- Field of interest References.- Index. Environment, general Field of interest Target groups Environment, general Policy makers in Environmental Policy / Traffic Policy; marketeers and product designers; scholars Target groups in Science and Technology Studies, (environmental Worldwide forestry professionals, entrepreneurs, and cognitive) Psychology, Technology Manage- policy-makers and opinion leaders ment and Policy-making, Philosophy of Tech- nology, Industrial Design, Safety Studies Discount group P Discount group P
Due July 2006 Due July 2006 Due August 2006 2006 . XVIII, 397 p . 47 illus . (Eco-Efficiency in Industry and 2006 . Approx . 500 p . (Environmental Science and Science, Volume 20) Hardcover Engineering / Environmental Science) Hardcover 2006 . Approx . 280 p . Hardcover ISBN 1-4020-4433-X 7 $109.00 ISBN 3-540-34782-8 7 $199.00 ISBN 1-4020-4991-9 7 $139.00 76 Life Sciences Springer News 7/2006 springer.com/booksellers
L. Beloussov, V. Voeikov, Moscow State University, I. Fong, University of Toronto, ON, Canada; K. Alibek, S. S. Gnanamanickam, University of Madras, Moscow, Russia; V. Martynyuk, Crimean Scientific George Mason University, Manassas, VA, USA (Eds .) Chennai, India (Ed .) Center, Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine (Eds .) New and Evolving Infections Plant-Associated Bacteria Biophotonics and Coherent of the 21st Century Systems in Biology This volume is developed on the broad theme of plant-associated bacteria. It is envisioned as The past decade has been highlighted by numerous a resource volume for researchers working with It is now well established that all living systems advances in research of medical scientific knowl- beneficial and harmful groups of bacteria associ- emit a weak but permanent photon flux in the edge, medical technology and the biological ated with crop plants. The book is divided into visible and ultraviolet range. This biophoton emis- and diagnostic techniques-but somewhat less two parts. Part I (9 chapters) on beneficial bacteria sion is correlated with many, if not all, biological dramatic changes or improvement in manage- includes chapters on symbiotic nitrogen fixers, and physiological functions. There are indications ment of medical conditions. This volume in the diazotrophs, epiphytes, endophytes and rhizo- of a hitherto-overlooked information channel Emerging Infectious Disease of the 21st century sphere bacteria and deleterious rhizobacteria. Part within the living system. Biophotons may trigger series, addresses some of the emerging issues II (8 chapters) consists of detailed descriptions of chemical reactivity in cells, growth control, and controversies in Infectious Diseases. The 8 genera of plant pathogenic bacteria: Agrobac- differentiation and intercellular communication, author has chosen these topics for review based terium, Clavibacter, soft-rot Erwinia, Pseudo- i.e. biological rhythms. Biophotonics is becoming on questions and contentions raised by medical monas, Xanthomonas, Ralstonia, Burkholderia one of the most fashionable fields in modern residents, internists, emergency physicians, clinical and Acidovorax and Herbaspirillum. There is an science and biotechnology. Biophotonics and infectious disease specialists and family physicians. opening chapter on the plant-associated bacteria Coherent Systems in Biology an account of the This volume will provide guidance and answers to survey, molecular phylogeny, genomics and recent original papers presented by the participants of frequently asked questions in infectious diseases to advances. And each chapter includes terminology/ the 3rd Alexander Gurwitsch Conference on the the researcher, clinician, generalists, specialists and definitions, molecular phylogeny, methods that Biophotonics and Coherent Systems in Biology, trainees in these areas; thus, facilitating improved can be used (both traditional and latest molecular Biophysics and Biotechnology which took place in patient care, prudent and cost effective manage- tools) and applications. Tauric University (Crimea, Ukraine) September 27 ment and investigation of these disorders. – October 1, 2004. From the contents Features Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Plant-associated Features 7 Unique in that it is the first volume to directly bacteria: survey, molecular biology genomics and 7 Features an introduction by Dr. Fritz-Albert discuss several controversies regarding infectious recent advances. Beneficial Bacteria: 2. Rhizobium- Popp (International Institute for Biophysics), diseases from the 21 century legume symbioses: molecular signals elaborated by leading pioneer of biophotons rhizobia that are important for nudulation. From the contents 3. Nitorgen fixing bacteria in nonlegumes. Contents Central Nervous System.- Head and Neck 4. Epiphytic bacteria, their ecology and functions. An account of the original papers presented by Infections.- Pulmonary Infection New 5. Bacterial endophytes: The endophytic niche, its the participants of the 3rd Alexander Gurwitsch Concepts in the Management of Sepsis.- Empiric occupants and its utility. Rhizosphere Bacteria: Conference on Biophotonics and Coherent Therapic for Febrile Neutropenia.- Issues in the 6. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR). Systems in Biology, Biophysics, and Biotech- Management of Prosthetic Joint/Bone Infec- 7. Contribution of studies on suppressive soils to nology, held at Tauric University, Crimea, Ukraine, tions.- Emerging Trends in Management of the identification of bacterial biocontrol agents and September 27 - October 1, 2004. Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia.- Combination to the knowledge of their modes of action. 8. Root- Treatement of Bacterial Infections.- Trends and associated bacteria including systemic resistance. Field of interest Issues in Urinary Tract Infection.- Trends and 9. Rhizosphere competence and role of root coloni- Biotechnology Controversies with Use of Probiotics.- Emerging zation in biocontrol. 10. Deleterious rhizobacteria. Issues in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.- Varicella Plant Pathogenic Bacteria: 11. Agrobacterium Target groups Zoster Virus.- New Trends.- biology and crown gall disease. 12. Clavibacter Biotechnology and Life Sciences professionals michiganensis, a group of gram-positive phyto- interested in electromagnetic biophysics: biotech- Field of interest pathogenic bacteria. 13. The soft rot Erwinia. nologists, bioengineers, tissue engineers, engi- Infectious Diseases neers, biophysicists, genetic engineers, pharmaco- Field of interest logical research, and life science researchers Target groups Plant Pathology Researchers, physicians, clinicians, emergency Discount group medical professionals and advanced upper level Target groups P graduate students in all areas of Infectious Disease, Research scientists in microbiology, plant Microbiology, Immunology, Medicine, and pathology, plant physiology, chemistry, genetics Virology and molecular biology
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A. Jolly, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; P. Kaldis, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, USA W. Külpmann, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, R. W. Sussman, Washington University, St . Louis, MO, (Ed .) Germany; H. Stummvoll, Linz, Austria; P. Lehmann, USA; N. Koyama, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Mannheim, Germany H. R. Rasamimanana, University of Madagascar, Cell Cycle Regulation Antananarivo, Madagascar (Eds .) Electrolytes, Acid-Base Balance and Blood Gases Ringtailed Lemur Biology The cell cycle is tightly regulated on many different levels to ensure properly controlled proliferation. Clinical Aspects and Laboratory Lemur catta in Madagascar Deregulation of cell cycle regulation is a hallmark of cancer. In this book, many aspects of cell cycle regulation are discussed, which include G1, S, The first part of this book describes in a condensed This volume includes up-to-date field research M phase control, ubiquitin-mediated degra- manner the current state of diagnosis and treat- on the longest-studied and best known of lemur dation, DNA damage response, mitotic spindle ment of disorders of electrolyte balance and species. It contains articles by scientists from checkpoint, the centrosome cycle, Retinoblastoma provides the physician with both a rapid aid to America, Europe, Japan and Madagascar, who protein family, the Myc oncogene, and mouse orientation at the bedside as well as a compre- combine their knowledge to describe an animal models for tumor suppressors, cyclin-dependent hensive insight into the pathophysiological which is unique among primates, a lemur whose kinases, and meiosis. These chapters written by relationships involved. A separate section deals group structure resembles that of many monkeys, experts provide an updated view on how the cell with electrolytes in the urine. In the subsequent but whose behavior does not. Ringtailed lemurs, cycle is regulated in vivo and about the involve- chapters, preanalysis and analysis of electrolytes Lemur catta, are female dominant, prone to evict ment of cell cycle regulators in cancer. are discussed with special reference to determina- their cousins from social groups, and live at popu- tion by means of ion-selective electrodes as well as lation densities ten times greater than monkeys. Features “enzymatic” methods and carrier-bound reagents The volume treats ecology, behavior, and physi- 7 A state-of-the-art summary of the latest (“dry chemistry”) including quality assessment. ology to present current research on this unique achievements in cell cycle control research with an primate. The papers review past research and add outlook on the effect of these findings on cancer Field of interest new dimensions of research related to nutrition, research 7 Written by internationally leading Biochemistry, general health, hormonal biology, plant ecology, behavioral experts in the field ecology, and demography of Lemur catta. Target groups Field of interest Physicians, researchers, students Features Cell Biology 7 Many of the topics covered in this volume have Discount group not been researched and integrated for ringtailed Target groups P lemurs, or for other primates 7 Represents the Scientists and researchers most current and up-to-date research on ringtailed lemurs, the most studied prosimian and the “flag- Discount group ship” species of Madagascar primates P
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Target groups Primatologists, zoologists, anthropologists, zoo researchers, veterinarians, botanists, conservation biologists, wildlife managers, and both working professionals and graduate students in these fields
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2006 . Approx . 610 p . 120 illus . (Developments in Prima- 2006 . XII, 374 p . 26 illus ., 1 in color . (Results and Prob- 2nd enlarged and rev . ed . 2006 . Approx . 200 p . 45 illus . tology: Progress and Prospects) Hardcover lems in Cell Differentiation, Volume 42) Hardcover Softcover ISBN 0-387-32669-3 7 $129.00 ISBN 3-540-34552-3 7 $239.00 ISBN 3-211-33127-1 7 $34.95 78 Life Sciences Springer News 7/2006 springer.com/booksellers
B. Kumar, Kerala Agricultural University, India; R. Leuven, Institute for Wetland and Water Research, Nucleic Acids and Molecular P. Nair, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands; (Eds .) A. Ragas, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Nether- Biology lands; A. Smits, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Tropical Homegardens Netherlands; G. van der Velde, Institute for Wetland Series editor: H. Gross and Water Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, A Time-Tested Example of Sustainable The Netherlands (Eds .) Volume 19 Agroforestry Living Rivers: Trends and M. Fry, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; K. Usdin, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA (Eds .) ‘Homegardens’ are integrated tree – crop – animal Challenges in Science and production systems, often in small parcels of land Management Human Nucleotide Expansion surrounding homesteads, and primarily found in tropical environments. These agroforestry systems, Disorders developed and nurtured by farmers through gener- All over the world, sustainable river basin manage- ations of innovation and experiment, are often ment is a leading principle of policy plans and cited as the epitome of sustainability, yet have been legal instruments for water management (e.g. Human neurological and neuromuscular disorders long neglected by the scientific community. Today, the European Water Framework Directive). The caused by nucleotide expansion, first discovered however, these age-old systems are receiving evidence, however, to underpin the full scope in 1991, are the focus of growing interest of increasing attention owing to their perceived of sustainability is rather scanty. In this book an practicing physicians and of interested biomedical potential to mitigate environmental problems such integrative perspective on trends and challenges researchers. This volume represents a compre- as loss of biodiversity and rising levels of atmo- in river science and management is demonstrated. hensive and up-to-date description of many of spheric CO2, while providing significant economic The three pillars underneath sustainable water the better-studied disorders. The expert authors gains, as well as food and nutritional security to management, ecology, economy and sociology, discuss molecular, clinical and pathological their owners. This multi-authored volume contains are elaborated by experts in their fields. A number aspects of the diseases as well as our current peer-reviewed chapters from the world’s leading of papers integrate the current knowledge on the understanding of their underlying mechanisms. researchers and professionals in this topic. structure, functioning and management of ‘living Of special interest are ideas and initial results of rivers’. The book includes data and experiences the different therapeutic strategies that can be Features concerning the rivers Allier, Meuse, Rhine, Sava employed to overcome some of the disorders. As 7 Pan-tropical coverage 7 Documented knowl- and Tagliamento in Europe and the river Illinois in a summary of the state-of-the-art research in this edge and skills to manage agrodiversity 7 Multi- the USA. Sustainable river basin management asks field, this book is of value to human geneticists, disciplinary team of authors 7 Lucid presentation for un-orthodox rehabilitation programmes and molecular biologists and biochemists as well as to with minimal scientific and technical jargon ecosystem based and transboundary management practicing neurologists and pediatricians. approaches. Field of interest Features Agriculture Features 7 State-of-the-art overview on the molecular 7 Integrative perspective on river science and basis of selected neurological/neuromuscular Target groups management 7 Novel approaches to environ- disorders and possible therapies 7 A valuable Scientists, students, and development professionals mental rehabilitation of riverine ecosystems source for geneticists, molecular biologist and in Agroforestry, Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology, and 7 Complementary combination of natural and neurologists alike allied land-use Disciplines social sciences 7 Detailed descriptions of struc- ture and functioning of river systems Field of interest Discount group Neurobiology P Field of interest Hydrobiology Target groups Scientists and researchers Target groups Aquatic scientists and water managers, and in Discount group particular river scientists and river managers P
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A. Pandey, Trivandrum, India (Ed .) Progress in Molecular and G. Shao, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; Subcellular Biology K. M. Reynolds, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR, Enzyme Technology USA (Eds .) Series editor: W.E. Müller, P. Jeanteur (Ed .) Computer Applications This book is a unique resource for state-of-the-art research findings on biotechnological innovations Volume 44 in Sustainable Forest in the area of industrial and therapeutic enzymes, Management and special-function and extreme-nature enzymes Alternative Splicing and Including Perspectives on Collaboration and such as ribozymes, therozymes, cold-adapted Integration enzymes, etc, covering all aspects such as the Disease producing micro-organisms, their mode of cultiva- tion, downstream processing and applications. It Computer Applications in Sustainable Forest provides a great deal of information on potential Splicing of primary RNA transcript, i.e. removal Management presents state-of-the-art computer of enzymes for their commercial exploitation. This of introns and joining of exons to produce mature applications in a variety of specialty areas of book gives up-to-date information on advances mRNAs competent for translation into proteins, forestry, including inventory, remote sensing, in enzyme research useful to both the expert and is a quasi-systematic step of gene expression in information management, modelling and visual- researchers entering the field as well. The vital higher organisms. However, this process is not ization, biometrics, forest and harvest planning, information has been organized in an easy-to- unequivocal but can follow alternate pathways. bioeconomics and marketing, and decision science use format that lets readers become familiar with Alternative splicing of a given transcript can for management. This book emphasizes integra- highlights of the most relevant topics and includes therefore yield several distinct mRNAs encoding tion, or collaborative use, of computer technolo- photographs, figures, and tables. as many different proteins. Its full biological gies across different disciplines through inter- significance has not been appreciated until it was disciplinary research and development in North Features recognized that alternative splicing is so general as America, China, and Europe. It also offers impor- 7 Unique resource for state-of-the-art research to affect about 75% of all human genes. There- tant new insights on how to continue advancing findings on biotechnological innovations in the fore, alternative splicing not only vastly increases computational technologies in forest management area of industrial and therapeutic enzymes, and protein diversity but also offers numerous opportu- to better achieve the basic goal of sustainable forest special-function and extreme-nature enzymes such nities for aberrant splicing events with pathological management. Case studies demonstrate integra- as ribozymes, therozymes, cold-adapted enzymes, consequences. tion of, or collaboration among, multiple computer etc, covering all aspects such as the producing applications for sustainable forest management. micro-organisms, their mode of cultivation, down- Features stream processing and applications 7 First book to highlight the medical implica- Features tions, i.e. diseases, caused by alternative splicing 7 Most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment From the contents 7 Outlines possible targets for therapy of computer applications in forestry 7 Authors General properties of enzymes.- Enzyme 7 Written by internationally reknown experts are internationally-recognized authorities in the kinetics and modelling of enzymatic systems.- subjects presented 7 First text on software for Thermodynamics of enzyme catalysed reac- Contents forest management to emphasize integration of tions.- Regeneration of cofactors for enzyme Methods and Platforms for the Quantification of computer applications 7 An unusual synthesis biocatalysis.- Biocatalysis in organic media Splice Variants‘ Expression. Pre-mRNA Miss- of perspectives, spanning computer scientists, using enzymes.- Biotransformations with crude plicing as a Cause of Human Disease. Alternative analysts, researchers, and professional foresters enzymes and whole cells. nzymes as tools for Splicing: Therapeutic Target and Tool. SR Proteins the stereospecific formation of carbon-carbon as Potential Targets for Therapy. Misregulation Field of interest bonds for the synthesis of monosaccharides and of Tau Alternative Splicing in Neurodegenera- Computer Appl. in Life Sciences analogs.- Enzymes engineered for new reactions. tion and Dementia. Spinal Muscular Atrophy and - Novel catalysts for organic synthesis.- Alpha Therapeutic Prospects. Misregulation of Alterna- Target groups amylase.- Glucoamylase.- Glucose isomerase.- tive Splicing Causes Pathogenesis in Myotonic Forest resource managers and planners, forestry Cellulase.- Pectinase.- Lipase.- Protease.- Xyla- Dystrophy. Redirecting Splicing to Address administrators, forest researchers and educators, nase.- Inulinase.- Phytase.- Tannase.- Peroxidases.- Dystrophin Mutations: Molecular By-pass Surgery. forestry graduate students and senior under- Chitinase.- Invertases.- Mannanases. -Bioreactor Altered Splicing in Prelamin A-associated Prema- graduate students, computer specialists and data analysis and applications.- Isolation and purifica- ture Aging Phenotypes. Splicing Modulation as a analysts in forestry tion of enzymes.- Modifier of the CFTR Function Mutations. Discount group Field of interest Field of interest P Biochemistry, general Cell Biology
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F. Weick, Bruchsal, Germany Owls (Strigiformes) – Annotated and Illustrated Checklist
The first systematic owl checklist for over 50 years to include subspecies and synonyms, Owls (Stri- giformes) – Annotated and Illustrated Checklist provides information on the type locality, habitat and distribution of 220 owl species and 539 taxa, as well as the location of museum collections of skins and mounted specimens, and references to owl illustrations. For each species, detailed, hitherto unpublished, measurements of body length and mass, and wing-, tail-, tarsus- and bill-length are given. In addition to scientific names, the common names of each species in English, German, French and Spanish are listed. The checklist is comple- mented by many beautiful owl drawings and by watercolours illustrating owl species that have been newly described or rediscoverd within the last 20 years. Reflecting a high level of scientific expertise and the most up-to-date research, this checklist provides an outstanding resource for scientific collections, studies of global biodiversity, and species preservation.
Features 7 Beautiful line drawings and watercolours of owls 7 The author, a painter of animals and an illustrator of textbooks, has already co-authored several ornithological publications 7 An up- to-date checklist with an abundance of hitherto unpublished measurements
Field of interest Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
Target groups Ornithologist, professionals, amateurs, and enthusiasts; curators of scientific collections, those involved in species preservation and breeding programs
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E. Alba, Universidad de Malaga, Spain; R. Marti, S. Anderson, University of North Florida, Gainesville, S. Axsäter, Lund University, Sweden Universitat de Valencia, Burjassot, Spain (Eds .) FL, USA Inventory Control Metaheuristic Procedures for Investment Management and
Training Neural Networks Mismanagement The strategic importance of efficient Supply Chain History, Findings, and Analysis Management is today fully recognized by top management. The total investment in inventories Metaheuristic Procedures For Training Neural is enormous, and the control of capital tied up in Networks provides successful implementations Investment Management and Mismanagement: raw material, work-in-progress, and finished goods of metaheuristic methods for neural network History, Findings, and Analysis will present the offers an important potential for improvement. At training. Moreover, the basic principles and reader with: (1) a brief overview of portfolio the same time, advances in information technology fundamental ideas given in the book will allow the management and its historical evolution , (2) have drastically changed the possibilities to apply readers to create successful training methods on the findings of a substantial amount of academic improved inventory control techniques. Further- their own. Apart from Chapter 1, which reviews research into the performance of portfolio more, the recent progress in research has resulted classical training methods, the chapters are managers, (3) the various issues associated in new and more general methods that can reduce divided into three main categories. The first one is with both institutional and individual portfolio the supply chain costs substantially. Scientific devoted to local search based methods, including mismanagement, and (4) a treatment of the areas methods for production and inventory control Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, and Variable of suitability and churning The articles referenced can give a significant competitive advantage. The Neighborhood Search. The second part of the are primarily works from academic journals, Second Edition of Inventory Control deals with a book presents population based methods, such as including: The Journal of Finance, Journal of range of different approaches and models that can Estimation Distribution algorithms, Scatter Search, Financial Economics, and others, as well as from be used when developing inventory management and Genetic Algorithms. The third part covers practitioner-oriented venues, such as Financial systems and practices. other advanced techniques, such as Ant Colony Analyst Journal and various law journals. This Optimization, Co-evolutionary methods, GRASP, work should be of value to academic researchers Features and Memetic algorithms. Overall, the book‘s objec- as a convenient source of summarized studies in 7 The second edition of Inventory Control incor- tive is engineered to provide a broad coverage of these areas, while practitioners will find value its porates several new topics. The additions include: the concepts, methods, and tools of this important content as an efficient reference for determining alternative forecasting techniques, more material area of ANNs within the realm of continuous the benefits of asset management as well as poten- on different stochastic demand processes and optimization. tial pitfalls. how they can be fitted to empirical data, general- ized treatment of single-echelon periodic review Features Features systems, capacity constrained lot sizing. 7 Apart from research efforts bringing together 7 Includes an analysis of the literature on indi- metaheuristic techniques to train artificial neural vidual investor behavior 7 Includes an analysis Contents networks, this is the first book to achieve this of the literature on professional investor behavior Preface.- Introduction.- Forecasting.- Costs and objective. This book provides a unified approach to 7 Includes an analysis of the literature on both concepts.- Single-echelon systems: deterministic training ANNs with modern heuristics; moreover, suitability and churning 7 Focuses directly on lot sizing.- Single-echelon systems: reorder points.- it provides abundant literature demonstrating all of the reasons for investments management Single-echelon systems: integration - optimality.- how these procedures escape local optima and underperformance Coordinated ordering.- Multi-echelon systems: solve problems in very different mathematical structures and ordering policies.- Multi-echelon scenarios Contents systems: lot sizing.- Multi-echelon systems: reorder Preface.- An Overview of the Investment Process.- points.- Implementation.- Appendix 1.- Answers Field of interest A Brief History of Portfolio Management.- Market and hints to problems.- Appendix 2.- Normal Operations Research/Decision Theory Efficiency and Anomalies.- Analysts‘ Recom- distribution tables.- Index. mendations and the Portfolio Manager.- Studies Target groups of Institutional Portfolio Performance.- Studies Field of interest Researchers, students, and technically competent of Individual Portfolio Performance.- Portfolio Production/Logistics practitioners not only in neural networks, but also Mismanagement Issues.- Studies Related to in Management Science, Industrial Engineering, Sulitability and Churning.- Conclusion.- Index. Target groups Economics, and Computer Science Students, industry practitioners Field of interest Discount group Finance /Banking Discount group P P Target groups Libraries, graduate students, financial planners
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J. G. Backhaus, University of Erfurt, Germany; N. Demise, Y. Miwa, M. Nabayashi, Meiji University, J. Duclos, A. Abdelkrim, University Laval, Sainte-Foy, W. Drechsler, University of Tartu, Estonia (Eds .) Tokyo, Japan QC, Canada Friedrich Nietzsche Corporate Governance in Poverty and Equity (1844-1900) Japan Measurement, Policy, and Estimation with Economy and Society DAD
The cases of Enron and WorldCom in 2001 in the Until now, Friedrich Nietzsche’s influence on the United States focused worldwide attention on the This text addresses the understanding and allevia- development of modern social sciences has not issue of whether corporations have a social respon- tion of poverty, inequality, and inequity using a been well documented. This volume reconsiders sibility beyond stockholder value. Recent incidents unique and broad mix of concepts, measurement some of Nietzsche’s writings on economics and the in Japan have raised similar questions as corporate methods, statistical tools, software, and practical science of state and in doing so pioneers a line of governance in the broad sense and corporate social exercises. Part I discusses basic fundamental issues research not previously available in English. Here, responsibility in particular have been taken up by of well-being and poverty measurement. Part II twelve scholars consider Nietzsche’s historical committees established by government minis- develops an integrated framework for measuring and contemporary relevance, which has ranged tries. This book is the result of an international poverty, social welfare, inequality, vertical equity, from the highly serious (Schumpeter writings on comparative study of corporate governance begun horizontal equity, and redistribution. Part III creative destruction) to the pop cultural (the early in 2002, and provides in-depth analysis of the presents and develops recent methods for testing works of Ayn Rand). Several papers present strong issue as it applies to management, moral hazards, the robustness of distributive rankings. Part evidence of Nietzsche as an influencer of modern accounting practices, and the institutional investor IV discusses ways of using policy to alleviate economists; others see him more as an influencer from both a Japanese and a global perspective. The poverty, improve welfare, increase equity, and of influencers; and one sees little influence at all. study presents a view of the company as an entity assess the impact of growth. Part V applies the Most of the contributions refer extensively to that not only maximizes profit for stockholders but tools to real data. Most of the book’s measurement works previous unpublished (or poorly translated) that also has a social role to play in maintaining and statistical tools have been programmed in in English. a sustainable society. In this way the book is a valu- DAD, a well established and widely available free able source for managers, investors, and others in software program that has been tailored especially Features business, finance, and economics. for income distribution analysis and is used by 7 The first English-language volume to trace scholars, researchers, and analysts in nearly 100 Nietzsche’s influence on economics and the social Features countries worldwide. sciences 7 Authors discuss corporate governance from viewpoints of management, accounting and the Features From the contents market 7 DAD applications 7 Examples and exercises Preface: Nietzsche – Economy and Society: The use real data 7 Unified treatment of poverty and Closed and the Open Questions.- Friedrich From the contents equity 7 Quantitative and rigorous Nietzsche and Economics: Research Problems.- Part 1: Four Approaches to Corporate Gover- The Influence of Nietzsche on the History of nance.- Part 2 Corporate Governance in Japan.- Field of interest Economic Thought.- Nietzsche and Economics.- Part 3: Corporate Governance in Global Economy. Population Economics Creative Destruction in Economics: Nietzsche, Sombart, Schumpeter.- Word of Honour.- An Field of interest Target groups ‘All too Human’ Question: Nietzsche, Die Soziale Management Upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level Frage, and the German Historical School of instructors and students in economics and related Economics.- Nietzsche and Business Ethics.- On Target groups social sciences, researchers, practitioners, and the Nietzsche-Reception in the GDR.- Wolfgang Researchers policy makers Harich and Friedrich Nietzsche – a Chapter of the East German Nietzsche Debate.- Justice and Discount group Discount group Economy from Human, All Too Human to Thus P P Spake Zarathustra.- Democracy and Aristocracy in Nietzsche’s Late Writings.
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J. W. Herrmann, University of Maryland, N. Jentzsch, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany B. Johansson, C. Karlsson, Jönköping University, College Park, MD, USA (Ed .) Sweden; R. Stough, George Mason School of Public The Economics and Regulation Policy, Fairfax, USA (Eds .) Handbook of Production of Financial Privacy Scheduling The Emerging Digital An International Comparison of Credit Economy Reporting Systems Entrepreneurship, Clusters, and Policy Handbook of Production Scheduling concentrates on real-world production scheduling in factories This book provides the first in-depth analysis and industrial settings. It includes industry case of the economics and regulation of financial The technology dynamics of the digital age studies that use innovative techniques as well privacy. It is an international comparison of credit continue to impact where industries and firms as academic research results that can be used reporting systems in the United States and in locate and cluster geographically. Some of the to improve real-world production scheduling. European countries. On the theoretical level the impacts and structural patterns are consistent Its purpose is to present scheduling principles, book explains competition in information markets, with the old or Fordist economic era; some are advanced tools, and examples of innovative especially in markets for goods made of highly not. Thus, the contributions provide a balanced scheduling systems to persons who could use this personal and sensitive information. It reviews the view of the “New Economy” or “Digital Economy” information to improve production scheduling microeconomics of information and privacy and perspective and through new analyses illustrate in their own organization. The intended audience discusses the economic incentives to disclose or to where dynamics seem to be emerging and where includes: production and plant managers, indus- conceal information. The book also focuses on the more traditional patterns seem to be holding. trial engineers, operations research practitioners, institutions of credit reporting, the history of credit The book‘s contributions are based on analyses in advanced undergraduate/ graduate students and reporting agencies and the regulation of privacy specific regions in different parts of the world and faculty studying and doing research in operations and credit reporting on both sides of the Atlantic are informed by empirical analysis. The volume research and industrial engineering. as well as internationally. Finally, on the empirical is more than just another book on the digital level, it reviews the microeconomic and potential economy based only on interpretive analysis. Features macroeconomic effects of credit reporting in the Consequently, the reader will gain considerable 7 Scheduling is a basic core research stream in credit markets of countries around the world. new insight based on a fact based foundation. A OR that is applied across a variety of discipline synthesis is provided that places the contribu- domains including Engineering, Computer Contents tions in a broader frame. Policy implications are Science, Production Operations, Manufacturing, Introduction.- Theory of Information and Privacy.- examined. and other areas. The handbook’s emphasis on “real The Institutions of Credit Reporting.- Economic world” problems and practice will be its key selling Effects of Credit Reporting.- Lessons for Credit Contents point Reporting Regulation.- Conclusions. Clusters, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.- Loca- tion and Dynamics of ICT Industries.- Telecom- Field of interest Field of interest munications and Policy. Production/Logistics Economic Policy Field of interest Target groups Target groups Regional Science Production managers, plant managers, industrial Researchers, regulators, government officials engineers, operations research practitioners, Target groups students studying operations research and indus- Discount group Scientists and graduate students trial engineering, researchers in OR and industrial P engineering Discount group P Discount group P
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J. Józefowska, J. Weglarz, Poznan University of J. Kühn, University of Zurich, Switzerland K. Marti, Federal Armed Forces University Munich, Technology, Poland (Eds .) Germany; Y. Ermoliev, M. Makowsk, International Optimal Risk-Return Trade- Institute for Applied System Analysis, Laxenburg, Perspectives in Modern Offs of Commercial Banks Austria; G. Pflug, University of Vienna, Austria (Eds .) Project Scheduling and the Suitability of Profitability Measures Coping with Uncertainty Modeling and Policy Issues Operations Research began with the mathematical The present book criticizes the fact that profit- scheduling of a massive project − logistically ability measures derived from capital market supplying Europe with military equipment and models such as the Sharpe ratio and the reward-to- Ongoing global changes bring fundamentally new goods during the WWII. Today project scheduling VaR ratio are proposed for loan portfolios although scientific problems requiring new concepts and research continues growing in a variety of its it is not assessed whether their risk-return trade- tools. A key issue concerns a vast variety of practi- theoretical models, in its magnitude and applica- offs are optimal for banks. This volume intends to cally irreducible uncertainties, which challenge tion. As the world becomes more interrelated and fill this gap. The approach of this work is to endog- our traditional models and require new concepts complex, the wider its research is applied to an enously derive optimal risk-return trade-offs of and analytical tools. The uncertainty critically increasing number of project scheduling problems. commercial banks and to compare them with those dominantes, e.g., the climate change debates. In Project Scheduling: Surveying the State-of-the-Art of reward-to-risk ratios. The risk-return trade-offs short, the dilemma is concerned with enormous surveys the current state-of-the-art in operations for banks are derived taking into account market costs vs. massive uncertainties of potential extreme research with chapters written by the respective discipline, Basel I and Basel II regulatory capital impacts. Traditional scientific approaches usually leading experts on each topic. It covers the range requirements, and insured deposits. It is found that rely on real observations and experiments. Yet no of the key models in the field, including deter- even the reward-to-VaR ratio, which is explicitly sufficient observations exist for new problems, and ministic, probabilistic, single- and multi-mode, developed for the purpose of valuating loan port- „pure“ experiments and learning by doing may be single- and multi-objective, and a general model folios, can be highly misleading. The volume also very expensive, dangerous, or simply impossible. on discrete-continuous resources. Recent solution helps in understanding risk management motives In addition, available historical observations are algorithms are systematical examined. The book of banks, in particular, how market discipline, contaminated by actions, policies. The complexity summarize sthe current developments and theo- capital requirements, and insured deposits affect of new problems does not allow to achieve enough retical achievements in the field, including project the decision-making of banks. certainty by increasing the resolution of models uncertainty and grid resource management. or by bringing in more links. Hence, new tools Field of interest for modeling and management of uncertainty are Features Finance /Banking needed, as given in this book. 7 Edited by two leading researchers in project scheduling, Joanna Jozefowska and Jan Weglarz. Target groups Contents Jan Weglarz is one of the most distinguished Scientists Uncertainty and Decisions.- Modeling Stochastic members of the OR/MS community and a recip- Uncertainty.- Non-probabilistic Uncertainty.- ient of the EURO Gold Medal 7 The monograph Discount group Applications of Stochastic Optimization.- Policy summarizes the main recent achievements in the P Issues Under Uncertainty. field and points out the most important theoretical results such as new models of project uncertainty Field of interest and applications such as grid resource manage- Operations Research/Decision Theory ment Target groups Field of interest Scientists and practitioners Organization/Planning Discount group Target groups P Aademics and students in project management and scheduling in Business Schools, Operations Research/Management Science, Computer Science and Engineering, Systems Analysis, and Applied Mathematics
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M. Neuhaus, London, UK S. Seifert, University of Karlsruhe, Germany D. Sondermann, University of Bonn, Germany The Impact of FDI on Posted Price Offers in Internet Introduction to Stochastic Economic Growth Auction Markets Calculus for Finance An Analysis for the Transition Countries of Central and Eastern Europe New information technologies allow for the The large number of already available textbooks design of innovative electronic markets which can on stochastic calculus with specific applications This book provides a comprehensive under- improve the efficiency of trading. In this context, to finance requires a justification for another standing of the relationship between FDI and several internet marketplaces have recently contribution to this subject. The justifcation is economic growth with special attention to the extended the flexibility of their selling mechanisms mainly pedagogical. These lecture notes start with countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Within by creating hybrid institutions which combine an an elementary approach to stochastic calculus due a new semi-endogenous growth model, the book auction with a fixed price offer so that buyers can to Föllmer, who showed that one can develop Ito‘s illustrates the impact of FDI on economic growth choose to bid in the auction or to acquire the item calculus „pathwise“ as an exercise in real analysis. for every stage of development of a country. Devel- for the fixed price. Applying a Market Engineering The text opens to students interested in finance a oping countries experience both strong capital approach, this book introduces a model of an quick (but by no means „dirty“) road to the tools accumulation and technology transfer through auction with a posted price offer and investi- required for advanced finance in continuous time, FDI, whereas highly developed countries mainly gates the characteristics of such mechanisms. It including option pricing by martingale methods, benefit from FDI as a vehicle of global technology discusses the respective equilibrium strategies of term structure models in a HJM-framework and diffusion. Departing from this universal model, both the sellers and the bidders which provide the Libor market model. The reader is supposed the book then investigates the impact of FDI on useful insights into understanding actual behavior. only to be familiar with elementary real analysis economic growth for the transition countries of The theoretic results are compared with strate- (e.g. Taylor‘s Theorem) and basic probability Central and Eastern Europe. With the help of gies of students in a controlled experiment. The theory. The text is also useful for mathematicians modern panel data econometrics it carries out the experimental observations indicate shortcomings interested in the methods of modern mathematical strongly awaited empirical evidence of a growth of standard economic theories and help to further finance without prior knowledge of advanced enhancing effect of FDI in the transition countries, improve electronic markets. stochastic analysis. and it explains for each country the actual growth contributions induced by FDI. Contents Field of interest Introduction.- Model of the APPO Market Institu- Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Contents tion.- Design of the APPO Experiment.- Results of Finance/Insurance Introduction.- Solow Growth Accounting and Styl- the Experiment.- Conclusion and Outlook. ised Facts.- Capital Deepening through FDI in an Target groups Economic Growth Model.- Estimating the Effect Field of interest Researchers, M.A. students/postgraduates with on Economic Growth for 13 Countries of Central Operations Research/Decision Theory mathematical background and Eastern Europe.- The Determinants of FDI - What Can the Transition Countries Do to Attract Target groups Discount group FDI?- Conclusion.- Mathematical Derivations. Scientists P
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R. J. Stimson, University of Queensland, St . Lucia, S. Tsenkova, University of Calgary, Alberta, AB, H. Westlund, National Institute for Working Life, QLD, Australia; R. R. Stough, George Mason Univer- Canada; Z. Nedovic-Budic, University of Illinois, Östersund, Sweden sity, Fairfax, VA, USA; B. H. Roberts, University of Champaign, IL, USA (Eds .) Canberra, ACT, Australia Social Capital in the The Urban Mosaic of Post- Regional Economic Knowledge Economy Socialist Europe Theory and Empirics Development Space, Institutions and Policy Analysis and Planning Strategy This book analyzes the social capital of the growing The book explores urban dynamics in post- knowledge economy. The theoretical part discusses The second edition of this book is completely socialist Europe 15 years after the fall of commu- social capital as an economic concept, its rela- reedited making the book even more valuable for nism. The ‘urban mosaic’ metaphor expresses tion to traditional capital theory and its role as a graduate students, reflecting recent advances and the complexity, diversity and uniqueness of the spatial externality. A theory of the social capital adding insightful new material. The book is about processes and spatial outcomes in post-socialist of the enterprise is developed and social capital‘s the analysis of regional economic performance and cities. The book examines the urban development importance for entrepreneurship, innovation and change, and how analysis integrates with strategies and the policy and planning processes that have regional development is analyzed. The empicical for local and regional economic development resulted from the socio-economic, political, and part compare some central aspects of social capital policy and planning. First, the book provides the institutional transformations characterizing the of three different socio-economic systems: the US, reader with an overview of key theoretical and move to markets and democracy. The emerging Japan and Sweden, regarding labor market rela- conceptual contexts within which the economic urban phenomena are illustrated with in-depth tions, innovation systems and the civil societies. development process takes place. However, the case studies, sensitive to historical themes, cultural The social capitals of the knowledge intensive deliberate emphasis is to provide the reader issues and the socialist legacy. Cities featured in biotech industries of the three countries are with an account of quantitative and qualitative the book include: Kazan, St. Petersburg, Moscow, studied and compared. Finally, a number of issues approaches to regional economic analysis and of Warsaw, Prague, Komarno, Budapest, Belgrade, for further research are discussed. old and new strategic frameworks for formulating Bucharest, Sofia and Tirana. The edited volume regional economic development planning. is organized around the following four themes: Contents the driving forces of post-socialist change; urban Introduction.- Social Capital as an Economic Features processes and spatial change; housing and retail Concept.- Social Capital as Capital in the 7 Second edition is completely reedited, reflecting sector transformation; and urban planning and Economic Sense.- Social Capital as a Spatial Exter- recent advances in research and focusing on policy responses. nality.- The Social Capital of the Enterprise.- Social students as the main target group 7 Important Capital and Entrepreneurship.- Social Capital ad methods of analysis in regional economics based Field of interest Innovation: Actors and Policies.- Why Compare on new models and their applications Regional Science Sweden, Japan and USA/California?- Social Capital Expressed in the Form of Labor Market Field of interest Target groups Relations.- Social Capital and Institutions for Regional Science Scientists, practitioners in urban planning and Growth, Innovation and Renewal.- Civil Society’s politics Social Capital.- The Knowledge-Intensive Biotech Target groups Industry: Structures and Policies.- The Biotech Senior year undergraduate students, graduate Discount group Industry’s Social Capital: An Empirical Study.- students, scientists P Some Forward Looking Comments.
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B. Engelmann, Quanteam Dr . Bernd Engelmann R. Hirschheim, University of Louisiana, LA, USA; J. Mingers, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK und Sören Gerlach GbR, Frankfurt, Germany; A. Heinzl, J. Dibbern, University of Mannheim, R. Rauhmeier, Dresdner Bank AG, Frankfurt a .M ., Germany (Eds .) Realising Systems Thinking Germany (Eds .) Information Systems Knowledge and Action in Management Science The Basel II Risk Parameters Outsourcing Estimation, Validation, and Stress Testing Enduring Themes, New Perspectives and Global Changes This wide-ranging book deals, in a detailed and scholarly way, with the contribution of a systems The estimation and validation of the Basel II risk approach to a range of disciplines from philosophy parameters PD (default probability), LGD (loss The notion of outsourcing – making arrange- and biology to social theory and management. It given default), and EAD (exposure at default) is ments with an external entity for the provision weaves together material from some of the pre- an important problem in banking practice. These of goods or services to supplement or replace eminent thinkers of the day − Maturana, Varela, parameters are used on the one hand as inputs to internal efforts – has been around for centuries. Bateson, Merleau-Ponty, Checkland, Giddens, credit portfolio models, on the other to compute The outsourcing of information systems (IS) is, Habermas, Bhaskar, and Luhmann − to create a regulatory capital according to the new Basel rules. however, a much newer concept, but one which coherent path from the most fundamental work The book covers the state-of-the-art in designing has been growing dramatically. This book attempts on philosophical issues of ontology and episte- and validating rating systems and default prob- to synthesize what is known about IS outsourcing mology through specific domains of knowledge ability estimations. Furthermore, it presents by dividing the subject in six interrelated parts: about the nature of information and meaning, techniques to estimate LGD and EAD. A chapter (1) determinants of outsourcing, (2) relation- human communication, and social intervention on stress testing of the Basel II risk parameters ship issues, (3) user experiences, (4) vendor and right up to the implications of these theoretical concludes the monograph. individual perspectives, (5) application service developments for action and intervention in real- providing, and (6) offshoring. The book should be world affairs. It will be of interest to scholars in Features of interest to all academics and students in the field philosophy, biology, information systems, commu- 7 Insights into credit portfolio models and the of Information Systems as well as corporate execu- nications, social theory, management science and Basel II framework 7 Diverse perspectives tives and professionals who seek a more profound operational research as well as everyone in the through articles from supervisors, researchers and analysis and understanding of the underlying systems community. practitioners factors and mechanisms of outsourcing. Features Field of interest Features 7 The main market for this book is the academic Finance /Banking 7 Excellent collection of high-quality articles on systems community worldwide 7 Its interdis- information systems outsourcing 7 Examples of ciplinary coverage will also make it relevant to a Target groups successful outsourcing in organizations through wide range of scholars in other disciplines such Professionals in the fields of Credit Risk Manage- empirical surveys and case studies 7 New: as operations research, information systems, soci- ment and Controlling as well as Portfolio Model- Insights into hot topics such as information tech- ology and philosophy 7 Useful as a companion ling, Banking Supervisors nology offshoring, business process outsourcing, text for courses on systems thinking in a variety of applications service providing, web services disciplines Discount group P Contents Contents Part I: Overview.- Part II: Determinants of the Introduction.- Part I Foundations.- Philosophical IS Outsourcing Decision.- Part III: Outsourcing Foundations: Critical realism.- Living Systems: Relationship Issues.- Part IV: Experiences and Autopoiesis.- Observing Systems: The question of Outcome of IS Outsourcing.- Part V: Vendor boundaries.- Part II Knowledge.- Information and View and Individual Level Perspective.- Part Meaning.- Knowledge and Truth.- Communica- VI: Application Service Providing and Business tion and Social Interaction.- Social Systems.- Part Process Outsourcing.- VII: Offshoring and Global- III Action and Intervention.- Management Science Outsourcing. and Multimethodology.- The Process of Multi- methodology.- Reprise.- Sources.- References. Field of interest Information Systems Field of interest Management Target groups Scientists and practitioners interested in Informa- Target groups tion Systems Outsourcing Academics, researchers, and students
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P. Dann, Washington, DC, USA; M. Rynkowski, E. H. Riedel, Universität Mannheim; R. Wolfrum, MPI Wroclaw, Polen (Eds .) für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg (Eds .) The Unity of the European Constitution Recent Trends in German and European Constitutional Law German Reports Presented to the XVIIth The book contains the contributions to a confer- International Congress on Comparative Law, ence of young Polish and German public law Utrecht, 16 to 22 July 2006 scholars on the Constitutional Law of the Euro- pean Union. The articles explore from different angles and in different fields the concept of the This volume contains the German National unity and its (limited) realization in the primary/ Reports on Public Law presented at the XVIIth constitutional law of the European Union. They Congress of the International Academy of analyze the coherence of the EU‘s constitutional Comparative Law, Utrecht 2006. The authors are structure in the face of diversity, and the EU law‘s senior and junior research fellows at German independence from ordinary public international universities and research centres. Their articles law. They also deal with “unity versus differentia- provide an overview over recent developments and tion”, i.e. the horizontal, cross-sectoral homoge- new issues in both European Constitutional and neity of European constitutional law and, finally, German Public Law from a German perspective examine the territorial and temporal aspects of and offer an in-depth analysis of the legal issues unity. The topic is expedient for several reasons, discussed. The book offers scholars as well as and its contributors are promising, as they are practitioners a sound basis for studies on a wide nationals from two Member States, Poland and range of current and interesting issues in the field Germany, “new” and “old”, who teach and research of comparative law. in four different European countries. The diversity of that group itself offers enriching perspectives on Contents the given topic. Constitutional Principles for Europe.- The Emer- gence of European Constitutional Law.- The Legal From the contents Position of Migrants.- Constitutional Referendum General Questions.- Institutional Aspects of in Germany - Country Report.- E-Government - the Constitution - Towards a New Institutional Country Report on Germany.- Quangos - An Balance?- Sectoral Differentiation in the Constitu- Unknown Species in German Public Law? German tion.- Territorial and Temporal Aspects of Unity. Report on the Rule-making Power of Indepen- dent Administrative Agencies.- Progress and the Field of interest Precautionary Principle in Administrative Law European Law/Public International Law - Country Report on Germany.- Legal Means for Eliminating Corruption in the Public Service.- Target groups Characteristics of International Administration European institutions, libraries in Crisis Areas - A German Perspective.- Consti- tutional Guarantees of Judicial Independence in Discount group Germany. P Field of interest European Law/Public International Law
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L. Barton, F. Armstrong, University of London, UK H. Daun, Stockholm University, Sweden (Ed .) D. Gamage, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, (Eds .) Australia School Decentralization in Policy, Experience and the Context of Globalizing Professional Development for Change: Cross Cultural Governance Leaders and Managers of Self- Reflections on Inclusive International Comparison of Grassroots Governing Schools Education Responses Today, the self-governing schools (SGS) have The book makes an overview of the world wide become a global phenomenon. It has liberated This book represents an original and innovatory economic, political, cultural and educational school heads from the bureaucratic shackles, series of insights, ideas and questions concerning changes since the beginning of the 1980’s and making them leaders in their own right. Accord- inclusive education and cross-cultural understand- presents the new type of educational governance. ingly, the Principal’s role has undergone the ings. Drawing on historical and cultural material, It describes the processes of globalization and most radical transformation and has been widely policy developments, legislation and research how national education systems have responded acknowledged as the vanguard of stability and the findings, the book provides a critical exploration of to these processes. It argues that symbolic world agent of change in creating effective schools. As the key factors including Inclusive Education, human models (for the way of organizing national soci- CEO, the Principal has to develop a shared vision rights, change, diversity and special educational eties and education) have emerged in international with the capacity to incorporate diverse leader- needs. It is a key focus of consideration how these agencies and how these models are borrowed, ship styles such as Transformational, Distributed, are defined and experienced within particular imitated, imposed and so on, when different Shared and Strategic. Under the SGS model the societies. Contradictions, ambiguities, complexi- countries reform their primary and secondary governing body formulates school policies in ties and differences within and between societies education. This book extensively reviews outcomes consultation with the principal, making him/her are identified and discussed. Each contributor of educational decentralization using research responsible and accountable for implementation. offers some insights into their own developments findings from Australia, China, Kyrgyz Republic, and struggles in the pursuit of inclusive thinking, Czech Republic, Sweden, England, Mozambique, Features values and practices. South Africa, Senegal, Nicaragua, the USA. 7 Guides, educates and trains aspiring and practicing educational/school leaders from around Features Features the world 7 The cutting edge response to the 7 Exploring contemporary issues relating to 7 Offers a broad view on world system and widely acknowledged need for further professional inclusive education internationally 7 Examines globalization 7 Links the global and the local and development in school leadership inclusive education from a number of perspectives, shows how the globalized policy is implemented including human rights, policy and culture in the local context 7 Contains “grassroots” case From the contents 7 Critically discovers cross-cultural research studies from different countries applying a similar 1. New Challenges Confronted by School issues and values in inclusive education in a world-wide policy Leaders.- 2. Decentralisation and Devolution of changing world Authority Towards Self-Governing Schools.- Field of interest 3. The Importance of Educational Administra- Field of interest Education (general) tion.- 4. How Does School Culture Helps Improve Higher Education Performance?- 5. Employing Organisational Target groups Behaviour as a Management Perspective.- 6. Flex- Target groups Teachers, researchers, teacher trainers and students ibility in Style in the Key to Providing Effective Undergraduate students on education courses in higher education and sociology, as well as NGO- Leadership.- 7. Management of Organisations including teacher education, students on master professionals and policy makers Staffed by Professionals.- 8.Adopting Strategic programmes, doctoral students, researchers, policy Planning for School Improvement.-9. Leading makers Discount group and Managing Human Resources.- 10. Leading P and Managing Change towards Organisational Discount group Improvement.-1 1. Importance of Effective P Communication.- 12. Need for Well Informed Effective Decision-Making.-13. Meetings as Forums for Effective Communication and Deci- sion-Making.-14. Management and Resolution of Conflicts.
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H. Schomburg, U. Teichler, International Centre for T. Townsend, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Higher Education Research Kassel, Germany (Eds .) FL, USA; R. Bates, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia (Eds .) Higher Education and Graduate Employment in Handbook of Teacher Europe Education Results of Graduates Surveys from Twelve Globalization, Standards and Professionalism Countries in Times of Change
The book indicates a noteworthy variety among This book provides an international review of the economically advanced countries in the compe- current state of teacher education, with chapters tences fostered by Higher Education and the from an international group of teacher educators. emphasis placed either on laying a broad basis of It focuses on major issues that are confronting knowledge or direct preparation for professional teacher educators now and in the next decade. tasks. While universities in some countries are These include the impact of globalization on the strongly involved in ensuring a rapid transition profession of teaching, and how teacher educa- from study to employment, in other countries a tion must deal with changing accountability long period after graduation is widespread for requirements from governments and establish a the search of a suitable career. Graduates from set of minimum standards acceptable to enable a some countries appreciate their study experiences person to teach. The work also considers aspects though they criticize a weak preparation for their of the three major phases of teacher education: subsequent assignments, while others less satisfied the period prior to commencing in the profes- with higher education in their retrospective view sion, successful induction into the profession, note a satisfying preparation for the world of work. and the ongoing professional development of Study often turns out useful to lead to challenging teachers. Finally, it identifies ways in which new tasks even though remuneration and status remain technologies can be used to improve the training below expectations. and ongoing development of teachers. Cases from different countries are used to provide a rich base Features of data to help us understand how the profession is 7 Unique source of information on higher moving onwards. education and graduate employment in Europe 7 Relevant background for decision making in Features higher education 7 Demonstrates the strengths 7 An up-to-date review of key issues facing of indepth surveys in the analysis of links between teacher education from an international perspec- education and career tive 7 Chapters from writers all over the world 7 A synthesis that establishes the key concerns Field of interest facing teacher education in the next decade Higher Education Field of interest Target groups Teacher Education Higher education researchers, politicians, univer- sity administrators, heads of higher education Target groups institutions and their departments, student coun- Academics in Teacher Education and Comparative sellors, specialists on the labour market for the Education, Teacher Education students higher qualified, career service providers Discount group Discount group P P
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C. S. Aneshensel, University of California , Los G. Caforio, Italian Interuniversity Centre of Historical R. R. Cnaan, Pennsylvania School of Social Work, Angeles, CA, USA; J. C. Phelan, Columbia University, and Military Studies, Pisa, Italy (Ed .) Philadelphia, PA, USA; C. Milofsky, Bucknell NY, USA (Eds .) University, Lewisburg, PA, USA (Eds .) Handbook of the Sociology of Handbook of the Sociology of the Military Handbook of Community Mental Health Movements and Local Organizations Never before has there been so extensive a collec- This handbook describes the ways in which society tion of what has been thought, said, and written shapes the mental health of its members and about the sociology of the military. This acces- This handbook takes voluntary associations as the further shapes the lives of those who have been sible handbook is the first of its kind to delve starting point for making sense of communities. identified as mentally ill. With regards to the social into the sociological approach to the study of the Although the way associations and the organiza- origins of mental health, this handbook covers military. This book is compiled of documents tion of local social life are intertwined is one of both the social conditions that lead to the behavior coming from various researchers at universi- the oldest approaches to community study the way defined as mental illness and the the way in which ties around the world as well as military officers citizens and residents come together informally to the concept of mental illness is socially constructed devoted to the sector of study. Covered in this act and solve problems has rarely been a primary around those behaviors. This handbook also volume is a historical excursus of studies prior to focus. There is little direct research or theory covers a third body of work that examines socially contemporary research, interpretive models and dealing with this subject and beginning to correct conditioned responses to mental illness on the theoretical approaches developed specifically for that deficit is the task of this book. The challenge part of individuals and institutions along with the this topic, civic-military relations including issues accepted by this book is important because asso- ways in which these responses affect the lives of surrounding democratic control of the armed ciations are central to important, developing areas persons with mental illness. Section topics include: forces, military culture, professional training, of social theory and social action. For example, the Alternative Understandings of Mental Health, conditions and problems of minorities in the theory of civil society is based on the notion that Observing Mental Health in the Community, the armed forces, an examination of the structural informal groups, social movements, civic associa- Social Distribution of Mental Illness, Social Ante- change within the military over the years including tions, and small formal nonprofit organizations cedents of Mental Illness, Social Consequences of new duties and functions following the Cold War. form a cohesive set of social organizations that Mental Illness, Institutional Contexts of Mental integrate society. Illness, and Social Continuities. Features 7 The first of its kind to delve into the sociological Features Features approach to the study of the military 7 Compiled 7 The theory of civil society is based on the 7 This wide-ranging handbook brings together of documents coming from various researchers at notion that informal groups, social movements, experts in the sociology of mental health to present universities around the world, as well as military civic associations, and small formal nonprofit in-depth discussions on the interface between officers devoted to the sector of study 7 Ideal for organizations form a cohesion of social organiza- society and the inward experiences of its members scholars of the subject, as well as those coming to tion that integrates society. They address a local 7 The chapters analyze social group differences in the sociology of the military for the first time problem, become an important focus of life for mental disorder and corresponding differences in participants, and a formidable presence in the exposure to the social conditions that cause these From the contents political realm disorders 7 Differences along gender, racial and Section I: General Introduction.-Section II: Theo- ethnic, social class retical and Methodological Orientations.-Section Field of interest III: Armed Forces and Society.- Section IV: Inside Sociology Field of interest the Military.- Section V: Trends in the Military: Sociology Conversion and Restructuring.- Section VI: New Target groups Missions.- Notes on authors.- Index. Professionals and academics in Sociology, Political Target groups Science, Policy Studies and Economics, focused Sociologists, Mental Health professionals and Field of interest on the study of Nonprofit Management, Organiza- social researchers in the area of Mental Health Sociology tions, General Sociology
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J. Delamater, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, M. L. Galaty, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS, USA; M. T. Hallinan, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA USA (Ed .) C. Watkinson, American School of Classical Studies at (Ed .) Athens, Princeton, NJ, USA (Eds .) Handbook of Social Handbook of the Sociology of Psychology Archaeology Under Education Dictatorship
Social Psychology is an important interdisciplinary This wide-ranging handbook provides a compre- field within Sociology. Psychology, focusing on Archaeological knowledge is not created in a hensive overview of the field of education as processes that occur inside the individual and vacuum and our understanding of the past is viewed from a sociological perspective. Experts in Sociology, focusing on social collectives and social profoundly affected by political ideologies. In fact, the area present theoretical and empirical research institutions, come together in social psychology to a relationship between politics and archaeology on major educational issues and analyze the social explore the interface between the two fields. Social develops to some degree in every nation, regard- processes that govern schooling, and the role of Psychology is the study of how both intra-indi- less of social and economic circumstances. The schools in and their impact on contemporary vidual factors and social interaction influence and connections between politics and archaeology society. A major reference work for social scientists are influenced by individual behavior. The core become most visible, however, within a totalitarian who want an overview of the field, graduate concerns of social psychology include: - the impact dictatorship, when a dictator seeks to create and students, and educators. of one individual on another - the impact of a legitimize new state-supported ideologies. Any group on its individual members - the impact of dictator may attempt to control and exploit the Features individuals on the groups in which they partici- past, often by directly controlling archaeologists. 7 Provides a comprehensive overview of the pate - the impact of one group on another This The degree to which a nation‘s archaeological field of education as viewed from a sociological successor to Social Psychology: Social Perspectives system may continue to be affected after the fall perspective 7 Experts in the area present theo- and Sociological Perspectives in Social Psychology of the dictator depends upon both the previous retical and empirical research on major educa- expands on previous handbooks in social regime‘s ideological position and its level of tional issues 7 Includes an analysis of the social psychology by including recent developments in dependence upon archaeology, and the response processes that govern schooling 7 Presents the theory and research and Substantial Coverage of of archaeologists to the regime, collectively and role of schools in and their impact on contempo- major theoretical perspectives. individually. rary society 7 Shows the macro and micro level processes that make up the educational environ- Features Features ment 7 The first Handbook to bring together both 7 Not only deals with nationalism, but also the the psychological and sociological sides of social lingering effects that a dictatorship can have on the From the contents psychology 7 The contributors - leaders in the historical and archaeological record Preface.- Introduction.- I: Theoretical and Meth- field - were asked to bring together past work, odological Orientations.- II: Development and identify limitations and point to needed future Field of interest Expansion of Education.- III: The Study of Access directions in the field 7 Delamater is the editor Archaeology to Schooling.- IV: The Study of School Organiza- of Journal of Sex Research and was on the editorial tion.- V: The Study of School Outcomes.- VI: board of Social Psychology Quarterly Target groups Policy Implications of Research in Sociology of Archaeological theorists interested in the practice Education. From the contents of archaeology, archaeologists working in former I: Theoretical Perspectives.- II: Development and dictatorships, and those interested in how govern- Field of interest Socialization.- III: Intrapersonal Processes.- IV: ment affects scientinfic research Sociology Interpersonal Processes.- V: The Individual in Sociocultural Context. Discount group Target groups P Social scientists, graduate students, educators Field of interest Sociology Discount group P Target groups Researchers, scientists
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K. Harvati, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary W. Horner, Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät, J. T. Mortimer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany; T. Harrison, New Leipzig, Germany; H. Dobert, Deutsches Institut MN, USA; M. J. Shanahan, University of North York University, USA (Eds .) für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung, Berlin, Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA (Eds .) Germany; B. von Kopp, W. Mitter, Deutsches Institut Neanderthals Revisited für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung, Handbook of the Life Course Frankfurt, Germany (Eds .) New Approaches and Perspectives The Education Systems of This comprehensive handbook provides an over- view of key theoretical perspectives, concepts, and Recent years have witnessed exciting and impor- Europe methodological approaches that, while applied to tant scientific breakthroughs in the study of diverse phenomena, are united in their general Neanderthals and their place in human evolution approach to the study of lives across age phases. which have transformed our appreciation of this The paradoxical character of education – which In surveying the wide terrain of life course studies group’s paleobiology and evolution. This volume includes at the same time a universalistic value with dual emphases on theory and empirical presents cutting-edge research by leading scientists as well as a national property – makes the special research, this important reference work presents re-examining the major debates in Neanderthal interest of this handbook. The book gives – unique probative concepts and methods and identifies research with the use of innovative state-of-the art in its form – an analytical description of the educa- promising avenues for future research. Included methods and exciting new theoretical approaches. tion systems of all European countries, following are sections on history and cross-national vari- Topics addressed include the re-evaluation of common analytical guidelines. These conceptual ability, normative structuring, movement through Neanderthal anatomy, inferred adaptations and guidelines try to consider a certain number of the life course, transitions in the life course, habitual activities, developmental patterns, phylo- criteria concerning presumptions as to the quality turning points, connections between life phases, genetic relationships, and the Neanderthal extinc- of a good education system, as demonstrated by methodology, and the future of the life course. tion; new methods include computer tomography, the recent international studies about student A major reference work and a seminal text, it is 3D geometric morphometrics, ancient DNA and performances, such as PISA. The inclusiveness of essential reading for social scientists studying bioenergetics. The diverse contributions offer fresh the geographic field is of special interest for both phases within the life course, social psychologists insights and advances in Neanderthal and modern European and Extra-European readers showing in sociology and psychology, demographers and human origins research. in particular the dynamics of the development in academics in the field of the life course as well as the “new Europe” in its Eastern part compared students in these disciplines. Features with the “older” western members of the European 7 The first edited volume to present an in-depth Union. Features view of a variety of research topics in Neander- 7 Provides an overview of key theoretical thal paleobiology and to incorporate the recent Features perspectives, concepts, and methodological advances in Neanderthal and modern human 7 The only handbook covering all European approaches that, while applied to diverse origins research 7 These breakthroughs include countries 7 Combination of an analytical frame- phenomena, are united in their general approach ancient DNA research, the study of detailed work and substantial reliable information permit- to the study of lives across age phases 7 Presents paleoenvironmental records and their relationship ting comparisons of problems 7 Comparable probative concepts and methods and identifies to paleoanthropological data statistical data 7 Emphasis on educational trends promising avenues for future research in the tension between continuity and change Field of interest From the contents Anthropology/Archaeometry Field of interest I: The Life Course Perspective.- II: Historical and Social Sciences, general Cross-National Variability in the Life Course.- Target groups III: Normative Structuring in the Life Course.- Academics, scientists, researchers and graduate Target groups IV: Movement through the Life Course.- V: Life students dealing with (evolutionary) anthropology; Educationists, persons responsible for Teacher Course Construction.- VI: Methods and Interdis- paleontologists, archaeologists, paleobiologists Education and Training, educational policy ciplinary Approaches.- VII: The Future of the Life makers, educational authorities (from the national Course. Discount group to the local level), teacher associations; scholars P and students of Comparative and International Field of interest Education, Sociology of Education, Educational Sociology Management, European Studies, Area studies comprising European countries (e.g. Central Target groups and East European Studies), Quality Research in Social scientists, social psychologists, demogra- Education; scholars Participating in International phers and academics, and students Student Performance Studies Discount group Discount group P P
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G. H. Odell, University of Tulsa, OK, USA H. N. Pontell, G. L. Geis, University of California, H. Rodriguez, E. L. Quarantelli, R. Dynes, University Irvine, CA, USA (Eds .) of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA Lithic Analysis International Handbook of Handbook of Disaster
This practical volume does not intend to replace White-Collar and Corporate Research a mentor, but acts as a readily accessible guide to Crime the basic tools of lithic analysis that a researcher can consult. Some focuses of the manual include: Recent disasters, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean - History of stone tool research, - Procurement, In this exciting book project the Editors aspire Tsunami, bomb explosions in London, Hurricane manufacture and function, - Assemblage vari- to collect the best and brightest work on white- Katrina, the Pakistan Earthquake, floods in Central ability. This manual also includes text boxes, collar and corporate crime from respected America, and landslides in Indonesia, among many bringing basic terms and information to the atten- scholars worldwide. While there have been many others, have resulted in an extensive loss of life, tion of the researcher. “Lithic Analysis” will be collections of such research and theorizing, social disruption, significant economic impacts an incomparable source for academic archaeolo- they generally have not encompassed the broad to local and national economies, and have made gists, cultural resource and heritage management range of topics the Editors intend to cover in this headline news in countries throughout the world. archaeologists, government heritage agencies, and volume, nor have they included a large number Thus the Handbook of Disaster Research is a upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of international perspectives. The intention is to timely and much needed contribution to the field of archaeology focused on the prehistoric period. produce a major reference work in the field of of disasters. The editors of this Handbook have white-collar crime. The International Handbook brought together a comprehensive and interdis- Features of White-Collar Crime will include the most up ciplinary volume with a diverse and international 7 2005 SAA Award for Excellence in Archaeo- to date statements on these matters that will be group of contributors. logical Analysis of interest to a worldwide audience of scholars, The Handbook is based on the principle that disas- practitioners, and students. Authors will be asked ters are social constructions and focuses on social Contents to write in their areas of expertise that instructors science disaster research. Preface.- Acknowledgments.- 1: History of Stone will find that the book is a suitable text for both Tool Research.- 2: Procurement. 3: Tool Manufac- undergraduate and graduate courses. Features ture.- 4: Assemblage Variability.- 5: Tool Function.- 7 This seminal reference work is the first interdis- 6: Encountering Prehistoric Behavior.- Index. Features ciplinary collection of disaster research as it stands 7 Original contributions from experts throughout now and how the field will continue to grow, Field of interest the world 7 Latest coverage of research and especially post 9/11 Archaeology theory in white-collar and corporate crime 7 Includes analyses of recent corporate scan- Field of interest Target groups dals affecting economic conditions throughout Sociologya Academic archaeologists, cultural resource and the world 7 Multidisciplinary approach to the heritage management archaeologists, government subjects of white-collar and corporate crime Target groups heritage agencies, upper-level undergraduate, Social scientists studying the effects of disasters graduate students of archaeology From the contents (both natural and man made) on humans, sociolo- I. Introduction: Theoretical Issues in Organiza- gists, public health specialists, demographers, Discount group tional and Corporate Lawbreaking. II. White- economists, and political scientists P Collar Criminogenesis: Structure, Motivation, and Rationalization.- III. Critical and Postmodern Discount group Approaches to Research.- IV. Corporate Crime P and State-Corporate Crime.- V. Legal Perspectives: Theory, Irresponsibility, and Liability.- VI. Forms of White-Collar Crime.- VII. Professional and Occupational White-Collar Crime.- VIII. Corrup- tion: Narratives, Definitions, and Applications.- IX. Case Studies.- X. Policing White-Collar Crime.- XI. Regulation, Prevention, and Control.
Field of interest Social Sciences, general
Target groups Criminologists, professionals, and researchers in the discipline of white-collar and corporate crime
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I. Rossi, St . John‘s University, Queens, NY, USA (Ed .) J. Saltzman Chafetz, University of Houston, TX, USA Z. Sloboda, University of Akron, OH, USA; (Ed .) W. J. Bukoski, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Frontiers of Globalization Bethesda, MD, USA (Eds .) Research Handbook of the Sociology of Gender Handbook of Drug Abuse Theoretical and Methodological Approaches Prevention Theory, Science, and Practice Since its inception, the field of globalization This wide-ranging handbook brings together studies - now more than 20 years old - has been experts in the sociology of gender to present characterized and dominated by controversies and indepth discussions as well as up-to-date and This wide-ranging handbook brings together conflicting approaches. Despite these difficul- extensive bibliographies on the array of subspeci- experts in the sociology of drug abuse preven- ties - or possibly because of them - globaliza- alities that comprise the field. The chapters utilize tion. Providing a comprehensive overview of the tion remains a prominent topic in the social cross-national and historical material in addi- accumulated knowledge on prevention theory, and political sciences affects world societies at tion to data on the contemporary United States. intervention design, and development and the global and local levels. To bring this topical Within-gender differences along racial/ethnic, prevention research methodology, this work also volume together, the editor asked leading scholars social class, sexual preference, and age cohort promotes prevention science as an evolving field in in the field of globalization to outline a „research dimensions are also explored. the practice and policy of drug abuse prevention. framework „ that reflects their own approach to Included are sections on Theoretical and Empirical the subject. Contributors include distinguished Features Foundations, Social Contexts of Prevention, scholars in the fields of sociology, anthropology, 7 Brings together experts in the sociology of Prevention as Social Control, Special Populations, history and political science. These writings have gender to present indepth discussions as well as Research Design and a Look at the Future. A major been organized into four sections: theoretical up-to-date and extensive bibliographies on the reference work, it will be of interest to social scien- perspectives and cultural globalization, economic array of subspecialities that comprise the field tists, researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and globalization, political globalization, and method- 7 Not focused on just women but on gender academics in the field of drug abuse prevention. ological approaches. The extensive coverage and 7 Specifically analyses gender from a sociological the interdisciplinary flavor of the volume makes it viewpoint 7 Saltzman Chafetz has been one of Features suitable for a large interdisciplinary audience. the most prominent feminist theorists committed 7 Providing a comprehensive overview of the to developing scientific explanations accumulated knowledge on prevention theory, Features intervention design, development and prevention 7 Number of contributors are prominent scholars Field of interest research methodology 7 Promotes prevention of globalization with international reputations and Sociology science as an evolving field in the practice and recognizable names 7 Presents a broad spectrum policy of drug abuse prevention of analytical approaches to globalization 7 Theo- Target groups retical reviews are complemented by substantive Professionals and graduate students Contents chapters and methodological analyses that tends to Contributors.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- be unusual in an edited volume Discount group Historical Overview.- Social Contexts of Preven- P tion.- Prevention As Social Control.- Special Popu- Field of interest lations.- Interactions Between Biology and Social Sociology Context - Risks for Multiple Behavioral and Mental Disorders.- Research Design, Measurement, and Target groups Data Analytic Issues.- Drug Abuse Prevention: A Scholars and students in disciplines related to Look Into The Future. sociology, international relations, political science, economics, cultural studies, anthropology, social- Field of interest science oriented scholars in international law, and Sociology policy studies Target groups Discount group Social scientists, researchers, practitioners, policy P makers, academics in the field of drug abuse prevention
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J. H. Turner, University of California, Riverside, CA, D. Weisburd, University of Maryland, MD, USA and USA (Ed .) The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; C. Britt, Arizona State University West, Glendale, AZ, USA Handbook of Sociological Theory Statistics in Criminal Justice
Statistics in Criminal Justice takes an approach This wide-ranging handbook presents in-depth that emphasizes the uses of statistics in research discussions on the array of subspecialties that in crime and justice. This text is meant for comprise the field of sociological theory. Promi- students and professionals who want to gain a nent theorists working in a variety of traditions basic understanding of statistics in this field. The discuss methodologies and strategies; the cultural text takes a building-block approach, meaning turn in sociological theorizing; interaction that each chapter helps to prepare the student processes; theorizing from the systemic and macro for the chapters that follow. It also means that level; new directions in evolutionary theorizing; the level of sophistication of the text increases as power, conflict, and change; and theorizing from the text progresses. Throughout the text there is assumptions of rationality. an emphasis on comprehension and interpreta- tion, rather than computation. However, it takes Features a serious approach to statistics, which is relevant 7 Contributing authors were specifically selected to the real world of research in crime and justice. to capture the diversity of theoretical activity in This approach is meant to provide the reader with sociology 7 Covers most of today’s theoretical an accessible but sophisticated understanding approaches on sociology 7 Provides basic refer- of statistics that can be used to examine real-life ence that aids in helping readers understand theo- criminal justice problems. retical models of today rather than past approaches 7 Allows a wide variety of prominent theorists to Features review their work 7 Emphasis lays in the present 7 Emphasizes and illustrates how different types work of each contributing author of criminal justice research influence the outcome of statistical results 7 Utilizes real-life examples From the contents of criminal justice research 7 Rich pedagogical Part I: Theoretical Methodologies and Strategies.- aids, including introductory chapter openers, Part II: The Cultural Turn in Sociological Theo- running glossary, chapter summaries, and exercises rizing.- Part III: Theorizing Interaction Processes.- applicable to the criminal justice field Part IV: Theorizing from the Systemic and Macro Level.- Part V: New Directions in Evolutionary Field of interest Theorizing.- Part VII: Theorizing from Assump- Social Sciences, general tions of Rationality.- Index. Target groups Field of interest Students and professionals who want to gain a Sociology basic understanding of statistics in this field
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D. Atighetchi, Second University, Naples, Italy Islamic Bioethics: Problems and Perspectives
This book presents a critical analysis of the debate at the religious, legal and political level sparked off by the introduction of new biomedical technolo- gies (cloning, genetics, organ transplants, IVF, etc.) in Muslim countries. It compares the posi- tions of “classic” Muslim law and contemporary religious authorities; laws in Muslim countries; the attitudes and concrete behaviour of populations, families and individuals, as well as the regula- tions of medical associations, bioethics commit- tees etc.. The result is a mosaic of positions which are often different (including from the point of view of ethics) but all in pursuit of legitimisation according to the Koran and the Shari’a. The work has an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on law, sociology, anthropology, politics and the history of science. For this reason it will be of interest to scholars and operators in a wide variety of disci- plines and fields.
Features 7 A unique analysis of the introduction of new biomedical technologies in Muslim countries. 7 A comprehensive, multidisciplinary perspective of current biomedical issues in an Islamic context.
Field of interest Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
Target groups Physicians, bioethicists, lawyers, Social workers, students, islamists, anthropologists
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2006 . Approx . 430 p . (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, Volume 31) Hardcover ISBN 1-4020-4961-7 7 $139.00
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